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Tips, Tricks, and other nonesense on the iPhone.
TIP: 7 More Ways To Conserve Your iPhone Battery Power
Aug 6th
Earlier this week I covered 5 Ways to Conserve your iPhones Battery Power, I’ll call those 5 ways for battery conservation the low hanging fruit of power saving. They are the quickest and they save the most power of all the ways to do it. If, however, you are going green and looking for even more ways to reduce your iPhones carbon footprint, don’t worry here are 7 more ways:
Why You Should Turn Off Your iPhone 3G's 3G Feature.
Aug 5th
For those of you that had the first generation iPhone and then upgraded to the new iPhone 3G, you might have noticed that the number of bars for reception on your phone went down. How could that be? Why would Apple create a phone with a reception quality that’s inferior to its predecessor? Well it is and it isn’t. It’s the 3G and you should turn it off. Here’s why:
TIP: 5 Ways To Conserve Your iPhone Battery Power
Aug 4th
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As much as I love the iPhone 2.0 release on both my 1st Generation iPhone and my new iPhone 3G, it has problems. The biggest problem I have with 2.0 is how fast it can chug down a full battery. While some of the new features that consume all this power are absolutely great, to be honest most of the time you don’t really need them running. So why not learn how to quickly turn them on and off to get all that battery time back.
TIP: How to quickly add a period to your iPhone message.
Jul 31st
One of the problems with the iPhone keypad when you are typing a message is that the period is on another screen. This is very annoying to have to navigate away from typing the message just to add a little punctuation. Don’t fear, there is an easy way to add a period and continue typing without stopping. Here’s How: More >
TIP: Connecting a Stereo Bluetooth Headset to an iPhone
Jul 30th
One of the biggest problems with the iPhone, in my opinion, is that the iPhone doesn’t support Bluetooth Stereo out of the box. At least that is true at this moment in time. The iPhone technically has the ability to natively support Bluetooth Stereo, Apple just decided not to support it and essentially turned the ability off. I I’m sure they could turn it on with a little programming.
Don’t worry, with a simple and inexpensive accessory, it’s not that hard to jerry-rig it and have full A2DP/AVRCP Bluetooth Stereo Support. More >
TIP: How to take iPhone Screenshots
Jul 29th
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So one thing that came with the iPhone 2.0 Software release was a great little secret. One that most people won’t really care about, but for me is a great little tool and might be useful to you. What is is? The ability to take iPhone Screenshots. Here’s How:
TIP: Quick iPhone & iPod touch Music Controls
Dec 14th
A quick way to control your music on the iPhone
Did you know that there is a quick way to control the music on your iPhone or iPod touch without unlocking the screen? Here’s How: More >
Tastemaker Tech: A Touching Technical Revolution
Feb 28th
The mouse has been around in the computer industry for a lot longer than most people realize. It was invented in 1964 by Douglas Engalbart and for the past 43 years it has been the computer interface pointer tool of choice. Long live the computer mouse. The problem is…it’s about to die. It’s going to be replaced by something so simple, so easy to use, you’ve used it your entire life, even before you were born. It’s something you always have with you. It’s like an American Express Card, don’t leave home without it.
And it’s so cool, you have to click through to find out what it is…….seriously THIS WILL AFFECT YOU!
Tastemaker Tech (What is it?) Few items receive the Tastemaker Tech mark from W3Source. It signifies a product, gadget, application, event, etc, as something that those individuals who tend to be in the know, need to know about. If possible, it's pretty much a must have. It signifies the best in class, highest-quality, something that changes industries and/or sets the bar for all others. So if you consider yourself to be a person in the know, an early adopter, a Tastemaker; pay particular attention to this.
Apple's Forced Hand
Feb 25th
Apple is getting more and more popular. In my opinion, they are now bigger than Microsoft. Well they are at least more popular and covered more in the media. That is another story and yet very much the reason why Apple’s hand has been forced lately. In January, Apple announced the much rumored iPhone. Heck even that name was forced. The iPhone was talked about so heavily, first on the Apple fanboy sites, and then in the main media, that Apple would have been stupid at that point to name it something else. Heck, they were forced to do a phone in my opinion.
Let’s back it up a bit though. Apple has changed the music industry so greatly it has garnered millions of followers and I’m sure millions of haters. As a result of being so huge, being the top dog in an industry, all eyes are on them. They move an inch and it creates massive waves in the industry, and at the very least in the media. So enter Apple’s Fall 2006 release of their new iPod nano. Revolutionary? No. Yes it looks cool. Yes Steve has a magical quality to his presentations where everyone is awestruck. The problem? There wasn’t much there. If Apple didn’t deliver, their stock holders would get mad, the stock price would drop, etc, etc. So they were forced to show something before it was ready. Out comes the iTV, now known as Apple TV. Steve gave a demo and the media was buzzing. The stock holders were happy and the price went up. Apples arms were twisted and hands were forced to show a product about 5 months before its release.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg, click through to see where Apple had their hand forced again.
