Sony's 65-inch KD-65X9005B (£3600) is a statement television in every sense.
From
its technical prowess to audacious design, it pushes the envelope with
unapologetic zeal. The wedge shape, accommodating prominent forward
facing speakers, is potentially a bit Marmite, but I love it.
Build
quality and detailing, from the rolled top to the chrome side panels,
is exquisite. While the flanking speaker array gives screen considerable
width, the piano black finish is extremely handsome.
The only
thing missing when you unpack the set are a pair of white gloves, to
prevent the oh-so glossy bodywork from being smothered in fingerprints
when you're wrestling it into position.
That said the set, which
is also available as the 55-inch KD-55X9005B and 79-inch KD-79X9005B,
actually has a low centre of gravity and so requires only a moderate
amount of floorspace.
If
the pedestal feet positioned either end of the set don't fit your AV
furniture, there are two more central positions they can be relocated
to. If you don't have quite so much space on your TV stand you can adjust the feet of the Sony KD-65X9005BDespite
the unconventional triangular shape, the X9005B can be wall-hung using a
standard Vesa mount. Spacers are provided in the box which square up
the rear to the wall.
Also bundled in the box is an optional port
replicator, to aid wall-mounted hook-up. This exterior connections box
has its own power supply, plus satellite and RF tuner inputs along with a
USB port and (three) HDMI connectivity. A single chord then runs all to
an input on the back of the set. The optional port replicator Rear
panel connections comprise four HDMI inputs (some of which are ARC and
MHL compatible), plus three USBs, Ethernet, Scart and
component/composite video and stereo audio inputs. There are also TV RF
and dual satellite inputs, a CI card slot and a digital audio optical
output. Wi-Fi is built-in. The back is packed with portsThe
X9005B is the only model in the Sony fleet to have a Skype camera
actually built into the bezel (a consequence of that rolled top), so
there's no clumsy camera contraption spoiling the clean lines. If the
idea of an all-seeing eye staring back at you is too intrusive, a small
cap is supplied to cover it up.
Features
The Sony X9005B
boasts a wide range of connected functionality. The brand has
significantly revamped its smart platform for 2014, although actual
service and app content is largely unchanged from last season.
Niceties
include screen mirroring, for use with compatible Miracast-enabled
smartphones, along with a new feature called 'photo share' which allows
up to ten users to share JPEGs in a single session. Cleverly you can
collect and save cast pictures to any connected phone. The high
resolution panel makes for a superb still image display.
Also new
this year is the 'one flick discovery' bar. This sits at the bottom of
the screen and recommends things to watch, from both broadcast and
online sources. Given that it also supports keyword search, this is
actually quite a powerful content curation tool. There is a wide range of apps available for the Sony KD-65X9005BWhile
Twitter is best enjoyed on mobile devices, TV manufacturers continue to
try and find ways to implement a bigger screen experience.
Here
Sony has conjured up Social View, which delivers a stream of tweets
across the bottom of the screen. These either relate to the TV show
being broadcast at the time or specific search terms. It's an inventive
idea, but perhaps somewhat distracting for those viewers not too
interested in such fleeting views. The built-in camera is nicely discreetThe
set also offers a PIP Skype mode, to enable groups to join together
while watching the same show/sports on TV. Inevitably there's also a
football function, which engages a sound DSP mode intended to emulate a
Brazilian stadium. This is apparently based on actual measurements,
although you'd probably never guess.
More significantly, the
X9005B incorporates an HEVC decoder fully compatible with the new
Netflix 4K streaming service (fast fibre broadband connection required).
If there's a better 4K picture performer out there than the Sony KD-65X9005B, I haven't seen it.
To
assess the screen in full-fat 4K, I hooked up a media server packed
with movie, music and sports sequences. The set duly dazzled with detail
and image refinement. House of Cards Season 2, in Netflix 4K, exhibits
lavish texture and depth. The set will really have you hankering after
more 4K content.
