No matter how intuitive Apple products are, you can never expect to know everything. That's where we come in. From setting up your devices to managing settings and features, we've got you covered.
Do Not Disturb is a feature in iOS that prevents your device from ringing, dinging, vibrating or waking you up. While enabled, you will still receive all of your notifications and still be able to view missed calls, but the screen will stay off and your device will remain silent until you disable the setting. Read more to find out how to set up Do Not Disturb on your iOS 7 device.
This past Fall, Apple released iOS 7 - their newest operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. IOS 7 included a radical user interface redeisgn that was the biggest change to Apple's mobile devices since the release of the iPhone. Along with the new design came a slew of new features, one of which I use everyday. It’s called Control Center.
I think we can all agree that when it comes to computers, efficiency and speed are paramount. Sometimes, the speed and efficiency of the user controlling the computer is just as important as the speed of the computer itself. In order to use their Macs most efficiently, so called “power users” employ a wide variety of hotkeys, which are combinations of keyboard keys that provide quick access to a particular computer function. Here are 10 crucial hotkeys that will have you computing like a power user in no time.
Back in 2013 at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced that they had pushed over 7.4 trillion notifications to different Apple devices. That’s a staggering number that is hard to even comprehend! Think of how many notifications you recieve per day and imagine that multiplied by everyone else in the world who owns an Apple product! So the big question now is, "how do I manage my notifications?" The first tip I have is the handy tool called Notification Center.
Setting up email in the Mail app on your iPhone and iPad is meant to be as simple as possible. Mail has convenient preset email setups for iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Google, Yahoo, AOL and Outlook.com email addresses. However, if you have a Comcast.net email account - like many customers here at CityMac - the setup process is not as straightforward. Here is a quick tutorial on how to get your Comcast email set up in Mail on iOS 7.
Earlier last month, we showed you how to set up an iCloud backup for your iPhone or iPad. However, if you are backing up multiple devices to iCloud and have the standard free 5 gb of iCloud storage, chances are that your iCloud is full or close to it. If this is the case, you may want to consider upgrading the storage on your iCloud account or backing up your devices through iTunes on your computer. Continue reading to find out how.
Setting up an Airport router is much simpler than most routers, but for those who have not done it before or have only set up other routers in the past, it is a very different process. It is, however, much more intuitive. By following this tutorial, you will be able to set up your Airport Express, Extreme, or Time Capsule with no problem.
A lot of Mac users have known about Spotlight - the system-wide desktop search feature - since it was released with Mac OS X Tiger in 2004, but not many people know all the great things it can do besides search for programs and files. Check out some of the cool things that Spotlight on OS X can do, including math equations and dictionary integration.
iCloud is a tool we can use for anything when it comes to securing files. It can backup your contacts for transferring to a new iPhone. It can save all of your camera roll and downloaded pictures and videos to access them from any iOS device and your Mac. It can also make sure that every iOS device you own has the same list of email accounts, calendars, reminders, safari bookmarks and history, notes, passbook, keychain passwords, and iWork documents. It is also what makes Find My iPhone work.
Time Machine is a very simple tool in Mac OS X that can prevent the heartbreak of losing all of your important files. Time Machine is a great program that runs without you worrying about it.
After initial setup, all you need to do is make sure the hard drive is connected or that your Time Capsule is running. Time Machine will keep hourly backups for the last day, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month. You can backup for years depending on how many files you keep.
