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Table of contents: 1. 100 Tips 2. What’s HOT in Appstore 3. iPhone 6 Rumors

Let‘s Start Now… Everyday Usage Tips 1.) Turn Off Rotation You've likely experienced the frustration that occurs when your iPhone can't decide which way is up. As you change sitting positions or lie down, it switches back and forth from portrait to landscape, regardless of whether you want it to stay in one place. Stop this pesky screen rotation by first double-clicking the home button, which will display a list of recently opened apps. Swipe the list from left to right. This will reveal a set of music controls and a grey square with a circular arrow on the left. Tap that grey square and you'll see a message on the bottom that says "Portrait Orientation Locked." Your screen will no longer flip. Note that the screen cannot be locked into landscape mode, only portrait. If you can‘t remember whether your screen has been locked or not, check for the lock icon next to your battery indicator in the top-right corner. Curiously, this trick only works vertically. You can't lock it to a horizontal orientation. 2.) Access Scientific Calculator Most people don't regularly need a scientific calculator, and for them the standard iPhone calculator is good enough for everyday use. For those that need it, though, the iPhone does come with the scientific version. Simply go into the iPhone calculator and turn the phone to landscape mode to use it. Keep in mind that if your phone is locked into portrait mode, you must first unlock it to use the scientific calculator. 3.) Access Full Calendar You can tap and hold in the Calendar to add events. The + button is always there, of course, but if you are in the Day view it's much quicker to press on the hour you want the event to appear, as that will cause an event to be created at that time. Stay on schedule with a full calendar view of your weekly plans. First enter the built-in iPhone calendar app in portrait mode. When you see the monthly view, tilt the phone into landscape mode. The monthly view will transform into a detailed display of your scheduled events for the week. The events are color-coded according to work/home, etc. (Again, remember to unlock portrait mode before using this feature.) 4.) Use LED For Notifications.


Some people complain that Apple's smartphone doesn't have an LED to flash to silently notify you of an incoming call or an alarm going off, a standard feature on most off this device's competitors. Actually it does: the camera flash can be set to take care this task. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > LED Flash for Alerts. 5.) Create-Your-Own App Want a quick route to a website that you visit daily? You don't have to enter Safari every time you want to access it -- instead, turn that website into an app that you can access from your home screen. To do this, visit the page in Safari and tap the menu button at the bottom of the screen (it looks like a rectangle with an arrow coming out of it). Select the button that says "Add to Home Screen" and give the app a name. 6.) Quick Access From Lock Screen The Lock Screen isn't really locked. Even without unlocking your device you can do quite a bit. Tap and hold on the Home button and you'll bring up Siri. Double tap the Home button and audio controls will appear. And, of course, a camera button was added to the Lock Screen in iOS 5.1. 7.) Use Clock To Quick Scroll To Top Of Page You can immediately jump to the top of a long web page, email, document, itunes list etc. If you've scrolled down, down, down to the end of a page and want to go back to the top, tap on the clock at the top of the screen. You'll be taken right to the beginning. 8.) Grammatically Correct In Any Language Apple's iPhone lends itself to global languages. Whether you're bilingual or simply want to describe your favorite ethnic food, you can type with accuracy. Simply hold your finger down on the letter you want to change. A variety of versions of that letter in different languages will appear. 9.) Turn An eBook Into An Audio-Book To accommodate the visually impaired and the dyslexic, the iPhone has a feature that reads aloud text that appears on the screen. If you want to hear a book that you purchased from Apple's iBookstore, go to Settings > General > Accessibility, and turn on VoiceOver. The voice sounds like Siri, and you can alter her tempo, pitch, and other settings. Unfortunately, this feature doesn't seem to work with the iOS Kindle app. 10.) Organize Your Home Screen Using Folders Take a moment to download a thousand or so apps to your phone. Finished? You may notice that the number of possible screens has maxed out at eleven, allowing for a maximum of 220 apps on an iPhone 5, and 176 apps on earlier models. It's not as though the thousands of other apps that you just bought never made it on to your phone; it's just that you have to search for them, which can be a bummer. Want to increase the limit? Use folders. Simply press and hold an icon until all the icons start jiggling. Then drag that jiggling icon on top of another jiggling icon, and the two apps will be grouped together into a folder. Press the home button to save your changes. On an iPhone 5, each folder can hold up to 16 apps, which means that if you put every app in a folder you can display up to 3,520 apps over 11 pages, plus another four in your spotlight. On the earlier models, the folder limit is 12, making for a maximum of 2,112 apps, plus four in the spotlight bar. Can you push this even further? Yes, by dragging folders to the four spots in your spotlight dock, making for a total of 3,600 apps on the iPhone 5. Even if you're not a deranged app hoarder, you still might find folders useful for grouping together similarly-themed apps.


