By roman Generally, most people prefer to buy gadgets early in the product’s life cycle, so it remains “new” for longer. Others prefer to buy a bit later, waiting for any early issues to be worked out. And everyone will agree, that … Continue reading →
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By brolloh Since iPhone received notifications in iOS 5, we’ve been much happier seeing our alerts roll in at the top of our devices instead of over the top of our current task.
However, a lot of standard Apple and third party apps have navigation buttons in the same place. So whilst you may want to simply go Back, instead your unfortunately timed prod takes you to a lonely smiley face from your friend. Not ideal.
As ever there’s a trick for getting rid of notifications rather than waiting 6 seconds for them to retreat. Simply wait for one to appear and slide you finger (or thumb!) from right to left. A well aimed slide will get rid of your notification in an instant.
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By Alex Brooks Apple’s fiscal second quarter revenue with top end Apple estimate
Apple today announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter of 2013 which ran from January 1, 2013 until March 31. Apple posted revenue of $43.6 billion and net quarterly profit of $9.5 billion, or $10.09 per diluted share. These results compare to revenue of $39.2 billion and net profit of $11.6 billion, or $12.30 per diluted share, in the year-ago quarter. Gross margin was 37.5 percent compared to 47.4 percent in the year-ago quarter. International sales accounted for 66 percent of the quarter’s revenue.
Apple reported the following number of shipments for its products during the quarter:
37.4 million iPhones compared to 35.1 million in the year-ago-quarter
19.5 million iPads compared to 11.8 million in the year-ago-quarter
3.95 million Macs compared to 4 million in the year-ago quarter
5.63 million iPods compared to 7.7 million in the year-ago quarter.
“We are pleased to report record March quarter revenue thanks to continued strong performance of iPhone and iPad,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Our teams are hard at work on some amazing new hardware, software and services, and we are very excited about the products in our pipeline.”
“Our cash generation remains very strong, with $12.5 billion in cash flow from operations during the quarter and an ending cash balance of $145 billion,” said Peter Oppenheimer, Apple’s CFO.
Apple provided the following guidance for its fiscal 2013 second quarter:
revenue between $33.5 billion and $35.5 billion
gross margin between 36 percent and 37 percent
operating expenses between $3.85 billion and $3.95 billion
other income/(expense) of $300 million
tax rate of 26%
Source: World of Apple
By brolloh Do you find you write the same phrase over and over in iPhone messages? For example if you’re a happy, contented sort you might be writing “I love you” in every message. That’s 8 characters! Your time is precious, 8 characters typed ten times a day means you’ll have wasted three days by the end of your life being mushy!
If you must stick with love-based cellular communication, we have a suggestion.
Navigate to Settings>General>Keyboards and scroll down until you reach Add New Shortcut….
Now you can type ‘ily’ and your phone will fill in the rest, romance will arrive on your darling’s phone as usual, but they’ll be unaware you’ve regained three days of your life back. If they do find out you’ve found a romance shortcut, firstly we didn’t tell you, and secondly you only did it so you could have three more days with them, which is quite romantic anyway.
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By brolloh We can’t believe it’s taken us seventy four tips to get to this one!
This tip has a big fan base amongst educators but we’re sure you’ll find a valuable use for it.
OS X has a universal zoom function to get you closer to your work. To enable this, head to System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing, or the SquareCMD endorsed method: alt + cmd + 8 for On or Off.
After this is enabled, simply hold ctrl and scroll up on your mouse or trackpad. If you have an older Macbook or a non-scroll mouse, hold alt + cmd and press + to zoom in and – to zoom out
As you can see here, zoom has a wealth of uses.
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By brolloh There’s a super helpful application hidden in your Services menu called Summarize.
The role of Summarize is very much a ‘does what it says on the tin’ one. Whenever you find yourself gazing at a long stream of text that could do with some refinement or in need of a general overview, Summarize is your best bet.
Because Summarize appears in the Services menu, it’s available to all text based applications.
Select your colossal batch of text and head up to the application menu, in this case TextEdit.
Go down to Services and select Summarize.
You’ll be presented with a small window and a slider, the slider lets you refine just how summarised you want the text.
We hope we’ve saved you some time!
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By brolloh Another simple but widely unused and unknown trick for the iOS mathematicians! This one has existed since the days of ‘iPhone OS 1′ and really shows the innovative way Apple used the accelerometer from the start.
Fire up your iOS Calculator app, what more could you want? Well, if you’re trying to work out how many cakes to buy for a party of 15 children, nothing more. If you’re trying to work out |2(sqrt{2[log4(16)]} – {[log3(27)]3})| + 2 then perhaps you need a lot more. We know the answer is 16 thanks to this tip.
Tilt your iPhone 90º and there you go, the most scientific of calculators is at your disposal!
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By brolloh With every application running in it’s own window, your cursor can quickly break into a sweat managing all of them at once! We’re hoping these two tips will ease your pain ever so slightly.
Sometimes we find ourselves using two applications concurrently, perhaps we’re referencing text from Safari but our work and focus is with Pages? Browsing iTunes but working on a Keynote presentation? To scroll through albums in iTunes running in a window behind Keynote, you may think you have to click on iTunes to bring it to the front and scroll, but you needn’t!
OS X allows your cursor to stray outside of the focus application and into one thats peeking around the side, scrolling with your mouse or trackpad will work in that application too without coming to the front!
What happens if you can’t quite see that text you’re referencing behind Pages? Awkwardly manoeuvre the reference window then head back to Pages? No! Using a similar trick, you can move any background window you want.
Hold down the command button and click on the title bar of the background window, you’ll find that you can move it anywhere you want with your main application remaining in front.
We hope this proves helpful!
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