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Troubleshooting Your iPhone 4S And iPad 2 Jailbreak

Screen Shot 2012-01-23 at 12.23.35 PMThe first jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 became available to the public last week, and many are jailbreaking their A5-based iOS devices and trying out new tweaks from Cydia, the jailbreak equivalent of the App Store....

Horrible iPhone 4S Battery Life Is Caused By Software Not Hardware, Here’s The Proof

ht_iphone_low_battery_jef_111101_wgThe iPhone 4S has some bodacious battery life problems and no one seems to know what’s going on. Apple themselves have released an iOS update, iOS 5.0.1, to fix the problems, to no avail. Meanwhile, some iPhone 4S owners find their batteries draining at...

Apple Engineers Are Deputizing iPhone 4S Users To Get To The Bottom Of Battery Problems

iphone-Low-batteryHaving problems with battery life since upgrading to the iPhone 4S? Apple may be getting in touch with you to help them troubleshoot your battery problems, hopefully solving the iPhone 4S’s woeful drainage issues once and for all. According to The Guardian, Apple has...

Early adopters: Don’t panic if your iPhone 4S has issues

Since Apple has just launched a new iPhone, it's inevitable that reports of problems with the initial shipments are also cropping up. The iPhone 4S has garnered plenty of complaints, but here's a quick gut check to help you determine what is and isn't serious.

3 tips for taking your Mac in for service

Macs are fairly dependable, but there will still be occasions when you have to take them in for service at an Apple Authorized Service Provider. This can take some doing, so here are three tips about things you might not think about when moving your Mac.

New online diagnostic tool could save you a trip to the Apple Store

Apple is prepping a new online diagnostic tool that will work via mobile Safari on iOS devices, according to a new report. The system would be able to determine quite a bit of information about the device before a technician ever lays hands on it.

Mac 101: 10 essential tips for bringing a Mac to college

With Mac products so popular on college campuses these days, here are some tips to make sure your (or your kids') college Mac experience goes as smoothly as possible, and won't end up completely derailed if it does run into a few bumps.

iOS 101: How to recover from an app or device failure

It happens to the best of us, and usually at the worst times: Your device freezes up or iOS decides to go on a long weekend without you. Don't panic, though; there are a number of options to help get your iPhone/iPad/iPod up and running again.

Use Lion Recovery Disk Assistant To Make A USB Recovery Drive [Video How-To]

  Apple has just released the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant, which allows you to turn any USB flash drive into a Lion recovery disk. This useful tool comes in handy in the event of a hard drive failure. In this video, I’ll show you how...

Black Screen Of Death Plagues Some Mac Users After Lion Update

MacwithBlkscreenApple is allegedly investigating complaints from some Mac OS X Lion users about system crashes related to graphics or sleep/wake issues on various Macs. Users that complain about the problem say that a person will see their Mac suddenly crash and display a black...

Having Problems With WiFi in Lion? Here’s How You Can Fix Them

Hopefully by now you’re running Apple’s shiny new cat, OS X Lion, on your Mac. You may be noticing all the improvements and changes that Apple made in Lion, and we recommend reading our comprehensive review of Lion for all the info you need to...

Fix A Missing Menu Bar After Connecting A Mac Mini Mid 2010 To HDMI

MacMini2010I did something last weekend that I know many of you may have done already. I dragged my Mac Mini into the living room and connected it to my large screen LCD TV. I ran into an interesting problem after doing so. My Mac...