Use of dialing pause in iPhone calls
Sometime the number you call may be answered by an automated voice asking to enter your choice (extension number, department, etc.,) to connect further. If you need to frequently call that number it is a pain to type those same choices again and again. Luckily iPhone provides a feature to avoid that extra typing – dialing pause - a time delay between your choices.
For example you called a company’s 1800 number and then you typed 1 for existing customers and then 3 for billing issues. When you store that number in your contacts list store something like below format
1800number,,,1,,,3
Now if you call that number from your contacts stored in the above format, iPhone types those choices automatically in response to the automated voice requests.
The number of commas you need may vary depending on the automated voice system answering your call. By trial and error you will be able to figure out the correct number of pauses (commas), a worthy one time effort !
Warning: For security reasons do not store any sensitive or confidential information such as pin numbers, passwords, access codes etc.,
Mac screen saver as RSS reader
Looking for a best RSS feed news reader for mac without having to install any client ? How about displaying the RSS feed as part of the mac screensaver
Select RSS Visualizer as the screen saver by going to
System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver > RSS Visualizer
By default, this option displays Apple Hot News RSS feed. You can choose to display any RSS feed.
Add your favorite RSS feed url by going to
System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver > click the + sign > Add RSS Feed.
Or you can click options and provide feed url and click done
How to disable geolocation services in mac safari
Safari 5, among many new features, introduced location services. When you visit a geolocation-enabled (location-aware) web site, safari 5 asks your permission to allow the website collect your location information – GPS latitude and longitude. You can click Don’t Allow or Allow.
What if you don’t want to use location service at all?
To disable location services only in Safari 5
Safari > Preferences > Security > Location Services . Uncheck ‘Allow websites to ask for location information’
To disable location services in mac osx v10.6
System Preferences > Security > Check ‘Disable Location Service’
word of the day screen saver for mac
Here is an interesting screensaver setting available in mac. You can choose to display a ‘word of the day’ along with its meaning as the screensaver.
System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver > Word of the Day
Yet another fun way to learn new words.
How to transfer photos from iphone to mac computer without sync
Although there are many ways to transfer photos from iPhone to your Mac, this tip doesn’t involve sync. This is useful especially if you have many photos in your camera roll and you want to download only selected pictures quickly instead of waiting to sync all.
- Connect your iphone to mac.
- Launch ‘Image Capture’ application from applications folder or search it in spotlight.
- Once ‘Image Capture’ launched, you will see your iPhone listed under devices on the left side and all the images in the right side.
- Import selected images or all to your computer.
By default it imports to Pictures folder.