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Tuesday, March 8, 2016

How Not to Land a Job: 18 Interview No-Nos. Auckland, New Zealand, iPhone, iPad, iPod Repair, unlock, drmobiles, #0800429429

Image result for 10 big no no for job interview no-no'sDressing inappropriately and badmouthing former employers are well-known job interview no-nos. But many of us are still committing these basic mistakes – along with much more bizarre ones. Like hugging the interviewer.

According to a recent CareerBuilder survey of 2,482 hiring managers, the rebounding economy may be to blame.

“The good news is that the number of open jobs continues to improve month over month,” said Rosemary Haefner, a vice president at CareerBuilder. “However, competition will remain high for some time to come.”

And with high competition comes high pressure, which may be causing these costly job interviewing-mistakes. The most outrageous ones reported by hiring managers were…

1. Provided a detailed listing of how previous employer made them mad.
2. Hugged hiring manager at the end of the interview.
3. Ate all the candy from the candy bowl while trying to answer questions.
4. Constantly bad mouthed spouse.
5. Blew her nose and lined up the used tissues on the table in front of her.
6. Brought a copy of their college diploma that had obviously been white-outed and their name added.
7. Wore a hat that said “take this job and shove it.”
8. Talked about how an affair cost him a previous job.
9. Threw his beer can in the outside trashcan before coming into the reception office.
10. Had a friend come in and ask “HOW MUCH LONGER?”

Image result for 10 big no no for job interview no-no'sThe most common mistakes are a lot less amusing but are equally damning…

1. Answering a cell phone or texting during the interview – reported by 71 percent of hiring managers
2. Dressing inappropriately – 69 percent
3. Appearing disinterested – 69 percent
4. Appearing arrogant – 66 percent
5. Speaking negatively about a current or previous employer – 63 percent
6. Chewing gum – 59 percent
7. Not providing specific answers – 35 percent
8. Not asking good questions – 32 percent


Haefner offers the following tips for successful interviews in a competitive job market:

Image result for how to fail on job interviewKeep it upbeat: “Many job seekers may be experiencing tougher than usual job searches in this economy. Even if your job search process has been frustrating, do what you can to remain positive and upbeat.”

Prepare, prepare, prepare: “Before the interview, research the company by looking at the press room for recent announcements, the About Us section for company culture, and the list of products so you are familiar with their offerings. Having this knowledge will allow you to easily answer and ask questions during the interview.”

Keep it professional, not personal: “Don’t let business decorum disappear even if the interview is in a casual setting. Refrain from discussing over-the-top personal issues and focus on the position and selling yourself.”

Practice does make perfect: Nerves are likely to rear their head in an interview, so help calm them ahead of time by practicing. Go through common interview questions with a friend or family member and practice in front of a mirror so you can see your body language.

Honesty is the best policy: “If questions come up that you don’t know how to answer, don’t lie or pretend you know. Admit that you may not know the answer, but then explain how you would go about finding a solution, proving your resourcefulness.”

“The goal of any interview is to stand out from the other candidates and ultimately land the job,” Haefner says,” but make sure you stand out for the right reasons.”

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Friday, March 4, 2016

How you can unlock iPad Pro’s full potential w/ iOS 9 features. Auckland, New Zeland, Apple iPhone Repair, Dr Mobiles Limited

If you haven’t mastered iOS 9 and all its new tricks introduced in September, then it’s easy to find yourself using the iPad Pro as just a jumbo iPad Air or iPad mini. But new multitasking features like Picture in Picture, Split View, and Slide Over transform the iPad Pro experience and shine on the larger display if you know how to use them and which apps work. And while the iPad Pro doesn’t have 3D Touch like new iPhones, there’s a similar keyboard cursor gesture to now about. All that plus much more on unlocking the full potential of the iPad Pro below:
PIP off screenBefore we dive in, many of these tips will apply to all iPads with iOS 9 while other features are limited to iPad mini 4 (7.9″), iPad Air 2 (9.7″), and iPad Pro (12.9″). If you’re comfortable with the bigger display of the Pro, however, it is able to present the most amount of content at once when multitasking.

