Safaris in Tanzania

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Monday, December 3, 2012

How to Delete Old Magazine issues on Ipad/Iphone

I am a bit of a tech freak, meaning I must have all the new gadgets and a lot of products that I have no knowledge of. I will start with a series of posts of my problems and solutions for silly and irritating problems on Apple's IOS and Google Android operating systems.

I have one of the older Ipad2 wifi 16 gb models and was down to 300 MB space left. Looking at all the apps consuming data, I found  my magazines had storage in GB's . As you download every issue of a magazine in Newsstand or Magzter there is no option for delete. After a lot of research on the web, I found no answers whatsoever.

So... here is how you do it.
1. Open the magazine app under newsstand or Magzter
2. You will find "ARCHIVE" on the main screen.
3. Clicking the Archive button will bring small "X" buttons on the centre of every copy downloaded, included the current one.
4. Click the "X" and the particular issue will get deleted. Note that all back issues bought by you are always displayed, but will need to be downloaded again, simply by opening the issue. The data however is deleted and voila you regain all that lost space.


See the " ARCHIVE " button in the middle right of the picture.


Once you have deleted older issue press " DONE "




Friday, August 26, 2011

The start of Fay Safaris

We started out in 2007 as a small privately owned company in Arusha. After a little debate as to what we were going to call ourselves we decided on the name Fay Safaris as the first letters of each of our names ; Fay, Ambert and Yvette, though the name Fay is one of our directors we thought a short name would stand out in the crowd of operators in Arusha. We started out working at home, got a few tables and chairs, couple of laptops, printers and internet lines and we were off.  It was 2007 and the recession had just hit the west and getting in business was an uphill battle. With no agents and connections abroad we had only one way of getting the word out - The Net. I setup the website myself with my little knowledge of webdesign and internet marketing and hoped for Google to pick us up and list us somewhere on its search engine. This is always an uphill task and it took us about a year before our first listing on Google. I had to rely on web based advertising with Google, Yahoo and Travel ads. It finally paid off after 3 years when we started getting a steady flow of inquiries and a good rate of conversion of those inquiries into real clients.

To start with we needed to have cars to engage in the business. With cost of new vehicles in the range of 50,000$ each, I decided to start with a more humble approach. I had just bought a Land cruiser Gx (used) and had done it up completely with a new coat of paint. No sooner it arrived it was taken over by the company and then sent for modification. The car was cut into 2 parts and the back of the vehicle discarded to rebuild it to safaris specs. The car in Tanzania is commonly called the Warbus or land cruiser stretch and is capable of accommodating 9 people including the driver. After a good 3 months in the garage out it came looking brand new with a nice coat of green paint.


This was the car we started with and it is still in operation in our fleet. We eventually added 4 more cars over the years.  Business was bad in 2007 and 2008 with the economic crisis facing the world and collapse of the banking structure in the west and keeping operations going meant us putting in money from our pockets. But we never gave up hope of it turning around one day ( which it eventually did ) and we put it down to what we call "teething problems ". In 2009 we parted ways with Yvette, and now the company is owned by husband and wife Fay and Ambert and our three boys Ayden ,Aydrian and recent addition (2012) Ayron.