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  • What settings should I choose in iTunes Music and Video? Sync?

    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…)

  • How does Photo Stream work?

    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.

    Mac Photo Stream

     

    iPhone and iPad users can enable Photo Stream by touching Settings, and then iCloud

    iPhone Photo Stream

    Now think of Photo Stream as a special Album, one that updates and maintains automatically with the following rules.

    1. This album can hold up to 1,000 photos maximum.
    2. It will only show photos from the last 30 days
    3. Photos can not be edited or deleted.
    4. Photos taken with your camera are automatically added.  
    5. You CAN NOT pick and choose what images to keep or delete

    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.

    1. From a computer browser, go to icloud.com and sign in.
    2. Click on your name on the iCloud home page (this is the page that shows all the app icons). If you do not see your name, click the cloud icon in the top left of the page.
    3. Click Advanced.
    4. Here you will see the Reset Photo Stream button. Clicking this button will remove all your Photo Stream photos from iCloud. Once removed, they cannot be recovered, but you can re-upload any photos you’d like to restore to your Photo Stream from a Mac or PC.

    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.

  • Backup your iPhone and Android contacts to your Gmail Google account for free

    Every iPhone and Android user should do this simple method of syncing their contacts to a Gmail account. Not only is it another backup for all your contacts and calendar events, but having a Google account opens up another world of services to you that is not only free but ever expanding with new features. This is the iPhone version.

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