Cool IPhone Tricks: Turning IPhone Into Things You Couldn’t Imagine

Dutch master under the name of Tallart makes things to his iPhone I didn’t believe at first time. That’s probably the case when you have to see to believe.

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How To Make Vista PC-Like Themes On iPhone, Free Download

It’s not a secret that many people don’t approve of Vista and sometimes don’t even want to hear anything concerned it. This time you shouldn’t. The new VistaPerfection 2.0 iPhone theme will impress you greatly. How To Make Vista PC Like Themes On iPhone, Free Download

VistaPerfection is a Summerboard compatible theme and it makes iPhone look a PC-like station with beautiful design and a complete set of customization elements:

Boot and restore images
Over 90 icons
WiFi icon
Edge icon
Dock
Sliders
Vista login/logoff sound scheme

If you have an upgrade version of Firmware 1.1.1, you need to complete the installation of SummerBoard manually. Just read and follow the instructions included in the INSTALL file. So here is the link (Download SummerBoard Alpha for Firmware 1.1.1), and this file is the latest alpha release. The Summerboard Alpha works both on iPhone and iPod Touch.

SummerBoard is totally free. All users who wish to donate are encouraged.

All SummerBoard themes are very easy to make. They are stored up in this folder: /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes/

Every theme has a folder in there, structured this way:

ThemeName/StatusBar.png – that is optional status bar image with 320×20 PNG, alpha

Theme Name/Wallpaper.png – that is the wallpaper with 320×480 PNG, no alpha

Theme Name/Dock.png – That is the large dock image with 320×91 PNG, alpha

All your icons go in ThemeName/Icons/ (optional, 59×60 PNG, alpha)

Also when you save your graphic files it’s better to use save for Web command in Adobe Photoshop to reduce icon sizes and optimize your graphics. It saves server bandwidth, time and space on your iPhone.

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5 Steps To Upgrade iPhone Firmware

Firmware, a computer program, is designed for embedding inside a specific hardware device. The main advantage of firmware in is the capability to be updated even after the distribution to customers in manufactured devices. Apple issues updates to the iPhone firmware, correcting bugs and making it simple for further upgrades.

5 Steps To Upgrade iPhone Firmware

Follow these 5 steps to upgrade your iPhone firmware:

Back up all the important data you have stored on iPhone before the upgrade prodedure. You may save the information to your PC’s hard drive, flash memory, DVR or other memory storage drive. The iPhone may remove some files while updating the system, so you’d better follow the backup.

Restore your iPhone’s original settings in case you have installed some unauthorized software. The firmware update might not install properly in case you have hacked to jailbreak your iPhone. So it would be very important to completely restore the basic iPhone settings. Just plug it in your PC, launch iTunes and click on “Restore” button in the main menu to automatically reset to iPhone’s default settings and clean its memory.

After the connection to the computer launch iTunes. There will be the notification that a firmware upgrade is available. Via a pop-up message click the install button for the upgrade. Or you may click on “Don’t Install” to cancel the installation for better times

Let iTunes install the firmware upgrade and do not use your iPhone or any other programs on your PC before the procedure is accomplished. No calls or messages will be recieved during the upgrade.

When the installation is finished and iTunes sends the notification that it is safe to unplug your iPhone from the computer, disconnect it. Check out your iPhone’s firmware upgrade by tapping “Settings” - “General” - “About” to see the latest firmware version number and date.

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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.

Apple Gives 3G iPhone Full IM Functionality

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