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If you save bookmarks to the Home screen on Mobile Safari you may want to try this out on your own blog. Here is how to use Apple Touch Icons for your Blog or Website. These instructions are for blogger / blogspot which I use for both my personal blog and my podcast . You will need the following: An icon or image you want to represent your site. A simple image editor to resize the image.  Dropbox or somewhere to host the image files. A bit of HTML coding. You need a total of five images to handle all the resolutions on iOS. I used preview on OSX to duplicate and resize my png file. I placed it in a folder inside my Dropbox Public folder Now for the HTML CODE: Here is the basic code you will need to put this after HEAD  on your blog's html then replace the image source with the public link generated by dropbox . portions of the code snipped for privacy. Go to Blogger Template then edit HTML paste it right after head (see photo) and save ...

I have been experiencing some app crashes and decided to see if XiaoMi had release a firmware udpate for the Mi3W so I went and tried an OTA update.   as you can see from the screenshot the updater says I had the latest version. NB: I believe this was the shipping version for me. Of course I was not contented with this and decided to check XiaoMi's website. And the newest version is KXDMIBF23.0 I began downloading it and checked the older versions and there were a lot more versions there so if you have a Mi3W go to the website so you will be able to get the latest version it seems their OTA system is not working properly. BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE CORRECT VERSION FOR YOUR DEVICE http://en.miui.com/download.html BE SURE TO DOWNLOAD THE CORRECT VERSION FOR YOUR DEVICE Here is the forum link for MIUI ROM Flashing Guide Also PLT FindMyHeadset and PLT Hub apps are still crashing on this version of MIUI.

Here’s how to setup iCloud Email on an Android or other device… Start the Email Client and enter your credentials username = youricloudemail@me.com password = yourpassword Next! Incoming Mail Settings server = imap.mail.me.com port = 993 security type = SSL imap path prefix = blank Next! Outgoing Mail Settings server = smtp.me.com port = 587 security = TLS require sign-in = check, and enter your iCloud credentials again. Next Rename the account and add a display name. There you have it iCloud email on your Android (or other device). I hope this helps.

This short tutorial shows how to sync iCloud contacts to your Android device. you will need an app to do this. It's called CardDAV-Sync free beta https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.carddav.sync I chose to go 1 way sync with my iPhone being the primary device.