iOS 5 Gets Its First Update Thanks to my husband Zack for getting this post out about the new iOS 5.1 release. I’ve yet to install the update…but I’ll be following his instructions below. Shortly after the iPhone 4S hit the market a bug was discovered that severely impacted battery life on those new devices. [...]

When I updated to the iPhone OS 4.0 I knew that it would allow me run apps even while I was using other apps. I thought it would be nice for the apps that send me push notifications to keep working all the time. So I updated the software and went on my merry little [...]

I’ve known that my iPhone has Voice Control capabilities but I had never explored them until recently and even then it was by accident. If you hold down the phone’s home button for about two seconds the Voice Control screen will appear. When you see that screen you can speak into the microphone and tell [...]

I’m ending the week of “How To”s with an index of past tips and tricks that I’ve covered on the site. Probably a bit of a cop out but between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, sewing projects, grocery shopping, PTO responsibilities and laryngitis my how-to-it-ness is tapped out. How to show the percentage of battery life [...]

When iTunes 9 was released it gave people the ability to share iTunes libraries with other computers on their network. My husband and I have our own iTunes accounts and libraries. He buys music and I buy apps but they stay on our own computers. When we wanted to share apps we had a work [...]

Podcasts are one of the best things about iTunes. Most are free and  are available as either audio or video and some are even available in HD.  There are podcasts dedicated to broad topics, like parenting. Others focus on more specialized subjects, like the one that’s dedicated to news and information about that Farmville game [...]

Yesterday I talked about my top ten easy tweaks that I’ve applied to my iPhone. Today I’ll finish out that list. (Part One) 6. I name my alarms. This is such a simple trick but it helps me keep track of what all the buzzing and ringing means.  Open up the Clock app and tap [...]

I’ve got ten easy tweaks that I’ve done to make my iPhone work for me and my mom life. Today I’m going to list the first five. 1. I got rid of the “Sent from my iPhone” message that shows up by default at the end of every email sent out from the iPhone. Did [...]

I haven’t run into this bug but apparently there’s trouble when you try to arrange apps that isn’t already in a space on one of your home screens. Luckily the folks at cnet.com are on it and have come up with a fix. You can read about it here.

This new iTunes 9 feature had me excited. Why? First of all because I’ve never liked the way you sync apps in iTunes. I have this big list of apps and have to scroll through them all when I want to reinstall an app. Takes me too long. Second of all (and this is the [...]