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All Gadgets Have Superpowers

THis is NOT all about iPhones/Pads, Macs or even Apple.

The article was originally shared by Jared Spurbeck, published on Apr 19, 2011, by Becky Worley on Yahoo News and was in turn picked up by our very own Deborah Pozin. Enjoy.

Our gadgets these days have superpowers. But they also have secret powers: Things you didn’t know they could do.

Becky Worley shows us some hidden features, plus surprising tricks that you can use to get the most out of the gadgets you already own.

iPhone – An App that measures your heart rate with the iPhone’s camera and battery

The free Heart Fitness app from Senscare measures your heart rate, by using your iPhone’s camera and a light source to watch blood pulse through your finger. Just follow the directions, and it’s pretty accurate! It shows your beats per minute, plus the pulsing heart rate graph we all know and love from medical dramas. It even charts your resting heart rate over time, as a measure of overall fitness. Heart Fitness works best with the iPhone 4, since its camera flash lights your finger up nicely, but it can work with the iPod Touch or iPhone 3GS if you hold it up to a bright light. Got an Android device? Try Instant Heart Rate on the Android Market, instead! Both apps are free to download.

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By MAUS Administrator, 13 yearsMay 2, 2011 ago

Just saw that WordPress have announced Onswipe – a WPTouch like piece of code to make WordPress blogs look cool on an iPad. So – it is installed. If you have an iPad – try it out – would love to know what you think.

Wow Your iPad Readers — A New Widget From WordPress.com.

By MAUS Administrator, 13 yearsMarch 25, 2011 ago

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Problems syncing after iOS 4.3?

… it just might be your photos

I recently upgraded my phone to 4.3 and had exactly the synching problem discussed in this article. I solved it – mainly through trial and error and really wish I had seen tis first – because now I look back – the solution describes exactly what I did – (amongst a tonne of other things.)

first unchecking syncing and then re-syncing everything (which took a while, as all of the photos were re-optimized and copied over) worked just fine. So, at least for me, there was a problem with syncing photos, and in both cases, deleting the photos and then having the computers and iDevices sync all photos, events and faces solved the problem.

Full Article :: Problems syncing after iOS 4.3?

Passed on – with thanks to :: TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

By MAUS Administrator, 13 yearsMarch 11, 2011 ago