Thankfully,
upscaling of Full HD sources is similarly outstanding. The latest
X-Reality Pro image processing circuitry does a remarkable job
extrapolating detail from 1080 sources. HD TV broadcasts magically gain
solidity and nuance, while Blu-ray's look nothing short of brilliant in
faux 4K. This Triluminos-branded system is compatible with the extended
x.y.colour information included in the brand's Mastered in 4K Blu-ray
disc line, although this only works on the cinema preset. The football mode is disappointingOf
course, it's not just that four times Full HD resolution that
impresses. The screen boasts huge dynamics with deep blacks and peaky
whites, a consequence of Sony's X-tended Dynamic range image
manipulation. Edge backlighting is reassuringly even.
Colour
fidelity is also excellent. Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim looks
positively psychedelic, with deep saturated primaries. There's such
intensity to the onscreen hues that this TV could make a rainbow seem
dowdy.
A change of panel supplier from last year's 4K Sony models
has meant that this UHD screen offers Active Shutter rather than Passive
3D. Two pairs of 3D glasses are supplied.
The set's Active 3D is
best viewed in a dark room; multiple light sources causes the 3D goggles
to flicker which is quite distracting. Overall dimensional performance
though is very good, with little in the way of crosstalk double imaging.
The screen is particularly effective with Sky's side-by-side 3D
broadcasts, exhibiting pronounced stereo separation and excellent colour
retention.
Motion handling has always been a strength of Sony
screens, and here it's characteristically impressive, although arguably
not as comprehensively fine as that seen on the brand 2013 X9005A
models. The various Motionflow settings are more of a lottery in terms
of unwanted motion artifacts. I found the best settings to be standard,
clear and true cinema; the latter has quite low levels of motion detail
though. Avoid the impulse setting as it's too flickery to be watchable.
The jury may still be out on iOS 7's radical redesign - for what it's
worth we love it, with a few reservations - there's no denying that
it's the friendliest and most powerful version of iOS yet.
But
there's more to iOS 7 than headline features such as Control Centre and
iTunes Radio: some of the best improvements are small things that make
our everyday lives that little bit more pleasant.
These are our favourites - let us know yours in the comments, and check out our iOS 7 review for the full lowdown!
1. Camera: shoot in burst mode
The
redesigned Camera app has a nifty trick up its sleeve: if you want to
shoot in burst mode, taking multiple shots in quick succession, just
click and hold the volume-up button.
2. Multitasking: quit multiple apps
You
probably know that you can quit running apps by double-tapping the Home
button and flicking the offending app upwards, but you might not have
tried it with multiple fingers to force-quit more than one app at a
time. We've made it work with three apps on our iPhone, although doing
the same on an iPad means getting your nose involved too.
3. Notifications: begone!
When
you receive a new notification, you can still swipe right to open the
appropriate app - but if you just want rid of it you can now swipe up to
hide it.
4. All new balancing act
iOS
7 is bad news for novelty app developers: not only has the Control
Centre killed the market for flashlight apps, but Compass has done the
same for spirit level apps too.
If you launch the app you'll see
the familiar dots at the bottom of the screen that indicate there's a
second screen: swipe it and you'll see a spirit level for all your
checking-things-are-flat needs.
5. Phone, FaceTime and Messages: block contacts
Does
someone have your number and you wish they didn't? Successfully avoid
exes, creditors and the angry husbands and wives of your lovers with iOS
7's excellent blocking features. Add the number to your Contacts,
scroll down to the bottom of the screen and tap Block This Caller to
refuse incoming calls, messages (including SMS and MMS) and FaceTime
calls.
6. Messages: see the timestamps
iOS 7 likes to
keep things nice and minimalist, but if key information isn't visible
there's a good chance it's just a swipe away - so for example in
Messages, you won't see timestamps against each SMS, MMS or iMessage.
Want to know when they were sent? Swipe left.
7. Apps: swipe backwards
This
little tip is a handy time-saver: when you're finished reading an email
or message, or fiddling with Settings, or exploring a Music playlist,
swipe backwards to return to the previous page. If you're at the first
level (such as your list of mailboxes in Mail, or the first Settings
screen) nothing will happen.
