How to Activate the Camera in Lockscreen Mode on iOS5?

By default, double clicking the home button in an unlock mode brings up the multi-tasking drawer. Hear Ye, because double clicking the home button when the phone is locked will activate the CAMERA & MUSIC options. (image below)

I was baffled at first about this feature because there is nowhere under Settings that you can tweak the feature for the camera, not even in Accessibility options. I tried checking some settings when the camera app is open but it only gives Grid Lines toggle.

With the cool feat about bringing the camera up during lockscreen mode, here comes the part where you can use the volume up button to function as the shutter.

It works perfectly  great. The time lapse to wait for the camera to open has significantly decreased on this iOS platform.

You can also check out the previews instantly by swiping through the left or right while the camera is on, instead of tapping the preview button.

Somehow, iOS5 gets me going everyday by having me discover attributes that does not account from the keynote release.

 MAC

Kindred Spirits (Part 1)

The truth might hurt, but it's the only way to fight and correct the wrong.  This has been the echoing thought lingering in John's mind as he traverse his way at the traffic intersection. He was in no mood to contemplate about the repercussions of his actions toward Linda.

He left her angry and devastated in their apartment. He couldn’t stand to see her crying again, so he thought to take a brisk walk on the nearest park from their poshy loft.

A breath of fresh air, indeed! John did not notice the pair of eyes that has been  continuously following him. All he knew is the awesome feeling he's trying to absorb at the moment. The profusion of the green grass and the archaic park themes surrounding him gave tranquility to his mind.

Linda started crying, the moment John left and banged the door. She felt helpless, un wanted and un loved. Her heart is being torn into pieces, like she was about to explode in grief and sadness. But somewhere, a voice within her dictates that she must not give up.

Two loud blasts of bullet sounds! It was directed at John's heart. People in the park started screaming, everyone is in shock especially to those who've witnessed John's assassination. It was like a blink of an eye, blood gushed unrelentlessly from John's chest, he choked and started vomiting blood.

Marnie, an exquisite Visayan photographer, did not waste time. She called emergency police personnel and reported the incident and crime. She took a snap shot of John while in anguish and in pain.  And now, the people surrounding John started to provide assistance with their utmost care

Linda's mobile phone started to vibrate. She answered the call in between sobs and unleveled heartbreak. She suddenly screamed! John was shot, the caller said.

"You must rejoice, for your cross has been lifted" told the caller to Linda. The voice is so much soothing Linda could have been hypnotized if she's talking to the anonymous caller face to face. She was perplexed, her negative emotions intensified further.

And after a while, Linda's face brightened up. A smile forming on her lips. Twitching with ecstasy and contentment.

… to be continued

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle






(This is an original plot of mine. All characters are fictional and in no way resemble to any living or living things. Situations used here on these short stories are all ideas and product of imagination)

of Booksmarks and Love

I have to uninstall and reinstall my Google Chrome Browser and have to re-import my bookmarks. In a fleeting moment, i saw brainyquote.com

This has been my one-stop shop quotation flea market back in 2009 and 2010. So i rummaged through it and found these love citations. They are worth mentioning, so i reposted them here on this blog without any intention or whatsoever when it comes to this innate feeling of the humankind.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. 
Ingrid Bergman 



A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. 
Cyrano de Bergerac 



A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. 
Rupert Brooke 



A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. 
Thomas Carlyle 



A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. 
George Jean Nathan 



A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love. 
Friedrich Nietzsche 



A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. 
Stendhal 



A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. 
Honore de Balzac 



Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 



Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. 
C. S. Lewis 



All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time. 
Julie Andrews 



All mankind love a lover. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 



All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. 
Andre Breton 



As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. 
William Shakespeare 



At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. 
Plato 



Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. 
Rita Rudner 



Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. 
Lao Tzu 



Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? 
Richard Bach 



Come live in my heart, and pay no rent. 
Samuel Lover 



Do all things with love. 
Og Mandino 

December Breeze 2011

I may not be into sports, or physical activities such as wrestling or competitive active diversion of the physical body like basketball, yet, I pride myself that I can write effortlessly, flowing, or shall I say spontaneous. There may be slips, like grammar and sentence constructions, but writing has evolved since the birth of free verse.

I went out with friends last night over a cup of frap, it's a feel good experience that I could sense the breeze of the approaching season of thankfulness. A season in this country where love is profound in a realist perception.

December breeze is on. It reminds me of the joyful festivities yet it didn’t falter to provide the sense of being melancholic. As what they term it in Tagalog, hanging Amihan is caressing our faces by and large to imply that it's the season to be on the safe side of joyfulness and companionship amongst our loved ones.

There is a problem to be solved. It's impending. The probabilities are high that I don't want to deal with it at the moment. Deep in the recesses of my mind and heart, it's pulsatingly shouting that I am unfair. I feel selfish, in the truest sense. And I have never felt like this before.

I may be sounding aprodisiacally insane, or a bit romantically incomprehendible but somehow, my traits are pushing me to go beyond. Where the utmost cares and fluctuations of my heartbeat will overshadow the tenses of my needs.

MAC

October 23 2011

Airplane Mode on the iPhone

Besides the fact that enabling Airplane Mode on your iDevice makes you compliant with airline regulations (assuming you onboard on a plane), there are a lot of other benefits in toggling this feature On when you're on land.

 - if you're running out of battery juices on places where there is no network signal, you may want to turn on AP mode instead of turning off your phone. The shutting down and restarting-up of your phone could significantly eat out your battery life.
- AP mode is ideal when sleeping, the fact that you'd grab your phone as soon as you wake up to check the time would complement the AP mode, other functions of your phone are accessible except for the do  not disturb privilege since the cellular network signal has been turned off via AP.
- during Syncs and Backups on the iTunes, it is highly recommended that you turn on the Airplane Mode in order to shove away interruptions. This is also helpful during update, restore and copying of files.
- Chances are, you want to get continuous access to your music, videos or ebooks without the annoyance of notifications brought by cellular data or wifi based presentments, then go ahead and turn on the AP mode and let your iPhone fly.
- my favorite, why i get to always toggle this feature-on is its ability to put your phone into a don't disturb status. No calls, no messages, no incoming alerts. A really good alternative in silencing your phone instead of the mute button esp. Do this during meetings, movie dates, going for a worship service, or during your meditative state.


The Airplane Mode isn't that much strict once and for all, you may want to turn on the Wifi in connecting to the outside world (internet) without letting yourself fall on the immediate impact of calls, text messages or alerts being brought by the cellular network.