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How to disable lock screen notifications for specific Passbook cards

By Allyson Kazmucha, Saturday, Mar 30, 2013 a 11:47 am

If you use Passbook frequently on your iPhone, you may have noticed that certain passes use your location in order to give you easy access on your lock screen to a specific pass when you're within the vicinity. Some of those passes may contain personal information or allow for someone to charge an item to a gift card or account.

If you'd like to prevent unauthorized access to your passes, you can easily do so within Passbook. Follow along and we'll show you how.

How to disable location services for Passbook on your iPhone

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Mar 29, 2013 a 12:02 pm

Passbook for iPhone may be a great tool for managing boarding passes, reward cards, and more, but it can also be a drain on battery. Since Passbook continuously checks your location to see if you're in range of somewhere you may want to use one of your passes, it can significantly decrease your battery life.

While it's a convenient feature, if you're finding your battery life is suffering, you can disable location services to lessen the strain on your battery.

How to recommend games to friends with Game Center

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 a 5:36 pm

For most users, Game Center is all about matching up with friends and competing for rankings and checking out leaderboards. It's not much fun though if you don't have anyone to play against. If you've found a particularly cool multiplayer game in the App Store that you think a friend would like, Game Center makes it easy to tell friends about it complete with an App Store link for them to check it out.

Here's how:

How to favorite and read articles offline with the iMore app for iPhone

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Mar 27, 2013 a 12:03 pm

The new iMore app for iPhone has tons of new features that makes keeping up with your favorite articles easier than ever. Aside from being able to now leave comments in-app and listen to and watch podcasts, you can also favorite articles quickly and easily.

Favorites serves two great purposes. One is that it acts as a holding place for all your favorite articles, allowing you to jump back to them any time you'd like. It also automatically saves them for offline reading, meaning you won't need an internet connection to read any articles you favorite. Don't have time to read a whole article now? Favorite it and jump back in whenever you'd like to finish, with or without an internet connection.

How to initiate a multiplayer game through Game Center on iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 a 2:30 pm

The whole point of Game Center is to play online with friends and compete for leaderboard rankings. While you can start multiplayer games and challenge friends from within some games, you can also initiate multiplayer games from within Game Center itself.

Here's how:

How to DIY repair headphone jack, mute switch, and volume button issues in a Verizon or Sprint iPhone 4

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Mar 26, 2013 a 12:11 pm

If the headphone jack, mute switch, or volume buttons are causing you problems on your Verizon or Sprint iPhone 4, a DIY repair can most likely get you back in working order again for a lot less than the cost of a new iPhone. As it happens, one component controls all of these functions so regardless which is misbehaving, this one guide should get you all fixed up again.

This particular repair isn't the easiest in the world but will definitely be doable for the intermediate to advanced DIY ninja. If that sounds like you, follow along...

How to view leaderboards, achievements, and more with Game Center on iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Mar 25, 2013 a 11:39 am

If you play a lot of multiplayer games on your iPhone or iPad and have a Game Center account, you can easily create matches and play against your friends. Game Center is also great for tracking achievements inside a game as well as leaderboard standings between you and your friends.

Not sure how to access them? Follow along.

How to speed up Retina MacBook Pro wake from sleep

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Mar 24, 2013 a 8:04 am

Last week while Mark Gurman and I were complaining about those little imperfections that mar the otherwise fantastic Retina MacBook Pro experience, Chad Coleman passed along a tip from Erv Walter on how to make the Retina MacBook Pro wake from sleep faster. This is for those times when you lift the lid, see the password entry field, but can't actually enter a password for what feels like 10 seconds or so. I mentioned it on MacBreak Weekly on Tuesday, and so many people found it helpful I figured I'd mention it here as well. From Ewal.net:

How to accept Game Center friend requests on iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Saturday, Mar 23, 2013 a 2:50 pm

If you have an iPhone or iPad, you've got Game Center. Once you log in, you're ready to start playing games with other opponents. You can share your Game Center ID with others and receive invites to become friends. From there you can view each other's achievements and challenge each other to games. If you aren't sure how to accept a Game Center friend request, here's how.

How to remove a friend from Game Center on iPhone and iPad

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Mar 22, 2013 a 11:46 am

If you use Game Center to play a lot of multiplayer games, you may start accumulating a lot of friends. If you start getting too many requests or just want to clean up your Game Center friends list a little, it's actually a pretty easy task.

Here's how: