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Category: iPhone

Does a Plain Black Background Wallpaper Really Save Battery?

05/27/2023 Leave a comment

Does a Plain Black Background Wallpaper Really Save Battery? In a world where you can have 3D scenes rendered in real time as your smartphone’s background, plain black wallpaper isn’t the most eye-catching option. However, black backgrounds can offer battery life improvements over colored wallpaper… or can they?

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Apple’s Biggest Mistake: Bring Back the Headphone Jack

05/13/2023 Leave a comment

Apple’s Biggest Mistake: Bring Back the Headphone Jack Apple is famous for calling an early end to useful tech in its devices. Floppy disks, optical drives, USB-A ports, and more were given the boot years before users were ready. However, the company has a unique opportunity to reverse one of its worst decisions and bring back the headphone jack.

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How to Find Your iPhone From an Android Device

05/07/2023 Leave a comment

How to Find Your iPhone From an Android Device iPhones have a built-in tracking solution, Find My iPhone, that’s enabled by default. Assuming you haven’t gone out of your way to enable it, you can use Find My iPhone to find your iPhone—even from an Android device. You can have Android track your lost iPhone in quite a few ways.

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12 Siri Features You Should Be Using on Your iPhone

05/06/2023 Leave a comment

12 Siri Features You Should Be Using on Your iPhone Apple has slowly been improving Siri over the years, but the voice assistant still has a relatively poor reputation compared to the competition. Remembering to use Siri involves knowing some of the more useful commands, so here is a selection of our favorites.

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How to Add a Printer to an iPhone or iPad

05/06/2023 Leave a comment

How to Add a Printer to an iPhone or iPad Trying to link your printer to your iPhone or iPad? Here’s what you need to do.

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10 iPhone Photos App Features You Should Be Using

04/07/2023 Leave a comment

10 iPhone Photos App Features You Should Be Using Apple has been gradually infusing the iPhone Photos app with awesome, powerful features. It’s really much more than the basic default gallery app of old. There are a lot of features you may not know about—we’ll share some of the best.

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Terms

Memory, Disk Space

Another very common source of confusion. In computing, “memory” generally refers to the temporary storage used by a computer whilst it is switched on. A computer loads programs and data into its memory in order to carry out tasks. This is more accurately called RAM or “random-access memory”. Disk space (or “hard disk space”), on the other hand, is a more permanent store that holds files even when the computer is switched off. It’s from here that the computer loads things into its memory. Strictly speaking you don’t store things in the computer’s memory as that vanishes when you turn the machine off.

Military-Grade Encryption

Many companies tout “military-grade encryption” to protect your data. If it’s good enough for the military, it must be the best—right? Well, kind of. “Military-grade encryption” is more of a marketing term that doesn’t have a precise meaning.

ADWARE

Any advertising software which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used.

Web Browser

A program you use to look at and navigate between, pages on the World Wide Web. Examples include Internet Explorer and Firefox although there are many others. Again, people sometimes refer to web browsers as “the Internet”, whereas they really only provide the means to view pages on the web.

Bandwidth/Broadband

Bandwidth is an indication of how quickly data travels along a connection. The greater the bandwidth, the faster data will be sent and received. Broadband is a rather vague term that refers to bandwidth somewhere above that of an old dial-up modem, although there is no precise definition of the term. Broadband connections are generally “always on”, unlike modem connections. There are various technologies which provide “broadband” speeds – such as ADSL, cable, satellite etc.

Bits / Bytes

At a basic level, all computer data is just a series of 0s and 1s. Each of these is referred to as a “binary digit”, for which “bit” is just an abbreviation. A byte is (generally) a collection of eight bits, so called because of the pun with bit and bite. Similarly a collection of four bits – half a byte – is sometimes called a “nybble”.

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