If you use a smartphone (iPhone, Android, etc) or tablet, then you have the world’s best and most convenient address book! Using your mobile devices address book to its maximum starts with making sure that you are adding all the information about a person that you might need. Consider including all or some of the following in your digital contact… Read More »How to take advantage of your smartphone’s address book – Video Tip
I can’t believe I didn’t post this tip many years ago, but hopefully it will still help some newer iPhone or iPad users. If you want to take a quick picture of something, it is a pain to swipe and unlock your screen. And even a bigger pain if you are doing the right thing and using your fingerprint or… Read More »Quick Access to your iPhone or iPad Camera – Video Tip
Last year when Apple upgraded their iOS operating system that runs millions of iPads, iPhones, and iPods, there seemed to be a collective sigh. Many people love Apple products because they don’t change things up too drastically, too quickly. Although not a drastic change, the most striking was the look of iOS 7. Fonts are thinner, taller, and there is… Read More »How to make your iPad or iPhone Easier to Read – Video Tip
This week Google announced that Gmail customers have the option to receive email from Google+ (their social media site). Don’t be taken in by media hysteria, you can decide whether or not you want this enabled or not. I don’t like that Google implemented this feature with the default setting set to the most loose security (letting anyone contact you… Read More »Setting your email privacy setting in Gmail – Video Tip
Recently, I have been answering the question of how to restore a missing toolbar or ribbon from Microsoft Office tools like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. This tip works for any of the Office tools 2007 or newer. Usually, the toolbar goes missing because of an errant click or keyboard combination. In the video below, I show how to restore the… Read More »How to restore the missing toolbar or ribbon in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel) – Video Tip
Just a few weeks ago I shared a tip on how to use the incredibly helpful and handy Spotlight search feature on iOS. Since then, Apple updated the iOS to iOS 7 for iPads, iPhones and iPod touches and changed the access to Spotlight…this video shows how to get to it now. Spoiler: you just drag your finger down from… Read More »How to use the Spotlight Search feature on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad (iOS7) – Video Tip
Apple long ago perfected system search on their computers and laptops with a system called Spotlight. Spotlight is quickly accessible and searches automatically for documents, settings, applications and other items and displays the results as you type. It is so good that Microsoft started copying the feature in Windows Vista and came close to duplicating it in Windows 7 and… Read More »How to use the Spotlight Search feature on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad (iOS 4-6) – Video Tip