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Get Ready! Apple Watch Pre-Orders Begin Friday

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The time is upon us, folks! Apple Watch pre-orders go live on Friday, April 10th, at 12:01am PST. I for one will be staying up late on Thursday night and clicking the “buy” button when the watch becomes available for pre-order. Pre-ordered watches will be delivered to homes and to Apple Stores on April 24th. If you’re still on the fence about whether the watch is for you, check out our previous posts overviewing Apple’s spring and fall media events where the watch was described in detail. Also, check out Apple’s website for the watch to get an overview of its features Continue Reading →

Jawbone UP Review – Two months wearing a fitness tracker

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For the last two months I’ve been wearing the Jawbone UP, a fitness tracker. Let’s see what this experience can tell us about using the Apple Watch. The dawn of the Apple Watch is upon us. It remains to be seen if Apple’s latest new product will redefine the industry like the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad did. That said, I’m looking forward to trying out the Apple Watch for myself and will be part of the dedicated (and/or crazy) crowd of people that stay up late and pre-order the watch on April 10th. It will be interesting to see Continue Reading →

Apple’s Spring Forward Event – An Overview

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On Monday, March 9th, Apple hosted its Spring product launch keynote at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Of course, Apple Watch took center stage at this event, but they also revealed a lot more including a new super-thin cutting edge MacBook. Here’s an overview of what Apple announced! Apple TV & HBO Now – The first announcement of the day involved Apple TV. Unfortunately, the aging set-top box – which was last updated in 2012 – didn’t see a hardware refresh. Rather, Apple announced that HBO Now, a new subscription service from HBO that allows cord-cutters Continue Reading →

Human – the Best Free App to test Health Kit in iOS 8

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Human - the Best Free App to test Health Kit in iOS 8

Human is the best free app to test Health Kit in iOS 8. With the release of iOS 8 came Health Kit – Apple’s way of collecting all the various health and fitness tracking data on your iPhone into one informative dashboard. In summary, Health is an app on your iPhone that syncs up with other apps that track health and fitness. This can be something that is inputed via external hardware (like a heart rate monitor like the Jarv Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor or the Apple Watch) or simply tracked by the built-in M8 Motion Coprocessor. This is a chip in Continue Reading →

iOS 8 Tip: How to use 3 of the best new features in the Mail App

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iOS 8 Tip: How to use 3 of the best new features in the Mail App

iOS 8 Tip: How to use 3 of the best new features in the Mail App. With iOS 8, Apple introduced several new features to all of their standard apps that come with every iOS device. The Mail App received some fantastic upgrades. Here are 3 of the best upgrades and how to use each. 1. Pull to Hide This is by far one of my favorite new features in the Mail App in iOS 8. It allows me to look up other information or read other emails while saving a current email that I am composing. To activate this, Continue Reading →

iOS 8.1 Quick Tip: How to send a video or audio message using the new Messages app

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This is an iOS 8.1 quick tip on how to send a video or audio message using the new Messages app. With iOS 8, Apple introduced a new way to quickly and easily send audio and video messages to others who have an iOS device and the Messages app. It is fairly obvious how to send an audio message. All you need to do is open the Messages app and create a new message or tap on an existing one. You will notice a little Microphone symbol on the bottom left of the screen next to the area where you Continue Reading →

How to Set up and Use Apple Pay ( Pay) on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

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How to Set up and Use Apple Pay (Pay) on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

This article is all about how to set up and use Apple Pay ( Pay) on iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. With iOS 8.1, Apple released Pay that allows those with an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus to make payments at participating stores by just using the iPhone. Pay can also be used to make purchases through Apps and the Safari web browser on any iOS device with Touch ID. Here is how to set up Apple Pay: 1. Make sure you have upgraded to iOS 8.1 To upgrade, you can either open the Settings App on your Continue Reading →

How to Set Up and Use Handoff in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8

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How to Set Up and Use Handoff in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8

This article will tell you all about how set up and use Handoff in OS X Yosemite and iOS 8 with your Mac and iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. With the release of OS X Yosemite (10.10), Apple has enabled Handoff across their entire lineup of compatible devices. Handoff is a feature that was released with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite that allows you to start a project on one device and seamlessly continue it on another device that is logged in to the same iCloud ID. Handoff is a feature of Continuity that also allows you to make Continue Reading →

iOS 8 Hidden Feature: How to access Notification Center with Reachability on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

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iOS 8 Hidden Feature: How to access Notification Center with Reachability on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus

This iOS 8 quick tip of a hidden feature will show you how to access Notification Center with Reachability on iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Reachability is one of the many great features introduced in iOS 8 and works on the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus. It is designed to allow one handed access to all apps and controls on the larger screen iPhones. Reachability is easy to activate and makes the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus much more useable with one hand. Here is how to activate Reachability: Simply double touch (not push) on the Home Button (Touch Continue Reading →

Quick Tip: How to set songs from your music library to be your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch Alarm Clock Sound

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Quick Tip: How to set songs from your music library to be your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch Alarm Clock Sound

This is a Quick Tip on how to set songs from your music library to be your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch Alarm Clock Sound. In iOS 6, Apple enabled a feature in the Clock app that allows you to set a song from your music library as your alarm clock tone so you can wake up to beautiful music rather than the built in sounds. This works in iOS 6, iOS 7, and iOS 8 for the iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch. It is quite easy to set this up. Here are the steps: 1. Launch the Clock Continue Reading →