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iTips and iTricks

I have been surfing the web for the past few days reading all about tips and tricks to enable me to exploit the features my new iPhone.  I thought I would compile a brief list here of some of the ones I have found most helpful.  They appear in no particular order.

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Saving the Baptistry

Initially I thought I would have to bin it, but after about 30 minutes work I think I finally managed to salvage something.
The John the Baptist Baptistry in Florence (Il Battistero di San Giovanni) is thought to be one of the oldest buildings in Florence. It stands in the Piazza del Duomo, just to [...]

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Shooting UFO’s

It was late on a hot afternoon in September in Rome. We had been bumping into Caravaggio paintings and exploring churches all day. We were exhausted and arted out. I sat in a pew inside a church (I’m afraid I do not remember which one, there were so many, but do tell [...]

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17 Vacation Lessons

These are the important lessons I learned on a recent holiday trip abroad:
1. However much time you allow yourself to get to the airport in good time, it will never be enough to account for the civil servants who chose your departure day and time to dig up the main road into the airport causing [...]

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When it comes to human addictions and frailties, there is often little understanding of the powerless felt by many people gripped in the power ofa vice. If you have never smoked, it is easy to say to someone who has smoked all of his or her life, that they could just stop if they really [...]

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