tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89231064563792628652024-02-19T08:06:19.600-08:00Smartphone and Android TipsAll Tips for your Smartphone and Androidsiscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.comBlogger101125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-10251767723185611842013-10-02T11:24:00.000-07:002013-10-02T11:24:00.581-07:00Most Mobile Browsers Are Unsafe to Use<div class="separator" style="clear: both text-align: center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNj_-6qDGs4unESBif_DyK1lICuiuZibahV6Cyh4OOLqpZMHPGt1JUgRLaS-lcxdBFsnAdwKkwgwzK-bSB7I92XxG1xlSKBMZtGeje5d0ka7cIFH59CUTK_JQA32D69NsTD-pweLqAztw/s1600/Phone-Web-Browsing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left float: left margin-bottom: 1em margin-right: 1em"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkNj_-6qDGs4unESBif_DyK1lICuiuZibahV6Cyh4OOLqpZMHPGt1JUgRLaS-lcxdBFsnAdwKkwgwzK-bSB7I92XxG1xlSKBMZtGeje5d0ka7cIFH59CUTK_JQA32D69NsTD-pweLqAztw/s320/Phone-Web-Browsing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>None of the major cellular browsers have security that is up to snuff, according to scientists at Georgia Tech.<br /><br /> "We identified vulnerabilities in all ten of the cellular browsers we analyzed, which together account for a lot more than ninety% of the cellular browsers in use [in the U.S.]," Patrick Traynor, assistant professor at Georgia Tech's School of Personal computer Science, stated in a college press release.<br /><br /> On cellular browsers, even professionals have trouble identifying the legitimacy of a web site owing to the deficiency of graphic indicators such as a lock icon that present when a browser is using the protection protocols protected sockets layer (SSL) or transport layer safety (TLS).<br /><br /> This sort of icons amd indicators, present on virtually all desktop browsers, rapidly explain to end users no matter whether the website they are browsing is safe and reputable. Examples incorporate the HTTPS address prefix and the padlock icon that seems when end users are moving into delicate knowledge like payment data.<br /><br /> The World Broad Internet Consortium (W3C) places forth distinct guidelines as to how SSL and TLS need to be carried out, one thing desktop browsers usually do properly. When it will come to their mobile counterparts, the W3C suggestions don't look to be taken as critically. Because individuals routinely use their smartphones to store and conduct banking transactions, that is a massive difficulty.<br /><br /> "Investigation has revealed that cellular browser customers are a few occasions far more probably to access phishing websites than end users of desktop browsers," explained Chaitrali Amrutkar, the principal author of the Georgia Tech paper. "Is that all due to the lack of these SSL indicators? Possibly not, but offering these equipment a constant and full existence in mobile browsers would undoubtedly help."<br /><br /> Cellular builders are constantly faced with the problem of producing an enjoyable browsing experience on a screen that is only a portion of the dimension of a desktop. But a malware-ridden or hacked phone isn't satisfying at all.<br /><br /> After developers determine out a wise and consistent way to apply SSL and TLS, Traynor said, every person will be far more safe and much better served.<br /> "With a minor coordination, we can do a greater job and make mobile browsing a safer encounter for all users," he mentioned.<br /><br />Authentic report is in http://mashable.com <br /> <span style="font-size: x-small"><em>Photo courtesy of Flickr, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit/" target="_blank">Robert S. Donovan</a></em></span>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-73206156256371026502013-09-28T03:20:00.000-07:002013-09-28T03:20:01.044-07:0050 Best Free iPhone Apps for 2012<h2>50 Best Free iPhone Apps for 2012</h2><span class="Apple-style-span"></span><br /><h2 style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal bold 15px/normal arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contents</h2><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012.html">Apps 1-10</a></li><li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012_26.html">Apps 11-20</a></li><li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012_1442.html">Apps 21-30</a></li><li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><span class="current" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-iphone-apps-2012.html">Apps 31-40</a></span></li><li class="last" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012_3721.html">Apps 41-50</a></li></ul><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span id="intellitxt" name="intellitxt" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><br /><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/334044-sugarsync.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2343598,00.asp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>SugarSync</b></a><br /><img border="0" height="11" src="http://www.pcmag.com/images/pcm_4_5_dot.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /> <img border="0" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/22/0,,i=225133,00.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br />One of our favorite file-syncing services, SugarSync added an iPhone app to its offering in 2011. SugarSync gives you access to your files from a multitude of devices, no matter if you store them on your laptop at home, desktop computer at the office, tablet, and so on. You can use SugarSync to stream music, back-up photos, collaborate on projects, and more.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><hr /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="ted" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/334116-ted.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ted/id376183339?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TED by TED Conferences</strong></a><br />TED's tagline is "Ideas worth spreading," and what better way to spread the ideas from this series of education, explorative, and motivational talks than by carrying them with you wherever you go. TED once was a highly exclusive conference, closed off even to most press, and the organization's greatest accomplishment to date has been to open up the knowledge that comes from its speakers by making videos of their presentations and performances available online to the public. This official TED app works for both iPhone and iPad. If you're unfamiliar with TED, give <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight</a> presentation a try. You'll be hooked.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www7.pcmag.com/media/images/355367-theweatherchannel.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-weather-channel/id295646461?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Weather Channel</strong></a><br />In putting together this list of free iPhone apps, I thought long and hard about the ones I actually use most day in and day out. The Weather Channel's free app is one that I open at least once a day. Sometimes it's a little embarrassing (really? I can't just look out the window?), but other times, like when I'm leaving the house for a full day and want to know how to dress for the weather conditions five hours from now, The Weather Channel has more time-based information than the built-in Weather app from Apple. The Weather Channel's free app does contain some advertisements, but they're tolerable.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Trainyard Express" border="0" class="center" src="http://www2.pcmag.com/media/images/322395-trainyard-express.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2380301,00.asp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trainyard Express</strong></a><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="11" src="http://www.pcmag.com/images/pcm_4_5_dot.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /><br />In this captivating iPhone game from indie developer Matt Rix, players lay down tracks to guide trains from their starting points to the stations, sometimes merging with other trains along the way. Trains, starting points, and stations are color-coded. Red trains must end up in red goal stations. A blue train can merge with a red train to become a purple one before it reaches a purple station. As the difficulty increases, the number of trains also increases, as well as the number of objectives in each level. Trainyard Express is an absolutely addictive and fun puzzle game for players of all ages.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="TripIt" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/322364-tripit.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripit-travel-organizer/id311035142?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TripIt</strong></a><br />TripIt tops the list of travel apps. It automatically syncs your emailed itineraries to a TripIt organizer, putting all your travel plans right on your iPhone no matter which booking agent you use. It's hands down the most recommended app for frequent jet-setters… but watch out for the ads.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="twitter" border="0" class="center" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/354493-twitter.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter</strong></a><br />For a long time, Twitter Inc., the company that owns the 140-character social network, didn't make its own app. Dozens of third parties did, however, but not all the resulting apps were worth using. So when Twitter released its official Twitter app—and it worked well and loaded quickly!—users folded the new tool into their iPhones happily. If you tweet, it's a no-brainer to have this app. If you don't tweet and have been on the fence about joining the masses, the iPhone app makes it easy and convenient to get on board. With iOS 5 (available for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S) has a lot of Twitter functionality directly integrated into other apps, so you can tweet out things you want to share with greater ease. You still need the Twitter app (or another Twitter client) to read tweets, though.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www2.pcmag.com/media/images/319200-best-iphone-apps-webmd.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/webmd/id295076329?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WebMD</strong></a><br />WebMD is much more than a diagnosis app, although you certainly can use it to input symptoms you are experiencing and find some clues as to what's ailing you. It also contains listings for healthcare professionals and pharmacies in your area, as well as first-aid guides—simple instructions for dealing with an emergency that everyone should have accessible to them at any time. This free reference app is one you hope you don't need, but the moment you do, you'll be glad you downloaded it.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/314585-wikipedia.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wikipedia</strong></a><br />Half the fun of having a smartphone is looking things up when you're in the middle of a bar bet—and hopefully proving yourself right. Wikipedia is the go-to source for fact-checking in the mobile age, and the Wikipedia app usually returns results faster than a mobile search engine.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Yahoo! Axis" border="0" class="center" src="http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/354272-yahoo-axis.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2404877,00.asp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yahoo! Axis</a></strong><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="11" src="http://www.pcmag.com/images/pcm_3_5_dot.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /><br />Yahoo! Axis brings a refreshing and desirable new take on Web search, getting rid of the middle man, those pesky link-filled result pages. The implementation of this new idea still needs more sanding and buffing, but Pinterest users will find it's better for pinning than the social site's own mobile app. Yahoo! Axis includes a Pin It button bookmarklet directly in the browser for all your mobile pinning needs.<br /><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/314584-yelp.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353342,00.asp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yelp</strong></a><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="11" src="http://www.pcmag.com/images/pcm_3_5_dot.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /><br />The most comprehensive review app, Yelp turns out to be an invaluable tool for finding businesses nearby, especially when you're in a town you don't know well. Yelp's mobile app has helped me find a hairdresser when I was in a pinch in Washington DC, and a suitable lunch while driving through Ohio (shout-out to Moreland Hills!). Need to find an acupuncturist in Austin? Or the most popular coffee shop in Charlotte (emphasis on "popular" and not necessarily "best," by the way)? Yelp's the app to do it.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div id="end-of-article" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="btn-holder" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: right; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 26px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 621px;"><strong class="left" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #006699; float: left !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; font: normal normal bold 15px/normal arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012.html">< Previous</a></strong></div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-14142531941169723042013-09-27T17:24:00.000-07:002013-09-27T17:24:00.729-07:00OCDock Makes Your Workspace a Zen Apple OasisSteve Work would possibly approve of this Apple iphone dock's stylish simplicity and sensible operation. <br /> It is known as the OCDock, and it truly is designed to meld your Apple iphone and iMac or Thunderbolt exhibit into one seamless, evidently wireless workstation. But first, its mum or dad business, OCDesk, has a mission to complete: this <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ocdesk/iphone-dock-for-imac-and-apple-displays-the-ocdock" target="_blank">Kickstarter campaign</a>.<br /><br /> The crowdfunding quest has till Dec. 22 to attain a aim of $ forty nine,000. It really is just topped the $ 40,000 mark.<br /><br /> With achievement a likely end result, here is what OCDesk states its new dock connector has to offer: The device attaches normally beneath a normal iMac or Thunderbolt display, showing up much more as an natural and organic part of your workstation than just yet another piece of office litter. Yet another slick piece of layout work gives the OCDock its wireless appearance -- there is actually an really thin cord that runs beneath your computer's base to link to a USB port.<br /><br /> The advantages? Other than a zenned-out workspace, it helps make switching back again and forth between personal computer and smartphone although operating -- and let us encounter it, that is one thing most of us do -- a lot, much less difficult. In the long term, the organization ideas to produce Mac computer software to allow you manage your telephone by means of your desktop machine.<br /><br /> Kickstarter backers who pledge $ fifty five are promised an OCDock in January. The unit will afterwards retail to the general public for $ 79.<br /><br /> Does this look like a cool product you'd use -- or does it drop flat?siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-14561785170725069682013-09-26T04:59:00.000-07:002013-09-26T04:59:00.578-07:00Answer Your Door With a Smartphone or TabletWouldn't it be great to solution your front door with a smartphone? Which is the assure of Doorbot, a Wi-Fi-enabled doorbell that alerts you anytime an individual pushes its button, sending audio and video to your smartphone.<br /><br /> The battery-operated system installs at your threshold with 4 screws in a bracket. Once you have downloaded its free app and synced any iOS unit or Android smartphone with it, you can see and converse with visitors at your door. The application will alert you anytime the button is pushed.