We all know you can put songs and video on your iPhone, but what’s the easiest way to do it?
Should you choose to sync all your media?
Do you want to be able to add and change your playlist from any computer?
It all depends on your iTunes setup. (more…)
iMessage is quickly becoming a standard in communication, but it needs to be setup correctly to work. Here’s a quick check to make sure it’s setup right in iOS 5
It’s very tempting to download free apps from the app store, and try them out. It’s also very easy to delete them from your phone when you decide you don’t like them. But soon your list of purchased apps can become annoyingly long, and why keep apps you’ll never use? You want them gone from your list, here’s how to do that.
Photo Stream is a new feature of iOS 5 and iCloud. But it’s simplicity and lack of a preferences can be confusing to use.
The first step is to enable Photo Stream on your devices.
Mac users will want to go to the iPhoto preference panel.
iPhone and iPad users can enable Photo Stream by touching Settings, and then iCloud
Now think of Photo Stream as a special Album, one that updates and maintains automatically with the following rules.
Any photo you intend to keep should be imported into your iPhoto library within 30 days. Otherwise it will be deleted after that. Also after importing you can do anything you normally can do; edit colors, email images, etc. But keep in mind if you delete the photo from your library it does not delete it from Photo Stream.
Photo Stream is just a convenient way to see all your images on all your devices without worrying about syncing. It’s all automatic, but once again, with this simplicity you loose granular control. This brings us to possible negatives of Photo Stream.
If you take a photo you want to keep private, you have to delete ALL photos by reseting Photo Stream.
As long as you keep these limitations in mind, Photo Stream is a very easy way to sync images across multiple devices. Just don’t expect to be able to modify the contents manually.
Transferring images from your iPhone to a Windows PC is very easy to do and you don’t need to use iTunes or any other software.
1 Plug your iPhone to your PC using the USB cable
You should see the AutoPlay window popup,
2 Click Open device to view files
This opens up a window and you can simply drag and drop images from the phone to your desktop or anywhere you like.
If you don’t get the AutoPlay window, try this way instead;
1 Click Start, and choose My Computer
You should see your iPhone as a digital camera or drive similar to the example below, simply click on it to open and view images.
2 Select images to drag and drop from the phone to your desktop or anywhere you like.