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iPhone Tips and Tricks

App Store Refund: how I got mine

January 21, 2010

This is a short story with a happy ending.
If you are anything like me, you have bought an app for your iPhone, only to discover that it was not quite what you expected so you perhaps stopped using it or even erased it.
This happened to me. I recently bought the RSS reader app Byline and [...]

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Quick jailbreak tip: force your unskinned iPhone icons to look skinned

January 4, 2010

I’ve been following Shawn Blanc’s blog for a while now, and it was interesting to see how he eventually decided to jailbreak his device. Once jailbroken, one of the first things he set out to do was make his device more unique by going Winterboarding. His chosen themes? The excellent Matte UI (for pop-ups and [...]

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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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How-To: Create An iTunes Account Funded By Gift Cards

January 1, 2010

So, you just bought your teenager a new iPod or iPhone and really don’t want to tie your credit card to their iTunes account? Or are you that teenager who got one as a gift and Mom and Dad said, “Credit card? No way!”? No problem; Apple will allow you to create an iTunes account [...]

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How To: Add a Source in Cydia

December 22, 2009

If you’ve been jailbroken for any length of time, you’ve probably had an occasion where you cannot find an interesting new app in the Cydia store – and you notice that mentions of the app talk about needing to ‘add a source’ in order to be able to see it and install it via [...]

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How-To: Jailbreak the iPhone with blackra1n

December 20, 2009

Blackra1n is one of the simplest jailbreaks we’ve ever seen for the iPhone – and certainly the easiest method currently available (as at this writing) for the latest iPhone 3.1.2 firmware.
Even so, if you’ve never done a jailbreak on your iPhone before, you may want a step-by-step to help you through this genuinely easy [...]

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Some Tips For Dragon Dictation

December 9, 2009

As a former long-time user of Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC, I was eager to see if Dragon Dictation would include the same command syntax. Largely, it has. Here are some tips and a quick reference guide to some of the helpful things you can say during your dictation.

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How to change or add icons to an iPhone Winterboard theme [iPhone Theming Tips]

December 4, 2009

[Jailbreak only]
There’s a saying that goes like this: “Those who lack Photoshop and the skill required to manipulate and create images tweak their themes instead.” You probably haven’t heard of it, since I just made it up now.
If you’ve ever found a theme you loved, but just wanted to replace small portions of it to [...]

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Quick iPhone Tip: Where to Find All the Apps from the iPhone TV Ads

December 3, 2009

I have to admit – I’m still not sick of the ‘There’s an app for that’ series of TV ads for the iPhone, or any of Apple’s TV ads featuring iPhone applications. They invariably feature some interesting and strong apps – and I often end up wanting to check out one or more I spot [...]

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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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