How to set alarms and timers using Siri

Complete guide to Siri commands for alarms, timers, and the clock

Siri ties right into the iOS Clock app on your iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, iPad 4, iPad mini, and iPod touch 5, which means if you want to be woken up at 7am, have a timer set for 10 minutes so the cookies don't burn, or find out what the hour is in Australia before you call, Siri can keep you alerted and on time.

• How to set an alarm with Siri
• How to set a repeating alarm with Siri
• How to show current alarms with Siri
• How to change alarms with Siri
• How to turn off alarms with Siri
• How to delete alarms with Siri
• How to set a timer with Siri
• How to show, stop, or re-start a timer with Siri
• How to change a timer with Siri
• How to find out the time with Siri

How to set an alarm with Siri

Siri can set alarms quickly and easily.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri to set an alarm, along with the time. For example: "Set an alarm for 8pm", "Set an alarm for 5 minutes from now", "wake me up at 9am".

Siri will display the alarm widget on the screen. If you change your mind about the alarm, you can simply toggle it to "off". You can also tap the widget to be taken to the Clock app.

Note: Siri can?t set an alarm for more than one day in advance. If you try to use Siri to set an alarm further in advance, you'll be asked if you want to set a Reminder instead.

How to set a repeating alarm with Siri

If you want an alarm to repeat, for example, to wake you up at the same time every day, Siri can set that up for you as well.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri to set an alarm, along with the time. For example: "Set an alarm for 6pm every weekday" or "wake me up at 9am ever day".

When Siri displays the alarm widget, the repetition interval is show about the on/off toggle switch.

How to show current alarms with Siri

Over time, you may lose track of all the alarms you've set, especially inactive ones. Siri can show you list of all alarms, and their current status -- on or off.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri to: "Show all alarms".

You can quickly toggle any of the alarms shown from on to off or vice versa, or ask Siri to change or delete them. (See below.)

How to change an alarm with Siri

If you set an alarm, but later need to change it, Siri can handle that for you as well.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri which alarm you want to change, and what time you want to change it to. For example: "Change my 9am alarm to 9:30am."

How to turn off alarms with Siri

Nights get late, meetings get canceled, and plans change. If you no longer need an alarm, you can ask Siri to turn it off.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri which alarm you want to turn off. For example: "Turn off my 8am alarm" or even "turn off all alarms."

Note: Turning off is different than canceling or deleting. When you turn an alarm off, it remains available for you to quickly turn back on at any time, even manually. When you cancel or delete an alarm, it's gone completely and needs to be recreated if you ever want to use it again.

How to cancel alarms with Siri

When turning off alarms isn't enough, and you want them completely gone from your Clock system entirely, Siri a fast way to delete a specific alarm, and an incredibly fast way to delete all of them.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri which alarm you want to cancel. For example: "Cancel my 9:30am alarm" or go for the nuclear option and "cancel all alarms".

How to set a timer with Siri

Since the Clock app can set timers as well as alarms, Siri can set timers as well as alarms. Whether you're waiting for your cookies to bake, or your next set of circuit training to begin, Siri can make sure you always alerted at exactly the right time.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri to set the timer, and for how long. For example: "Set a timer for 10 minutes".

The Timer widget will remain visible on your screen until the timer goes off, or you leave Siri. Tap the timer widget to launch the Clock app and access the manual controls.

Note: Siri can only run one timer at a time. If you try to set another, Siri will ask you if you want to keep the current one or change to the new one. (See below.)

How to show, stop, or re-start a timer with Siri

If Siri is no longer displaying your timer, you can easily ask it to show you the timer again, and to pause/stop or start it whenever you like.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri what you want to do with the current time. For example: "Show timer", "stop timer", "start timer".

How to change a timer with Siri

Siri can also change the duration of a timer, if you need to increase or decrease the length for any reason.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Tell Siri to change the timer. For example: "Change timer to 5 minutes".

How to find out the time with Siri

What if you need to know the time in Cupertino, California so you don't miss that Apple keynote? Or you want to find out the time in Rome, Italy, so you don't wake up nono too early? Just ask Siri.

