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While iOS offers a plentiful mix of excellent and exclusive features, what you see is what you get. Apple doesn't leave much room for customizability, meaning most people's iPhones look relatively the same. You can make yours stand out, however, by giving your apps unique and ...more
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If you're a long-time Spark user, you'll know that one of the only drawbacks to the app used to be its lack of rich text-editing tools such as hyperlinking. If you needed to link out to a site in an email, your best bet was to grab a computer to get the job done. Well, close t ...more
Thanks to ever more powerful smartphones — the iPhone X with its advanced A11 processor and the Galaxy Note 8 powered by Snapdragon's 835 come to mind — the mobile industry is fast closing in on consoles and PCs with regards to gaming. Game developers have been aware of this f ...more
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Jailbreak your iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4! With limera1n, it's a cinch! It's so easy, in fact, that this hacker's how-to can present a complete overview of the process in just three minutes. For all of the details, and to get started jailbreaking your own iPhone, iPod Touch or iPa ...more
The iPhone pc suite is an application that allows you to connect easily to your phone. This video will show you how to download this application, reset your phone and then use your audio and video on your iPod. This is a helpful application and is not too difficult to set up. ...more
In order to transfer files from your iPhone to your mac or pc, you're going to need a little something from www.digidna.net. Open up your web browser and type that into the address bar, here look for DiskAid. Download the version of DiskAid that corresponds to what you want, w ...more
This tutorial is for PC users who have both iTunes and an iPhone, and shows you how to get iTunes ringtones on your phone for free. All you really have to do is convert your chosen track to the right format, then clip and download onto your iPhone!
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Would you like to move music from your Iphone or iPod back to your Microsoft Windows PC's hard drive? With Copytrans, it's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to can present a complete, step-by-step overview of the process in about two and a half minutes! For ...more
This is flawless iPhone 3G ringtone creation for dummies. You can use iTunes or any music track to make the custom track your newest hip ringtone! This is a simple version of PC iPhone 3G ringtone creation. This will probably work with the old iPhone.
In this tutorial, we learn how to connect to Xbox Live with an iPhone & PC. You will need: jailbroken iPhone with data plan, laptop, PDANET on the phone, Ethernet cord, and Windows. First, launch the application on your phone and then plug it into your laptop. After this, you ...more
In this video, we learn how to make iPhone ringtones using iTunes on the PC. First, open iTunes and open the song you like. After this, right click and click "create aac". Then, right click and click "get info", then change the start and stop time of the song. Once this is don ...more
In this video, we learn how to control your Windows PC with an iPod Touch or iPhone. First, go online and search for 'Logitech touch mouse server', then download and install this software. Now, go into the software and launch it on your phone. You should now be able to use you ...more
Alexosh1234, teaches you how to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS on a Mac or a PC. You will need the 3.0 firmware and the program Purplera1n. Download it, install it and run it. Connect the iPhone 3GS to the computer and click Make it rain in the Purplera1n program. Make sure iTunes ...more
Want to tether your iPhone 3G or 3GS to your home computer without jailbreaking it? It's easy! So easy, in fact, that this home-computing how-to can present a complete, step-by-step overview of the process in about under ten minutes' time! For details, including step-by-step i ...more
Instagram is one of the hottest mobile apps to date, yet they have no way to upload photos straight from your computer. You can log into the Instagram web app to like and comment on photos in your feed, but that's about it. Fortunately, there are third-party apps that let you ...more
You can SSH on a iPod which is jail broken. To do this you will need the Cydia application. Open the application on your device. From the main menu of the application go to the search feature. Search for SSH. The first result is Automatic SSH. Click on it to download. Install ...more
For this first you need to do is connect your iPhone to the computer with USB. You can do this by installing a program called iPhone folders. You can download this program from a website called www.iPhonefolder.com after downloading istall that. Then you are done. Thats all yo ...more
In this video tutorial, we learn how to use the greenpois0n jailbreak tool to jailbreak an Apple mobile device running iOS 4.1 from a Microsoft Windows (or GNU/Linux) PC. For detailed, step-by-step instructions, and to get started jailbreaking your own iOS 4.1 iPhone, iPod Tou ...more
Apple's codec for photos and videos in iOS 11, HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding), as well as the container, HEIF (High-Efficiency Image File Format), result in a reduction in size for pictures and movies without sacrificing quality. Seems like a win-win situation, but Window ...more
Apple's iOS 11 release promises many improvements and fresh ideas. One of those new ideas is an image codec called HEIF (similar to HEVC for videos), designed to reduce the space photos take up on your iPhone. But it's so new that it's already causing issues with compatibility ...more