11.) Erase All Of Your Alarms If you‘re an iPhone user busy schedules, or tendencies to reset alarms in increments of 10 minutes, you probably have a long list of stored alarms that you never use. Sure, you could delete them manually, but why would you if Siri can do it instead? Tell her to ―delete all alarms,‖ and voila! You can start fresh...by setting your first alarm for seven in the morning. (Even Siri can‘t eliminate your early mornings, but at least your phone won‘t be cluttered.) 12.) Type 'Mötley Crüe' Qith The Umlauts In The Right Places "Motley Crue" is a terrible name for a band. But "Mötley Crüe," with those orthographically unnecessary yet menacingly Wagnerian diacritical marks, is a great name. To properly refer to the World's Most Notorious Rock Band with your iPhone's keyboard, type a capital "M" and then hold down the letter "o" for a moment. Up will pop a bunch of O's with diacritical marks. Slide over to the umlaut. Now do the same with the "u" in "Crüe." The iPhone will only let you place umlauts over vowels (including "y" so that you can write "Queensrÿche"). But fans of Spındal Tap will be disheartened to learn that you can't type a dotless "i" or an "n" with an umlaut. This function also works for less sinister-looking accent marks, like the acute accent, the tilde, and the circumflex. 13.) Use Emojis Why write, "I found your text message amusing," when you can send an image of a laughing smiley face? Why write, "Please remember to pick up an eggplant," when you can just send an image of an eggplant? And why write, "Our civilization's current overuse of natural resources bears striking parallels to that of the Rapa Nui people before their society's collapse," when you can just send an image of one of those Easter Island statues? Because you don't have emojis installed on your iPhone keyboard, that's why. To correct this dreadful state of affairs, tap Settings > General > International > Keyboards. Then tap "Add New Keyboard" and select "Emoji." You'll now see a globe icon to the right of the "123" icon on your keyboard. Tap it to access your emoji keyboard, and you'll be introduced to a vastly more efficient form of communication. 14.) Make iPhone your TV Remote No need to bother with batteries or finding the endlessly disappearing remote that‘s most likely stuck between your couch cushions – the iPhone can now serve as your channel clicker. Although there are quite a few apps out there that promise to turn your iPhone into a remote, the free app BlinQ TV is one of the best. The universal remote app is capable of controlling some TVs, DVD players, receivers, and amplifiers. It can also set reminders for your favorite television shows and tell you which shows other BlinQ users are watching. Although the app is free, you‘ll need to purchase Apple‘s infrared emitter, called the Q, for $9.99 before pairing your phone with your living room electronics. An option for ordering the Q will come up when you download and open the app. 15.) Connect Your iPhone To Your TV Screen The iPhone can instantly stream movies, music, photos, and more right to your television, meaning no more fruitless channel searching. The feature uses AirPlay – whose icon you can spot in Safari, Videos, and elsewhere – to sling information over to an Apple TV console ($99). Once your iPhone and Apple TV have been hooked up to the same wireless connection, the AirPlay icon will show up in the upper right-hand corner of your iPhone videos. One quick tap of the 3.5-inch screen will transmit the video to your big screen. AirPlay isn‘t just useful for for watching ―Lord of the Rings‖ on a larger scale – it can also be helpful in terms of presentations, slideshows, and playing music. Plus, you can play iPhone games through AirPlay – think Angry Birds. 16.) Access Built In Dictionary There is a dictionary built into iOS that you can use to look up definitions at almost any time. If you see a word you don't recognize in Safari, for example, tap and hold on it. One of the options that will pop up is "Define".


17.) Perform A Quick Reboot It's a very rare occurrence, but sometimes an iPhone will lock up. Maybe it won't wake up from sleep mode, even if you know the battery isn't completely drained. Or some poorly-written apps will crash and lock up the device. If this ever happens to you, you can force it to reset by holding down the Home and Power buttons until the device starts to reboot. Don't panic, this can take a number of seconds.

Protective Tips 1.) A Case Is A Good Idea For iPhone 5s Apple completely changed the hardware design of the iPhone series with the iPhone 5. Where previous generations were made of glass and steel, most of the iPhone 5 is aluminium. The positive effect of this is that the phone is very light and less


Vibration, where you can tap the screen to create a vibration pattern of your own. Tap to the beat of your favourite song or release your inner drummer. 7.) Display Character Count In Texts Although iMessage has freed you from bothersome text-message fees, not all of your friends have their own iPhones. So in many cases, SMS rules still apply. You can keep track of how many characters you‘ve written in a text simply by going into the phone‘s Settings, then Messages, and turning on Character Count. The phone‘s texting interface will now count up to 160, letting you know if you‘ve reached the character cap. (The counter starts once you've filled an entire line.) At the very least, this will remind any long-winded texters not to annoy their friends. 8.) Easy Text Expansion Shortcuts Do you find yourself typing the same thing a million times a day? Go to Settings > General > Keyboard and look for Shortcuts after you scroll down just a bit. Then just enter the phrase and appropriate shortcut, and the next time you type that shortcut the phrase will appear. This is particularly handy for things like B RB or your email address. 9.) Rich Text Emails (RTF Formatting) For those that prefer their email fancy, RTF is now available. Just highlight the word or words you want to accentuate per your usual steps, then select the arrow and then the BIU button to pick between bold, italics or underline.

