Mister Icon's Blog

User's manuals are fast becoming a forgotten art. Many devices these days ship without any proper instructions at all.

In some cases, we are directed online to find the bare minimum of information that will let us learn how to use our devices, but in other cases the digital user guides are very good and in some cases surpass their printed equivalents.

Here I look into user guides for Apple devices, and where to find them.

Apple TV devices can provide access to a wonderful assortment of movies and TV shows, from a range of different streaming services.

And the great thing is that most of the content available on these streaming services now contains subtitles or closed captions.

Here's some information about the different ways you can enable captions on your Apple TV device, including a neat little accessibility trick that you might not know about.

Mathematics can be fun, and it can be used to calculate the number of possible wallpaper colour combinations in the Mister Icon app.

With the version 3.0 update, the number of possible colours increased dramatically.

Warning! Crazily big maths equations ahead!

Helping a less-technically-savvy friend or family member to purchase, set up and use an iPhone or iPad can be an important task.

And even though Apple has a generally well-deserved reputation for user-friendliness, there are still ways that user interaction with Apple devices can be improved with a bit of thought and time.

Here I offer some suggestions about how to help a friend or family member to find the right iPhone or iPad to suit their needs, and then how you can help them to make an easy to operate home screen with the help of my Mister Icon app.

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This is the part of my site where I plan to write about a range of interesting topics, some of which might be directly related to my icon label app, and others which might be related to technology in general, or something else entirely.

Since Mister Icon is an app designed for iPhone and iPad devices, I'll be focused primarily on Apple technology.

Each blog post (including this one) will have a Read More button, a heading and a picture. Click any of these to be taken to the full article.