Look closely next time you see an Apple Ad or press shot, and you’ll find that the time is always set to 9:41A.M. or 9:42 A.M.
Why?
Because all Apple events start at 9 a.m.
“We design the keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation,” former Apple executive Scott Forstall has said. “When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience’s watches. But we know we won’t hit 40 minutes exactly.”
Forstall’s exacting his team chose the 42-minute mark for the launch of the first iPhone in 2007. “It turned out we were pretty accurate with that estimate, so for the iPad we made it 41 minutes,” he said.
Plus, 42 is the answer to the meaning of life, so there’s that going for them too.
Are you guys as obsessed with the weather as we are? It makes for killer socially awkward conversation filler! You also start to care about it waaaay more the older you get, are we right oldies?
In iOS 7, the Weather app will show your basic info for your chosen cities. DUH.
Here’s what a lot of people don’t know. Tap on the big temp number for each city, and you’ll get a breakdown showing humidity, the chance of rain, wind speed, and what the temperature actually feels like.
So much good weather stuff.
Umm. So, How ’bout this rain, huh?
Oh Wait, we actually had something real to say. Just a heads up- there is no native weather App on the iPad for iOS 7 & it’s really frustrating when you’re sure that there is.
Oh Google, you wonderful way too powerful magic machine beast you. We love/hate you, but this is pretty cool.
Search for a word followed by the word etymology and Google will give you a simple outline of the etymology of that word!
For those playing at home- etymology is the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
Also known as something to make you seem more intelligent,which is something Google is getting quite good at. We just hope they don’t go too far, because then HOW WILL WE KNOW, GOOGLE? HOW WILL WE KNOW?
A lot? Sometimes? Only to see if you can get funny answers?
There are a lot people that don’t know about mysterious Miss Siri. Did you know for example that you can do this with her?
No? Here’s part one of our complete rundown on Siri – what she is, what she can do to improve your life, and the future she can bring us.
Siri is an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator. She’s basically an App, present on all Apple devices after Siri was acquired by Apple on April 28, 2010. The original application ceased to function on October 14, 2011.
She uses a natural language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of Web services. Apple claims that the software adapts to the user’s individual preferences over time and personalizes results.
Although a lot of people think SIRI stand for ‘Speech Interpretation and Recognition Interface, the name Siri is actually Norwegian, meaning “beautiful woman who leads you to victory”. It was named after the intended name for the original developer’s first child.
Currently, Siri supports English (American, Canadian, Australian, British), French, German, Japanese, Italian (Italy, Switzerland), Spanish (Mexico, Spain), Mandarin (China, Taiwan), Korean, and Cantonese.
The original American voice was provided by Susan Bennett in July 2005. Now, in settings alongside your choice of language, you have an option of gender for Siri’s voice.
NOW, here’s the important stuff. Here’s what you can use Siri for to make your life more efficient:
SPORTS
Ask Siri for baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and soccer scores as well as schedules, rosters, and stats.
EATING
Ask Siri to search for restaurants or bars using different criteria. Siri will give you results based on these as well as photos, reviews, and reservations.
SOCIALISING
Siri can post to Facebook for you as well as on other people’s pages.
Siri can also tweet for you.
You can also search for recent tweets. Say, ” What is person’s name/company/brand saying?” and Siri will show you their most recent Tweets.
LAZINESS
With iOS 7, you can ask Siri to open apps. Just say something like “Play Angry Birds” or “Open iPhoto.” You can even say ‘Take a picture.’ Although Siri won’t actually take the picture for you, she’ll just open the app for you.
Use Siri to turn Bluetooth and other settings like WiFi on and off simply by saying, “Turn Bluetooth/WiFi Off/ On.”
ORGANIZATION
Tell Siri when and where you want to be reminded of something.
Schedule meetings. Say who, what, where, and when. Siri puts it on your calendar and sends an invitation to the person you’re meeting with via email.
In fact, Siri can write and send all of your emails or text messages or even organize for you to FaceTime with someone.
Use Siri to set the Alarm Clock for you.
Lastly, for Part one of All About Siri, we give you one of our favorite Siri features: What planes are above right now?
Stay tuned for Part Two so you’ll know how to use Siri to make your life more efficient! Until then, here’s some Siri inspired humor, just for you guys.
A couple of days ago a pretty awesome meeting happened between Apple shareholders and Apple’s board of directors. It was an annual shareholders meeting which is normally pretty routine- the CEO, Tim Cook, fills everyone in on the progress of the company and everyone talks about the general outlook for the foreseeable future.
This one, however, played out a little differently. This time, a representative from the National Center for Public Policy Research or NCPPR (a conservative think tank) asked the company to disclose the costs of its sustainability programs, such as solar energy facilities, and how they affected their profits. He then said that Apple should be cutting climate change programs in order to focus on profits above everything else.
Mr Cook did not like that, he didn’t like it one, itty, bit.
He said that there are many things Apple does because they are right and just, and that a return on investment (ROI) was not the primary consideration on such issues.
“When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind,” he said, “I don’t consider the bloody ROI.” He said that the same thing about environmental issues, worker safety, and other areas where Apple is a leader.
Finally, Cook looked at the questioner and said “if you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.”
The shareholders, thank god, agreed with him. Apple is a company that rates social measures, innovation and advances in technology above all else, and that would be how it will remain.
Following the meeting, the NCPPR and the man behind the questions from them, a Justin Danhof, released an a press release that is heavily critical of Cook, saying that shareholder value is destroyed in favor of efforts to combat climate change in particular.
“Here’s the bottom line: Apple is as obsessed with the theory of so-called climate change as its board member Al Gore is,” Danhof said. “After today’s meeting, investors can be certain that Apple is wasting untold amounts of shareholder money to combat so-called climate change.”
Well, we wish we were shareholders in Apple, and we would be really proud of ourselves if we were. Well done, Mr Cook, Well done, Apple Shareholders. Proud ‘a you.
We’re not crying, it’s just been raining on our face.
iMessage is an awesome way to send free text, photo, and video messages to friends who are using iOS 5 and above. Read receipts allow your friends to see whether you’ve viewed their message or not.
Now, we’re all good people around here, right, but sometimes there are circumstances when you don’t really want people to know if or when you read their messages.
If you don’t want your friends notified of when you have read their messages, go to Settings >Messages > Send Read Receipts > Off.
Hand up who listens to music in bed at night? Hand up who sometimes falls asleep then wakes in a heart attack of terror 2 hours later when your playlist hits onto your awesome screamer metal songs? It might not be a problem for all of us, but boy, for some of us, it can be a little…
Well now you can stop freaking out boys and girls, cos you know what? We got you! Use a timer to help you shut down the music before the heavy metal comes on.
Clock >Timer > When Timer Ends. Scroll down and tap Stop Playing. Then, set a timer (say 30 mins) and tap Start. Now you can play music as you fall asleep and it will be turned off according to the timer.
Apple, Cool Features, iPhone, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, Tricks | iPhone-Antidote | 
March 27, 2014 4:07 pm | 
Comments (0) 
Subscribe
