How To

How to easily access a website on your iPhone, iPod or iPAD?

Now more and more people are reading on mobile devices. If you have a favorite website you like to visit frequently, you can make it easy to access on your iPhone, iPod or iPAD with an icon on your home screen. Today I am going to share with you how to add a website’s icon [...]

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How to set up App Store Account without a Credit Card?

In my post How to manage in-app purchase I suggested not link your App Store account with your credit card. Instead, link it with a gift card. But how can you do it? Putting in credit card information is part of account setting up process, and it seems there is no way to get around. While, if [...]

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How to Hide/Unhide an App Icon on iPAD and iPhone?

If you are planner, you probably have already started holiday gift shopping. It hit me when I posted Toca Hair Salon Christmas – I could start looking for deals on apps my son likes, and put them on a iPod we don’t use anymore. It would be a good holiday gift. If you like the [...]

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How to Read Kindle Books Without a Kindle & for FREE?

For so long, I forgot I had Kindle app on my iPhone and iPAD. With the app, I could download a Kindle book from Amazon on my iPhone and iPAD. In fact, Amazon has Kindle apps for all different devices: iPhone, iPod, iPAD, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Mac, Windows 7, XP,Vista, and Windows 8. Here [...]

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How to Choose Kids Friendly iPAD Cases?

A while ago, I reviewed three baby-friendly iPAD cases. For babies, the cases must have drop protection and water proof. For older kids, there will be less drools or spills (they still happen, but are more manageable if you set up good house rules, such as no drinks while using iPAD). Today I recommend three [...]

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How to Free Up Storage Space on iPhone, iPAD and iPod?

After loading so many apps on my iPhone and iPAD, I got a warning saying my storage space is near the max. Here is what I did to free up space on my iPhone and iPAD: 1. Move all the photos to Dropbox. If you have not set up a Dropbox account, you really should. [...]

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How to Teach Kids Physics with Angry Birds?

Even if you don’t like games or never played Angry Birds, you probably have seen those red birds somewhere – toy store, candy store, … I have heard two completely different opinions about Angry Birds from parents. Some think it is a great educational game. Some believe kids are wasting time playing Angry Birds. As [...]

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How to Find Out Your Phone’s Location?

I had the App “Find my friend” on my phone for a long time, but I did not use it until recently. All incidences were quite interesting. I thought I should share with everyone. First incidence: found family members at a busy outdoor event It was a busy event. My husband and I went to [...]

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How to Child-Proof iPAD

No matter your kids are getting a new iPad, or an old one from you, you have to child-proof the iPad before handing it to them. Here is how: 1. Get the latest update from Apple: current iOS settings have a lot valuable kid proof features. 2. Backup your iPad periodically: in case your kids [...]

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