Q. My new iPad Air stopped downloading my Microsoft Hotmail and now I am stuck at about a month ago on my email! I have it set to download all time email in my settings yet every time I try to download it says something like ‘cannot connect to mail server’. Any ideas? -Ian G. A. Hi Ian, I am sorry to hear about your Hotmail problem. 🙁 It seems that in iOS7 there are a number of issues with
I am in the middle of evaluating three new bluetooth keyboards: Logitech Tablet Keyboard for iPad, AmazonBasics Bluetooth Keyboard, and the Anker Ultra Slim Mini Bluetooth 3.0 Wireless Keyboard. The initial review will focus on using the keyboards with an iPad. A followup review will focus on Android. Conclusions to follow shortly, but here are photos to get things started 🙂 Initial packaging: Side views: Side-by-side Compared to an oldschool keyboard Amazon.com purchase links with free shipping Logitech Tablet Keyboard for iPad, iPad
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With all the rumors of Apple switching to an ARM based architecture for Mac OSX, it is funny that Microsoft already beat them to it with Windows RT. Windows RT of course is basically Windows 8 for ARM devices. Perhaps with a ARM based Mac OSX Apple would choose to emulate x86 for older apps/programs, something MS declined to do. But still, it is impressive that Windows RT has virtually all of Windows 8’s functionality (sans legacy software compatibility) whereas
The latest entry in the Bought & Sold series: Apple iPod Touch I was a bit sad to depart with this lovely device. Samantha got it for me for Christmas in Hawaii 🙂 She really spoiled me as I never expected to get an iPod Touch, let alone the 64GB big-daddy version! This truly was one of my most used electronics devices and I got a LOT of good use out of it. It also held up to the test
You can’t tell Siri to read your emails and web pages, but you can use Apple’s iOS voiceover feature to read your emails and web pages out loud 🙂 More info here: Tip: How to Make Siri’s Twin, VoiceOver, Read Your Email on iPhone | iSourcehttp://isource.com/2011/11/12/tip-how-to-make-siris-twin-voiceover-read-your-email-on-iphone/That’s odd, I thought, I know I could get my 3GS to read my emails to me! You may be curious how. It’s an Accessibility setting called VoiceOver. So what I tried… Will Siri ever read
My dad needed a new iPad and there was a question of the best place to buy it. For this post we’ll discuss the 64GB ‘new iPad’ with WiFi or just the iPad 3 as I like to call it. My recommendation for purchasing an iPad online is to purchase from Amazon and here is why: #1 no sales tax in many states, saves you money! Of as September 28th 2012 customers in CA, KS, KY, ND, NY, PA, TX and WA
Is anyone out there getting an ‘unknown device driver’ error when they plug in their iPhone 5 into their Windows 7 computer? If so, here is a tip that may help: Make sure you iPhone 5 is disconnected from your Windows PC Open a command prompt: If you are logged in as administrator: Open your command prompt, click Start select Run Type cmd then press Enter (this opens a command prompt window) If you are not logged in as administrator