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All things iPhone, iPad, apps, tips, tricks, and accessories that help you work and play better.

Change your iPhone’s brightness with a quick swipe in Riposte

Use Photo Stream instead of emailing photos to yourself

Finer News: Updates to RSS feeds, main sections

Shake the Xbox SmartGlass app and your avatar falls over

Disable remote images in Mail for iOS to fight spam, bandwidth bills

Finer Things in iOS

Delivery Status can share deliveries with your friends, coworkers

02 Apr 2013
David Chartier
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Delivery Status, iPad apps, iPhone apps, sharing
Tap a delivery in Delivery Status, a package tracker that supports a ton of services worldwide, and you can share delivery details with
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OmniFocus can use Siri to create tasks

30 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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iPad apps, iPhone apps, OmniFocus, productivity, Reminders, Siri, task management
You can use Siri to create new tasks for OmniFocus for iPhone and iPad. This means you can speak “Add get milk to my OmniFocus
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Wikiweb makes Wikipedia animated, an actual web

28 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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animation, GIFs, iPad apps, iPhone apps, Wikipedia, Wikiweb
I discovered Wikiweb for iPhone and iPad recently and it looks like a fascinating way to explore Wikipedia. When you pick a search
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iPhone displays no reply options for callers with blocked numbers

28 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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blocked calls, iOS 6, phone calls
In iOS 6, Apple added options next to the ‘slide to answer’ bar to silence a call and automatically reply with a custom
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KitCam for iPhone can auto-archive to Dropbox, Flickr, FTP

23 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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camera apps, Dropbox, Flickr, FTP, iPhone apps, KitCam
KitCam for iPhone, my favorite camera app by a mile, can automatically upload all your photos (and optionally videos) to Dropbox,
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Tumblr for iOS update adds link auto-fetch, clever new camera roll and album integration

20 Mar 2013
David Chartier
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blogging, camera apps, link blogging, Tumblr
Tumblr 3.3 for iOS is out, and there is some clever stuff going on here. First, if you start a Link Post with a URL in your clipboard,
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Noteshelf for iPad lets you draw, take notes, share just a little bit

19 Mar 2013
Finer Author
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drawing, note taking, Noteshelf, sharing
So, you’re in a drawing/sketching/handwriting app on iPad, and all you want to do is share a small portion of your canvas—maybe a
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“Monopoly money”

09 Mar 2013
Jamie Phelps
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dictionary, spelling
iOS autocorrect knows that, in the middle of a sentence, the first M in “Monopoly money” should be capitalized, but only
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The volume slider on the iPhone lock screen has a reflection, animation

09 Mar 2013
Finer Author
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homescreen, iOS 6, iOS 6.1
If you double tap the home button while your iPhone is off, it brings up the music controls – this is nothing new. However, in
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