March 27, 2013
Most of the commercials, jokes, and media hype about Apple's iOS voice assistant, Siri, have subsided, but I still run into iPhone users who don't take advantage of this powerful feature. Just the other day I had to actually try to convince my 15 year-old daughter about how she could set a reminder on her iPhone, by simply raising her iPhone to her ear, and telling Siri to remind her to read chapter 12 of her philosophy textbook, on Thursday night.
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February 17, 2013
I've been wanting to try out SiriProxy for some Arduino home automation projects, but I refuse to buy a new phone when my iPhone 4 is still working just fine. But then I realized; I have Siri already, on my iPad 3. Surely I could use that? Indeed you can. So in this tutorial I'll walk you through getting SiriProxy working with your iPad 3 and Mac OSX.
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January 30, 2013
Apple has released a handful of updates for iOS 6 and its supported mobile devices. The 6.1 update includes expanded LTE support, several new Siri and iTunes Match features, and a new button to reset the Advertising Identifier. The new update will provide "ultrafast wireless performance" to the iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPad with Retina display, so users can browse, download, and stream content faster.
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January 15, 2013
A few years ago, you’d only see someone talking into their phone if somebody was on the other side. Fast forward a bit and now talking to your phone when you aren’t on a call is no big deal. Siri for iPhone revolutionized the behavior, and nowadays it’s common to see people use their voice to control their phones. Luckily, these options are available on Android, too.
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December 18, 2012
While jailbreakers have already figured out a way to ditch Apple Maps and replace it with Google instead, you don't need to jailbreak in order to use Siri and Google Maps together. Simply append your query for directions with the words "via transit" and Siri will reveal a list of transport maps installed, allowing you to choose Google Maps to handle your request instead.
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November 28, 2012
Here's an honest statement - I've never owned a smartphone until nearly a month ago. Yep, I write for a tech blog about amazing techy websites, and yet I never owned one until then. Part of it was financial reasons (MUO pays us an extravagant salary – I just waste it on frivolous items such as gold toilet seats and dyed poodles), and part of it was a bit of a reluctance (if I have a laptop, why get a phone?). However, in the end, I broke down and got the iPhone 5.
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September 17, 2012
The white earphones that come with your iPhone or other Apple mobile device may not be the best sound quality devices on the market, but if you have a pair with remote control buttons on them, you may not know how much you can actually do with them–from answering phone calls, starting and pausing music, to activating Siri and giving it commands.
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August 3, 2012
So you've huddled around a glaring blue download bar of the App Store for nearly 4 hours, taken a full bootable backup of your Lion setup, diligently sat through the install process and now basking in the glorious roar of Mountain Lion. Now what? Here's 5 things you might want to check out or fix straight away.
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May 30, 2012
I don't own an iPhone 4S, as most people who read my articles could probably have guessed already. However, there is one feature that is only available on the iPhone 4S that I find intriguing to the point that I would contemplate buying an iPhone in the future. They call her Siri. I don't think I'm alone in thinking Siri is something of a gamechanger.
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May 25, 2012
Apple has recently fallen into a pattern of offering just incremental updates on its existing product line rather than anything new and innovative. Hence the Retina Display on the new iPad and Siri on the iPhone 4S. Both of which are the only features making their respective devices worth purchasing. But Siri is also something of a gamechanger.
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May 23, 2012
The iPhone 4S has been a huge success, despite the fact it's not much of an improvement over the iPhone 4. Hence the 4S in the name rather than a 5. The biggest draw for Apple fans looking to upgrade their handset is the addition of Siri. Siri is a voice-activated personal assistant which lives on the iPhone 4S and in the cloud. Many people have had some fun with Siri, as the following videos demonstrate.
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May 21, 2012
One of the best things about an iPhone 4S is the Siri speech recognition app, but as I have increasingly noticed, it doesn't seem to like me and my Scottish accent (cue lots of moments where I want to search on Google for big boobies and it phones my wife at work instead). Nevertheless, Siri is starting to grow on me, and on Bakari too, who previously showed us some cool location-aware Siri tips.
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April 18, 2012
Since updating to the iPhone 4S, Siri has become my new best friend. The ability to send commands to Siri has reduced a number of more pesky tasks that I used to perform by hand. I especially like the location-aware features of Siri, because I probably use Siri more in my car than anywhere else. In this post, I will focus on a few location aware tips for Siri.
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April 4, 2012
Whether you're creating audio clips for your own weekly technology podcast, or looking to write your own Siri spoof videos - having the Siri voice on your Mac is awesome. Let me show you how to get the voice, and then how to both make her say whatever you want, and how to record that to file. First things first, let's get the real Siri voice.
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March 13, 2012
Siri replacement application i4Siri has just been released to appease iPhone and iPad users who don’t have access to the official Siri application. Apple’s release of Siri has been met with disappointment from many owners of many Apple devices. Why? Because they can’t use it. Only the iPhone 4S ships with Siri or can be [...]
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