General Software

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I recently stumbled upon an AppStore app titled Pocket Doorbell that has a rather unique, but simple function. By using the location based services of the iPhone and the iPhone’s Address Book, the doorbell app can provide a digital version of a traditional door bell. When going to pick up a friend, a date, etc… [...]

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Creating QR Codes on Your Mac

April 8th, 2012 by akunesh | File in: General Software

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QR codes are becoming increasingly popular as more and more people are buying and using smartphones. If you don’t already know, QR codes are barcodes which can be scanned using an app on your smartphone such as Tapreader for iOS. When scanned, your phone will load a webpage which the creator has selected. If you [...]

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How to Use the iBooks App + Free iBook

December 10th, 2011 by macguy | File in: General Software

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Apple’s iBooks app that is available on the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone serves as an app, but also as the main source for allowing devices like the iPad to be eBook readers as well as all in one devices. With iBooks, many of the quality materials must be purchased or subscribed to, although there [...]

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Winter 2011 Mac Software Deals and Bundles

December 9th, 2011 by macguy | File in: General Software

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We have previously posted about some Mac software deals and bundles which revolve around the bulk purchasing of several popular Mac Apps for a highly discounted price. There are some new app bundles now running for Winter 2011 that may be a great bargain for some of our site visitors and subscribers. In today’s post, [...]

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Xbox Live App Now Available in AppStore

December 8th, 2011 by macguy | File in: General Software

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Apple has grown significantly in terms of gaming over the past few years. There are now a variety of different Mac compatible games available, there are tons of App Store games available for the iPhone, and deals with game developers such as EA Sports have made gaming on the iPad quite impressive. However, die hard [...]

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Apple does a very good job at making sure that all of their products play nicely together, which is one of the reasons why many people simply own several different Apple products. However, there may be some times when media files simply do not transfer between iDevices and Mac computers correctly. Alternatively, moving audio, video, [...]

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Get the History of Apple Computers With an App

November 21st, 2011 by macguy | File in: General Software

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From the iMacs that used to be available in different colors to the iMacs with the desk lamp pedestal, Apple has created several unique and innovative products over the years. Of course, Apple is also a company that is constantly releasing new product updates also. Minor spec upgrades for products are often released a few [...]

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How to Unlock Screen Rotation on iPhone

November 8th, 2011 by akishore | File in: General Software

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Here’s a simple post for newcomers to the iPhone or iPad family. You may run into an issue where your screen gets locked into one orientation, either horizontal or vertical. If you turn the device to the other direction, nothing happens. That can be really annoying! Luckily it’s a very simple fix. If you want [...]

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Monitor Your Mac Computer Stats

October 30th, 2011 by macguy | File in: General Software

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With the release of Mac OS X Lion, Apple has changed up the dashboard feature to be more useable, in order to promote it to Mac users. There are a limited amount of Dashboard widgets available for Mac OS X, but within those few, lay a couple of gems. In today’s post, we will review [...]

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Add Siri Like Voice Commands to iPhone 4, 3GS

October 19th, 2011 by macguy | File in: General Software

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If you have upgraded to iOS 5, but feel as if you are missing out on the Siri voice command feature that iPhone 4S owners have been raving about, because you didn’t upgrade from iPhone 4 or 3GS, you can still get some additional voice command functions using some apps. Although the apps don’t have [...]

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