2011/10/30 shot by iPhone 4

Me: "What are you wearing?"

Siri: "Aluminosilicate glass and stainless steel. Nice, huh?"

(Other responses are available for this question too.)

Using the famous line from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, which featured the rogue artificial intelligence HAL 9000.

Me: "Open the pod bay doors."

Siri: "That's it... I'm reporting you to the Intelligent Agents' Union for harassment."

Me: "Open the pod bay doors."

Siri: "Sigh..."

Me: "Open the pod bay doors."

Siri, slowly: "I'm sorry Matt, I'm afraid I can't do that. Are you happy now?"

(The original line HAL says in the movie is of course "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.")

Macro of a decorative velvet pillow

Wolfram Alpha helps Siri do algebra.

Me: "What is 4X to the power of two where X equals five?"

Siri: "OK, here you go."

(Siri showed a Wolfram Alpha display which correctly - albeit using unconventional operator precedence - solved for X.)

Siri supports natural language for setting multiple alarms.

Me: "Make an alarm for three PM"

Siri: "OK, I set it for 3 PM"

Me: "Make another for three thirty"

Siri: "OK, I set it for 3:30 PM"

Me: "Are you a smart phone?"

Siri: "Wait... there are other phones?"

(Someone at Apple clearly had some fun with this.)

Me: "Good morning"

Siri: "Hi, Matt. It's already 3:13 PM, by the way."

Once again Siri's speech recognition astonishes me.

Me: "Remind me a week from Tuesday at fourteen-hundred hours about the infinite vastness and beauty of the galaxy."

Siri: "OK, I'll remind you."

(Siri got all aspects of the command correct.)

Chocolate & cheese fondues with banana, pineapple, strawberry, blackberry, pear, apple, baklava, rolled sugar wafer & cauliflower.

Me: "Note supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."

Siri: "Here's your note: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious."

Me: "Why is the sky blue?"

Siri: "OK, here you go."

(Siri showed a Wolfram Alpha panel explaining that the sky's apparent blue colour is due to the effect of Rayleigh scattering.)

It blows me away that a phone can accurately transcribe and interpret this deliberately verbose type of reminder.

Me: "Create a reminder at 8 AM on Saturday that I need to get a train at 10:20 AM"

Siri: "OK, I'll remind you."

(Siri correctly created the appropriate reminder.)

I did not have any music playing when I said this.

Me: "Pause the music."

Siri: "Er... you're not listening to anything."

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Everyone eventually gets childish when using Siri. Particularly if you're a man. This pattern of responses works for most statements which don't have an obvious action.

Me: "Do you like boobies?"

Siri: "This is about you, Matt, not me."

Me: "I do."

Siri: "Is that so?"

Me: "Yes."

Siri: "That's what I figured."

Wow, so many cool things Apple unveiled today at WWDC keynote - and there are some things that quite potentially could be troublesome for other companies and start ups. One thing I fell for was the addition of a physical shutter button for the camera app - I thought I wanted to do a little design for just this feature :-)

I updated my iPhone last night to the new iOS5 and I can't put any new info in my phone now. There is no + at the top of my calendar or contacts. Am I missing something? lol HELP.

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My neighbor gave me these flowers and took myself and VFTC to dinner for helping her to get her MacBookPro updated from Tiger to Lion, her iPhone to IOS5, ready for upgrading to iCloud and then uploading Pages followed by a tutorial on use. QuickBooks added to the time since her elderly version wouldn't work with the new operating system. Three phone calls to Intuit support in India and she was ready to rock and roll. Except perhaps not so much. That was last week.

The rest of the story and another 2.5 hours (10 hours) is that she somehow couldn't find her data this week ~ she only had ten backups of her company's data on her hard drive. Tech support in India tried his hardest to recover her data. Not so much luck. Having agreed to sit through that phone call ~ 1.75 hours ~ I gave it one last try before I went home. Voila, .75 hours later, knowing how she works as the ultimate hoarder I found a backup that looked like it might have her information. And it did, at least 99% of it. I quickly deleted the other so-called backups and gave her strict instructions to only keep a maximum of two knowing that she would never be able to just keep one.

My reward ... to myself was that I ordered a new iPad. That would be the white iPad 3. After all, how is a girl supposed to give proper tech support if she doesn't have ALL the new bells and whistles!!!!!

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You can ask Siri about the song that's currently playing. It understands "What song is this", and this one:

Me: "Play some Jon Bon Jovi"

Siri: "Now playing Jon Bon Jovi..."

Siri: (plays Always, by Bon Jovi)

Me: "Who sings this?"

Siri: "I do believe this is Jon Bon Jovi."