8. Location Services: see where you've been
iOS
7 keeps an eye on where you go to help it personalise features such as
the Notification Centre, and to help improve the accuracy of Maps. If
you fancy a look you'll find it in Settings > Privacy > Location
Services > System Services > Frequent Locations. You'll see a list
and a map, with blue circles showing where you've been and when. You
can clear the history from this page, and if you think it's a little
creepy you can turn it off from the System Services page.
9. Newsstand: put it away!
We
like Newsstand, but we don't like the way it can't be stuck in a folder
like Apple's other stock apps. Hallelujah for iOS 7, then, because at
last that absurd restriction has been removed.
10 . Settings: make iOS 7 easier on the eye
We
like the new interface, but it isn't for everyone. If you have problems
with your sight or just want to make iOS more legible, you'll find some
useful settings in Settings > General > Accessibility. You can
make all system text bold, increase the size of text in apps that
support Apple's Dynamic Type, scale down motion effects such as the
parallax effect or invert the colours to make iOS 7 look like a 1980s
electro-pop album cover.
Whether it’s the first time you’ve picked up an iPad or the
seventeenth time you’ve pulled out your iPhone today, there are probably
still some iOS 7 features and functionality that you’re not familiar
with. Don’t sweat it: We’re here to help. We’ve collected some of our
favorite and most useful tips and compiled them here, just for you.
Make iOS 7 look nicer
There are several settings you can change to make iOS 7 easier on the eyes. 1. Make the text larger and bolder: As nice as the
thinner version of the Helvetica Neue font is in iOS 7, it’s not always
the easiest to read. If you’re having trouble reading text on your
iPhone or iPad, just go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Larger Text
to increase the default font size on your device. You can make that
font size even larger in apps that support it by enabling Larger
Accessibility Sizes. And if you want Helvetica Neue to show up just a
bit bolder, visit Settings > General > Accessibility and enable the Bold Text slider. (Note: You will have to restart your iPhone when you enable Bold Text.) 2. Buttons, buttons, everywhere: iOS 7 has ditched
most of the traditional buttons present in past versions of Apple’s
mobile software, but if you’re jonesing for that old familiar arrow
shape, you can enable it via Settings > General > Accessibility > Button Shapes. 3. Contrast is key: Some of us like white text on
light backgrounds, but others find it causes headaches and hurts their
eyes. If you’re part of that latter group, there are several options for
your viewing pleasure under Settings > General > Accessibility > Increase Contrast.
If you want to increase the text and background contrast for features
like Control Center and Notification Center, turn on the Reduce
Transparency option.
If you wish to darken the highlight colors found in an app’s menu and
tab bar (the pink color of the Music app, for instance), toggle the
Darken Colors switch.
And if you’d like to darken the white backgrounds found in apps like
Settings, the Reduce White Point screen brings the pure white coloration
down to a more ocularly-friendly light grey.
On the map
4. Turn-by-turn walking directions: We’ve long had
the ability to do turn-by-turn directions for driving, but iOS 7 also
adds the ability to get those same prompted directions when you’re on
foot. Just tap the Directions button in the top left hand corner, select
the Walking icon at the top of the screen, enter your destination, and
tap Route. Siri will guide you to your destination, alerting you by
voice when it’s time to make a turn. 5. Prefer walking directions: Say you’re on vacation
and don’t have a car: Wouldn’t it be useful if you didn’t have to
remind Maps that you want those walking directions every time you put in
a location? Easy enough: Just go to Settings > Maps and
scroll down to the Preferred Directions section. There you’ll be able to
choose between Driving and Walking. Now, when you launch Maps, it’ll
give you pedestrian-friendly directions by default.
Apple's free Find My Friends app lets you set geofences on friends so
you can be notified when they leave or arrive at a location. 6. Notify you about your friends’ location: Apple’s
free Find My Friends app can be super useful at times, such as when
you’re meeting up with a friend. You can even use the app to
automatically tell your friend when you’re heading out—or be notified
when your friend is arriving someplace—all thanks to geofences.
