Cloud Services

Dec 18 2012

Create your own Photo Albums with PicStory on the iPad

Since the creation of the photograph people have enjoyed storing their collections in photo albums, and as technology has moved photos into the digital age photo albums have followed suit onto our devices & PicStory on the iPad is a great example.
Albums can be created from photos stored on your device or from cloud services such as Dropbox and Picasa, this makes the creation of albums very flexible and you don’t have to store all your pictures on your device.

All your individual albums are presented from the PicStory home page in a very attractive manner and the app interface can be skinned from a selection of themes.

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Several on-Line services are supported

Selecting an album will open a preview and option column allowing you to quickly select a picture for viewing or uploading to your cloud services. After you have opened an album you can create a slideshow to view your pictures to a soundtrack. You can also choose to share your pictures with your social media and cloud services.

Keeping track of your pictures is always difficult but to help PicStory allows you to add tags onto your albums allowing you to categorise your pictures in an organised manner, it’s one of the value added touches that makes PicStory stand out.

PicStory is a fantastic app and if you take a lot of photos and looking for a nice way to present and organise them then this is a great app for you.

 

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How to Find a Lost or Stolen iPhone

Aug 6 2011

How to Find a Lost or Stolen iPhone

This is a procedure that every iPhone user should follow.

Apple provide a free facility for finding your iPhone whether it’s been lost or stolen, but you need to set up the facility first.

As part of Apples Mobile Me facility, the Find my iPhone tool is provided free of charge to all iPhone users, all you need is an Apple ID.

If you don’t have an Apple ID you can easily get one through your iPhone:

  • Open the settings App on your iPhone
  • Go to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section
  • Choose Add Account…
  • Select Mobile Me
  • Select the Create Free Apple ID option at the bottom of the screen

  • Follow the on screen instructions

If you have an Apple ID then you need to activate the Find my iPhone facility:

  • Open the settings App on your iPhone
  • Go to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section
  • Choose Add Account…
  • Select Mobile Me
  • Enter your Apple ID and Password into the login box and press Next.
  • Activate the Find My iPhone selector

This will activate the Find My iPhone service.

To find your Lost or Stolen iPhone:

  • On a PC Navigate to https://me.com/find/
  • Enter you Apple ID and Password
  • A map will now be displayed which shows the location of your iPhone
  • If you click on the location of your iPhone you can lock or wipe it remotely.
  • You can also send a free message to the handset

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May 5 2011

How to View your iPhone Photos on your PC

The iPhone has a great camera to take photographs but how do you transfer your iPhone Photographs from your phone to your PC.

Here are my 4 top ways of Photo Transfer.

1) USB Cable

The Simplest way to view or copy your iPhone Photos on your PC is by connecting your iPhone to your PC by using the USB cable that came with your iPhone. When your computer is on and logged in:

  • Connect the iPhone to your PC using the cable
  • Unlock the iPhone so that it’s home screen is visible.
  • After a few Seconds the Windows AutoPlay Menu should appear.
  • Click on ‘Open Device to View files’

  • Your iPhones picture folders will now be displayed in a Windows Explorer Window.
  • If this doesn’t happen then check your AutoPlay settings in the Hardware and Sound section of the Control Panel. The Picture Setting should be set to ‘Ask Every time’.

  • You Should also be able to use the My Computer tool to view the contents of your iPhone. Your iPhone should be listed underneath your computers Hard Drives.

Using the USB cable works very well if you have a large amount of Photos to transfer.

2) WiFi

if you don’t want to have use a cable to connect your iPhone to your PC and have a WiFi network available then it’s possible to view your iPhone photos in a web browser using a free App called WiFi Photo.

When you launch the WiFi Photo app it provides you with an Address to type into the Internet Browser on your PC, this will display a web page generated specifically for your iPhone, and provides a link to your iPhone Photo’s and Videos. WiFi Photo works very well and provides a free and convenient alternative to using a USB Cable

More information on WiFi Photo can be found in This Article.

3) Dropbox

DropBox is a popular Internet Based Secure Storage facility which allows you to transfer files between any device running the DropBox software.
There is a DropBox client available for the iPhone which allows you to upload your iPhone pictures to your DropBox account, so that you can access them on your PC.
As well as connecting over WiFi DropBox also works over a mobile 3G connection, this allows you to securely back up your important photos when away from your home eg you can upload your important holiday photographs as soon as you have taken them.
You can read more information on Drop Box in This Article

4) Email

    If you need to share Pictures with a PC other then your own or with a friend then you can also email your iPhone Photos to any email address. This would allow you to transfer individual pictures to a computer that doesn’t have iTunes installed.
    To email a picture:

    • Open your Photos App
    • Find the picture you want to transfer
    • Select the transfer icon in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
    • This will display the transfer menu.
    • Select the Email Photo option and the picture will be opened in the iPhones email Application.

    Emailing Photo’s is more time consuming than other options but it provides a guaranteed method of transferring photographs, without the need for a cable for additional Apps.

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    Jan 8 2011

    How to access Cloud Based Storage with DropBox on the iPhone

    My Dropbox viewed on my iPhone

    With the increase in reliable and fast broadband, Cloud Based Services are becoming more popular, included in these are Cloud Based Storage facilities like the popular DropBox service.

    DropBox is a great utility which provides a virtual Disk Drive held on a secure Internet based host, which is linked to a folder on your home computer. When you copy a file to your DropBox folder the DropBox software transparently copies the file to the Web based drive,  and if  you add any files to your DropBox on a different device when you turn on your computer your local DropBox file synchronizes with the Web based version, so you can work on the same document on different machines, you can even give access to files to other DropBox users for collaborative working.

    You can access and add to your DropBox files on the iPhone by using the official free DropBox App, search for Dropbox in the App Store.

    You will also need to sign up for a drop box account (there’s a free option) by clicking here.

    You can now take all your files with you everywhere you go and access them with your iPhone.

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