iPhone Hacks & Tricks: Fast Insertion of Accented Letters
Don’t you think that the possibility to put accents over letter on the iPhone could save a great deal of your time? In fact, everything is perfectly OK when it is English, but when it comes to, for instance, German – the case gets worse. Those umlauts cannot do not occur in the keyboard, and still they are to be marked somehow.
So, here you are, I found a solution to this sophisticated problem. When the keyboard mode is activated on the iPhone you see a standard qwerty keyboard, SHIFT, Space and delete bars. There is a button that pops up additional symbols. BUT there are no accents among the additional symbols.
But there is a way to type accents. In order to type an accent you have to hold your finger over the button with the letter you want to be accented and wait for a second. Then you will see a pop-up menu with all the possible accents. Then you drag your finger to the one you need and let it go. After these operations you will have an accented letter.
If you want to accentuate a capital letter you need to do exactly the same operations with the only difference: before hold the finger over the letter you need to hold SHIFT button.
Moreover, this trick works not only with letters, you can use it for numbers and other symbols. It can be used if you want to get exclamation points and question marks upside down.
If you want my opinion about this feature I think it is a great feature. It saves a lot of time. You don’t have to dive into various menus all the time to find the symbols you need. Furthermore, the feature can be expanded. For instance, to each button there should be an alternative choice like SHIFT button in the standard PC keyboard.
I don’t know for sure, but the same option can be enabled on iPod Touch. In fact, it is not that useful on this device as it doesn’t have text messaging capabilities, but nevertheless, it can be used for organizing the media library and making notes.
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5 Reasons iPhone is Not What I Wanted - Exposure
Yesterday I was as always browsing the Internet is search of new ideas and concepts to write about my beloved iPhone. Then my eyes caught the title: “5 Reasons iPhone is Not What I Wanted.”
To tell you the truth, I was shocked at such a title. In fact, out there I’m always finding awkward (to put it mildly) titles. But this one is simply astonishing.
Getting interested I decided to read the post. And the 5 facts which as provided there are:
- No flexibility of Office suite syncing, editing, formatting
- No tap-hold cut/paste function
- No selection of multiple emails/texts
- It doesn’t do JAVA or FLASH
- Security on the iPhone is practically nonexistent
To my mind none of these points can stand its ground. Why? I’ll tell you why
- In fact, I’m a Mac user and MS Office seems a strange name to me (of course I know what’s that). It’s been a long time I’ve given up using MS products as they SIMPLY DON’T WORK
- Well, after all the iPhone is a phone but not a computer
- Old habits die hard, wait for the new generation and all the features you can imaging will be present there
- Though a lot of devices have flash and Java, I cannot say that I really need it. I don’t think that I would get happier if you could use these technologies in the iPhone
- Security? I just don’t understand that word in connection to the iPhone. Security is something relevant for MS, and as long as iPhone is Apple it is totally secure. All you need to do in order not to ruin that fact is not install applications by unreliable third-party developers. That’s it!
The fact that the iPhone does not the functionality of a PC makes the iPhone an iPhone. A multi-functional mobile device. Moreover, all the lacks and shortcomings of the current version are likely to be corrected in the new version which is to arrive quite soon.
The only thing I’m left to wonder about is the price of the new device. If it is as awesome as everyone expects it might cost a fortune. But if the price is reasonable I will definitely want to have one.