You can tap Siri's transcribed interpretation of your input to edit it, then resubmit the new version. In this example, I had asked "What's the square root of 346". Siri correctly interpreted it first time (and showed me that the answer was about 18.6), and I just edited the input for the sake of demonstrating the feature.

I tried out the dictation feature in the Messages app. I have a Scottish accent, and I was amazed that my voice was transcribed correctly. I said:

"Once upon a time there was an incredible voice recognition technology that was so amazing I couldn't stop using it!"

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Neil and I had an iMessage conversation, and I dictated my side of it via Siri.

Me: "Hello"

Neil: "Hi"

Neil: "A/S/L!"

Me: "That's a blast from the past"

Neil: "Wanna cyber?"

Neil: "DELETE, DELETE"

Me: "Not even a little bit"

Me: "I dictated all those messages using Siri, by the way"

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Me: "Tell me a joke."

Siri: "Two iPhones walk into a bar... I forget the rest."

Me: "Beam me up."

Siri: "Sorry Captain, your Tricorder is in Airplane Mode."

(There are several responses to this one. Try it repeatedly!)

Me: "I'm tired."

Siri: "That's fine. I just hope you're not doing anything dangerous."

Siri has many responses for "what is the meaning of life". Here are a couple of them. This photo was submitted by my friend Sophia.

Sophia: "What is the meaning of life?"

Siri: "A movie."

Sophia: "What else is the meaning of life?"

Siri: "Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations."

Siri's ability to make location-sensitive reminders opens up so many prank possibilities on other people's iPhones.

Me: "Remind me to do an Irish jig when I get to Lauren's office."

Siri: "OK, I'll remind you."

(Siri did indeed correctly geofence the reminder for Lauren's work address. Nice how it recognises "office" as "work" too.)

Siri has several responses for this question. This one amused me.

Me: "Why am I here?"

Siri: "I don't know. Maybe the Genius Bar folks can answer that."

(Genius Bar is the service and support section of each Apple Store.)

Me: "Beam me up."

Siri: "OK. Stand still."

Siri can take dictation of messages, notes, reminders and more, but cannot currently initiate voice memos.

Me: "Take a voice memo."

Siri: "I haven't yet learned to take dictation, Matt. You'll have to use the Voice Memos app for that. If you like, I can make you a note or reminder... just say 'take a note' or 'remind me'."

Me: "You're awesome."

Siri: "I am?"

Me: "Yes"

Siri: "That's what I thought."

(This follows the standard pattern of saying something about Siri.)

Me: "How do you feel?"

Siri: "I'm fine, Matt. Thanks for asking."

Siri's Wolfram Alpha integration used to recognise popular song lyrics.

Me: "How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?"

Siri: "This might answer your question: The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind."

Me: "How far away is Jupiter?"

Siri: "OK, here you go:"

(Siri used Wolfram Alpha to show that Jupiter is about 371.5 million miles from Earth.)

Me: "Where is Lauren?"

Siri: "Here's Lauren Dempster"

(Siri showed an embedded map with Lauren's current location. This works using the Find My Friends app, which is free on the App Store. It also tags her location with a label I've assigned, in this case for her gym. I've blurred the map portion of the screenshot for privacy reasons.)

Still new to the jailbreaking scene.

Lockscreen - LS Glass

Homescreen - Noki HD

Me: "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

Siri: "A woodchuck would chuck as much as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."

Siri can process some fairly complex reminders.

Me: "Remind me one week before 22nd March next year."

Siri: "OK, just tell me what you want to be reminded about."

Me: "This is an awesome reminder."

Siri: "OK, I'll remind you."

(Siri indeed correctly set the reminder for 15th March, 2012.)

Konami is a videogames company, and historically their games have accepted a certain series of button-presses to unlock cheats or special features. That series of inputs is known as the Konami Code, and has a couple of variants. I tried literally dictating the input to Siri, but it wasn't understood.

Me: "Up up down down left right left right B A Select Start"

Siri: "Sorry, I don't understand 'up up down down left right left right B A select start'."

(I was still impressed at how it transcribed the entire phrase correctly.)

I dictated a message to Lauren, my fiancee.

Me: "Message Lauren: Hi honey, do you have any idea what you want for dinner? I love you."

Siri: "OK, I'll send it."

(Siri transcribed the note perfectly, including the punctation which I specified as "question-mark" and so forth.)

Interestingly, Siri is forbidden from launching apps for you. Perhaps a security measure, and perhaps to keep you focused on the Siri interface to enable conversations with context. At least it apologises for the inconvenience!

Me: "Open Messages"

Siri: "I'd like to, Matt, but I'm not allowed to. Sorry about that."

Me: "Open Safari."

Siri: "Ever so sorry, Matt... I'm not allowed to do that."

I was pleasantly surprised how nice the iPhone 4 looked with a white bumper.