Interface Tips 1.) Multitasking Here‘s one most of you probably know about already. Double-tap the Home button to bring up the multi-tasking drawer. This houses all your recently-used apps and is the quickest way to switch between apps or games. It‘s also the best way to close down apps that are mis-behaving. Exit the app, call up the multitasking menu then hold a finger down on that app‘s entry until a red icon appears in its corner. Tap the red icon to close the app down. 2.) Do Not Disturb mode A godsend to those who feel their smartphone is starting to take over their life, Do Not Disturb mode is there to give you some blessed peace. It stops notifications from getting through at certain times of the day, which is especially useful if you like the odd afternoon nap. You can set Do Not Disturb to let certain contacts through at all times, though. You‘ll find the mode in the main Settings menu – tap on the Notifications entry below the Do Not Disturb switch to set the parameters of the mode. 3.) You Don’t Need To Sync To Update Anymore With iOS 6, Apple removed the need to hook up to a computer to download software updated. You can now do it directly from the phone. To do so, go to the General sub-menu within Settings. Here you‘ll find the Software update button, which will tell you whether there‘s an update ready to download. 4.) How To Hard Reset Your iPhone Contrary to what some people say, iPhone 5s do crash from time to time. And sometimes they crash hard. The easiest fix for a frozen phone is a hard reset, which forces the whole system to start afresh. To do this, press down the top power button and Home button at the same time for several seconds. You will see the screen go black, then the Apple logo should appear showing that the system is starting up again. 5.) How To Factory Reset Your iPhone The other kind of reset is much more dangerous. A factory reset erases all your apps, removes any


accounts linked to the phone, making it more-or-less as it was fresh out of the box. This is the reset to do if you choose to sell your iPhone 5, or if it keeps on playing up and other solutions do nothing to help. To perform a factory reset, go to the General sub-menu in Settings and scroll all the way down to the Reset option. Within this menu you‘ll find several types of reset. The factory one is ―Erase All Content and Settings.‖ 6.) Changing Your Background & Lock Screen Image One of the few ways to stamp your personality onto your iPhone 5 is to change the background and lock screen image. You can change these within Brightness & Wallpaper within Settings. Alternatively, select the image you want from within the Photo app, hit the arrow Share button and select Use as Wallpaper. You‘re then given the option to use as either lock or home background, or both.

Maps and Navigation Tips 1.) Forget Apple Maps, Use Google Maps Apple Maps is not good. Apple ditched Google Maps as its mapping partner with the introduction of iOS 6 in September 2012, and it is seen as one of Apple‘s biggest blunders in years. Full of hokey and out-of-date information, it‘s much worse than the Google Maps solution it replaced. It‘s so bad that Apple CEO Tim Cook made a public apology for the software. However, now you can download an app version of Google Maps, which is much, much better. So use that. 2.) Offline Maps Available For Download GPS is free to use abroad, but the data you‘ll need to download mapping information while you‘re out and about generally is not. To avoid having to pay extortionate roaming charges, download an offline map app of the city you‘re heading to. You‘ll find such apps for just about any major European city on the App Store. They won‘t be as good as Google Maps, but will do the job. 3.) How To Enter Street View in the Google Maps App The Google Maps app makes is surprisingly tricky to use the Street View function, which gives you a first-person view of what a place looks like. To use it, search for a location within Google Maps or hold a finger down on a road to bring up its address. This will make a pop-up location menu appear at the bottom of the screen. Drag this up to see more information about the location. If there‘s Street View info for the location, there‘ll also be a Street View button here. 4.) Drop A Pin In Maps Maps has now made it easier to get directions to and from anywhere that the GPS can locate. After searching for the address of your specific location or your current place and tapping the screen, a purple pin will drop. This will give you the option of getting directions to the pin or from the pin, or even sharing your location via e-mail, text or Tweet. If you want to drop a pin anywhere, click the bottom right corner and hit ―Drop Pin‖ (or ―Replace Pin,‖ if you‘ve already got one on the map). That way, you can drop a pin anywhere on the map, not just where you‘ve searched.

Advanced/Supergeek 1.) Entering Engineering mode The iPhone 5 massages its signal bar, to make its reception look better than it really is. Want to know


what your reception actually is? You need to use the Engineering mode. Type *3001#12345#* into the dialler and hit the call button and you‘ll enter Field Test mode. This changes the bar-based signal indicator to a ―proper‖ numerical figure. There are also menus to tell you all sorts of other signal information, but most – including us – will be hopelessly lost here. 2.) How to Jailbreak your iPhone In early February 2013, a comprehensive jailbreak for iPhones was released. It‘s a program that‘ll hack virtually any iOS device running iOS version 6.0-6.1.2. We‘ve not tried it yet, but we‘re informed it‘s dead easy to do and relatively issue-free. To download the jailbreak, check out the evasi0n website. Evasi0n is the team of hackers that made the software. 3.) Best Jailbreaking applications One of the main reasons to jailbreak your phone is to install the Cydia app store, which gives you access to loads of apps that would never make it onto the App Store proper. These include apps that can make big changes to the way your phone works – the jailbreak gives apps much greater access to the iOS system‘s roots. You‘re given much greater control over how your phone looks and feels, and can install things like game emulators – which wouldn‘t be allowed (in their pure form) on the App Store. 4.) How To Fix The “Sticky Home button” Problem One of the most common problems with ageing iPhones is that their Home buttons start to play up. It‘s unlikely that many iPhone 5s have started to suffer from this issue, but give it time and the Home button arthritis will probably kick in. If youe Home button starts becoming unresponsive, there are a few solutions. The most drastic is surgery. You can buy iPhone Home button replacement kits online (iPhone 5 ones don‘t seem to be available yet), or you can try the software fix. Start up any pre-installed app (as in an app that‘s there fresh out of the box). Then press the power button until the power-off prompt appears. Next, press and hold the Home button to leave the app. This will recalibrate the Home button. Of course, it‘ll only solve the issue if it‘s a problem of software rather than hardware.