Newly available in iOS 9, iPads support three multitasking features: Split View, Slide Over, and Picture in Picture. Not all features are available on all iPads however, and each works best on iPad Pro unless the display size is a deal breaker for you.

None of the new multitasking features are obvious, but Picture in Picture is the easiest to stumble upon. Play a video in a supported app, then press the Home button to leave the app and your video shrinks into a mini player and doesn’t stop. There’s also a new “two boxes and an arrow” icon on video players that support PIP. Tap it to continue watching your video within that app, or leave the app and take your video with you.

Picture in Picture
The Picture in Picture window follows you from app to app until you disable it, only going out of focus when you double click the Home button or swipe up with four fingers to switch apps. You can move the PIP around the iPad’s display, although it’s limited to the four corners for now. Activating the on-screen keyboard will push the PIP up so you can type, and you can even tuck the PIP out of view temporarily by pushing it off screen.

Tap the PIP at any point to view playback progress along the bottom, switch back to full screen, play/pause the video, or close it. You can also pinch to shrink or expand the size of the PIP, and the iPad Pro supports the largest version of any iPads.

Picture in Picture works on iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, and iPad mini 2 or later. The only hitch here is that video apps have to opt-in to support it. Built-in apps like Safari, Videos for iTunes movies and TV shows, FaceTime, and Podcasts just work, but your own videos in Photos and music videos from Apple Music won’t. Third-party apps like HBO NOW and Hulu are my favorites to use for Picture in Picture. Netflix and YouTube haven’t added support yet, but YouPlayer and Go Picture in Picture enable YouTube PIP on iPads with different approaches.

Split Screen PIPSplit View is where iPad Pro really shines, and Picture in Picture works on top here too. This feature lets you run two apps side by side, and some apps actually look better as columns rather than full width apps on the big screen (like Twitter for example). You likely won’t activate Split View by accident though because the mode is hidden behind a screen gesture.

If you want to use two apps side by side and both apps support Split View, you’ll notice a divider that you can pull a little to make both apps active. Use the secondary app in a 1/5th column view, pull it to the center to split the screen in half, pull it all the way to the right to dismiss it, or all the way to the right to let the secondary app take over the whole display. This works in portrait mode with 2/3rd and 1/3rd apps as well.

Slide OverThere’s also a grab bar at the top of the secondary app on the right that lets you switch to other Split View apps. If you click the Home button and open another app that supports Split View, you’ll notice the app one the right remains.

Alternatively, you can use iOS’s four-finger gesture to swipe between apps to change the left app without losing focus of the right app. Apps that don’t support Split View like Settings and Music will take over the whole display, but swipe on to Safari or other supported apps and Split View will return. It’s a pretty quick transition with the swipe gesture.

Slide Over works with the same iPads as Picture in Picture: iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, and iPad mini 2 or later. Split View requires iPad mini 4, iPad Air 2, or iPad Pro.

Split ViewSeveral readers have asked about the lack of 3D Touch or Force Touch on the iPad Pro, especially one shortcut on the iPhone 6s in particular. Using the latest iPhones, you can press firmly over the keyboard to enter a trackpad-like mode for text selection and moving the cursor. This actually came to all iPads with iOS 9 in September and works extremely well on the iPad Pro, but it’s not super obvious until you learn it. Apple offers this set of instructions:
Turn your keyboard into a trackpad. Touch and hold the keyboard with two fingers until it turns light gray. Drag around the keyboard to position the insertion point. Lift, then touch and hold with two fingers to reveal the drag points. Move your fingers to select text. Tap with two fingers to select a word. Double-tap with two fingers to select a sentence. Tap three times with two fingers to select a paragraph.

iPad Pro cursor gestureWhile using the new iPad Pro on-screen keyboard, you may also encounter an annoying shift bug when trying to access the symbols above the new half-height num row. Basically holding the shift key and tapping a number key to access the above characters only works in search fields and mid-sentence where auto-capitalization isn’t activated. There’s a workaround for now, and using it has made me much more efficient at typing on the iPad Pro.

