HowTos Index
How To Set Up Apple TV
Apple is famous for its user interface and creating products that are a snap to set up and use. This is certainly true for the Apple TV. Hookng up the Apple TV is a snap. In my first set up, it took less than 10 minutes from opening the box to playing music from my iTunes library through my TV's speakers.
How To Update Apple TV Software
Just like with an iPod and or iPhone, when Apple releases updates to the software that runs the Apple TV, the update usually brings valuable new features with it. If you want to update your Apple TV software, here's how.
How To Turn Off The Apple TV
Anyone who's looked at the Apple TV for even a short time will notice something: there are no buttons on its case. So, how do you turn it off?
How To Record a Voicemail Greeting in iPhone
Recording a new voicemail greeting on the iPhone is much easier than with other mobile phones, thanks to the iPhone’s interface. Rather than calling into your voicemail system, hitting some keys, and then talking, the iPhone’s visual interface guides you through the process of recording and reviewing your voicemail greeting in just a few easy steps.
How To Send Text Messages to Multiple Recipients Using iPhone
Starting with iPhone software 1.1.3, users can send a single SMS, or text, message to multiple recipients. Here’s how you do it.
How To Assign iPhone Ringtones to Contacts
The iPhone allows you to assign specific ringtones to be played when people from your contacts list call you. With this feature, you can play a love song when your significant other calls or "Take this Job and Shove It" whenever the boss calls you at home. Here's how.
How To Add Favorites to Phone in iPhone
The iPhone’s phone feature allows you to create a list of frequently called phone numbers called Favorites. With favorites, you simply tap the name of the person you want to call and the call is placed. No more struggling remembering what “quick dial” number your phone has assigned to your mom and accidentally calling work!
How To Take An iPhone Screenshot
For the first year or so the iPhone was around, the only way to take an iPhone screenshot – that is, a picture of what was on the screen of your iPhone – was with a camera or a third-party application. With the introduction of iPhone Firmware 2.0, though, this changed.
How To Authorize Multiple Computers in iTunes
A guide to playing files bought from the iTunes Store on multiple computers.
How To Make iTunes Genius Playlists on the iPhone
While the iTunes Genius feature allows you to create playlists and discover new music in iTunes, you can also use Genius on your iPhone, iPhone 3G, or iPod touch, to create playlists right on your mobile device.
How To Reset/Restart a Frozen Clickwheel iPod/iPod Photo
A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen clickwheel iPod/iPod Photo.
How To Use Cover Flow to Browse iPod on iPhone
The CoverFlow feature of iTunes has been added to the iPhone to really cool effect. Now, instead of just browsing songs or albums by name, you can also browse then by flicking through a collection of album art on your iPhone.
How To Use Remote to Control Your iTunes Library
Remote is a free program from Apple, available at the App Store, that allows you to use your iPhone or iPod touch like a remote control to control your iTunes library or AppleTV. Here's how to use it.
How To Remove App Store Programs from iPhone 3G
There are a ton of terrific programs available at the App Store, many of them for really great prices. As a result, you may find yourself buying a lot of them. But what happens when you realize that you just don’t want that program on your phone anymore or that you’ve mastered a game?
How To Find Out How Much Space iPhone Apps Use
Even though the iPhone 3G, iPhone, and iPod touch all boats a decent amount of capacity to store your music, movies, email, contacts, and programs from the App Store, they’re storage capacity is far from unlimited. As a result, you may want to know how much space a program from the App Store is taking up.
How To Download Over the Air from the iPhone App Store
To download programs from the iPhone App Store, you can browse through a traditional iTunes Store-like experience on your computer. But, like the iTunes WiFi Music Store, you can also browse the App Store on your iPhone and iPod touch and download and install programs directly to your device over the air.
How To Burn a Gapless CD in iTunes
Some CDs are designed to listened to without the short gaps of silence between songs. These are called “gapless” tracks or CDs. When you’re burning a CD in iTunes, you may need to ensure that the CD you’re burning is gapless so that it plays back the way it was meant to sound.
How To Getting Traffic Conditions with iPhone Map Widget
One of the most helpful features added to the iPhone with the 1.1.3 firmware update was the ability to learn about local traffic conditions through the Map widget so you can avoid traffic jams and take the fastest routes.
How To Using the iPhone to Get Driving Directions
When Apple released firmware 1.1.3 for the first-generation iPhone, it added a major new feature: location awareness. The phone can now tell to within a few hundred feet, where it — and you — are located. One of the major benefits of this feature is that the iPhone can now be used to give you driving directions.
How To Reset/Restart a Frozen iPod Nano
A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen iPod nano.
How To Reset/Restart a Frozen iPod Video
A step-by-step guide to resetting or restarting a frozen iPod video.
How To How to Set iPhone Ringtones
One the ways people most like to customize their mobile phones is by choosing the sound of the phone’s ringer, otherwise known as a ringtone. IPhone ringtone fans are in luck, because the iPhone comes standard with dozens of quality ringtones. Here's how to choose your default ringtone.
How To How To Customize iPod Menus in iPhone
The iPod feature of the iPhone lets you customize the icons at the bottom of the screen to reflect the things you’ll use most often. The iPod is the only part of the iPhone where you can make these kinds of changes.
How To How to Delete Emails on the iPhone
The iPhone can hold a running list of all the email that’s been sent to the email accounts you’ve configured the phone to check. But you won’t want to save some email — spam, annoying messages, things with large attachments that you don’t want to view on the iPhone. In that case, you’ll want to delete email.
How To Reorganize iPhone Stocks
The iPhone’s Stocks widget allows you to track the price of your favorite stocks. If you’ve got more than just a very few stocks listed, however, you’ll want to organize them for easier reading.