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Counting down to the 1 billionth app download — your chance to win
By Jim Karpen
The App Store has started a countdown to the 1 billionth app download, with the figure at about 930 million as I write this and racing upward fast. From now until the 1 billionth download, Apple is offering a contest with lots of prizes. To enter, you simply download an app. Or you can enter without downloading. You can enter up to 25 times a day to increase your odds of winning.
Placing a Web page icon in the Home screen
By Rich Hall
You can add more than app icons to the Home screen (Fig. 11). If you find a Web site that you really like, you can not only Bookmark it in Safari, you can add an icon for the site to your Home page. The procedure is simple. Open Safari and browse to the desired Web page. Then, zoom in on an appealing element of the page. This might be the name of the site or a graphic associated with the site.
Sharing Web Links from Safari
By Rich Hall
If you are browsing the Web using Safari and find an interesting Web page you’d like to share with a friend or associate, you can e-mail it to the quickly by following these steps:
Display info about hyperlinks before you go to the site
By Anonymous
Hyperlinks to other Web pages appear in Safari, Mail, and other applications—tap on them to go to the linked Web page. The hyperlink may appear as a highlighted word that doesn’t tell you much about the site it links to. You can find out more, before going to the site, but touching and holding down on the hyperlink. This will display the link title and the actual Web address of the link (Fig. 9).
Enter Web address extensions quickly
By Anonymous
If you are entering a Web address into Safari (e.g. iPhoneLife.com), you don’t have to enter the “http://www.” prefix or the “.com” suffix. Safari assumes those and will take you to the site without them (e.g., all you have to enter is iPhoneLife).
Use larger keyboard for entering Web addresses
By Rich Hall
When you tap on the Web address bar in Safari, a keyboard pops up to allow you to enter the Web address. You don’t have to enter the prefix (“http://” or “www.”) or the suffix (“.com”) on a Web address. Safari will still find the age. You can also make the keyboard a little larger and easier to use.
Quicker way to enter a period at the end of a sentence
By Rich Hall
If you want to enter a period into a note or in any application that accepts text, the standard way to do it is to tap on the “123” icon in the lower left corner of the keyboard. This brings up the numbers, symbols, and punctuation mark keyboard. Fortunately, there’s a quicker way to do it—simply hit the space bar twice quickly. It will enter a period and a blank space following it.
Catch the Masters on your iPhone
By Anonymous
You know it's spring when you can hear the birds sing at Augusta National during the quiet Masters Golf Tournament telecasts. But how can you keep up with the action during the workday?
With the iPhone, of course. The stodgy, old-fashioned Masters is the first PGA tournament to provide live streaming video – but for iPhones only.
Entering alternate versions of a letter
By Anonymous
You can easily enter alternate versions of a letter by holding down the appropriate key and selecting the alternate from the pop up. For example, hold down on “o” and eight variations of the letter are displayed (Fig. 5). Slide your finger over the desired variation and lift up to enter the letter.
How to Reset iPhone: Restore iPhone to Factory Settings
By Anonymous
If you're getting ready to sell, trade, or give away your iPhone, you're probably wondering how to wipe your iPhone and restore it to factory settings so that all your data and settings are deleted. If you want to know how to factory reset an iPhone, there are two methods for accomplishing this. If you have a computer available you can reset your device with iTunes; if you only have your iPhone available, you can still restore to factory settings from the Settings app. Every generation of iPhone resets to factory settings in the same way, even the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4. So you don’t need to worry about figuring out how to delete everything on your iPhone model; this will work for all of them. Ready to wipe your iPhone or iPad? Let's get started!
Convert videos to play on the iPhone or iPod touch
By Anonymous
The iPhone and iPod touch supports video formats encoded using the MPEG-4 and H.264 codecs; video files encoded in these formats end with .m4v, .mp4 or .mov file extensions. If you have videos in other formats, you need to convert them to a compatible format before you can play them on the iPhone or iPod touch.
Save Web pictures
By Anonymous
If you’re browsing the Web with Safari and see an image you want to save, touch and hold down on the image with your finger. A menu will pop up (Fig. 8), allowing you to save the image to your photos folders.
Answering, ending, and switching between calls using the headset
By Anonymous
The headphones that came with your iPhone let you answer, end, and switch between calls without having to pull the iPhone out of your pocket. A button located on the microphone capsule controls these functions:
Create separate folder for photos to use as wallpaper
By Rich Hall
There are two ways to set a custom image as the wallpaper of your opening “unlock” screen:
- Go to Photos, display the desired image, tap on the lower-left options button, and select “Use as Wallpaper” from the pop-up menu.
- Open the Settings app and select General >Wallpaper.
Either of these methods allows you to use any photo or image on the iPhone/iPod touch as wallpaper. Follow these steps to add a wallpaper folder, so you don't have to look through all your photos to find an image:
Double-tap on Home button
By Rich Hall
Pressing the Home button takes you back to the Home screen from any other iPhone or iPod touch screen, and if the device is in sleep mode it takes you to the “Slide to Unlock” screen. However, the Home button does other things as well.
Holding down the caps key
By Rich Hall
Need to enter two or three capital letters in a row? If you’re using a standard computer keyboard or an old manual or electric typewriter you can do this by engaging the Caps Lock, typing the letters, and disengaging the Caps Lock. Of course, if you’re just typing two or three letters, it’s easier to hold down the Shift key and type. Most mobile touchscreen devices with “soft” (on screen) keyboards don’t let you do this. However, the keyboard on the iPhone and iPod touch does.