Category: iPad

New Weather App points to everything that is wrong with iOS

Two things came together that motivated me to write this article, something I wasn’t planning on doing until the new year. The first was the upgrade to Weather Au from Shiftyjelly and the other was an article by Liz Gannes that appeared on the All Things D website. Shiftyjelly have been producing a weather application for …

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You don’t have to read it all at once

We’ve all be there. You are reading a great article on – for example – www.macservicescat.com.au and you are called away. In the past you have promised yourself to remember the address or you have emailed yourself the article and this has lead to frustration (when you realize you can’t remember the address after all) …

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If you are around kids and you have an iPhone…

Kids love iPhones, iPads and iPods and they can be a great way to keep the kids occupied. Unfortunately while they are amusing themselves with your iPhone there is every possibility that they might delete Apps or maybe even purchase a few. You know kids – they are amazingly clever when it comes to stuff like …

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New iOS 6

iOS6 is on its way and it promises to make any iPhone – large screen or not – even better. As usual Apple touts over 200 new features and as per usual they only talked about a handful at the recent WWDC to whet our appetites. Oh well, more sleepless nights wrestling with my recently …

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Following the life of a photo

It used to be so simple. You took a photo on your iPhone and it stayed there until you synced it to your Mac. From there, if you could be bothered, you crop it or changed the colouring, but mostly you’d just file it. But now Apple have tried to get clever with photo stream, …

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