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Several users have reported that they receive the alert message ”An unknown error has occurred” when they try to connect to the App Store on their iOS devices, iPad, iPad mini, iPhone or iPod touch.Follow the steps below to troubleshoot this issue. Please after performing each step, test to see if your problem is solved: Make sure [...]

We receive many questions from users regarding the possibility of whether or not apps for the iPhone, iPod, iPad can be installed and run on Windows-based and Mac OSX computers. The answer is no. These apps that are available via the App Store are designed exclusively for use on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. [...]

Q: My apps on iPhone won’t open. Device works fine. What can I do? A: For various reasons, you may have trouble with your Apps. If you are unable to run or open an app, please try the following suggestions until you fix your issue: Shut down the app you are having problem with completely. [...]

The iPhone is the best smartphone out there, and the iPhone 4 and 4S are the current leaders on the marketplace (while the former has sold more units than any other phone in the world, the latter is on its way to beating that record, apparently). With over 500,000 apps on the marketplace, there sure [...]

Sometimes there are web apps that we wish we could use as regular apps on our Mac. Well, there is an app called Fluid for that. In fact I did a review on it earlier. But say you want to do the same thing for your iPhone or iPad. Well, there is an app for [...]

With the addition of iOS software 4.0, came the long awaited feature of having apps open up in the background. This was Apple’s way to help you keep apps open and not have to close apps and reopen them again. The slight problem with this, is that if you leave too many of them open, [...]

One of the greatest things to happen to the Mac is the Mac App Store that was released just a few short months ago. But unlike the iOS App Store one of the big differences is the price in the apps. Of course, this makes a lot of sense being that applications for the Mac [...]

As you already know, the iPhone is the most successful Apple device to date, along with the iPod and recently, the iPad. The latest iteration, the iPhone 4, has only reinforced Apple’s position as the number one smartphone manufacturer on the market. There are more iPhone 4’s in use than there are Android or Symbian [...]

Several users have reported an issue in which iTunes 10 crashes when click on the Apps tab of the sync pane. Fix: Make sure there are apps on the first screen. In most cases, this issue can be solved by simply ensuring that the first screen of apps is not blank, i.e. it must contain [...]

One of the most effective, albeit drastic, iPhone troubleshooting measures (as listed in our 4 Rs) involves restoring the device, but not from a backup. It appears that bad holdover data from iPhone backups (especially those created for previous iPhone models)  can cause various issues. This can be accomplished by connecting your iPhone or iPod [...]