Author Archives: Doug Holcomb

11 iOS Apps to help you keep your New Year’s Resolutions

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The iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch are fantastic devices to help you set up and follow through with fitness and diet goals. Here are 11 apps that will help you achieve your new year’s goals. As an aside, my advice is to set goals that will stretch you but not to be too ambitious that you will not be able to follow through. 1. Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker (MyFitnessPal.com) This is an app that helps you enter your current weight and your target weight and then helps you set goals to reach your target weight. The app gives Continue Reading →

4 Ways the iPhone can improve your marriage (Updated)

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Technology can be both a benefit and a curse when it comes to relationships. The iPhone is one piece of technology that can be used to improve your marriage or any close relationship because of the ways it can enhance communication. Here are 4 ways: 1. Shared calendar Communication is one of the keys to a healthy relationship and a shared calendar helps with this. My wife and I each have a work calendar and then we have a shared family calendar. Our calendars are shared and synced using iCloud. Here is Apple’s tutorial on how to set up iCloud: Continue Reading →

Take your iPhone Camera to the next level – Add Fisheye, Wide Angle, and Macro with Olloclip for iPhone

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I love taking photos with with the iPhone. As the saying goes, “The best camera is the one you have with you!” And, it is an added bonus that the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 have excellent optics for taking fantastic pictures. Olloclip is a company that created a unique lens adapter kit for the iPhone 4, 4S, 5 and iPod Touch (with adapter). If you want to take your photography to the next level, then this accessory is for you. I recently received this as a gift and so far I love it. The lens system has 3 lenses: Continue Reading →

10 Essential Apps for your New iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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If you just purchased or received an iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch as a gift, then one of the first questions you are asking is, “What are the best apps I can get for my new iPhone 5, iPad Mini or any other iOS device?” Well, the truth is, there are a ton of really great apps out there and it partly depends on how you are going to use your iOS device. So, I just chose 10 that I use often. I highly recommend these. Some are free and some are not, but they are all worth having Continue Reading →

How to edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint Documents on the iPad (Mini), iPhone, and iPod Touch

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Two Apps that can edit Microsoft Office Documents

Updated article for iOS 7: Best Apps to Edit Microsoft Office Documents (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint) in iOS 7 How to edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint Documents on the iPad (Mini), iPhone, and iPod Touch. Microsoft has not released MS Office for iOS. However, there are a couple of different apps that have the capability of not only viewing but also editing Word, Excel, and Powerpoint documents on the iPad (Mini), the iPhone,and the iPod Touch. These apps also allow you to upload or transfer Microsoft Office files from your computer to your iOS Device. There are 2 apps that Continue Reading →

How to set up, customize and use Notification Center on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This article will show you how to setup, customize and activate Notification Center on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch. Apple introduced Notification Center in iOS 5 and improved on it in iOS 6. Notification centre is a built in log of all the notifications that you have gotten as well as a couple useful widgets. It is fully customizable and includes everything from weather to emails and stock quotes and any other favorite app you want to include in the list. I’ll show you how to set Notification Center up, how to access it, how to add favorite Continue Reading →

Launch Center Pro – An app with customizable shortcuts

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Launch Center Pro is an app that I use every day on my iPhone. It is so important that it actually displaced Safari on my dock. I use Launch Center Pro to turn on/off the LED flash on the back of my device making it a flashlight. I use it to take me directly to the camera section of Instagram so that I’m ready to add a photo or capture a new one almost instantly. I have a shortcut to search for and dial contacts. I also have a number of my most used apps in a group so that Continue Reading →

Use Siri to add appointments to your iPhone/iPad calendar and automatically invite participants

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Adding an appointment to your calendar with Siri in iOS 6 is really easy. Just ask Siri to “Add an appointment to Review Budget Tomorrow at 12pm”. Siri will create a new calendar event titled “Review Budget” and will schedule it for tomorrow at 12pm. You can take this a step further by asking Siri to schedule the meeting with someone who is in your contact list. By doing this, Siri will create the calendar appointment and then automatically send out an invite for the appointment to the person you scheduled the appointment with (as long as you have an Continue Reading →

10 Ways to Improve Battery Life for iOS Devices (Free PDF download if you Subscribe)

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3 Ways for how to improve battery life on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

As iOS devices (iPhone, iPad (Mini) and iPod Touch) continue to improve in screen quality, processor speed, and functionality, the longevity of the battery life becomes all the more important. The challenge in making the devices lighter and thinner yet maintaining or improving battery life is an engineering feat. The iPhone 5 and iPad (4th Gen) offer comparable battery life to their predecessors. The iPad Mini and iPod Touch also offer decent battery life. However, it often comes down to your device usage habits that will determine whether or not this much battery life will be sufficient. The app store Continue Reading →