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App Review: Jetscanner for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This is a video app review of Jetscanner. Jetscanner is a great tool for cutting down on office clutter. It creates PDFs of physical documents by turning your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch into a scanner. The app then allows you to upload your PDF to any of several different cloud storage services, including Dropbox, Evernote, and Microsoft Skydrive. UPDATE: Jetscanner is available on the App Store for $1.99. Check out the video review below:

Tutorial: Find My iPhone for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This video tutorial explains how to use the Find My iPhone app, Apple’s solution for finding your lost  or stolen iPhone, iPad (mini), iPod Touch, or Mac. You can download Find My iPhone on the App Store for free. Check out the video tutorial below:

App Review – Yahoo! Weather for iPhone and iPod Touch

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This is a video review of the Yahoo! Weather app for iPhone and iPod Touch. This app combines a lot of useful weather information with great visual design, making it one of the best weather apps available on the App Store. You can find Yahoo! Weather on the app store for free. Access the video review below.  

Use Siri to set custom repeating reminders on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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This article will teach you how to use Siri to set custom repeating reminders on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch. Let’s face it: with all the details in our busy lives we often forget things.  That’s why I like the stock Reminders app that comes with iOS.  With it you can create lists, remember important information at a specific time, and set location based reminders. One of the basic functions of Reminders is that you can have it remind you of something at a specific time.  You can even schedule repeating reminders.  However, the options under the Repeat menu Continue Reading →

Hotel Tonight for iPhone, iPad (mini) and iPod Touch

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Hotel Tonight for iPhone, iPad (mini) and iPod Touch. You check out of your hotel, throw the bags in the rental car or taxi and head out with just enough time to make it through traffic as you make you’re way to the airport when you’re greeted by a sea of brake lights. After over an hour of being stuck in traffic you miss your flight… great. Now what? Hotel Tonight is a unique app in that they have worked out contracts with many different hotel companies to help ensure you get the best deal possible… and when I say Continue Reading →

How to fix broken audio feed for Foscam Baby Monitor App and Camera

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How to fix broken audio feed for Foscam Baby Monitor App and Camera

This article will show you how to fix a broken audio feed for the Foscam Baby Monitor app and camera. In a recent article I wrote about how you could use your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod touch as the screen for a baby monitor camera using the Foscam Camera (Foscam Camera on Amazon) and the Foscam Pro App. This is an incredible setup for under $100 and allows you to visually and audibly check in on your baby at any point to make sure they are safely sleeping, playing, or napping. Follow this link to read more about how to Continue Reading →

Quick Tip: Swipe to delete digits in Calculator app on iPhone or iPod Touch

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This article will show you how to delete digits entered into the Calculator app on iPhone and iPod Touch. Wouldn’t it be great if you could edit entries you make into the stock iOS Calculator app without having to clear them entirely?  Fortunately, thanks to a little known trick that Apple has baked into its software, you can! Simply swipe left or right across the Calculator display to remove entered digits one at a time.      This way, you won’t need to start all over if you hit a wrong button!  Please note that this trick only works before Continue Reading →

How to check your internet speed on iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch

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How to check your internet speed on iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch

This article will show you how to check your internet speed on iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch. Internet speed is increasingly becoming more and more important. Most apps on your iOS Device use the internet in one way or another. Knowing the speed of your internet connection can be helpful when using your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch. Thankfully there is a great little free app called Speedtest. This app lets you quickly test the speed of your internet and then keeps track of each time you test the connection speed for future reference. You can use the Continue Reading →

Fantastical – Best alternative calendar app for iPhone and iPod Touch

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This post reviews one the best alternative calendar apps for iPhone and iPod Touch: Fantastical. The stock Calendar app in iOS is good, but it hasn’t changed much since the first version of the operating system. Fantastical by Flexibits is a great alternative calendar app that adds useful functionality combined with great design that is both helpful and appealing. So much so, in fact, that Fantastical has replaced the stock Calendar app on my iPhone’s home screen. The most obvious visual difference between Fantastical and the stock Calendar app is its Dayticker feature. Dayticker is an at-a-glance, five-day overview of your calendars Continue Reading →