How to set up iCloud

Make sure your device
is running iOS 5.

To update to iOS 5, just connect your device to your Mac or PC and follow the onscreen instructions in iTunes.(Requires iTunes 10.5 or later.)Learn more about iOS 5

Turn on iCloud.

When you turn on a new iOS device or after you’ve completed the update to iOS 5, follow the onscreen instructions to activate your device and set up iCloud.*

If you skipped the setup process or want to change your iCloud settings, tap the Settings icon on the Home screen and select iCloud.

Want to use a different Apple ID for iTunes? Learn more

Customize your settings.

Tap the Settings icon and select iCloud. Tap the On/Off switches to enable individual iCloud services, including Photo Stream, Documents, Find My iPhone, and more.

To enable Backup, tap Storage & Backup, then switch on iCloud Backup.

Enable automatic downloads.

To enable automatic downloads for your music, apps, and books, tap the Settings icon on the Home screen and select Store.

Tethering tutorial: How to use your iPhone as a modem

Using a mobile phone as a modem isn't a new feature — in fact, many smartphones came and went before the iPhone had this capability.

Tethering means you don't need a Wi-Fi hotspot or a separate mobile broadband modem to access the Internet on your notebook or PC. Your mobile phone or smartphone becomes the modem and uses your network's 3G data service to connect to the Internet.

Apple's launch of the 3.0 iPhone software in June last year brought tethering to the attention of a broader audience than previously. It used to be used mainly by corporate road warriors, but the decreasing cost of 3G data and the increasingly popularity of smartphones mean that tethering is now more appealing for students, office workers and travellers.

An iPhone can be used as a tethered modem when physically connected to a computer with a USB cable or wirelessly connected via Bluetooth. Follow our step-by-step guide to find out how:

1. Update your software

Before attempting to tether your iPhone, you should ensure you've updated to the latest iPhone software, as well as the latest carrier software. Simply plug your iPhone into your computer, open iTunes and click the "check for updates" button when the iPhone screen appears.

2. Activate tethering

In the iPhone's settings menu, tap General > Network > Internet Tethering. Slide the Internet Tethering switch to On.

3a Connect wired via USB

To tether via USB, first connect your iPhone to your computer. For Windows users, browse to your computer's Network services settings via the Control Panel and choose iPhone. For Mac users (must be running Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later), a pop-up window will appear saying "A new network interface has been detected". Click Network Preferences, configure the network settings for iPhone, then click Apply.

Or: 3b Connect wireless via Bluetooth

In the iPhone's settings menu, tap General > Bluetooth and slide the Bluetooth switch on. Use your computer's Bluetooth menu (Windows: found in Control Panel; Mac: System Preferences) to pair and connect the iPhone to your computer.

5. Browse the Web

When your iPhone is tethered a blue bar appears at the top of the iPhone's screen with the message "Internet Tethering". Tethering remains on if you connect with a USB cable even if you aren’t actively using the Internet. Conveniently, you can still make and receive phone calls and send and receive text messages while tethering.

Ensure you have a large data quota to work with, as tethering uses much more data than browsing the Web on your iPhone does. If you regularly use tethering, we suggest a data allowance of at least 1GB per month.

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How to Google Like Google Googles

We tapped the company for some inside tips and tricks that can make you a Google Search, Gmail, and Maps power user.

Google made the best search engine on the Web and then went on to create (arguably) the best email and mapping apps, too. But as you might expect, these services are filled with cool features that don't stick out on the surface--including some of the most useful features offered by the apps.

We hit up Google for some insider tips for searching, gmailing, and mapping that are commonly used by the nice people who work at Google. We'll start with search, and progress to Gmail and Maps.

The Searchers

You may know how to use Google to search for a flight, look up a definition, or solve a simple math problem, but here's Google's "Top 10" list of search tips and tricks for searching like a Google pro.