<br /> There is certainly a microphone on board the DoorBot that lets you discuss with whomever's visiting you, even if you happen to be countless numbers of miles absent. The camera performs at night time, as well, making use of infrared engineering to let a very clear see of website visitors even in the dim.<br /> <br /> <br /> When an individual presses the button on the DoorBot, you may receive an notify on your smartphone. If you usually have your mobile phone close by (and who doesn't these times?), you may be able to immediately react to website visitors, or reject them without them understanding if you might be residence or not.<br /><br />Proceed reading through <a href="http://mashable.com/2012/12/08/doorbot-iphone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29" target="_blank">Answer Your Doorway With a Smartphone or Pill</a>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-5926887304403881582013-09-24T06:53:00.000-07:002013-09-24T06:53:00.193-07:007 fabulous free apps for showing off your iPhone 5<a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/7-fabulous-free-apps-for-showing-off.html" style="clear: left float: left margin-bottom: 1em margin-right: 1em"><img alt="7 fabulous free apps for iPhone 5 7 fabulous free apps for showing off your iPhone 5" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12448" height="141" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/7-fabulous-free-apps-for-iPhone-5.jpg" title="7 fabulous free apps for iPhone 5" width="200" /></a> “What’s so special about the new Iphone?” I’ve been listening to that query above and over in the past handful of times, and here’s my stock response: it’s thinner, lighter, more rapidly … and wait ’till you’ve noticed the larger monitor.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span id="more-12447"></span><br />Certainly, it is wonderful how speedily my eyes obtained utilized to the taller, 4-inch show on the Apple iphone 5—so considerably so, in truth, that my old Apple iphone 4 display now appears stubby and cramped in comparison.<br />Sadly, just a handful of apps have been optimized to take benefit of the further space—well, aside from the core Iphone applications from Apple, that is.<br /><br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_12449" style="width: 179px"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/7-fabulous-free-apps-for-showing-off.html" rel="attachment wp-att-12449"><img alt="Pinterest app for iPhone 5 169x300 7 fabulous free apps for showing off your iPhone 5" class="size-medium wp-image-12449" height="300" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Pinterest-app-for-iPhone-5-169x300.jpg" title="Pinterest app for iPhone 5" width="169" /></a><br /><div class="wp-caption-text"><i><span style="font-size: x-small">A even bigger display indicates much more “pins” to peruse in the Pinterest Apple iphone app.</span></i></div><div class="wp-caption-text"><br /></div></div>The rest are plunked in the center of the screen, with black bars above and beneath. Sure, they still function completely fine, but what a squander of place!<br />So, which tremendous-sized applications must you try when you’re displaying off your new Iphone to your buddies? Right here are 7 of my favorites—and sure, they’re all free of charge.<br /><h3><b>one. Fb</b></h3>Fb recently rebuilt its Iphone application from the floor up to juice its overall performance, and a just-launched update zooms the interface to fill the complete Apple iphone 5 screen—perfect for browsing all individuals standing updates and child pictures in your news feed.<br /><b>Obtain: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8" target="_blank">Fb</a></b><br /><h3><b>two. Flipboard</b></h3>This eye-catching “social magazine” takes headlines and pictures from your preferred sites and social networks and turns them into stunning, flippable web pages. Presently one of the most impressive Iphone applications in the Application Store, Flipboard appears even greater now that it is been optimized for the even bigger Apple iphone 5 exhibit.<br /><b>Download: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-your-social-news/id358801284?mt=8" target="_blank">Flipboard</a></b><br /><h3><b>three. Pinterest</b></h3>You still simply cannot “pin” anything from the Pinterest Iphone app <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/08/17/hands-pinterest-app-ipad/" target="_blank" title="Hands-on with the new Pinterest app for iPad">like you can on the iPad</a>, but Pinterest on the Apple iphone helps make for a fantastic way to search the most recent pinned goodies from your fellow Pinteresters—and on the Apple iphone five, you are going to see even a lot more pins in a solitary look.<br /><b>Down load: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinterest/id429047995?mt=8" target="_blank">Pinterest</a></b><br /><h3><b>four. Brushes 3</b></h3>Unleash your interior artist with this free of charge painting application, which allows you paint on a digital, widescreen canvas with 14 various brush styles. Personalize your brushes, “record” your brush strokes and engage in them again later, or share your creations by means of Fb or Twitter.<br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_12450" style="width: 179px"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/7-fabulous-free-apps-for-showing-off.html" rel="attachment wp-att-12450"><img alt="Bejeweled Blitz for iPhone 5 169x300 7 fabulous free apps for showing off your iPhone 5" class="size-medium wp-image-12450" height="300" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bejeweled-Blitz-for-iPhone-5-169x300.jpg" title="Bejeweled Blitz for iPhone 5" width="169" /></a><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">The addictive “Bejeweled Blitz” looks even a lot more beguiling on the four-inch Iphone five exhibit.</div></div><b>Obtain: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brushes-3/id545366251?mt=8" target="_blank">Brushes 3</a></b><br /><h3><b>five. Pocket</b></h3>Sit again, relax, and drop by yourself in a prolonged on-line article with Pocket, an app that normally takes long text stories from the world wide web, and will save them on your Apple iphone, all formatted for effortless studying. Sure, the new-and-enhanced <a href="http://www.apple.com/ios/whats-new/#safari" target="_blank">“Reading List” characteristic in Safari</a> will also conserve internet web pages on your Apple iphone, but the Iphone five-completely ready Pocket application does Studying List 1 much better by permitting you flip by means of internet pages like a ebook, just like on a Kindle.<br /><b>Obtain: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-formerly-read-it-later/id309601447?mt=8" target="_blank">Pocket</a></b><br /><h3><b>6. Hipmunk</b></h3>Here’s an Iphone journey app with a difference. Alternatively of just spitting out a checklist of offered flights, Hipmunk (pictured over) results in a coloration-coded chart that lets you compare departure and arrival instances, as properly as pinpoint flight with on-board Wi-Fi. And thanks to the Apple iphone 5?s longer display, you will be in a position to look at up to ten flights at a glance.<br /><b>Download: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipmunk-flight-hotel-search/id419950680?mt=8" target="_blank">Hipmunk</a></b><br /><h3><b>seven. Bejeweled Blitz</b></h3>The addictive, at any time-popular “match-3? puzzler is now improved for the greater Apple iphone 5 screen. The sport by itself is totally free, but anticipate to spend further for score-boosting electricity-ups.<br /><b>Obtain: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bejeweled-blitz/id469960709?mt=8" target="_blank">Bejeweled Blitz</a></b>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-57628764531145526832013-09-22T15:48:00.000-07:002013-09-22T15:48:00.420-07:00How to revive a frozen iPhone<span></span> <br /><div class="format_text entry-content"><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/12/10/iphone-tip-revive-frozen-iphone/"><img alt="Revive a frozen iPhone iPhone tip: How to revive a frozen iPhone" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13841" height="220" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Revive-a-frozen-iPhone.jpg" title="Revive a frozen iPhone" width="320" /></a>Photograph this: you’re fortunately swiping absent on your Iphone when all of a unexpected, it goes haywire—an app freezes up, the net browser spins and spins, or the monitor basically stops responding to your fingertaps. Now what?<span id="more-13838"></span><br /> Properly, you could consider pressing the “home” crucial to return to the familiar house page, or you could push and maintain the “sleep/wake” button (the slim button that sits on the best edge of the handset) to switch your Apple iphone off and on once more.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13839" style="width: 310px"><img alt="iPhone sleep wake button 300x236 iPhone tip: How to revive a frozen iPhone" class="size-medium wp-image-13839" height="236" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/iPhone-sleep-wake-button-300x236.jpg" title="iPhone sleep-wake button" width="300" /><div class="wp-caption-text">Press and keep equally the “sleep/wake” essential (pictured below) and the residence key to reset a frozen Iphone.</div></div>But what if the residence and rest keys are not responding, either?<br /> The good news is, there’s one more way to resuscitate a frozen, glitchy, or in any other case unresponsive Apple iphone: a so-known as “hard” reset, which forces the Iphone to stop no matter what it’s performing, shut down, and restart.<br /> Consider of it as waking your Apple iphone (or iPad, or iPod Contact) with a cold bucket of h2o rather than a gentle nudge—crude, but usually successful.<br /> <br />Here’s how …<br /> <ul><li>Push and keep <em>the two</em> the “sleep/wake” button (at the top of the Iphone) and the property button (beneath the screen) at the exact same time.</li><li>Right after a handful of seconds, the monitor will go blank do not fret, this is normal. Keep urgent and holding people buttons.</li><li>Soon after a number of <em>a lot more</em> seconds, the Apple symbol should appear. Go ahead and release the buttons.</li><li>Wait around a bit lengthier, and your iPhone’s residence monitor ought to seem once more. Phew!</li></ul></div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-231431795945773612013-09-21T23:23:00.000-07:002013-09-21T23:23:00.438-07:0010 Tips and Tricks for iOS 6<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3b3b3c font-family: georgia font-size: 16px line-height: 23px"></span><br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Possibly you've got put in Apple's iOS 6, the latest operating method for iPhones, iPad, and iPod touch, but do you know about all the methods that are inside and how to use them?</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Apple's most current mobile functioning program, iOS six, may have sparked a fury of World wide web detest for the new Maps app, and I surely will not wag my finger at any person who misses Google's engine guiding the Maps application, but plenty a lot more goodies are tucked away in iOS 6 that you shouldn't skip.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Here are 10 of the best functions and how to use them.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/359173-ios6-swipe-up-reply.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>one. Swipe up to reply to incoming phone calls with a text information.</b> Maybe you read that when a call arrives in, you can now reply with a textual content information instead of just declining the call. But these alternatives do not seem instantly. You have to swipe up from the bottom of the screen to reveal them.<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www3.pcmag.com/media/images/359170-ios6-reply-with-message.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>2. Customize your text replies to declined calls.</b> The feature that lets you turn down cellphone phone calls but reply with text message makes it possible for you to use a canned message for extra convenience. A couple of choices look when you swipe up, as talked about in the initial tip. To alter what they pre-prepared texts say, go to<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 30px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Options > Telephone > Reply with Information.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">You can now customize your 1-contact replies.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www3.pcmag.com/media/images/359169-ios6-do-not-disturb.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>3. Find out how to function the Do Not Disturb alternative.</b> A new characteristic referred to as Do Not Disturb appears in the configurations, but it is nothing far more than an on/off switch. In which can you set the hrs for tranquil time, or make it so that phone calls from unexpected emergency contacts come by means of? Oddly, these options fall beneath the Notifications location. Go to<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 30px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Configurations > Notifications > Do Not Disturb.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">The Scheduled button allows you outline the hrs when you do not want to be disturbed. The Let Calls From button just underneath it launches a new display the place you can exclude individuals from your do-not-disturb list.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/359166-ios6-attach-mail-landscape.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>4. Attach photographs and video clips to e mail in the Mail app.</b> Formerly, employing the mail application was sometimes a pain. You'd compose a message, don't forget that you wished to send the receiver a photograph, way too, and recognized you couldn't actually attach something to the draft. Now you can. In an e mail draft, push a maintain everywhere in the entire body. In landscape method (holding the cellphone horizontally), checklist of choices will show up, which includes one particular to insert a photo or online video. If you happen to be in portrait or vertical method, just press the arrow button that seems until you see the correct selection.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3b3b3c font-family: georgia font-size: 16px line-height: 23px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3b3b3c font-family: georgia font-size: 16px line-height: 23px"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3b3b3c font-family: georgia font-size: 16px line-height: 23px"></span><br /><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www5.pcmag.com/media/images/359168-ios6-reader-mode.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>five. Study in entire-screen mode.</b> News articles or blog posts, weblogs, and other textual content-weighty webpages, when viewed on an Iphone specifically, result in squinting and a lot more pinching, zooming, panning than most men and women come to feel comfy undertaking. When Safari detects a text-weighty page in iOS 6, it materials a button referred to as Reader at the leading right of the URL bar, which reformats the web page in a entire-monitor and less difficult-to-go through layout. You'll also discover a "share out" or "send out to" button (curved arrow) in Safari with a whole lot of wonderful option beneath it also worth discovering. They are largely not new to iOS 6, but they do look in a recently developed interface.<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www2.pcmag.com/media/images/359172-ios6-guidedaccess.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>six. Move your iPad or Apple iphone to pals without worrying they are going to get nosy.</b> I acknowledge that I have hesitated in the past ahead of passing my mobile devices close to to buddies to allow them seem at images or something that created me giggle on Facebook. The more substantial the team of buddies, the more suspicious I am that someone might get liberties with my gadget when I am not searching. The same is true, I am certain, for mother and father who permit their children enjoy with their Iphone or iPad. Guided Accessibility, new to iOS 6, lets you lock down your system so that only the app you open up can be used, and no other features performs till you enter a distinctive 4-digit passcode. It truly is a little tough to locate and established up.