Apps and Games Tips 1.) Download AppShopper For Bargains One of the best ways to track price drops and popular new apps is AppShopper. It‘s an App Store tracker app that monitors activity and displays it in a much more dynamic way than the App Store itself. You can look for apps that have recently dropped in price, look at the brand-new apps that are attracting attention and setup a list of favourites, tracking when they go down in price. 2.) Auto Downloads iOS 6 lets you leave it to automatically download apps you already own to a new phone. It's handy if you upgrade your iPhone every year, you lucky thing. You'll find this option in the iTunes & App Stores menu of Settings. Here you'll see auto download sliders for apps, books and music. 3.) How To Delete Apps An easy essential, this one. To delete apps on your iPhone 5, simply hold a finger down on an app icon until it starts to jiggle. This will also make a little red icon appear at the corner of your apps. Tap the red icon to delete the app. 4.) Essential Apps There are hundreds of thousands of iPhone apps available on the App Store, and if you‘re an iPhone


veteran you‘ll already have a bunch of favourites that you rely on daily. Some of our top recommendations include note-taking app Evernote, pretty newsreader Flipboard, Facebook, Twitter, BBC iPlayer, eBay and YouTube. Let us know your favourites in the comments. 5.) Best Free Games There are thousands and thousands of free games on the App Store, and many of them are downright awful. Freebies worth checking out include Hill Climb Racing, Real Racing 3, the original Angry Birds, Tap Defense, JellyCar, Jetpack Joyride, TapTap Revenge Tour, Triple Town, Dropship and Drop7. 6.) Fall Asleep To Sounds Of Nature For the insomniacs and city dwellers of the iPhone community, a free app called Relax Melodies can create a soothing medley of noises that can inspire a short nap or long slumber. The app boasts 41 sounds from ―Cat Purring‖ to ―Icy Snow,‖ and users can choose either to combine noises or listen to one at a time. Conversely, the app can also be used to help its user stay awake or maintain concentration – even create an ambiance perfect for a yoga session at home or in the studio. You can also store favorite combinations of sounds in a folder. The app won‘t shut down on its own, so you‘ll be able to wake up to the same calm ambiance you fell asleep to. (Just watch your battery power.)

Browsing & Internet Tips 1.) Private Prowsing Like your desktop browser, the iPhone 5‘s Safari browser can be set to Private Browsing mode, which won‘t save any of the places you‘ve visited for other people to check up on. You‘ll find the Private Browsing switch in the Safari sub-menu within Settings. 2.) Select Your Search Engine From this Safari sub-menu you can also select the search engine the iPhone 5 will use for its Internet searches. Your choices are Google, Yahoo! and Bing. We honestly can‘t think of a reason why anyone would pick anything but Google, though, short of an irrational hatred for the big G. 3.) How To Save Web Images To The Gallery Another neat half-hidden feature of the iPhone 5 Safari browser is that you can save images easily from within the browser. Just hold a finger down on an image until a menu pops-up. One of the options in the menu is ―save image‖, which will save the pic to your phone‘s gallery. 4.) Install A Data Monitor If You Gave A Mobile Data Limit Unlike the latest version of Android, iOS does not currently offer a particularly good way to track how much mobile data you have used. There‘s just a global data counter within the Usage part of the iPhone 5‘s Settings menu. There are apps that will do this for you, though, and let you know when you‘re approaching your data limit. One to try is the freebie Data Monitor. 5.) Saving Pages For Offline Reading If you want to save some of your data allowance, you can save pages for offline reading in the iPhone 5‘s Reading List. To do this, just press down on a page until a menu pops-up. In this menu, one of the options will be ―Add to Reading List‖. You can access you Reading List by tapping the book icon in the Safari nav bar. Reading List will be the top option. 6.) Make your iPhone a Personal Hotspot iPhones with iOS 4.3 and up can turn into wireless routers in a matter of minutes, allowing you to


connect your computer, iPod, or other Internet-compatible devices to the phone‘s wireless connection. Under General Settings, look for Network, then tap Set Up Personal Hotspot. If this is your first time doing so, a message will pop up that reads ―To enable Personal Hotspot on this account, contact AT&T at 611 or visit http://www.att.com/mywireless.‖ (Of course, Verizon and Sprint customers will see a different message.) If your phone plan has tethering capabilities, there should be no problem setting up your Hotspot. However, it certainly doesn‘t come free of charge. AT&T and Verizon customers can expect to pay an extra $20 per month for 2 GB of Hotspot data.

Battery Life Tips 1.) Turn Off Mobile Data The best way to conserve battery is to turn off mobile data. 3G is one of the most serious battery leeches in the mobile world. Of course, turning off data will also mean you can‘t browse the web unless you‘re in a Wi-Fi zone, so it has its disadvantages. 2.) Turn off… Everything else If your battery is low, turning of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi will help eke out those extra few minutes before conking out. The other big contributor to battery life zapping is the screen‘s backlight. You‘ll find the wireless connectivity switched in the Settings menu, and the screen brightness slider in the Brightness & Wallpaper section within Settings.