1. Searching for a comparison chart about a certain topic? Sign in to your Google account and try searching Google Squared for collections of information. For example, search Google Squared for "roller coasters" to see a chart of the top 20 tallest roller coasters; or check out this chart of hurricanes for images, descriptions, and damage estimates of recent hurricanes. (Note that Google will be shutting down Google Squared on September 5, 2011, as part of its decommissioning of Google Labs, so run your Google Squared searches ASAP.)
2. Need to find something you've found on Google before? Try searching your own Google search history. Sign into your Google account and enable Web history. Run your searches, and then visit www.google.com/history to see your search history and to revisit previous searches. Bonus: Search history also syncs to your mobile device.
3. Speak your search queries into your mobile device when you're on the go. Google Voice Search is a feature of Google Search app for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Nokia S60 V3 phones. If you have an Android phone, download the "Voice Search" app from PCWorld's AppGuide; if you have an iPhone, download "Google Search" from the same place.
4. Looking for information from a particular time period? The Timeline option (also in the left-hand toolbar) lets you zoom in on any time range and see news pulled from assorted sources, including books, news, and Web pages. Searching for the Anglo-French Wars, for instance, brings up a timeline that runs from 1600 to 2010, stepping down into individual years and then individual months.
5. Filter your results in Google Images. Try searching for a word that could yield a wide range of images--a name like heather or raven or cliff, for example. Toward the bottom of the left-hand sidebar in Google Images, you'll see a dedicated option to view only clip art, photos, or line drawings.
6. Trying to find a particular type of file? Google doesn't look exclusively for HTML content. Type what you're looking for and then add filetype:tag on the end. For instance, "filetype:doc" will return only results from .doc files. This search capability supports PDF, Microsoft Office formats, Shockwave Flash, and many more. In fact, it will discover matches for ANY three letters that you designate as a filetype.
7. Compare different Google Suggest results side-by-side. Visit Web Seer to get a visual comparison of two search prefixes. Though not a Google product, Web Seer was built by two Googlers and provides interesting insight into Google results.
8. Search in the URL. If you know a specific string of letters or words contained in the URLs of pages you're looking for, you can use "inurl" to find them. For example, many websites with public webcams have URLs that contain 'view/view.shtml'. So a search forinurl:view/view.shtml will return the URLs for various webcams around the world.
9. Search certain types of sites or just certain sites. You can search a wide variety of sites by inserting a close angle bracket (>) symbol before the type of site you want to search. For example, [penguins site:>.edu] searches for penguins across all .edu sites; and [crater image site:>nasa.gov]searches for crater images across NASA.gov.

Be a Gmail Ninja

1.  Gmail is a very deep program, with too many tips and tricks to list in this article. In fact, Google categorizes its Gmail user tips into four stages--white belt, green belt, black belt, and master. The tips for each belt can be found at Google's "Become a Gmail ninja" site. There's even a printible guide; after all, even ninjas forget their moves once in a while.
2. This cool blog gives you "Ten Tips for Using Gmail at Work."
3. What if you want to use Gmail when you don't have a Web connection? There's an app for that. Gmail Offline is a Chrome Web Store app designed for situations when you need to read, respond to, organize, and archive email without an Internet connection. This HTML5-powered app is based on the Gmail Web app for tablets, which was built to function with or without Web access. After you install the Gmail Offline app from the Chrome Web Store, you can continue using Gmail when you lose your connection by clicking the Gmail Offline icon on Chrome's "new tab" page.

