iTips and Tricks

So guess what I did today?????  Yup, played with my iPhone!  I bought an app called iPhone Secrets Tips and Tricks.  I have almost read all the tips and have learned MANY new things that work with all our idevices!  I'll share a few..............

Emoti keyboard - So if you go into your settings and choose general, scroll down til you see keyboard.  Then choose international keyboards.  Here you will find a list of many languages for the keyboard.  You will find a list of many languages and one called emoti, which is how you get those fun emoticons.  When you want to use them click the little globe that will now appear on your keyboard!


Maps - So this is cool yet somehow a little disturbing.  If you click the maps button  on the main page of your device and type in an address it will pin it on a map.  If there happens to be a little person next to the pin, you can click the person and it will show you a picture of that exact location!  It works, I found all my houses I have ever lived in.  The pictures are about 3 years old... I know this because my house was just in the building stage and that is when we built.  Cool but freaky!  You can swipe the picture for a panaramic view.  This would be wonderful for Social Studies!


Saving your Battery - There are a few things you can do to save your battery.  Do not leave your device in push mode for your email and notifications.  Turn it off so that you actually have to hit your email button for your email to update itself.  Also set the brightness of your screen to a lower lighting level to save your battery and make sure you turn off any apps that run using your location. When your device is constantly updating your location it is wasting battery.  Remember any apps you use are constantly running in the background.  Double press your home button and a list of all running items appears across the bottom.  Touch the minus sign to completely turn them off, this DOES NOT delete the app.

Siri - I am very excited to read the section about Siri (my personal assistant that "lives" in my phone!!!!)  I see that I can train her to know who my contacts are so I can say things like "Calll my husband" and it will find his number in my phone.  I can also set my profile so I can say things like "Remember to check the mail when I get home." and when my location registers me at home, Siri will remind me!  Cool huh!

Iphone users.... for 99 cents I am pretty sure you will learn something with this app!



 

It's An iWorld After All!

Tomorrow is my 10th wedding anniversary.  There is no shiny diamond 10th anniversary ring (I actually got that ring for my first anniversary) instead I got an iPhone because it is an iWorld after all!!!!!!  

I did not explore apps today or do anything educational instead we took our children on a fishing adventure filled with mishaps and then spent the rest of the day learning about icloud, syncing my devices, talking to Siri (yes it's the 4S and she talks to me!) and running updates on all of our iDevices.  When I say "all" I mean my house is complete with 2 iPhones, an iPad2 and a 4th generation iPod........ we are the iWorld...and I'm still contemplating the MacBook!   lol!

This time I was determined to do it right, but yet again I did not.  I synced my iPhone before updating my itunes account with the apps I have purchased on the iPad in the last 3 months and now there are a bunch of apps on it that I am not sure how to get to my iPhone without doing the sync again... after I sync the iPad!

I THINK I have set up the sharing so any new apps I buy will automatically download to my  phone, they already do to my son's iPod, yet for some reason the iPad will not let me turn that sharing on so it can get our new purchases.  The idea of iCloud is genius, I just need a tutorial!

I am a little overwhelmed in this iWorld but am completely thrilled about it at the same time.