Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Siri Secret Commands


You've probably already mastered how to treat Siri to get the information you want, rather than some absurd answers Apple’s intelligent assistant gives if it misunderstood your command. Below you’ll find some random useful tips on how to make it easier for Siri to precisely understand what you mean.

If you have created playlists and given them certain names, for example: ‘morning songs’ or ‘romantic’ or just anything, you can make Siri play it for you if your command sounds the following way: Play playlist + playlist name.

If you’re a busy person you probably get tones of e-mails daily. To easily sort and find e-mails by certain sender, ask Siri to: Find all email by and a contact name.

Did you know that Siri can tell you the name of that actor you know you’ve seen before but just can’t remember the name? Simply ask: Who was in the cast of and name the movie. One more thing about movies, if you’d like to get information about movie times and ticket purchasing in your area, your command should sound like this: [Movie Name] show times [zip code - optional]" – to get best results. However if you have set Google in Safari to use your current location, you don’t even need to specify an area code.

If you’ve set it up on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, or others that let you update via SMS, Siri will message your status right to it if you say: Message + specify social network+ status: what you’d like Siri to post.

To get Siri find sports scores efficiently, just say: Yahoo/Google/Bing (or whatever) + Team name+ score, for example: Google Chelsea score – and you’ll get the answer. In this way you’ll not only be shown the current score if the game is currently in progress, but it will show the team record, score of the last game, and upcoming game.

And now, check some of the crazy answers Siri usually gives to your stupid questions below.










Monday, March 12, 2012

Technology Hub Wins Free App Poll


The winner of the week is completely different from the previous app winners and here is how: Technology Hub is an extremely useful free app that helps you solve each and every tech problem of yours, including installing the latest software, connecting your laptop to your TV, how to unlock any special feature and more! This ultimate all-knowing mobile tech guru provides personalized help anytime solving life’s big and little tech problems – using skilled knowledge and homegrown wisdom from real people around the world!

Technology Hub enables you to communicate with the real people all around the globe, so you are able to share your tech problems and get help while offer your tips and useful information to others as well. This means that you get personalized advice, not those generalized to each and every- you either solve or are solved! You can post your questions to a wide variety of categories, including: cameras, computer gaming, console gaming and platforms, DVDs, iPhones, GPS, hardware, mac, media, music players, networking, PC, portable gaming, tablets, television, website development and more.

With the built-in news feed dubbed as News Hub the app helps you stay on the cutting edge and get the latest and hottest tech news from trusted industry sources.

Technology Hub is available for free in Apple App Store  in the news category. The app is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad and requires iOS 4.3 or later to be functional.

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Friday, March 9, 2012

What’s New In iOS 5.1


So much awaited iOS 5 update has finally been rolled, announced on an iPad event on March 7th , San Francisco. Due to the fact that there has been no single mention of the update since January 9th (the last beta release date), the expectations about iOS 5.1 have gone wild. Unfortunately there are no surprises in iOS 5.1  as it was anticipated, but the update brings several major improvements along with some minor changes in audio and call quality.

One of the most vivid changes concerns the way you access the camera app: if you had to double tap your device and then again press the home button to access camera in previous iOS versions, now the camera icon is always present on the lock screen when the phone is on, and is activated by just sliding the icon up.

The next change concerns the camera app too, but this time for iPad: it is redesigned the way that performs faster, smoother and has some minor basic functions added. One more thing that’s new is that you now finally have an option to delete photos from your photo stream! And the last and the most expected: Japanese Siri is also present and will be available by March 16th. 

The update also brings major battery improvements for the sake of iPhone 4S owners, fixing all the previous issues that the users complained so much about. 

Despite battery fixes, there is one  more important thing iPhone 4S users should know: iOS 5.1 turns iPhone 4S into a 4G iPhone on AT&T's network, but unfortunately without any increasee in speed.


The latest iOS firmware update is already available for each and every iDevice, but if you have jailbroken your device, avoid upgrading to iOS 5.1 because you may lose your jailbreak.