Apple iPhone & iPad devices have a feature called Live Listen that enables you to amplify sounds around you. Read Gadget Hacks‘ article here to learn how to listen in on your heartbeat, better hear your TV, or spy on conversations around you.
Edit PDF documents for free
The Laptopmag guys have recently published an article discussing how you can edit a PDF document without paying for an Adobe subscription. If you are happy to edit your documents in the cloud via a web interface, read how you can do it here.
How to move MS Authenticator to a new device.
If you use Microsoft’s Authenticator app and now need to move it to a new mobile device, Geeky Gadgets has published an article describing how to migrate the app’s two-factor codes to your new device. Read how to do it here.
Your iPhone can help you sleep
Huffpost has just exposed an iPhone background sounds feature that can help you sleep or focus. Discover more here.
How to share your location with others
The Verge just published an article discussing how you can share your current smart phone location with others using apps such as Google Maps, WhatsApp, Snapchat, etc. Read about it here.
Like to use your TV for FaceTiming?
The SlashGear.com guys have published an article explaining how you can use your iPhone or iPad, and your Apple TV to FaceTime using your TV screen. This will be great for when you are FaceTiming with a group or simply want to use the larger format of a TV screen. Discover more in their article here.
Is WhatsApp gobbling up your phone’s storage
WhatsApp is a great app for keeping in touch with your friends and colleagues, however unless managed correctly, it can use up a lot of your phone’s precious storage. Read the article here from the MakeUseOf guy’s to learn more about how to better manage your storage and make use of disappearing messages.
Want to edit and manipulate PDF documents?
Nowadays we all work with PDF documents. They are the most common way of providing detailed User Manual documentation. Now ONLYOFFICE has a built in editor that will enable you to edit and manipulate these PDF documents. ONLYOFFICE is a free MS Office alternative (see one of my earlier posts here). Read all about this PDF editor’s capabilities in an article by the MakeUseOf guys here.
It’s time to update your Apple devices again
Apple have just released an important new security update for most Apple devices. Update yours now. Read all about it in LifeHacher’s article here.
Travel the world with your smart phone and an eSIM
In the past we either had to pay exorbitant data roaming fees to use our mobile phone overseas, or suffer the inconvenience of purchasing a separate SIM card for each of the countries we visited. Luckily modern smart phones now have the ability to use a virtual SIM card known as an eSIM. I’ve posted about eSIMs before – just enter eSIM into the Search field to find those articles. We still need to acquire an eSIM for each country that we intend to visit, however we won’t have the inconvenience of having to physically swap SIM cards, plus we can continue to use our existing SIM at the same time as the eSIM. Read more about how to use eSIM and the companies that support them in the Android Police article here. The article talks about Android phones, but is equally relevant to other phones. There are some eSIM companies that offer a single eSIM that cover multiple countries in Europe, making the process of travelling between them even easier. You might find the following YouTube video useful as it compares many of the popular eSIMs available today.
3rd party VPN support coming for Apple TV
Techtime have written an article about the upcoming release of TVOS 17 for Apple TVs. It will include the ability to support third-party VPN software that will unlock a bunch of useful capabilities. Read more here.
Why I try to avoid social media apps
As mentioned many times in my posts, I have always believed we should be using the fantastic technologies we have available to ourselves today, to create a better society. Unfortunately, many of the so called social media apps seem to do the complete opposite for many people. This observation is best explained in a Youtube video I watched recently…
How to change your Apple ID
If you use Apple devices, you need an Apple ID to connect your devices via iCloud. Should your Apple ID or iCloud accounts become compromised, or you need to change your Apple ID for any reason, Slash Gear have written an article explaining how you can accomplish this. Read more here.
Google to scrape your online posts
Malwarebytes Labs have just alerted us to Google’s Privacy Policy that now indicates it intends to scrape the content you post, to train it’s AI models. Read more here.
Pitfalls of using social media
Those of you who follow my blog will discover I am not a fan of social media. The MakeUseOf guys have published an article highlighting why you should not disclose any personal information on any of the social media platforms. Read why here.