<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Initial, go to</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 30px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Options > Basic > Accessibility > Guided Access.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Toggle the change to on and established a passcode. When you want to use Guided Obtain, just open up the app of choice, and triple faucet the house button. Be confident to strike the start button at the prime appropriate. But wait around, there is certainly more (see the following suggestion).</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/359164-ios6-guidedaccess-to-disable.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>7. Disable buttons in apps (in Guided Access).</b> When you enable Guided Entry in an app—which locks end users from likely into any other application or locations of the phone—you can also disable areas of the screen. For illustration, if you flip on Guided Accessibility in the Photos app, you can also use your finger to circle elements of the screen you want to disable, such as the top row of buttons so that one can seem by way of your other albums. Just be positive to strike the Begin button in the leading appropriate corner just before handing above your device!<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/359167-ios6-photo-stream-sharing.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>eight. Share Photograph Stream.</b> Apple's syncing provider, iCloud, handles photos with speed and very good responsiveness. But it was by no means easy to share your photos till iOS 6 arrived together. To share your Picture Stream photographs, go to the Camera application and push Photo Stream. Then hit the furthermore button in the upper remaining, which will open a display the place you can fill details about how to share your Photo Stream, whether with a choose handful of folks, or by generating it community on your iCloud account.<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/359171-ios6-privacy.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>nine. Learn what the new Privateness button means (and use it).</b> A new Privateness button below Settings arrives with small rationalization. Tap it, and you might not know what details it truly is even telling you because there are no directions or explainers. Here is what it does: Privateness displays you apps that can discuss to other applications, and regardless of whether they are. For illustration, my Twitter application talks to my Flipboard app. I enabled that integration, and I am all right with it. But if I did not bear in mind allowing it, or needed to shut it off, I can do so in the Privateness spot with one particular quick motion. This feature offers you really excellent ability to fast capacity to turn off any application-to-app sharing that you never want and you may possibly have forgotten existed. So if you do not want Fb to know the place you are, examine the Location Services section of your Privateness buttons, and you can flip the switch off lickety-split.<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www6.pcmag.com/media/images/359165-ios6-facebook.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline" /></div><br /><b>ten. Customise indigenous Facebook alerts.</b> A massive new function in iOS 6 was the direct folding in of Fb functionality, which means you can share to Fb a photo from your Digital camera application or a link from Safari with no ever opening the Fb app itself. It works comparable to the baked-in Twitter functionality that was new to iOS five. What several end users may forget about, however, is the capability to customize your Fb chat and concept alerts, independent from the Fb app as properly. They are located below<div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 30px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Settings > Fb > Configurations.</div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px border-color: initial border-color: initial border-left-width: 0px border-right-width: 0px border-style: initial border-style: initial border-top-width: 0px color: #3b3b3c font-family: inherit font-size: 16px font-style: inherit font-weight: inherit font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia margin-bottom: 0px margin-left: 0px margin-right: 0px margin-top: 0px outline-color: initial outline-style: initial outline-width: 0px padding-bottom: 9px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px vertical-align: baseline">Of program, you can also incorporate Facebook alerts to your Notification Center, but that function is not new (it's beneath Options > Notifications, and then scroll down until you locate Fb in your listing of apps).</div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-50405318552772827902013-09-21T05:09:00.000-07:002013-09-21T05:09:00.829-07:0050 Best Free iPhone Apps for 2012<br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font: normal normal bold 22px/normal Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative;">50 Best Free iPhone Apps for 2012</h3><div class="post-header" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6759999029798959210" itemprop="description articleBody" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 586px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal;">Contents</span></div><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;">Apps 1-10</a></li><li style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012_26.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Apps 11-20</a></li><li style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012_1442.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;">Apps 21-30</a></li><li style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><span class="current" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-iphone-apps-2012.html" style="color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;">Apps 31-40</a></span></li><li class="last" style="border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: #666666; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 12px/15px Arial; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 6px; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 119px;"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-free-iphone-apps-for-2012_3721.html" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">Apps 41-50</a></li></ul></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3b3b3c; font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"></span><br /><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="iBooks" border="0" class="center" src="http://www3.pcmag.com/media/images/322366-ibooks.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">iBooks</strong></a><br />If Kindle and Nook don't tickle your fancy, Apple has its own little online bookstore where you can download and save novels, magazines, newspapers, and other reading material—and, yes, many of the books and periodicals are free! This personal digital library works on iPad and iPad 2 as well, so you can browse for books on the go from your phone and save them to read on the tablet later.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="imdb" border="0" class="center" src="http://www7.pcmag.com/media/images/355622-imdb.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/imdb-movies-tv/id342792525?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IMDb Movies & TV</strong></a><br />"What was the name of that movie… the one with Ally Sheedy and Fisher Stevens?" The next time you can't remember the name of an actor, television show, or film (<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Short Circuit</em>, by the way) IMDb saves the day. One of the handiest reference websites on the planet, IMDb never fails when it comes to looking up anything that has to do with TV, film, or Hollywood. The IMDb Movies & TV app also lets you find which movies are playing at your local cinema, and even purchase tickets. With an IMDb account (free or paid for Pro), the app provides even more features, like the ability to create a watchlist of movies you want to see.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www3.pcmag.com/media/images/319215-kindle-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle/id302584613?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kindle</strong></a><br />Read books, magazines, and newspapers right on your iPhone without ever buying an e-reader. From within the Kindle app, you can buy or download for free hundreds of thousands of books, and more than 100 different newspapers and magazines.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/355366-levelup.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2408283,00.asp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LevelUp</strong></a><br /><img border="0" height="11" src="http://www.pcmag.com/images/pcm_3_5_dot.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /><br />LevelUp is an iPhone and Android app that lets you make purchases using your credit card via QR codes that the app displays. Participating merchants simply scan the QR code on your screen, which initiates a credit card transaction, and you're on your way.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/334050-menupages.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a _blank="_blank" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/menupages/id352412764?mt=8%20target=" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>MenuPages</b></a><br />The free app and website MenuPages keeps a database of restaurant menus, with prices included. If you've ever gritted your teeth at a restaurant's online menu that omits the prices, try MenuPages for unbiased information. Admittedly, MenuPages is not a great app for every location, but in major U.S. cities, it's awesome, especially when Yelp's recommendations seem skewed by college students who give five-star ratings to fast-food burgers and less-than-fresh sushi. With MenuPages, you can make your own decisions about a restaurant's dishes and prices. The app and website won't give you much insight into quality, but it will help you quickly weed out places that are too pricey or don't serve the kind of food you have in mind. It's also useful for ordering take-out.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; 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border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /><img border="0" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/22/0,,i=225133,00.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br />The website and service <a href="http://mint.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mint.com</a> helps you keep detailed account of your finances by connecting to your bank and credit card accounts and tracking all the money you earn and spend. The Mint.com iPhone app extends the experience so users can keep an eye on their spending better while on the go. Just enter a few data points in the iPhone as you spend, and you’ll be able to see your spending patterns as an easy-to-read chart.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www2.pcmag.com/media/images/338316-mozy.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mozy/id427293902?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mozy</a></strong><br />Online backup service Mozy lets you access all your backed-up files securely right from your iPhone, letting you essentially take your computer with you in your pocket. Mozy, which is a freemium service, lets you read documents, browse photographs, play your music, and share files anywhere you have an Internet or 3G connection. A MozyHome or MozyPro backup account is required.<br /><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="myfitnesspal-05" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/319221-myfitnesspal-05.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393270,00.asp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MyFitnessPal</strong></a><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="11" src="http://www.pcmag.com/images/pcm_4_dot.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /><br />The free fitness app MyFitnessPal is one of the best all-in-one calorie counter and exercise trackers for the iPhone. A simple design and interface make using the app a quick chore rather than a fatiguing project, which is essential when trying to reach a long-term fitness or weight goal. The biggest selling point of this app is its exhaustive food and nutrition database, which trounces every competitor's that we've seen.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www6.pcmag.com/media/images/319217-nook-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nook-for-iphone-from-barnes/id384910586?mt=8" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nook for iPhone</strong></a><br />Anti-Amazon book lovers might prefer an app by Barnes & Noble for reading on their iPhones, NOOK. NOOK and Kindle largely do the same thing (give you access to an impressive library of books, newspapers, magazines, and other things to read), although their interfaces and experiences are different. Whether you like Amazon or B&N is largely a matter of personal preference. The NOOK app feels a little more graceful in its design, whereas the Kindle app looks more utilitarian.<br /><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 1px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font: normal normal normal 16px/23px Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div align="center" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" border="0" class="center" src="http://www5.pcmag.com/media/images/331313-onavo.jpg?thumb=y" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><br /><a class="" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2393941,00.asp" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Onavo</b></a><br /><img border="0" height="11" src="http://www.pcmag.com/images/pcm_4_dot.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="55" /><img border="0" src="http://common.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/22/0,,i=225133,00.gif" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br />The free app Onavo compresses data automatically to help you reduce data usage on your phone. In other words, it will save you money if you typically exceed your mobile service plan's data allotment. Additionally, anyone traveling abroad with an iPhone should absolutely have Onavo installed. Learn the settings well, but be forewarned that there's no compression for streaming video. 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href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/50-best-iphone-apps-2012.html">Next ></a></strong></span></span>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-51868245429261315712013-09-18T16:08:00.000-07:002013-09-18T16:08:00.180-07:00How to baby-proof an iPhone app with Guided Access mode<a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-baby-proof-iphone-app-with.html" style="clear: left float: left margin-bottom: 1em margin-right: 1em"><img alt="How to babyproof an iPhone app with Guided Access iOS 6 tip: How to baby proof an iPhone app with Guided Access mode" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12418" height="126" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/How-to-babyproof-an-iPhone-app-with-Guided-Access.jpg" title="How to babyproof an iPhone app with Guided Access" width="200" /></a> When she is not kicking contentedly in her ladybug chair or tossing pacifiers out of her crib, my six-month-previous daughter loves swiping my iPhone’s touchscreen with her pudgy minor fingers.<br /><br /><br /><span id="more-12417"></span><br />Especially, she’s enamoured of <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/koi-pond/id286420263?mt=8" target="_blank">Koi Pond</a>, an application that turns my iPhone’s screen into a virtual fish pond, complete with lily pads and fish foods.<br />My daughter’s eyes go wide whenever she manages to splash the water or scare the fish with a well-aimed swat at the monitor.<br /><br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_12422" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-to-baby-proof-iphone-app-with.html" rel="attachment wp-att-12422"><img alt="iOS 6 Guided Access settings 300x289 iOS 6 tip: How to baby proof an iPhone app with Guided Access mode" class="size-medium wp-image-12422" height="289" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iOS-6-Guided-Access-settings-300x289.jpg" title="iOS 6 Guided Access settings" width="300" /></a><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center"><i><span style="font-size: x-small">Once you activate Guided Entry method, you can disable contact enter wherever on the monitor by tracing an spot with your fingertip.