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4 Tips for storing and playing large media files on your phone

Posted on March 29, 2023

Smartphones are everywhere these days. In fact, I’m guessing that you don’t personally know all that many people who don’t own one.

Thanks to the massive library of apps that are available, modern smartphones have literally hundreds of uses besides simply placing telephone calls and sending SMS text messages.

One of their most common uses is playing multimedia files such as streaming videos, audio tracks and watching online movies.

But what if you want to save your favorite media files directly onto your smartphone so you can enjoy them while you’re stuck in a traffic jam somewhere out in the boondocks? [Read more…]

Q&A: How can I find a file I downloaded to my phone?

Posted on January 15, 2023

Question from James: A couple of nights ago I downloaded a whitepaper to my Android phone from one of my favorite websites but I can’t find the downloaded file.

I believe it’s on my phone somewhere because it said is downloaded successfully.

Can you tell me where to look for it? [Read more…]

8 really cool iPhone tricks that aren’t commonly known

Posted on January 10, 2023

One billion of us have iPhones, meaning they completely dominate the phone market. However, many of us are not using our iPhones to their full potential. There are many cool iPhone tricks that people are just not aware of yet.

On top of this, Apple is constantly adding new features to iOS, making it challenging to keep up with what your phone is capable of.

My intention today is to fill you in on eight amazing iPhone tricks you might not have heard of to ensure you use your phone to its total capacity. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why are new apps not putting an icon on my phone’s Home Screen?

Posted on December 31, 2022

Question from Pat: When I first got my Android phone it would put an icon on the Home screen every time I installed a new app, but it’s stopped doing that.

Now I have to find every new app’s icon in the app drawer and drag it onto the Home screen manually.

I know it must be a setting that needs to be changed but I can’t find it. Can you help? [Read more…]

5 tips for fixing a misbehaving smartphone

Posted on August 9, 2022

It’s no secret that smart phones have literally changed the way most of us live our lives.

They allow us to make phone calls and use the Internet from most anywhere, and the list of devices they can replace by simply installing an app boggles the mind.

Truth be told, smartphones are actually just really small computers that can run programs (apps) to perform countless types of tasks.

Unfortunately, like other computers a smartphone can get bloated and inefficient over time as you add more and more apps (some of which can conflict with one another) and its internal storage gets clogged up with digital clutter.

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