iPhone Tips & Tricks #300: Find Your Way Home With Siri
Siri is such an intelligent and personal device that it will even know where you live as long as you have plotted the correct details in your contact card. If you use the maps application on an iPhone without Siri, you will notice that if you type Home, it will not know what you are looking for. But with Siri it’s a different story. To find you way home, first make sure that you have your home address plotted in correctly into your contact card on your iPhone. Then you can just invoke Siri and ask, “How do I get home from here?” Siri will then jot down the directions for you and...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #299: Find A Location With Siri
We all know the problem of looking for a place on the iPhone. First, you have to open the map. Then you have to type in the address manually so that you can get directions to the place. This is quite the time waster especially when you are in a rush. Siri helps to make this a pleasant and quick experience so that you won’t be late or lost. To be able to find the location of a place on your iPhone with Siri, just press the home button to invoke the personal assistant. Then ask for a specific address. For example, you can say, “Where is the nearest Starbucks?” or you can even...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #298: Check Your Stocks With Siri
The iPhone is one that has something for everybody. And that means that even if it is a gaming and media-rich device, it can even stand to be a great assistant for the everyday business person. That being said, you can use Siri to give you all the latest on the current stocks so that you can keep in track with what you have invested in. To let Siri tell you what stocks are up or down, just invoke the mobile personal assistant by longpressing the home button. Then ask something like, “Where is Apple’s stock at today?” Siri will then give you the information that you asked for...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #275: Quickly Access Birthdays With Siri
The iPhone is such a personal device that you can ask for the seemingly mundane and get a response. For example, when it comes to birthdays, Siri does a splendid job of serving up the information that you need when you ask for it. To do this, just raise your iPhone to you or access Siri by pressing the home button and then ask Siri, “When is [name’s] birthday?” Provided that you have already placed this information on your iPhone through the calendar, Siri will give you the answer and even show you a visual card for you to be able to read. This tip works on the iPhone 4S running on...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #256: Call, Message, And Email With Siri
iPhone is quickly becoming a hands-free device because of the introduction of Siri and it can only get better with time as Apple improves the back-end of the personal assistant that we have come to know and love. Of course, there are many things that you can currently do with Siri even if it is a beta feature as originally stated on its introduction. For example, you can call, message and email with Siri just by talking to the feature and here is how you can do that. Just hold the home button to call the Siri service. To make a call, simply say, “Call Dad”, for example. To send a...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #203: iPhone Home Button On Screen
Did you know that on iOS5, aside from the physical home button, you can also have an assistive virtual button on your iPhone screen? This comes out anywhere that you need it to and is a great alternative to the home button if you don’t want to keep mashing it all time for the sake of hardware preservation. To make sure you get this feature, you need to be on iOS5 and higher. Then just go into the Settings application, tap on General, then on Accessibility. In that screen you will see Assistive Touch that you need to set to On. Your iPhone will then have a circle on the bottom right...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #91: Changing The Behavior Of Your Home Button
The home button is the most powerful thing on the iPhone. It proves that one doesn’t need so many plastic keys to do single functions. The home button can close apps, open Siri, take you back to the main screen of apps, take you to Spotlight, and just about all other things on the iPhone. The great thing is that you can also customize what the home button will do whether you double click or triple click it. Go into the Settings app and then go to General. Then find Home Button. You will see a bunch of options there that will allow you to assign the home button to specific...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #14: How To Get An iPhone Screenshot
Sometimes, the best way to show someone far away something on your iPhone is to make a screenshot of what you are looking at. Luckily, the iPhone presents an easy way so that you can make a quick and easy screenshot that will find its way into your Photos app. First, you have to be on a screen that you want to grab a screen of. All you have to do to take that screenshot is to press the home button and the power button on top at the same time. Don’t hold the buttons down. Just press and release them at the same time. You will hear the camera click and see a white flash on your...
read moreiPhone Tips & Tricks #5: Reviving A Frozen Or Hanging iPhone
Although it is very rare that you will have a phone that hangs on you, the iPhone has had its share of freezing moments when you are in the middle of surfing an app or playing a game. Mostly, this has something to do with memory being used up by a lot of applications. For example, let’s say someone calls you when you are in the middle of a very memory-intensive game like Modern Combat 3. Your iPhone can react it two ways: it lets you take the call or it freezes and nothing you can do can make it “snap out of it.” This situation can cause one to panic but you don’t have to worry...
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