Hints, Tips and Tricks for your Apple products
The Ongoing Search
2 minute read
Search in iOS is as powerful as it is in Mac OS. Read on to find out how to access it.
Previously we have looked at Spotlight on Mac OS, which has many powerful features for helping you out in ways that you may not have thought about, such as using it as a calculator, finding contacts, doing conversions etc. You can find out more by looking at that blog post.
See In The Dark: Using Dark Mode
3 minute read
Not how to use the Torch on iOS. Instead we explore the options that allow you to use your devices later in the evening without over stimulating your senses, ensuring a good nights sleep can be achieved.
Ever felt fatigued at night after using your iOS device or Mac? Well if you really can't put it down earlier, Apple have developed two features that help you to have a more restful experience when using your device in the early hours.
Custom Mailboxes On iPhone
1 minute read
It's possible to customise which mailboxes are visible in the Mail app in iOS. Click through to find out how.
The default mailbox view in the Mail app on iOS gives you the standard set of mailboxes which is great, but sometimes a bit more flexibility would be useful.
Scan Documents With Your iPhone
2 minute read
Sometimes you need to scan a document in, but it's a pain to have a large flat bed scanner for the purpose. Now using your iPhone you can create scans without the unnecessary bulk of a dedicated piece of hardware.
You have several documents that you need to scan in but no longer have that huge clunky flatbed scanner that was a nuisance to keep around for the few occasions you needed it. Or you just want to take a picture of a recipe so that you have it on your phone for later, but need it to be legible. Or you want to take a snapshot of that business card so that you can check it out again at your convenience.
Demystifying iCloud
6 minute read
Just what is iCloud and what can I expect it to do for me?
iCloud, the collection of internet services suppled by Apple, can be confusing to understand. In this article we seek to dispel the misconceptions and outline just exactly what it is and what it isn't.
Taking Control Of Control Centre
3 minute read
You can customise the Control Centre so that your most used utilities are at your finger tips at any time of day.
Unless you are menu diving it is easy to miss the fact that you can customise the Control Centre screen. The default set is great, but there are so many other little apps that you can enable that are genuinely useful to be able to get to quickly.
Becoming A Text Ninja
2 minute read
Pinch, swipe and triple tap your way to text manipulation success in iOS.
Originally the iPhone shipped with no support for functions like copy and paste. Later Apple added support for these features, but dealing with text manipulation always proved to be tricky and fiddly, causing frustrations and time waisting.
Affinity Suite
3 minute read
Our first Airiam Recommends. The Affinity suite is an award winning set of graphics applications that are well worth a look at as an alternative to Adobe.
Many people have become disillusioned with Adobe and their subscription model for the Creative Suite. Personally I also disliked how bloated and old the software had become running on all that legacy code. I wanted a fast, modern set of graphics applications that didn't cost the earth but that were powerful and flexible to use.