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iPhone Tips for Beginners

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So You have a New iPhone!

iphone-tipsSo I am assuming that you have just got yourself an iPhone and with it a plan that comes with 3G coverage so that you can access the web wherever you are. These days the plans are very reasonable but if you don’t have web access then you can use the wireless features of the phone when you are in an area that has wireless coverage.

In that lovely new box there are a few goodies but one thing that there is not is an instruction booklet – I guess that Apple think that you can get all the information online in their help manuals but sometimes that just doesn’t cut it and even some basic things need a small about of explaining when you first start using it.

Firstly, I have to say I now love my iPhone and wouldn’t want to be without it, which is what I guess Apple want you to think! It has loads of great features and by downloading apps you can use it for more and more things. Anyway, here are a few basics to start you off.

How To Change The Sim Card

It sounds obvious but from experience I looked and looked for where the iPhone SIM card went and couldn’t find it! So in order to change the iPhone SIM card you will need the SIM card pin that came with your phone (it looks a bit like a paper clip). Use the pin end on this to poke into the hole at the top of the phone and the SIM card holder will pop out of the top of the phone. Whenever you need to open the SIM card holder you will need to use the pin.

Synching Your iPhone

Firstly, in order to synchronise your data with your computer you will need to have iTunes installed and also have an iTunes account. These are pretty simple to set up if you do not already have one.

You will need to link your iPhone to iTunes via a usb port on computer with the usb cable that was supplied with your iPhone and within the iTunes interface you can synchronise your contacts, music, calendar and pretty much everything else on your iPhone (except downloading photos).

Once you plug your phone in iTunes should start up automatically and it will start synching all the data on your phone. Don’t unplug your phone until it has finished.

Copying Photos from your iPhone

You can choose photo albums to synch up to your phone within the iTunes interface but it seems you can’t synch your photos down 🙁

If you want to copy your photos down from your iPhone to your computer then you basically need to do this in Window Explorer. Open the phone in explorer and copy them to your chosen directory.

However, this does not always work so one other way of doing it is to use Google’s Picasa tool to import the photos.

How To Change the Number of Times The iPhone Rings Before Voicemail Cuts In

When I first got my iPhone it would ring only 4 times and then go straight to voicemail which I thought was very annoying as more often than not I did not reach the phone before it stopped ringing. After much investigation, I found that they way to change the number of rings on your iPhone before going to voicemail was as follows:

Call *#61#

Take a note of the number that comnes through as ‘Forwards to’

Dial *61*/Forwards To/*11*n#

where n= no. of seconds that you want it to ring for before going to voicemail. After a bit of trial and error I set it to around 30 seconds to give me a chance to find the phone!

Battery Power

From my experience the battery on the iPhone lasts between 10 hours and two days but obviously it depends on how much you use it. You can recharge the battery with the USB cable either through your computer or with the power adapter for the USB cable that plugs into the mains. You can also buy many music systems to play your iPhone music through and these will charge your iPhone while they play.

How Do You Take a Screenshot with Your iPhone?

Well this is actually a really easy thing to do once you know how. All you have to do is to navigate to the page that you want a screenshot of, then you press down the power button at the top of the phone and at the same time you hit the round ‘home’ button on the bottom of the front screen.

This saves a shot of the screen to your camera roll where you can do whatever you like with it!

Buy Nike on Amazon

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These days it seems that you can buy almost anything you want on Amazon, and Nike products are no exception. When you buy thorough Amazon you know you are getting your goods from a trusted retailer, so you are going to get the genuine article, particular in terms of products like Nike shoes, where fakes are rife.

So if you are looking to buy Nike shoes for instance, you can buy the following on Amazon, among many other options:

Nike Sweet Classic Leather

These are genuine Nike Classic leather shoes that come in either black or white options.

They are offered in sizes 8 to 13 and have a leather upper with a solid rubber cupsole.

So instead of going to your Nike shop and finding they don’t have your size, you can pick exactly which shoes you want straight from the web, particularly great if you know exactly what you are looking for so you don’t need to go out your door, you can just get them delivered.

There are plenty of other Nike products for sale on Amazon – just follow the link above and you will see a range of Nike shoes and other clothing that you can buy from the online store.

