Some users have reported that their Apple mobile devices are no longer recognised by iTunes after the recent iOS 9 and iTunes 12.3 update. Your Apple mobile device still charges but fails to communicate with your Mac or Windows machine. One of the likely suspects is your Lightning cable. Yes, your cable.Read More
At some point, we believe everyone has experienced this error message during a sync between iTunes and your iPad or iPhone (Apple still has some polishing to do for iTunes). Despite repeated syncs, usually, the error repeats. There are 2 steps to take to remedy this: Hard reset your iOS device – hold down both […]Read More
Treat this article as you may but we are hoping it doubles up as a sort of open letter to Apple Inc, hoping for small changes in iOS. For a while now, we have noticed that since iOS7 came into the wild: whenever we use Spotlight to attempt to quickly find the person we want […]Read More
Most every Apple related web page in the universe is reporting that Apple has released its latest iTunes 11.1.5 update today to cure a nasty bug that could cause iTunes to crash when connected to iOS devices. iTunes 11.1.5 also also addresses compatibility issues with iBooks. Mac aficionados who are still resisting the ‘Mavericks Syndrome’* will […]Read More
Its unfortunate but some users have reported that Calendar syncing is once again broken after the recent iOS 7.0.4 update that according to Apple’s release is purported to fix FaceTime issues. Apparently, it has done more than that. To fix this you will need to delete plist files from your user LIbrary, that effectively resets […]Read More
You can stop the search for answers. Unfortunately, the short answer is – “Yes, Apple has gone and done it and. No. Its not a bug.” Its deliberate – read it here. Whether its in line with the software requirements of building convenient albeit complicated features and functions, e.g. predicting our travel time in Maps […]Read More
Privacy is a buzzword in our current digital age. With the ubiquity of Smart Phones, we see advancements in interpersonal communications where what cannot be expressed in words, can now be easily expressed in pictures. A quick snap and send later, the party on the other end of the line can immediately be privy to […]Read More
Ever since Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, the ability to encode videos (convert videos) into a format acceptable to iTunes and by extension all our iOS devices, iPhone, iPad and iPods has been built into the Mac OS operating system itself. Finder to be precise. With this ends the need to search endlessly for freeware […]Read More
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