From the category archives:

App Store Tips

How To: Turn On / Off Genius for Apps on the iPhone [iPhone Tips]

February 11, 2010

Genius for Apps is a relatively new feature of the iPhone App Store (it was added as part of the iPhone OS 3.1 update) – that helps you discover new apps that suit your tastes. Genius ‘learns’ from your installed base of apps and your App Store purchases.
I wasn’t overly impressed with Genius [...]

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How To: Give Someone a Monthly Allowance for the App Store

February 3, 2010

iTunes Allowances are an easy way to provide a monthly iTunes store credit – which works in both iTunes and the iPhone App Store – to your children or anyone you want.
I discovered this handy feature because my daughter is already a big iPhone apps fan, at the age of six, and I’ve [...]

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App Store Refund: how I got mine

January 21, 2010

This is a short story with a happy ending.
If you are anything like me, you have bought an app for your iPhone, only to discover that it was not quite what you expected so you perhaps stopped using it or even erased it.
This happened to me. I recently bought the RSS reader app Byline and [...]

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How-To: Create An iTunes Account Funded By Gift Cards

January 1, 2010

So, you just bought your teenager a new iPod or iPhone and really don’t want to tie your credit card to their iTunes account? Or are you that teenager who got one as a gift and Mom and Dad said, “Credit card? No way!”? No problem; Apple will allow you to create an iTunes account [...]

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Some Tips For Dragon Dictation

December 9, 2009

As a former long-time user of Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC, I was eager to see if Dragon Dictation would include the same command syntax. Largely, it has. Here are some tips and a quick reference guide to some of the helpful things you can say during your dictation.

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Quick iPhone Tip: Where to Find All the Apps from the iPhone TV Ads

December 3, 2009

I have to admit – I’m still not sick of the ‘There’s an app for that’ series of TV ads for the iPhone, or any of Apple’s TV ads featuring iPhone applications. They invariably feature some interesting and strong apps – and I often end up wanting to check out one or more I spot [...]

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