Does size matter?

I heard it said by potential iPhone customers that 64GB isn't enough storage.

I have always said, well that's what iCloud is for. Additional storage in the cloud and off your device. Of course the beauty of cloud storage when implemented well is its almost seamless and indistinguishable from items stored on your device.

In addition it's brilliant for backing up and sharing stuff across many devices, keeping them up to date.

If iPod is anything to go by, the classic at 160GB has enough storage for nearly all your entertainment needs. What if the hard drive in an iPod classic could be shrunk further to find in the confines or an slimmer, lighter iPhone. What If that shrunk hard drive was able to take advantage of Apples fusion drive, first introduced on the mac lines. Frequently used items are kept at the ready on speedy flash storage, while infrequently accessed items go to the hard drive. The best of all worlds?

Faster, and therefor a smoother proposition.

QUICK TIP - Adding Birthday's to contacts

Open Contacts

Choose a contact

Tap Edit, Top right, highlighted in green

Circled in blue tap, add field

Select Birthday

Choose the required birthday. Open Calendars and go to the birthday date

Adding birthdays to your contacts. Done

Boots Christmas App

Today The Boots Christmas App was released on the Apple App Store. It's a free download that aims to make giving gifts more fun.

Home Screen

You can search Boots Christmas offerings through the app. All the great Christmas 3 for 2 gifts are there. There's various ways to find that perfect present.

Gift ideas for those of us, who are stuck for inspiration this section is great. Tap the "gift ideas bauble" and your presented with 3 rows of gift tags Who's if for? for example man's man or party queen. Next what are they into? For example, gadgets or bath & body. Don't worry if you don't know what Uncle Dave is in to, maybe that's best. Next, what's the budget? Once you have chosen, lets get some ideas. Magically a selection of inspiration appears. You needn't select all of the options, it's intelligent enough to give you good results, although you can't aren't able to shop on just price. Come on she deserves a little more thought than that!

Search & browse another way to become the greatest gifter. Simply take what she's asked for ..."anything from Feane Cotton" or if you have a little less to go on select from "make up and hair", ect. The search function is responsive although it struggled to return any results for "Soap & Glory" however I spelled it, until I just tried Glory.

As you find gifts you can add them to you gift list, where it clear shows you the savings your making with the 3 for 2 promotions. Of course you can add a recipient, tick off a gift when it's been purchased too. Once your ready to purchase your gifts you can tap the "Lets buy it from boots.com" button and within the app it takes you to boots.com mobile site. Despite trying several times, I could not get my list to transfer across and subsequently wasn't able to shop on the go. Slightly disappointing.

The gift list is very clear, along with the savings if your buying into the 3 for 2 offer, be silly not too. I like the way the app lets you know how may points each item it worth too.

The look and feel of the app is very Christmasy and well thought out. There is more to unwrap though... See a lovely gift for the one you love whole out shopping this is the feature for you. The app will recognise all the offers in the Christmas mix and match 3 for 2 offer. Scan instore is a smart little feature to quickly add a gift to your list.

Finally the extra twinkle in the tree lights, your grandmas emergency chair or your mums forgotten condiment. This extra feature is the smoother than the best gravy, the video gift tag.

Pick up a special gift tag instore or get one free when you boots.com it. Scan the QR code on the tag and you can record a (short, 45 second) Christmas morning message to that special someone. On Christmas morning, the recipient uses their smart
phone to scan the QR code on the gift tag to reveal that extra smile. Once you have filmed your message it takes a while for it to appear in your my videos section. This is a magical idea, especially if your little sis is usually out of the country on skivation. The video gift tag, a great idea, one that gives this app longevity. I predict the big retailers stealing this idea, for next season.

Overall it's a polished app from Boots, simple to use and useable at the same time, lovely Christmas theme too. Would be great to share lists with loved ones for those secret santa ifamily's. If I found a perfect pressie, I'd like to be able to share that inspiration with someone, even just to stop me receiving socks again. Finally it's the sentiment that's nice to, give giggles, give wow, giving gifts that keep giving.

Right I'm off to put the sprouts on!

iOS6 Quick Tip

iOS6 SimplyHistory

In Safari you can quickly check your browsing history by holding your finger over the back button, for a second.

In the photo highlighted by the green circle, bottom left.

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.