Tech Tutor Mark

I recently had a question about how to sync and ultimately back up your Google Calendar through the native Calendar app on the iPad.  Teachers often retire or move to another school district and have to give up their district-issued iPad, and they would like to easily move their calendars, contacts, mail, etc. to another iPad.  I figured this would be an easy thing with iCloud, and it is for the most part.  However, what if their calendar is in Google and they do not want to buy or download a third-party app?  Patrick Jordan wrote this up in his iPad Tips & Tricks .  Check out the tip and the rest of his tips on his iPad Insight site, which also features iPad App Reviews and the Best Free iPad Apps.

It sounds like a two-for-one deal, but it's actually two tips in one.   Hongkiat .com has a great article on how to back up SMS messages from an iPhone .   I see three methods for this, and two of them require your computer.   The iOS being a closed system makes it more difficult to do this than on, say, an Android phone.   It requires locating your SMS Backup file.   On my Android phone, I just downloaded an amazing app called SMS Backup   which gets an average rating of 4.6 stars from all of its reviewers in the Google Play Store.  That is high praise, and since I have used it successfully, I also checked in with a 5-star rating.  It couldn't be simpler.  You just install the app and tap the Backup button and it backs up all of your SMS messages to your Gmail account and creates an SMS section at the left, which syncs all of your current and future texts into that Gmail folder.  Every time I get a text on my phone, it goes directly in...