Who Else Wants Great iPhone Trick Tips?

Posted on May 1, 2008
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I can proudly state that I’m the luckiest ever owner of an iPhone. I’ve had it for quite a time already but I cannot still play to my heart’s content with this amazing gadget. Nevertheless with experience come cool tips and tricks that you learn. I’ve learned mine and now I want to share them with you.

So, Here is the list of the useful functions of iPhone:

Tap once at the top of the display in the Internet mode and you will be immediately redirected to the top of the page you are browsing (instead of having to scroll your way to the top). This helps my save much time and finger effort.
Set the font to the smaller size and get access to more data in the Internet window. This method has one great advantage: in case you want to click a link it will come up huge thus making it extremely easier to click.
If you want to add a new bookmark you don’t have to enter the full address of the web-page. All you need to do is post the equivalent RSS address in the Apple’s RSS reader. Using RSS feeds you can quickly see if the site has been updated since your last visit (it is much faster than downloading the whole page and helps save traffic).
If you write a lot using the iPhone (as I do) you can enjoy one peculiar trick I’ve found. If you write a word and it is underlined as misspelled but in fact is not, you cancel the correction 3 times and the word will be automatically added to the dictionary.
I found a great use of the magnifying glass. When writing something you tap once and hold and the glass will pop up. With the glass on you can place the cursor wherever you want and continue editing the text.
The icons can be dragged around (it cannot be made only on the home screen). In order to use the function go to iPod => More => Edit. Do whatever you like to the icon arrangement.
There is an ultimate way to reset the device. In order to do that, hold the right button and the home front button for 6 seconds. To bring it back to life press the top button
There is a feature that helps me avoid tons of email spam. I added a link to Yahoo mail in my Safari and now I can use “delete all” function to remove all the spam messages.

These are the tricks that I found out using iPhone. Did you learn any other tricks? Would you share them with me and with the audience?

3G iPhone Due Out Soon - O2 and T-Mobile Cut Prices

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Explaining Why All other Smartphones Lag Behind iPhone

Posted on May 1, 2008
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Before the release of the iPhone (July 4, 2007) there were few option for the users to choose from. I mean the devices that combined a comfortable keyboards for quick typing, camera and an inbuilt music player, the ability to sync with email.

The options were:

1. Palm Treo and BB for Sprint

2. Palm Treo, BB, LG enV and Moto Q for Verizon

3. Palm Treo, BB, HTC for AT&T

4. Ocean for Helio

BB was the owner of the corporate market and RIM was just on its way up into the consumer space. Palm OS was the best user-oriented mobile OS on the market. Everything seemed to go all right. But in a while Palm started experiencing a crisis which resulted in the retreat of the company.

The rest of the smartphones were quite narrow products which could not supply the users with the required functionality.

But here comes the iPhone. You know, it looked like the world was just waiting for a gadget like this to come and take its place. Before the release of the iPhone if you wanted to get a new smartphone you needed to scroll through dozens of similar devices. Now you could have just one. It was different from all of them in the design, in the technology, in the approach and in the know-how. It is what any consumer wants, isn’t it?

In 2007 Apple came with a completely new device. It was the device that could move the borders of the mobile communication. I’m not actually saying that iPhone is a perfect communicator. Of course, it has its own disadvantages (as the absence of flash and java, copy/paste function etc.), but in general it made a real revolution on the mobile market. And if you want my personal opinion on the issue, the major revolution is still to come with the release of the 3G iPhone. Apple simply cannot let down the expectations of the audience. Too much is at stake.

But I still wonder why Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Samsung, and LG, being in the mobile market much longer than Apple, compete with the latter at the equal level? Could you help me answer this question?

Apple iPhone Accessories: Case Mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro

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Apple iPhone Accessories: Case Mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro

Posted on May 1, 2008
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Are you obsessed with the idea of keeping the curious eyes off the screen of your iPhone? You don’t want anyone to read the SMS, mails and bank account info, do you? Well, now there is a solution for you - Case-mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro for iPhone. It offers a viewing angle of 45 degrees and costs only $19.95.

So what’s the Case-mate Universal Privacy Screen Pro? It is:

2″ x 3″ Privacy Screen
Graph Sheet (for sizing)
Screen Cleaning Cloth
Applicator card

The manual says that in order to fit the size of the screen one has to cut the protective canvas. But as the case is designed for the iPhone you won’t have to cut anything. Good luck to the happy owners of Blackberries and Treos!

The application of the screen is as simple as possible. The screen uses static cling. One has to stick the screen to the screen of the iPhone and it will remain there. In fact, there are no noticeable reasons for the protective screen to fall of the iPhone as it seems to hold there quite securely.

But the greatest thing about the protective screen is that it really works. When you look at the iPhone from a different (apart from 45 degrees) angle it is impossible to decipher the symbols depicted on the screen of the iPhone.

So, in fact the privacy screen fulfills its major purpose - deterring those nosy folks who peer over your shoulder.

The conclusion

Pros

Very Easy to Apply
Screen Quality and Brightness is Unchanged
Dramatically Decreases Viewing Angle
Texture of the iPhone’s Glass Screen Remains the Same
Made of High Quality Materials

Cons

Dust Builds Up Along the Top and Bottom Edges
Does Not Cover the Full Face of the iPhone
Prone to Scratches

5 Reasons iPhone is Not What I Wanted - Exposure

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5 Reasons iPhone is Not What I Wanted - Exposure

Posted on April 30, 2008
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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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Download iPhone Tool Software Based On New Prototyping Platform Soon

Posted on April 30, 2008
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Those companies that intend to create apps for Apple’s iPhone will be able to build and try the latest programming template from iRise, a new prototyping platform. The El Segundo company introduced the template at the Software 2008 trade show in Las Vegas.

Companies has sold about 1.7 million units in the year’s first quarter, and respectable Apple forecasts 10 million iPhones in the market by the end of 2008. The case is that application iPhone builders had to get the code for being compatible with Safari browser. But Apple recently released software development kit that enables them to create applications for running directly on the phone.

The iRise software can create prototypes that simulate an application but don’t have any underlying code. This enables programmers and exterior developers design an application without any hurdles just for demonstration. Then decision-makers can see the software in functions and sign off on the project.

The template imitates the iPhone’s standard menu icons and can use sliders, zoom in and out of screens. Application developers can use it to create custom buttons, administer menu icons or designate the effects of actions, like double-tapping a button.

The iPhone simulations won’t run on an actual iPhone, rather on a desktop, manipulating with the virtual phone using a mouse. An iRise-based tool for using simulations can be downloaded for companies to send simulations to consumers and support feedback.

OneSpring design company in Atlanta already uses the iRise application simulation toolkit and calls it the SimDK (watch the video). OneSpring assisted in defining applications based on some other mobile platforms and that showed that iPhone’s display capabilities suggest more freedom for designers, while most applications for mobile devices are text-heavy.

The users of iRise can download iPhone tool software for free, which costs about $5,000 per seat. The OneSpring SimDK will start its proliferation from May 1 for $495.

See more information on Macworld

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