More Apple How-To

• 06 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to adjust the screen timeout on an Apple iPhone

  Smartphones have a screen timeout built into them, which works in the same way as a screen saver on your PC, temporarily suspending the screen or making it appear black while the device is not being used

• 04 October 2011

• How-Tos: How to move my iPhone back-up to a new PC

  Apple's iTunes allows Apple iPhone users to back-up the content stored on their smartphone to their PC.

• 29 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to see which applications are running on an iPhone

  When Apple released iOS 4 last year, iPhone users were given the ability to multi-task

• 28 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to connect a second display to a Thunderbolt iMac

  How can you attach a second display or a projector to a new iMac, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air? Or a Mac mini for that matter?

• 27 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to Recover a Lost Phone, Tablet, or Laptop

  The bad news: At some point, your cell phone is likely to go missing. Whether it falls out of your pocket in a cab, or you leave it unattended in a public place for a few seconds only to have it swiped by someone with sticky fingers and low moral fiber, your phone is vulnerable. In fact, according to a report from security software company Symantec, 36 percent of U.S. consumers have had a cell phone disappear on them.

• 23 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to activate call waiting on an Apple iPhone

  The call waiting feature on mobile phones means that users who are already using their handset for a conversation will be alerted, usually by a series of beeps, if there's another person trying to call them at the same time.

• 20 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to use Facebook Messenger

  Facebook has finally given Brits the ability to access its Messenger app

• 14 September 2011

• How-Tos: How to locate a lost Apple iPhone 4

  Losing your smartphone these days is similar to losing your handbag or walle

• 31 August 2011

• How-Tos: How to copy iPhone contacts to your PC

  Unlike other smartphones such as BlackBerry's and those that run Google Android, Apple's iPhone doesn't allow users to back-up their contacts to the SIM card.

• 24 August 2011

• How-Tos: How to jailbreak an Apple iPhone running iOS 4.3.4 or above

  There are thousands of apps in Apple's iTunes app store that bring extra functionality to the iPhone.

• 23 August 2011

• How-Tos: How to use a download code in iTunes

  If you don't know how to redeem your download code properly it could end up costing you a few quid.

• How-Tos: How to jailbreak an Apple iPhone running iOS 4.3.3

  There are thousands of apps in Apple's iTunes app store that bring extra functionality to the iPhone.

• 16 August 2011

• How-Tos: How to check my iPhone memory

  A quick guide to show you how to find out how much memory your iPhone has left.

• 15 August 2011

• How-Tos: Learn to use gestures in Lion

  Lion’s support for gestures—tapping and swiping fingers on a Multi-Touch trackpad—isn’t entirely new. OS X has supported gestures in some form for several years. Even so, many of us still haven't adopted gestures as a way of interacting with our Macs. Maybe we don't have the right Multi-Touch hardware. Or maybe the mouse-plus-keyboard interface is burned so deeply into our muscle memory, we've seen no reason to switch.

• How-Tos: How to implement a factory reset on an iPhone

  Apple iPhone users will probably have a lot of personal data stored on their smartphone, such as emails, contacts and even sign-in details for social networks such as Facebook.

• 08 August 2011

• How-Tos: How To transfer music from your iPod to your PC

  Apple (for some reason) don't want you to transfer your music from your iPod back to your PC. But here's how you do it.

• 22 July 2011

• How-Tos: How to convert videos for a phone or tablet, for free

  If you've got a library of downloaded videos and want to play them on your smartphone or tablet, you might find out they're the wrong file type. Some tablets and phones can only play specific file types, and only a few devices support high definition files. The easiest thing you can do to get these files playing is to transcode them to a different file type and resolution that matches your device. Our software of choice for this purpose is Handbrake -- it's a lightweight, powerful and very easy to use video transcoder that works on Mac OS X, all flavours of Windows and Linux.

• 21 July 2011

• How-Tos: Run a small business from your smartphone

  You know that running a business can be tough. Luckily, you have technology on your side.

• 11 July 2011

• How-Tos: How to Set Up Your Network for PCs and Macs

  With Windows 7, you can easily share files and printers across a network via the HomeGroups feature. Here's how to set up your network to share files and printers with Macs.

• 13 May 2011

• How-Tos: How to tether an iPhone for free

  If you're internet goes down, then utilising your smartphone's 3G connection by connecting handset to your PC (a process known as tethering) is a great way to get back online.

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