Security and Money Saving Tips 1.) Increase Security With A Passcode The most basic security measure to make with an iPhone 5 is to add a passcode to the lock screen, making any users input a four-number code once the phone has become locked. To setup a password, you need to go to the General section of the Settings menu and select the Passcode Lock menu item. Here you can choose your four-number code and select how often you want the passcode to be required – from every time the phone goes into standby to once every four hours. 2.) Turn Off Roaming Although EU legislation has limited how much carriers can charge for data while you‘re abroad in Europe, you‘ll still pay a pretty penny to check your emails. And don‘t even think about trying to stream video. Head out of the EU and you‘ll pay crazy rates to boot. You‘re best off turning off roaming altogether, and relying on Wi-Fi while you‘re abroad. You‘ll find the Data Roaming switch down the bottom of the Settings > General > Mobile Data menu. 3.) Enable Restrictions For Kids (Or Adults) For young iPhone users, of which there are an increasingly large number, the digital world can seem unlimited. And to a certain degree, it is. Parents who want to limit their kids‘ access to the Web or disallow explicit language can do so by accessing General Settings, then Restrictions, where there is a plethora of options devoted to what the iPhone user can and cannot access. By tapping Enable Restrictions and setting a passcode, parents can easily limit their child‘s access. 4.) Locate your lost iPhone Losing an iPhone can be a traumatic experience, especially if you recently paid money for a new one. But circumstances needn‘t be so dire with the help of iCloud and the iPhone's built-in GPS – if you‘ve taken the proper precautions. After you‘ve set up iCloud, go into the iCloud settings and enable Find My iPhone. You can also just download the Find My iPhone app. Once signed up, you can track your phone on a map. From there, you can remotely force the phone play a sound, lock down the phone,


have it display an alert message, or even wipe its memory. Of course, this might not be necessary if you can find it via the GPS tracker. Just hope it doesn't run out of battery power... or lose service. 5.) iMessage Overseas Without Fees iMessage isn‘t only free within the US – it‘s free across continents. An international data plan can be expensive and texts can cause fees to skyrocket. But for iOS 5 users, iMessage can help avoid unnecessary charges. If you're the one abroad, make sure that you are connected to Wi-Fi. (Also remember that Wi-Fi is not necessarily free. There may be fees attached on that end.) If those blue text bubbles suddenly turn green, that means your phone is starting to send an SMS messages. This can be avoided by going into Messages, under General Settings, and turning off Send As SMS.

Video and Music Tips 1.) How To Add Files To Apps Many apps have their own stores of ―associated‖ files. For example, a third-party video player might have a stash of videos, or an ebook reader a stash of ebooks. These are added to the apps as documents, sync‘d over iTunes. You don‘t add them to your iTunes library, though, but within the iTunes sync menu when your iPhone is plugged into your computer. 2.) Third-Party Apps Will Stop You Needing To Transcode Videos Some of the most useful third-party apps that use these documents are video players. The iPhone 5 can‘t play many different video formats off-the-bat, but with a media player solution, the phone can play all sorts including MKVs, without needing to convert them to an iPhone-friendly type. 3.) Control Audio Playback With Your Earbuds Your iPhone's earbuds – excuse me, EarPods™ – are more than just a device for listening to audio. They also allow you to pause, skip, and rewind your music. Here's how: [Play\Pause] – Click the center button once to start or stop a song. If you're not already midway through a song, pressing the center button will cue up a random tune from your library. [Skip Forward] – Press the center button twice quickly. [Skip Backwards] – Press the center button three times quickly. [Fast Forward ] – Press the center button once, then press it again and hold it down. Release the button when you reach the desired section of the song. [Rewind] – Press the center button twice, then press a third time and hold it down. As with fastforward, release the button when you're done.

Siri Tips 1.) Location-Based Reminders Siri is the iPhone 5‘s voice assistant. She takes an audio file of what you say over to Apple‘s servers, which then decipher it and do their best to help with whatever you‘re after. You can ask Siri to make Location-based reminders, which will pipe up when the iPhone 5‘s GPS tracker has calculated that you‘re in a certain place. To turn on Siri, check out the Siri sub-menu in Settings > General. To access Siri once enabled, you just need to hold down on the Home button. 2.) Facebook and Twitter Updates Using Siri On first blush, it would seem that Siri is unable to send tweets or update your Facebook status. But with a little maneuvering, she‘s putty in your social-media-loving hands, making it that much easier for you to stay connected. To get started with Twitter, text ―start‖ to 40404 – the code varies depending on your country, so if


