Apple Toolbox

It is important that you know your options for backing up your device. If you are running iOS5; iCloud and iTunes can back up your data on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The back up includes purchased music, TV shows, apps, and books, photos, videos, app data, messages, ringtones etc. Back Up With iCloud Apple [...]

You may want to insert / type basic Latin characters or symbols (Unicode Latin Letters with Diacritics) or special characters with accent marks using your device’s screen keyboard. For example, say you visited Turkey and you want to email your friends about the food there and tell them about the excellent “döner kebap” you ate. [...]

You may have accidentally added a wrong keyboard or you may have no need for your international keyboard and you want to turn off a keyboard. Although adding a new keyboard is pretty straight forward, deleting is not.  To disable an international keyboard that you added, tap Settings > General > International > Keyboards. There [...]

You can use the side switch on iPad to either lock the screen rotation or to mute some iPad sounds. Tap Settings > General and find “Use Side Switch to:” then select Lock Rotation or Mute. If Mute is selected, the switch on the side of the iPad will mute system sounds. If you choose [...]

Several users have reported that they are unable to send emails on iPhone and receiving this error message:  “A copy has been placed in your Outbox. The recipient [email address] was rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying.” How to fix If this is an AOL issue, try these: go Settings > [...]

Q: Is it mine or is the calculator missing on my iPad? A: Unlike, iPod Touch and iPhone; iPad 1 or 2 does not come with a built in calculator app. If you want a calculator, there are plenty of such apps in the App Store.

OnLive is well known for their “cloud gaming” service which is available for Mac and iOS. OnLive lets users play console on their mobile devices via the cloud. This takes away the need for high-end graphics cards and processors which are usually required to play full featured video games. OnLive has recently launched an iPad [...]

Microsoft Office for Mac has been the premier office suite for professionals and students since its initial launch in mid-1989. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office is expensive, bulky and has an aging interface. What if there was a free alternative that was backwards compatible with Microsoft Office files? Fortunately, there is.  OpenOffice by Oracle is an open [...]

Several users have reported that their iPad / iPhone home button suddenly stopped working and became unresponsive. Here are some tips to troubleshoot this problem; try each step until you solve this issue: Restart your device by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red “slide to power off” slider [...]

Several users have reported an issue that the Safari app on iPhone keeps resetting preferences to “Never Accept Cookies” by itself after restarting the iPhone . Possible fixes: Make sure there are no restrictions on cookie permissions, if you are a part of an Exhange account. It has been reported that turning off iCloud Bookmarks [...]