As you may have noticed by now, Siri’s voice got an overhaul in iOS 7 and iOS 8, adjusted just slightly from the now famous female voice used in countless Apple commercials to a variation that is just slightly different, but a bit more refined. The Siri voice sounds great, but if for some reason you aren’t thrilled with female voice, or you’d just prefer to hear something … [Read more...] about How to Switch the Voice of Siri to a Male or Female in iOS 8
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How To Clear DNS Cache on an iPhone
DNS request are usually cached, that’s good as it help to speeds up the lookups within the same host but sometimes we will want to clear the cache so it don’t hold the values that are no longer valid. In OS X we use terminal to clear DNS cache, but in iOS there is no terminal. You have 2 possibilities to clear dns cache in iOS, first is reboot and second one is switching to … [Read more...] about How To Clear DNS Cache on an iPhone
How to get iOS 7 Lock Screen Look in Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
For those that want to bring iOS 7 and OS X closer together, you can start by adding the iOS 7 lock screen as a screensaver to your Mac. The lockscreen is based on Andrew Ambrosino's iOS 7 inspired look for OS X 11. It has the same font, and starry wallpaper found in iOS 7 as well. … [Read more...] about How to get iOS 7 Lock Screen Look in Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
How to Disable the Parallax Effects and Animation in iOS 7
These are instructions on how to disable the animation and parallax effects in iOS 7. Apple’s latest firmware features a new parallax effect that causes your wallpaper to move behind your springboard icons. There’s also a new animation effect that zooms into views as you switch between apps. With iOS 7.0.3 you can disable both effects. Prior versions of iOS 7 can only disable … [Read more...] about How to Disable the Parallax Effects and Animation in iOS 7