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To check it out, head on over to the Settings app, and then touch “Music.” Under that heading is “EQ,” so pick that. Within there, you’ll see all sorts of audio adjustments you could try, including settings like “Treble Booster,” “Small Speakers,” or “Rock.” Most of these only apply to music you’re listening to, but…

To set this up on iOS, what you’ll need to do is go to the Messages app, tap on the conversation you’d like to mute, and then touch “Details” in the upper-right corner. On the following screen, scroll down and turn on the slider next to “Do Not Disturb.” On the Mac, it’s very similar—open…

OmniOutliner and OmniGraffle on the iPhone. Finally! The lucky early testers started getting invitations on Monday to try out the beta apps on Monday. The apps are being distributed through Apple's TestFlight system. OmniOutliner is an app for creating simple and complex outlines, and OmniGraffle makes easy work of designing flow charts and diagrams. Both…

Once you’re looking at your “Mailboxes” view, you should have an “Edit” button at the top. Touch that, and you’ll see the two new options you can turn on: “Thread Notifications” and “Today.” The “Today” mailbox is just what it sounds like—it’ll show all the messages that you’ve received today (as long as they’re still…

It’s like my friends are in the witness-protection program! That list is intended to help you quickly get in touch with the people you know. Tap someone’s avatar, and you’ll be given a variety of ways to make a connection. Here’s a neat trick, though—you can change what contacts this shows you. Visit Settings> Mail,…

itms://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/advancedSearch Here's the Power Search URL in Safari. You can stash this as a bookmark in your browser, and hit it whenever you need the power search. It will switch over to iTunes and show you the Power Search panel. But let's be honest, using a browser bookmark to do something in iTunes is SO…

You can track Santa's route from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac NORAD Tracks Santa NORAD, or the North American Aerospace Defence Command, may spend most of the year keeping a lookout for enemy threats from the sky, but every Christmas all of that high tech gear is put to use for a more critical purpose:…

Episode #102 Many readers and friends had problems updating to iOS 8 over WiFi, reporting that their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch complained that the update couldn’t be installed because it requires at least 5.7GB of storage. If your iDevice only has 8 or 16GB of storage, chances are you saw a similar message. So…

Episode #102 Many readers and friends had problems updating to iOS 8 over WiFi, reporting that their iDevices complained that the update couldn’t be installed because it requires at least 5.7GB of storage. If your iDevice only has 8 or 16GB of storage, chances are you saw a similar message. So here is my advice…

You'll need to start by purchasing and downloading Workflow. It's currently priced at US$2.99, but that's going up to $4.99 after at some point. Once Workflow is installed on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, here's what to do: Start by building a workflow. The app walks you through the process when it's first launched.…

Want to automate actions on your iPhone or iPad? Workflow has you covered. Workflow includes more than 100 actions for working with your contacts and schedule, playing music, Maps, taking photos, sharing files via AirDrop, Dropbox and iCloud, and more. It also lets you share via social networks like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, plus you…

On the subsequent screen, drag down anywhere below the “Details” header to reveal the “Group Name” field. Type anything you’d like in there, and that’s all there is to it! Under Yosemite, it’s just as simple. Open the Messages program, click on a group conversation, and then again click on the “Details” option (it’s in…

So far, most of the discussion surrounds users having an issue that is now fixed. Right here at TMO we haven't had any comments on the stories (linked above) about the releases, and so far our forums don't show any negative comments about the updates. In MacRumors Forums, at Reddit, and an iOS thread in…

So as I’ve done above, if you say something like “hide from my friends,” then Siri will conceal where you are. This is equivalent to going into the settings for the Find My Friends app and toggling off “Share My Location.” Of course, this has all sorts of practical applications, from buying birthday presents in…

Before you can let Health track data from other apps, you need to have some compatible apps installed. I happen to have a Withings Pulse fitness tracker and Smart Body Analyzer scale, so I installed the companion Withings iPhone app. I also installed the Nike+ Running app so I can collect data from multiple sources.…

Here's how to force your iPhone to use your Bluetooth headset when answering incoming calls: Tap Settings Tap Accessibility Tap Call Audio Routing Choose Headset Change Call Audio Routing to Headset to cut down on lost headset connections The default setting for Call Audio Routing lets your iPhone automatically choose where to send your calls,…

This is no way to experience iTunes The default album view Apple pushes in iTunes doesn't do much for me, so the first thing I did to make the app bend to my will was click the Albums drop down menu and choose Songs. That ditches the album view in favor of the old-school song…

I was recently given iPhoto: The Missing Manual (by David Pogue and Lesa Snider) to review, and I found it to be more handy than I could’ve guessed. To be honest, I thought that I wouldn’t learn much—after all, I’ve been through iPhoto backward and forward! A hundred billion times! But the book quickly taught me a…

Episode #94   This has been a big week for Apple operating system upgrades: Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite arrived last Thursday and iOS 8.1 came out yesterday. But as eager as you may be to sample their improvements, don’t install either until you read what I have to say. First things first: Apple hates…

I…um…I think I may have a problem.  If you’re a constant texter as I apparently am, you can visit Settings> Messages to adjust how long yours are kept.  With text-based messages, your choices are to keep them for 30 days, a year, or forever; for audio and video, you can only pick between having them…

____________________ The short and simple answer is that screen shots are often of web content, and that content often has text. The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format does better with images like that, and the resulting file size is often correspondingly larger than a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG) file. You probably don't want much…

Another choice would be to employ a site-specific search, which you can use by typing something akin to “[search term] site:[URL]” within Safari’s search field, as below. Believe it or not, though, I think iOS 8’s new Quick Website Search is better than both of those methods. Let’s all check it out and be impressed,…

What that’ll do is place the saved message at the bottom of Mail’s interface, where you’ll tap to bring it back up when you’re ready to continue. Of note also is the fact that you can save multiple drafts this way. If you’ve got more than one down at the bottom of your screen, you’ll…

_________________ All three of these apps have some very nice features when used as a stand alone app: They're full-featured weather apps in themselves Their widgets vary in extent and design, so you will want to check each widget to see which one gives you the data you prefer. (For a refresher on how to…