The iPhone 8 is just about here. If you're anything like me, you can hardly contain your excitement. Apple has been keeping its 10th-anniversary device — whether you call it the iPhone X, iPhone Edition, or iPhone 8 — as secret as possible, but this past year we've seen a wate ...more
Thanks to iCloud and AirDrop, it's really easy to sync photos between an iPhone and a Mac. But if you have an Apple phone and a Windows computer, this process isn't quite as simple. Thankfully, Microsoft has just released a new iPhone app that makes it a breeze to move photos ...more
The greatest pain in owning a high-powered gaming PC is the simple fact that you can't play it all the time. Sometimes you have work or school, and other times, you may just want to go mobile. When something like this impedes your ability to play PC games, you may end up settl ...more
Syncing photos onto your iPhone using iTunes can be a bit of a hassle. You have to connect the iPhone, create a folder with the pictures you want exported, and wait until it all syncs onto the phone. This is not only time consuming, but annoying with having to do it every time ...more
'Tis the season... for cheap (and free!) video games. THQ's Humble Bundle lets you get 7 games for any price you want, and now they're making it even better by offering fans a free Steam copy of Metro 2033 just for liking Metro on Facebook, which is gearing up for the latest M ...more
For those of you still using a BlackBerry smartphone, this article will show you the tips and tricks to installing emulators and playing some classic Game Boy Advanced games on your device. You can find a few tutorials and videos out there on getting Game Boy Color or NES game ...more
If we were to assign a theme for the 2019 edition of the Next Reality 30 (NR30), it might be something along the lines of, "What have you done for me lately?" Many of the top names in the industry from the 2018 edition remain the same, but their positions have shuffled. The p ...more
Now that the iPhone 4 is on Verizon, there's an increasing number of ex-Android users wanting to know how to take a screenshot on their new iOS device. We all know what a nightmare it was to take a screenshot on your Android device. You had to download the Android SDK, enable ...more
After years of being a PC technician and Windows System administrator, I had the blind hatred for Apple that I thought I was suppose to have. I swore that I'd never even touch an iPod, let alone buy an Apple product. But I found a new career that drug me out of the Windows ser ...more
If you want to jailbreak an iPhone without a sim card, check out this video and learn how. Initially this video was only for PC, but it now includes instructions on how to perform the same feat on your Mac as well. You'll need a program here to get it done, and you'll need to ...more
iOS app development is not limited to Mac owners. If you want to program apps for iPhones or iPads but you only have a Windows desktop or notebook, this guide overviews the different options available to you, including the DragonFire SDK, RhoHub, and Hackintosh methods. Each h ...more
In order for this tutorial to work, you will need a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch. Once you have this, download the OpenSSH protocol from Cydia and then download WinSCP onto your PC. Once you've hooked everything up and logged in, navigate through your Applications directory ...more
This tutorial will work for iPhone, iPod Touch or even the iPad to jailbreak your Apple device by going to spiritjb.com, downloading the program and running it on your PC or Mac computer. Once you've downloaded it, all you need to do is run the program while your device is con ...more
Just got an iPhone, but you don't know how to activate it? This tutorial will take you though the steps to activate your new iphone using itunes on a mac or pc.
Are you looking to connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to use as a second monitor? If so, you've come to the right place. With a app called ScreenRecycler, available here you can do just that. You'll need a Mac or a PC and you'l need an iPad, iPod or an iPhone and you'll n ...more
If you're looking to expand your viewing space, and haven an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can follow this how-to and learn how to do it. You'll need to get an app from the Apple App Store called SideMonitor. With this little app, you'll be able to connect your Mac or PC to ...more
Check out this informative video tutorial from Apple on how to stream music wirelessly with AirPort Express and a Mac. If you have a Mac or a PC and iTunes, it's easy to stream music wirelessly. It's called AirTunes. All you need is an AirPort Express and a set of powered spea ...more
A quick trick to do a screen capture on iPhone. A great skill to have especially when your iPhone is misbehaving, so you can show the Genius Bar whats up. This will record a video of your screen. It's how people make tutorials on a PC. You can do this easily on your iPhone. Th ...more
In this tutorial, learn how to jailbreak your new iOS 4 on your iPhone or iPod. This jailbreak will let you take advantage of cool new features including the huge app superstore: Cydia. Enjoy! Step 1: Download and install the latest version of iTunes. Step 2: Now start iTunes ...more
Right out of the box, iPhone is incredibly easy to use. If you want to get the most out of every feature, you’ve come to the right place. This video tutorial straight from Apple will teach you how to use the iPod and Genius on the Apple iPhone 3G. The iPhone redefines what a m ...more
Right out of the box, iPhone is incredibly easy to use. If you want to get the most out of every feature, you’ve come to the right place. This video tutorial straight from Apple will teach you how to browse the web with Safari on the Apple iPhone 3G. The iPhone redefines what ...more
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