you‘re outside the US, check here for other country codes. You‘ll get a response within a few seconds asking for your Twitter login. Once you‘ve logged in, add 40404 as a contact in your Address Book. Name the contact entry something obvious, such as "Twitter." This way, when you tell Siri to "send a text message to Twitter," she‘ll recognize it as a contact. The same goes for Facebook. Text ―hello‖ to 32665 (check here for other country codes). Click the link in the return message and add 32665 as a "Facebook" contact. Once you‘ve got everything set up, all you have to do is tell Siri to ―send a text to Twitter‖ or ―send a text to Facebook,‖ and you can update your statuses on the go. 3.) Make Siri Mad You‘ve probably figured out by now that Siri doesn‘t respond well to certain directions, but at least she sometimes has a good sense of humor about it. If you tell Siri to ―open the pod bay doors‖ – a command that HAL 9000 famously refused in ―2001: A Space Odyssey‖ – Siri will retort in a number of ways, such as ―That‘s a rather insensitive thing to say to an intelligent agent‖ or simply ―Sigh.‖ And of course, if you ask for her advise on what's the best phone, she‘ll ask you if you‘re kidding. But no matter how many times you ask her about her religious views, she will insist that humans have spiritualism while she has siliconism. Not only is Siri good for reporting the weather – she‘s also quite the entertainer. 4.) Give Siri Pronunciation Hints Even in 2012, virtual assistants aren‘t so hot when it comes to pronunciation. Luckily, contacts in the Address Book are built to include phonetics so Siri has an easier time figuring out exactly who you want to call or text. First, click on the contact you think Siri needs some clarification on, and tap Edit. Scroll down and hit Add Field, and a menu should come up that includes Phonetic First Name and Phonetic Last Name. Type in whatever you think is appropriate, and make it clear – only one wrong vowel will throw Siri off. (The name Megan, for example, has various pronunciations including MAY-guhn, MEH-guhn, and MEE-gun.) 5.) Find Your Friends Fast Apple‘s Find My Friends app, released in 2011 for the iPhone and iPad, works with Siri to give you precise directions to the location of your other Apple product-wielding friends. Users choose to share their locations for a few hours or indefinitely. Ask Siri ―Where‘s (friend‘s name)?‖ and the app‘s map shows where they are in relation to you, as well as an approximate address for play-by-play directions. Only friends who have accepted your request to see their location can see where you are, or allow you to see where they are. Users are signed out of the app after 15 minutes of inactivity and Apple‘s servers only keep last-known-location data for two hours, according to Apple's website. 6.) Use Siri Without Tapping Home Button A virtual assistant should be able to sense that you need it without making you click a button, shouldn‘t it? Siri will always be there with a click of the home button, but a quick change in Settings will make it even easier to get her attention. From Settings, go into General, Siri, and turn Raise to Speak ―on.‖ From this point forward, raising the phone to your ear will let Siri know that you need help – or just some company. 7.) Help Siri With Punctuation Siri‘s pretty good when it comes to simple dictation, but when it comes to changes in punctuation and line spacing, she needs a bit more direction. Luckily, this virtual assistant does exactly what you want her to if you know what to say. Siri recognizes all of the following symbols and commands: open/close parenthesis, em dash (the long dash), copyright, dollar, cent, degree, percent, asterisk, ampersand, all caps, all caps off, cap (which capitalizes a single letter), registered, and more. So if you wanted to dictate an email without making any manual changes, you would say something like


this: ―cap Dear Siri comma cap, It is my regret to inform you that cap I will have to reschedule our meeting today period.‖


15.) Reboot Siri If your Siri‘s moving a bit slow, there‘s only one command you need. Tell Siri ―restart,‖ and she‘ll effectively respiring your iPhone‘s Springboard. The SpringBoard is the app that controls the iOS home screen. Commanding Siri to restart won‘t turn the phone itself off and on – only the operating system. Some have complained that Siri doesn‘t like to restart, and will simply say "What's next?" Others have claimed they have had no problems, so the function could be underworks at Apple (something to look out for in the next update, maybe).

Storage Tips 1.) Expand Your Storage iPhones do not let you plug in memory cards to increase the phone‘s storage. It‘s not something Apple has ever allowed. However, there are Wi-Fi-based solutions that can give you more room to play with fairly effectively. The last we looked at was the Kingston WiDrive. Devices like these are Wi-Fi transmitters that connect directly to the iPhone, through the medium of an app. They either have their own internal storage or offer a card slot. Files on these data drives can then be imported using the iPhone. 2.) What Is iCloud And How To Use It iCloud is Apple‘s own cloud storage service. It doesn‘t get all that much attention, but it‘s a massively important part of the Apple infrastructure. By default, it‘s used to back-up most of the data on your phone, including photos, contacts, emails and calendar entries. Apple gives you 5GB of storage for free, and should you need more you can pay a little extra for more. You‘ll find iCloud info and storage options in Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup. 3.) iTunes Match A more immediately exciting use of Apple‘s cloud services is seen in iTunes Match. This is a service that you pay £21.99 a year for, and it lets you stream your entire music collection from the cloud to your phone, freeing-up any internal storage you might otherwise have had to expend on music. You have to ―sync‖ your music library with iTunes Match, and can have up to 25,000 songs.

Camera and Photography Tips 1.) Take better pictures with HDR photography As convenient as smart-phone photography may be, there‘s one key weakness: Few phones offer exposure settings. This leads to problems when dealing with harsh light and heavy shadow. Take a look at these two images. The left photo was taken without ―high dynamic range,‖ or HDR. The brick walkway looks great, but the camera lost a lot of detail in the bright and dark areas. The sky looks washed out. The flowers seem lost in shadow. A professional could repair this image with editing. But HDR tries to fix the image as it's being taken. With HDR on, a phone will snap three photos in rapid succession. Each image uses a different exposure level. One shot is tuned for dark areas, such as the flowers in the image above. One captures the bright spots, such as the sky. The third goes for the mid-tones, much like the non-HDR photo. After it snaps all three photos, the iPhone tries to identify the best aspects of each shot and stitches them into a single image. While the final product is rarely perfect, it's often much better than the original – with no extra work required. If you're unhappy with the results, the iPhone actually saves two images: the HDR version and the shot it would have taken without the feature. Turn on HDR from the iPhone's standard camera application by clicking "Options" then sliding the HDR toggle.


