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iPhone Tips and Tricks

Google Calendar speaks CalDAV to the iPhone

June 23, 2009

When Apple announced that the iPhone OS 3.0 would fully support CalDAV with SSL, I was excited to see if this, combined with my Google account, could take over and serve my personal calendar and email needs, which have been provided by MobileMe from the day it launched last year.
Google has already had push synchronization [...]

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iPhone 3GS Tip: How To Transfer Video from iPhone to Mac Quickly

June 23, 2009

 
Like most new iPhone 3GS owners, I’ve been occasionally playing with the video recording feature.  Although I have a couple YouTube accounts, up to now I’ve never used them much (I imagine that may change as I get the hang of video taking a bit more with the 3GS) – and for now I [...]

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Ultra quick tip: auto brightness

June 22, 2009

I’m either trying to share a tip or just attempting to justify staying up this late, but just in case some folks don’t use their iPhones I’m the dark often enough to know (because you all have lives): if your iPhone screen is too bright to read comfortably in the dark, one very simple way [...]

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Simple Hack to Enable Tethering on iPhone OS 3.0

June 22, 2009

The non-availability of tethering in the United States was one of the most disappointing features for me with the recent iPhone OS 3.0 launch. In almost every other country, carriers will be offering tethering as soon as iPhone 3.0 launches for them.
Tethering is the process of connecting your laptop to your mobile phone in order to [...]

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iPhone 3.0 Software Adds Small But Useful Feature

June 21, 2009

While rearranging some apps on my home screens, I noticed a subtle but useful addition to 3.0.    If you wanted to move an application to a home screen that was more than one screen away, you would slide it to the side, wait for the page to move, pull it back, slide it to [...]

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How To: iPhone 3G S when you aren’t eligible

June 20, 2009

So long story short, I’m one of those unlucky folks who owns an iPhone 3G and wasn’t eligible for the subsidized pricing from AT&T. I bought mine on 3G Day last July just like all the fanboys and re-upped my contract like a good customer. I owned the first iPhone and prior to that I [...]

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How To: Show The Battery Percentage Indicator On iPhone 3GS

June 20, 2009

 
Here’s another very quick, basic tip for any of you who are iPhone 3GS owners.  It’s one that is very simple, but took me some time to come across, because it’s slightly buried in the Settings app – how to make the battery percentage indicator show up in your status bar.
To make the %age [...]

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How To: See New Push Notifications Settings in iPhone OS 3.0

June 18, 2009

This is a very, very basic tip – in response to seeing a lot of folks here on this site and in forums, and on Twitter etc. asking why they cannot see Notifications settings after installing the latest iPhone OS 3.0.
The answer is that you need to have at least one app installed that [...]

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How To: Use The Find My iPhone Feature

June 10, 2009

 
Find My iPhone is a new feature in the upcoming (June 17 2009 release) iPhone OS 3.0.  You need to also be using Apple’s MobileMe service in order to use it.  I am currently running the final ‘Gold Master’ pre-release version of iPhone OS 3.0 and have an active MobileMe account, so I thought I’d [...]

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iPhone Tips: How To Use Force-quit to Force iPhone Apps To Close

May 26, 2009

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Another quick tip for iPhone beginners here (veterans please look away).  I’ve realized recently that even some of my fairly techie friends had not realized how to use the ‘Force-quit’ feature of the iPhone.
Force-quit is a way – the only way – to make a badly behaving or just plain frozen iPhone [...]

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iPhone Tip: Things To Check If You Cannot Connect Via SSH

May 5, 2009

One of the most common topics that I see come up at iPhone forum sites over and over is problems with connecting to the iPhone via SSH.  So I thought I’d do a quick post covering some good things to check when troubleshooting these issues. 
These suggestions may not fix every SSH connection problem, [...]

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