Pinch and zoom the cover art album browser in the Music app

When you turn your iOS 7 device to landscape (horizontal) mode in the Music app, you get a lovely grid of album cover art from the music in your library. You can tap on one to see that album in details.

But you may not realize just how interactive that grid is. You can swipe across it to drag other album covers into view. But even better, you can pinch and zoom to change how many album covers fit onto the screen at a time.

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Let Siri give a random number

Siri can returna random number, letter, or word.
After reading Lex’s hint about rolling the dice and flipping a coin, I decided to see whether Siri can generate random numbers. It can have Wolfram do it. You can speak “random number” (which it interprets as “random integer”), “random integer”, or “random real”. You can also specify ranges, such as “random number between ten and 100” or “random real between 20 and 30”.

“random word” and “random letter” also work.

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Roll the dice or flip a coin with Siri

Over at Finer Things, David Chartier points out that Siri can help you play games of chance. Unfortunately, however, the virtual assistant can’t necessarily help you win at said games. Still, you can use Siri when you need to flip a coin or roll a pair of dice.

Say “Flip a coin,” and Siri will either announce that it’s heads or tails. Ask Siri to “roll the dice,” and you’ll get a pair of numbers between one and six. You can’t ask Siri to roll a single die. Or rather, you can, but you’ll still get two numbers back.

Hardcore role playing game enthusiasts will need a separate app or actual dice hardware to roll dice with more than six sides; Siri’s apparently not into D&D.

Source: Mac OSX Hints