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Weekly Mod: How to replace the dock assembly on an iPhone 3G & iPhone 3GS

By , Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012
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If your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS is having trouble charging, picking up a signal, or has a dead mic or speaker – replacing the dock assembly should remedy any of these problems. A DIY dock assembly repair is an easy enough fix if you’ve got the right tools and about thirty minutes to spare.

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Daily Tip: How to delete iCloud backups from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

By , Monday, Jan 9, 2012
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Running low on iCloud storage and wondering how to delete old backups to reclaim some space? iCloud offers iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users a fantastic way to secure your

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iMessage bug prevents SMS from getting through to Android switchers

By , Thursday, Jan 5, 2012
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TechCrunch is helping shed light on an iMessage bug that’s causing problems for iOS users trying to send SMS messages to ex-iPhone users who have switched to another platform, such

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Daily Tip: How to manage iTunes in the Cloud on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

By , Thursday, Jan 5, 2012
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If you are a user of iTunes in the Cloud and only keep part of your music collection on your iOS device and all of your collection in iCloud, you

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Weekly Mod: How to replace a battery in an iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS

By , Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012
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Replacing the battery in your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS is a moderate level DIY repair. If you’ve got the right tools and parts, it shouldn’t be too difficult to swap out that old battery for a brand new one on your own. It’ll take a little bit of patience and about 30 minutes of your time.

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iPhone 4S audio issue most likely won’t see a fix with iOS 5.1

By , Tuesday, Jan 3, 2012
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As noted by GigaOM, a lot of iPhone 4S and some iPhone 4 users are continuing to experience an issue where they cannot hear anything from the recipient on

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New Year’s Resolution: Review your social network privacy settings

By , Tuesday, Jan 3, 2012
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What better New Year’s resolution to start with than to check out all your in-app privacy settings, especially where Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are concerned?

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Daily Tip: How to setup Emoji keyboard shortcuts in iOS 5

By , Monday, Jan 2, 2012
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Curious how to make it easier to insert Emoji icons into a text message, email or iMessage? It turns out there’s a great workaround to switching between the normal keyboard and the Emoji keyboard, navigating to the emoticon you’re looking for, then switching back to the normal keyboard to resume your message. In this tip, we’ll show you how to use Emoji much more efficiently using keyboard shortcuts in iOS 5.

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Bug: iOS 5 Newsstand icons out of place on iPhone and iPad Home screen

By , Monday, Jan 2, 2012
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I noticed an oddity on the Home screen of my iPad 2 the other day. One of the magazines that I’m subscribed to in Newsstand decided to place itself on the Home screen, instead of where it’s supposed to reside in the Newsstand folder. Luckily there’s an easy fix, and today we’re going to show you how to get around it if you ever experience the same problem.

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Daily Tip: How to use Restrictions to prevent deleting 3rd party apps from the Home screen

By , Friday, Dec 30, 2011
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We’ve already mentioned a jailbreak mod in Cydia called No Uninstall, which removes the ability to delete apps from the iPhone Home screen, but what if you’re not jailbroken? Well, Apple has included this ability within the Restrictions settings by default.

In this tip, we’ll show you how to remove the ability to delete apps from the Home screen without having to jailbreak your iPhone first.

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