Tag: iPod Touch

Self Serve at the Apple Store

During the long weekend, my wife had to buy a new pair of earphones and found out that the Apple Store in Hornsby had them in stock. We paid a visit to complete this fairly straightforward transaction. Anyway, we found out that you can actual serve yourself using the Apple Store app found in the App Store. …

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Fix Volume Control in iOS

Once in a blue moon you might find that your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch doesn’t work despite using the volume control rocker and the volume changing on screen. This can be a frustrating problem but luckily it’s fairly simple to fix. All you need to do is double press the home button to bring …

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Browse More Efficiently on Your iPad or iPhone Using the Reading List

Browsers these days are blessed with the ability to have many webpages open across a number of tabs and mobile devices are no different. However, in the case of iOS devices you’re not going to be able to open perhaps the twenty or thirty tabs you might do on your desktop or laptop computer. Furthermore, …

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How to Guide – Performing an Over the Air Update of iOS & Multitasking Gestures

Given that the first update to iOS 5 came out and one of its much touted features was the ability to update the device without tethering it to iTunes on a computer I thought I would make a video showing you the execution of this process. I did cut quite a bit out of it …

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Recover Speed on Slow iOS Devices

Checking iOS Device Space Utilisation in iTunes

It seems that with each iOS update older devices can get a bit slower in having to support new features on existing hardware. Unfortunately, you just can’t crack open your device and add more memory or swap out the CPU for something more powerful. That said, there can be other causes of poor performance on …

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Disable “Natural” Scrolling in Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

Here’s a quick tip for people moving across to Lion. By default, the scroll gestures that we have become accustomed to are now inverted to simulate what would happen on an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. Scrolling from bottom to top on your trackpad will scroll the page up will scrolling from top to bottom …

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Update iTunes When Using a New iOS Device

Just a quick one tonight. The title might seem obvious to most people but it’s something worth mentioning anyway given the speculation around a refreshed iPhone and iPad being released before the end of the year. With the release of new devices (iPods, iPhones and iPads) there is usually a prerequisite update for iTunes to …

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Why I Won’t be Buying iPad 2

Today, a lot of people asked me whether or not I would be eagerly waiting to purchase an iPad 2 when it is eventually launched in Australia perhaps some time later this month (although last year’s delays for countries apart from the USA did cause some angst amongst customers). I was expecting to be asked …

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Evernote – Cross-Platform Notes in the Cloud

Some people, such as myself, are not entirely and completed wedded to a single content and device ecosystem in that I have the Samsung Galaxy S as my mobile phone (an Android device for those unfamiliar with it), a Windows 7 custom built desktop  at home, a Windows 7 MSI Wind netbook and an Apple …

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Amazon: Lend a Friend an eBook

For those of you that use the Amazon Kindle platform or are in the market for a new eBook reader and have yet to make up your mind then this development may pique your interest. In a nutshell, one Amazon Kindle user can lend out a book to another Amazon Kindle user for a period …

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