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iOS6 Features in a nutshell

iOS6 Beta Features and enhancements Just to reduce the clutter and put the important/useful ios6 features from WWDC 2012 The improvements are OK, but not huge as hyped by other sites. 1. Some major changes to Siri like auto launch apps, lot of integration (twitter, rotten tomatoes etc..), more language support and more localised information I liked the SIRI integration piece with the in-car systems which could be game changer 2. Big jump in facebook integration. (allowing contacts, calendar, location etc..) I'm not a big fan of over posting your data into facebook and its all about that !! 3. Phone and call enhancements Do Not Disturb Mode will still allow calls to be received, but won't ring or light up. But settings can be done if the caller calls twice as it can be urgent. Options to text-back or call later if you are busy or driving. I liked these enhancements which were present in Android using external apps. 4. Maps enhancements The major change is iOS6 no m...

Financial Newspapers without ads

I follow quite lot of Business News.  Though the news are so much manipulated, it gives an overall idea of what's going around the business world around you.  I like Bloomberg's ipad application as its very intuitive. Financial Times (www.ft.com) is unfortunately paid. "Economic Times" is good to get news at macro Level, but unfortunately its flooded by Ads !! So you all might know how to read these news papers without ads? Bloomberg is decent, so not worth the effort to remove ads Financial times trick is to use google cache.  For clues on various tags use their RSS  -  http://www.ft.com/rss/home/uk   and use the meta information to search in another window of google. Then click on cache to read the article. (eg Search in google for  site:ft.com Mon, 04 June 2012) Economic times is based in India but they too have RSS feeds which is good.  Use the link  http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/rss.cms   to the news without ads. In general, if you get the link ...