Just launch the Find My Friends app, select the friend you want to be
notified about and tap the More… button in the toolbar. At the bottom
of the contact card, choose either Notify Me or Notify [your friend’s
name]. You’ll be prompted to choose whether the notification will show
up when you arrive at or leave a place, as well as specifying the
location (and even how big a radius from that location will trigger the
notification). If you choose to notify your friend about your location,
you can also send a message immediately. 7. Ask Siri to notify you about your friends’ location:
If setting up those geofences is a little too cumbersome, you can ask
Siri to handle it for you. Just trigger the virtual assistant and say,
for example, “Notify me when John leaves his current location.” 8. Geofencing in Reminders: Not only can you can set
geofences on people, you can also place them on locations. Using the
Reminders app, you can have a notification sent to you when you’re
arriving at or leaving a location. Just create a reminder, tap the ‘i’
button next to it, and choose “Remind me at a location.” Under the
Location sub-menu, search for a contact, place name, or specific
address; as with Find My Friends, you can even specify the size of the
radius around the location, just in case you want to be reminded to get
cookies when you’re even remotely near the supermarket.
Master your photos
Accidentally take 88 burst mode photos when one or two would do fine? You can weed them out in the Camera Roll. 9. Save your favorite Burst Mode images (iPhone 5s):
The iPhone 5s’s Burst Mode is an excellent way to ensure that you
capture fast-moving action, but you also don’t want to take up lots of
space with photo duplicates. After you’ve captured an image in Burst
Mode by pressing and holding down the shutter button for a few seconds,
you can tap the Camera Roll to view your images.
Your burst appears as a single photo in the album, represented by
what iOS 7 thinks is the best photo of the bunch. You can go back and
look through the full burst collection, however, by tapping the
Favorites button; select the photo (or photos) you’d like to showcase by
tapping on them and pressing Done. From there, you can choose to keep
the entire burst for future perusal, or delete all the images you chose
not to select. 10. Enable automatic HDR (iPhone 5s): Back in 2010,
iOS 4.1 added the High Dynamic Range (HDR) feature to its Camera app,
which allowed you to take a photo of a subject with both sharp light and
deep shadow and have it render as evenly lit. But HDR took longer to
shoot than the average image, which for most people meant manually
turning it on whenever you wanted to capture that perfect sunset.
With iOS 7 and the iPhone 5s, however, you can turn on automatic HDR
mode: In normal light, your iPhone will shoot a regular photo; in
situations with multiple light patterns, however, your device will
automatically recognize that an HDR photo might be best and attempt to
capture that, instead. (As always, the iPhone always takes two
photos–the untouched one and the HDR version; you can save both to your
Camera Roll if you wish by going to Settings > Photos & Camera > Keep Normal Photo.) 11. Put permanent filters on your camera: Both the
iPhone and iPad offer front and back hardware cameras, and on the
software side, fun filters for Photo and Square modes to make your
pictures more interesting.
If you like having a specific filter on images, you can set either
Square or Photo mode to always launch with the image manipulation of
your choice. Personally, I have iOS 7’s Square mode set to the Noir
filter, as I like Apple’s black and white correction more than, say,
Instagram’s.
To set the filter, all you have to do is tap the Filter button in the
Camera app while in the mode of your choice. Switch to another mode and
you’ll once again have a clean slate, but return to your original mode
and your filter of choice remains. 12. Share your Photo Stream with others (and let them add images, too):
When Shared Photo Streams first launched with iOS 6, they let you share
groups of images with any of your friends for liking and comments, but
your buddies couldn’t add images or video of their own.
iOS 7 has changed all that, letting you open up your Shared Photo
Streams to anyone you deem fit for posting. Now, when you create a
shared stream, viewing it presents you with two tabs: Photos and People.
Tap the People section to access your stream’s settings; there, you can
turn on or off the Subscribers Can Post toggle. (You can also choose to
create a public website, add or delete friends to your stream, and show
notifications for the stream.) 13. Use iMovie to create slo-mo clips: iPhone 5s
owners can make slow-motion clips to their heart’s content thanks to iOS
7’s 120FPS slo-mo mode in the Camera app. But older iPhone owners can
get in on some of that fun, too—they just need to download iMovie.
