The best apps for your calendar & schedule on the iPhone and iPad

By news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher) You’ve already got Apple’s own Calendar app, but if that were perfect, there wouldn’t be these superb alternatives. Here’s how to handle your events and appointments quickly, efficiently — and accurately.Let’s not knock Apple Calendar. It’s capable, powerful, reliable — and it’s also the engine behind each one of the alternatives that are worth looking at.Each of these, and practically all other iOS calendar apps you can find, use the same data as Apple’s Calendar. Trust us, we’ve tested half a dozen at the same time and it is great how putting an event into one calendar app means it is instantly available to all of them. …

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How to not fall for gift card scams

By news@appleinsider.com (Amber Neely) Gift card scams are on the rise, with Apple gift cards amongst the top fraud targets. Here’s how to keep yourself and your loved ones safe.There’s a good chance that you or someone you know has received a questionable phone call from someone claiming to be Apple or Amazon. Maybe they claimed that there was a problem with your account and that you needed to settle the debt quickly and discreetly.If you hung up and pretended that the call never happened, you did the right thing — you avoided being caught up in a gift card scam. …

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