Mobile phones, cells – Android, Samsung, LG, Apple, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone 7 (and 8) BES, and BIS news and how tos
If you have a Samsung Galaxy S9 you already know it was (is?) likely the best cell phone ever made but it just became unsupported and so millions of people will be forced to upgrade. The question is, what is the best replacement for a Samsung S9? The answer is Read more…
If you live in the modern world, you are going to need to access QR codes, boarding passes and other screenshots and pictures, all the time. Fumbling through apps and digging through folders is a time consuming, frustrating pain. Fortunately, there is an easy way to add a shortcut to Read more…
Last year we collected all of the Android icons we could find and documented them in The Complete Guide To Icons on Android Devices. Since then readers have sent us notes and pictures ask us to identify their miscellaneous icons, after which we add them to the master guide of Read more…
In case you were not already aware Shaw BlueCurve and Rogers Ignite in Canada and Cox Contour and Charter in the United States have licensed Comcast’s X1 platform used for on-demand viewing including the the mobile / browser app. As such their troubleshooting steps are all the same. While the instructions below Read more…
In the first half of 2021 Apple announced they would begin checking photos on Apple devices for child pornography and many privacy advocates became concerned that Apple was overreaching. On August 5th Apple explained the details in highly technical terms that most people can’t understand. So we decided to simplify Read more…
In recent builds of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft has added a MOST RECENT SIGN IN feature and that is very helpful if you think someone else may have been checking your email. To see the last time someone logged into your email, just click FILE and look at the INFO section Read more…
We often need the SMTP email configuration for different services and are tired of searching all over the internet for them. Here is a list of email server configurations from services you might use (in alphabetic order) APPLE MAIL SERVER SETTINGS Incoming Server: imap.mail.me.com Incoming Port: IMAP 993 Outgoing Server: Read more…
About a year ago we started a list of Android Icons and their meaning which we have expanded several times as people like you report new icons. However we recently had a few we could not figure out so we think they are app related and not part of the Read more…
We explain Googles new RCS (Rich Communication System) and Samsung Link Sharing, both of which will save your mobile phones data plan because they transfer their data through WiFi when it is available. We explain how to turn off link sharing on Samsung phones and we also demonstrate how to Read more…
Over the years we have created several articles explaining how to figure out what is causing your inbound calls to go directly to voicemail. I have seen these problems on Apple iPhone but most of our experience is with Android devices as that is our standard. We have seen LG, Read more…
If you are using communication services from Shaw you might not want the free voice mail service they offer. Here is how you turn off Shaw Voicemail: How To Disable Shaw Mobile VoiceMail on You Cell: To disable voicemail on your Shaw Mobile account, you have to either: use a Read more…
If you don’t have a mobile phone, or like in my case, you need your cell for something else (like shooting a video) at the same time you need to send a text, you are in luck. There are 3 simply ways to send a text without using a cell Read more…
If you have an android device you have likely noticed that new inbound text messages have a round head icon appear on top of any program you are currently running, and that when you click that head icon it pops up a small texting window. Here is a video explanation Read more…
If you have an Android device, you likely have notice the enhanced texting capabilities that were widely released in 2020. These new features, like: deliver confirmation attachments sending/receiving through WiFi larger attachment sizes (i.e. 10MB!) … are named Rich Communication Settings (RCS) and detailed in our article: The Top 10 Read more…
What Is YouTube Shorts? YouTube Shorts is a new service from YouTube, launched in September 2020, that is intended to compete with TikTok. They are just short videos that viewers can endlessly scroll through in a feed. Where Are YouTube Shorts Available? If you are in most parts of the Read more…
Does your voice to text not work like it used to? We found that recent updates to our Samsung Galaxy S9 S10 S20 and S20FE‘s are switched to the Samsung voice keyboard. Typing with your voice used to be easy, accurate, fast and used to learn from its mistakes. The Read more…