After you’ve filmed something, open iMovie and create a new project
with your clip. Next, separate your clip into three segments by swiping
down on the film strip: the intro normal-speed segment, a slow-motion
segment, and the ending normal-speed segment. Finally, tap on the middle
segment, choose Speed, and drag the slider toward the Tortoise icon.
VoilĂ : easy in-and-out slow-motion.
Phone it in
You can see a list of all the numbers and contacts you've blocked in Settings > Phone > Blocked. 14. Block annoying calls: We haven’t solved the
problem of email spam, but telemarketing can be slightly less annoying
with a new feature of iOS 7: call blocking. You can choose to not
receive calls from a specific number or contact by tapping the ‘i’
button next to that entry in the Recents or Voicemail sections of the
Phone app, scrolling down, and choosing Block this Caller. (It also
works on any contact card in the Phone or Contacts app.) Note that by
doing so you also won’t receive text messages/iMessages or FaceTime
calls from that number or contact. If you’ve blocked someone in error,
you can edit the no-call list under Settings > Phone > Blocked. 15. Make FaceTime Audio calls for cheap: Calling
plans are pretty cheap these days, but if you’re looking to pare down,
you can make FaceTime Audio calls over Wi-Fi or cellular data networks.
Just make sure you’ve enabled FaceTime in the Settings app, then find an
entry in the Contacts or Phone app and tap the phone icon next to
FaceTime. You’ll immediately launch into an audio-only FaceTime call,
though you can switch over to a video call at any point by tapping the
FaceTime button. You can even add a FaceTime Audio call to your Phone
app’s Favorites by tapping Add to Favorite on any contact card, and then
selecting FaceTime Audio.
Adding a conference code or extension to a number lets you dial it
automatically just by tapping the button that appears in the bottom
left. 16. Enter a phone conference code at a tap: Many of
us have had to dial either hard-to-remember extensions or conference
room codes at some point. If you find yourself making those calls
frequently, you can simplify the process. Go to the Keypad section of
the Phone app and enter the phone number you dial; then, at the end, tap
and hold the pound key until it turns into a semicolon. Now enter the
passcode or extension, and then add the whole shebang to a new or
existing contact record. Next time you dial that contact or number,
you’ll see a small button in the bottom left that says “Dial” with the
code you entered; tap that to have it entered on the keypad
automatically.
Talk to Siri
17. Speak your settings: Siri’s become a bit smarter
across the board in iOS 7, and one of those IQ improvements deals with
controlling your settings. You can ask Siri to turn Bluetooth on or off,
open a specific Settings pane, and even turn on Airplane Mode—though
Apple’s voice assistant gets a little snarky if you ask for that last
one.
There's lots to talk to Siri about in iOS 7. 18. Make Siri better understand your friends’ names:
If you heard it spoken out loud, my little sister’s name is a pretty
standard one—“Caitlin.” Unfortunately, that’s not how my parents chose
to spell it; instead, her contact card reads “Caetlyn.” In iOS 6, Siri
had a bit of trouble with that, expecting me to either pronounce her
name “Keet-lan” or use the nickname I’d given her. Thanks to Siri’s new
pronunciation engine, though, my phone can be a little smarter about her
contact card—along with any of yours.
Just say “Learn how to pronounce [name]’s name” and Siri will comply,
first asking you for your pronunciation of the first and last name,
then providing you with several pronunciation options. 19. Talk and talk and talk and talk to Siri: Raise your digital hand if you’ve ever run into this situation when talking to Siri:
“Remind me to—” “What would you like me to remind you?”
Siri may be there for us, but sometimes, she’s just not listening as
closely as she should be. If you have iOS 7.1 installed, however, you
can hold down the Home button to make Siri listen as long as you
like—she won’t stop until you lift your finger. Helpful for recording
the entirety of messages and reminders; even more helpful when you just
need someone to talk to—even if that someone is digital.