Wedding Trends – Celebrity Weddings

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Wen people start planning for a wedding they are often influenced by current wedding trends ad the trends themselves are often influenced by, well celebrities. I think we don’t really realise sometimes how much influence celebrities have on our everyday life. We all want out 15 minutes (or more) of fame and we see people who really aren’t famous for anything other than being famous getting their time, and we want ours.

One of the biggest weddings of this year was that of Kim Kardashian. But let’s be honest here – what has she really done ot be famous?? All this fame and influence over people and really she has done nothing to deserve it.

Well Kim Kardashian did have a fairytale wedding and at the end of the day that is pretty much what every bride wants. However, not every bride is in the same financial situation that Kim Kardashian is and so if you are trying to replicate this kind of wedding you are in a lose lose situation by putting so much pressure on yourself.

Having said that, the thing I found a bit weird about the Kim Kardashian wedding was that everyone was dressed in white and not only did the bridesmaids look like the bride, so did the bride’s mother. All very artist but not really designed for the bride to stand out.

So, if you are planning a wedding, by all means check out some of the latest celebrity weddings but in the end, have  your own style and learn from other people’s mistakes 🙂

 

Wanting a Baby – Steps to Pregnancy

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When you fist decide that you want to try for a baby with your partner it is a very exciting time.For the first few months of trying for a pregnancy you are mainly just enjoying yourself and not really putting to much pressure on having a baby.

However, once a few months has passed it is natural that you start getting a bit stressed about the situation,if you are not immediately conceiving. It is very easy to say not to get stressed as this will not help your chances btu that is just not going to happen!

However, there are a few ways that you can start to help yourself in you journey to conceive a baby. It often does take a year or so of trying to get pregnant so until this time, when your doctor can start running some tests, there are some other things that you can try.

Firstly, you really need to know when your fertile period is so that you can have sex around the optimum time for conception (the time you ovulate and generally the 3 days before).  Check out these tips on how to tell when you are ovulating for starters.

There are other herbs and supplements that you can take which may increase your chances of conceiving – from taking Evening Primrose oil in the first half of your cycle, taking royal jelly and bee pollen to improve egg quality and taking maca capsules to do the same thing, or you can use soft cups and preseed to help get the sperm where they need to go. There are quite a number of things that you to encourage a pregnancy to happen.

Whatever happens, try not to give up on your dreams of a baby as there are so many ways that this can become a reality.

Horoscopes and Zodiac Signs

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Many people lay great store on reading their horoscope every day to see what they have in store. Others, however, feel that there is no chance that just because of the day you were born and how the planets were aligned would foretell our fortunes.

But, whatever you believe in, there was a shock in store this year when the astronomers (the ones that look at the stars) told the astrologers (the ones who interpret zodiac signs and horoscopes etc) that the zodiac signs were a month out of line!

TIME magazine reported that: according to the Minnesota Planetarium Society, the signs of the zodiac should be as follows:

Capricorn: Jan. 20-Feb. 16. 
Aquarius: Feb. 16-March 11. 
Pisces: March 11-April 18. 
Aries: April 18-May 13. 
Taurus: May 13-June 21. 
Gemini: June 21-July 20. 
Cancer: July 20-Aug. 10. 
Leo: Aug. 10-Sept. 16.
Virgo: Sept. 16-Oct. 30. 
Libra: Oct. 30-Nov. 23.
Scorpio: Nov. 23-29. 
Ophiuchus: Nov. 29-Dec. 17.
Sagittarius: Dec. 17-Jan. 20.

Now you may notice here that there is one extra sign, Ophiuchus, which has pushed all of the others out of whack.

But the question is, will the astrologers take this on board and change all of their previous ideas? Well surely this would undo most of the work that they have been  carrying out over the past decades or centuries? Or, would this actually put right the wrongs that people have seen in horoscopes which made them think that they were useless?

Well some astrologers always believed that there were 13 signs of the zodiac anyway. and have done for thousands of years – so maybe it is not news to them. On the other had there is a school of thought that says there are two types of zodiac signs, one more used in the west which is seasonal and the 13 sign zodiac used in the East.  So there seems to be no need to panic if you are using the western one as nothing will have changed, it is only the eastern one that has changed.

As for me, I am a scorpio and happy with that. If I went to the 13 sign zodiac I would be a Libra and to be honest, having read a few ideas of Libran women’s characteristics, that is for sure not me!!