1. Press and hold down the Home button to activate Siri.
2. Ask Siri the time in any location around the world. For example: "What's the time in Rome, Italy?"

Tap the clock widget to go to the Clock app for more options.

How to get more help with Siri

If you still need help with setting up or using Siri with your iPhone Contacts, or any other Siri feature, head on over to our Siri Forum and ask away!

Note: This article is an updated version of a previous how-to, adding video as well as new features from iOS 6, and newly supported devices.

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ABI: Cumulative Mobile App Revenues To Exceed $30B By End Of 2012, Nearly Double 2011 Figure; Now ?Major Digital Industry?

How much money have mobile apps made? By the end of the year the cumulative revenues of the global mobile app market will have exceeded $30 billion, says analyst ABI Research. This figure includes money from pay-per-download apps, in-app purchases, subscriptions and in-app advertisements -- the whole app kit-and-caboodle if you will.

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'Be Careful What You Wish for' Regarding Fiscal ... - Yahoo! Finance

Jim Rickards has a message for investors and politicians monitoring talks between Congress and the White House to avoid billions of dollars worth of spending cuts and take hikes set to take effect January 1: Be careful what you wish for.

"There are only bad outcomes," says Rickards, a partner at JAC Capital Advisors. "Taxes are going up no matter what. It's just a question about whether they go up for everybody [failure to agree] or target certain people [agreement]. Either way you're talking about a tax increase in the middle of a depression."

Related: Fiscal Cliff: Congress Will Come to a 'Reasonable Agreement' By Year-End, Says David Walker

Rickards says Republicans, who have so far opposed any tax increases, will eventually agree to higher taxes for the wealthy. "They've learned their lesson" from being bashed continually on their recent position, he says.

Politico, however, reported late Thursday that talks between the White House and senior Republican Congressional staffers got off to a slow start, featuring a GOP offer that includes freezing the Bush tax cuts, postponing tens of billions of dollars in automatic spending cuts for defense and reducing the inflation adjustment for entitlement spending.

Rickards ultimately expects Congress and the White House to reach a broad agreement before year-end that allows them to freeze tax rates, maintain spending with a continuing resolution and stop the clock on December 31. Then a final agreement will be reached by late January when the president delivers his State of the Union address.

In the meantime, Rickards advises investors to sell assets if they're sitting on large capital gains because those taxes, now 15%, will rise anywhere from 20% to 40%. "I don't know where that number will come out but I know it will be higher," says Rickards.

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He says uncertainty about cap gains rates has already hurt stocks such as Apple, which has fallen 20% from its high of just over $702 on September 19. He expects the pressure from this uncertainty will continue to weigh on stocks until the end of the year.

Rickards says that, even if there is a fix for the fiscal cliff, there will still be plenty of unresolved issues affecting corporations, including repatriation of overseas profits, depreciation schedules and maybe investment tax credits. Says Rickards,"If you are a CEO, you can invest in India with more certainty than in the U.S."

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Blogger's death in Iran window onto cyber patrols

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) ? In his last blog entry, activist Sattar Beheshti wrote that Iranian authorities had given him an ultimatum: Either stop posting his "big mouth" attacks against the ruling system or tell his mother that she will soon be in mourning.

"We will tear down your cruel cage," Beheshti typed on Oct. 29 before signing off.

A day later he was arrested. Within a week, his family had collected his body. They began calls for an investigation that have been echoed by Washington, European allies and rights groups.

Arrests of activists and claims of abuse in detention are commonplace in Iran, but deaths behind bars are much rarer. Iran's judiciary responded to the growing pressure and authorized an investigation. It claims three of Beheshti's interrogators have been arrested while post-mortem reports are studied.

But while the specific circumstances of Beheshti's death may be given a public reckoning, the more far-reaching aspect of the case ? Iran's rapidly growing corps of Web watchers ? may remain in the shadows, as well as their motives in targeting an obscure blogger whose site was actively followed by more than a few dozen viewers.