</span></i></div><div class="wp-caption-text"><br /></div></div>Not so entertaining, however, is when she unintentionally hits the tiny “?” icon in the corner of the show, which interrupts the koi pond action with a boring how-to diagram.<br />Anytime that transpires, my minor 1 quickly loses fascination in the fish and switches to a a lot more absorbing match, referred to as “Put the Apple iphone in Your Mouth.”<br />Nicely, fellow mother and father, great news.<br /><br />A attribute in the new <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/tag/ios-6/" target="_blank">iOS six software update</a> for Apple iphone, iPad, and iPod Touch can quickly “lock down” an app, freezing all the hardware buttons (which includes the “Home” button) and allowing you draw zones on the display screen that will not respond to faucets or swipes.<br />The “Guided Access” function will work on any Apple iphone or iPad which is been <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/09/19/4-installing-ios-6-iphone-ipad/" target="_blank" title="4 things to do before installing iOS 6 on your iPhone or iPad">up to date to iOS 6</a>, and you can switch it on however the Configurations menu.<br />Here’s how to get started…<br /><ul><li>On your Apple iphone or iPad property monitor, faucet Configurations, Common, then scroll down to the bottom of the webpage and faucet Accessibility.</li><li>On the following webpage, scroll down again to the Learning segment, faucet Guided Obtain, then flip the Guided Accessibility change on.</li><li>If you want to, you can also established a passcode for unlocking your system once you’re completed with the Guided Accessibility manner (tap “Set Passcode,”) or keep the Electrical power button active in the course of Guided Access for putting the display screen to rest (flip the “Enable Monitor Sleep” switch to “On.”) Fairly depart people options alone? No difficulty.</li><li>Following, open the application that you want to babyproof—Koi Pond, in my case—then triple-simply click the Residence crucial. The application ought to freeze and a body of Guided Accessibility controls should appear.</li><li>Now, draw a circle wherever on the display screen to disable faucets or swipes in a certain region. After you’ve drawn your circles, you can drag or resize them with your fingertips (which I had to do a number of times, following my little one kept swatting the “?” icon in Koi Pond), or faucet the tiny “x” to delete a contact-cost-free zone.</li><li>At the base of the display screen, you can change off contact and movement input altogether (on an Iphone, faucet the Alternatives button to expose individuals configurations).</li><li>All established? Faucet the blue Start button in the leading-correct corner of the display screen, then permit your tyke unfastened.</li></ul>When you are carried out permitting your infant swipe away on her favourite Apple iphone or iPad application, you can turn off Guided Access manner by triple-clicking the Home key yet again.<br />And when she’s ready to tap once again, your system will remember your Guided Obtain options from very last time.siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-16036987795775555942013-09-18T05:23:00.000-07:002013-09-18T05:23:00.104-07:00Big-Screen iPhone 5 Apps (Games)<span id="intellitxt" name="intellitxt"></span><br /><div class="p1"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Video games</strong></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Asphalt 7 (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/359203-asphalt-7-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/asphalt-7-heat/id462694916?mt=8&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITSTOP100&ign-mpt=uo%3D2" target="_blank">Asphalt seven: Warmth</a> </strong><em>ninety nine cents </em><strong><br /></strong>Asphalt and Require for Pace are the two most common driving game franchises on the Iphone, and only Asphalt has been optimized for the big screen so significantly. You happen to be supposed to keep your eyes on the center of the monitor in a driving recreation, but the broader screen provides you a lot more space to enjoy the gorgeously comprehensive cityscapes on Asphalt's city courses.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Jetpack Joyride (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www7.pcmag.com/media/images/359215-jetpack-joyride-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jetpack-joyride/id457446957?mt=8" target="_blank">Jetpack Joyride</a></strong><em>Cost-free</em><strong><br /></strong>A broader monitor in landscape method is a true boon for system game titles due to the fact you can much more easily see what is actually in advance of you. Halfbrick's silly, energetic Jetpack Joyride is a excellent illustration of a game which will get a little added boost on the Apple iphone 5, as you zip along via a kooky laboratory driven by an jetpack with no off switch.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Lili (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www7.pcmag.com/media/images/359218-lili-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lili/id560692867?mt=8&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITSTOP100&ign-mpt=uo%3D2" target="_blank">Lili</a> </strong><em>$ 4.ninety nine</em><strong><br /></strong>This gorgeous, nonviolent Unreal Motor run adventure recreation is one of the prime approaches to demonstrate off the screen and GPU power in the Iphone five. As a bespectacled grad college student, you wander by means of a gorgeously rendered tropical land of spirits and tribal fetishes, with the Apple iphone 5's new graphics hardware producing almost everything buttery easy.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Minecraft (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www5.pcmag.com/media/images/359240-minecraft-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minecraft-pocket-edition/id479516143?mt=8&v0=WWW-NAUS-ITSTOP100&ign-mpt=uo%3D2" target="_blank">Minecraft Pocket Version</a> </strong><em>$ six.99</em><strong><br /></strong>Minecraft is a massive cult match, one thing of a shibboleth among computer software developers and semi-professional geeks. The iOS version of Minecraft isn't going to have all of the entire world-developing functions of the principal match, but much more functions and creatures are being added on a regular basis, and the app now supports total Apple iphone 5 resolution, supplying you a tiny bit much more respiratory space as you are constructing your worlds.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Sky Gamblers (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www5.pcmag.com/media/images/359239-sky-gamblers-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sky-gamblers-air-supremacy/id505730036?mt=8" target="_blank">Sky Gamblers: Air Supremacy</a></strong><em>$ two.ninety nine</em><strong><br /></strong>This 3D airplane dogfighting sport is a beautiful flight sim with battling, and you want to be doing that over as vast a vista as attainable. Switch the screen into landscape mode, and which is what you may get with an Iphone 5: a broader check out as you swoop above simulated metropolitan areas in Sky Gamblers.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Spell Tower (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www7.pcmag.com/media/images/359219-spell-tower-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spelltower/id476500832?mt=8" target="_blank">Spell Tower</a></strong><em>$ 1.99</em><strong><br /></strong>Spelling as in <em>terms</em>, not spells as in <em>magic</em>. Spell Tower is a term-developing sport, beautifully designed with great-seeking fonts. On the Iphone 5, you can perform in an iPad-appropriate mode that just isn't available to house owners of before iPhones, with a lot more strains of letters on the monitor.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Sword and Sworcery (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/359220-sword-and-sworcery-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/superbrothers-sword-sworcery/id424912055?mt=8" target="_blank">Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP</a></strong><em>$ 1.99</em><strong><br /></strong>It truly is an outstanding operate, and possibly the one most hipster thing I've ever observed on an Apple iphone. (Which is declaring a lot.) S&S is a relatively slow-paced, immersive action-adventure match using stylized quasi-eight-little bit graphics and a personalized digital songs soundtrack. It truly is sufficient like and as opposed to other journey games that it truly is intriguing, and it spreads its gloomy planet throughout the entire Apple iphone five display screen.</div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-2087502223906402162013-09-16T05:21:00.000-07:002013-09-16T05:21:00.449-07:00‘Add To Amazon Wish List’ Chrome extensionA latest statistic revealed states that much more than 70% of Individuals will do much of their purchasing on the web this calendar year for the holiday seasons and even over and above into following yr. Amazon is, of system, one of the more well-known internet sites to for on-line shopping, and the Add To Amazon Would like Listing (ATAWL) is a super helpful extension for Chrome that will allow you expand your Amazon desire list into a comprehensive vacation searching listing that can incorporate non Amazon objects which are located on other web sites. This makes it feasible to have one particular would like checklist that is hassle-free for you and every person else who could be fascinated in being aware of what you might want this holiday period.<br /><br /> <a href="http://freewaregenius.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Amazon-wishlist-extension-screenshot.jpg"><img alt="Amazon wishlist extension screenshot" border="0" height="274" src="http://freewaregenius.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Amazon-wishlist-extension-screenshot_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none border: 0px display: inline padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px" title="Amazon wishlist extension screenshot" width="474" /></a><span id="more-30372"></span><br /> <br />The extension operates thusly: Put in it from the Chrome Web Keep (of training course) and then you are going to see a small Amazon logo with the orange swoop-like line beneath it on your browser’s tackle bar in the form of a button. Clicking the button will deliver up a short menu that will allow you configure the extension to use what ever form of Amazon (.com, .united kingdom, and so forth.) you like, as nicely as location other choices inside of Chrome’s extension menu. ATAWL really becomes a valuable thing, even so, when you are really browsing and searching on the web. Of course it is compatible when searching Amazon.com but the truly amazing point is that it will really function on websites that are not in any way connected to Amazon!<br /><br /> One particular of the items that tends to make an Amazon Want List so useful is that it is common, meaning you can include things to it from anywhere on the internet and with this extension you can edit information of each and every product on the fly as you incorporate it without having possessing to log into Amazon every time. You can choose what photo from the webpage to use for the product as nicely as incorporate feedback and notate rates (with or without shipping and delivery costs, for instance) and even keep more than a single merchandise from a one web page on your listing with out creating a new a single. You can produce as numerous new lists as you like but you’re not essential to make far more than a single to use this extension. The screenshot beneath exhibits the Amazon Wishlist extension in motion on a web site other than Amazon.<br /><br /> <a href="http://freewaregenius.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATAWL-ScreenShot00089.jpg"><img alt="ATAWL ScreenShot00089" border="0" height="315" src="http://freewaregenius.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATAWL-ScreenShot00089_thumb.jpg" style="border-width: 0px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px" width="474" /></a><br /> <br />For any individual who prefers buying on the web, no matter whether you store much at Amazon or not, this extension can be a great time saver and a neat way to keep details on what you program to purchase with out having to minimize and paste a thousand URL links into a notepad or other textual content software, considering that ATAWL will hold the URLs for every item you enter and you can then obtain them easily at a later on day. This kind of superior shopping device can be beneficial 12 months-round but especially around the vacations so give it a attempt, and you may possibly find that you are carried out with your buying prior to you can say Happy New Yr! Until subsequent time, my friends!<br /><br />Get Include To Amazon Would like Checklist <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/add-to-amazon-wish-list/ciagpekplgpbepdgggflgmahnjgiaced/details" target="_blank">here</a>.siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-81393148732918577572013-09-15T04:06:00.000-07:002013-09-15T04:06:01.041-07:00How to fix Verizon iPhone 5 leaking cellular data while connected to
Wi-Fi<a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/10/01/verizon-iphone-5-leaking-cellular/"><img alt="How to keep your Verizon iPhone 5 from leaking cellular data Is your Verizon iPhone 5 leaking cellular data while connected to Wi Fi? Heres a fix" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12510" height="405" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/How-to-keep-your-Verizon-iPhone-5-from-leaking-cellular-data.jpg" title="How to keep your Verizon iPhone 5 from leaking cellular data" width="600" /></a>So, I was poking all around my on the internet Verizon Wireless account for my new Iphone five lately when I seen some thing odd: tons and heaps of tiny cellular data charges, even when my Iphone was connected to my house Wi-Fi community.<span id="more-12508"></span><br /> The 4G knowledge use mentioned on my account wasn’t anything significant, mind you—just a number of kilobytes here, a couple of megabytes there, often in the center of the night when my Apple iphone was asleep on my bedside table, and effectively inside of range of my Wi-Fi foundation station.<br /> Small even though they are, though, those odd bits of cellular knowledge use can truly start off to include up, specifically when you have signed up for a “capped” 4G data strategy.<br /> Meanwhile, some Iphone 5 end users have <a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4339526?start=0&tstart=0" target="_blank">complained of even bigger chunks</a> of rogue mobile data usage on their accounts—as much as a gigabyte a working day, even when they hadn’t strayed much from Wi-Fi.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_12509" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/10/01/verizon-iphone-5-leaking-cellular/verizon-iphone-5-carrier-settings-alert/" rel="attachment wp-att-12509"><img alt="Verizon iPhone 5 carrier settings alert 300x261 Is your Verizon iPhone 5 leaking cellular data while connected to Wi Fi? Heres a fix" class="size-medium wp-image-12509" height="261" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Verizon-iPhone-5-carrier-settings-alert-300x261.jpg" title="Verizon iPhone 5 carrier settings alert" width="300" /></a><div class="wp-caption-text">A fast, in excess of-the-air update of the Verizon Apple iphone 5?s provider configurations must plug its mobile knowledge leak.</div></div>So, does the Verizon Iphone five someway “leak” mobile data even when related to a Wi-Fi community?  The response, as it turns out, is indeed.<br /> Apple has <a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5526?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US" target="_blank">issued a help observe warning</a> that “under certain circumstances,” the Iphone five “may” eat Verizon mobile information even when it is sypposed to be making use of Wi-Fi information instead.