iPhone users, do this right now!

If you lose your phone and it is running out of batteries, then the nifty "Find My iPhone" app won't do you much good. However, all is not lost! There is a setting you can activate, right now, before you lose your phone, to increase the chances of recovering a lost iPhone with a dead battery. Doing this will cause your dying iPhone to broadcast its last location before the battery runs out.

I was shocked to see that I didn't have this turned on already. This article does a great job of explaining how to do this.

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If like me, you use your phone mostly at home or at work, chances are more often than not you are connected to WiFi. Also, a lot of restaurants, coffee shops and other retail places we frequent also offer free WiFi. All of this is great news because now running over your data plan is unlikely. Enter the spoiler. One scenario where finding WiFi is much more challenging is in transit. And if you travel often, you know this can rack up GB's pretty quickly and result in an expensive bill.

The other day I was on the way home from the airport and doing a couple of quick things on my phone. I was connected via my data plan and was pleasantly suprised when the driver asked if I wanted to connect to the car's WiFi. I said sure and just out of curiousity, ran a speed test to see how good the signal was. I was amazed at how fast it was. To put it in perspective, you need about 5 Mbps to stream Netflix HD video. Here is the result below.

So for an EZPZ way to get connected to WiFi on the road, check with your driver if they offer free WiFi as part of the service. Just remember that you should always be wary of any personal or work information accessed over someone else's WiFI network. Passenger be warned! 

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Picture this. You are on vacation or at an event and want to quickly capture a memory on photo or video with your phone. But the fates are conspiring against you as you get the "Not Enough Storage" error message. You frantically go to delete some existing pictures or videos to free up some memory, but don't want to do so indiscriminately. Now you are ready to shoot, but you've missed the moment. 

If you have a phone that is running low on memory, there is an EZPZ way to free up memory. It's free and doesn't involve you deleting any existing pictures or videos. In a nutshell, you try to rent a large movie, say "The Last Samurai" from iTunes and your phone automatically tries to free up space so it can download. But since you don't have enough space on your phone, it won't download (and you won't be charged) and instead, you just get a free memory cleanup of your phone. This article below explains it well.

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