A day at a time

How to stop kids deleting your videos and photos? Learned a new trick today and it was such a revelation to me! Like all parents who had to hand over their iToy to the little ones from time to time, it last thing you want is your apps or photo/videos being deleted or worse still having the little ones calling random people in your contacts:) Enter Guided Access . (General -> Accessibility -> Guided Access) In a nutshell it enables restriction on the app you triple-click the Home button on. Not useful enough I hear you say? The true revelation is the freehand masking of the area that you don't want the little one to touch. Simply shade off any number of area and off they go. The masking feature can only be applied after the passcode is entered and it's in a "zoomed out" mode. Going on a weekend trip to Peak District tomorrow and look forward to trying it!  Important Tips : Make sure that while you are masking the restricted area, you rotate the phon...

Update 8.0.1. Incredible that not even Microsoft managed that kind of scrutiny when a windows release or update goes wrong. The fact that Apple released iOS 8.0.2 the very next day flew people by and all your brain is left with is the impression that the 8.0.1 contained a network bug for a few users in Australia. Ok maybe you wasn't aware of the last bit... I feel like the folks of Axiom in Wall-E, the arms just not long enough to reach for the remote to save themselves. In this case the letter "O" and "P" on the keyboard of my iPhone 6 P-L-U-S are just out of reach of the mighty thumb. It's a ridiculous phone, i.e. it's an insanely crap one for one-handed operation I've been so used to with the iPhone 5. So I kept telling myself I have 14 days to change my mind. I went into a shop and tried out the iPhone 6 again but it just doesn't have the same vibe. Clearly I'm having some fun with the folks. #   ...