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TUAW Help Line: holiday gift questions & answers

by Michael Rose (Dec 25th, 2011)

The goose is cooked, the cookies crumbled, the wrapping paper thrown away and the relatives released to their neutral corners. Finally, you can get down to the post-holiday fun of setting up your new iPad, or transferring your data from your old ...

iPhone 101: Using iOS accessibility to make text larger

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 30th, 2011)

Welcome to iPhone 101, the series that explains the basics of iPhone operation. This time, its making tiny text easier to read using the accessibility features in iOS. Following Stevie Wonder's high praise of the accessibility features found in ...

iPhone 101: Recovering deleted voicemails

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 16th, 2011)

Welcome to iPhone 101, the series that explains the basics of iPhone operation. This time, its retrieving a deleted voice mail message. One of the great features of the iPhone -- that is, one that is actually related to having phone ...

iPhone 101: How to turn caps lock on

by Matt Tinsley (Aug 19th, 2011)

Welcome to iPhone 101, the series that explains the basics of iPhone operation. This time, its enabling caps lock. It always astounds me how many iPhone users don't know how to enable caps lock while typing, not just newcomers. Just the other ...

iPhone 101: Using Voice Control

by Dave Caolo (Jun 10th, 2011)

While we wait for iOS 5 to deliver cool new features, here's a look at Voice Control, a feature introduced with the iPhone 3GS model. There are three types of Voice Control commands: phone, music and other. Here's how to use each. Launching Voice ...

iPhone 101: Location data and GPS

by Dave Caolo (Apr 27th, 2011)

Update: Look here for official word on the iPhone location data controversy from Apple. Recently, the Apple community has become interested in location data as gathered by iPhones. Specifically, The Guardian has reported that researcher and ...

Get an iTunes or Mac App Store account without a credit card

by Michael Terretta (Jan 7th, 2011)

Parents, the safest way to keep your kids from accidentally spending your money in any of the iTunes stores, including the App Stores, is to give them their own iTunes Account that doesn't have an associated credit card. Whether you want to let your ...

iPhone 101: Where did I put that app?

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 30th, 2010)

Once you have a fair number of apps on your iOS device, you might find that you occasionally "lose" an app somewhere in the pages and/or folders of your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. Handily, there's a trick for locating that app using iTunes. I ...

iPhone 101: Save extensions in Contacts

by Aron Trimble (Dec 15th, 2010)

Having friends with an office job in the typical corporate environment often times means having to dial a desk phone with an extension. As Lifehacker points out, this usually results in having to memorize a contact's direct extension for use after ...

iPhone 101: Quitting apps in iOS 4

by Erica Sadun (Jun 30th, 2010)

iOS 4 makes it easy to leave apps without quitting, but what happens when you actually do want to terminate an application? Quitting applications can really help with older apps that have not been updated for iOS 4 "multitasking" and that do not ...

iPhone 101: What you need to know about FaceTime

by Mel Martin (Jun 25th, 2010)

FaceTime for the iPhone 4 is a lot of fun. It's the simplest implementation of video conferencing I've seen, because it is basically a no-configuration feature. Here's some tips to would-be FaceTimers: First, make sure FaceTime is enabled. Tap ...

iPhone/iPod 101: How to get the most out of your battery

by Chris Rawson (Mar 1st, 2010)

Since you can't just swap out the battery on your iPhone or iPod, it's important to know how to get the most life out of your device's battery, particularly if you won't be able to charge it for a while. Apple has two pages on its site that detail ...

iPhone 101: How to force quit an unresponsive app

by Aron Trimble (Feb 11th, 2010)

We here at the TUAW headquarters rely pretty heavily on our iPhones when we're away from our desks. This is especially true for the lucky ones on the floor at Macworld 2010. Sometimes however, our little pocket computers go haywire and refuse to ...

iPhone cellular data not working? Try resetting your network settings

by Sang Tang (Nov 11th, 2009)

The "Reset Network Settings" button on the iPhone not only resets your Wi-Fi settings -- resulting in a clean slate with respect to Wi-Fi access points and their passwords -- it also resets your phone carrier settings. Several months back, I had the ...

Mac 101: Create a wireless network between Mac and iPhone

by Josh Carr (Sep 25th, 2009)

Many applications require your Mac and your iPhone to be on the same wireless network in order to communicate properly or sync. Apple doesn't advertise the ability to use such applications without a wireless router... nor do many developers. It's ...

iPhone 101: Don't forget to wipe... your iPhone's data

by Kevin Harter (Aug 23rd, 2009)

Stepping up to a shiny new 3GS? Thinking about selling your old iPhone on eBay or craigslist? Don't forget to wipe! I buy iPhones from time to time to unlock and offer to our local customers. One such phone arrived today and I eagerly opened the box ...