Even more iPhone 4s Tips

Please read the Disclaimer in the circa 25 June 2012 Blog posts before proceeding.

(14) If your iPhone 4s is lost or stolen then let’s hope that you had the common sense to turn on the ‘Find my iPhone’ facility in iCloud.  Go to the SETTINGS App on the HOME SCREEN of the iPhone 4s, and then into iCloud.  Scroll down and you will see ‘Find my iPhone’ and then simply select the ‘on’ switch

(15) In the App Store search for and download the ‘Find iPhone’ App (this App was free of charge in June 2012).  If your iPhone 4s is lost or stolen, you can open ‘Find iPhone’ App on another APPLE device, i.e. an iPhone owned by one of your friends or family and search for your lost or stolen iPhone 4s.  The ‘Find iPhone’ App will locate your iPhone and provide you with a map.  You can also send an alert to the iPhone and even if you or the person who has the iPhone has turned the sound to off, the alert will sound on your iPhone 4s at maximum volume for 120 seconds.  You could even send a message to your iPhone screen, I quite like the idea of sending something like; “give me back my iPhone you b*^%@rd” (and for the latter word you could instead insert your own meaningful interpretation), but alas you have to be careful just in case someone has already handed your iPhone into the local police station.

As a last resort and it is a last resort, you can remotely wipe your iPhone 4s with the ‘Find iPhone’ App, but rest assured there’s no chance of locating the iPhone with this the ‘Find iPhone’ App after taking that particular measure!

More iPhone 4s Tips to follow; so check back and read the Weekender Blog now and again 

Oh, and while you are at it, please read the Blog Post below about it being time to free John Massey 

Free John Massey

When the news broke, like many people, I was concerned that Category B prisoner John Massey aged 64 had escaped from Her Majesty’s Prison Pentonville.  After all this is a person who was quite rightly convicted of a crime and sentenced to life imprisonment for using a shotgun to shoot another person in 1975.  I am not judging the case, its merits, or the sentencing.  What should have been done was done under our penal system.  I feel for the friends and family of the victim and I sincerely hope that their wounds and distress have healed since 1975.

But a long 37 years have passed since 1975 and there is no getting away from it; there are people who have done far worse, who are walking the streets again having paid their debt to society, while John Massey for some very strange reasons indeed remains incarcerated.

Having been released in 2007 and confined to a Bail Hostel as part of the conditions of release, it seems a tad harsh that John Massey was recalled to prison for jumping his bail conditions to spend a few days with his dying father.  I spent time with my dying father and that time was and still is precious to me.  John Massey is no different, even those who shoot others back in 1975 love their father and grieve the loss.  After being re-incarcerated for what can only be described as extremely dubious reasons and reasons that do not on face value stand up to scrutiny by the average person, it is no small wonder that John Massey walked out of Ford Open Prison upon hearing that his sister was gravely ill.  I mean, you just lost your father, you think that you are about to lose your sister and you have spent almost 40 years locked up for something that someone else would have probably served 25 years for.  You get one go in this world, and if I was John Massey then I would have also jumped a Bail Hostel to be with my dying father and having been robbed of a few years that I could have spent with him due to my unnaturally long incarcerating, I would also have walked out of Ford Open Prison to visit my gravely ill sister before I lost her too.

Come on folks let’s show a bit of compassion here.  It’s about time John Massey was re-integrated into society and not detained any long; simply because he desired to be with those that he loved at a time when they were terminally or gravely ill and with whom he would have been with if he hadn’t been put back inside.   It’s wrong, and others know that it’s wrong too.  

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Some more iPhone 4s Tips

Please read the Disclaimers in the circa 25 June 2012 Blog posts before proceeding.

(12) Carrying on with the safety theme of the last two iPhone 4s tips.  The iPhone has a locking facility that is opened with a 4 digit PIN chosen by the user when the pass-code is selected.  To set up the pass-code simply go to SETTINGS on the iPhone HOME SCREEN, and then to GENERAL, and then to PASSCODE LOCK

Now if your iPhone is lost or stolen the other party will have a few attempts to break the pass-code until  the iPhone 4s will lock out, and be of little use to them

(13) Don’t forget to first check your household insurance, car insurance etc before signing up for insurance for the iPhone provided by your Mobile Phone Network as some of the monthly protection fees do seem a bit of a racket.  I mean, £10 a month is £120 per year and over a two year contract that’s an astonishing £240 paid out just for peace of mind.  Great if you need two new phones during the contract, but crap if you nurture the iPhone during your tenure 

In all instances pick up the phone to your insurer if you don’t understand the insurance policy or there seems to be any doubt as to whether or not your iPhone is insured.  Find out under what circumstances the iPhone won’t be covered. 

Remember it’s too late to check out the details when the iPhone is lost, dropped, or stolen.  Better still, you are only asking questions, so these questions can be asked before you take delivery of your new iPhone

More iPhone 4s Tips to follow; so check back and read the Weekender Blog now and again

More iPhone 4s Tips

Please read the Disclaimer in the circa 25 June 2012 posts before proceeding.

(10) The next sequence of iPhone 4s Tips are about safety.  The iPhone 4s looks cool, but that lovely sculptured bodywork won’t bounce very well if the iPhone is accidentally dropped.  It’s probably sound advice to personalise your iPhone with a cover and at least give it some corner bounce protection when the iPhone falls out of your hand when you least expect it.  I opted for a two part cover that slides to the centre and then clips together.  This particular cover is quite robust, looks as if it’s hard wearing and can be opened quite easily if I need to access the iPhone 4s micro SIM Cradle

(11) I placed a modified contact card between the iPhone cover and the iPhone 4s.  I cut down the card to remove anything that was not needed and to ensure that the card would not interfere with the iPhone camera lens and other components.  On both sides of the card I made it clear with a permanent pen that a REWARD would be given for the return of the iPhone.  I wrote on both sides of the card just in case the card fell out as the cover was removed and came to rest upside down.  You could tape the card to the inside of the cover that you decide to use for your iPhone, but there wasn’t much of a gap between the cover that we purchased for mine and the iPhone.  I didn’t want to close the gap between the iPhone and the protecting cover too much and thereby make the cover too tight

More iPhone 4s Tips to follow; so check back and read the Weekender Blog now and again

iPhone 4s Tips continued

Please read the Disclaimer in the circa 25 June 2012 Blog post before proceeding.

(8) The next power saving tip for the iPhone 4s is how to turn off multiple open windows/Apps as these drain battery power and slow down the functionality of the iPhone.  Go to the HOME SCREEN and double click the main operating button at the bottom of the iPhone face (near to the charging end on the face of the phone).  A row of Apps should now appear at the bottom of the screen.  Press and hold one of these Apps and all of the Apps at should start shaking and showing a white and red ‘no entry’ (road traffic sign) circle. Press each ‘no entry’ sign and that App will close.  Then press the main operating button (the square within the circle at the bottom of the face of the iPhone) once to return to the HOME SCREEN

(9) The next power saving tip for the iPhone is to turn off your Bluetooth when not in use. Go to HOME SCREEN, select the SETTINGS App, and then select GENERAL, scroll down and you will see the Bluetooth on/off switch

More iPhone 4s Tips to follow; so check back and read the Weekender Blog now and again