Apple Toolbox

Users of iPods, iPads and iPhones may notice their home screens sometimes display a small red circle with a numeral in the middle. This means notifications are enabled and one or more of the applications downloaded on the device needs attention. There are several types of notifications. Each provides alerts or related information and has [...]

With every iOS version, Apple introduces new features and improvements. Thus you may want to upgrade your device’s iOS version. Here is how: 1-Ensure that you have the latest version of iTunes. 2-Connect your device to your computer. 3-Select your device in iTunes under Devices. 4-Click “Check for Update” 5-If there is an update, iTunes [...]

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 [...]

By default, the Safari web browser records your web history, cookies and cache. This may be annoying if you would like to record privately. Fortunately, you can prevent your iOS or Mac OS X device from recording your web history with Private Browsing. When enabled, Safari will no longer record your web or Autofill history. [...]

With the release of the latest Xbox 360 dashboard update, Microsoft has released a new iOS app. The My Xbox Live app for iOS was unexpectedly released on December 7, 2011. Microsoft has always had an Xbox live app for their Windows Phone 7 devices. This app allows users to stay in touch with their [...]

Spotlight Search is an awesome feature that lets you search your entire Mac or iOS device at once. When using this feature, you may not want a certain file type showing up in your search results. This is relatively simple to configure via the Settings app. In this Apple Toolbox tutorial, we will be showing [...]

The Emoji keyboard is a fun way to express your emotions when texting or instant messaging. The Emoji keyboard lets you choose from tons of small images to insert into your texts. In this tutorial with we will be showing you how to setup the Emoji keyboard on your iOS and Mac devices. This tutorial [...]

As of November 9th, 2011, Adobe has killed Flash Player for mobile devices. This includes Flash Player for Android, Playbook as well as Smart TVs. Adobe has said they will continue to support Flash for Mac and PC and that Flash will remain a desktop platform. They have also stated that HTML5 is the best [...]

Adding notes to a PDF, or annotating, can be a difficult task when using Photoshop or Gimp for this purpose. However, you can make this task much easier by using Preview, a built-in Mac App. A little known feature of Preview is that it can help you annotate PDF files. In this tutorial we will [...]

If you store a lot of photos and other files on your iOS device, you may want wireless access to these photos without launching iTunes. To do this, you will need to make your iOS device a network drive. This requires a third-party app called Flash Drive.  This app is $4.99 in the iTunes App [...]