<br /> The repair? An “over-the-air” update to the iPhone’s provider configurations, which normally takes just a handful of faucets and only a couple of minutes of your time.<br /> Here’s how to grab the update:<br /> <ul><li>Tap the Configurations app on your Apple iphone 5?s home screen, then faucet Standard, About.</li><li>An notify titled “Carrier Settings Updated” will pop up on the display. Faucet the “OK” button.</li><li>Next, energy off your Apple iphone: press and keep the “sleep/wake” button that sits on the best edge of your handset till the “slide to electrical power off” slider seems, swipe the slider handle from left to correct, then wait around for the spinning wheel in the center of the monitor to disappear.</li><li>Press the “sleep/wake” button again the Apple emblem should appear, and you should see your Iphone lock display screen a handful of seconds later.</li><li>Last but not least, double-examine that the updated carrier settings have been appropriately mounted. Tap Configurations, Standard, About, then make sure the “Carrier” entry reads “Verizon thirteen.1.”</li></ul>I just utilized to provider update myself, and I’ll be maintaining an eye out for any abnormal 4G info usage on my Iphone in excess of the next handful of days—as ought to you.<br /> And if you’re <em>nonetheless</em> viewing random cellular information charges whilst your Iphone is connected to Wi-Fi, contact Verizon and enable them know, pronto.siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-66144716443903792082013-09-12T21:11:00.000-07:002013-09-12T21:11:00.472-07:0010 gotta-know Facebook tips and tricks<br /><div class="format_text entry-content"><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/10/02/10-gotta-facebook-tips-tricks/"><img alt="10 Facebook tips 10 gotta know Facebook tips and tricks" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6889" height="370" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/10-Facebook-tips.jpg" title="5 Facebook security tips" width="600" /></a>Experienced it up to here with the ticker? Want to delete all individuals nosy applications? Wish it had been easier to publish pictures from your phone? Prepared to zap your Fb account after and for all? Aid is right here!<span id="more-12537"></span><br /><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/02/01/completely-hide-facebook-ticker/" target="_blank" title="How to completely hide the Facebook ticker (finally!)"><b>one. Totally conceal the Fb ticker</b></a></h3>Fatigued of that relentless, real-time crawl of who’s carrying out what on Facebook? Nicely, great news: you can conceal it for excellent with just a few clicks. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/02/01/completely-hide-facebook-ticker/" target="_blank" title="How to completely hide the Facebook ticker (finally!)"><i><b>Go through more…</b></i></a><br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_5263" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2011/12/22/year-tech-5-improvements-hated/facebook-ticker-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-5263"><img alt="Facebook Ticker 300x196 10 gotta know Facebook tips and tricks" class="size-medium wp-image-5263" height="196" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Facebook-Ticker-300x196.jpg" title="Facebook Ticker" width="300" /></a><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">Is the Facebook news feed ticker driving you nuts? Preserve your sanity by hiding it, permanently.</div></div><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/01/11/facebook-news-feed-default-stories/" target="_blank" title="How to make your Facebook news feed default to “most recent” stories first"><b>2. Make your Fb information feed default to “most recent” tales 1st</b></a></h3>By default, Fb places your “Top Stores”—or your top stories in accordance to Fb, anyway—at the best of your news feed. Want your news feed in simple-old chronological buy alternatively? Try out this. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/01/11/facebook-news-feed-default-stories/" target="_blank" title="How to make your Facebook news feed default to “most recent” stories first"><i><b>Read through more…</b></i></a><br /><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/08/20/facebook-protect-account-login/" target="_blank" title="Facebook tip: How to protect your account with login approvals"><b>3. Defend your account with login approvals</b></a></h3>With a cell phone and a small tolerance, you can make daily life a whole lot a lot more tough for any person attempting to hack into your Facebook account. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/08/20/facebook-protect-account-login/" target="_blank" title="Facebook tip: How to protect your account with login approvals"><i><b>Read through more…</b></i></a><br /><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/07/18/post-photos-facebook-phone-mail/" target="_blank" title="How to post photos to Facebook from your phone via e-mail"><b>four. Submit photographs from your telephone by way of electronic mail</b></a></h3>Nope, you really do not need a smartphone app to publish snapshots to your Fb timeline whilst you’re on the go. All you want is a digicam phone that can deliver e-mail. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/07/18/post-photos-facebook-phone-mail/" target="_blank" title="How to post photos to Facebook from your phone via e-mail"><i><b>Read through more…</b></i></a><br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_10253" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/05/30/turn-facebook-apps-fell-swoop/turn-off-all-facebook-apps/" rel="attachment wp-att-10253"><img alt="Turn off all Facebook apps 300x193 10 gotta know Facebook tips and tricks" class="size-medium wp-image-10253" height="193" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Turn-off-all-Facebook-apps-300x193.jpg" title="Turn off all Facebook apps" width="300" /></a><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">You can zap all your Fb applications at when in just a handful of clicks.</div></div><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/05/30/turn-facebook-apps-fell-swoop/" target="_blank" title="How to delete all your Facebook apps in one fell swoop"><b>five. Delete all your applications in 1 fell swoop</b></a></h3>Dropped observe of how numerous third-celebration apps and world wide web websites have obtain to your Fb account? If you wish, you can slam the door on all of them at after. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/05/30/turn-facebook-apps-fell-swoop/" target="_blank" title="How to delete all your Facebook apps in one fell swoop"><i><b>Read more…</b></i></a><br /><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/05/16/facebook-tip-turn-individual-email/" target="_blank" title="Facebook tip: How to turn on (or off) individual email notifications"><b>six. Flip e-mail notifications on (or off!)</b></a></h3>Want Fb to e mail you each and every time a person sends you a information, tags you in a photograph, feedback on a publish, or does just about everything else? Here’s how to change e-mail alerts on—or off. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/05/16/facebook-tip-turn-individual-email/" target="_blank" title="Facebook tip: How to turn on (or off) individual email notifications"><i><b>Study more…</b></i></a><br /><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/04/26/sign-remote-facebook/" target="_blank" title="Forget to log out of Facebook? Just sign off remotely"><b>seven. Remotely indicator out of your account</b></a></h3>It’s straightforward to swiftly log out of any and all open Facebook periods on any computer, whether it is the Mac on your desk or a Personal computer at the business office. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/04/26/sign-remote-facebook/" target="_blank" title="Forget to log out of Facebook? Just sign off remotely"><i><b>Study more…</b></i></a><br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_9056" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/04/13/download-facebook-posts-photos/how-to-download-your-facebook-info/" rel="attachment wp-att-9056"><img alt="How to download your Facebook info 300x158 10 gotta know Facebook tips and tricks" class="size-medium wp-image-9056" height="158" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/How-to-download-your-Facebook-info-300x158.jpg" title="How to download your Facebook info" width="300" /></a><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">Want a copy of all your Fb posts, photos and video clips? No dilemma.</div></div><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/04/13/download-facebook-posts-photos/" target="_blank" title="How to download all your Facebook posts, photos and videos to your PC"><b>8. Down load all your posts, photographs and films to your Personal computer</b></a></h3>Want a copy of each and every status update you have at any time posted to Fb, together with your picture albums, video clips, chats, and feedback? All you have to do is ask. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/04/13/download-facebook-posts-photos/" target="_blank" title="How to download all your Facebook posts, photos and videos to your PC"><i><b>Study more…</b></i></a><br /><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/03/05/add-maiden-nickname-facebook-account/" target="_blank" title="How to add a maiden name or nickname to your Facebook account (reader mail)"><b>9. Add your maiden identify or nickname to your profile</b></a></h3>Worried that previous pals who know you by yet another title can not find you on Fb? You can incorporate your maiden identify or nickname to your profile in just a couple of clicks. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/03/05/add-maiden-nickname-facebook-account/" target="_blank" title="How to add a maiden name or nickname to your Facebook account (reader mail)"><i><b>Read more…</b></i></a><br /><h3><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/04/20/permanently-delete-facebook-account/" target="_blank" title="How to permanently delete your Facebook account"><b>10. Forever delete your Fb account</b></a></h3>So, finally had enough with Fb? You can always delete your account, but it’ll need a minor work—and patience—on your portion. <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/04/20/permanently-delete-facebook-account/" target="_blank" title="How to permanently delete your Facebook account"><i><b>Read more…</b></i></a></div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-39552661857614432762013-09-12T03:44:00.000-07:002013-09-12T03:44:00.852-07:00Google Maps for iOS Returns, Available for Download Now<a href="http://mashable.com/category/google-maps/">Google Maps</a> for iOS is back!<br /> The app appeared in the Application Store late Wednesday night, offering joy and convenience to disgruntled Apple Maps customers just about everywhere.<br /> Rumors of the app's impending release appeared previously this evening by way of <em><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20121212/google-set-to-release-ios-maps-app-tonight/" target="_blank">AllThingsD</a></em>.<br /> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354?mt=8" target="_blank">Google Maps for iOS</a> [iTunes link] seems and capabilities a lot more in the same way to its Android counterpart than it does to the edition that utilised to be bundled with iOS. <br /> <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448" name="m!f9a7"></a><br /> <div class="microcontent-wrapper" data-fragment="m!f9a7"> <span class="lightbox-expand for-lightbox"><img alt="" class="" data-width="1280" height="355" src="http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzEzLzEyL2dvb2dsZW1hcHNpLjR4VC5qcGc/6ddd8703/0d2/google-maps-ios-screenshot.jpg" title="google-maps-ios-screenshot" width="400" /></span><br /> </div>The application also contains a handful of attributes formerly limited to the Android edition of Google Maps, including guided switch-by-turn instructions.<br /> If you might be possessing issues downloading the app, give it a couple of minutes. Within moments of its release, it appears as if Apple's servers had been briefly crushed, with some consumers obtaining it difficult to download the app. <br /> I have only spent a number of minutes with the application, but right here are my 1st impressions:<br /> <ul><li>The interface is noticeably cleaner than prior to, although I still desire the appears -- if not usually the precision -- of Apple Maps</li><li>Customers can select to designate a property and operate tackle inside their profile, which is especially useful</li><li>Voice-guided switch-by-turn seems to operate properly</li><li>Consumers can opt to check out general public transit as an overlay on the map by itself, which is a nice touch</li><li>I enjoy getting in a position to obtain public-transit directions inside of my maps app yet again</li><li>Google Places have been much more prominently integrated into the app</li></ul>What do you think of Google Maps for iOS? Will you ditch Apple Maps and go back to Google, or are you pleased with your recent resolution? Allow us know in the responses beneath.<br /> <em>Image courtesy of Flickr, <a href="http://www.brewbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">brewbooks</a></em>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-18553244863987678092013-09-11T22:00:00.000-07:002013-09-11T22:00:07.250-07:00Big-Screen iPhone 5 Apps (News and Media)<span id="intellitxt" name="intellitxt"></span><br /><div class="p1"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><strong>Information and Media</strong></span></div><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="CNN (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/359205-cnn-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cnn-app-for-iphone/id331786748?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D2" target="_blank">CNN</a></strong><em>Free</em><strong><em><br /></em></strong>CNN is 1 of the very first information applications to be optimized for the Iphone 5's longer screen. What that implies, usually, is that you can see one a lot more tale in the menu, or 3 or 4 much more strains of text than you employed to. CNN's recent app is really handsome, though it isn't really that deep. Every single of its news sections spotlights all around eight existing stories. These tales are really often up to date, so you happen to be constantly certain to get the freshest news.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Comixology (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/359207-comixology-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comics/id303491945?mt=8" target="_blank">Comixology</a></strong><em>Totally free</em><strong><br /></strong>The prime electronic comics app has been updated for the Apple iphone five, permitting audience zoom in on panels utilizing the total length of the screen. I located that Comixology utilised the taller screen the most in portrait mode, in which long, skinny panels utilized the full peak in landscape manner, some horizontal panels never default to the entire width of the monitor, even though you can pinch to zoom them.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Flipboard (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www5.pcmag.com/media/images/359211-flipboard-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard-your-social-news/id358801284?mt=8" target="_blank">Flipboard</a></strong><em>Totally free</em><strong><br /></strong>Flipboard has often been a flagship application for the Apple iphone. Your longer display listed here does not get you any extra info throughout most of the application, though contact targets are just a tiny larger, and photographs are a tiny even bigger. When you flip into actual articles, however, there is certainly a huge big difference: A single Inc. magazine report I appeared at was nine webpages on the Apple iphone 4S, but only seven webpages on the 5's for a longer time display.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Kindle (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/359375-kindle-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kindle-read-books-magazines/id302584613?mt=8" target="_blank">Kindle</a></strong><em>Free of charge</em><strong><br /></strong>Amazon's Kindle application acquired an Iphone five update, so now you can go through your books, journals, and comics on the complete screen. Just like with Flipboard, that implies more reading with considerably less website page flipping.