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How to Transfer Text Messages from iPhone to Computer (PC & Mac)

September 2, 2013 / / 0 Comments

How to Transfer Text Messages from iPhone to Computer (PC & Mac)

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In this video you’ll learn how to transfer text messages from your iPhone to your computer. If you ever need to copy or backup your iPhone SMS text messages (or even iMessages) to your computer, whether it’s a PC or a Mac, you can do that with a useful app called BackupTrans iPhone SMS Backup & Restore. Click the link for your operating system at the top of this description. That link will start an instant download of the BackupTrans program so you can try it out and transfer your text messages from your iPhone to your computer. This application is 100% safe to use.

Once you have this application downloaded, run the setup file to install the program on your computer then open it up. Connect your iPhone to your computer using the USB cable. It’ll recognize your iPhone. Then you have 3 things to do before you can transfer text messages from the iPhone to your computer. First if you have your iPhone protected with a passcode you need to enter your passcode on your iPhone so it’s unlocked. Then make sure you turn off iCloud Backup on your iPhone and disable iPhone backup encryption iTunes. Once you’ve done those things click OK. After it finishes backing up your iPhone you can see all your iPhone text messages that you can transfer to your Mac or PC.

If you click the arrow next to your iPhone device in the left-side column it gives you a list of all your SMS conversations that you can back up. If you want to transfer text messages from a certain conversation with a person just click on that person’s name to choose that conversation and then choose the text messages that you want to copy to your computer. Once your texts are selected, you can go up to the top menu and choose “Backup SMS to local database” or “Export SMS to file”. Then give your file a name and choose the file type that you want to save it as. If you want to save it as a Word document you can. You now see it has successfully exported the text messages to the computer.

Browse to the folder, and you should be able to open the document that has the text messages in it. That’s how easy it is to transfer text messages from your iPhone to your computer. It works with Windows PC and Mac. Again the links are at the top of this description. Download that application and give it a try.

By Andy Slye

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How to Put Movies on iPhone

August 7, 2013 / / 1,584 Comments

How to Put Movies on iPhone – Copy DVD Movies to Your iPhone

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In this video I’ll show you how to put movies on your iPhone. Instead of spending a bunch of money on the iTunes store and buying movies through iTunes, you can actually copy any movie from any DVD onto iTunes and then sync it to your iPhone. That’s what I’m going to show you how to do today.

To do this you’ll be using DVD copy software from a company called Digiarty. They make the best DVD copy software out there. It’s by far my favorite – very easy to use, fast, and high quality. The software is available for Windows and Mac. The first thing you want to do is click the link at the top of this description. If you’re a Windows user click the Windows download link. If you’re a Mac user click the Mac download link. That link will start an instant download of this program. Download and install the application from the link above, and you’ll be able to try it out for free. If you like it you can register for the full version right from the program itself and at a special discount.

Once you have this application installed, it’ll be called MacX DVD Ripper Pro for Mac users. It’ll be called WinX DVD Ripper Platinum for Windows users, but they both work exactly the same so you can follow along. Next, insert the DVD movie that you want to put on your iPhone into your computer’s DVD drive. Then click the DVD button at the top left of the application. The source DVD disc window will pop up, and you should see your movie’s title in the box then click OK. Once it loads your DVD movie you’ll see the output profile window pop up. Since we’re putting the movie on an iPhone you’ll choose Apple device then choose iPhone video, and then choose whatever iPhone model you have that you’re going to put the movie on.

It can put movies on any iPhone model: 3GS, 4, 4S & 5. Choose the “Recommended” option for your iPhone model then click Done. The program automatically selects the main movie file. You can see that Title 1 is selected. Go towards the bottom, and you’ll see a destination folder option. This is the folder where you’re going to copy the movie. If you click Browse you can choose any folder where you want to save the movie then click Open. Now all you have to do is click the Run button in the bottom right, and it will start copying the movie to your computer.

