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How to Take (and Make) Calls on Your Apple Watch

Let’s say you’re at home, binging on the last season of Game of Thrones and somehow your iPhone managed to slither its way deep under the couch cushion. Relegated to the very bowels of your furniture, what if someone calls your phone at this most inopportune time?! Assuming you own an Apple Watch and have already paired it with your iPhone, then you have no need to worry! The Apple Watch syncs up with your iPhone via bluetooth (and your WiFi network) allowing you to take your calls via Apple Watch. Keep reading to find out how to take (and make) calls using an iPhone […]

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How to Set Up and Pair Apple Watch with Your iPhone

While the Apple Watch houses amazing components and features all on its own, it still requires being paired to an iPhone in order to work. How to Pair the Apple Watch Keep reading to find out how to set up and pair your shiny, new Apple Watch with your iPhone. 1. To start, power on your Apple Watch and choose a language. 2. Tap Start Pairing. A nebulous, pointillistic orb will pop up on the Watch’s screen. 3. Make sure that your iPhone (5 or later) is updated to the latest iOS 8.3 and that bluetooth is turned on. 4. Locate and open the Apple Watch

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How to Use Cydia (Video)

The whole point of jailbreaking, if we’re honest, boils down to being able to get Cydia on your iPhone/iPad and the plethora of jailbreak tweaks contained within. The only thing is, that Cydia in itself can be a little intimidating and overwhelming to your first time jailbreakers. Opening it, you’re presented with a multitude of screens and very little indication of how to get started. Unlike the Apple App Store, what Cydia makes up for in the out of the box thinking functionality in its tweaks, it sort of lacks in the UI department. With that said, though, you can

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How to Reset a Frozen iPhone

It happens. You’re surfing the web, maybe checking out your networks that are social, and bam –it’s stuck. The iPhone screen is no longer responding and you’re stuck staring at gif shared on Twitter that is now stuck on a frame that somehow makes it lose it’s hilarity. You swipe left, right, then up, down –nothing. You begin pushing the home button to no avail and finally start pushing the power button in an effort to reset the now useless iPhone and try and pretend nothing ever happened. But what if that even fails, what do you do then? The answer

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Where is the Decline Button on Incoming Calls for iOS 8?

Whether you find yourself absorbed in the gentle retreat of a radiant sunset, the sound of children laughing, or a heady guitar solo from Trey Anastasio, sooner or later we’re all prompted to think deeply about our lives. Musing profound and penetratingly on life’s big questions… Or maybe you’re more like me and wondered, “Why does my iPhone let me decline incoming calls only some of the time?” Why is the Decline Button Missing Sometimes I’ve traversed space and time (i.e. Google) to help find an answer to this metaphysical inquiry. Turns out the answer is way more attainable than other modern

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How to Sync Google Apps for Work Calendar, Contacts, & Mail on an iPhone Using Push

Friend of mine recently registered her new bar’s website domain name and naturally, asked the nerdy guy who runs a tech site to help. After registering her domain for her (yes, all I essentially did was push Add to Cart for her and deny all the other GoDaddy upsells that they try and make you buy on the way out), I told her she needs to get Google Apps for Work instead of using GoDaddy’s clumsy mail system for her work email for the new domain. Her only question: “Will it work on my iPhone?”. Darn right it will. Thing is though

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How to Remove Favorites from Safari on iOS 8

Have you recently opened Safari on your iOS device only to find a bloated and unkempt favorites list muddying up your screen? At the risk of sounding like an overzealous parent admonishing you to get on the Spring Cleaning train, I’m here to suggest the following to remove said favorites from Safari: Clear out That Digital Clutter from Your Phone Life’s too short to suffer the self-inflicted pangs of digital hoarding. Remember how obsessed you once were with Gangnam Style? Or that trip to WebMD you bookmarked when you had that weird rash on your back? Or how about that time you saved all those

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Apple Watch: Everything You Need to Know