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Hulu Plus (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/359243-hulu-plus-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hulu-plus/id376510438?mt=8" target="_blank">Hulu+</a> </strong><em>App is Free, $ seven.ninety nine per thirty day period membership fee</em><strong><br /></strong>Hulu menus and movies are now entire display screen prepared on the Iphone 5—as prolonged as the movie is 16:nine structure, of program. Hulu+ requires a $ 7.99/thirty day period subscription but presents you entry to a broad range of leading network Tv shows streaming on your Apple iphone. </div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Newsify (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/359241-newsify-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/newsify-google-reader-rss/id510153374?mt=8" target="_blank">Newsify</a> </strong><em>ninety nine cents</em><strong><br /></strong>I'm a huge information enthusiast. Newsify is an RSS reader that syncs with Google Reader, making it possible for me to capture up on cellular sector information on my experience into work. It truly is just a bit greater designed than your regular news reader, and it makes use of the complete length of the Iphone monitor to give you as significantly news as you can take care of.</div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-34292844586840994752013-09-11T14:53:00.000-07:002013-09-11T14:53:00.545-07:00Big-Screen iPhone 5 Apps (Social Apps)<span id="intellitxt" name="intellitxt"></span><br /><div class="p1"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline">Social Apps</span></strong></div><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Echofon (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/359208-echofon-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/echofon-for-twitter/id286756410?mt=8" target="_blank">Echofon</a> </strong><em>Cost-free</em><strong><br /></strong>This well-liked Twitter shopper gives you an added line or two of Tweets on your Iphone five. Spending $ four.99 gets you a few lines far more in Echofon Professional, which ditches the banner advertisements at the best of each monitor. Echofon is a easy, quick, and easy-to-use Twitter consumer with the basic characteristics of mentions, direct messages, lists and search. Nothing as well extravagant, but entirely Iphone five-all set, and really valuable.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Facebook (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/359210-facebook-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </strong><em>Free of charge</em>The official Fb application for Apple iphone is occasionally derided, but everybody utilizes it. So it's good to see that it supports the total length of the Apple iphone 5's display, at the very least. Just like with other data apps, the Apple iphone 5 display delivers an added line or two of textual content to your Fb updates ahead of you have to scroll.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Yelp (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/359221-yelp-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><strong><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yelp/id284910350?mt=8" target="_blank">Yelp</a> </strong><em>Cost-free</em>Yelp is a should-download on the Apple iphone 5, because Apple's new Maps app depends on it when you simply click on firms in Maps to see evaluations, iOS attempts to throw you to Yelp. So it is a good point that Yelp performs quite nicely on the Apple iphone 5, like utilizing the total duration of the four-inch monitor to show details. </div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-68867160037040847572013-09-10T01:30:00.000-07:002013-09-10T01:30:00.725-07:00Big-Screen iPhone 5 Apps<span id="intellitxt" name="intellitxt"></span><br /><div class="p1"><b><span style="text-decoration: underline">A lot more Total-Display Iphone five Apps</span></b></div><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Evernote (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www4.pcmag.com/media/images/359209-evernote-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p1"><b><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/evernote/id281796108?mt=8" target="_blank">Evernote</a> (Cost-free)</b><i>Free of charge</i>Take somewhat lengthier notes or scribble over a marginally wider location utilizing Evernote on your Iphone 5, as the popular notice-getting application supports the 5's lengthier display screen. Far more display, in this situation, means about two a lot more lines of text. Evernote for Apple iphone is beloved due to the fact it syncs so properly with other platforms, which means you can use the cloud-primarily based app to just take notes and jot down tips on any gadget you may possibly be in entrance of, effortlessly accessing them on every single system you have.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Hipmunk (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www5.pcmag.com/media/images/359212-hipmunk-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><b><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hipmunk-flight-hotel-search/id419950680?mt=8" target="_blank">Hipmunk</a></b><i>Cost-free</i>Hipmunk is a journey-research application, and its resort lookup function is extremely map-dependent. The bad news, of system, is that it truly is now dependent on that new Apple maps app. On the other hand, when you happen to be in that Maps app seeking for a well-priced lodge, you can now see a few more blocks north and south of your central place thanks to the Iphone 5's even bigger display.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="iPhoto (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www9.pcmag.com/media/images/359213-iphoto-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><b><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/iphoto/id497786065?mt=8" target="_blank">iPhoto</a></b><i>$ 4.ninety nine</i>All of Apple's applications have been up-to-date for the Iphone 5, so downloading iMovie, iPhoto, and GarageBand is a excellent thought if you might be seeking to show off your new telephone. The modifications in iPhoto are subtle—bigger previews, for one, and the capability to display the "assist" icon together with two columns of thumbnails.</div><hr /><div align="center"><a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448"><img alt="Navigon (for iPhone)" border="0" class="center" src="http://www1.pcmag.com/media/images/359222-navigon-for-iphone.jpg?thumb=y" /></a></div><div class="p2"><b><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/navigon-usa/id384680007?mt=8" target="_blank">Navigon</a></b><i>$ 24.ninety nine and up</i><b><br /></b>Apple's maps are a problem. We know this. If you use your Apple iphone intensely as a GPS, you ought to genuinely buy a 3rd-party map program. So considerably Navigon normally takes the prize as the only one particular of the huge-name, mainstream navigation applications that uses the Apple iphone 5's entire screen. Navigon (which ranges from $ 24.99 to $ 89.ninety nine dependent on which maps you happen to be acquiring) also has world-wide offline maps and supports community transit, two factors lacking from Apple's new Maps application. </div>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-90504258651138032322013-09-09T17:33:00.000-07:002013-09-09T17:33:00.480-07:00Google Maps app for iPhone: 7 things you need to know<a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-maps-app-for-iphone-7-things-you.html">Google Maps application for Apple iphone: 7 items you want to know</a><br /><a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/12/13/google-maps-app-iphone-7/"><img alt="What you need to know about Google Maps for iPhone Google Maps app for iPhone: 7 things you need to know" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-13946" height="380" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/What-you-need-to-know-about-Google-Maps-for-iPhone.jpg" title="What you need to know about Google Maps for iPhone" width="600" /></a>Not amazed with Apple’s <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/09/20/ios-6-tip-google-maps-iphone-ipad/" target="_blank" title="iOS 6 tip: How to get Google Maps and Street View back on your iPhone or iPad">half-baked Maps application</a> for iOS six? Properly, great news: an official Google Maps app just landed in the App Store, complete with Google’s thorough map info, Street See, switch-by-turn driving directions, and far more.<span id="more-13945"></span><br />You can download <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id585027354?mt=8" target="_blank">Google Maps for Iphone appropriate right here</a> a variation for iPad is coming soon, Google claims.<br /><h6 class="pq-3"><b>The eagerly awaited Google Maps app provides with it a pair of key functions missing in Apple’s maps application: the eye-popping Street View mode, and public transit instructions.</b></h6><h6>The eagerly awaited Google Maps application provides with it a pair of essential features lacking in Apple’s maps application: the eye-popping Road Check out manner, and general public transit instructions.</h6><br />And with Google Maps on your Iphone, you’re far more most likely to steer distinct of the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/10/tech/apple-maps-australia-flaw/index.html" target="_blank">spotty instructions</a> that have plagued Apple’s <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/tim-cook-maps/" target="_blank">troubled mapping app</a>.<br />But while it is surely a aid to have Google Maps back again on the Apple iphone as an genuine application (as opposed to a <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/10/04/ios-6-tip-launch-street-view-google/" target="_blank" title="iOS 6 tip: How to launch iPhone-friendly Street View in Google Maps for Safari">basic cellular-world wide web edition</a>), the app does have its reasonable share of oddities and quirks, and it doesn’t always perform nice with the other applications on your Apple iphone.<br />Here’s seven items you need to know about the new Google Maps application for iOS, commencing with…<br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13950" style="width: 310px"><img alt="Google Maps for iPhone saved searches 300x267 Google Maps app for iPhone: 7 things you need to know" class="size-medium wp-image-13950" height="267" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-Maps-for-iPhone-saved-searches-300x267.jpg" title="Google Maps for iPhone saved searches" width="300" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">Google Maps for Apple iphone will remember all your preceding queries, including people from the web.</div></div><h3><b>1. It remembers all your Google Maps queries from the web</b></h3>Did you signal in to your Google account when you 1st introduced the app? If so, faucet the research box at the best of the Google Maps interface to see all your most latest searches, including these you produced on the internet.<br />Google Maps for Apple iphone will also keep in mind any addresses, organizations or other places you have “starred” to obtain them, faucet the profile icon (it is the a single that seems like a human profile, just to the correct of the lookup box.<br /><h3><b>2. It will not obtain your contacts</b></h3>While Google Maps can find practically any area on the earth by means of the lookup box, it will not be in a position to appear up the addresses of friends, colleagues and liked types saved in your iPhone’s deal with guide. For that, you are going to have to go again to Apple’s Maps app.<br /><h3><b>three. Apple Maps will hand you off to Google Maps for community transit instructions</b></h3>Even though Apple’s new Maps app will dial up turn-by-change driving and going for walks directions, it’s no aid when it comes to buses, subways, or other public transit systems.<br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13949" style="width: 310px"><img alt="Apple Maps listing of routing apps 300x250 Google Maps app for iPhone: 7 things you need to know" class="size-medium wp-image-13949" height="250" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Apple-Maps-listing-of-routing-apps-300x250.jpg" title="Apple Maps listing of routing apps" width="300" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">Apple’s Maps app will hand you off to Google Maps if you’re searching for transit instructions.</div></div>The great information, however, is that Apple Maps will now deliver you straight to Google Maps if transit instructions are what you are soon after.<br />Just lookup for an address in Apple Maps, tap the blue arrow up coming to its title, tap “Directions to Listed here,” pick the public transit tab (it’s marked with a bus icon), and tap the blue Route button.<br />When you do, Apple Maps will present you a record of applications that support general public transit instructions, such as Google Maps.<br />Faucet the Route button up coming to Google Maps, and the Google Maps app will open with its very own set of instructions faucet the bus icon at the best of the display screen for community transit alternatives. You can also get walking instructions or voiced, flip-by-flip driving instructions, just like in the Apple Maps app.<br /><h3><b>four. You can entry Avenue See, total with “compass” method</b></h3>Yes, Google’s interactive, 360-diploma “Street View” panoramas are back on your Apple iphone thanks to the new Google Maps app.<br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13951" style="width: 310px"><img alt="Street View on Google Maps for iPhone 300x169 Google Maps app for iPhone: 7 things you need to know" class="size-medium wp-image-13951" height="169" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Street-View-on-Google-Maps-for-iPhone-300x169.jpg" title="Street View on Google Maps for iPhone" width="300" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">Google’s wonderful Street Check out method: again at very last.</div></div>Just tap and keep a spot, business, or point of curiosity, faucet the info ribbon that appears at the bottom of the monitor, then tap the Road Look at impression to start Road View proper. (Preserve in thoughts that Road View is not obtainable in all locations.)<br />Also, here’s a nifty trick even though employing Road See: see the button with the curly arrows in the bottom-correct corner of the display?<br />Faucet it, and you’ll activate “compass” mode, which employs the iPhone’s interior motion sensors to orient Avenue View’s vantage point in the direction you’re facing. If you’re facing north, for example, your Avenue Check out image will experience north, as well. Neat.<br /><h3><b>five. Your other applications won’t accessibility Google Maps for directions</b></h3>Even if Google Maps turns into your mapping application of decision for the Apple iphone, Apple Maps will stay the iPhone’s default maps app.<br />So, what does that mean? Well, if you discover a cafe in Yelp and faucet its address, your Apple iphone will open Apple Maps, not Google Maps.<br />Of program, it is constantly possible Apple will let us alter the iPhone’s default mapping application in a potential variation of iOS for now, however, no dice.<br /><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13952" style="width: 179px"><img alt="3D buildings on Google Maps for iPhone 169x300 Google Maps app for iPhone: 7 things you need to know" class="size-medium wp-image-13952" height="300" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/3D-buildings-on-Google-Maps-for-iPhone-169x300.jpg" title="3D buildings on Google Maps for iPhone" width="169" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text">Swipe down with two fingers for a 3D-like map look at, comprehensive with 3D buildings.</div></div><h3><b>six. You can swipe your way to some of Google Maps’ greatest characteristics</b></h3>Swipe from appropriate to remaining with two fingers to expose a hidden panel of choices, such as introducing “layers” of map details for targeted traffic situations, satellite imagery, and community transit maps.<br />Or, consider this: swipe down with two fingers to tilt the map for a 3D-sort view, like 3D properties of metropolitan locations in cities like New York and San Francisco.<br /><h3><b>seven. You can shake undesirable instructions away</b></h3>Did Google Maps position you in the incorrect directions? If so, shake your Iphone when you do, a pop-up will look with links for sending suggestions to Google.<br /><br /><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-maps-app-for-iphone-7-things-you.html">Google Maps application for Apple iphone: seven things you need to have to know</a>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-37612911351562669762013-09-07T21:39:00.000-07:002013-09-07T21:39:00.157-07:00The best FREE ‘send large files’ services: Ten file hosting options
