Tag: ios
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iOS: Print to PDF from Safari
Safari on iOS lets you screenshot a full website as a PDF. With the judicious use of reader mode, you can also remove extraneous content making these screenshots more useful. Here’s how: Take a screenshot of the page as you normally would, using the Power and Volume Up button (or Power and Home button for…
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iOS: Using reader mode in Safari
One of the features in Safari that I use a fair amount is called reader mode. Simply put, it strips an article of extraneous content (such as ads), and allows me to focus on the article itself. Here’s how you use it: In Safari, click the AA icon Select “Show Reader View” It makes a…
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iPhone: Prioritise download of certain apps
As anyone who has been using iPhones for a while can tell you, one of the most time consuming parts about getting a new iPhone is downloading all the apps. Some apps are more important than others, and it would be nice if there was a way to tell the iPhone which apps to prioritise.…
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Platform agnosticism and my preferred platform
The debate over ones preferred platform has for a very long time felt more like a religous discussion more than anything else. Whether it’s PC vs. Mac, iOS vs. Android, or Windows vs. Linux, proponents of the various platforms tend towards an almost religious level of zeal for their preferred platform, and against the other…
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Set default account for address book entries on iOS
Last week, I showed you how to set default calendar in iOS. When I was looking into that, I noticed that the setting for default account for address book entries is in much the same place. Here’s how to set that setting: Open Settings -> Mail, Calendar, Contacts Scroll down until you see a…
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Set default calendar on iOS
I have been a very happy user of iPhone for a long time now. It works great, and it syncs my appointments with my Google Calendar. Lately, though, I’ve needed to put appointments into my calendar while on the go. For some reason, they were not showing up in my Google Calendar. It turned out,…
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Mobile multitasking – Android versus iOS
The two main contenders in the mobile OS world today have two vastly different approaches to multitasking. Both have merits, and potential drawbacks. Let’s have a look: Android The Android approach to multitasking is all multitasking all the time. An admirable approach, to be sure, but it has it’s drawbacks, chief among these that…