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Built-in Apps Tips

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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My iPhone Gmail web app was insanely slow – it turns out one convo was too big [iPhone Tips and Tricks]

January 3, 2010

I’ve been using the web app for a few weeks now, and I’ve been absolutely loving the increased load speed.
I’m not a huge email person – I get about 10 emails a day on average – but something had really started to slow the refresh rate of my Gmail inbox over the past two weeks. [...]

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Basic iPhone tips for surfing on Safari

December 2, 2009

This isn’t a step-by-step guide to surfing on mobile Safari, but rather a collection of little tips for surfing on the latest iPhone firmware (3.1.2, at the time of writing). I’ve never thought that the iPhone was a machine so complicated that you’d need to buy a book about it, but there are also so [...]

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Hidden Obvious Tip: Turn off your iPhone’s Wi-Fi radio when not in use

October 14, 2009

One of the things I had never thought to try on my iPhone (well, not consistently anyway) was to turn off wi-fi when there were no networks available. This really came down to two things: 1) when I first picked up my iPhone 2G I remember having read somewhere that wi-fi didn’t use up very [...]

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How to temporarily lock the orientation in the iPhone Photos app

September 27, 2009

Here’s a simple tip I hadn’t thought of for viewing pictures like the one of this cardboard MacBook keyboard. The problem is that you don’t always want to view your pictures with the iPhone lying flat on the table, but not all apps have an accelerometer lock button. iPhone developers at Bjango (known here for [...]

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How To Enable Emoji For Free & Without Jailbreaking

July 17, 2009

I recently came across a way to enable the Japanese emoji characters on a 3.0 iPhone for free, and all without jailbreaking. It seems there is an app, called Spell Number, that has a hidden feature that when you type a specific number into it, enables the emoji keyboard option in the iPhone’s settings, and [...]

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You sure you’re using IMAP Gmail on your iPhone?

January 14, 2009

Well, it’d be good to make sure. IMAP is pretty awesome – unlike POP3 it’ll auto-sync your inboxes so that items you read on your desktop will show as read on your iPhone as well.
If you’re using POP3 (which is the default when tapping the Gmail button in Mail) then you’ll have to mark emails [...]

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iPhone Quick Tips – Customize The iPod Home Row Buttons

January 6, 2008

The iPhone’s iPod app is super-easy to use, and it’s very intuitive to get the hang of all its main controls. But … if you’re like me and you just never looked much beyond the basics with it, here’s a quick tip on customizing one major part of its interface – the Home Row Buttons.
The [...]

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