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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
how you can add the current date to
notification center now as nice as
notification center is and iOS 5 on both
the iPad and the iPhone it's not
incredibly useful as far as additional
functionality goes so beyond just seeing
the basic notifications you can't do
much more with it besides showing the
current weather and the stocks so what
I'm going to show you how to do here is
to actually add a section with a current
date to notification center so I
originally saw somebody over on Mac OS
10 hints post this little script that
lets you do what I'm about to show you
do and it's actually pretty neat so
basically what this does is create an
iCloud calendar and with it you can
select a range of dates and it'll repeat
a event for each day and therefore show
the current date continuously every day
a notification center so if we go to the
script page here I'll of course have the
download link for the script in the
article and if you scroll down just a
little ways here you can download the
script and it's just a simple zip file
and from here I can just open it up
right in my downloads folder and hit
open so when I open this up it's going
to say this application will create an
all day event for the ranging Supply so
you can see the current date in the
notification center in
iOS and right now only the current year
is supported so you you have to run this
just once a year which isn't a huge
issue and what you have to do before you
hit okay here is specify the name of the
iCloud Calendar you want to use so you
have to create this before you continue
so what we're going to do is we're going
to go to the applications folder and
open up IAL and from here we're going to
go up to the file menu and select new
calendar and then you're going to want
to hit iCloud and then here you can name
this calendar we're going to call this
calendar today
is just like that and now if we go over
here we can see I named it today is and
then I can hit okay and what I can do
now is enter the starting date and of
course this is today so I can hit okay
and I can do the end date and of course
since it is December this is only going
to run a few more days before I'll have
to do it again but that's just
unfortunate because it is the end of the
year pretty much so I can hit okay again
and it's going to create the events and
it says it might take a while but there
there you go and there it is and I can
hit okay and it's all done with so once
you finished it's going to redirect you
to this donation page where you can
donate if you so choose so if we go back
into iel we can see that for the rest of
the month at least cuz it is December
it's created today is events for
everything and while it may look like
it's a bother to have all these on I of
course you can just go up to the
calendars button and unselect today is
and you won't see any of those you don't
have to worry about it and it just kind
of sits there very unobtrusively so now
what I'm going to do do is I'm going to
go onto my device and I just want to
tweak a couple things to make this the
best it can be so if I go into settings
from here and then notifications I'm
going to want to scroll down until I hit
the calendar and in here you're going to
want to make sure it says show and then
just one item because if you show more
than that it's going to show you know
upcoming events for the next days and
could get a little annoying and you
might also want to turn off badge app
icon if you don't really want that there
either now you can see if I'm in any
application such as Safari and I just
want to know the current date I can just
pull on notification center and right
there you can see that it is Tuesday
December 13th 2011 and there you have it
so there you go there's how you can add
the current date to notification center
on the iPhone and iPad and just a side
note it does work best on the iPad
because it can tend to get cut off
sometimes on the smaller screen on the
iPhone unless you're using it in
landscape so that is just one small
downfall but if you're in Safari or
something and you just want to know the
date you're most likely in landscape
mode anyways so as always if you have
anything that you'd like to see me do a
howto on make sure to send me an email I
hope you found this video useful and
thank you for
watching