Once the copy is complete it shows up in the destination folder. In order to put the movie on your iPhone you have to put it into iTunes first. Open iTunes then go back to the folder that has the movie and drag-and-drop the video file into iTunes. The movie will be copied into iTunes, and you can verify it by going into iTunes into the Movies section. Finally, sync your iPhone with iTunes by plugging your iPhone into your computer via the USB cable. Once your iPhone shows up in iTunes click on it. Go to the top and click on Movies, and check the checkbox to “Sync Movies” then click Apply. The movie will be copied to your iPhone, and you’ll be able to watch it on your iPhone from the Videos app. That, my friends, is how to copy movies on your iPhone – the absolute best way to do it. Go ahead and give that a try. Enjoy having your favorite movies on your iPhone!

By Andy Slye

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How to Free Up Space on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

July 27, 2013 / / 1,551 Comments

iOS Quick Tip: How to Free Up Space on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch

Here’s a quick tip for all you iOS users out there. This is how to free up space on an iPhone, iPod, or iPad – instantaneously. So if you ever find yourself running low on storage space on your iOS device, have no fear. It’s really easy to free up space. First go into your Settings, then tap General, and then go to your Usage. Here it’ll populate a list of all the apps that you have installed on your iOS device and how much space each app is taking up. It’s listed by putting the app that uses the most space on top. Music is listed first on mine because it’s using up the most.

What you want to do here on this list is find apps that you can delete then immediately reinstall to free up a lot of space. For example, I’m not going to delete my music or podcasts, but I can delete Facebook because it’s using up 147 unnecessary megabytes of data. The original app size is only 57 MB, which means it’s using up 147 MB of cached files. To free up this space, hit Delete App then Delete App again, and it frees up 150 MB (on mine). So go through your apps and look for apps that are taking up at least 100 MB of storage space.

Almost all the social networking sites are big culprits of this. They take up a ton of unnecessary space. Each time you look at your Instagram feed it saves huge cache files to your device. The app size originally is only 21 MB so it’s taking up 134 MB of unnecessary space on my iPhone. I can delete this app just like with Facebook. Vine does it bad too. It’s taking up 100 MB so I’ll delete that app as well.

Once you delete those apps, all you have to do is go back into your App Store and reinstall those apps that you just deleted. They will download and reinstall in the same exact location that they were before. So if you had it in a folder it’ll go back into that folder, and you won’t lose any of the app settings that you had. That is how to free up space on an iPhone, iPod, or iPad. Go ahead and try that out, and let me know how much space you freed up using that method.

By Andy Slye

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How to Transfer Music from iPod, iPhone, or iPad to Any Computer

July 22, 2013 / / 1,556 Comments

How to Transfer Music from an iPod, iPhone, or iPad to Any Windows Computer

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What if your computer suddenly crashed and you lost everything in your computer’s iTunes library? But all your music was still on your device (your iPhone, iPod, or iPad) and now you need to transfer all the music from your device back to your computer. This is how to do just that! In this tutorial I’ll show you how to transfer music from an iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer. The program is for Windows, and it is called Leawo iTransfer. You can start a free download by clicking the link at the top of this description. It doesn’t just transfer music either. It transfers photos, videos, apps, PDF documents, and songs – everything. The first thing you want to do is make sure you have iTunes installed.

Once iTunes is installed on your computer, the next thing you want to do is click the link above to start a free instant download of Leawo iTransfer. This is the program that you’ll use to transfer all the music from your iOS device back to your computer. Once the download is complete, install iTransfer and open it from your Desktop. The free trial version will let you transfer up to 100 files from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer. So if you only have 100 files to transfer then you can use this totally for free. If you have more than 100 files you can purchase a registration code that will give you unlimited transfers.

The next step is to connect your iPhone, iPod, or iPad to your computer using the USB cable. Once your device is connected if iTunes comes up just minimize it. Now in the iTransfer program you should see your device in the left hand side column so click on your device. Now you can transfer the music from your iPod, iPhone, or iPad to your computer very easily. Click on the Music section. All the songs are selected by default so if you want to transfer all songs to your computer’s iTunes library just click the “Transfer” button. It shows a list of all the songs that are going to transfer. If you see iTunes in the list you can click “Transfer Now”, but if you don’t see iTunes you can click the “Save To Folder” button and click “Change”.

