The Beginners Guide for Getting Started With Mac and iPhone Applications
The purpose of this article is to introduce you to the basic ways to browse and download apps for your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and/or iPod touch. If you are an experienced user of Apple devices, you might want to pass this article along to beginners who might be bugging you about where to find the best and most popular apps for their Apple device(s).
Evernote Hello 2.0, The Cutting Edge Way To Add Contacts To Your iPhone
If you're an iPhone user who regularly attends conferences and social networks in which you collect business cards, or the names and email addresses of people you meet, you definitely should check out the newly revised and updated free Evernote Hello 2.0. Evernote Hello made it to the list of my top 10 favorite apps of last year. But its 2.0 update deserves a full review for the useful features it now includes.
Take Your Inbox Box To Zero With Mailbox For The iPhone
The default Mail client for the iPhone has become in my opinion outdated, or it's certainly not as advanced as the hardware it resides in. Mail is not fun to navigate, and its latest features don't provide much of a productivity boost. But the just released popular third-party email client, Mailbox (Free), may make Apple's Mail client feel like a third-rate piece of software.
How To Share Notebooks In Evernote & Springpad
Springpad and Evernote are awesome file cabinets for storing and managing articles, recipes, products, and text clippings we want to save for later review. But an additional way to maximize these powerful notebooks is to make use of their collaborative sharing features. These days, when it comes to working collaboratively on computer-related projects, notes, files and documents, doing so via email can become time-consuming, and even counterproductive.
Mint.com On the iPad Makes It Easy To Track Your Spending
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to do better at budgeting your money and monitoring your personal finances, Mint.com is one of the best ways to meet these goals. This popular and well-established online and mobile service can help you keep track of your spending, and offer you advice about making better financial choices.
How To Turbo Delete Your Files [Mac]
Computers are awesome machines for storing data and precious files. However, we should keep in mind that there are security risks associated with the data stored on any computer hard drive — be it Mac or PC. Though files on a Mac can be deleted via the trash can, it does not mean trashed and deleted files are removed from the computer's directory. This article covers the default method for securely deleting files.
iOS Pages Turns Your iPad Into a Desktop Publishing Device
If you are using your iPad like a laptop computer or notebook, Apple's iOS version of its word processor, Pages ($9.99), is exclusively designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. In its most recent update, Pages received improved capability with Microsoft Word and the Mac version of Pages.
10 Tips For Improving Your Google+ Status
There are mixed reviews about the growing popularity of Google+. As yet another social networking site, Google+ hasn't of course been around as long as Facebook and Twitter, so it may be too early to judge its viability. However, if you're looking to enhance your presence on Google+, now's a good time to get started. In this article I'll highlight and recommend tips and suggestions to get you started for improving your status on Google+.
How To Make Your iPad a Laptop Replacement
In an interview, Apple CEO Tim Cook said he no plans for developing an iPad that transforms into a laptop. But that certainly doesn't keep many iPad users from using the device as a notebook computer. A friend of mine told me he actually prefers his iPad 3 over his laptop. Due to the abundant productivity tools in the Mac App Store, and the various keyboard accessories for the iPad, the device can definitely be used as a laptop.
Why The Drawing & Sketching App Paper Won Apple's iPad App For 2012
The sketch and drawing app, Paper, recently won Apple's 2012 iPad App of the Year Award, and it is very easy to see why. Even if you're not an artist but are a true fan of the iPad, you will want to check out the unique, custom user interface of Paper. There are dozens of drawing apps in the iTunes Store, but Paper is about as near as it gets to an app that resembles an analog paper notebook.
Atomic Web Browser Brings Advanced Web Browsing to iPhone and iPad
If it were possible, I would make Atomic Web ($0.99) the default web browser for my iPhone and iPad Mini. Atomic Web has already replaced the iOS version of Safari on my homepage, but it would be great if web links from other apps would open directly into Atomic Web. Atomic Web may not have the clock speed download of Safari, but it has so many useful features for iPad and iPhone power users.
Instapaper Could Be The Best Read Later App For The iPad
One of the classic reading apps for the iPad and iPhone is Instapaper, which still shines above all others for its unique tilt scrolling and page flipping features. This well-designed app is supported by dozens of other iOS magazine and RSS feed reader apps like Zite, Flipboard, and NewsRack, which enable you to save selected articles to your Instapaper account for later reading.
10 End-Of-The-Year Tech Related New Year Resolution Recommendations
The following list is my personal recommendations for tech related tasks—from the vitally important, backing up your computer hard drive, to the most difficult challenge of spending a whole day without getting on your computer. My list includes links to MUO articles that provide ideas for how to carry out specified tasks, but you’re also encouraged to of course research other ideas and solutions. I also welcome your recommendations for tech related tasks I didn't include in this list.
From Silent Ringtone To QuickDial: 5 More iPhone Tips & Features
For the price tag of an iPhone, you should probably want to know every little feature and tip you possibly can to get the most out of it. If all you're doing is making phone calls and using a handful of apps, you're probably not getting your money's worth. While the iPhone could be regarded as a minicomputer, the following set of tips and features focus on the phone part of the iPhone.
Get The Most Out Of iTunes 11 With These 10 Tips
A few of these tips are work-arounds for features Apple left out in iTunes 11, like iTunes DJ, while others point out a few new handy features you might overlook. iTunes is not a perfect media player, and it still may be a little confusing for some users, but the key to getting the most out of iTunes is to focus on the features you need and ignore the ones you don't, as I heard iTunes expert Kirk McElhearn once say.
Your Guide To The Awesome New Features Of iTunes 11
Apple recently released the 11th version of its popular media player iTunes, and its re-design and new features have gained lots of praises from critics of the older versions of iTunes who found the player bloated with features, and difficult to browse. The new version is still a cross-platform Mac and PC player, and it contains nearly all the features of the previous version of iTunes.
From ProCamera to Paprika: My Top 10 Favorite Apps for 2012
Following an annual tradition I started last year, I would like to take the opportunity to highlight the best and most useful apps from this past year. By now we all take for granted how relatively inexpensive mobile apps are, though many of them are very much a part of our daily workflow for getting things done. From a mobile pro camera app to a food recipe manager, these apps are what make my iPhone and other Apple hardware devices worth the investment.
How To Use iOS & OS X Sharing & Highlighting Features For Special People In Your Life
The Apple ecosystem is not only about synchronizing data and using multiple Mac accounts, it also includes features and apps useful for those special people and VIPs in your life - people for whom you don't ignore their emails or phone calls, and for those you probably share photos with. There are several iOS and OS X features and apps that you can use to highlight those special people in our life
Learn How To Sketchnote With The Penultimate App For The iPad
I recently wrote an article about sketchnoting, an approach to notetaking using both words and drawings. Though many of the examples of sketchnotes you see online are produced by skilled designers and artists, it's important to know that sketchnoting can be done by anyone. It's an approach to notetaking that should be taught in schools.
How To Visualize Ideas, Information & Data Using Sketchnoting
If you're a student or someone who takes notes a regular basis, you may be interested in a fun and even artistic movement called Sketchnoting. Sketchnoting is like notetaking, but it includes visual notes as well as words. It's a way of conceptualizing ideas, information, and other data on paper (or a digital tablet) beyond the traditional text medium of outlining. Sketchnoting, or visual notetaking, is for clustering information and capturing big ideas.