2.) Use The Volume Key As A Shutter Button Apple lets you use the iPhone 5‘s ―volume up‖ button to take photos, as well as the touchscreen. This button is in a near-perfect position to take on the role as a shutter button. This even works when using a three-button remote control, including Bluetooth headsets. So you can effectively use a wireless headset as a remote shutter control. How cool is that? 3.) Easy Photo Preview For the first good old while using an iPhone 5, we always used to tap the Gallery shortcut at the bottom of the camera app‘s screen to look at photos. However, it turns out this is completely unnecessary. Just swipe left-to-right from the camera preview screen and you‘ll instantly be taken to the camera roll, which shows you your photos, starting with the most recently-taken one. 4.) Top Camera Tips The key to getting good basic shots is about focus and composition. Try and line-up the horizon with the edges of the screen to avoid wonky photos, or alternatively switch on the grid in the camera Options menu if you find this all a bit tricky. Getting photos in-focus is all about staying still, funnily enough. The iPhone 5 has a pretty quick focusing system thanks in part to its decent F/2.4 lens, but try your best to keep your hands still until the exposure has definitely finished to get the best shots. 5.) Best Camera Apps If the iPhone 5‘s own camera app is just a bit too minimalist for your liking, there are oodles of third party apps to try. One of the most popular is Camera , which adds a barrel-load of modes and feature, and lets you pick separate focusing and exposure points. Pro Camera gives you the control options that the basic camera app lacks, including ISO, software anti-shake and oodles of filters. 6.) Take Pics With Your Earbuds You can take a picture using the headphone cord. Ever want to get a bit father away from the camera when taking a self portrait? Everyone should know that you can snap a picture with your iPhone by pressing the Volume Up button, but few people realize this works with the volume buttons built into the headphones, too. 7.) Take A Screenshot Want to show your friends a ridiculous text message conversation you had last night or easily save an image to your photo library? The screenshot option on the iPhone allows you to take a picture anywhere and anytime of anything on your 3.5-inch screen. When you find something you want to immortalize, simply press the home button and the on/off switch at the same time. Your screen will flash and the resulting image will land in your camera roll. 8.) Tap Screen To Focus Camera The autofocus feature on the iPhone is pretty good, with its ability to pick out faces and adjust the white balance and exposure to focus on them. But as magical as this technology may seem, it's no substitute for human touch. Let's say you're snapping a photo of a woman showing off her engagement ring. You'll want to focus on the subject's ring, not necessarily her face. Your phone's autofocus will dutifully draw a box around the fianceé's face, and leave the ring relatively blurry. But, if you tap on the ring on your phone's screen, the focus will shift. This works particularly well when shooting video. As you film, simply tap on whatever you want the camera to focus on. 9.) Zoom Out Of A Photo After It's Been Taken Using an algorithm, the appropriately titled AntiCrop app takes iPhone pictures and – for lack of a better phrase – zooms them out. By recognizing similar aspects of a certain photo, the $0.99 app is able to build upon the image and essentially ―guess‖ what it would look like if it were zoomed out. As a result, AntiCrop isn‘t good for enlarging photos with chaotic backgrounds, but it works well for


landscapes and portraits. The app also helps straighten photos, and users can choose between a variety of sizes or borders for their new pictures. 10.) Take A Picture – Fast When history is unfolding before your eyes – or your friend is caught in a compromising position that deserves documentation – swiping through apps to find the iPhone camera can result in a missed opportunity. While the lock screen is displayed, two quick clicks of the home button will cause a camera icon to appear along the bottom of the screen. Tapping this new icon sends you straight to the camera. Bonus trick: the volume-up button on the side of the phone will work as a physical shutter button.

Bonus tips

1.Find things fast with Spotlight Search

If you want to search your device for a name, phone number, or other text, go to the home screen

and slowly swipe down in the middle of the screen. The Search bar and keyboard will appear. Type

what you want to find.

2. Make the iPod app stop playing after a set amount of time

This tip is handy if you ever fall asleep listening to music. After you‘ve selected a song in the Music app, go to the Clock app. Select the timer option in the bottom right hand corner and set a specific time. Below the time, there is an option that says, ―When Timer Ends ...‖ tap that. At the very bottom of the list is an option for ―Stop Playing.‖ Select this and when the timer is up it will stop the iPod from playing.

3. Take a screenshot of your screen

If you want to take a picture of any screen or picture on your device, just go to that screen or picture

and hold the Power button while clicking the Home button. The picture will be stored in your Camera

Roll.

4. Enable Safe Browsing for Safari

When browsing the web in Safari, if you wish to block pop-ups, cookies, or be warned about fraudulent web pages, go to Settings, then Safari, and adjust these settings. Start in Settings, then Safari, and in the middle of the page switch Private Browsing on.

