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5 Tips for conserving iPhone battery life

July 2, 2009

The Apple Core, a ZDNet blog by Jason O’grady and David Morgenstern has a great tip this morning… if you have an iPhone, you can extend battery life using the following tips: Most of this is common sense, but the following are a couple of good iPhone battery conservation tips that will help you get [...]

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Update – iPhone 3G and 3Gs temperature issues

June 27, 2009

Apple put up a Knowledge Base post on June 25 re: keeping the iPhone 3G and 3Gs within correct operating temps. A synopsis follows: Use your iPhone where temperatures are between 0° and 35° C (32° to 95° F) ideally. Higher or lower temperatures may shorten battery life temporarily, or cause your iPhone to malfunction. [...]

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Use a shortcut to reach iPhone 3.0′s search screen

June 23, 2009

Unless you live under a boulder, you know that the new iPhone 3Gs and new iPhone/iTouch v.3.0 software were recently released. There are a lot of great new things you can do with each, and as I learn about them, tips will appear on this blog. Here’ the first, and it’s a good one, from [...]

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The 3Gs is OUT!

June 19, 2009

The iPhone 3Gs Debuts in the US It’s been a bit of a circus, with people standing in long lines all over the country. Here in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Apple Store had lots of people waiting but sales were orderly. You can see a slideshow here. I had an interesting time with [...]

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16 Tips to Become an INSTANT iPhone OS 3.0 Power-User

June 17, 2009

This article from MacLife will be a good read while you wait for the Activation Server to become available. 1. Select and Delete Deleting on the iPhone has always been lacking in elegance. Now you can tap and hold the delete key to show the Select|Select All popup. Now you can select what you want [...]

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iPhone software 3.0 is here

June 17, 2009

I was out at a client’s office this morning at 10 am PDT when iPhone 3.0 was released. Got home a little while ago and am installing it now. The process is similar to the 2.0 install. A backup of your iPhone is suggested, and will make very good sense… just in case! Plug the [...]

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iPhone 3G Overheat Warning

May 20, 2009

iPhones don’t like too much heat Electronics don’t like heat. We all know that, but I’d not heard about iPhones having any issues with overheating, until I heard about an individual who left their iPhone in the sun in the tropics. Not a good idea… I learned that when I left a plastic Kodak camera [...]

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Talking Email Keyboard lets you drive and email!?

March 24, 2009

Not sure this is a good idea, but if you are on handsfree, you can use this new app from G.P.Imports lets you “type while on the road”. Really. That’s a direct quote from the App Store listing for Talking Email Keyboard. It makes sense for people who have difficulty with the iPhone keyboard, or [...]

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Get some space back from iTunes

March 24, 2009

Rob Griffiths at Macworld.com published an article today that made my jaw drop. Why didn’t I think of that? Here’s a great way to get some precious megabytes back, if you are short of storage space, from your iTunes installation. Updates that never die iTunes downloads and installs software updates for iPods and iPhones connected [...]

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iPhones/iPods as Translators

March 22, 2009

Police and U.S. Military have been using iPhones and iPods as translators for a while now. We can too! There are several apps available, such as the Collins Pro Spanish-English Translation Dictionary. Check the iTunes App Store for translation apps for the language you need. Some will be easier to use, and some will have [...]

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