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 [...]

December 1, 2009 • Tags: , , , , • Posted in: Cool iPhone Tricks • No Comments

dict.cc – German and English dictionary on the iPhone

I am using the English language very much, although my native Language is German. It is the best way to communicate to people all over the world and of course absolutely mandatory in combination with learning, sciene, technology, computers, and so on.
To learn and improve my English, I need to look quite often into a [...]

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, [...]

Windows95 running on iPhone

The iPhone is one of the most powerful handheld devices available on the market. Enthusiastic developers from GoodiPhone.com made it real to create a complete Windows emulator.

Windows95 and even WindowsXP can be running on a iPhone!
As owner of an Apple device I have of course no real intention in using it, but “yes, we can“! [...]

How much time is left with my iPhone battery

When carrying your iPod or iPhone on the way, the battery symbol shows how many energy is left. But does that indicate you how long you still can use your device? A percentage or a graphical icon does not explain much.
How much time is remaining when the tiny battery icon has about 35% battery left?
The [...]

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 [...]

Nearby twitterers

As you already know, I am a big fan of twitter. On the iPhone I was taking the Twinkle client mostly, because it can show me twitterers next to me in a range of kilometres.
The best and lightweight client in my humble option is TwitterFon, but I was missing the nearby-functionality. Thanks to Tim pointing [...]

June 5, 2009 • Tags: , , , • Posted in: Cool iPhone Apps, twitter • 2 Comments

Skype voice quality

On the release time of the free application Skype for iPhone, I could not let it be to install it. Because I am lazy at typing I initially tested it with just a small chat, only.
But, today I had a situation that I needed to do a Skype call to ask something. The voice quality [...]

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 [...]

Blackberry HS-655+ Bluetooth headset user guide

The Bluetooth headset branded with HS-655+ or just Blackberry 655+ is a great and tiny thing. It supports Bluetooth 2.0 technology and has a good sound quality and distance range. There are lot of testing reports in the web, but no useful reference manual or user guide. The delivered one is one of the worst [...]