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iPhone Basics

iPhone Tips: How To Force Quit An Application in OS 3.0

July 10, 2009

Here’s another very basic tip for users of iPhone OS 3.0, but one that I often forgot about until recently. Prior to OS 3.0, to ‘force quit’ an app (force it to close when it was unresponsive or hung up) you simply held down the Home button for 5-10 seconds – after which the app [...]

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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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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: 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 uses [...]

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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 application [...]

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iPhone Beginner Tips – Create a New Photo from An Existing One with Zooming & Screen Capture

March 5, 2009

My wife, mother-in-law, and father-in-law have recently become iPhone users (possibly more on that later) – so I’ve found myself demonstrating little tips and tricks that more experienced users already know about a fair bit lately. It’s been a good reminder to me of how much I take as a given now, and how cool [...]

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Quick iPhone Tip: get back to first Home page

January 12, 2009

So this one is pretty simple, but there are so many tricks out there somebody just might not know about this one. If you’ve got a whole bunch of Home screen pages to flip through just one press of the Home button will bring you right back to your first page. That wasn’t so hard [...]

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iPhone 2.0 How-To: Save An Image From The Safari Browser

July 16, 2008

Another quick iPhone 2.0 tip, but one that is a great new feature in the latest iPhone software – how to save an image from a web page in the Safari browser.
I was very happy when I heard this feature would be coming to the 2.0 software, and it’s nice to see it made it, [...]

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How To: Stop Backup During iPhone iTunes Sync on 2.0

July 14, 2008

Here’s another very small iPhone tip, but one that may hopefully prove useful for some who are finding iPhone syncing under the new 2.0 software to be unbearably slow.
A big part of how slow the syncs are under 2.0 – at least in my experience so far – is the ‘Backup’ section of things. I [...]

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How To: Use the Built-In Screenshot Feature on the iPhone

July 10, 2008

The built in ability to take a screenshot is available and working nicely on the iPhone 2.0 software. We’ve known this feature was seen in the code for iPhone 2.0 for quite some time, but it’s good to see it made the final released version.
Using it is dead simple too. To take a screen capture, [...]

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