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Apple Asking Its Retail Employees to Test Photos for OS X

Apple is looking for Photos for OS X beta testers among its retail employees who have photographic experience. This could indicate that Photos for OS X is meeting its planned development schedule, and could be ready when OS X Yosemite is released. For the retail employees, working with a quality ass

How to Blow Out the Zippo Lighter App for an iPod Touch

There was once a time in which it was acceptable to take Zippo lighters to concerts and wave them back and forth while grooving to the music. Fire bylaws in many municipalities prevent you from using a lighter indoors, but you can almost get the same vibe by using the Virtual Zippo Lighter app for y

How to Use iPhone Back Up

The iPhone is able to store a lot of data, ranging from contact information to applications and much more. Although the iPhone is fairly stable, it is still possible to lose the data you have stored on it. By backing up your iPhone, you'll ensure that you can restore important information such as co

How to Change an IPhone 2G's Battery

The iPhone 2G was the first smartphone that Apple introduced with a touch screen that you could use to access many of the features and functions on the device. You can make voice calls, access your email accounts and browse the Internet from the phone. If you want to replace a nonfunctioning battery

How to Charge My iPod Battery

Most iPod products can be charged using a universal iPod-to-USB cable. Since the iPod, iPod Touch and iPhone ports are made to the same specifications, you can use the same charging methods for an iPod Nano as you can for an iPod Touch. There are many ways you can charge an iPod, both at home and on

How to Download Photos on an iPod

You can import digital photos to your computer and download them to the iPod. You can then view your photos on the iPod or as a slideshow on your TV. You can also import photos from a digital card reader or a digital camera to your computer and then add them to your iPod. You can also go in reverse

How to Purchase Games for an iPhone 4

The Apple iPhone 4 is a mobile device that you can play games on. Games can be purchased using an Apple ID at the Game Center store. Purchase games for your device by setting up your Apple ID game center information, accepting the Game Center terms and conditions and finding the game you want to pur

How do I Use the iPod Nano With Win2000?

iTunes is a digital media organizer and online store developed by Apple. It is the most widely-used software of its kind and is the only software compatible with Apple's iPod player. iTunes has always been free to download, and is often updated to allow it to integrate with the most current operatin

How to Access Hotmail on the iTouch

Originally introduced on Sept. 5, 2007, Apple's iPod Touch changed the way consumers viewed MP3 players. The device gives users the ability to have a full multimedia experience in the palm of their hands. Thanks to the Wi-Fi capabilities of the iPod Touch, users can download apps, browse full web pa

How to Unlock an iPhone 3G Without the Internet

Unlocking an iPhone allows you to opt for any cell phone carrier of your choice. It is possible and legal to unlock your jailbroken iPhone 3G for free, but this process may void your warranty. Most unlocking methods require that your iPhone be able to connect to the Internet. In instances where

How to Have Multiple Phone Numbers on a Single Phone

Access to an additional phone number can be convenient for a number of reasons including starting a small business or to give to unwanted callers. There are a number of services that provide access to an additional phone number that can be added to your phone service to allow access to multiple phon

Can You Download Navionics?

Although electronic charts from Navionics are usually pre-loaded on plug-and-play cartridges designed to be inserted into chartplotters, in December of 2008 the company partnered with iTunes to enable downloads onto an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.

How to Convert the iPod M4V Video to an AVI

Far from the audio players that they were when introduced in 2001, the iPod now features video playing capabilities. While the device is compatible with a certain number of a video file extensions, it cannot be used to play M4V video files. To combat this problem the M4V files must be converted to t

How to Transfer an iPod Originally From a PC to a Mac

Apple's iPod is a portable media player equipped with up to 160 GB of storage space, a 2.5-inch LCD display and support for a wide range of audio and video file types, including the MP3, AAC, WAV, .mp4 and .mov formats. While the iPod's hardware is compatible with both Mac and PC computers, the devi

How Do I Extract Kindle Text to an iPhone?

By using Amazon.com's official (and free) Kindle iPhone application, you can read all of your Kindle books on your iPhone at any time. Because the newest version of the iPhone's operating system supports the ability to copy text and paste it into different applications, you can also save text from a

How to Change a Format From iPod to Windows

Although Apple iPod devices are compatible with both Mac and PC systems, you must choose one format to use with your iPod. If you are switching from a Mac to a PC, you can change your iPod's format by restoring the device to its factory settings and then syncing it with Windows. Remember that by res