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Question from Claire: I recently lost the iPhone I’d had for several years so I bought a new one to replace it.
That’s not really a bad thing because I’d been looking for an excuse to buy a new one (smile).
The thing is I still have the backup from the old iPhone stored in my iCloud account. How can I get rid of it?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Learning a new language has never been more critical in today’s fast-paced world. Whether it’s for career advancement or personal growth, the ability to speak a foreign language can open doors and create new opportunities.
Fortunately, with the rise of mobile technology, online language study has made language learning more accessible than ever before.
In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of using your phone to learn a foreign language and provide five examples of language-learning apps changing how we approach language education. [Read more…]
Today, we don’t have to go to the library and sit there for hours on end among piles of papers. Years ago, the students’ workplace resembled chaos due to notes, books, and papers. But fortunately, things are different for us now.
Apps and online platforms have made our lives easier – they help with writing, editing, and, most importantly – researching! Some of them assist with organizing notes, managing time and projects, collecting resources, while others are handy when finding articles and reading them.
Below, I describe the top 7 tools that will make daily tasks and research-related issues easier. [Read more…]
Question from James: A couple of nights ago I downloaded a whitepaper to my Android phone from one of my favorite websites but I can’t find the downloaded file.
I believe it’s on my phone somewhere because it said is downloaded successfully.
Can you tell me where to look for it? [Read more…]
Apple’s Siri virtual assistant certainly makes using an iPhone a lot easier, but just like us humans Siri has a few quirks.
One Siri quirk that drives me up the wall is how she tends to mis-pronounce some names on the Contacts List. For some reason it just grates on my nerves.
The good news is you can train Siri to pronounce difficult names correctly, using one of the two methods listed below: [Read more…]