Mad Skills for Mappers

1. Check the weather for your upcoming trip directly on Google Maps. Whether you're organizing a trip overseas or a picnic at a local park, make travel and activity planning easier by knowing the weather forecast. See temperatures and conditions for the next few days for places around the globe by selecting the weather layer from the widget in the upper right corner of the map. Zoom in for conditions in specific cities, and zoom out for cloud coverage over an area. Try it now: See icons denoting sun, clouds, rain, and so on via the weather layer on Google Maps.
2. Fly around the world...and dive under the ocean. Google Earth enable you to navigate the world in 3D--you can zoom in from space to the streets of cities from Hong Kong to San Francisco to Johannesburg, watch the changing rain forests over time, and dive underwater to explore the Mariana Trench, tropical reefs, or shipwrecks. Endless hours of exploration can be found in Ocean in Google Earth.
3. Find hotel prices directly on Google Maps. No more copying and pasting the address from one site into a map to see its location--for several major cities in the United States, you can easily see nightly rates when you search for hotels in Google Maps. Try it now: Search for a "hotel in Los Angeles" on Google Maps
4. Preview your destination using Google Street View. Check out the attractions near your hotel by viewing our 360-degree ground-level photos in 30 countries around the world. Try it now:View the surroundings of the Plaza Hotel in New York
5. View local search results on a map (on mobile). When you're somewhere unfamiliar and want to find someplace to eat, enter the type of food plus the town or postal code, and Google will display the results on a useful map and give you directions for getting there. Try it now: Search for "barbecue in Memphis" on Google Maps
6. Plot your trip by adding your own icons to Google Maps. Make travel planning a snap with custom maps, a feature of Google Maps that lets you personalize a map by adding your own icons. Before your trip, you can use this tool to mark all of the hotels you're considering staying at and all of the sights you want to be sure to see. Then decide which one is in the most convenient location. You can also share customer maps with friends and family so that they can participate in mapping out your trip. When the trip is over, use your custom map as a virtual scrapbook: Add icons on the map for the great picnic spot you found in the park or for the great little gelato stand you kept revisiting. You can even add text, photos, and videos within the custom map to help keep the memories alive.

10 Ways To Get Stronger at Pull-ups Fast

Get stronger at Pull-ups. Image credit: SDbeachbum07

Yes, Pull-ups are hard and the lack of progress can be frustrating. But as with all exercises, you can get stronger at them using the right methods. Here are 10 ways to get stronger at Pull-ups fast.

1. Avoid Machines. Machines balance the weight for you and force you into fixed motions. The strength you build on the Lat Pull-down and the Assisted Pull-up Machine won't carry over to Pull-ups. Don't use them.

2. Use Resistance Bands. Attach a resistance band to your pull-up bar and loop it around your knee, like in this video. I have Iron Woody bands: they're cheap & quality. Check their Assisted Pull-up Package.

What's the difference with the Assisted Pull-up Machine? Resistance bands only help you in the bottom position. You'll have to do most of the work in the top of the movement. Assisted Pull-up Machines help you from start to finish.

3. Do Chin-ups. Chin-ups (palms facing you, like in the top picture) are easier than Pull-ups (palms away). Start with Chin-ups. Once you can do 5 reps with proper technique switch to Pull-ups. You'll be able to do at least 1 rep.

4. Get Help. Ask someone to grab you by your side and help you on the way up. Do most of the work yourself: don't push off with your legs too much. Pull yourself up using your back muscles as if no-one was helping you.

5. Use Momentum. Pull yourself up while using hip drive like Jesse Marunde inthis video. Once you can do about 5 Pull-ups this way, drop the hip drive and use strict technique again.

6. Do Negatives. Grab your pull-up bar and get yourself in the top position by jumping up. Lower yourself slowly and jump back up on each rep. 5 sec count on the way down is enough. Expect lots of soreness using this method.

7. Grease The Groove. Get a doorway pull-up bar and do 1 Pull-up or Chin-up every time you pass the bar. Read this & this for more info.

8. Do Multiple Sets of Low Reps. Start with 10 sets of 1 Pull-up. Take as much rest between sets as you can. When 10x1 gets easy, switch to 10x2. Continue until you can do 10 sets of 5 Pull-ups.

• 10 sets of 1 Pull-up
• 10 sets of 2 Pull-ups
• 10 sets of 3 Pull-ups
• 10 sets of 4 Pull-ups
• 10 sets of 5 Pull-ups

Once you can do 10x5 Pull-ups, you'll be able to do 10 Pull-ups on your 1st set when going all out. Remember: if you can't do 1 Pull-up, do Chin-ups using the same approach. Worst case use a resistance band.

9. Armstrong Pull-up Program. Guaranteed to get you to 20 Pull-ups within 8 weeks if you stick to the program. Read the guide. Check also the Recon Ron Pull-up Program which is similar.

10. Believe. Drop your excuses. You're not too heavy and being a woman or old doesn't matter. Others have gotten stronger at Pull-ups and so can you. Here's some proof that you can do it.

