I decided to check out icloud.com directly to see if it was any more telling.  Of course apple made it overly simple for us.  Once logged in to iCloud, you simply go to the iWork section and you can drag and drop any files from your computer into the browser window and poof – uploaded to icloud.  It’s pretty nifty.

I’d still like to see a simple right-click on a Pages document with the option to “upload to icloud” or something along those lines.  For now though, the simple draggin and dropping functionality through icloud.com will do.

Leave other tips in the comments!

Long story short, in order for Find My Mac to work, an internet connection alone is not enough – it seems that it has to be an Airport internet connection.

Good luck!

I recently discovered how to forward text messages on your iOS device. When you are in a text conversation, you can hit the ‘Edit’ button on the top right to allow you to select or check various text messages. Then on the bottom there are options to either ‘delete’ (which I did know about, I just never used), or also ‘forward’. Tapping forward puts that text in a new message that you can send/forward on to someone else.

I would always just copy and paste messages I wanted to forward on, which worked fine, this just makes it quite a bit easier!

Quick, Direct Access to the Camera

Apple read my mind on this one. I always hated when a photo opp came about unannounced and by the time I’d get my phone out, unlock it, go to my camera app, and launch it, the opportunity had come and gone.

In iOS5, you have direct access to the camera from your lock screen. When Apple announced this, I was very excited. Basically there is a camera icon on the lock screen next to the unlock swipe area that you can click to go to the camera. However, after updating, I didn’t see this button anywhere. It turns out you have to double tap the home button when the phone is on the lock screen to see the camera icon, then you’re all set to go directly to the camera!

I recently put together a few custom iPad wallpapers. I find myself constantly looking for clean, simple, yet sophisticated backgrounds for my iPad. I've had trouble finding just what I'm looking for so I decided to try to create a couple myself. I was inspired by this desktop wallpaper set I recently discovered on deviantart called Grap. Check it out, they're great and exactly what I was looking for!

I decided to recreate them for the iPad, altering their size as well as the apple logo so that it blends into the background a bit more as opposed to the darker logo from Grap. I just went ahead and created four using the same colors from Grap.

Feel free to download them and use them on your iPad.

Thanks again to the creator of Grap, all creative credit goes to you!

As I'm writing this, it's my birthday and I have received numerous birthday messages from friends that were too funny not to be able to share with other people.  For years now I've been trying to come up with an easy solution to get my voicemail from my phone into some kind of digital format that cane be shared, mp3, mp4, etc.

There is a service called GotVoice that I used to use but found it wasn't as convenient as I'd like.  It basically emails you your voicemail every time you get one.  This was what I wanted, but quite frankly, I only wanted certain voicemails, I didn't want to every single one emailed to me, so I stopped using this service.  Today, after receiving a few voicemails I wanted to share, I tried to reactivate my account but I don't think the service works with iPhones as I kept getting an error.  It wasn't ideal anyway so I kept looking.

The quick solution was right under my nose and I never realized it.  Some of you guys may be familiar with the Mac application PhoneView.  It's a great little app that I got in one of those Mac Bundle specials they do occasionally.  It turns your phone basically into a hard disk, which is nothing new, but it gives you access to everything currently on your iPhone (or iPad) in a very friendly user interface that I've not seen in any other application.

You've got your hard disk which allows you turn your phone into a portable drive to store files on.  You can view all of your contacts with the option to "Send them to your Address Book".  You've got access to all your Notes, your call log, your Messages (displayed in a fairly cool iChat-like style), your web history and bookmarks, and YES, your voicemail too!

You get a nice list of all the voicemails on your phone and can select any of them and choose to "Copy from iPhone" which copies the voicemail, converts it to an mp4 and exports it to your location of choice.  At this point, you can do whatever you want with the file - email to friends, post on your website, etc.  It's pretty nice.

On another side note, but to continue to give props to PhoneView, you also have access to all your media.  This becomes a great solution to grab music off of your friends' phones.  Just plug in their phone to your computer, open PhoneView, and click on their music and all of the music in their iPod library is available to you to either play from right within the application or to copy to your computer.  It's pretty nice.

The only kicker with this is that it's not free.  It's $19.95 but I'd say definitely worth it.  It's a very well made program and they are great about keeping it updated for the latest versions of iOS and any new iOS gadgets that become available (I use it for my iPad too).

Check it out and start sharing your voicemail with friends through email, sms, web posts, etc!