The same thing works from the Home screen when using a physical keyboard. My most frequently used shortcuts? Command Shift H to return to the Home screen and Command Tab which activates an app switcher just like the Mac’s. You still need to touch the screen to complete a lot of tasks that could be tied to a keyboard shortcut, but these make using the iPad Pro and all iPads with a connected keyboard much faster.


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And if you’re using your iPad Pro or any iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard and a setup more like a laptop, you may want to change the display’s auto-lock time to something longer. By default, iPad displays will turn off after 2 minutes without interaction, which helps preserve battery life and increase security if you use a passcode. When using iPad Pro with a keyboard, however, I’ve noticed that I’m finding that 2 minutes is too aggressive. I’m currently trying out 5 minutes, which should be pretty reasonable, but you may consider 10 or 15 minutes better options if you’re reading a lot of content on the larger display without interacting with it. Only choose Never if you want to manually turn off the display with the on/off switch or by closing a Smart Cover or similar magnetic case.

iPad Pro Notes Pencil

The iPad Pro’s 12.9-inch display makes it ideal for using as a sketchpad, and Apple Pencil’s reliable palm rejection and minimal latency take the frustration out of using a digital stylus. So once you get your hands on an Apple Pencil, what next? Apple Notes is a great start. It’s built-in, syncs with iCloud to your iPhone and Mac and the web, and its pencil and pen tools are very realistic. Try the pressure sensitivity with the pen tool, then try shading with the pencil tool like a real pencil. While you can use Apple Pencil to draw anywhere sketching is supported on iOS, a number of apps have updated specifically for Apple Pencil including Adobe Sketch, Paper by 53, Pixelmator, and Procreate to name a few. Evernote and Notability have also updated for Apple Pencil if Apple Notes isn’t for you. Each app has a different set of tools within, so I recommend collecting a few. Apple Mail also supports sketching with its attachment markup feature, though I wish it was more widely available.

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Gaming o
n the big screen with real gaming controllers is one of the many appeals of the new Apple TV, but the iPad Pro definitely holds its own in this space too. The same MFi gaming controllers that you buy for Apple TV, like the SteelSeries Nimbus (hands-on here) and others, will work with iPad Pro so you can buy one and use it on both screens. Throw on a pair of Bluetooth headphones and you’ve got a very immersive and portable experience without all the wires. Asphalt 8, a racing title, has been my favorite to play so far, and your progress is saved from iPhone to iPad to Apple TV. Even better, the iPad can do Picture in Picture over many games including Asphalt 8, so you can catch up on The Daily Show while racing around a track at 200 mph like a real iPad pro.
iPad Pro settingsThe iPad Pro doesn’t change the overall layout of the larger Home screen — instead keeping the same 5×4 grid as the iPad mini and iPad Air and revealing more wallpaper. If you’re like me and using the iPad Pro primarily in landscape orientation for the first time, you may want to throw one or two extra apps or folders on your dock. Smaller iPads can also add up to 6 icons to the dock, but I’ve always keep just 4 to match the portrait layout. Portrait is secondary to me on iPad Pro, however, so I’m using 5 apps in the dock now to match the landscape layout.
iPad Pro gamingAnd if you’re planning on replacing a laptop with the iPad Pro, knowing about Safari’s ability to upload various types of files will likely be very useful. Apps tend to be able to do more than websites on iPhones and iPads, but if you prefer to use Facebook’s website until they update their iPad Pro app to support the full screen resolution, you can still upload photos directly from your iPad just like from a MacBook. This actually works better than through the app in my experience as it uses the updated Photos picker.
iPad Pro dockUploading isn’t limited to just photos and certainly not limited to Facebook. The same process works with more complicated websites like Dropbox using text files and PDFs, although other file types like Pages documents and Pixelmator projects weren’t supported. You can actually upload files from Dropbox through the iOS app to Dropbox on the web with Safari using this process, or access your photo library, iCloud Drive, or other supported services.
Photo UploaderHave any other iPad Pro user tips to fully unlock the potential of the larger tablet? Please let us know in the comments below!

