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Month Of Increase and Progress

September 30, 2013 by Jide Ajayi • Life •

This has been a very good month. I have learnt about TULIP and experienced the updates that Apple has added to iOS 7.
All in all the beauty of life is further enhanced when one learns about things especially things that arouse one’s interests.
It has been a decent 30 days as well as a reminder that the year is going out slowly now but will eventually pick up speed.
Looking forward to a powerful October

Multi-tasking

March 30, 2013 by Jide Ajayi • Life •

It has been a very wonderful month. I have had a grossly busy time at work and at home, I’ve had to juggle learning about Solar panels their benefit, the installation types, the cost and what a good step up will be like, the details I will post sometime in the future.
Also, there was the issue of revising the school term’s work with the kids and giving them a mock exam, that had its own challenge and coupled with the other issues of trying to be better at using Lightroom 4 and improving the design of the blog.
The month has been a great one in terms of the things I have learnt.
SO I look forward to April 2013 where hopefully I will do more writing.

(G)Mail Management – Mailbox

February 26, 2013 by Jide Ajayi • Life • Tags: apps, iPhone, mail management, mailbox •

I’m sure by now you must have heard and read about the Mailbox app.
It is a new server supported app that allows you to take care of the mail in your inbox.
When you go to the website you are asked to put in your phone number (they accept phone numbers from around the world not just the US which to me is a very strong point) and as soon as you submit it, you get an SMS saying your Mailbox is confirmed. If you go ahead to download the iPhone app, it will ask you to put in the private code sent to you. Once you do that the app will tell you where you are on the waiting list. All you have to do from then is just wait until your opportunity comes.

Currently the app supports just the Gmail so once you are allowed to use the service, you get to experience email management as defined by mailbox.
What I love about Mailbox is the ease with which it allows you to manage your email. Once I put in my gmail credential, Mailbox showed me how it works in terms how manage my mail. Swipe to the right to archive, long swipe to the right to delete. Swipe to the left to read it later or long left to add it to a list. Also, the various functions are color coded so that as you swipe you can see and know what you are doing.
After that I was asked if I wanted to send all the mails in my inbox to the archive I told it to go ahead. After a short time I had zero mails in my inbox.
For the mails that came in after that it was just a case of swiping to the left or to the right and I was managing my inbox.

I tried to use the Gmail app to manage my mail and found out that it involved more steps doing the same thing you did with just a swipe.
I just love the way Mailbox work and it is now my preferred way to handle mail in my Gmail account.
One more thing, the app allows you to manage more than one gmail account at a time.
If you have not registered and you have an iPhone please make use of the opportunity.

SIM Card Failure and Do Not Disturb

January 31, 2013 by Jide Ajayi • Issues, Life • Tags: iOS 6.1, iPhone 5, life •

iOS 6.1 updated screen — This shows that the phone is updated

New iOS 6.1 has been out for a few days now and some things have been improved by Apple in the area of maps, lock screen music player as well as the LTE update that seems to be the main driver for the update.

I was quick to update my phone as soon as I saw the update because I was hoping that Apple would have made improvements to the battery consumption issue that came with iOS 6.02. I have not seen any change in the rate of recharge based on use but I have noticed something else.

This has to do with the Do Not Disturb function. When I activate the mode and it is activated, when I get up in the morning, I get one form of SIM card failure or the other. I did not have this problem before now but it’s something that is of interest.

Update: The new update 6.1.2 seems to have dealt with the issue