Recently, I’ve been asked by four different friends of mine to update their phones to iOS 7. All of them complained that whenever they tried to update it simply “wouldn’t work”. Taking a look at any of these devices and the issue was the same; not enough free storage space […]
A neat little feature in iOS 7 that most people don’t know exists is the ability to setup text shortcuts. Essentially, you can use a few letters while typing and have iOS automatically expand it out to whatever phrase you want. For example, “idk” could become “I don’t know”, “omw”
It seems that some people are having a bit of an issue with the Touch ID (aka fingerprint scanner) on the iPhone 5S. Even though they go through the entire process of adding a fingerprint and it says successful, when they try and unlock their phone with that finger it
After hearing a middle-aged woman complaining about how she hated iOS 7 and wishes she never upgraded because she simply can’t see anything on the screen anymore, I decided to intervene (whether she wanted my help or not, of course). After changing the following settings on her iPhone, she literally
Perhaps you are puking on your iPhone screen a bit too often? Well, you aren’t the only one. It seems that the parallax effect in Apple’s new iOS 7 software is causing some people to get a bit nauseous (some from the feeling it gives them and others from disgust
AT&T, Verizon, and a few other carriers have made the decision to lock down the bootloaders of their Moto X devices. This has made getting root access on these versions of the device much more difficult in comparison to the unlocked bootloader versions provided by T-Mobile, for example (that simply
One cool app for Windows Phone is the Bing translate app. Not only does this app allow you to put in text and have it translated between different languages, but it also allows you to use the camera to translate written text you can see into other languages in semi-real
Hands tied? No problem. Windows Phone has the ability to convert speech to text (and it’s actually pretty accurate and fast). You can use this feature anywhere that you can type text (from email, to text, to any other text input). Here’s how to use the voice recognition in place
Nokia added a “glance” screen to their Windows Phone devices. The idea was great, put a low powered screen where you can get quick information like the time without having to unlock the device. Unfortunately, they didn’t combine this very well with the existing lock screen so it sort of
In today’s world, you need to be able to multitask. That concept is no different on your mobile device. Windows Phone added the ability to switch between recent apps and it can be accessed quickly from any screen. Here’s how to use multitasking on your Windows Phone device. 1. Hold
Sometimes you hear a song and just can’t quite think of who the artist is or the title of the song. Windows Phone recently added the ability to use their Bing song recognition to solve this issue with just a few taps on the device. Not only can you get
We’re sure you witnessed Apple unveil the new iPhone 5s and 5c earlier this week, but did you know that our very own David Cogen was featured live on Fox Business News to discuss his take on the new devices? We’re so excited to see David representing TheUnlockr during a
Most Android manufacturers put some type of custom UI on top of their Android devices to help differentiate theirs from the pack (and it’s a huge pack). Some of these can add nice features, but all of these usually come at a price. The price I find the most annoying
If you are worried about losing your photos, texts, or other data on your Windows Phone device, you can turn on the settings to automatically back all of them to your SkyDrive account so you don’t have to worry about it anymore. I. Turn on Backups 1. Go to Settings.
Multilingual? As with most mobile operating systems, Windows Phone has the ability to utilize different languages for the keyboard and actually has support for a decent amount of languages. For each of them, you simply need to download the keyboard from the settings and then select it when composing text