compared<a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-best-free-send-large-files-services.html">The greatest Free ‘send large files’ services: 10 file internet hosting choices when compared </a><br />Providers that can assist you ship big documents are all over the place, it would seem, but for some explanation I discover that I constantly blank out on which one is most appropriate to use when I in fact require a single. This post aims to provide an at-a-glance reference for 10 of Free of charge file hosting solutions, most of which you’d listened to about but some which you ideally have not.<br /><br />Exclusively, we appear at advertisement-hoc ‘file locker’ variety providers created exclusively for the quick sharing of large files, and will exclude <a href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/a-comparison-of-free-cloud-storage-services/" target="_blank">cloud storage services</a> such as Dropbox and other individuals like it, and exclude P2P companies that deliver documents from 1 computer straight to one more. The providers when compared below are: File Dropper, DropSend, WeTransfer, Jumpshare, Minus,  Ge.tt, Kicksend, Transfer Massive Documents, Send6, and YouSendIt. We compare these throughout several standards.<br /><a href="http://freewaregenius.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/File-sharing-logos2.jpg"><img alt="File sharing logos2" border="0" height="270" src="http://freewaregenius.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/File-sharing-logos2_thumb.jpg" style="background-image: none border: 0px display: inline margin: 0px 0px 0px 26px padding-left: 0px padding-right: 0px padding-top: 0px" title="File sharing logos2" width="563" /></a><span id="more-19637"></span><br /><h3><span style="font-weight: bold">The comparison requirements</span>: usage eventualities</h3>To evaluate, we imagined that end users may well want the subsequent: the greatest achievable file dimensions, the longest active link, the most attainable sends for each month, sending files on the fly without registering, a desktop customer to pause and resume uploads, a url webpage with photogalleries or with embedded media and doc previews, sending several documents at when, and entry to documents through a mobile app.<br />What we did not contemplate: backing up files on-line (i.e. quantity of storage on offer you) in the comparison, as Cloud companies like Dropbox are a lot more suitable for that. Also we did not consider peer-to-peer file sharing providers.<br />We commence by seeking at<br />(one) File dimension and other limitations,<br />(2) other functions, and last but not least<br />(three) Our verdict and tips primarily based on utilization situations.<br /><br />Proceed studying :  <a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-best-free-send-large-files-services.html">The best Free ‘send big files’ companies: Ten file internet hosting choices when compared</a> <a href="http://www.freewaregenius.com/the-best-free-send-large-files-services-ten-file-hosting-services-compared/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Freewaregeniuscom+%28freewaregenius.com%29" target="_blank">here</a><br /><br /><br /><br />siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-80318490375025137522013-09-07T03:47:00.000-07:002013-09-07T03:47:00.847-07:00Twitterrific 5 for iOS<section class="article-content"> Twitter client Twitterrific has arrived at edition five, and is now offered for iOS devices. <br /> The app has been fully overhauled and redesigned. It now offers a quite customizable consumer interface, offering person the ability to change the total topic, as nicely as font, image measurement, line spacing and other details. <br /> Other noteworthy attributes include assistance for gestures, syncing of timeline positions among several gadgets through iCloud and super-fast account switching.<br /> <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448" name="m!ff89"></a><br /> <div class="microcontent-wrapper" data-fragment="m!ff89"> <span class="lightbox-expand for-lightbox"><img data-width="768" src="http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzA2L2Y2L3R3aXR0ZXJyaWZpLjhRdC5qcGc/1228e3db/8cc/twitterrific_ss.jpg" /></span><br /> </div>The application is not with out its flaws, at least for energy customers, who will miss the deficiency of push notifications, profile modifying and listing management. Its speed and design, even so, will definitely charm to many end users seeking for an substitute to the official Twitter consumer. <br /> Twitterrific is at the moment available for $ 2.ninety nine (50% considerably less than the normal cost) in excess of at the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitterrific-5-for-twitter/id580311103?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D6" target="_blank">Apple App Store</a>.<br /> </section>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-87431720841186882532013-09-06T16:44:00.000-07:002013-09-06T16:44:00.469-07:006 ways to give your Timeline a makeoverNope, you can’t remove Timeline—the chronological, comprehensive record of all your Facebook activity, starting up from the quite working day you were born—from your Facebook profile, so you may possibly as effectively make the most of it.<span id="more-13720"></span><br /><h6 class="pq-3"><strong>Indeed, you can customize the two the search and the material of your Timeline to an virtually obsessive diploma.</strong></h6><h6>Without a doubt, you can personalize both the search and the articles of your Timeline to an virtually obsessive diploma.</h6><br />For starters, you can alter the “cover” photograph that dominates the webpage, as nicely select and decide on your “About me” factoids, juggle your “favorites” tiles, and both highlight or cover particular Timeline posts.<br /> Maybe the most addictive Timeline pastime of all is incorporating and curating “Life Activities,” this sort of as relocating to a new town, earning a degree, hitting your ideal weight, or any other delight-deserving individual milestone.<br /> Study on for 6 techniques to get demand of your Timeline, starting with…<br /> <h3><strong>one. Include or edit your include picture</strong></h3>The first point that website visitors to your Timeline will see is a big, daring graphic that dominates the page—your “cover,” a picture that “represents who you are or what you care about” (as Facebook places it). Believe of it as wallpaper for your Timeline, as opposed to a regular profile image of your smiling (or not) mug.<br /> To get commenced, click the “Add a Cover” button at the top of your Timeline page—or, if you currently have a go over, hover above it with your mouse and click on the “Change Cover” button that seems.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13730" style="width: 236px"><img alt="Change cover photo on Facebook Timeline Facebook tip: 6 ways to give your Timeline a makeover" class="size-full wp-image-13730" height="143" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Change-cover-photo-on-Facebook-Timeline.jpg" title="Change cover photo on Facebook Timeline" width="226" /><div class="wp-caption-text">Shifting your “cover” photograph is an easy way to give your Timeline a entire new appear.</div></div>You can possibly upload a new image or choose an current photo in 1 of your Facebook albums, and you’ll also get the chance to fiddle with the impression so it is framed to your fulfillment.<br /> What you select as your include is up to you, of course, but hold in head that your Timeline go over is general public, which means any person (even non-Facebook customers) will be in a position to see it.<br /> And naturally, any alter to your Timeline cover will also be posted in your information feed, although you can constantly disguise or delete the post right after the reality.<br /> Really do not want the planet peeking at your go over image? Then just preserve it blank.<br /> <h3><strong>2. Update your personalized data</strong></h3>Just underneath your inset profile picture on your Timeline, you will find a collection of minor factoids about … well, you.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13731" style="width: 261px"><img alt="Edit personal info on Facebook Facebook tip: 6 ways to give your Timeline a makeover" class="size-full wp-image-13731" height="192" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Edit-personal-info-on-Facebook.jpg" title="Edit personal info on Facebook" width="251" /><div class="wp-caption-text">Just adjust the privacy options on your “About” webpage to customize which bits of individual info show up on your Timeline.</div></div>For occasion, the bullet factors on my Timeline contain a) my occupation title, b) the place I went to university, c) where I reside now, and d) the title of my far better fifty percent.<br /> Not happy with what you—or your Fb friends—are looking at? Then click the small “About” hyperlink to jump to your personal details website page, and click the “Edit” button at the prime of any segment you want to tweak.<br /> Spend particular attention to your privateness location in the leading-proper corner of each and every segment by clicking those icons, you can decide which bits of private data can be observed by absolutely everyone, just your Facebook pals, or only you.<br /> All accomplished? Go back to your principal Timeline website page to verify the final results.<br /> You can also look at your Timeline as others see it by clicking the settings button beneath your include impression (it is in excess of to the right, marked with a small gear icon) and picking “View as.”<br /> <h3><strong>3. Rearrange your Favorites</strong></h3>Correct subsequent to your personalized data sits a row of four tiles, which most probably include products like Buddies, Images, Map, and Likes, and just to the proper of the fourth tile sits a tiny button stamped with a quantity.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13734" style="width: 281px"><img alt="Rearrange Favorites on Facebook timeline Facebook tip: 6 ways to give your Timeline a makeover" class="size-full wp-image-13734" height="221" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Rearrange-Favorites-on-Facebook-timeline.jpg" title="Rearrange Favorites on Facebook timeline" width="271" /><div class="wp-caption-text">You can juggle, include, or delete “Favorites” on your Timeline in just a couple of clicks.</div></div>Click on the button, and you are going to reveal even far more tiles—perhaps many far more, dependent on how many apps you’ve mounted in your Facebook account.<br /> These packing containers are your Favorites, and you can (for the most element, anyway) blend and match them as you see fit.<br /> Just hover your mouse over a tile and simply click the little pencil that appears to swap the situation of a single favored with another, or to delete a favorite entirely.<br /> You can also add new favorites by simply click the “+” button on any blank tiles.<br /> Two favorites that can not be rearranged or deleted are Friends and Photos. That said, you can successfully remove Photographs as a favourite by altering the privateness options of your uploaded snapshots and hiding tagged photographs of you from Timeline (just hover your mouse in excess of a tagged photograph, simply click the small pencil icon, then pick “Hide from Timeline”).<br /> And as far as your Buddies listing is concerned…<br /> <h3><strong>four. Adjust the visibility of your Friends list</strong></h3>Whilst you simply cannot eradicate your Pals listing from your Timeline favorites, you can disguise it from the world—mostly, at the very least.<br /> Click the Close friends favored tile, click on the “Edit” button at the top of the major Buddies web page, then choose a new privacy environment from the pop-up that appears—anything from “Public” to “Only Me.”<br /> A single issue to maintain in head: even if you choose “Only Me” as your Buddies listing privateness environment, anyone who visits your Timeline will even now see a Friends tile with any mutual pals the two of you occur to have. Yep, bothersome, but which is the way it is for now.<br /> <h3><strong>5. Cover, edit, or emphasize Timeline tales</strong></h3>Scroll down under your cover image and favorites and you’ll see the enormous timeline of all your updates, wall posts, images, and other Fb functions of note—including any messages, links or pictures that your Fb pals have posted on your wall (assuming <a href="http://heresthethingblog.com/2012/01/24/control-post-stories-timeline/" target="_blank">you permit them</a>).<br /> These are your Timeline “stories,” and they are all neatly organized in chronological get.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13733" style="width: 250px"><img alt="Highlight a Facebook Timeline story Facebook tip: 6 ways to give your Timeline a makeover" class="size-full wp-image-13733" height="180" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Highlight-a-Facebook-Timeline-story.jpg" title="Highlight a Facebook Timeline story" width="240" /><div class="wp-caption-text">Just simply click the star to “highlight” a distinct Timeline tale.</div></div>See any tales you really don't like—say, a especially unflattering photo that a buddy tagged you in, or an frustrating Farmville invite?<br /> Or, on the flip aspect, are there any stories you want to emphasize, this sort of as your marriage ceremony photos, or congrats from your close friends for that big marketing?<br /> Every time you see a Timeline story you want to promote, conceal, or or else tweak, just hover your mouse more than the tale right up until you see the little “Edit” pencil look.<br /> Click it, and you are going to get a assortment of (varied) alternatives for illustration, you are going to could be capable to cover an function from your Timeline, alter its date, include a area, or delete the post altogether.<br /> Preserve in thoughts that the edit choices range based on the publish for instance, whilst you can hide a friend’s publish in which you’ve been tagged, you won’t be in a position to delete it totally.<br /> Some posts will also screen a button marked with a star when you hover your mouse more than them click on the “Feature” star to expand the product to fill the two columns in your Timeline, best for highlighting, say, your new task, people ultra-adorable snapshots of your toddler, or a litany of birthday needs from your Facebook pals.<br /> You can also shrink a “featured” Timeline tale down to dimensions by clicking the star button yet again.<br /> <h3><strong>six. Incorporate some life occasions</strong></h3>A great way to make your Timeline your very own is by incorporating so-named “life events”—anything from a vacation abroad or purchasing a home to publishing a novel or dropping fat.<br /> To insert a new existence event, just click on the “Life Event” button at the prime of your Timeline, just under your cover picture and favorites. You will get a menu of options, from “Work & Education” to “Travel & Encounters,” with sub-options under every principal heading. Decide the celebration that you’d like to insert, or develop your possess by choosing the “Other Existence Event” option.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_13732" style="width: 310px"><img alt="Creating a new life event for Facebook Timeline 300x191 Facebook tip: 6 ways to give your Timeline a makeover" class="size-medium wp-image-13732" height="191" src="http://heresthethingblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Creating-a-new-life-event-for-Facebook-Timeline-300x191.jpg" title="Creating a new life event for Facebook Timeline" width="300" /><div class="wp-caption-text">Beware: Producing and curating your Timeline “life events” can be really addicting.</div></div>You can modify the privacy environment for any celebration you develop, of system, as well as insert a photograph, a location, or tags for your friends. (For example, I went forward and tagged my wife in the “life event” for our marriage ceremony.)