WHAT’S HOT IN THE APP STORE:

Slingshot (Free) Facebook‘s hot new Slingshot app allows users to quickly share photos or videos depicting

their day by ―slinging‖ them at friends and family. Like with Snapchat, the message isn‘t permanent—you‘ll swipe it away into cyberspace once you‘re done looking at it. Unlike Snapchat, Slingshot


requires users to sling a picture or video of their own before viewing messages sent to them. Essentially, the app has found a way to require participation in a way that feels like a game. Storybook Reading (Free)

There‘s nothing sweeter for a child than being read to by a parent. A new app called Storybook Reading aims to recreate this experience for those times when parents aren‘t close by. The app instructs users to take pictures of each page of a book and record themselves reading as they work their way through the story. Once each book from a child‘s library is complete, he or she will be able to listen to the stories at any moment. Yo. (Free)

This absurdly simple app reached one million users within four days of its release, surpassing even Slingshot in popularity. But why? And how does it work? Well, users correspond with one another using one word— ―yo.‖ As the app‘s creators explain, ―Wanna say ‗good morning‘? Just ‗Yo.‘ Wanna say, ‗Baby, I'm thinking about you‘? Yo.‘‖ So whatever you‘re thinking, clearly ―Yo‖ is the answer. We‘re still scratching our heads over this one. Little Moments ($1.99)

Ranked in the Top 20 paid Photo & Video apps within a month of its release, Little Moments makes for the perfect photo-aday companion, aiming to help you document your life in daily images. You‘ll never miss an assignment again with this app‘s inspirational prompts and daily reminders. It‘s fun, inspiring, and bound to help you improve your photography skills over time.

Expectations from iPhone 6 Since Tim Cook took the helm at Apple three years ago in place of the late Steve Jobs, many

have questioned if the new CEO has enough of the founder‘s focus and ingenuity to continue producing industry-disrupting devices. After a quiet few years in which Cook has proven himself to be strong at managing the many facets of the tech behemoth, the time is drawing near for Apple to show us a fresh, new iPhone (and ―one more thing‖) at Apple‘s fall announcement. In recent years, many Apple fans have been demanding a largerscreened iPhone, and if the rumors prove true, they will be getting their wish—twice.

Apple‘s next phone, dubbed the iPhone 6 by the media, will have a 4.7-inch display (compared to the 4-inch display of the iPhone 5s), based on leaked information and mockups allegedly obtained from Chinese manufacturers. Additionally, Apple is expected to come out with a phablet (defi ned as a cross between a phone and a tablet) with a 5.5-inch display later in the fall. Some rumors suggest the larger phone will have a name other than iPhone, while a mid-summer report from China said it will be called the iPhone Air. So is Apple copying Samsung, who's been making larger smartphones for several years? Steve Jobs was pretty clear that he thought a phone should be small enough to easily hold in one hand. But larger phones and phablets have become extremely popular, so much so that a court document in Apple vs. Samsung revealed that Apple explicitly acknowledged its need for such a device to compete in this segment of the market. Market analysts agree that the iPhone 6 is going to create the biggest splash of 2014 in the smartphone market. Some rumors estimate Apple will be making 80 million of the devices in 2014.

Early rumors said the iPhone 6 will have a 1,920 x 1,080 display, but a subsequent more credible rumor said it will have the same 326-pixel density as the iPhone 5s. Yet another report suggested the iPhone 6 will sport an "ultra- Retina" display at 389 ppi, while the larger 5.5-inch phone


will have a resolution of 401 ppi. One rumor said the iPhone 6 display may use Quantum Dot technology, which renders colors much more accurately. Perhaps even more notable than the display size is the sapphire crystal display or display laminate that numerous rumors have suggested the iPhone 6 will have. This material, already found in the camera lens cover and Touch ID, is virtually impossible to scratch. It‘s also more expensive than the Gorilla Glass currently used for iPhone screens, so it's not a given that Apple will use it. Yet Apple has clearly expanded production of the material, with a new plant in Arizona that went live in February. A number of mockups of the new phones began to appear in June, revealing similar styling to the iPad Air and iPad mini, with a thin form factor and rounded edges.

Earlier this year, some reports said the iPhone 6 will have narrow or nonexistent bezels. If that rumor proves correct, we could see a larger display while keeping the overall size of the phone as small as possible. Some rumors suggest the iPhone 6 will be even thinner than the 0.3-inch-thick iPhone 5s, at 0.22 inches. Mockups of the new phone show that the sleep/wake button will now be located on the right side of the phone opposite the volume-up button, and may take on an elongated pill shape. The new design may also emulate the iPhone 5c's holes on the bottom for the speaker and microphone. One rumor foresaw more drastic changes, projecting that Touch ID will be incorporated into the bottom of the display, and that there will no longer be a Home button.

Most analysts expect the phone to have a new A8 processor. Some rumors have claimed the new processor will be a quad-core 2.6 GHz chip with quad-core graphics. The A8 processor is said to greatly enhance performance and efficiency, thereby delivering a longer battery life.

In mid-April, analyst Peter Misek of Investment Bank Jefferies reported that Apple was talking with carriers to see what they'd think about a $100 price increase for the iPhone 6. Apparently, the carriers balked at the proposition.

In May, rumors surfaced that the iPhone 6 will have a near field communications (NFC) chip

for making mobile payments. But given Apple's focus on iBeacons and the increasing adoption of this technology, this rumor may not be credible. Some leaked specs early this year said there will be a 128GB option for the new phone.

Analysts surmise that Apple will continue to stand by its 8-megapixel camera, but will add optical image stabilization and a new lens module for faster focusing speeds and power efficiency. Touch ID in the new phone is expected to be more durable than in the iPhone 5s and to have improved accuracy and security.

In July, a Chinese technology website reported that the 4.7-inch phone will have a battery capacity between 1,800 and 1,900 mAh, compared to the current 1,570 mAh in the iPhone 5s. The report also said that the larger 5.5-inch iPhone 6 is expected to have a 2,500 mAh battery. The larger displays of the new phones will require more battery capacity, so these specs don't necessarily indicate that the devices will have a longer battery life.

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