iPhone and iPad
How to Buy More iCloud Storage
If you’ve upgraded your iDevice to iOS 5, you are probably using iCloud already. If you are using it to make backups of your phone on a regular basis, that 5 GB that’s included free is going to fill up mighty fast. Luckily, Apple has made it easy to increase the amount of storage that [...]
How to Customize Siri Security Settings
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S, few changes made more waves than Siri. Siri is a virtual assistant that utilizes Wolfram Alpha and Wikipedia to answer just about any question the user has. It also enables you to schedule reminders, make appointments, set timers, control musical playback, place phone calls, and more without needing anything [...]
How to Save Your Battery Life in iOS 5
If you own a new iPhone 4S, you’ve probably had the chance to enjoy the services of Siri, the virtual assistant that Apple recently included with the device. But you may have also noticed that your new friend, while being able to help you with everything from reminders to schedule changes to sending messages to [...]
Mint.com iPad App Tracks Your Money on the Go
Mint.com has long been the go-to Web site for money management. Whether you want to track where all your money is being spent, create budgets for different things, track the paying of your student loan debt, or help yourself save up for that tropical vacation, Mint has the tools that you need to manage your [...]
iOS 5 Semitethered Jailbreak Released
With the recent iOS 5 update, many people who enjoy their iOS devices jailbroken are holding off on the upgrade due to the lack of an untethered jailbreak. While it’s true that an untethered solution (which means you can reboot your device freely, rather than having to use your computer to boot your iPhone every [...]
Square Coming to a Retailer Near You
Square is my second-most favorite creation by Jack Dorsey — who, if you didn’t know, also co-founded Twitter (which is, of course, my first-favorite). Square is a mobile credit/debit card reader for iOS devices, and along with the app, you can use Square to personally accept credit and debit cards anywhere you go. The Square [...]
How to Improve Your Sex Life with an iPhone App
Haroonbannu, a member of our LockerGnome community, asks: “Is there an app for improving your sex life? With gazillions of apps out there, chances are there are a couple of them designed to flare it up a bit. Has anybody ever come across one?” Nudge, nudge? Wink, wink? Say no more! While it’s true that [...]
App of the Week: KORG iKaossilator
Making music can be fun. Whether you have no formal training or you went to Juilliard, you probably sing in the shower — if not habitually, at least once in a while. Admit it! There’s no shame in that confession. Maybe you even brave the stage of a dark bar room and take part in [...]
Is the iPhone 4S Good Enough to Lure Existing Customers to Upgrade?
The iPhone 4S may not have been the revolutionary update iPhone owners were expecting, but there were quite a few updates that absolutely change the overall user experience. The question potential upgraders have to ask themselves is whether or not these changes are significant enough to warrant upgrading. If you’re a frequent user of the [...]
What Could Apple Improve About the iPhone 4S?
There seems to be a bandwagon mentality across social networks when it comes to bashing a new gadget. If the general consensus is that the gadget is a great step, people clamor to sing its praise across various discussion threads, typically repeating the same basic statement over and over with slightly different wording. When it [...]
