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Siri – Email

Sending Messages
– Email Lisa about the trip
– Email Jennifer about the change in plans
– New email to Susan Park
– Mail Dad about the rent check
– Email Dr. Manning and say I got the forms, thanks
– Mail Lisa and Jason about the party and say I had a great time

Checking Messages
– Check email
– Any new email from Michael today?
– Show new mail about the lease
– Show the email from Lisa yesterday

Responding to Messages
– Reply Dear Susan sorry about the late payment
– Call him at work

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Siri – Alarms

Setting Alarms
– Wake me up tomorrow at 7am
– Set an alarm for 6:30am
– Wake me up in 8 hours
– Change my 6:30 alarm to 6:45
– Turn off my 6:30 alarm
– Delete my 7:30 alarm

Checking the Clock
– What time is it?
– What time is it in Berlin?
– What is today’s date?
– What’s the date this Saturday?

Using a Timer
– Set the timer for ten minutes
– Show the timer
– Pause the timer
– Resume
– Reset the timer
– Stop it

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Siri – Calendars

Adding Events
– Set up a meeting at 9
– Set up a meeting with Michael at 9
– Meet with Lisa at noon
– Set up a meeting about hiring tomorrow at 9am
– New appointment with Susan Park Friday at 3
– Schedule a planning meeting at 8:30 today in the boardroom

Changing events
– Move my 3pm meeting to 4:30
– Reschedule my appointment with Dr. Manning to next Monday at 9am
– Add Lisa to my meeting with Jason
– Cancel the budget review meeting

Asking about events
– What does the rest of my day look like?
– What’s on my calendar for Friday?
– When is my next appointment?
– When am I meeting with Michael?
– Where is my next meeting?

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Siri – Address Book

Querying Contacts
– What’s Michael’s address?
– What is Susan Park’s phone number?
– When is my wife’s birthday?
– Show Jennifer’s home email address

Finding Contacts
– Show Jason Russell
– Find people named Park
– Who is Michael Manning?

Relationships
– My mom is Susan Park
– Michael Manning is my brother
– Call my brother at work

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The New Voice in Town

Siri – “Yes Master”

Siri, what a game changer this is going to be. If you have not see her in action you have to checkout a few of these links as you will be impressed with what she can do to improve your time usage. In this day and age Siri is a breath of fresh air to be able to just talk to  my technology and have to perform most of the time.  In the little time that I have spent with her she has give me a few time saving events.

What I hope to do is just to make a few posts listing just one topic of how I use my assistant who calls me “master” as she goes about helping my day. You can have her call you anything you want so be careful but just hold down the home button and when she wakes up,

“Call me master”

Then she will obey till you dream up another title that you wish to be called. I truly believe this will be a major change in the direction of technology and this is only the first of many devices that will  have such ability. We will have:

  • iMicrowave – cook on high for a minute and a half
  • iCoffee – please turn on at 6:30AM
  • iTv – but that is already arrived, show me all the football games on today
  • iOven – cook for 3 hours ending at 6:30 for dinner
  • iThermaStat – please make it warmer
  • iCarwarmer – please warm my car leaving at 8AM

The list could go on forever! Let’s just start one thing at a time and mover forward. So give Siri what you want to call you and stay tuned for the next topic…