SCOI0051 iOS 5 - Storage & Backup

The fifth and final iOS6 episode!

Testament to the number of new features in iOS6, it's taken a lot longer to cover the major features than I appreciated.

This final segment covers the changes in the App Store, FaceBook and Twitter Integration and a look at the new "Guided Access" accessibility features. In addition, I take a look at the new "Do Not Disturb" feature for iPhone and iPad, as well as exploring the new iPhone specific features - Smart Reminders and Passbook.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• App Store
• Twitter & Facebook Integration
• Guided Access
• iPhone Specific Features
• Smart Reminders on iPhone
• Do Not Disturb
• Passbook on the iPhone
• Panorama in iPhone 4S & 5

Continuing with our coverage of iOS6, this episode explores the new Shared Photo Streams.

Packed with over 200 features, iOS6 improves and extends the functionality of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is available as a free download.

This fourth of a multipart series, explores the new Shared Photo Streams service, now built into iOS6 as well as the Mac and Apple TV.

With further deep integration with iCloud, iOS6 adds the new feature of Shared Photo Streams to share selected photos with friends and family, directly from your iOS device. Simple to setup, Shared Photo Streams goes some way to replace the Photo Gallery feature removed with Mobile Me. Once you've shared your Photos, you can add and receive comments back, as well as receive notifications. It's really easy to add additional photos to your Photo Stream.

Once subscribed to a Shared Photo Stream you can view the shared photos via your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, as well as your Mac and Apple TV. You can even view them in a web view.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Shared Photo Streams
• Accepting an Invitation
• Adding Likes & Comments
• Viewing on iPhone 5
• Editing the Shared Photo Stream
• Keeping Copies
• Viewing on Apple TV
• iPad Picture Frame

Continuing with our coverage of iOS6, this episode explores the new features contained in Mobile Safari and Mail.

Packed with over 200 features, iOS6 improves and extends the functionality of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is available as a free download.

This third of a multipart series, explores the new iCloud Tab syncing and Offline Reading List in Mobile Safari, as well as some great new features introduced into the Mail application.

With further deep integration with iCloud, iOS6 adds the new feature of iCloud Tab Syncing to sync all your tabs across all your devices. Reading lists have been enhanced too, with full support for offline reading.

The Mail application has inherited some features from Mountain Lion and now includes VIPS and flagged emails as well as some new features.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• Mobile Safari
• iCloud Tab Syncing
• Offline Reading List on iOS
• Reading List on the Mac
• Offline Reading List on the iPhone
• Full Screen Mode
• Remote Web Inspector
• Mail in iOS6
• VIP & Flagged Inboxes
• Reading & Sending Emails
• Using Multiple Accounts

Continuing with our coverage of iOS6, this episode explores Siri - your intelligent assistant.

Packed with over 200 features, iOS6 improves and extends the functionality of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is available as a free download.

This second of a multipart series, explores Siri in depth, covering searching, controlling your iOS device, dictation and more.

With the release of iOS 6, Siri has been refined, extended and improved upon. As well as extending the use of Siri to both the new iPhone 5, the iPad (3rd gen) and the iPod touch (5th gen), the use of Siri now extends across many more territories. In addition, Siri can now tell you about many more things - give directions, information about sports and movies and much, much more.

Siri can even help you control and access your iOS device with at the ability to launch and switch apps, play music, create reminders and calendar events, send tweets, update your Facebook status... the list goes on and on!

This full tutorial includes sections on:

1. Start
2. Introduction to Siri
3. Searching with Siri
4. Control Using Siri
5. Dictation using Siri
6. Siri and Security
7. Siri and Social Media
8. Wrap Up

iOS6 is the latest and greatest operating system for your iOS device.

Packed with over 200 features, iOS6 improves and extends the functionality of your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is available as a free download.

This first of a multipart series, explores some of the headlong features of iOS6 in depth, starting with the brand new Maps implementation.

Starting off with a mini introduction to all the new headline features, this tutorial takes you further into Apple's Maps, the replacement for the Google Maps feature previously installed with previous versions of iOS. I take a look at the new 2d mapping with brand new turn by turn directions as well as live traffic updates.

Also included is a look at the new 3D Flyover feature - a breathtaking photorealistic view of the worlds major cities, all controlled by your fingertips.

This full tutorial includes sections on:

• iOS6 Overview
• Maps in iOS6
• 2D Maps
• Driving Directions
• Traffic Updates
• Turn By Turn
• Flyover - 3D Maps
• Yelp Integration

This week's tutorial is aimed at helping you get the most out of your iOS battery whilst out and about.

It's usually not an issue for the iPad, but sometimes we need to stretch out our iPhone battery consumption to see us through a trip. In this tutorial, I show you some tried and tested (and some not so) techniques for conserving your precious battery power.

The first hints & tips screencast for iOS5!

In this week's show, I take you through a selection of hints and tips on iOS5 designed to make using your iPad or iPhone easier, as well as pointing out some not so obvious features of iOS5.

• Mastering the Home Button! - We all use the home button, but just a few minutes understanding the correct sequence of keypresses to control the iPad or iPhone will pay dividends.
• Apps in the Multitasking Bar - Lot's on controversy and confusion about what should you do with applications residing in your multitasking bar. This section sets out to explain some misconceptions.
• Double Tap on the iPhone - A look at a new feature only available on the iPhone
• Triple Tap on Home Button - Try it now and it doesn't do anything. This section shows you how to configure your "triple tap" to fire up lot's of potentially useful actions - including zooming your iPhone and iPad displays.
• Speak Selection - A simple setting to allow you iPhone or iPad to speak any elected text.
• Restore Closed Tabs - Want to restore closed tabs in mobile Safari on the iPad? - Simple!
• Doing the Dock Shuffle - If you're like me, your home screen may be beautifully organised (or perhaps not), but all the others screens are a random mess of icons. This section shows you a simple tip to allow you to easily shuffle individual icons or groups of icons between screens. I also show you a neat way of searching therough all your screens, collecting icons to move as you go.
• Emoji Keyboard - Now standard in iOS5, the Emoji keyboard allows you access to hundreds of tiny, colourful graphics to insert in any application. Liven up your tweets with some beautiful graphics.