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13/12/2014 0 Comments Have you discovered 'app extensions'? Here are some really great extensions for the Photos app. You may not yet have heard of App Extensions in iOS 8 and, in particular, extensions for the Photos app.
On you iPhone and iPad, App extensions allow you, while using features of a particular standard app (such as Safari, Photos, Camera), to access additional features provided by another app - usually to give you some addtional features that are not otherwise available in the standard app. You download an App that provides the extension and, when you open that new app, you give it permission to use a particular data or features on you i-Device. For example, today I downloaded the iOS 8 App called DateStamper (which is free for both iPad and iPhone). This app allows you, when editing a photo in the Photos apps, to add a date stamp to the photo. Another free iPhone App called Quick allows you to quickly and easily add some text to a photo while you are editing it in the Photos app. Below is an article describing ten of the best iOS 8 extensions for the Photos app - just click on the image to view the article. If you are wondering how to the use extensions from, say, the Photos App, look out for an upcoming Handy Hint on this topic.
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Yet another scam email has been doing the rounds recently, and hit my email inbox this week. It seems to be offering me a free Woolworths voucher just for answering a single question. At first glance it looks legitimate - with the Woolworths name and logo. First indication that it is a scam is that there it doesn't read quite right - with a comma and a hyphen after the $150, and it seems to have the incorrect word in the sentence after that ('price' instead of 'prize'). Of course, the other dead giveaway is that the email address is not a Woolworths email address.  Woolworths has a posted the following alert on their website about this scam (click here to see the Woolworths web page). "Please watch out for some Facebook & email scams using our name & logo that offer you a Woolworths gift card when you fill out a 'Customer Satisfaction Survey’. We've been alerted that there is one out in the public that is a scam that offers customers either a $100, $150 or $200 voucher once you fill in this survey. This is a scam, do not participate" For those of you on Facebook, please ignore - and certainly don't share or re-post - a warning that appears from time to time, about entering your PIN in reverse order to notify the police that you are in the process of being robbed at the ATM. It has been around for a while, and 'rears its head' every now and then, and does the rounds again. The information that it provides is false. If you are in the situation it describes, it could be downright dangerous to try what it suggests, since your PIN will be rejected, which could aggravate your attacker.  Whenever I see a post such as this one, I immediately go to either the Snopes or Hoaxslayer website to check if it is known as a hoax. Before re-posting or sharing such a hoax, it is a good idea to do the same thing - otherwise these hoaxes continue to proliferate.
See below links to the pages describing this particular hoax.  Published fortnightly, the first iTandCoffee newsletter for December 2014 is now available. Click on the image on the right to view this newsletter now*.
Not only does this newsletter include great handy hints, tips and articles, it also includes a great FREE OFFER - iTandCoffee Digital Guides available for free download, available to all iTandCoffee Club members. Join The iTandCoffee Club today! * Access to this newsletter will be unlimited until 19th Dec 14. After that date, an iTandCoffee Club membership is required to view it. Jackie R just popped in to iTandCoffee with a Calendar problem on her new iPhone 6 - not only were all her events missing from her calendar, any new calendar events she added disappeared as soon as they were added! She was very concerned that here new iPhone had a fault.
I will add a better digital version of the page once it is available online! 
4/12/2014 0 Comments What do you do when no-one knows the Restrictions passcode on an iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone One of the mums who attended the iTandCoffee free morning tea this week found herself in an all too common situation. She could not get into the 'Parental Controls' area of her family iPad because no-one in the family could remember the passcode to that area that has already been put in place some time ago. A forgotten Restrictions passcode makes it impossible to look at and set up/change the parental controls that have already been set. Depending on what restrictions are in place, inability to access and change restrictions can also greatly limit some capabilities of the iPad. When there have already been multiple failed attempts to guess the Restrictions passcode, each new guess that failed then sets a longer and longer delay on when the passcode can be re-attempted. Even a normal reset of the device is disabled until the Restrictions passcode is entered. Of course, an important message here is that it is essential that, before you set up any Restrictions on an Apple device, you must be sure that you are not going to forget the passcode that you use. A forgotten Restrictions password is a real problem as the only way to clear it is to perform a 'factory reset' using iTunes on a computer - which will wipe its contents. Even if you have a backup of your device, you cannot just re-instate the device from backup if the backup itself also had the Restrictions passcode set at the time the backup was done! If you only just set up the Restrictions passcode and have a backup from before that passcode was set, you can restore that backup after the factory reset (which will mean losing whatever was new in the time since that backup was done). If you don't have a backup that is free of the Restrictions passcode, you have to do the factory reset and the set up your device again - re-download all of your apps and re-do all your settings. Any photos that you had on the device will be wiped when you do a factory reset, so make sure you import them to a computer before wiping the device. After the reset, you could sync back any photos you want to put onto the device using iTunes (or perhaps the Photo Transfer app). Any music would also need to be re-downloaded and re-sync'd. Definitely not what most people will want to do - very drastic action to have to take when all you want to do is reset the Restrictions passcode! iTandCoffee has a much easier solution If you find yourself in the situation where you don't know the Restrictions passcode (or perhaps where a child in your family might have set it and then forgotten the code), iTandCoffee has a tool that should be able to extract the restrictions passcode from an iTunes backup of the device.
In the case of the mum who attended the iTandCoffee morning tea this week, this solved the problem - to the great relief of the children in the family, who were at risk of losing some of their precious games data! Contact iTandCoffee for more information if you find yourself in this situation and need to retrieve your Restrictions passcode - 1300 885 420.  If you are looking for a great Christmas gift for kids who love their iPads - but one that you can feel good about them spending time on - check out a great new toy called Osmo.
Osmo provides a combination of accessories (a stand for the iPad and physical puzzle/game pieces) and iPad apps that are both educational and fun - that even parents and older kids will have fun playing. Here are a couple of articles about Osmo, for those of you interested in exploring it further.
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