I’m not a fan of busy wallpaper on my iPhone and iPad home screen. It’s fine on the lock screen but when you’ve got a screen full of icons, a noisy background image gets in the way. So while I may have something fun…

Deron Bos wrote a nice little guide about how to turn your old iPhone into an iPod for your kids. It’s well written and includes instructional videos. If you’d like to repurpose an old iPhone for someone else this way, check it out.

Since Steve Jobs’ death, he’s been the subject of books, documentaries, and two motion pictures. It seems to me he is increasingly being painted in one dimension. People are eager to give him credit for everything that came out of Apple while at the…

I’ve heard from several readers that love their Apple Pencils yet bemoan the lack of a built-in clip. Turns out the Fischer chrome clip for their 400 Series Bullet Pen works quite nicely. Jeff Richardson put one through its paces and reports in at iPhone…

One of the significant developments of 2015 in the United States was the general implosion of some very traditional phone purchasing models. For years, we’ve been signing contracts and counting days until those contracts are over so we could get a new phone and…

Episode 296 of the Mac Power Users is live. In it, we share some of our favorite tech products and services of the past year and our hopes for 2016. ∞