Archive for the ‘Cool iPhone Tricks’ Category
Lock your iPhone
My iPhone is my personal assistent, my friend, my all time companion, weather consultant, and so much more. Because of all those things on my device are private, I do not want anybody to have a look at.
Lock your iPhone
Like on all other mobile cell phones you can set a lock code. Once it is [...]
iPhone headset troubleshooting
I had the problem that my iPhone headset was not working properly anymore. The music playback went fine, but when answering a call the caller could not hear me. Also I noticed then, that I could not use the headset’s button to control call answering or iPod playback.
First of all I thought it was corrupted, [...]
iPhone in a safe mode
“Safe mode” sounds a little bit like a Windows driver issue thing, but the iPhone does also have one!
When I was playing around a little bit with it, after the upgrade to the 3.0 firmware and quit Skype, then it somewhat crashed. I saw the the dialog as the picture shows at the right hand [...]
Manage tons of mails on iPhone
Day by day I receive tons of emails. They are are collected in the end in only just one account. To get them all easily on the iPhone I forward them additionally to a free GoogleMail account (just contact me if you need an invitation) which is quick set up on the iPhone.
The iPhone checks frequently [...]
Deleting podcast episodes on iPhone
When I am on the way I mostly consume my favourite podcasts instead of listening to music. When beeing back on my Mac I see which episodes are played in iTunes and then I do mark and delete them. But when I have listened to different podcasts I really hate it to search through my [...]
Guess iPhone 3.0 firmware changes
Apple invited to a iPhone 3.0 firmware presentation. Of course we are all awaiting new features and some things to be optimized. The iPhoneBlog.de invited this evening at 6pm CET to a live chat and a live audio stream.
There are many rumors what could be and would surely will be changed and added. I have [...]
iPhone scrolling with two fingers
I am a big fan of creating websites with CSS. You may know, that is possible to have a frame like behaviour without having real frames using the iframe tags.
The secret is to put some divisions at the right place and to give the right properties. It results with only having one section scrollable and [...]
Firmware update bubbles new iPhone model
The Electronistica news showed, that the latest iPhone firmware update 2.2.1 has a hint inside, which could mean a new device.
In an internal xml description, the iPhone and iPod devices are numbered. If the guess follows the same counting rules for the iPod, the new firmware checks for a new iPhone model which is not available, [...]
iPhone Update 2.2.1
Yesterday, I was very suprised to see the iPhone 2.2.1 update in my iTunes and I am very proud to have discovered that before the invincible iphoneblog.de did.
Until now, I did not find anything what has really changed.
The readme told, that some bugfixes are done affecting the picture library and the mail account synchronization. The [...]
Seconds in one Sec
As a programmer, sometimes I need to deal with seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months and years to make it easy for the customer to have a glue of time.
Just have a look at some popular platforms like Youtube or even this blog showing you how old something is.
Timestamps are often used on unix-like systems and [...]
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