Recent content by CMacDonald

Here's my recipe for happier battery life but requires a bit of discipline: in my experience, I've found that my laptop battery (in this case, a Windows PC I use for work 8+ hours a day & which was docked/charging 7 days a week) responded very positively to being discharged (down below 10%) once...

It's a shame that there is still no industry standard for securely sharing & syncing contacts. :( Until that day arrives, this approach could meet my needs. A large majority of my contacts are in Gmail. What are the steps to get the contacts to 'flow' down into Contacts in my iPad, preferably...

KevinJS, After some additional testing using my hotspot while on a train into work yesterday & today, the WiFi connection seems to be working fine. Seems the reset worked - THANKS! Sent from my 32 GB iPad 2 using iPF

Despite resetting the network settings, my iPad 2 is also still having problems - dropping the WiFi connection that before the iOS 6 upgrade worked just fine. :( UPDATE: after some additional testing using a hotspot while on a train into work, the WiFi connection seems to be working fine...

Hi kippyw, Did you recently upgrade iOS? I was asking a similar question in another thread because it seemed like the WiFi connectivity on my iPad 2 became unreliable after it was upgraded to iOS 6.0.1...

Having supported others users of the original Macintosh, I saw that Apple was lightyears ahead of PCs at that time. I would have LOVED to have been able to get my hands on their product line; however, I was a broke college student just about to graduate. While hindsight would have been helpful...

Some time ago, I purchased an iPad 2 and have been using it to read news & listen to music on the train ride to work. I use the hotspot capability on my smartphone to access the Internet via the iPad 2's WiFi connection. This has been working fine for over a year but right after upgrading to iOS...

kippyw, I got an iPad 2 about a year ago as well and, having been a PC user for decades, I was also frustrated with how the iPad worked - at first. But over time, I adapted to how it worked and while I still don't like how certain things work they way they do, the iPad became my Go-To device. I...

Coming from the world of PCs, the one lesson that has never changed is that you'll eventually end up using all of the available memory. Thus it's best to spring for the most memory your budget will allow. As for "to 3G or not to 3G", that all depends on your wants or needs. Remember WiFi...

Recently I thought I'd lost all my calendar entries but it turned out to be easily fixed by adjusting an option in Settings. Unfortunately, I don't see a similar option in Settings for Notes. Thankfully I have not lost any of my Notes but I only have a few entries so far which sync with a Google...

Hello everyone. I'm a long time PC user (got my first PC in '86) and am trying out my first Apple product, an iPad 2. It took a little getting used to at first (only being able to view/work on one app at a time) but once I let go & just let the iPad do what it does best, I've been enjoying...

Hello gurnani, I'm hoping that the FiOS Mobile app will be improved soon to allow viewing of live, on-demand & DVR'd shows all through that single app instead of having to install an app for each of the thousand+ channels. Verizon has been promising an updated version of the app to work better...