A neat new feature in iOS 8 is Audio Messages, or texting with sound. What may not be too obvious is by default the messages will auto delete after 2 minutes. So gone will be the “I Love You” from your spouse or kids but there is a way to keep them. First, let’s send an…
Learn how to quickly clean up your OS X Mail.app inbox by using simple tricks to select multiple messages easily.
Stop Stubborn Popup Windows: Even if you have popup windows blocked in Safari (Safari menu —> Preferences —> Security) You may have (or will) run into a certain type of window where there is no way of closing the window. While this is popular with Windows users in mind, the Mac version has been gaining popularity. This little…
(Icky but possible) Although the landscape has changed for the better, some websites just work better (or only work) on Windows and Internet Explorer. Case in point, a client had to make a setting change in Exchange OWA. When logging in through Safari, OWA would go directly into the Lite version of OWA, even though the…
If you haven’t noticed, when you wake your phone by pressing the home button, or press the sleep wake button at the top, you get a screen similar to the one below. What you may not have noticed is that you have access to three different features of the phone without even having to unlock…
You read how to record the action on your Mac using built-in tools. You can also record the action on your iDevice. There’s 2 ways this can be done: The manual way, by setting up another camera and recording the action as you swipe, touch and tap. It works, but there is another way that will…
Are you getting smiley faces and other funny images in your texts from your kids, friends or others? Not sure how to do the same back? The secret is these icons are another keyboard. To access it on your iDevice (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), go to “Settings”, then “General”. Scroll down to “Keyboard” and touch…
Wish you could show off how you built your super cool tower in Minecraft (ask your kids what that is, or kids you know under the age 15) or just need to record something you’re doing on your Mac? Then you’ll want to fire up QuickTime Player. Yes, QuickTime Player. To open it from the Finder click…
The is an easy way to dial extensions from an iPhone. When entering a new contact (or editing an existing contact) on an iPhone, enter the phone number as you normally would. After you have entered the phone number, press the “+*#” key (see number 1 in photo below). This displays a keypad with extra…
September 13th is International Verify Your Backup Day. If you forgot to do it, or didn’t know how, the video below shows you how to retrieve a file that was deleted from your Time Machine backup: