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Category: iOS

Turn by Turn arrives on the iPhone

You might recall me standing up for Apple Maps when they first arrived. Poo Pooing the howls from the popular press about how inaccurate they were. How half baked they were. How unApple they were. I still hold onto that view, despite finding some errors in the maps, but for the most part it has …

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My tyre is flat so I am selling my car. Wait!, What?

If you have recently upgraded to iOS6 you might be wondering if you’ve done the right thing because according to the press it is a disaster. There is a lot of whining but the majority of it seems to be focused on the replacement of google maps for Apple Maps. One Lunatic spent a good …

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We need to start Yelping!

If you ever watch Apple promoting Siri you will see them asking her for the “nearest coffee shop” or “any good steak restaurants nearby”. This is all very cool but I bet when you try you only get  two suggestions and one of them was gutted by fire ten years ago. As an example my …

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Not everything will work in iOS6

With unusual levels of transparency, Apple have just released a list of the new iOS6 features – the OS that will be running the new iPhone 5 – that will or will not work depending on where you live. Happily we here in Australia have faired rather well.

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iPhone 5

I get it. I didn’t at first but now I do. I already knew what the iPhone 5 was going to look like. I mean the leaks were so bad I wondered why they even bothered to run a press conference in the first place. A further disappointment was we were treated to the same …

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