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iPhone Tips and Tricks

Seven jailbreak methods for organizing your iPhone apps

March 13, 2010

One of the best reasons to jailbreak has to be because the default Springboard just sucks at organizing hundreds of applications. I’d say there are seven major ways to organize your home screens using 3rd party applications: some can require extensive set-up, but some are as easy as installing and playing. Most of these apps [...]

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Are you switching between the same two iPhone apps often? Try LastApp! [Tips and Tricks]

March 3, 2010

LastApp is a jailbreak utility by ashikase that uses Activator and Backgrounder to help you toggle between the two most recently used apps on your iPhone. This can be a real timesaver for situations where you want to tweet a link from Safari mobile, or when you want to send a quick browser link to [...]

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iPhone Explorer lets you access your iPhone’s flash storage without jailbreaking [iPhone Tips]

February 18, 2010

The really cool thing about iPhone Explorer isn’t that it can transfer files to and from your iPhone as if it were a USB stick — no, it’s the fact that it can do all of that on your PC or Mac without having to jailbreak or install any kind of iPhone app. This means [...]

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How To: Turn On / Off Genius for Apps on the iPhone [iPhone Tips]

February 11, 2010

Genius for Apps is a relatively new feature of the iPhone App Store (it was added as part of the iPhone OS 3.1 update) – that helps you discover new apps that suit your tastes. Genius ‘learns’ from your installed base of apps and your App Store purchases.
I wasn’t overly impressed with Genius [...]

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Three simple tips for using Simplenote on your iPhone [iPhone Tips and Tricks]

February 9, 2010

Until we get metatag support in Simplenote, I’ll be using a set of Canadian style dash tags (ex. -JAiB, -food, -osx) that are so common amongst my people.
This has been working quite nicely for the various kinds of notes I create, whether they be JAiB drafts or quick reminders of what quick snack I just [...]

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A Homescreen Clean-up Experiment – Part Two [iPhone Tips and Tricks]

February 7, 2010

Last week I talked about an homescreen experiment I was going to do. I’m pretty happy with the result, but before I start to show it to you I’d like to make a recap of what it actually is, quoting Minimalmac:
See here is the deal, I have come to believe that the only icons that [...]

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How To: Toggle iPhone Backup in iTunes On and Off Easily [iPhone Tips]

February 3, 2010

Want a quick, easy way to turn off the automatic iTunes backup routine for your iPhone when you ask it to sync? You know the one, the process that can make syncing infuriatingly slow – especially on those days when you just want a quick sync before dashing out of the house.
You can click [...]

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How To: Give Someone a Monthly Allowance for the App Store

February 3, 2010

iTunes Allowances are an easy way to provide a monthly iTunes store credit – which works in both iTunes and the iPhone App Store – to your children or anyone you want.
I discovered this handy feature because my daughter is already a big iPhone apps fan, at the age of six, and I’ve [...]

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Extend your iPhone home screen limit without jailbreaking [iPhone Tips and Tricks]

January 31, 2010

Apple iPhone School posted a quick non-jailbreak tip for extending the iPhone’s home screen limit. By default, you can only have 11 home screens, but if you completely fill up your first and last home screens and leave Voice Memos as the very last icon, you can push your iPhone past that Apple-imposed limit. Once [...]

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A Homescreen Clean-up Experiment [iPhone Tips and Tricks]

January 29, 2010

Some days ago I read about a neat experiment on MinimalMac:

See here is the deal, I have come to believe that the only icons that should be on the first screen are the ones you really use. And by use I mean at least once a week and ideally several times a day. And while [...]

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Quick Pastebot Tip: store your iPhone wallpapers in their own folder [iPhone Tips and Tricks]

January 28, 2010

I’ve been using Pastebot (impressions here) to keep my iPhone wallpapers in cryogenic stasis until they’re needed. The cryo stasis part is probably unnecessary (been playing a lot of Mass Effect 2 lately) since wallpapers don’t age, spoil, or die, but they do normally have to be synced over from iTunes or saved to the [...]

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