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iphone 3d touch
The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are the first iPhones to feature “3D touch“. 3D Touch allows the iPhone to detect how hard you’re pressing, and you can press harder on the screen in some places to do different things.
When you press down on the screen, the glass bends a tiny bit. A capacitive sensor under the glass measures the distance between the sensor and your finger to determine how hard you’re pressing down.
Use a Keyboard Touchpad


This extremely useful feature has been overlooked by many, but 3D Touch offers a very easy way to position your text cursor while typing. Rather than touching somewhere in the block of text you’re typing, you can use a much more precise method.
Just hard-press anywhere on the touch keyboard. The letters will vanish from the keys, indicating it’s now a touchpad. Move your finger around to move the cursor around the text box you’re typing in. Lift your finger when you’re done.

Activate Quick Actions on Your Home Screen

Most of Apple’s own apps now include “Quick Actions” you can access right from your home screen. Many third-party apps have also added quick actions, and more and more apps are supporting this every day.
To use a quick action, just hard-press an application’s icon on your home screen. Instead of the application opening, you’ll see shortcuts you can tap to go directly to an action in the application. For example, hard-press the Clock app and you’ll see shortcuts for “Create Alarm” and “Start Timer”. Hard-press a social media or messaging app’s icon and you’ll see shortcuts to create a new post or send a new message. Hard-press Safari to quickly open a new tab or access your reading list. The actions supported depend on the app — try it out.
If an app doesn’t support quick actions, you’ll just get some haptic feedback and a menu won’t appear after you hard-press it.

Switch Between Apps

Rather than double-pressing the Home button twice to open the app switcher, you can hard-press the left edge of the screen and swipe to the right to quickly switch to a previous app. Swipe enough to the right and you’ll simply swipe an old app onto your screen, but you can also swipe a bit to the right and release. The app switcher will then appear, just as if you had double-pressed the Home button.

Draw With Pressure Sensitivity

3D Touch enabled pressure-sensitive drawing in different note-taking and drawing applications. For example, the Notes application included with your iPhone has support for this. Evernote, Microsoft’s OneNote, and Paper have already added support for this, too.
You can play with this by opening the “Notes” app on your IPhone. Create a new note and tap the squiggly-looking “Draw” icon at the bottom of the note. Draw with your finger and you’ll notice you can make the lines thicker by pressing down harder, as if you were drawing on paper.

“Peek” and Swipe Up

Apple is attempting to create some new interaction methods, which it’s named “Peek” and “Pop”. These are supported throughout many of Apple’s own apps, and third-party apps are beginning to support them, too.
To use “peek”, you hard-press on something — a link in the Safari web browser, an email message in the Mail app, a photo in the Photos or Camera app, a link to a map in any app, and so on. That web page, email, photo, map, or other item appears in a little preview pane. You can then lift your finger and the preview pane will go away, so this is an easy way to “peek” at a web page, email, or something else without leaving the current screen.
While peeking, you can swipe up to access more actions. For example, while peeking at an email you can swipe up and find shortcuts to quickly reply to, forward, mark, or move the email message.

“Pop”

If you decide you want to load the thing you’re previewing, you can press down even harder. That’s the “pop” action. The item you’re “peeking” at will then “pop” into view, loading as a normal web page, email, photo, map, or other item of its type would.

Play Live Photos (as an Animated Lock Screen, Too)

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If you’ve taken live photos, you can open the Photos app and hard-press a photo to have it animate.
Apple also allows you to use live photos as an animated lock screen. You can take your own live photos and then set them as your lock screen, but your iPhone also includes a few default live photos you can set as your lock screen.
These won’t always appear animated on your lock screen, however. You’ll ned to hard-press on your lock screen after setting a live photo as your background. The live photo will then animate.

Adjust the Sensitivity or Turn It Off

If you’d like to adjust 3D Touch’s settings, you can open the Settings app and navigate to General > Accessibility > 3D Touch. From here, you can disable or enable 3D Touch and control how sensitive it is.

This can’t be a complete list, of course. New types of applications — especially games experimenting with new input schemes — could use 3D Touch in a wide variety of different ways. 3D Touch is really just a new type of input, and it’s up to app developers to take that and run with it. But you can expect many applications to support peek, pop, quick actions, and the other features Apple has started off with.
 
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