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21 Things You Didn't Know Your iPhone Could Do

21 Things You Didn't Know Your iPhone Could Do
Your iPhone can do all sorts of magical things that you probably aren't aware of. Here's a list of some of the iPhone's coolest hidden features. 1. Shake to undo blog.laptopmag.com Make a mistake while typing or editing a picture? 2. wonderfulengineering.com Switching to airplane mode turns off battery-draining wireless and cellular access, allowing your phone to recharge up to twice as fast. 3. Just say the magic words "Read my email" and Siri will read all your messages aloud to you. 4. Just ask her: "What flights are above me?" 5. cdn.macrumors.com The best part about this is that it makes you feel smarter than Siri. 6. www.cultofmac.com If you like to doze off with music playing like I do, you can use the timer to automatically turn your music off so that it doesn't play all night. 7. www.screenlight.tv This one is super useful. 8. cdn.skatter.com 9. If you hold down the capture button, your phone will take a series of rapid shots, or bursts, in quick succession. 10. 11. www.buzzfeed.com

Deleting “Blank” Pages Users often ask how to get rid of a blank page that is being printed at the end or in the middle of a document. How to approach this problem depends on whether or not the page is actually blank. A simple test will help you decide: Can you see the page? That is, in Print Layout view or Print Preview, does Word display the empty page? If so, it is not really “blank.” “Blank” pages that aren’t really blank Except for the blank even or odd pages that Word inserts as needed before an Odd or Even Page break (see “True blank pages”), most “blank” pages aren’t really blank. Figure 1. When you do this, you’ll suddenly see a lot of markings that may be unfamiliar to you if you’ve never before displayed nonprinting characters (or “formatting marks”). The one you want to concentrate on is the paragraph mark: ¶. Table at the end of the document If there is a table at the very end of your document, Word will insist on having an empty paragraph after the table. Blank page in the middle of a document

Pack for Chrome: Our List of Essential Chrome Extensions Why Hollywood Will Never Look the Same Again on Film: LEDs Hit the Streets of LA & NY Dave Kendricken 02.1.14 @ 11:26PM Tags : cct, collateral, colortemperature, cri, LA, led, LEDlighting, lighting, losangeles, lowlight, newyork, spd, streetlights After Michael Mann set out to direct Collateral, the story’s setting moved from New York to Los Angeles. Here’s the trailer for Collateral if you need a visual refresher: Mann chose to shoot HD because of how the format rendered the story’s setting. LA Goes LED Environmentally speaking, this is a good thing — though it’s easy to get a little nostalgic to put the implications of this retrofit into perspective. Justin Gerdes has written a ton for Forbes about LED lighting and its benefits to cities big and little, including the following in September: “On June 18, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced [PDF] the completion of the first phase of the project, with LED fixtures installed on 141,089 street lights.” What Makes Artificial Lighting ‘Realistic’? The Light That Was The Light That Will Be Links: Related Posts

Apps stuck downloading after restoring from iCloud? Here's the fix! | iMore While iCloud is the most convenient way to restore your data to a new iPhone or iPad, that doesn't mean it's always the most reliable. One of the largest complaints I hear from users is that after restoring, a few apps get stuck installing and can't be deleted or restarted. Luckily, there are a few easy tricks you can perform in order to get your apps back in no time! 1. The first thing you should try in order to get stuck apps unstuck is tapping the icon. If tapping the app icon doesn't solve anything, proceed to the next step. 2. Hold down the Home button and Power button on your iPhone or iPad and keep holding them until you see the Apple logo. 3. You own every app you've purchased and can delete and re-download them on demand. If this doesn't work, or your iPhone or iPad isn't letting you delete apps, continue on. 4. As a last and final option, canceling an iCloud restore has always worked for me. Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Your tips and tricks?

Pack for Mac: Our List of the Best Free Mac Apps Finding excellent free software for your Mac is increasingly tough. In our fourth annual Lifehacker Pack for Mac, we're highlighting the best free downloads for better productivity, communication, media management, and more. The Lifehacker Pack is a yearly snapshot of our favorite, must-have applications for each of our favorite platforms. If you're curious to see how things have changed this year, here's last year's Lifehacker Pack for Mac. Want to skip to a specific category? Productivity Quicksilver Simply put, Quicksilver makes everything you do on your Mac easier. Download Page Notational Velocity What makes Notational Velocity great is that it has the exact amount of features needed in a note taking app with no fluff. Download Page DashExpander Text expansion is one those pieces of productivity software that most people only associate with power users, but it's incredibly handy for just about everyone. Download Page Wunderlist Download Page Internet/Communication Chrome Download Page Adium

