Category: iphone

Why Does My iphone Volume Not Go All The Way Down? Answer

This question comes from a reader. “Why doesn’t the volume on my iphone go all the way down?”. Here’s the simple answer. There are two types of volume on your iphone. You have your application volume, which is the volume for music, videos, and applications, and you have your ringer volume. Each is mutable, and adjustable. But, you will notice that the ringer never...

iOS Bugs Resolved- How I saved My Phone

Yesterday I wrote about the daylight savings bug that I experienced, and I thought I lost all my data. Even the Applecare representative saw no other option besides syncing from my old back up. After sitting, and shedding some tears for my thousands of lost photos I thought about it. Two minutes, which was how long the reset took, was not enough time to wipe my...

5 Reasons To Use Opera Mini For ios

Image Courtesy of Opera Software Inc. Safari for iphone is a fantastic web browser, it works, it’s easy to use, and it has a nice set of features. So what reason could you possibly have use any different browser? Well, with Opera Mini- a speedy little web browser for ios I can think of several. It’s free. There’s no incentive not to download it. It...

Snackr- I’m Loving It

Snakr Screen What was your 25 billion app attempt? Mine was Snackr (Free) which is a lovely little App which aggregates news, and gives you quick audio TTS(Text To Speech) blurbs from articles.  The Text to speech sounds great compared to many, and is completely understandable. The english voice of “Alfred” never gets old and I love the little audio wave display. The news selection is...

Apple’s App Store Reaches 25 Billion App Downloads!

Well, the app store hit 25 billion downloads today at about 12:43 PM Eastern! The winner has yet to be announced but I’m hopeful. The count was slightly off on each browser according to my tests, but I did my best. In the end, people were downloading apps at the rate of 1,000+ a second! It was unbelievable. The clock was automatic, based on time,...