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- louiebaur, on 08/06/2008, -4/+108Digg title says 11 tips, original article has 12?
- wonginator1221, on 08/07/2008, -5/+43
Whether you're an iPhone rookie or a weathered pro, take a look at these quick-and-easy iPhone tips and tricks which not only save you time, but ease your overall iPhone experience.
(These items are listed in no particular order.)
1. Scroll to Top of Page -
In any application, Safari included, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the "top bar", which has the time, service bars, and battery. In Safari, this not only brings you to the top of the page, but also brings up the URL bar.
2. Domain Resolution -
When typing a URL in Safari, you don't have to type the "www" or the ".com".For instance, for www.cnn.com just type "cnn" in the URL box. Note: Your search engine must be set to Google, not Yahoo.
3. Domain Suffix - [On firmware 2.0 only]
Hold down the ".com" key for ".net, .edu, .org" keys. Note: Slide your finger from .com to .net/.edu/.org, rather than lifting and pressing.
4. Press & Hold For Alternate Characters -
Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character (i.e. to type España with the "ñ" simply hold "n" and simply slide/release to the appropriate character).
5. Click & Hold URL's -
In Safari, hold a link to see the URL and site name.
6. Soft Reset -
Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep button to restart your iPhone. A white light will flash, the screen will shut off and then turn back on. Keep holding until the screen turns back on.
7. Take a Screenshot -
To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll.
8. Set Parental Controls -
You can enable certain restrictions or parental controls on your iPhone. You can block explicit lyrics, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, or the App Store. Just go to Settings, General, Restrictions.
9. Save Any Image from Safari -
To save any image from the web to your camera roll, simply press and hold the image. A menu will appear asking "Save Image" or "Cancel". Once the image is in your camera roll, you can set it as your wallpaper.
10. Fast Forward/Rewind Music & Video -
Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art to manually FF/rewind.
11. Delete Emails -
You can do both "bulk deletes" and "individual deletes" when browsing email. To do a bulk delete, simply click Edit, check off the desired emails, and then choose delete or move. To delete a single email, simply "cross it out" by swiping your finger across the email, then press delete.
12. Double Tap Home Button -
Double tapping the home button has several useful functions, which are described here. (http://www.ismashphone.com/2008/08/home-button-iph ... - Hayes, on 08/07/2008, -3/+39I bet at least 30% of people who Dugg this story don't have an iPhone.
- edk89g, on 08/06/2008, -10/+40Hmmm interesting, there's a few things on the list I didn't know about.
- chazuk, on 08/07/2008, -1/+31The 1st tip has me beaming with joy. I used to swipe the screen like ***** to get to the top of a webpage.
This has just made browsing on the iPhone a little more bearable for me. Dugg! - efitz11, on 08/07/2008, -2/+25but these go to eleven
- freezerburn666, on 08/07/2008, -4/+27hmmm why?
- DiggMyMonkey, on 08/07/2008, -1/+18Wow I never knew you could save an image...this makes changing my wallpaper so much easier...I used to have to sync with iTunes to transfer pics...good to know!
- bparrish, on 08/07/2008, -0/+14Another trick that iPhone hating digg users don't know about: you can actually stop being pissed that you don't have an iPhone if you ignore the digg articles about it...or you can buy one. You're obviously interested in the iPhone if you're reading these comments.
- 1longtime, on 08/07/2008, -2/+16Do you even know why you hate the iPhone?
Technology bashing lemming. - amsoell, on 04/20/2009, -0/+131. My Profile->Settings->Customize Topics
2. Uncheck "Apple"
3. Click "Save Changes"
4. Calm the ***** down - sleepwalkers, on 08/07/2008, -4/+17Nobody cares that you don't like the iPhone.
- Neoanarchist, on 08/07/2008, -1/+13Lmfao. Man this is the second post I'VE seen of beerock's panties being in a twist over not having an iPhone. He apparently wants one really badly.
- dpowre, on 08/07/2008, -2/+14no its more like 12
- Galroc, on 08/07/2008, -1/+12Tricks I have learned, mostly with entering text
type with auto correction in mind
dont -> don't
cant -> can't
i -> I
double space after a word immediately inserts a period and capitalizes the next word. - bradleyland, on 08/07/2008, -1/+11Maybe the submitter assumes everyone knows at least one of them.
- ChapelJuice, on 08/07/2008, -0/+8...all you have to do is click anywhere on the screen besides the keyboard.
...there is your magic tip. - B08ama, on 08/07/2008, -3/+10This is an outrage!
- turquoisefish, on 08/07/2008, -0/+7So many people are saying this is a rubbish list but I bet they only learned the features accidentaly or because someone told them. Holding home and pressing the power key to get a screen shot isn't something you'd just expect. I even found out the microphone on the handsfree had a button by accident.
