David Cogen

David opened a cell phone store on his college campus and started TheUnlockr.com as a personal tech blog back in 2009 along side. He gets an unnatural excitement out of showing others new things about their tech that they might not have known. Reach out to him on the following social networks and say hi.

Send Gifs on iPhone

How to Send Gifs to People Easily from Your iPhone (Video)

If you don’t already know, one of my favorite features of iOS 8 was the ability to add your own custom keyboards. A feature, that I feel has been missing from iOS for a long time, that adds a ton of value to the end user. From keyboards that allow you […]

USB Type C

What is USB-C?

If you’ve seen the latest, super-thin Macbook from Apple, then you may have noticed a very strange change they’ve made to the ports on it. Namely, that besides the headphone jack, there’s only one: a USB-C port. What is this mysterious USB-C port? Why did Apple get rid of the

Calling While Overseas

The Definitive Guide to Using Your Phone Overseas (Video)

I just recently got back from Canada for the Women’s World Cup (USA! USA! USA!) and besides a new love for Montréal – amazing food, beautiful European architecture, and everyone speaks French but isn’t angry to speak to you in English after an initial “Bonjour”, how can this place be bad? –

Cydia on iOS 8.4

Video: How to Jailbreak iOS 8.4

As soon as the latest update for iOS, iOS 8.4, came out, it was jailbroken. While developer team PP were the first to jailbreak iOS 8.4 this time around, the tried and true developer team called TaiG that we’ve grown oh so familiar with just updated their own tool to work with iOS

TaiG iOS 8.3

How to Jailbreak iOS 8.3

Well, the TaiG jailbreaking team has done it again –iOS 8.3 has been jailbroken. After all the reports of a jailbreak for iOS 8.3 not coming out, they’ve just released a Windows version of their latest tool that tons of people are reporting works well. Without further ado, here’s how

Apple Watch Walkthrough

Video: Apple Watch Complete Walkthrough

Apple recently started shipping their latest gotta-have-it device this month, the Apple Watch. Given the entirely new nature of the device (see: iPhone on your wrist, sorta?), people – understandably – have a lot of questions. Whether you’re one of those who are still waiting for your Apple Watch to arrive in the mail

Android M

How to Get the Android M Preview on Your Nexus Device (Video)

The Android M developer preview has been released by Google and if you happen to have a Nexus device then you already know what time it is: update time! In this video, I’ll show you how to update any Nexus device to the Android M Developer Preview downloaded from Google.

Apple Watch Clear Notifications

How to Dismiss All Notifications on the Apple Watch

I’ll be honest, I accidentally figured out how to do this when I literally got frustrated with removing notifications one by one on the Apple Watch. I tapped the screen a bit too hard and viola, an option for dismissing them all magically appeared. Thankfully! Here’s how you too can

Amazon Echo

How to Add Google Calendar Support to the Amazon Echo

It’s getting there… The recently launched Amazon Echo, aka Amazon’s way of trying to become the central, voice-controlled hub in your smart home, is slowly getting support for the major apps and systems that it frankly needs. Yesterday, a big one was just added: Google Calendar. As someone who uses

Amazon Echo

Amazon Echo Unboxing (Video)

Amazon recently released their new Echo device. Marketed as a bluetooth speaker and voice assistant similar to how Siri or Cortana works, the device has been on sale since the middle of January, but just started shipping this month to users who pre-ordered it and patiently have been awaiting its

Update the Apple Watch

How to Update the Apple Watch

Apple released their first OS update to the Apple Watch today with performance enhancements and support for the new emojis, but, since this is a new device, maybe you’re not quite sure how to update it. Just like with the iPhone itself, it comes down to forcing the device to

UberEats

How to Use UberEats to Get Lunch Delivered in Minutes

If you haven’t heard, Uber just extended their free lunch delivery in Manhattan for another week to help promote their new UberEats service and this got me curious. How exactly does UberEats, from the people that take me to and from bars at ungodly hours, work to get me food

Samsung Galaxy S6 Now Available in Two Badass Metallic Colors

The metal body and specific way Samsung paints their Galaxy S6’s and S6 Edge’s lends to a pretty interesting opportunity for them –seriously cool looking metallic colors. Samsung today just announced via press release that their new Blue Topaz and Emerald Green colors are available for their Galaxy S6 and

Apple Watch Unboxing

Apple Watch Unboxing (Video)

I know it’s been out a while, but, considering most people won’t get their Apple Watch until June (thanks, Apple!) and I just received mine, I figured there might still be some people out there interested in seeing what it comes with, how it fits (I made a surprising discovery

Jailbreaking Petition

Help Keep Jailbreaking Legal: Sign the Petition

It’s insane the amount of comments on here and my YouTube channel asking if (or straight up proclaiming) jailbreaking is illegal. Truth is, it isn’t. It was actually made legal by the FCC a few years ago so we can just stop that conversation right there. Or can we… Turns