Since you already have iTunes installed you can save it to a special folder called Automatically Add to iTunes which will automatically transfer and add the songs to iTunes once you transfer them to your computer. Here’s how to get to that folder. Click your profile name’s folder, then My Music, then iTunes, then iTunes Media, and the Automatically Add to iTunes folder should be in there. Choose that folder and click OK. You don’t have to save your files to that folder. If you want to choose another folder you can just choose whatever folder you want, but I just like to save it there because it makes the process a bit easier. Once you have your folder selected that you want to transfer the music to, click “Transfer Now”. When the transfer is complete you can open iTunes. If you saved your songs to the Automatically Add to iTunes folder they will automatically be in iTunes. If you saved it to another folder just go to that folder, and your songs will be there. That’s how to transfer music from an iPhone, iPod, or iPad to your computer. It’s very easy to do with Leawo iTransfer.

By Andy Slye

Best new iOS 7 features

Top 7 New iOS 7 Features

June 18, 2013 / / 1 Comment

iOS 7 is packed with many awesome new features. These are my top 7 best new features in iOS 7.

7. The New Design

The new modern design for iOS 7 is fresh, clean, flat, and minimalistic. Apple completely revamped the whole iOS environment and even redesigned all the default app icons. The new design is very transparent with a lot of translucency built into it. For example, you can see that the default weather app looks way better. It looks very similar to the new Yahoo weather app that just came out recently. Needless to say, I love this new design.

6. The New Siri

Siri got a redesigned interface, and it can do more tasks like change settings in your phone, turn on Bluetooth, check your voicemail, and all kinds of other cool stuff. It recognizes a more natural speech pattern, and you can actually change the voice. All you ladies out there who wanted a sexy Siri guy voice are now in luck. I still hope they give us the ability to turn off Siri’s annoying sound effect though. Maybe these new features in Siri will make me use it more because I never use Siri. Ever.

5. iTunes Radio

Apple’s new radio streaming service is similar to Pandora and Spotify. iTunes Radio is built natively into the music app in iOS 7. I feel like iTunes Radio might be a good competitor to Pandora and Spotify because it’s already on iOS 7 which gives it an advantage over third-party apps. I’m eager to experiment with iTunes Radio and see how well it works. Pandora and Spotify may be in for a fight.

4. Photos & Airdrop

The Photos app has a few new features called Collections and Moments. Photos are now organized by your location data and the time that you took the pictures. So say if you take a trip and you take pictures with your iPhone when you’re on that trip, the Photos app will organize the pictures based on that trip’s location and time. You will have the ability to go into each Collection or Moments where you can see different times during that trip. AirDrop is a cool new feature that basically lets you share anything that’s shareable (like a photo or video) with any of your friends that are in close proximity to you. You can even share it with people who aren’t your friends as long as they have Airdrop turned on and you give them access. This creates a super easy way to share stuff without emailing or messaging whatever you’re sharing.

3. The New Notification Center

The Notification Center was given some cool new features in iOS 7. It’s split up into three categories now: Today, All, and Missed. Today is just a basic glance at your day: the date, weather, any scheduled events on your calendar, any reminders, traffic, etc. You can access the Notification Center from any screen, even the lock screen. All shows all your notifications, and Missed shows any missed notifications. These new features should definitely make the Notification Center more intuitive to use in iOS 7.

2. The New Multitasking

This definitely needed an update. The new Multitasking in iOS 7 should make multitasking very efficient and easy to use. It shows off a new design. Now you can see all the icons that are running in the background along with a preview of them. To end a background app, just swipe up on the app’s preview. This allows you to get a better handling of background tasks along with a better view of all the background tasks. Another cool feature of iOS 7 is all your apps get automatically updated so you don’t have to worry about updating your apps manually. They all get pushed.

1. Control Center

Yes, we have all been waiting for Control Center. SBSettings is an app that has provided a similar functionality to jailbroken users for years. It’s definitely one of the most popular because everybody loves those quick shortcuts to changing settings. That’s what the new Control Center for iOS 7 does. It gives you quick access to changing settings, turning Wi-Fi off, turning airplane mode on, changing brightness levels, iPod controls, calculator shortcut, etc. Control Center even has a built-in flashlight app so you don’t have to go out and download a third-party flashlight app. To access the Control Center, just swipe up from the bottom on whatever screen you’re on, even the lock screen. It gives you quick access to different things that you can change, enable, or activate. Control Center may not seem like much, but I promise it will give you a better iOS experience in the long run.

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