Navigate the jungle of Safari
From Safari’s Settings you can assign any folder from your bookmarks as Favorites, which show up when you load a blank tab. 20. Playing Favorites: In iOS 7 there’s a new
bookmarks section called Favorites; on the iPad, this is used to
populate the Favorites Bar in Safari, but on both the iPad and iPhone,
it also determines which bookmarks pop up when you’re in a blank tab.
You can make Favorites work for you by going to Settings > Safari > Favorites,
where you can select any folder in your Bookmarks as your Favorites.
Now when you open a blank tab in Safari, you’ll see those specific sites
are just a tap away. 21. View saved passwords and credit card info:
Whether or not you have iCloud Keychain syncing password information
between your iOS devices and/or Macs, you can have Safari on your iOS
device save your usernames, passwords, and credits cards locally. In
both cases, you can take a look at the information under Settings > Safari > Passwords & AutoFill.
In both cases, you’ll have to enter your device’s passcode—sorry, no
Touch ID here—to view the full credit card number or password; it’s yet
another reason to choose a strong passcode, as though you needed one
these days. Both sections let you remove entries, but the Credit Cards
section will also let you add a new card right from Settings.
Mail call
Tapping Edit on Mail's main screen lets you add several special
mailboxes, including Flagged messages, Attachments, and To or CC. 22. Search all mailboxes: Searching Mail in iOS 6
could be a drag, especially since you could only search the mailbox you
were currently viewing. In iOS 7, it’s a bit easier: When you enter a
search term, pull down on the search results, and you’ll reveal a toggle
that lets you choose between searching only the current mailbox or all
mailboxes. 23. Undo trash/moved/junked messages: We’ve all done
it: accidentally deleted or moved a message we didn’t mean to. Yes, you
could go all the way out of the account and then into the Trash and
move it back to your inbox, but here’s a much faster way: Give your iOS
device a shake and you should see an Undo dialog box pop up. Tap Undo to
put your messages back where they belong. 24. Smarter mailboxes: While we still don’t have
true, customizable Smart Mailboxes in iOS 7, there are a bunch of handy
specialized mailboxes that you can add to your main Mail screen. Just
tap Edit and scroll down to see a list of options, including your VIP
mailbox, flagged messages, those that have attachments, and even one
containing just those messages which have you in the To: or CC fields.
Select any to show them (or deselect those ones you want hidden); you
can also rearrange them by tapping and dragging them into the order you
want. When you’re finished, just tap Done at the top of the screen.
Messages
25. Check the time: As you go through your
conversation in the Messages app, you might spot the occasional
timestamp between conversations. But sometimes you want to know exactly
when a certain text appeared. Messages offers just this feature in iOS
7—all you have to do is swipe and hold left on a conversation to expose a
set of timestamps for every text you and your friends have sent.
What time was that message sent? Swipe left, and you can find out. 26. Send that text onward or banish it from existence:
In prior versions of iOS, you could delete text messages from your
phone or forward them on via the Edit button. In iOS 7, that button is
gone; instead, to forward or delete a text, you must first tap and hold
on it. Tap the More pop-up, and circles appear to the left of your
messages, with the current one selected. It’s up to you whether you want
to delete or forward a single text, or select multiple messages.
Miscellaneous
iOS 7's AirDrop feature is handy not only for sharing photos, but
also websites, videos, map locations, and almost anything else you can
share. 27. Send everything with AirDrop: One of the most
powerful, if under-appreciated, features of iOS 7 is AirDrop. Most
people think of it only as a way to send pictures, but in truth anything
that you can text or email you can probably send via AirDrop. For
example: Got a bunch of friends meeting at a location? Fire up Maps,
search for your location, tap Share, and AirDrop it to everybody present
at once. It doesn’t require a Wi-Fi network, or even that you know the
other person’s contact info. Just make sure that the recipients have
AirDrop set to Everyone or Contacts Only in Control Center. 28. Short names in Messages and Mail: Have too many
Dans in your Messages app? You can make their names show up as “First
initial, last name” thanks to iOS 7’s new Short Names feature. To enable
it, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Short Name
and turn on the Short Name toggle on that screen. You can choose from
the aforementioned First Initial & Last Name setting, or pick First
Name & Last Initial, First Name Only, or Last Name Only. You can
additionally opt for your device to Prefer Nicknames, if they’ve been
set in a contact record. 29. Monitor what cellular data your apps use: It’s
easier than you might think for your device to gulp up cellular data,
especially when on speedy LTE networks. To avoid running up expensive
overage charges, you can view how much data each app is using by going
to Settings > Cellular and scrolling through the app list.
