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David Sparks:
A surprising number of attendees at my Macworld talk about OmniFocus were not aware that you could show start date items in the iPad version’s Forecast View.
He isn’t joking. Myself and a number of my fellow OmniFocus nerds who were in attendance had no idea this setting existed. Incredibly useful if you spend any time in OmniFocus for iPad’s Forecast view.
I had no idea about this either – but it’s awesome. This should be switched on by default.
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Apple issued an uncharacteristic statement to All Things D today acknowledging that some iPhone 4S owners have been experiencing worse than expected battery life from their new devices. They stated that this was due to a few bugs in iOS5 that would be addressed with a software update ‘in the coming weeks’.
When I received my iPhone 4S, the battery life was noticeably worse than my iPhone 4, however I put this down to me using it more and messing around with Siri. Today, the battery life on my iPhone 4S is at least as good as on my iPhone 4, running the GM release of iOS5.
If you’re finding that you have reduced battery life on your iPhone 4S (or your iPhone 4/3GS running iOS5), these tips might help you. I don’t recommend turning off features that you’re likely to use, however there are a couple of things you can safely turn off that won’t impact your use of the device.
In Settings, tap Location Services and scroll to the bottom of the list. In System Services, turn off Location-Based iAds and Setting Time Zone. For me, this System Service was using the GPS constantly, presumably to monitor which time zone I was in. The disadvantage to turning these off is that you won’t get location-targeted ads and you’ll have to manually change your time zone (not a big deal for me here in the UK) – if you travel a lot, you’ll have to decide if it’s worth it for you.
It goes without saying that turning off Bluetooth and/or WiFi when you’re not using them will help, but for many people (myself included) this isn’t always practical.
Have you found anything else that improves battery life for you under iOS5?
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My thoughts on some of the less obvious features in iOS5 for iPad users.
Via iPad.AppStorm
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This is brilliant. Works just like Safari Reader only it loads the actual pages, not just the text.
Hugely advantageous for people who use Instapaper. I used to use Safari Reader to email the article to my Instapaper list but hopefully this extension will save me from doing that.
Via Smoking Apples.
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This tip saved me over 20GB on my almost-full Macbook Pro. I had backups from three iPhones and an iPad all the way back to 2008. Worth investigating…
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Handy tip to make your iPhone 3G run a little faster on iOS4