Well, it’s finally time. The Apple Watch (the watch formerly known as the iWatch) has now been fully detailed at an Apple event today and if you weren’t watching the live feed religiously (you’re clearly not a real Apple fan and shame on you) I figured I’d give you a rundown of everything you’d need to know: from the price, to the release date, customization options, and other points worth noting about the upcoming wrist companion to your beloved iPhone. Before we begin, we need to address the name. It’s not called the iWatch, it’s just the Apple Watch and there isn’t

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Video: Make Emojis Personal, How to Turn Yourself into an Emoji

Sometimes the little yellow faces just don’t quite cut it. I mean, sure, sending someone a pointing finger and an “OK” is always a good time, but what if you could make it a little more… personal. Thanks to a friend, I recently discovered a new app called Bitmoji. The app takes our obsessive past-time of emojis and kicks it up a notch. After downloading the app from the Play Store/App Store, it walks you through the process of choosing physical characteristics step by step (video gamers will be very familiar with the tedious process of choosing just the right eyebrows for far too long) until

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Take It from Photo to Art: Best Photo Editing Apps for iOS & Android

To say there are a lot of photo editors out there, might be a bit of an understatement. When I typed the words “photo editor” into my App Store search bar, it came back with 6,779 results. Woah there, developers, slow your roll. It can be a bit of a slog to figure out which ones are really worth your time, and which aren’t. If, for example, you really want to hyper-pixelate all your images, then sure, Pixelwakker is just what you’re looking for. Or maybe you want to replace your sister’s face with a shark head in all your

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Video: How to Jailbreak iOS 8.1.3 (Using iOS 8.2 Beta 2)

UPDATE: It seems Apple has stopped signing the iOS 8.2 Beta 2 file which means that this tutorial will no longer work. Hope some of you got the jailbreak in before that happened! As soon as a new jailbreak happens, I’ll be doing a video on it ASAP. In the meantime, subscribe to my YouTube channel, Twitter, Facebook, and/or Google+ for updates on when it’ll happen. Thanks! I know what you’re thinking –there’s no jailbreak for iOS 8.1.3. And, of course, you are absolutely correct. But there’s more than one way to gain jailbreak an iPhone (think that’s a saying, no?).

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What Happens to Your Facebook When You Die? Here’s How to Choose Its Fate

As technology becomes more and more entrenched in our daily lives, the need for us to consider what will become of our online presence after we pass away becomes a bigger and bigger priority. A few years ago, Google paved the way by allowing Gmail users to, as they put it, “plan for [their] digital afterlife” by designating a friend or family member to be their Inactive Account Manager when they die. Now Facebook has joined their ranks, announcing last week that they are introducing a similar feature, calling it a Legacy Contact. Though this may seem bizarre and somewhat

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New Year’s Resolution Slipping Already? 5 Apps for Getting Back in Shape

Oh, the gym. You elusive devil, you. All relationships are tough to maintain in life, but the on-again-off-again relationship we all have with staying in shape and going to the gym is perhaps the most enduring. Whether you’ve got fluctuating weight or a fluctuating work schedule, no matter the excuse – fortunately (or unfortunately) for us, our smartphones make it hard to give a good reason to not stay in shape. With an app market that is littered with ways to monitor or motivate good health, we as smartphone users now have the ability to get creative in the way

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Home Automation: It’s Finally Time to Try It

Technology, automation, and efficiency. Three things nerds like us get way more excited about than your average person. (Who doesn’t love a good spreadsheet once in a while? Ah, that’s the stuff.) Thankfully for us, we’re living in an age where technology is evolving faster than it ever has before, and our phones, tablets, computers, cars, and other tech are all trying to anticipate what we want them to do before we even know we need them to do. Sometimes they’re suggestions are more useful than others. I didn’t know I needed to go to the casino during breakfast, thanks,

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Give Your Eyes a Break: Have Your News Read to You Using This App

Ok, I’ll admit it. I use Audible.com for the majority of the books I “read”. (Is it still called reading if I’m listening to it? Deep thoughts…) Maybe it’s the fact I can multitask while doing it (“…raised by technology, and majors in efficiency.”), the fact that it’s more convenient than carrying a book (since it’s on my phone already), or maybe it stems from a deep-seeded psychological need to be read to since I wasn’t as a child, who really knows. The fact of the matter remains though, that, while not the case for all my books, I enjoy

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