• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

BoomerTECH Adventures

Develop Your Digital Expertise

  • Home
  • About
  • Blog
  • Marketplace — Video Courses & Ebooks
  • Resources
  • BTA Club

Resources

Resources

 

computers at camp

Free Tips and Tricks from your BoomerTECH Adventures Guides

It’s like having one of us leaning over your shoulder to help!

 

These resources (Guides, Tips, Tricks) are handy and helpful.  Ideas come from frequently asked questions during our conversations with friends, family, and folks we meet at our sessions and other conferences.  Some of these resources are PDFs which means they are downloadable on any device, no matter what platform you are using. Others are videos.

 

Featured Guide Sheet

Travel Checklist for your digital devices Digital Device Travel Checklist

 

Macs

• AirDrop–easily transfer files and images across Apple devices on the same Wi-Fi network. Click here to download a PDF file of directions. AirdropMac

• Basics of the Photos App: Organization and Navigation  PDF explanation Photos App basics

• Attaching images from Photos on a Mac to emails and texts—blog post. 

• Sharing photos across Apple devices—blog post.

• Photos for Mac—Making an Album—blog post.

• Set up Groups in the Contacts App on your Mac. Download these directions:   Create Group in Contacts copy

 iPads and iPhones

• Air Drop–easily transfer files and images across Apple devices on the same Wi-Fi network. Click here to download a PDF file of directions. AirDropiPadiPhone

• iPhone App Contacts screen

 

 Illustrated guide for your iPhone Contacts screen in phone app: Download your own copy here. iPhoneContacts tutorial

 

 

 

 

• Customize the ringtone on your iPhone for incoming calls.  By the Seashore for your spouse, Chimes for a best friend, or Radar for the person you least want to talk to. Click Ringtone Sheet to download.

• Secrets of the keyboard

• Texting for beginners

• Secrets to making the most out of your iPad—Blog post.

• Missing calls on iPhone because it doesn’t ring? Download a step-by-step guide to addressing the issue! Click here: Find My Ringer Directions

• Locking individual entries in the Notes app

 

Personal Music Playlists

• BTA Music Apps is a list of super apps that will help you create the sound score of your life.

• iTunes has a free radio with a multitude of stations.  How you get to it looks a bit different on each device.  Here is a diagram on how to operate iTunes Radio on an iPad running iOS 8.  Your device might look a little different, however the basics are the same.  You just may have to explore.  Start by opening iTunes and search for iTunes Radio.  Here’s the diagram you can download:  iPad iTunes radiopdf

 Organization

• Organization apps–Stay cool, calm, and collected during your hectic schedule. Download some ideas here: OrganizingYourDay

• Have you tried using an online calendar to keep your life and that of your spouse’s organized?  No?  Watch the video below and see how straightforward it is to set up a Google online calendar.

• Foolproof shopping tips for Boomer spouses—blog post.

Wellness

• Balance Me Beautiful

15 Extreme Ways Technology Is Improving Our Health

Click the link above to read how technology is keeping us healthier through healthcare trackers and sensors, wellness records, eating apps, improving drugs, robotics, and more.

Potpourri—Miscellaneous items

• The number one question we are asked–in restaurants, in classes, and on the street–How do I get these pictures off my phone???  Here is a quick step-by-step video on emailing a photo from your phone.

 

• Do you enjoy taking photos?  How about editing them for special effects? Check out Photoshop Online Tools.   Below is a quick introductory video to get you started with this free online tool. Have fun!

 

 Search tools

• 5 great tools to help you be a more efficient searcher on the internet. Click 5 Tools for Searching to download.

  • Search without being tracked
  • Add a filter to keep out objectionable material
  • Narrow your search

 Check Out Our YouTube Channel for More Videos!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1rS22ccn11gtOXY2yp1yRw

Subscribe to the channel so you never miss a new video!

 

Have you “Liked” Our Facebook Page Yet?

Tips, Tech News, & Ideas for Using Your Digital Devices!

https://www.facebook.com/boomertechadventures/

 

 

 

Primary Sidebar

Our Most Recent Posts

  • Vision Issues? Check Out iPhone & iPad Vision Accessibility Features
  • Find My…A Must Have App!
  • What’s Happening With BoomerTECH Adventures & How it Can Help You
  • My Photo Stream Is Going Away. Do I Need to Worry?
  • My Experience with COVID

Top rated products

  • Digital Tools for the Beginning Memoir Writer $30.00
  • Maximizing Your iPad's Potential $30.00
  • Taking Awesome Pictures With Your iPhone/iPad Camera $30.00
  • MORE Hidden Gems in Your iPhone/iPad $30.00
  • Fantastic Photo Finishes—Organize & Edit Images With Your iPhone/iPad Photos App $30.00
  • Blog
  • Privacy
  • Terms of Service
  • Marketplace — Video Courses & Ebooks
Copyright © 2023 BoomerTECH Adventures.

Welcome!

Looking for something?

Start A Conversation

Click here to chat with me!

Search our website now

Latest Posts

Vision Issues? Check Out iPhone & iPad Vision Accessibility Features

September 20, 2023

Here are some age-related statistics related to our vision: 1 in 10 people over 50 have an early form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). 3 in 10 folks over 80  have an early form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Glaucoma affects over 3,000,000 Americans. By 2030, it is estimated over 4,000,000 American will suffer from […]

Share This:

Find My…A Must Have App!

September 5, 2023

There I was…on a bus, halfway to Boston’s Logan Airport when I discovered I didn’t have my phone. Panic! I was going to be gone for two weeks and needed to communicate with people. Fortunately, Concord Trailways busses have Wifi and I had my iPad. I opened the the app Find My and immediately located […]

Share This:

What’s Happening With BoomerTECH Adventures & How it Can Help You

July 16, 2023

Yesterday at breakfast in a small cafe in Eastport, ME (the easternmost city in the continental U.S.) a gentleman at an adjacent table was fidgeting with his new smartphone while his tablemates were giving him all sorts of suggestions on how to make it work. Not wanting to intrude on their conversation but wanting to […]

Share This:
    X
    Welcome to
    How may I help you?
    ×