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iPhone 4S - Ask Siri to help you get things done.

iPhone 4S - Ask Siri to help you get things done.

Mac Remembering Steve Jobs Advanced Siri tips for daily usage Jack Wallen provides some quick tips for using Siri and taking the voice-activated system to newer, more powerful levels. If you close your eyes, you can hear her voice. Or maybe you can see the likes of Zooey Dechanel prancing around her hipster apartment in her Pjs. Advanced searching with Siri Siri allows you to easily search the web in many ways. Flight times If you're looking for flight times, you can get Siri to help. Sports scores You can get up-to-date information on your favorite sporting team and even games that are in progress. Movie times/ticket purchasing The process of finding movie times is made much easier if you've set Safari to use your Current Location in Google. Siri using URL Schemes The developers of iPhone apps use an interesting trick to allow their apps to easily communicate with one another. Now, how can we use this to our advantage? Have Siri use Remember The Milk for reminders Use your indoor voice There you go. Read also

Kindle e-Reader with Wi-Fi, 6" Display Mind Hacks 10 Siri tips and tricks Siri is a digital assistant that's currently only available on the iPhone 4S. Siri is designed to understands what you say and get the right meaning from the instructions that you give it. Using Siri you can dictate, send messages, schedule meetings, place phone calls and plenty more - it'll even tell you the weather. But its effectiveness can be patchy unless you give it the right commands. So we've put together our top tips and tricks to get more from Apple's digital assistant. But first, why not check out our video - see how Siri copes with different accents. 1. Why type when you can speak? Commands and questions aren't the only ways to put Siri to work. 2. Correct Siri when it gets it wrong By now, you'll know that Siri doesn't always get things right. 3. Punctuate your dictation Siri doesn't make assumptions about punctuation and grammar, but it recognises commands for inserting new paragraphs, commas, full stops and many other grammatical constructs. 4. Personalise the conversation 5.

Neuroskeptic Six tips for mastering Siri Siri, the artificially intelligent assistant built into the iPhone 4S, is fun to show off. You can joke around with Siri, scoring funny replies if you ask it to beam you up, open the pod bay doors, or share its favorite color. But Siri offers more than just a source of amusement: It can also help you get more things done with your iPhone. Here’s how to master Siri’s nuances, turning it from a parlor trick to impressive productivity tool. Speak your punctuation Unless you frequently dictate missives, reciting your punctuation aloud doesn’t feel quite natural. Dear Jason comma new paragraph I’m working on that Siri story we discussed comma and I expect it will be ready soon exclamation point Other dictation instructions that Siri can handle include: (For the rest of the examples in this article, we’ll just include the punctuation instead of spelling it out, to make things easier to read.) Use cue words iMessage Dan Moren… I’m testing Siri, and thus you have to suffer. Siri’s imperfect.

Four stages of competence In psychology, the four stages of competence, or the "conscious competence" learning model, relates to the psychological states involved in the process of progressing from incompetence to competence in a skill. History[edit] The Four Stages of Learning provides a model for learning. It suggests that individuals are initially unaware of how little they know, or unconscious of their incompetence. As they recognize their incompetence, they consciously acquire a skill, then consciously use it. Several elements, including helping someone 'know what they don't know' or recognize a blind spot, can be compared to some elements of a Johari window, although Johari deals with self-awareness, while the four stages of competence deals with learning stages. The four stages of competence[edit] Unconscious incompetenceThe individual does not understand or know how to do something and does not necessarily recognize the deficit. Fifth stage[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]

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