The 35-year-old Beheshti apparently fell under the custody of Iran's cyber police, created last year with a wide mandate to crush Web dissent. The powers displayed in the case ? including questioning Beheshti outside the regular justice system ? suggests a level of autonomy and authority that could bring far more aggressive measures against Web activists.

"There's no question that the Internet is seen by Iran's rulers as a threat and something that needs to be tightly controlled," said Theodore Karasik, a regional security expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis. "Iran is investing serious resources on this front."

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei often refers to the need for stronger measures in the "soft war" playing out in cyberspace with the West and opposition groups. Iran also claims its technicians are working on a self-contained Internet that would somehow give authorities the ability to filter content.

The Islamic Republic already tries to block dissident websites and has jailed several well-known bloggers, including Hossein Derakhshan, who helped ignite the Iranian blog boom in 2001 by posting simple instructions to create sites in Farsi. In March 2009, a 29-year-old blogger, Omidreza Mirsayafi, died while being held at Tehran's Evin Prison.

At the time ? months before the major crackdowns following the disputed June 2009 presidential elections ? Iran's vibrant blogger community was baffled by Mirsayafi's arrest because he was well outside the clique of prominent Web activists. Now, similar questions are being asked about Beheshti and whether Iran's bolstered cyber-police units could be stepping up their surveillance and sweeps.

"With the recent declarations about Internet crackdowns in Iran, anyone who puts anything critical on the Web has to be thinking that there is a risk," said Mehrzad Boroujerdi, a Syracuse University professor who follows Iranian affairs.

Last month, the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights warned of "a further severe clampdown on critical voices" in Iran. Even a former Iranian intelligence minister, Ali Younesi, called Beheshti's death in custody a "disaster" for Iran's leaders. "It takes a long time to repair public opinion and international impact," he said shortly after authorities agreed to open an investigation. It could be weeks before the final report into the death is released.

Last week, Iran's state prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said Beheshti was detained for alleged cybercrimes and handed over cyber police for interrogation.

The coroner's report said the body had "signs of wounds" in five places but no broken bones, the semiofficial Mehr news agency quoted Ejehi as saying. But on Thursday, the Tehran prosecutor's office raised the possibility Beheshti could have died from "excessive psychological stress," suggesting that authorities are looking into causes of death other than abuse for the final report.

Beheshti was on the fringe of the Iranian online opposition. His blog, magalh91.blogspot.de, had fewer than 30 viewers in October. Beheshti contributed to some better-known reformist websites from his home in Robat Karim, a town about 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of Tehran that includes many struggling families who migrated from even poorer provinces.

Beheshti had some run-ins with authorities, opposition websites reported, including being detained in 1999 after student protests at Tehran University. But by 2012 he was just one of hundreds of voices on the Web hitting the same notes: anger over the increasingly heavy hand of Iran's authorities and frustration over the systematic crushing of the pro-reform Green Movement after the 2009 postelection unrest.

As recently as September, Beheshti's blog posts were packed with political outrage, but nothing that would likely bring heat from officials. He chronicled the arrests and court hearings for activists and others. He kept lists of opposition figured behind bars.

In October, however, the tone began to shift. Beheshti began to flirt with the well-known red lines in Iran, including direct criticism of Khamenei and calls for open revolt. It's not known why he began to ramp up his defiance, but it appeared to coincide with heavier pressure from the Web-monitoring forces.

"As an Iranian, I hereby request all activists and parties to form a unified movement for a countrywide uprising," he posted Oct. 2. The following day he continued: "The only way to liberation is through civil protests and strikes. Violence is not our aim. We just seek our rights ... You, the rulers of the country, this is the anger of a world-weary nation. You better hear it."

A week later, he wrote an open letter to Khamenei. It accuses him of trying to cover up the depths of the country's economic crisis under Western sanctions seeking to rein in Tehran's nuclear program. "You suppress the protests with club and mace," he posted.

"At the moment, the poor and deprived are rebelling," he wrote Oct. 20. "If they really rise, even the Revolutionary Guard cannot stop them."

And again on Oct. 22, he returned to Khamenei and his control of Iran's judiciary, which he called a "slaughterhouse" for free expression.