• Body-weight Is Irrelevant. Check this video of Jesse Marunde doing 21 Pull-ups at 310lbs body-weight. Granted he uses hip drive, but still.
• Gender Is Irrelevant. Watch this video of Eric Cressey's girlfriend doing 8 neutral grip Pull-ups. Neutral grip (palm facing each others) is easier than Pull-ups but harder than Chin-ups by the way.
• Age Is Irrelevant. Video of a 68 year old doing 8 neutral grip Pull-ups.

It's all about strength. And strength will come if you keep working at it. That's the 1 thing you must keep in mind all the time: the only way to get good at Pull-ups, is to do Pull-ups. Lots of them.

What's my favorite way to get stronger at Pull-ups? Grease The Groove usingresistance bands until you don't need them anymore. You should be able to go from 0 Pull-ups to 1-3 good ones within 4 weeks.

Understand there's a difference between strength and endurance. If your goal is strength, switch to Weighted Pull-ups asap. Start with 2.5lbs/1.25kg for 3x5 and add 2.5lbs/1.25kg each session for example.

How To Do Pull-ups and Chin-ups With Proper Technique

Other Pull-up variations include: palms facing each others, thumbless grip, towel Pull-ups, Fat Bar Pull-ups, Mixed Grip Pull-ups, Horizontal Pull-ups, Kipping Pull-ups, etc. This article deals with Pull-ups & Chin-ups.

Pull-ups & Chin-ups force you to lift your own body-weight. They are the beststrength training exercises you can do for upper-body strength & muscle mass. Unfortunately Pull-ups & Chin-ups are hard. Very hard.

If you're a beginner, chances are you can't do 1 Pull-up or Chin-up. This article will not only teach you how to do Pull-ups & Chin-ups with proper technique, but also how to get stronger at them so you can do the weighted versions.

What are Pull-ups & Chin-ups? Hang on a pull-up bar with straight arms & pull yourself up until your chin passes the bar. The difference between Pull-ups & Chin-ups is in the grip:

• Pull-ups. Palms facing away. Less biceps, more back. Harder.
• Chin-ups. Palms facing you. Work your biceps more. Easier.

Benefits of Pull-ups & Chin-ups. StrongLifts 5x5 program includes Pull-ups & Chin-ups for the following reasons:

• Build Muscle. Pull-ups & Chin-ups force you to lift your own bodyweight. This stresses your body, building the muscles of your arms & back.
• Grappling Strength. Pull-ups & Chin-ups help any sport which involves gripping, grappling & pulling, like MMA or Rock Climbing.
• Carryover. Get stronger at Pull-ups & Chin-ups and you'll get stronger on the opposite movements: the Overhead Press & Bench Press.
• Shoulder Health. Balancing press exercises like the Bench Press with pull exercises like Barbell Rows & Pull-ups prevents muscle imbalances.

What Do You Need for Pull-ups & Chin-ups? A Power Rack with a Pull-up barworks best. Or a Doorway Pull-up bar. Any surface where you can hang from at arm's length will do for Pull-ups & Chin-ups.

What if You Can't Do 1 Pull-up or Chin-up? Whatever method you choose: pull yourself up as if nothing/nobody was helping you. Pull-ups & Chin-ups feel very different without assistance. And always try to beat your previous record.

• Chin-ups. Chin-ups are easier than Pull-ups. If you can't do 1 Pull-up, try Chin-ups. Alternate Chin-ups with Pull-ups when you get stronger.
• Resistance Band. Attach a resistance band to your pull-up bar and loop it around your knee, like in this video.
• Ask For Help. Ask someone to grab your side with his hands. Let him help you on the way up by squatting down & pressing up.
• Kipping Pull-ups. Swing your hips while pulling yourself up until you get stronger. Check how Jesse Marunde uses his hips on the last reps.
• Routine. You can also try this strength training routine to increase your strength on Pull-ups (or Chin-ups).
• Use Momentum. Jump up & use momentum. Control yourself on the way down. This one will get you a sore back & arms. You're warned.

I'm too Heavy For Pull-ups & Chin-ups. Your body-weight is not the problem. Strength is. If you want to get stronger at Pull-ups & Chin-ups, do them more. Here's Jesse Marunde doing 21 Pull-ups at 310lbs body-weight.