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

iPad displays battery percentage while charging, even if that setting isn’t enabled

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

Finer Things in iOS

iPad displays battery percentage while charging, even if that setting isn’t enabled

22 May 2013
David Chartier
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battery, charging, iPad
When you charge an iPad, it will display its battery percentage in the status bar. This happens even if you don’t have the option
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Change your iPhone’s brightness with a quick swipe in Riposte

10 May 2013
David Chartier
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brightness, gestures, iOS 7, Riposte
In Riposte for App.net, you can change brightness with three-finger swipes up and down. Note that this doesn’t change brightness
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Use Photo Stream instead of emailing photos to yourself

06 May 2013
David Chartier
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Photo Stream
If you have an iPhone or iPad and a Mac, and are sick of emailing photos to yourself for work, blog posts, or other uses, there are two
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Finer News: Updates to RSS feeds, main sections

02 May 2013
David Chartier
3
Finer Things Business
Google’s been shutting down services in an effort to focus, and one clearly not long for this world is FeedBurner, the service I
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KitCam for iPhone can share the original photo or your edited masterpiece

01 May 2013
David Chartier
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iPhone apps, KitCam, photo filters, photography, social media
KitCam for iPhone, my favorite photo and video app by a mile, keeps a copy of your original photos even after you edit and apply
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Shake the Xbox SmartGlass app and your avatar falls over

27 Apr 2013
David Chartier
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avatar, iOS polish, polish, Xbox, Xbox SmartGlass
If you shake Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass app, your avatar falls over.
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Disable remote images in Mail for iOS to fight spam, bandwidth bills

27 Apr 2013
David Chartier
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Apple recently added the option to stop Mail from automatically loading remote images when it opens a message. This is a good way to
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Smart Banners really are smart

25 Apr 2013
Finer Author
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Mobile Safari, Smart Banners
Safari hides Smart Banners when you switch to the tab view of all your open web pages. [Thanks Colby Alley]
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You can disable Siri, Passbook, and messages from the lock screen

22 Apr 2013
David Chartier
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home screen, iOS 6, Passbook, Passcode, reply with message, Siri
If you have a passcode on your iOS device, you can disable some of Apple’s core features from working on your lock screen. Go to
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