Under each program’s name, you’ll find how much data it’s been using—to
the right, there’s a toggle for disabling cellular data for that app.
Scroll all the way to the bottom and you can also check how much your
system services (Personal Hotspot, Exchange Accounts, Messaging
services, and the like) are using, along with a button to reset these
numbers to zero and start counting all over again. 30. Disable Background App Refresh for certain apps:
Is your battery lagging in iOS 7? You might be the victim of too many
apps using the operating system’s Background App Refresh feature. For
apps like your Mail client, it’s important to be able to grab new data
even if that program isn’t running in the foreground; other apps like
Facebook might not need such extravagances.
To disable Background App Refresh on an app-by-app basis, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh. From there, you can turn off the feature altogether or individually disable just the offending apps. 31. Find the Compass’s hidden features: Not only is
iOS 7’s Compass app a thing of beauty, it has some neat functions hidden
away. One such function: compass headings. If you know you have to head
340° North, for instance, you can tap the screen once to set a compass
heading; whenever you deviate from that path, a red bar appears along
the side of the compass from your heading start point. To clear it, tap
once more.
Swipe left, and you’ll find a second app inside Compass: a level.
Though not as accurate as a traditional bubble-level, it’s still a
useful tool in a pinch—and if you’re looking to distract yourself from playing Threes, try leveling your phone while you hold it in your hand like a game controller. 32. Customize Notification Center’s Today pane:
Swipe down from the top of your device’s screen and you’ll visit
Notification Center, iOS 7’s repository for your alerts. In addition to a
list of your current notifications, this pane also offers a Today view,
which provides you with the current date, a list of birthdays, the
weather, calendar data, reminders, stocks, and a preview of your next
day. You can choose which of those features actually appear by visiting Settings > Notification Center and toggling features in the Today section on or off. 33. Tips and tricks with Touch ID (iPhone 5s): If you have an iPhone 5s, you’re probably pretty familiar with the device’s fingerprint scanner. Here are a few ways to make it even better.
If you’re having trouble getting Touch ID to recognize your print,
try scanning the same print multiple times, or deleting the original
print and starting over. Because Touch ID is constantly attempting to
refine your print, it can occasionally get confused and its data can
degrade.
In addition, if you can’t remember which finger it was that you scanned in, visit Settings > Touch ID & Passcode and put your finger on the Touch ID reader; the appropriate print under the Fingerprints section should highlight in grey.
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Saifullah Tareque
The Author
Hi
readers! I am Saifullah Tareque and Author of this
blog. I am a part time Blogger, web & computer graphic designer. I am
trying to learn web programming. I’m learning it day by day. I started
blogging in 2011 in Mother language. At January 2012 I decided to write in
English for Worldwide people. I have started this blog in few days ago (I
forget the exact date. Sorry!). I made lots of web
site. Most of them are static and hosted in Google app engine.
About this blog
This
blog as a subdomain. I actually
prefer to have this blog, but unfortunately it is not available in BlogSpot.
Quickly I will try for realize the importance of having a registered domain.
Conclusion
Before
you will end reading this page, I would like to say thank my family who
supported me financially and emotionally, thank you. To all my friends for the
happiness and ideas we've been tackled every reunion. And to all my readers,
thank you so much. Without you, this site is nothing. You are like water and
sunlight who keeps the plant alive. May be I have wasted your valuable time,
Sorry! Thanks for reading & interest with our site. You are invited to
visit my blog again…This Site is daily update.