Search notes with Siri

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 … Read More

How To Adjust The Mac’s Volume In Smaller Increments

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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Advanced Siri Commands, Dealing With Numbers, Paragrahs, New Lines and No Spaces

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.

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How To Get Around Three’s iPhone Tethering Block

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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How Do I Resend an iMessage As an SMS Text Message?

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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How Do I? Gift an App Store App From Your Mac or iOS Device

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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Getting your website ready for the Retina generation: easy fixes

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.
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Windows 8 Fail : Cannot play video, the file type is not recognised and cannot be played

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..
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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac Icons Looking Blurry After 14.2.4 Update

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…

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Can you cut down your Micro Sim to Nano Sim Size?

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?
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