iOS

I feel miserable! I get restless sleep and when I’m awake it’s all I can do to tend to my nose-turned-faucet. I’m typing this between tissue box raids, so I suspect this won’t be my most coherent prose. My doctor has prescribed antibiotics, antihistamines/decongestants, and rest. I’ve taken my drugs, and as mentioned earlier, resting…

First, open iCal and check to see if your reminders drawer is showing on the right side of the window. If it’s not, hit Option-Command-T to open it (or choose View > Show Reminders). When you do, you’ll see a list of all the things you should be taking care of but aren’t because you’re…

iRig STOMP, direct from the CES floorAmplitube is IK Multimedia’s amp and effects modelling solution. Originally introduced on the Mac, the company has also brought it to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With it, users can choose between different amps, speaker cabinets, and microphones for their virtual rig, and then add up to four effect…

If you’re not familiar with the process of putting icons in folders that started with iOS 4, here’s what you’ve been missing. First, you touch and hold on any of your application icons, and they’ll start to wiggle furiously. While they’re in that mode, you can pick ’em up, drag ’em to different screens, or…

Mastersoft Mobile Solutions has a fairly new program for iOS, simply called Chess. It’s a good chess app bolstered by a low price. However, even at version 1.43, it feels a little rough around the edges. I have been reviewing computer chess apps for a long time. The modern standard against which I compare other…

Once the basic setup was out of the way and we had set up all the mundane things necessary to using iChat, like creating a Buddy Lists, setting font preferences, and adding pictures, I heard mumblings of “well, you can do this stuff on a PC.” I hadn’t razzle-dazzled them with screen sharing yet, But…

Currently, the US$0.99 app allows you to stream non-DRM videos from your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch directly to your Google TV. It doesn’t support mirroring, DRM movies, or music at the present time, although the developers seem eager to expand its capabilities. With only a couple of reviews currently on the Android Marketplace, the app seems to…

The Kindle app’s new textbook feature includes rich formatting and layout, support for notes and highlights, the ability to zoom and pan in books, and a linked table of contents. The new magazine feature gives iPad users access to over 400 Kindle magazines and newspapers as single purchases or subscriptions.The version 2.9 update also added…

Apple Releases iOS 5.1 beta 2 to Developers Photo Stream is Apple’s iCloud-powered service that puts your most recent 1,000 photos on all of your iOS devices and Macs. One of the criticisms of the service, however, is that while one can permanently save an image from the stream, there is no way to delete…

CarrierIQ became a hot button issue this week as a demonstration of what the software was logging on HTC Android devices was published to YouTube. That demonstration found that CarrierIQ hid itself from the list of running apps, logged every keystroke (including text messages) and button push the user made, logged phone numbers dialed, and…

So open a new message in Mail on your device, and then type in the addresses of your recipients. Here’s where everything gets all crazy: If you decide that you want to move any of those folks’ addresses to the Cc or Bcc field, all you have to do is first tap once on the…

The first thing you can do to start punctuating is to edit your submissions after you’ve made them. So let’s say that I tell Siri to send a text message to someone, and I realize before I send it off that I want to stick a period on the end, a comma in between some…

This iOS app is based on the 1965 TV animated special “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Of course, it’s aimed at children, but even adults who grew up with Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts cartoon series will enjoy it — it’s just so darn appealing. Filled with touchy-feely and sound effects charm, it recreates the TV special…

After you’ve followed the steps in the link above, start using Match on your iOS device by going to Settings > Music and turning the “iTunes Match” option on. After you’ve done that, you’ll note that a new choice will appear, labeled “Show All Music.”If you leave that on, everything that’s been included in iTunes…

It occurred to me a while ago that that was a lot of watching and very little doing. It was also a lot of money spent to keep me watching and not doing. This is odd since I see myself as a fairly active person. So, I quit collecting movies and seldom watch TV anymore.…

So open iCal in either week or month view. (You can hit Command-1, Command-2, and Command-3 to toggle between day, week, and month views respectively.) Then find an event you’d like to move to a different day. Rather than editing the event itself, just pick it up and drag it to the new date. That’s…

Mr. Miller drew Apple’s ire when he submitted an app to Apple’s iOS App Store as part of his proof of concept testing for a security flaw he had discovered. That app was approved by Apple, but then Mr. Miller was able to download unsigned code from his own server and then execute that code…

Charlie Miller’s iOS Exploit Makes Every App a Potential Threat. Although he plans to further discuss this vulnerability in Apple’s platform at the SysCan conference in Taiwan next week, Mr. Miller has already exploited the flaw by planting an app that takes advantage of the vulnerability in Apple’s App Store. The App, now removed, was…

Perhaps the most impressive example of this shift is iTunes Wi-Fi Sync. Once set up, you can sync any of your iOS devices to iTunes without a Dock Connector. Just click the device’s Sync button in iTunes and off it goes, even if the iOS device is asleep. You can similarly wirelessly modify settings in the device’s…

Back in February 2011, I noticed that the internal clock in my iPad 1 with iOS 4.2.1 was drifting quite a bit, off by many minutes from when I bought it, and I reported on the problem . It appeared that, to save battery power, iOS was not firing up a radio subsystem and periodically…

First, enable these backups, which you do by turning on the “iCloud Backup” option in Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup. Your device will then dutifully perform one daily, but only if it’s plugged in to power and connected to a Wi-Fi network. To force it to do one on your timeline, click the…

You can get to it through the Keyboard option under General in the Settings app.Settings->General->Keyboard Tap on Keyboard and you’ll find the new option for Shortcuts near the bottom of the screen. omw which expands to on my way is already there and serves as an example. To create a new Shortcut, just tap on the Add…

OK, so I know I’m always going on about how such-and-such is my favorite feature. You’re all getting tired of it, aren’t you? Well, I can do what I want, so there. Fortunately, what I talk about in this tip isn’t my favorite feature of iOS 5 (whew! dodged a bullet!), but it’s pretty handy.…

Adobe Reader for iOS can handle unencrypted and encrypted PDF documents, supports Adobe Live Cycle rights management, and includes content searches in documents, PDF bookmarks, thumbnail page views, copy and paste from PDF files, AirPrint, and emailing documents from within the app.The app requires an iPhone 3GS or newer, third or fourth generation iPod touch,…