• Do Not Disturb – iPad and iPhone

    I sometimes get notifications in the middle of the night from my website, twitter and so on. I even get some of my overseas clients calling me when I should be asleep. It’s not their fault, they just don’t know that I am in New Zealand. I used to switch…

  • I’ve Just Sold My Android Tablet

    I have finally sold my android tablet. I quite enjoyed using it, but I did not like it as much as my iPad. I want to get an iPad mini, because the size of the android tablet was the thing that I liked most about it. The one thing that…

  • 0049 iBooks Highlights into Evernote

    With all iBooks you can add your notes and highlight text. With some iBooks you can share the highlights. This allows you to send the highlighted text to your Evernote database.

  • 0047 Notes in iOS 6

    Your iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch come with an app called Notes. Notes is designed to be a quick note taking app, without any frills. It’s a very quick note to taker, but will also connect through your iCloud account to other devices. This means that notes written on one…

  • 0048 Evernote Version 5

    I posted a blog recently saying that Evernote would soon be updating to version 5. When I went to check the app store on my iPad today I found that Evernote had been upgraded.

  • 0046 Connecting a Bluetooth Keyboard

    I sometimes find it easier to use a full-size keyboard with my iPad and my iPhone rather than the screen keyboards that come with the devices.

  • 0045 Reminders in iOS 6

    In previous versions of the iOS, there wasn’t an application for reminders. This created many to do list type applications. With iOS 6, we now have a reminder application that will sync through the iCloud to your other devices.

  • Should You Buy WiFi only or WiFi+3G

    It is cheaper to buy a tablet/kindle/iPad that is WiFi only, but is it better? I recently went away for the weekend and stayed at a motel that had Free WiFi. I thought this would be great because lately I have been buying portable devices that are wifi only.

  • iPhone Tips and Tricks

    Apple have posted a page of tips and tricks for the iphone. These are great tips, because they have changed a lot of the swipe gestures in  iOS7. I have been learning these gradually myself, but this would have been a lot quicker if I had these pages last week.

  • 0043 Creating and Using Safari Reading List

    Here are some more tips and tricks when using Safari. When I want to read several articles from a website I like to be able to open those articles in different tabs, or I like to add them to a reading list.