iPhone Life - Best Apps, Top Tips, Great Gear
What Is Data Roaming on iPhone & Should It Be On or Off?
By Olena Kagui
Is iPhone data roaming a bit of a mystery to you? We'll clear up all your questions! Get clarification on what cellular data roaming is and answer the question, should data roaming be on or off? Plus, I'll tell you some tips on how to cut down data roaming costs without turning it off completely.
Fix iPhone Pro Max Camera Issues & Take Better Photos
By Olena Kagui
If you have an iPhone Pro or Pro Max of any model, you expect all your photos and videos to look amazing. But what if they don't? Let's cover how to quickly troubleshoot common iPhone camera problems, use the correct iPhone Pro and Pro Max camera settings, and more! While these tips are specific to the Pro iPhone models, many can be applied to other models as well.
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Top 7 Ways to Protect Your Personal Security in 2024
(Sponsored Post) By Amy Spitzfaden Both on Thu, 10/17/2024
Did you know that in 2023, there were over 2,000 cyber attacks affecting over 340 million victims?
That's why we are partnering with our friends at Incogni to bring you the Top 7 Ways to Protect Your Personal Security in 2024, a special free on-demand online event in honor of Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
In this class, you'll learn how to:
CaMeasure -- use your camera to measure size or distance
By Jim Karpen
I'm always amazed by all the novel uses of the camera on iOS devices — from taking your pulse to helping those who are colorblind determine colors — and wrote an article about that in a recent issue of the magazine. And I just received a press release for another. CaMeasure lets you use your camera to measure size or distance. It does this in one of two ways. For smaller objects such as furniture, the app asks you to put an object of known size, such as a sheet of paper or a credit card, by the object.
Every once in a while, there’s an economics professor who manages to put together a research paper that appeals to gadget geeks and iPhone nerds.
Review: Mission Workshop Rambler Backpack
By Louis Senecal
Mission Workshop is a company in San Francisco that designs and makes messenger bags and backpacks (and apparel too). All of their products are proudly made in America. They sent me over a Rambler backpack to try out and this thing is a beast (a good beast). I have a Swiss gear backpack that I have used for years.
Recently, I've had quite a few friends asking me what to do when their iPhone crashes or locks up in a way that prevents the iPhone from responding to the normal iPhone restart procedure. This happens occasionally with jailbroken iDevices whenever there are cydia app conflicts with the firmware.
Haunted Manor HD Review
By Mike Riley
Big Fish Games is rapidly becoming the Infocom of the object hunting puzzle adventure iOS gaming arena. Their latest interactive story, Haunted Manor HD, places gamers in a typical Victorian-style haunted house scenario, learning clues about the ghosts occupying the house as the various hunt and peck puzzles are solved. How does Haunted Manor compare to other Big Fish titles? Read on to find out.
Haunted Manor HD follows the simple story of Stan Riddle who is inexplicably trapped in an elegant, spooky mansion filled with a cornucopia of objects. Consisting of over 90 tasks spanning 18 different locations throughout the mansion, players eventually re-assemble pieces of a broken mirror to reach the story's resolution.
5. Exclude songs from Shuffle
By Rich Hall
I rarely used the Shuffle feature in iTunes or on my iOS devices because I didn't think there was a way to exclude the songs I didn't want to hear. Then I discovered the "Skip When Shuffling" tag. Here's how you exclude songs from Shuffle:
- Select the tracks you want to exclude in the list view.
- Open the Items Information dialog box (Command-I on the Mac; Control-I on the PC).
- Click on the "Skip when Shuffling" checkbox and hit "OK." (No more "Clair De Lune" sandwiched between "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and "Sunday, Bloody Sunday.")
Change a song or album's genre
By Rich Hall
Review it and change the genre associated with a specific album or song by following these steps. In this example, I'm changing the genre of the Bob Dylan album, "Christmas In the Heart" from "Holiday" to "Folk" (Fig. 4).
If you need some privacy during a FaceTime call, you have two options. You can mute FaceTime audio or pause FaceTime video during a call on your iPhone or iPad. Here's how to mute the sound or stop the video feed during a call in the FaceTime app.
Add a FaceTime contact to your Favorites
By Rich Hall
You can change the status of an existing Contact to FaceTime or Voice Call from within the Phone app. Open Phone, go to the Favorites tab, tap on the + (plus) button, and select a name from the Contacts list. A pop-up appears that will allow you to make the listing a FaceTime or Voice Call item.Note that you can do this with any contact listing, even those that do not have a phone number or a phone with FaceTime capabilities. Be sure to check about this before you try to add them. Also, if you're trying to FaceTime with an iPod touch user, you can only do this if they have a Wi-Fi connection to the Internet.
PDF Expert now flattens documents
By Anonymous
I just received a new Press Release about my favorite PDF Reader. Now only is it the best PDF reader, but it makes creating, viewing and protecting forms a cinch! Here's an excerpt from the PR:
Review: GNS 5870 MFI GPS BT Receiver
By Louis Senecal
Global Navigation Systems, (a.k.a. GNS) has created and sells a plug and play Bluetooth GPS receiver for IOS devices. It’s called the GNS 5870 MFI. (MFI stands for Made for iPhone). I’m not a stranger to testing out and using GPS systems but this is the first one I have used for my Apple product, so I am excited to work with it. Even though I have some knowledge of GPS, I am by no means an expert in this area. There are two things I look for though. One, a quick satellite lock, and two, it just needs to work.
There is no jail breaking required. I’m testing this out on my Wi-Fi only iPad. The Nav App I am using is Co-pilot.
iPhone Scanner Mount
By Tracy Sebastian
Publish your music in iTunes
By Anonymous
Ever since I got the music bug with my Magic Fiddle (.99) I've been wondering; so now that I can play some music on a virtual fiddle is that it? Where can I go with that?
While my fiddling skills are still in development, the larger question for me was what can I do with music that I create; on my iMac, iPad or iPhone?
Trimming tracks in iTunes
By Bryan Schmiedeler
Sometimes a music file contains material at the beginning or the end that you don't want to hear, like crowd noises, an extended drum solo, or my pet peeve—10 minutes of silence. Fortunately, you can tell iTunes when to start and stop playing a song. Follow these steps:
Thermos -- app lets you use your iPhone as a thermometer
By Jim Karpen