Author: Allyson Kazmucha

For certain individuals that are visually impaired, inverting the colors of the iPhone and iPad screen may make it easier to read, particularly for users who are colorblind or partially colorblind. This is actually a built in accessibility option for …

The whole point of Game Center is to play online with friends and compete for leaderboard rankings. While you can start multiplayer games and challenge friends from within some games, you can also initiate multiplayer games from within Game Center its…

If the headphone jack, mute switch, or volume buttons are causing you problems on your Verizon or Sprint iPhone 4, a DIY repair can most likely get you back in working order again for a lot less than the cost of a new iPhone. As it happens, one compon…

If you use FaceTime fairly consistently and have more than one email address or phone number, you may have added those addresses to your FaceTime account. If you’d like to be consistent across all your devices, you can set the caller ID to show a spec…

Imagine being able to flick your hand or snap your fingers to control your iMac, video game, or other electronic device. This is what the MYO armband aims to bring to the market in late 2013. It essentially measures the electrical activity in your mus…

Services such as Find my iPhone are great as long as they work the way they’re supposed to. Wayne Dobson, a 59 year old Las Vegas resident, has learned the hard way what happens when cell phone tracking programs malfunction. Owners of lost cell phones…

If you’ve created your own calendars on your iPhone or iPad, there’s probably one that you create more events on than the others. Your Calendar app will default to the generic calendar but if it’s not the one you want, you can easily change it to defa…

Everything you need to know to DIY (do-it-yourself) replacing a dead battery in your iPhone If you’ve got an iPhone that’s going on a few years old, you may notice that your battery doesn’t hold a charge like it once did. That doesn’t always have to m…

With the holiday season coming up, apps are a quick and easy gift to give that don’t even require you to leave your own home. As of iOS 6 you don’t have the option to send gifts via iOS, but the option is still there in iTunes. So if you’ve got a love…

If you’ve got an iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S that’s having some issues with sound, you probably aren’t alone. Issues could range from system sounds working but your iPhone not actually ringing or system sounds not working unless plugged into the headphone j…

iTunes is still vital to iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and iPod classic users, and even if you have an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, and are a big iCloud and iTunes Match user, there may still be times when you have to do some heavy tethered lifting. That’s…

Like any other metal, steel can become sharp or jagged when damaged. If you’ve got an iPhone 4S and you’ve physically damaged the volume buttons, a DIY repair can get them back into like new condition in no time. If you didn’t opt for AppleCare+ and y…

Reading List is a feature in Safari that allows you to bookmark pages you want to remember to check out or read later. The best part is that your iPhone, iPad, and Mac all support the feature and, as long as you’ve got iCloud enabled, you can pick up …

HERE Maps by Nokia was just released for iPhone and iPad and aims to take on Apple’s own iOS Maps for a place on your Home screen. The real question is, does it stack up to offerings that are already available natively or in the App Store? We recently…

I see lots of liquid damaged iPhones, iPads, and iPods on a regular basis. If you don’t have AppleCare+, your warranty won’t cover liquid damage. This is why a lot of people turn to places like The Pod Drop to reverse the damage. Not only can it be a …

YouTube recently launched a service very similar to Apple’s AirPlay that allows Android users to beam movies to their Google TV. Apparently Google wants to take it a step further yet, and with an open standard. In an interview with GigaOM, Google exec…