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App Camp For Girls Quiz Compendium

App Camp For Girls spends a week teaching 8th and 9th grade girls about iOS development. First, teams spend time in Xcode, building a quiz app. Then at the end of the week, each team presents a pitch for their app to a panel of investors. Then at the end of each summer, all the all the quizzes built in all the sessions are compiled into a Quiz Compendium. It’s up to each team to choose a quiz topic, and the door is wide open as far as subjects. This year’s quizzes include “Who Are You in a Cliched Young Adult Novel?” and “What Fruit Are You Most Like?” as two of the 18 in the app. Now that it’s available, pick up the 2016 Compendium for 99 cents, and all sales go to App Camp. (Full Disclosure: Kelly is one of the original App Camp For Girls volunteers.)

How to View Live Photos in iOS 9

These are playable on other iPhone 6s or 6s+ devices if you send it via iMessage, and I tested one on an iPad Air (gen 1) and an iPad 3, and both worked fine. You can also play them on an iPhone 5s or higher. If you send it to an older device, or one…

How to Upgrade to a New iPhone 6s or 6s Plus on Verizon

Verizon iPhone Landing Page Cash on the Barrel First up, you can buy your new iPhone outright and be done with the whole thing. If you choose the iPhone 6s, this will set you back $649 (16GB), $749 (64GB), or $849 (128GB). Going the 6s Plus route will damage your credit card at $749 (16GB),…

How To Use Your iPhone's Barometer to Crowdsource Weather

Right now this data is being used (if you allow it) by the Dark Sky weather app. If you allow it. In the current version, you can choose to sign up your iPhone to report barometric pressure where you are: Allow Dark Sky to send off your barometric pressure for better reporting. So if you…

How to Outsmart Browser Scareware on in OS X and iOS

Never ever call it!   Oh no! This looks legit, it says Apple on it and my Facebook stuff might be at risk! Let me repeat that: never ever call it!! You want to, because hey, it was helpful enough to tell your computer has a problem. If that dialog knows your computer has a…

How to Place Calls Directly From Reminders

Create a reminder like Call Jeff Gamet at 8am. Make sure it starts with “call” and you have the person in your Contacts already. Here's my reminder. Good thing there's only one Jeff in my phone! When you have it set up, it'll pop up at the right time to remind you. Hey look! I…

How To Fix App Store Downloads on iPhone and iPad

First off, wait until you get an error. You think it'll be immediate, but iOS tries really really hard to do everything it can think of before it gives up, so sit tight and see if you can get a screenshot so you can look up that message later. A good way to tell if…

How to Set Up iOS With A Monitored iCloud Account

If you want to filter friend requests or iCloud messages, here's an example. When you set up the device, make sure it's using a sub-address of your main email. This is even more convenient if you set it up on the same address used for your own Apple ID. Now all the iTunes receipts and…

Three Things You Didn't Know TextEdit Could Do For You

Full Word Processing First off, there is a serious set of formatting controls tucked away in the menu bar, but you may need to turn it on. In the image below, I have a TextEdit document setup to be a “Plain Text” file. Note the Serif font and the lack of any kind of formatting…

Three Easy Ways to Get Started With Home Automation

Philips Hue I've talked about why Philips Hue lights are a good idea, and the biggest reason is because it's easy. Basically you plug everything in, download an app, and you're ready to go. There's even an option in the official app (as well as an IFTTT action) for having the lights automatically come on.…

Basic Checklist for Identifying Network Problems

Modems and Routers Let's start at the beginning: there a wire (cable or DSL or fiber or what have you) coming from the street to your house, and that wire connects to a modem. That modem can have a router built-in, or you might have a separate router, for instance an AirPort base station. Routers…

How to Deauthorize All Devices in iTunes 12

Oh that's not alarming at all. But I can totally fix it. No wait, I can't! Well now I'm stuck. I can't continue syncing, but there's not really a graceful backing out option either. I'm an optimist, so I clicked “more information.” Now, Apple has a nice page about deauthorizing extraneous Macs. It's all nicely…

How to Troubleshoot iCloud Syncing

It's not you, it's Apple First up of course, is making sure your issue is limited to iCloud. As long as your Mac can do other things online, and your iPhone still loads web pages and gets non-iCloud email, you're good. Then we move on to actual troubleshooting. The first two rules of Tech Support…