How To Move Your Music Files From An iPod To A PC

If you’ve ever gotten the black, blue, red or any other color “screen of death” on your iPod, you know the frustration that follows. Those John Tesh Acoustical Jams weren’t easy to find and now they’re trapped in limbo with virtually no way to access them. You can try and take the deactivated Pod to an Apple technician but that could be costly and there’s no certainties they can fix the problem or at least save your music.

If you have the songs saved on your computer, you have options. Unfortunately, many music collections have been acquired over time and from many different locations. This advice will help you convert your music from your iPod to your PC so that John Tesh can withstand an unfortunate iPod crash.

Move Your Music Files From An iPod To A PC

The first thing you’ll need to do to transfer music from your iPod to your PC is to show all your hidden files.

Now that you can view all the files on your computer, plug in your iPod using the USB port. In windows explorer, click on the folder of the drive that is corresponding to your iPod. In this folder, you should see another folder titled “ipod_controls.” In the ipod_controls folder you’ll find files of music. The names will be scrambled something to the like of __Tesh__.. Drag all these files to a folder on your hard drive and they’ll be saved on your PC.

Just having the files on your hard drive isn’t enough, you’ll need to drag them into iTunes in order to put them on an iPod.

1. Open iTunes and go to the edit menu and choose preferences from the menu.

2. Click on the Advanced icon. See the screenshot below.

How to Record Screen Activities On IOS Devices With Reflector

Do you know there is a way to record your iPhone or iPad screen activities? Recording screen activities is not really widely used but, in some cases like making a tutorial or an app review, recording beats taking screenshots. But you don’t have to record your screen activities with a camera; just use Reflector.

Reflector is a desktop application which allows you to mirror your iOS screen to your computer so that you can record and save the recording on your computer. It also records sound. Now isn't that a handy app to have?

Record IOS Devices Activities With Reflector

First, download and install Reflector on your computer. Run it. Make sure that your computer and iPhone/iPad is on the same Internet connection or Wi-Fi.

After running Reflector, click on Try Reflector and the program will run on trial mode. Trial mode allows you to use Reflector for free for 10 minutes.

You can find the Reflector icon on the notification part of the taskbar.

10 Brain Teaser (Sudoku Alternatives) Apps For IPhones

Playing games is one of the ways to relax, to hone reaction time, critical thinking, improve our creativity and of course, to have fun. Brain teasers test us with a series of questions and puzzles to check where our problem-solving skills lie. Sometimes you need to think out of the box to find the right answers.

We have here 10 free brain teasers you can play on your iPhone. Swap texting, social networking or mindless repeatable games for these mind-sharpening puzzles instead. It will make that wait or queue a lot bearable and now, you get one (or maybe ten) more options to better spend your time with.

1. Clockwork Brain

How to Manage Your IPhone Data With CopyTrans Contacts

[Windows only] If you own an iPhone and work mostly on Windows, you will find limitations and restrictions to managing your iPhone data via iTunes. You will probably need another app to manage your contacts, edit your calendar and yet another to backup your text messages. Should managing your iPhone data really be such a hassle?

Well, not when you use CopyTrans Contacts, a Windows program that allows you to manage your iPhone contacts, calendar and text messages all from the same app.

Managing Contacts

To start, download and install CopyTrans Contacts. After installing, connect your iPhone to your computer via USB. Now, run CopyTrans and choose CopyTrans Contacts.

Then, click on the ‘Contact’ icon on the left sidebar to access the Contacts page.

How to Transferring Apps From IPhone

There is no direct way of transferring any apps from your iPhone to an Android device, you’ll have to download all of it again. Also take note that except for really popular apps, you might not be able to find an Android equivalent of the same app at the Play Store, Google’s own app store, but Android does have widgets.

An Android widget is placed on the home screen and works hand in hand with apps installed on the device. It allows quick access to things you can do on an app such as faster browsing through emails straight on the home screen, without needing to open the email app.

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You can access the Google Play website from your desktop browser to install apps onto your device. Using the same Google Account used during the setup of your Android device, Google can detect your device and remotely install apps onto your device. Just click on Install.

HOW TO Transfer Pictures & Videos From IPhone

Transferring media like music, pictures and videos onto your Android device is very simple. All you have to do is connect the Android device to your computer and you’ll be able to view all the files through the "My Computer" of your PC or Finder on your Mac.

If you want to transfer your iPhone photos to your Android device, you’ll first have to transfer it to your PC. Demoing this import from a Windows 8 PC, you can right click on your iPhone from the My Computer and click on Import pictures and videos.

It’ll take a while to search for all your pictures and videos before you can select the folder you want to import to.

How to Transfer Contacts & SMS From IPhone

If you frequently backup your iPhone then all of your contacts should be stored on iCloud. Here’s a detailed guide on how to export your iPhone contacts to your new Android device.

Transferred your contact? Now it’s off to transferring SMS. We also have a detailed guide to help youtransfer iPhone SMS to Android. Alternatively, you can use mobile messsaging apps like Whatsapp or Viber as an alternative to traditional SMS.

Facebook 6.0 For IPhone: Everything You Need To Know

Android users are probably playing with the newly launched Facebook Home for Android users, but iOS users are not left out of a new Facebook update. There are a few interesting new features that make the Facebook experience on the iPhone fresh. Chatting and sharing are made easier and more livelier with a few additions and if you are an avid fan of sharing photos on Facebook, there’s something for you too.

Some of the features are useful, while the other new features make it fun. Here are 8 new features you are getting with the latest Facebook app update, Facebook 6.0.

How To Reinstall Older Version App For IPhone

the new update you have gotten for your favorite app keeps crashing the app, rendering it useless. You’ve made the issue known to the developer (by your countless app reviews) but they tell you they need two weeks (or more) to get a working version up. In the meantime, deleting the app and reinstalling it doesn’t help.

If using the app is real important for your work or for your sanity, you will need a quick solution.

Well we have one but it will only work if you backed up your iPhone before the update. We’re going to show you how to reinstall the app to its pre-update version. Remember that the previous version is no longer available on the app store