"I can call you an artist," Beheshti wrote in reference to Khamenei, "in the art of killing. Believe me, I consider you an artist."

His last post he described alleged threats from authorities to close down the site or face being "shut up with no trace."

"They say I talk too much," he joked darkly.

"The Islamic Republic is putting immense pressure on activists and independent Iranians," he added, "telling them they have no rights to express their opinions about the affairs in the country; threatening them in various ways from arrest to torture ... to death in order to intimidate them.

"Don't intimidate us with your threats as there is no fear in our hearts."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bloggers-death-iran-window-onto-cyber-patrols-174229357.html

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Copyright issue need to be monitored on the internet ? Business ...

Nowadays, online business is becoming more and more popular. But some problems also emerged.

We can see many products sold in different online stores. Some products are the same brand, but as for online e-business, we can not check the quality or the prices, which is matching the quality.

Some products are sold at specialty stores on the internet just like real shops or stores.

They have the copyright and exclusive business authorization. Taking watches as an example, some watches can not sold by anybody, especially those luxurious items.

We all know Hong Kong is a haven for selling brand luxurious watches, which may be imported from Switzerland. Any watches newly-hit the market can be found on Hong Kong watch stores.

Now we can see more and more watch stores opened online and they need more patent and copyright protection.

Government is trying to bolster internet copyright laws.

The Copyright Ordinances would be amended to protect intellectual properties being infringed on the internet.

However, Peter Cheung Kam-fai, director of intellectual property in Hong Kong, said whether derivative work would be considered a copyright infringement would be dealt with on case by case basis.

The authority would consider how widespread the derivative work was and how much damage it caused to the copyright holder. Online business is becoming more and more popular now and we can see many banks have rolled out different cards which are tailor made for online transactions.

Meanwhile, more and more illicit products, smuggled products and copycat products are sold hot on the internet.

In the past, smuggled products and illicit products are sold confidentially since the seller would deliver the goods to the buyers? house or designated places or spot. Both sides are not safe since they face risks of be captured by customs staff.

Nowadays, more and more smokers told others that they can buy illicit or smuggled cigarettes on the internet, which is cheap and safe. The prices are lower than that sold on the stalls.

A big network has cover the whole world since more and more illicit products and smuggled products are sold and bought on the internet, which may evade a large amount of tax.

We can see that some banned products are sold on the internet, such as assault weapons and iron lotus dadao as well as fireworks and fireworks transmitters, and pirated optical discs.

In fact buying such products breaches relevant laws, as some buyers may have not recognized this point.

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Stocks edge up ahead of Thanksgiving break

NEW YORK (AP) ? The stock market crept higher Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Major market indexes got a slight lift after news broke of a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The truce was announced by Egypt's foreign minister and confirmed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A week of fighting has killed more than 140 Palestinians and five Israelis.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose three points to 1,390. Bank stocks and utilities fell the most, while industrial companies rose the most, but no category moved more than 0.5 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 54 points to 12,842. Two expensive Dow stocks ? IBM and United Technologies ? each rose more than $1, giving the blue-chip average a lift. High-dollar stocks in the Dow carry more weight.

The Nasdaq composite index gained nine points to 2,926.

Deere, the maker of tractors and other farm and construction equipment, was down 4 percent. It reported a quarterly profit of $1.75 per share, missing Wall Street expectations of $1.88.

Chipotle Mexican Group, the restaurant chain, climbed 1.7 percent. It announced late Tuesday that it would buy back an additional $100 million of its own stock. That's in addition to a $100 billion buyback plan launched Oct. 18.

The quiet open Wednesday followed an uneventful finish Tuesday. The Dow dropped as much as 94 points after a warning from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke about federal budget talks, then recovered to close down just seven points.

The stock market will be closed Thursday for Thanksgiving and will close early Friday.

In the bond market, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note inched up to 1.68 percent.

European markets were mostly higher. Stocks climbed 0.4 percent in France and 0.2 percent in Germany. Asian markets fared better. The Nikkei index in Japan climbed 0.9 percent and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong 1.7 percent.

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