iOS

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,…

Your collection of Dr. Seuss is no longer complete thanks to Charles D. Cohen, a dentist and probably the biggest Seuss fan on the planet. He uncovered seven early Seuss stories published in magazines between 1950 and 1951 and they found their way to Random House. The stories have now been published as both a…

First, let’s look at how you can set Siri up to handle your tweets, because, really, Siri should handle everything in your digital life, right? The secret to making this possible is to configure your Twitter account to allow you to tweet via SMS text message. To do so, go to Twitter.com, log in to…

Notification Center with the Stocks widget (left) and without (right) The Stock widget takes up screen space that some people just don’t want to part with in Notification Center. If that’s you, here’s how to remove it:You can remove Stocks from Notification Center from the Notifications Setting On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5,…

You’re probably familiar with how Mail on your Mac uses colored bars to indicate quoted text from previous e-mails. The more colored bars there are, the more times the text in question has flown back and forth.As I mentioned, I love using the Format > Quote Level command in Mail to selectively add those bars…

You’ll find the Wi-Fi sync option under the iTunes Summary tab First, make sure you have iTunes 10.5 installed on your computer, and iOS 5 installed on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. To enable Wi-Fi syncing, do this: Launch iTunes 10.5. Connect your iOS device to your computer with a USB dock cable. Select…

  The free app allows iOS users to create cards directly on their devices, including customized pictures and text, and order physical copies of those cards to be directly mailed to the individuals in the user’s contacts list. Cards can be mailed both in the United States ($2.99 per card) and internationally ($4.99 per card).…

Apple says iOS 5 includes over 200 new features The upgrade added single sign-on support for Twitter so users can post messages and photos through multiple applications without having to sign into the social networking service more than once. It also added a new instant messaging service that side steps SMS and MMS plans from…

Deciding whether or not to upgrade right away is a no-brainer for some, but for others it may not be a clear cut choice. Either way, planning ahead will help cut down on surprises and headaches when you make the jump to iOS 5.iOS 5 is loaded with new features Should You Upgrade? Even if…

The 6th gen nano gets 7th gen iconsThe update brings the 6th generation iPod nano’s interface inline with the 7th generation model Apple introduced during its special media event in Cupertino on Tuesday. The new nano includes the same large icon navigation, the multiple clock faces, and built-in fitness tracking features that don’t require attachments to…

Is this important? For me it is. The troubles with saving files, already an issue in iOS 4, will only grow with the new iOS version. That’s because iOS 5’s move towards “PC Free” will likely lead more people to attempt using an iPad as their primary or only computer. As such, the importance for…

Instagram 2.0Version 2.0 supports image sizes up to 1936 x 1936 on the iPhone 4 and 1536 x 1535 on the iPhone 3GS. It also added live filters for previewing effects before snapping a photo, includes four new image filters, adds instant tilt-shift focus, made image borders optional, and improved performance when applying filters.Instagram 2.0…

Dolphin has been the most popular browser on the Android Market and took advantage of the touchscreen interface to allow gestures familiar to iOS users such as pinch and zoom. One of the browser’s unique features, which the company brought to the iOS versions, is the ability to access a website using a specific gesture,…

I wound up focusing on file sharing — the moving of files (such as text documents, graphics and PDFs) among apps and across devices. Currently, Apple’s officially supported method for such file sharing is via iTunes, a still-clunky procedure that I first described back in 2010. Although the addition of Dropbox greases the wheels significantly, iOS…