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Very useful iPhone tips
The blog Tap Tap Tap has posted a wonderful list to 10 iPhone tips and tricks you should know, including taking a screenshot (here's our how-to on that trick), enabling caps lock and customizing the home button's function. Definitely check it out.While we're on the topic, here are a few of our own favorites
- The homescreen shortcut in firmware 2.2. With a click of the home button, you can jump to your first home screen.
- How to enable passcode protection. It's bad enough that you left your iPhone at the post office. At least the shmoe who finds it won't be able to call China.
- Pause an application download. Because sometimes you just don't have a free 90 seconds.
- Go Geocaching with an iPhone 3G. Who needs an additional GPS device?
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Andrew said 11:40AM on 12-10-2008
I thought the big hullabaloo a while back about iPhone passcode protection was that the "Emergency Call" mode would allow a person to call any number they typed, even letting them "call China."
Has this been changed?
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Nerdninja said 12:46PM on 12-10-2008
Yes it has, in one of the updates.
aricept said 10:37AM on 12-11-2008
Hmmm... still works on my device, with the 2.2 firmware.
Alex Morach said 11:44AM on 12-10-2008
All very good tips.
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Johnny Dangerously said 1:23PM on 12-10-2008
What's a "GPS decive"? Some sort of jammer?
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oliver hart said 3:06PM on 12-10-2008
you farging iceholes. i couldnt help it. man i havent seen that movie in years
samu said 1:50PM on 12-10-2008
A couple of these seem less like "tricks" and more like "using clearly-indicated functions". But at least they weren't referred to as "hacks", now among the most heavily devalued terms in the English language. [/mrgrumpy]
And some of the others are great: thé ønë för typîng vówëls lïké thís ïs gööd.
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Macca said 6:35AM on 12-11-2008
I reckon, some people need to learn the difference between tricks, cracks and hacks.
Jack said 4:09PM on 12-10-2008
I've been using software called SeekCache from the App Store. It costs a dollar, but it's so much better than having to type coordinates into the web site!
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Gautham Pallapa said 5:47PM on 12-10-2008
Here is a tip to move from one screen to another. Instead of swiping your finger in the direction of movement, it is enough if you tap your finger near the edge of the home screen, just above the dock. This way, you can reduce the smudges on your phone screen. Tapping on the right side just above the dock moves the home screen, one screen to the right, and vice versa for the left movement. This action can also be achieved by tapping the left or right dots (where each dot represents an individual home screen).
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glad said 7:26PM on 12-10-2008
good tip
Macca said 6:34AM on 12-11-2008
Figured that out on the first day I had the iPhone. Not trying to show off, I mean, thanks for the tip, but yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious.
Macca said 6:33AM on 12-11-2008
Yay, I knew them all! Except those useless last two. GPS is always available for me, and I'm in Australia, so no AIM here.
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