The Cinematography of "The Incredibles" Part 2 See Part 1 here.Continuing with my case study of the shot compositions from Pixar's film "The Incredibles". All images used here are ©Disney/Pixar (unless otherwise stated). Composition in film includes many different aspects; color, shape, line, contrast, positioning, cropping, viewpoint, rhythm, perspective, proportion, geometry, and many more. The dinner table sequence is a nice one that showcases how well you can move the camera around depending on which character(s) you want to make as the focus of the shot. A 2 shot. Warm colors, warm lighting, all conveying a comfortable family environment. Well shot and beautifully executed, the audience always knows where all the characters are, her with Helen and Dash looking at Bob, it motivates the camera to cut (to see what they are seeing). Characters are never blending into the background too much, color tones and shape (silhouettes) are always clear to make the image fast and easy to read. Rule of Thirds is everywhere. Awesome shot. o

theconversation “And so it begins … ISIS flag among refugees in Germany fighting the police,” blared the headline on the Conservative Post; “with this new leaked picture, everything seems confirmed”. The image in question purported to show a group of Syrian refugees holding ISIS flags and attacking German police officers. For those resistant to accepting refugees into Europe, this story was a godsend. The photo quickly spread across social media, propelled by far-right groups such as the English Defence League and Pegida UK. The problem is, the photo is three years old, and has precious little to do with the refugee crisis. But news in the digital age spreads faster than ever, and so do lies and hoaxes. But ordinary people are also starting to take a more sophisticated approach to the content they view online. Reverse image search Not only is a reverse image search one of the simplest verification tools, it’s also the one that showed the “leaked” ISIS refugee photo was a fake. YouTube DataViewer

New App Recap: July 28, 2014 Posted 07/28/2014 at 3:08pm | by J.R. Bookwalter 1 of 9 View the full image This week's app gallery assembles a number of promising newcomers along with return of a Bitcoin payments app and significant new updates to a pair of popular productivity apps. Discounted for a limited time, Fantastical 2.1 ($4.99, iPhone; $9.99, iPad) adds the ability to snooze event or reminder notifications, upcoming birthday notifications and see or hide app icon badges.

MADS HAGBARTH LUND's portfolio Readability statistics incorrect or missing in Word The following are possible reasons why the readability statistics might be incorrect or not displayed. The text being checked is a one-line paragraph with no punctuation mark at the end of the sentence.Resolution: Add punctuation to the end of the sentence before you check the spelling and grammar of your Word document.You have clicked to select the Do not check spelling or grammar check box in the Language dialog box. When Word checks text that you formatted by clicking to select the Do not check spelling or grammar check box, you receive the following error message: The spelling and grammar check is complete.

iOS 7 Compatible Jailbreak Apps and Tweaks The release of the evasi0n7 jailbreak for iOS 7 – iOS 7.0.4 has taken many of us by surprise, including Cydia developers, so even though you may have successfully jailbroken your iOS device it is advisable to proceed with caution as many jailbreak apps and tweaks are not compatible with iOS 7 currently. pod2g has also tweeted that jailbreak apps and tweaks relying on MobileSubstrate may have issues and has advised jailbreakers to avoid installing them for now. They’re working on a fix. We thought it may be a good idea to keep tab of the list of compatible jailbreak apps and tweaks to your life a lot easier. It also looks like some apps don’t work on iPhone 5s probably because of the 64-bit A7 chip, so we’ve also mentioned if a tweak doesn’t work on a device. So here’s the initial list of jailbreak apps and tweaks that are compatible with iOS 7 – iOS 7.0.4. Updated (December 23, 2013: Updated (December 25, 2013): Updated (December 30, 2013): Updated (January 8, 2014): [via reddit, Google doc]

How to Test Your Document’s Readability in Word 2010 If you have ever been interested in the readability level of your writing then you are going to love a hidden feature in Word 2010. Why would you care about the readability of your writing? Depending on your audience, the level at which you write needs to be adjusted accordingly, for example, if you write content for an audience in the 3rd grade you cannot expect the audience to easily understand SAT words and paragraphs with longer sentences. In order to gauge your document’s readability you can use the highlighted below, however before you use the readability score tool you will first need to enable it using the instructions below. If you have any comments or questions, please use the comments form at the end of the article. Note: Word 2010 was used for the screenshots in this guide. Enabling Readability Statistics in Word 2010 1. 2. 3. when the Word Options window opens, click Proofing from the list. 4. 5. How to Check Readability Statistics 1. 2. A.

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