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How to make your smartphone or tablet charge faster

Posted on July 7, 2022

Do you often find your phone’s battery running low but you don’t have much time to charge it up?

If so, there’s an easy way to ensure that you’ll get as much charge in the short time available as possible. All you have to do is put your phone in airplane mode.

You probably know that putting any device into airplane prevents it from ringing or making other sounds, but this handy setting actually goes much further than that… [Read more…]

How to use an unused tablet as a digital picture frame

Posted on January 5, 2022

These days most everyone has an old unused Android tablet sitting on a shelf somewhere. And chances are a good number of them still work just fine.

If you happen to be one of those folks that have an old, but working tablet sitting around, why not do something productive with it instead of letting it gather dust?

You can easily turn most any unused working tablet into a pretty snazzy digital picture frame simply by downloading a free app and copying a bunch of your favorite photos onto it.  [Read more…]

Q&A: Can I set an iPad to give a visual alert for new notifications?

Posted on September 17, 2021

Question from Gloria:  Hi Rick. I hope you can help me find a solution to a problem we’re having with my husband’s iPad.

He recently started using Facebook to keep in touch with the grandkids and some of our other family members.

The problem is he’s completely deaf and he can’t hear the notification alerts when someone sends him a message on the iPad.

Is there any way to have it light up with every new notification?

Rick’s answer:  [Read more…]

Here’s a real-world example of why you need to disable ‘In-App Purchases’ on your phone or tablet

Posted on December 15, 2020

I’ve written in the past about the dangers of leaving “In-App Purchases” enabled on your smartphone or tablet.

Truth be told, it really is quite easy to rack up some serious charges by making accidental purchases while using your favorite apps or playing a game.

[Read more…]

Use your old smartphone or tablet as a wireless security camera

Posted on March 5, 2019

Like most households these days, yours probably has one or more old smartphones and tablets that have been retired to a junk drawer after upgrading, but a simple downloaded app can turn them all into wireless security cameras!

Just download and install the app, mount the device where it can “see” the area you wish to monitor, then view everything that happens there via the browser on any computer or active smart phone.  [Read more…]

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