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On a walkabout at Liverpool Street #hipstamatic #london #iphoneography (at Old Spitalfields Market)

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Sunset (at Rayleigh, Southend-On-Sea, United Kingdom)

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iOS 11 Wish List

Keyboard

Better 3rd party keyboard support with Siri dictation and 3D Touch

Siri

More 3rd party access to Siri i.e. Overcast/Spotify

Ability to type Siri commands

AppStore

App trials from the AppStore

Mail

Flagged remain visible outside of the Inbox

Smart Mailbox support

Improved search

Notes

Choice of fonts

Search within notes and PDF’s

OCR for images and documents

Photos

GPS editing

Smart albums

Keyword support

Date/Time editing

Upload over cellular

‘Make key photo’ support for albums

Faces Sync

iCloud Drive App

Make this actually useable, tags which sync.

Maps

Make it easier (more prominent) to see my favourites on the map

List support

Podcasts

Better chapter support

Apple Watch app

Customisable skip lengths

Music

Easier to rate music

Fix Siri rating 2 stars bug

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#tejaslens #inas1982 #hipstamatic #london #stpauls (at St. Paul's Cathedral)

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iOS 10 Wishlist

Keyboard

Better 3rd party keyboard support including a Siri dictation button and 3D Touch editing support

Siri

Siri API to allow third party developers to build in Siri support.

AppStore

Time limited app trials from the AppStore (finally)

Mail

Flags to remain visible even outside of the Inbox

Print to PDF/Save as PDF

Smart Mailbox support (as on OS X)

Notes

A choice of fonts

Search within notes and PDF’s

PDF markup support (as seen in Mail.app)

OCR for images and documents

Photos

GPS editing (as on OS X)

Smart album support (as on OS X)

Keyword support (as on OS X)

Date/Time editing (as on OS X)

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🐶 Snoop Dogg #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #Hipstamatic #JohnS #aobw #dog #blackandwhite

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Pegs! 😀 #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #Hipstamatic #blackandwhite

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Day 7/365 #365project #photoaday #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #Hipstamatic

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Day 6/365 - Captain Kidd. #365project #photoaday #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #Hipstamatic (at The Captain Kidd)

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Day 5/365 #365project #photoaday #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #Hipstamatic (at Romford, United Kingdom)

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Day 4/365 - Lovely October day! #365project #photoaday #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #Hipstamatic (at Grove Woods)

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Day 3/365 - Street Kitchen #365project #photoaday #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #VSCOcam (at London Liverpool Street Station)

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Day 2/365 #365project #photoaday #iPhone #iPhone6S #iPhoneography #iPhoneonly #Hipstamatic (at Gidea Park railway station)

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Day 1/365 I thought I’d give #365project a try. Aiming to post a photo a day. Sounds like fun 😀 All photos will be #iPhoneonly This one was taken yesterday at #BoroughMarket #London Shot with #iPhone6S and #Hipstamatic (at Borough Market)

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Had a play with the iPhone 6S today. Amazing camera! Post processed in Hipstamatic.

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My Favourite iOS App of 2013

Voice Dream Reader is a text-to-speech app that will convert web articles, ebooks, pdf’s, .txt files and Word docs into audiobooks of any length.

A good quality American voice comes bundled with the app for free and there are many top-quality voices to choose from via in-app purchase. Once installed you have full control over voice speed, pitch and volume. What sets Voice Dream Reader apart from other text-to-speech apps is that it features your own personalised pronunciation dictionary. If you come across a word that is not pronounced to your liking, correct it via the built-in editor and it will remember the pronunciation in future. These corrections will also sync to your other iOS devices via iCloud.

You can play, pause and skip forward and back via the remote button on Apple ear pods. Content can be added to Voice Dream Reader via Dropbox, Pocket, clipboard, Instapaper (via subscription), iTunes and more. The playback screen offers built-in search and you can also add bookmarks for easy navigation.

If you like the idea of converting web articles, ebooks, pdf’s, .txt files and even Word docs into audiobooks then Voice Dream Reader is an absolute must-have app. It’s been on my home page since installing it in June 2013 and has been used every day since then. I use Voice Dream Reader to read web articles whilst walking the dog and driving in the car. I’ve even used it to read full novels that run for over 14 hours with no problem at all.

Voice Dream Reader is currently on sale, reduced from £6.99 to £2.99 and in my opinion is the best text-to-speech app available. There's also a lite version available for free.

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Spotify Collections

About a week ago my wife noticed that the 'Playlists' section in her iOS app had been replaced with the new 'Collection' feature. Now - when viewing an album - you can 'add to collection' as well as 'add to playlist'. This new feature makes it much easier to browse through your favourite albums in much the same way as you can with the Rdio app for iOS. Hopefully Spotify will roll this feature out for everyone soon.