- jorichter, on 08/07/2008, -1/+8You confuse me.
- STLMikey, on 08/07/2008, -2/+7Well it takes us "non-retarded" people a little longer, seeing as how we have more important things to do than figure out secret tap-patterns and button combos on our sweet new phones.
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+5Another iPhone trick that a lot of Apple Haters don't know about: you can actually stop showing how jealous you are of iPhone users by simply by closing your mouth, breathing through your noise, and not reopening your mouth.
- breckinshire, on 08/07/2008, -0/+4Just triple tap the home key.
- Aaronontheweb, on 08/07/2008, -2/+6Freak out over a website's comment system more please
- vashavoc, on 08/07/2008, -0/+4your reply made me lol as I do the same thing - the wife didnt find it as funny :
- zakatov, on 08/07/2008, -0/+4Who the hell still types (or has to type) www and .com in ANY browser nowadays?
- Nicksname1, on 08/07/2008, -0/+4I was wondering how the hell I got a screenshot of my home screen in my photos. That was the only shortcut I was unaware, good article though.
- Yifkong, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3As a 6/29/07 adopter and thorough iPhone addict, I laughed at this comment. Bravo!
- thebza451, on 08/07/2008, -1/+4i have a tip although nobody will probably see this comment amongst all this hating and fanboy love...
sometimes i bookmark a site and add it as an icon to my home screen.. some sites (like digg, google reader) have a custom icon just for that, so it looks nice when it's added to your home screen.. if you bookmark a site to your home screen & it doesn't have a custom icon, it'll just put a thumbnail picture of the site as the icon, and usually it's pretty ugly and almost always unreadable. today while messing around i found that if you want to add a bookmark to a site that doesn't have a custom icon & you don't like the ugly thumbnail, you can first zoom in on any image on the website, then hit "add to home screen" and it'll make the icon whatever it was you were zoomed in on. pretty cool trick, i've never seen this posted anywhere else. - klipseracer, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Like a moron.... Then again... I only knew because I pushed it on accident.
- AFHCO, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3The screen shot one is the coolest to me...
- jorichter, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Pusod... I'm not going to lie, I don't know what's going on either, and I'm scared too.
But in response to "the number one comment has only 7 diggs" thing. I saw that on a couple other posts too. It's because most the number 1 comments are from hours/days ago, whereas Digg only seemed to break a little while ago. So all the new comments get ***** up.
I hope your shouting fixes Digg. We're all counting on you.
Dugg. - intekra, on 08/07/2008, -2/+4$1000? Really...? Are you that ignorant?
- shutaro, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2@Aaronontheweb: Dammit, I rely on digg as a one-stop shop for entertainment *and* validation! Now what am I supposed to do? I demand to be entertained! 3MWAh!
- supermanred, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Screenshot is SUPER USEFUL.
I use it all the time to tell people where I am.
Open MAPS - Let the GPS find you
Take a screenshot
Email the screenshot to your friend on his phone or home email - ryan926, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2I remember looking through my pictures and saw my screen. I was trying to find out how I did it. Now I know that I must've done it when I was trying to soft restart my phone.
- roessnakhan, on 08/28/2008, -0/+2Neat, I didn't know about the domain suffix having multiple selections.
- supermanred, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2You idiots really make me want copy and paste, but in almost a year Ive never actually, you know needed to copy and paste anything in my iphone.
- Mizzike, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2Digg should have a way to bury the whole comment thread. Could be as simple as a double thumbs down button. In black. Just saying...
- thecompkid, on 08/07/2008, -1/+3If iPhone articles are in the majority on a *user-supported* news website then obviously you're in the minority, which would imply that...
...you know what, I'll cut to the chase...
GTFO. - MadKennyP, on 08/07/2008, -2/+4Just go away.
- Darph.Bobo, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2It's not so much a trick but something you should be born with, it's called a brain.
- debuggercll, on 08/07/2008, -6/+8Because all girls know is how to do is spend a man's money and use his iPhone.
- neosublime, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2What about #13
You can watch Video Podcasts in vertical view. - Icecold54, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2the tip about saving pics from safari...can that also be don with the itouch??
- Twee, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2The BofA app just takes you to the mobile web portal for online banking.
- schavira, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2I knew all of these pretty early on, except I didn't know about screenshots until a few weeks ago when I actually pressed the buttons and there was a flash out of nowhere. I thought I had angered it or something.
- garywoo, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3Please stop calling it an iTouch, it sounds really gay and makes you look stupid.
- drewraphael, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2also...
Ill > I'll
and
id > I'd - WiseWeasel, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1You could always un-check the Apple section... Digg has made it pretty easy for people to do, thanks to Apple having their own section and all.
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