Monday 18 June 2012

iOS 6 feature compatibility per device

The iOS 6 feature compatibility per device shows that 3GS, iPad 1 users and below pretty much lose out :-( Thankfully I've got a 4S iPhone, so I get flyover and tur-by-turn nav, and Facetime over cellualar network, yeh! But my iPad 2 isn't getting Siri; not happy :-(






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Location:Basildon, Essex, UK

Monday 11 June 2012

Stop new emails vibrating iPhone

I keep my iPhone on silent, and don't want new emails appearing on the lock screen, but they still vibrated my phone. Now I've found out how to stop this.

Under settings > sounds, leave the vibrate setting to on.



But turn the sound off for new email by setting it to none.



Now new emails won't vibrate, yeh!


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Location:Canvey Island, Essex, UK

Wednesday 6 June 2012

The Lancaster

The Lancaster is a cafe/bar in Southend on Sea, by London Southend Airport. I had it described to me that there was a cafe by the Lancaster plane in Southend airport, and I never knew of it, and I needed to discover it.

So on some very rough instructions I embarked on a mini adventure and found the place. Its a pleasant cafe/bar located overlooking the airport and runway, and they do a cheap breaky for £0.80 per item until midday, and sometimes they do an all-day breakfast. The staff that were there on my visit were very friendly. Oh and they do a lovely cafe latte!!

To get there head straight ahead at the round about that going right would take you to Pets At Home, follow the road past the train station, and before you get to the end of the road (which has barriers) there is a right turning that also has a barrier, but between the barrier and left-hand carpark there is a road, which once followed takes you to the Lancaster, there is parking here which is free.



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Location:Canvey Island, Essex, UK

Tuesday 5 June 2012

iPhone 5 and iOS 6

Here are some things I think may be included in the iPhone 5 and iOS 6 and things I'd like;

iPhone 5
- All your standard enhancements; faster processor, more memory, better rear facing camera (higher megapixel, faster shutter response, enhanced flash), better front facing camera
- New look and redesign, judging by leaks back will be metallic and coloured black or white. Sleek unibody design?
- larger screen, rumours are it will be the same width but longer and have a 4-4.5 inch diagonal, I would be pleased for the size increase but if its larger and keeps the same number of pixels it won't be as good a retina display, if extra pixels are added with the increased height, then how will existing apps work, will they all have to be re-written for the new screen resolution, I guess we will here about this soon in order for us to update our apps
- Smaller dock connector, I've said this for a while, and leaked photos suggest this might be included.
- Movement of the earplugs port to the bottom, according to rumours
- NFC payments enabled (want)
- 4G data connectivity
- 128 GB space is unlikely as the iPad hasn't got that size yet
- There are rumours it'll be called the "new iPhone", noooo!

iOS 6
- Siri improvements, business search outside the US, use on the iPad (apparently designing the UI for the large screen has been a challenge)
- New beautiful mapping solution replacing Google Maps with photo realistic 3D view
- Turn by turn directions like a sat nav
- App enhancements, possibly to Track Friends, Cards, and maybe pretty up Photos (want), iTunes, iBooks, App Store
- New apps
- New widgets for notification centre, and developers able to create their own widgets
- Facebook integration - lots of rumours on this
- Do not disturb feature - allowing you to turn off notifications, alerts and sounds, different to airport mode as all network access would continue to work
- Sync Safari tabs across multiple devices
- VIP mail - allows you to prioritise mail from important contacts and will show up / be highlighted
- Improved multitasking interface (want), maybe fullscreen

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Location:Essex, UK

Backup Strategy


I've sadly run out of disk space, and so my back up strategy is no longer working, and so I need to make changes in order to free up space and get my back ups happening again. Below are details of my current strategy, and my requirements for the backups, over the next few months I intend to sort this out, and will post the results either here on kevingordon.org.uk.

Backup strategy

1) Time capsule to backup MacBook Pro, 1 Terrabyte, 340 Gig available.
2) iCloud to backup iPhone and iPad, 25 Gig total, 9.7 Gig available.
3) Media backed up manually to two external 1 Terrabyte hard drives.
4) Photo stream backing up photos to MBP and iCloud

It worked but now have a few problems

1) MBP has only 7.3 Gig free from 320 Gig
2) Videos on iPhone and iPad currently not being backed up
3) iPhone has 14.2 Gig of photos and videos that I can’t transfer to MBP as there is not enough space, and I’m running out of space on the iPhone
4) No automated backup of media to the two external hard drives, I manually copy new media to each of the hard drives

Requirements

1) Free up 100+ Gig on the MBP
2) Have the photo and video library accessible via iPhoto on the MBP
3) Have an automated way of adding new media to both external hard drives
4) Possibly use DropBox to backup remotely (I have a free DropBox account)
5) Have an external backup solution to mirror personal documents and media located maybe at my parents house

Usage of the MBP hard drive and iPhone

1) iPhone 32 Gig, 567 MB available 5.5 GB Music, 1.1 GB Video App, 14.2 GB
2) 251 Gig - My user account; 55.7 Gig Music; 66.7 Gig library (56.2 Gig iPhone and iPad backups), 96.1 Gig Photos/Videos