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TapTips #2: Multiple Signatures in iOS!

Friday, February 10th, 2012

 

Ok, so you have an iOS device, and you’re a man/boy/woman/girl/homosapien on the go, right?  You’ve got multiple email addresses, and each of those email addresses has it’s own signature, right?  You HAVE to have different signatures, because those different email addresses are used for different reasons; for instance, you don’t want to email your great-granny Frannie with the email signature that you use for your I-get-prescription-drugs-from-Canada-and-sell-them-for-super-cheap-in-The-States signature, right?  What a ruckus that would cause!!

So as you probably know already, iOS doesn’t yet officially support multiple email signatures (as of iOS version 5.0.1).  There are a lot of quick little tutorials out there that show you how you can have multiple email siggys using iOS’ relatively new Keyboard Shortcut feature, but they all suggest using a Keyboard Shortcut for each line of each signature, as the Keyboard Shortcut feature ignores carriage returns (for those too young to know what a “carriage return” is, look it up).  So, I came up with what I feel is a much simpler way of doing things.  Less taps in an email =  more time playing Angry Birds, right?  (FYI:  I don’t get the draw of Angry Birds, but maybe I’m weird.)  Ok, enough of this blabbering, read on to find out THE EASIEST way to setup multi-sigs on your iOS device.  And you’re welcome in advance.   :)

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TapTips #1: Put More Fun In Your Text Messages

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

TapTips is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while, and now it’s finally time to do it ladies and gentlemen, so grab your iPhones and get ready for the first installment of TapTips!

Are you texts messages boring?  Wanna spice them up a bit?  Wanna use funny little faces, like the ones above, and other cool symbols to help you get your message across to people you’re messaging?  Of course you do!  Plus, it can be a real time-saver sometimes.  Instead of typing out “I love you” to your special schmoopie-woopie-honeybun, just send an Emoji of a smiley blowing a kiss, or one that’s been blinded by your one-and-only-true-everlasting-love!  If this sounds like something you’d like to be able to do, follow the easy instructions below to activate Emoji on your iPhone…  (Oh yeah, by the way, this will generally only work when messaging another iPhone.  Some websites support Emoji, and some other smartphones do too, but the only 100% sure thing is that it will work in iPhone-to-iPhone messaging.  This also works on the iPad, if you have one of those also.)  Here we go!

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Jobs: Thoughts On Flash

Thursday, April 29th, 2010

As some of you may know, Apple and Adobe have been trading licks concerning Flash not being available on Apple’s mobile devices.  The back-and-forth has gotten a bit childish and the press has only reported one-liners and here-say mostly.  For the average consumer, and even the tech enthusiast, it’s seemed like a blur of jabs and right-hooks that haven’t really told us anything useful.  Steve Jobs has now decided to try to clear things up with a public letter.  Even if you’re not a fan of Apple products, it’s a good read, and it’s also nice to see him trying to cool the boiling waters around this subject.  Enjoy!

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/

The XKCD Webcomic Reader iPhone App Shootout!

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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The contenders.

Welcome, welcome.  Read, enjoy, and please leave comments.  Everybody has comments.  Comments are like…well, I won’t follow-through with that joke, but I will say everybody has one.

Ok, so a week or two ago, a friend sent out a tweet that said “there’s an XKCD iPhone app!!”  I decided this was a must-have-app.  I needed to add this app to my collection of almost 140 apps.  (Yes, I have a problem.  I know this and I’m currently avoiding therapy for it, thank you.)

So, off to the App Store I went and what did I find out?  I found out that there are a total of seven, yes SEVEN, XKCD iPhone apps available, and each of them are free.  Well, with that many free apps all created for the same purpose, I figured somebody on the interwebz had the geeky forethought put together a big ol’ app shootout to find out which was the best one.  I was wrong.

For once, somebody else hadn’t already thought to do this.  “Serisouly?” I thought, “nobody has done this yet?  For XKCD of all things!??!”  I couldn’t believe it.  So, I decided to do my own shootout review.  It’s my first review, so please be gentle if things aren’t as finely-polished as they could/should be.

In all truthfulness, you would not believe the PITA that this turned out to be.  Once I downloaded all the apps, many of them had different app icons and/or names than they showed in the App Store.  And since Apple was nice enough to let a few of them be named the same exact damn thing it was a bit tough sorting it all out.  And I couldn’t just go into the About page in some of the apps to sleuthly figure out which one was which, because some of them didn’t even bother with such time-wasting flimflam as info about the app.  It seems they let just anybody develop for the iPhone….although I basically already knew that.  :)   (a short tip for anybody who might take on such a task in the future: leave your iPhone plugged into your computer while reviewing, and just check/uncheck apps as you’re reviewing them in iTunes. especially when many of the apps are named the same, etc. word.)

Ok, enough back-story.  In case I don’t mention it in each review, most of these apps allow you to view comics in portrait mode AND in landscape mode, unless otherwise noted.  Enjoy, and I hope this giant shootout review helps you decide which XKCD iPhone app you like best.  If not, then I’m a horrible failure…. ;)

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