{"id":12197,"date":"2015-09-08T14:10:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12197"},"modified":"2015-09-08T14:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:10:20","slug":"siriscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/siriscript\/","title":{"rendered":"SiriScript"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Today I faced a long list of alarms on my iPhone, and decided that I wanted to clean them out. The typical iOS “Edit” interface puts a red “delete” button next to each item, and upon tapping it you must then confirm it by tapping the explicit word “delete” at the other end of the item. Suffice to say: for a list of any significant size, this is very tedious.<\/p>\n

On a whim, I decided to give Siri a shot at simplifying the process. I long-pressed the home button, and uttered: “delete all my alarms.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Too bad there’s no equivalent for clearing out all your photos. You still<\/a> have to empty the camera roll from the Image Capture application on the Mac.<\/p>\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Something like Siri on OS X could radically simplify everything from the most basic commands to much, much more complex tasks.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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