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Quick Period

Obviously, you can access the period key under the punctuation section but it’s a lot faster to just double tap the space bar.

Quick Period

Hidden Characters

Pressing and holding some of the keys on the keyboard will reveal hidden characters. There are quite a few of these if you know where to look. Here’s a list of all the keys that you can hold and expand:

Letters: E, Y, U, I, O, A, S, L, Z, C, N

Symbols: Dollar Sign, Dash, Ampersand, Quotes, Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point, Apostrophe, and Percent

Safari “.com” button (brings up .net, .edu and .org)

Hidden Characters

Caps Lock

After you enable Caps Lock in preferences, double tapping the shift key will cause it to glow blue, indicating that Caps Lock is on.


Caps Lock

Quick Caps/Symbols

Obviously, you can tap the “.?123″ to access the symbols keyboard and the shift key to quickly capitalize a letter, but did you know that you could speed up the process by holding your finger down on one of these keys and then dragging the the key that you want to type? For instance, to quickly type the number “2″ from the main keyboard, hold the “.?123″ key, slide up to the “2″ and then release. You should be taken right back to the main QWERTY keyboard.


Quick Caps/Symbols

Restart iPhone

As you know, to turn off your iPhone, simply hold the sleep button until the option pops up. However, if your phone is frozen, you’ll have to restart by holding the home and sleep buttons until it turns off.

iPhone Restart

Screenshot

This is one we use every day here at AppStorm. To take a screenshot, hold down the home button, then hit the sleep button (you should see a flash). The image will then be saved into your photos and can be imported to your Mac through iPhoto.


Screenshot

Inspect Link

If you see a link in Safari, hold your finger on it to see where it goes. You can also choose to copy it, open it in the current window or open it in a new window.

Inspect Link

Save Image

Just as in the previous tip, hold your finger on an image to see more options including the ability to download.


Save Image

Scrolling in a Frame

Have you ever tried to scroll in a window that’s inside another window in mobile Safari? It’s a bit tricky. Use two fingers to get the job done.


Scrolling in a Frame

Tap Dots for Next Page

If for some crazy reason you loathe the swiping motion necessary to navigate the home screens, you can tap the area at the bottom instead. Tap to the right of center to go right and to the left of center to go left.


Tap Dots for Next Page

Quickly Select Word or Paragraph

You probably know that to quickly select a word you double tap it, but did you know you can quickly select an entire paragraph with a quadruple tap?


Surely you didn’t know that one did you? Admit it, you’ve never tried quadruple tapping!


Quickly Select Word or Paragraph

Scroll to Top

Everyone should already know this one but I thought I’d toss it in anyway. In Safari, tap the top bar to quickly scroll to the top of the page. Many applications have also built in this functionality so be sure to try it everywhere.


Scroll to Top

Zoom In

Starting with the 3GS Apple added in many of the accessibility features that you find in OS X. Of these, the most handy is probably the ability to zoom in. After enabling it in Preferences under the Accessibility menu, double tap with three fingers to activate.


Zoom In

New iOS 4 Tricks

Even if you stood in line all night for the very first iPhone and have owned every model since, there could be many new features that you don’t know about in the latest operating system. Check out these four things to try.


Spell Check

There is finally a spell check feature! Just tap and hold an underlined word, then tap the “Replace” button to see a spelling suggestion.


Spell Check

Lock Screen Orientation

The iPhone automatically changes orientation when you rotate it, which can be annoying if that’s not what you want. Double tap the home button and then swipe to access the controls to the left. Here you can control the iPod functionality and/or lock the screen orientation.


Lock Screen Orientation

Close Background Apps

Now that you can multi-task in iOS 4, it’s easy to leave open tons of applications. Follow the same double tap process as in the tip above but this time tap and hold an application icon and then tap the little minus buttons to close any unwanted applications.


Close Background Apps

Search the Web and Wikipedia

Apple has improved the global search feature in iOS 4 by adding web and wikipedia search options. These are usually located at the bottom of the list of results.


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New features:

- Places. Use Places to see where your friends are and share where you are.

- You can set the privacy of individual status updates.

- See all recipients of inbox messages.

- (iOS 4) Upload photos and videos in the background.



Bug fixes:

- Fixed a delay when commenting on a post or posting a status update.

- Fixed some Notes display bugs.

- Fixed some reliability bugs in News Feed.

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Reports started surfacing  that Apple may have been quietly revising the iPhone 4 to add a nonconductive coating to the metal band on the sides of the phone. This would fix the sudden signal drop from electrically bridging the antennas by touching the band in the bottom-left corner with your hand.

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Apple is perhaps most famous for the ground breaking iPod range of portable music players. One of the attractions of the iPhone 4 is that it incorporates the same facilities as the iPod Touch. The instant response would be that such facilities are available on all modern phones, but none do it quite as well as the iPhone. The great display on the iPhone 4 is perfect for displaying all the album cover art that is supported. Tracks can be selected via a great range of choices including song name, artist, album and most played. One of the new features on this model is the ability to make your own playlist on the phone, rather than doing it on iTunes and then transferring it. Plenty of storage is available on the phone to house your collection, with the iPhone 4 being available in 16GB and 32GB models. Music only sounds as good as the headphones it is listened to through, so the inclusion of a 3.5mm jack plug gives users an almost unlimited choice. Several formats are supported including AAC, MP3 and Apple Lossless which offers the best quality sound with minimum compression.

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iPhone 4 is powered by Apple’s A4 processor chip. The chip has been made as small as possible to accommodate the bigger battery that could take the load of all the new, fancy features. The A4 processor also makes very efficient use of power.

Due to the larger battery, iPhone 4 has better battery life compared to the 3g and 3gs

The device promises seven hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music etc.


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iPhone 4 is the best as far as the video is concerned. It now allows you to record high definition videos 720 pixels and up to 30 frames per second along with audio. It can also play a high definition video satisfactorily whereas even most laptops start stuttering when playing HD video.

Tap to focus video feature and built-in video editing are the bonus that every video lover would find quite irresistable. Even more the new iPhone also allows photo and video geotagging.


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This is a great dual layer iphone 3g, 3gs. Made from two layers of silicone, The first is a transparent inner layer and the second is a turtle design outer layer made fom tough silicone.

Unlike other turtle design iphone silicone cases, the outer silicone layer on this case dose not strech and become slack

Vodafone has announced that it will be offering the iPhone 4 on a pay as you go basis.

Vodafone will be selling the 16 GB model for £480 and the 32 GB for £570. These handsets would be locked to Vodafone so you're looking at a saving of just £19-£29 if you were to buy one directly from Apple, which would be SIM-free.

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The Los Angeles Times reports that Apple’s iAd mobile advertising platform is getting great reviews from the companies whose advertisements were the first to run on the new system. The article quotes Joe Jacoby, a senior manager of Nissan’s media operations, who says, “What iAd promises is the most progressive thing I’ve seen to date” in digital advertising

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Apple offers free iPhone 4 cases


Steve Jobs promises all iPhone 4 users a free case
Apple is offering a free case to every owner of its iPhone 4.

Apple boss Steve Jobs unveiled the offer at a press conference called to tackle the ongoing problems with the iPhone 4's antenna problem.

The case will help solve a widely reported issue in which phone signal strength was reduced when the phone was held.

To get their free case, owners will be able to apply via the Apple website from 22 July. Mr Jobs said Apple could not make enough for all owners of the phone but would source a supply and offer a range of cases.

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