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Providing you have it turns on iCloud does a grand enough job of backing up your photos, well that’s till either run out of phone space and you need to free some device space up. Here’s some suggestions on how to backup your photos online
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Everyone loves a good bootable usb drive, whether it be to sample an OS without disrupting your system or to install Mavericks from USB in these days of media-less installs. Heres out guide on how to create your own Bootable USB drive for OS X Mavericks.
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To create a new note, tell Siri, “Create a new note,” “Make a new note” or something similar. You can give a note a title at the same time, for instance, “Make a new note packing list” or “Create a new note places to visit.” That becomes the first line of the note. To update a note say, for example, “Update my note toothbrush, deodorant, book, tickets, camera.” If you’ve got more than one note, Siri will ask which note you’d like updated by providing a list.
That’s great, but you can also search notes just as easily. Here’s how.
1. Search by date. Activate Siri and say, “Find notes from March, 2013″ or “Find notes from March 7, 2013.” You can also ask, “Find notes from yesterday.”
2. Search by keyword. You can have Siri search your notes for a specific word by saying, “Search notes for ‘x’”, where “x” is the term you’re looking for. Siri returns the results as a tap-able list.
You can also ask Siri to list all your notes. This is much faster than using Apple’s Notes app manually.
Adjusting the volume on your mac goes up and down in “lumps”. Find out how to adjust the volume in smaller increments on your Apple Mac
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Siri, so close to being a dream come true for speech recognition fanatics like myself yet so far. A times you are a technological marvel, recongising every sylable with ease. At other times a frustrating mess of repeating the most basic of phrases before giving up and resorting to using my fingers. With that being said, here’s some more advanced commands you might not be aware you can do with Siri.
Continue reading → Advanced Siri Commands, Dealing With Numbers, Paragrahs, New Lines and No Spaces
For those of you owning an iPhone on the Three Mobile network you’re probably be aware that tethering is blocked unless you are on the one plan. However if you have a jailbroken iPhone / iPad / iPod you can easily get around these tethering restrictions.
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Perhaps you’re in a area with limited data coverage, no wifi or perhaps there’s just a service outage but you need to send an SMS but iMessage still want’s to have its way. Here’s how you resend an iMessage as an Sms.
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Just in time for the holidays Apple have reintroduced the ability to gift from one Apple user to another. You can do this from within iTunes but did you know you could also do this on your iOS device? Here’s how you do just that.
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The floodgates are open. The popularity of the Macbook Pro with Retina Display has proven to the notebook and ultrabook manufacturing market that consumers are ready for a new breed of ultra-high resolution mobile computing devices. For web designers, this could prove another unnecessary headache. Luckily, there are ways around. Here’s how to optimise your site for Retina displays and therefore for increasing number notebook and ultrabook users.
Continue reading → Getting your website ready for the Retina generation: easy fixes
So in the interests of balance I put down my £14.99 for windows 8 (cheapest price out there) to see what the next Apple killing product / OS is really like. Should I be ready to dump all the Apple posts, blogging, equipment before the ship sinks as predicted by everyone? No. It’s taken a day for windows 8 media center to stop working without me doing a single darn thing to it..
Microsofts patch For the ever popular office 2011 suite of applications promised are being retina display icons to the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines. However after installing the patch you may need to do some additional steps to get retina icons for Microsoft office to display properly. Here’s how to enable that retina goodness…
Continue reading → Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Icons Looking Blurry After 14.2.4 Update
The people over at Equinux (@equinux) seem to certainly think so, well at least it’s not stopped them from having a try. They took a standard Micro Sim, cutaway the plastic and some of the actual sim card ready for their iPhone 5. Has anyone else tried this?
Continue reading → Can you cut down your Micro Sim to Nano Sim Size?
Air drop has proved invaluable these last few weeks for shifting data from my old Macbook over to my iMac. Sure I could go down the USB drive route but often it’s just one file that I need and plugging in, copying, ejecting, unplugging, plugging in again gets tedious. Airdrop is great for that but it’s a pain you couldn’t use it over ethernet until now.
Continue reading → How To Use AirDrop Over Ethernet (Hackintosh Tested)
This was driving me nuts just the other day seeing as Apple TV is just about replacing my windows media centre. Every freaking time I pressed pause or play on the apple tv remote it would fire up something within iTunes. The option is nestled away but here’s how you stop your remote interfering with the Macbook or iMac
Euro 2012 divegrass (sorry football), Olympics, catching up on your tv or simply looking to watch live TV on your iOS device? Here’s an roundup of those apps which let you watch or simply catch up on your programming.