<br /> It is also value noting that Facebook will add certain life occasions to your Timeline automatically, including employment and colleges outlined on your profile and even the extremely working day you have been born (yes, truly).<br /> For any of these computerized events, you can (generally) go in advance and incorporate images, alter dates and information, or tweak their privacy options.<br /> With specified auto-events, though—such as the types about your different positions or the colleges you have attended—you’ll have to dive back again into your “About” page to adjust their privateness options.siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-52806580415124316682013-09-06T04:52:00.000-07:002013-09-06T04:52:00.993-07:00Turns iPhones Into Playing Cards<br /><figure class="article-image"> </figure><br /><div class="article-info"><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/12/turns-iphones-into-playing-cards.html"><i>Turns iPhones Into Actively playing Cards</i></a> with <a href="http://boldpokerapp.com/" target="_blank">Bold Poker</a><br /><time class="date" datetime="Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:41:45 +0000"></time></div><br /><section class="article-content"> At any time want to engage in cards and do not have a deck close by? A new application called <a href="http://boldpokerapp.com/" target="_blank">Daring Poker</a> turns your cell units into taking part in playing cards. <br /> Daring Poker ($ one.ninety nine) is made to perform with other folks in particular person, serving as companion technological innovation to the well-liked recreation Texas Hold'em and ridding the need to have for tangible playing cards. (Texas Hold'em is the only recreation it supports correct now).<br /> <div class="see also"><br /></div>This is how it functions: A single mobile gadget serves as the card dealer and shows the five communal cards. It syncs with each player's iOS system, which displays two playing cards of their very own. Players can move the on-screen chip all around and tap to deal.<br /> And for these anxious about revealing their hand, you can decide for a "peek" method which functions when you tilt your device a bit and it demonstrates a mirroring impression on to the table. Easy peasy.<br /> What do you think of the principle? Let us know in the responses below.<br /><br /> <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2704209905286806448" name="m!12f6"></a><br /> <div class="microcontent-wrapper" data-fragment="m!12f6"><img alt="Bold Poker App" class="" data-width="640" src="http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzE1LzIzL2JvbGRwb2tlcjY0LmpwZw/efa44732/cd3/bold-poker-640x361.jpg" title="Bold Poker App" /></div><br /><i><br /></i><i>Photograph courtesy of <a href="http://boldpokerapp.com/" target="_blank">Bold Poker</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://androidsmartphonetips.blogspot.com/2012/12/turns-iphones-into-playing-cards.html"><i>Turns iPhones Into Enjoying Cards </i></a><br /> </section>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-5361925602908899502013-09-04T03:55:00.000-07:002013-09-04T03:55:00.585-07:006 Free Virtual Assistants For AndroidVirtual Assistants system understands your discussion, replies you and carries out numerous everyday duties for you like sending mail, creating a research, opening applications, reporting the information and weather conditions, and more. The best point of all, <b>you can activate all this employing your voice</b>. In simple fact, for some of the adhering to digital assistants, it is the only enter they can acquire.<br /><br />All the main virtual assistants can make phone calls or send messages for you, open apps or make internet searches. Let’s check what they have more to offer. Be it an assistant to give you the solutions you require, to start your applications for you through voice command, or to get an A.I. you can chat to, there is something for every person below.<br /><div class="recommended_top"></div><h4><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=yourapp24.android.tools.alice_lite" rel="external" target="_blank">one. AIVC</a></h4>Do you like chatting? AIVC is a excellent voice-run virtual assistant, intrigued in chatting with you. AIVC stands for Artificial Intelligence Voice Management and it functions as its identify states. You can inquire concerns and get answers, have some chit-chat, and considerably a lot more.<br /><div class="sw"><img height="244" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/android-virtual-assistant/1-AIVC.jpg" width="500" /></div>The Free of charge model does not assistance computerized listening for enter or other this sort of top quality functions, but AIVC’s intelligence ranks it higher than other people.<br /><b>Features:</b><br /><ul><li>Help in Navigation</li><li>Routine Functions or established Alarms</li><li>Perform Songs or Videos</li><li>Exhibit Pictures</li><li>Translate languages</li><li>Set Timer</li><li>Fix (easy) Maths calculations</li><li>Update Facebook</li></ul><h4><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bluetornadosf.smartypants&hl=en" rel="external" target="_blank">two. Skyvi</a></h4>Do you like to chat? Skyvi can comprehend you and give again a intelligent response. It can even be activated by voice – say "Hi there Skyvi" and it will get activated, completely ready to hear to your commands.<br /><div class="sw"><img height="244" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/android-virtual-assistant/2-Skyvi.jpg" width="500" /></div>Skyvi’s interface is basic and skilled – there is no sweet lady ready for you to speak, only a clean app interface, usually all set to get and execute your commands.<br /><b>Features:</b><br /><ul><li>Read aloud Incoming Messages</li><li>Voice Wake options</li><li>Locate places and Get directions</li><li>Update Twitter and Facebook</li><li>Car mode</li></ul><h4><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dexetra.iris&hl=en" rel="external" target="_blank">3. iris</a></h4>Iris is not Siri regardless of currently being a lower-amount anagram of it, but it is 1 of the oldest voice apps created for Android. Iris has the most basic UI you’d have at any time observed – a button to activate listening and a transcript of your conversations. Iris only requires voice inputs.<br /><div class="sw"><img height="244" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/android-virtual-assistant/3-Iris.jpg" width="500" /></div><b>Characteristics:</b><br /><ul><li>Present Missed Calls information</li><li>Play songs for you</li><li>Tell you time, date and spot</li><li>Deliver position updates to Fb and Twitter</li><li>Set alarms and calendar activities</li><li>Go through news and explain to your horoscope</li></ul><h4><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifree.everfriends&hl=en" rel="external" target="_blank">4. Everfriends</a></h4>Completely ready to make close friends? A lot of are inclined to befriend you. Spoony, a lovable extraterrestrial creature. Brainy, a stunning and sweet blonde. Mary, the mysterious assistant, and Mei, a quite and charming lady.<br /><div class="sw"><img height="244" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/android-virtual-assistant/4-Everfriends.jpg" width="500" /></div>They will be your buddy and assistant – entertaining you and assisting you in your function. Everfriends acknowledge voice, textual content, and also delivers preset solutions to pick from. Everfriends function effectively to help you and offer you you entertainment alternatives but rarely understands anything at all that is not in its databases.<br /><b>Features:</b><br /><ul><li>Established alarms</li><li>News and Everyday Horoscope</li><li>Notify updates of Twitter and Facebook</li><li>Remind about occasions from calendar and Fb</li><li>Entertain you with Radio, Games, Video clips, and Jokes</li><li>Display favorite Television displays (SPB Tv integration)</li><li>Discover Purchasing delivers (Shoptimus integration)</li><li>Locate Accommodations (Smartive Accommodations integration)</li><li>Language help for English, Russian, and Spanish</li></ul><h4><a href="http://apps.androidguys.com/#android/easy-launcher-siri/id/com.easy.launcher" rel="external" target="_blank">5. Easy Launcher</a></h4>As its identify indicates, you can use it to launch apps and web sites using voice instructions. But that’s not all, it can open up Configurations and even switch on (or off) networks, e.g. Bluetooth, WiFi, and so forth.<br /><div class="sw"><img height="417" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/android-virtual-assistant/5-Easy-Launcher.jpg" width="500" /></div>It requires voice as the only input and even though, it does not makes use of Google Voice Motor, it is voice recognition technique is not too shabby.<br /><b>Functions:</b><br /><ul><li>Receive incoming phone calls</li><li>Search Wiki</li><li>Lookup Maps and Google Engage in Shop</li><li>Uninstall applications</li><li>Handle Networks like WiFi, Bluetooth, Sync, and GPS</li><li>Open Device settings like Brightness, Wallpaper, and so on.</li></ul><h3></h3><h4><a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueknowledge.android.evi" rel="external" target="_blank">six. Evi</a></h4>Evi is a digital assistant with the capability to response your inquiries. It listens to your queries and provides intelligent responses. Evi has access to a number of expertise sources and it chooses the very best 1 to answer you.<br /><div class="sw"><img height="244" src="http://media02.hongkiat.com/android-virtual-assistant/6-Evi.jpg" width="500" /></div>Evi can just take both text and voice as enter. Evi is fairly very good at discovering the proper answers to your inquiries and it has a nice personality to boot.<br /><b>Characteristics:</b><br /><ul><li>Inquire questions about locations, textbooks, albums, videos, and so forth.</li><li>Uncover places</li><li>Locate stores and restaurants in close proximity to you</li><li>Change units and currencies</li></ul>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-35113383222651515092013-09-03T22:32:00.000-07:002013-09-03T22:32:00.300-07:00Twitter Reducing Some Tweets to Just 117 CharactersFeel a hundred and forty people isn’t enough to say what you want in a tweet? Get completely ready for 117.<br /> Starting up in February, tweets that include URLs will be diminished to 118 figures, 117 for https hyperlinks. Even though that may seem to be like a massive drop, the adjust represents a two-character fall per tweet from what you are at present capable to send when a hyperlink is included.<br /> <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/blog/upcoming-tco-changes" target="_blank">Introduced Thursday</a> on Twitter's developer site, the adjustment is due to some forthcoming adjustments in Twitter’s t.co url wrapper. The revision extends the highest duration of t.co wrapped hyperlinks from 20 to 22 figures for non-https URLs and from 21 to 23 figures for https URLs.<br /> <div class="sell-also"><strong><br /><a data-crackerjax="#post-slider" href="http://mashable.com/2012/12/03/email-tweets/"></a></strong></div>What that implies: When you tweet out hyperlinks that Twitter shortens, these hyperlinks will now just take up a small far more area, reducing the content you'll be in a position to add to the concept.<br /> The announcement this 7 days was intended as a heads up for developers, in order to give them time to update their applications ahead of the adjust will take place. <br /> Twitter customers will not see the change go into impact till Feb. twenty, 2013.<br /><br /> Do you believe the two-character reduction will make a distinction in how you tweet?siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923106456379262865.post-14350974526198571762013-09-02T04:06:00.000-07:002013-09-02T04:06:00.218-07:00Transforms Your Smartphone Pictures Into Works of Art<img alt="Photo-apps-revised1" class="microcontent" data-fragment="lead-image" height="224" src="http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzE4LzRiL1Bob3RvQXBwc3JlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/68219681/7e2/Photo-Apps-revised1.jpg" width="400" /> <br /><div class="article-info"><div class="byline">Veena Bissram</div><br /></div><section class="article-content"> <em><strong>The Launchpad</strong> is a series that introduces Mashable readers to powerful startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion.</em><br /> <strong>Title</strong>: <a href="http://picsart.com/" target="_blank">PicsArt</a><br /> <strong>A single-Liner Pitch</strong>: An all-in-one particular photograph editor and picture-art group application.<br /> <strong>Why It really is Getting Off</strong>: PicsArt has far more modifying options than most picture applications, permitting customers to build inventive and creative photographs.<br /> Photograph filters have been a sizzling topic this 7 days, with the two Twitter and Flickr including filters to their apps -- presumably in an work to take on Instagram. But there is certainly another picture app out there that also offers a vast choice of filters and a important community of customers.<br /> PicsArt, a free application for Android, provides more modifying options than most photo applications to change your photos into in depth, expert-looking operates of artwork. It has been downloaded far more than thirty million instances given that launching a little much more than a year back and is currently best image application on Android. The organization is preparing to release an application for Apple iphone early subsequent year, which could just give other picture applications on the system a run for their funds. <br /> With PicsArt, customers can decide on photographs from the digicam roll on their mobile phone, Facebook, Flickr,<br />Picasa, Google, Dropbox, or take a new photo with the PicsArt application. As soon as they have a picture, which is in which all the prospects begin. They can crop their images into designs, change eye colors, insert callouts, digital stickers and clipart, or customise their photographs making use of PicsArts’ major features:<br /> <ul type="”square”"><li><strong>Filters</strong>: Pick from a assortment of filters, like comic, watercolor, sketcher, sensible<br />blur, oil, popart, paper stencilers, distortions and colour splashes</li><li><strong>Masks</strong>: Enliven photos with vivid and vivid shades and blends</li><li><strong>Corrections</strong>: Fix a face, cover blemishes or insert a tan to someone’s complexion</li><li><strong>Frames</strong>: Choose from a lot more than 50 enjoyable-themed frames from distinct categories</li><li><strong>Borders</strong>: Customize your personal borders</li></ul>Do not like the way your photo turned out? PicsArt tends to make it basic to erase all of your changes and start from scratch, or you can use the “Draw” attribute to generate your personal photos making use of brushes, styles and colours.<br /> <center><img alt="" class="" data-width="400" src="http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzEyLzE2LzhmL1BpY3NBcnQuanBn/49727ee2/300/PicsArt.jpg" title="PicsArt" /></center>“PicsArt is a inventive instrument that empowers men and women to find out their interior artist,” Artavazd Mehrabyan, co-founder and CTO of PicsArt, advised <em>Mashable</em> in an interview. “With so numerous possibilities and inventive tools, you can by no means stop operating on an picture simply because you are discovering new items all the time.”<br /> Following you’re carried out editing, PicsArt offers you the option to upload your new images straight from the app to a quantity of social websites, like Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Twitter, Dropbox, Foursquare, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress and devianART. You can also include pictures to the PicsArt neighborhood, which, related to Instagram, has an ongoing feed of images from end users who you can comply with or who can comply with you.<br /> PicsArt is self-funded and the enterprise design is to monetize through commercials inside of the application. <br /> <br /><em>Image courtesy of Flickr, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/74527549@N03/" target="_blank">Manny Valdes</a> and PicsArt</em><br /> </section>siscahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03197961736412274951noreply@blogger.com0