Never miss anything ever

Never miss a shared calendar event. Shared calendars are great, you a parent, sibling, co worker or friend can share events with you on iPhone.

The sharer can choose which calendars of course and weather they are read only (only viewable, but not changeable) or changeable and viewable. Once you've shared, make sure everyone's iOS device has the followings settings set to on. This way those shared calendar events once created, modified or deleted will generate a little notification on the shared iOS devices.

Turn on notifications for shared calendars:

Tap Settings
Select Mail, Contacts, Calendars

No one need be surprised by uncle Bob's surprise birthday party or miss wishing their sister a safe flight or forget that tonight you have to finish work early because its your son's parents evening.

Blimey, is that the time got to run!
Slide on Shared Calendar Alerts.

How to - use Panorama in iOS6

Tap Camera
Tap Options
Tap Panorama.

Point your iPhone where you would like to start, then tap the camera icon (highlighted in the photo with a blue circle.) Pan (swing the camera around horizontally, holding your iPhone steady) slowly in the direction of the white arrow.

For best results (this is the bit that reads like the back of a shampoo bottle) as you pan, as much as you can keep the point of the white arrow directly on the white horizontal line.

Tap Done, to finish.

To change the panning direction tap anywhere (illustrated inside the green box in this picture.)

Notes: Panorama is available on iOS6 for iPhone4S and later. Third party apps are available which can produce cool panorama shots too. Search the App Store for "Panorama" I can recommend Panorama 360.

QUICK TIP: Quick Emoticons

Emoticons defined by wikipedia are:

An emoticon (/ɨˈmoʊtɨkɒn/) is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using punctuation marks and letters, usually written to express a person's feelings or mood.
😀💝🐷🏆✈🚨👀👌👭👓💚🍄
Emoticons are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text; emoticons for a smiley face :-) and sad face :-( appear in the first documented use in digital form.

In iOS these emoticons can be found in any application which uses the keyboard.

Method one
Holding the globe symbol (highlighted with the green circle in the photo) an emoticons quick menu. Without lifting your digit, slide it upwards until Emoji turns blue and release. You now have the pic of all the emoticons anyone. would ever want.

Method two
Tap the globe symbol (highlighted with the green circle in the photo) to reveal
emoticons.

To return to your regular keyboard tap the globe symbol (highlighted with the green circle in the photo)

It's worth noting not all emoticons will display correctly on non iOS devices.

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Share and share a like!

So over the last few days I've been experimenting with and using shared photo streams for my iPhone 5 and my wife's iPhone iPhone 4 and it's really simple to share pictures between my iPhone and my wife's.

Firstly I open the photos app and go to camera roll, tap "edit" in the top right hand corner and select the picture(s) that I'd like to share.

These are highlighted with a red tick, really I guess it should be a green tick as these have been selected not deselected. Happy with you choices tap "share" in the bottom left.

How would you like to share? A new share menu appears. From here you can choose to print, share with Facebook, copy, mail or share with photo stream. If you haven't previously share photographs this way before your greeted with another slick looking menu, click in the cloud icon with the plus on it, to add a shared photo stream.

Tap on the blue plus icon to add people from you contact list. You may notice not everybody in your contact list is available to share with, those in black ink are available, because you have previously added email details for them. Contacts without email details are inked in grey.

When you have selected all the contacts you would like to share wit, give the stream a name, like family event or Bert's Birthday. Thankfully the public website option is set to off my default. Ready? Tap next, top right

A postcard along with your selected pics papercliped to them us display. There's room for a few lines if personal message too, tap post to well you get the hang of it.

After a notification the snaps magically they appear on your recipients photo stream, under their shared streams.
Both party's can comment on the pictures and like the pictures and both parties can save them to their camera rolls.

But what's really interesting is that Apple hasn't yet built in the ability for the recipient to add pictures of their own to this photo stream, they can of course create a stream to share with you though.

This recipient sharing, Apple would name it more cooly no doubt, would make it truly social, to rival Facebook, Instagram and the like.

Think of it like this mum, dad and their grown up children visit the Olympics this summer, obviously lots of pictures are taken. Mum takes some shots of the crowd, her daughter is lucky enough to be snapped with an Olympic boxer and the son takes a picture of them all there. In the past before you parted back to your own abodes you might say, "you'll have to post or email those pics"

If photo stream was a completely shared experience everyone in the family could instantly share all (select the ones they wanted) the photos. Surly this would be brilliant, all the members of that stream could individually comment, like and print their favourites, what great shared memories.