18 Useful iPhone Tips

Tips for your iPhone

1. To reset your iPhone, hold down the right button and the "home"
front button for about 7 seconds. To power it back on, push the top
button. Resetting is different than a normal shutdown, which can be
done easily by holding the sleep/wake button for 7 seconds.
2. If you want to go from the alpha to the non-alpha keyboard
quickly, hold down the punctuation key and slide to the character you
want to use and then release.
3. To disable an incoming call from ringing, press the sleep/wake
button. If you want to send the call immediately to voice mail, press
the sleep/wake button twice.
4. For a quick 'page down', double-tap towards the bottom of the
screen and the page will re-center around your tap. Make sure not to
tap a link and you are not in 'zoom-in.'
5. Do you write a lot? When the iPhone flags a word as misspelled
that you know is not misspelled, cancel the correction 3 times and the
word will be put into the dictionary.
6. Do you want to move icons around? You can do this, but not on
the home screen. Go to the iPod section (or phone section) > More >
Edit and reposition your icons.
7. Save time scrolling when online - you tap once at the very top
of the screen and it will take you back to the top of the window
rather than having to scroll all the way back up.
8. Read more in the Internet window by setting the font to the
smallest size. When you want to click a link, you can expand (pinch)
that area and the link will come up very large, making it much easier
to click.
9. To zoom onto a specific picture, double-tap the image and Safari
will zoom it to fit your iPhone display. If the picture is linked to a
URL, you may not want to do this as you will be taken to the page
linked from the image. Double-tap again to return to the unzoomed
display.
10. To use the CAPS LOCK feature, first enable it in 'general
settings.' And then double-tap on the shift key which will turn blue.
11. Wanting to find out where you are? Type in the three letter
airport code, in maps, and you will be taken to that airport on the
map. Zoom out and you will see the surrounding area. This works with
all major airports in the United States and many overseas airports as
well.
12. When book marking websites, post the equivalent RSS address
rather than posting the full address of internet sites and save that
as your bookmark. This way you can quickly see if there's anything
interesting on your favorite site rather than downloading the whole
homepage.
13. To zoom onto a text column, double-tap on the column to fit it
to the display. Double-tap again to return out of the zoom. Not only
does Safari zoom block-quoted text independently of regular text but
if you move your finger after the first double-tap-to-fit, it
interprets the next double-tap as a re-center page command rather than
a return-to-previous-zoom.
14. A short cut to delete email is to swipe left to right on the
email in the list and press the delete button that pops up on the
right side.
15. When you want to send an email, tap on the address bar and the
Share button on the top left will create a message for you.
16. When you are typing an email or any other text, use the
magnifying glass. If you tap once and hold, a magnifying glass will
pop up showing you a zoomed in view of your words and cursor.
17. Select a photo for a contact from the iPhone and the selected
photo will show up for the caller ID.
18. If a contact's photo is transferred with the contact's info from
the address book, the contact's photo is shown as a thumbnail for the
caller ID.

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:5ee3a939-0c53-41c7-ae18-
00608d1c7a54@25g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:

> 11. Wanting to find out where you are? Type in the three letter
> airport code, in maps, and you will be taken to that airport on the
> map. Zoom out and you will see the surrounding area. This works with
> all major airports in the United States and many overseas airports as
> well.
>

Vic, is there any way to add more map repositories to iPhone's map app?

We've quite a collection on:
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=5209
&highlight=map+repositories

....to add to Maemo Mapper. I just added the AIRPORT FINDER repository to
my Maemo Mapper and when you select it, it put your position RIGHT DEAD
ON A CURRENT AERONAUTICAL CHART! This is better than the GPS units sold
for small aircraft!

What a cool thing for small aircraft pilots. Get the N800, Navigation
kit with the Nokia WAAS GPS Bluetooth receiver and the nice power suction
cup windscreen mount. Load Maemo Mapper and select AIRPORT FINDER for
its maps previously downloaded to its big SD memory cards. In flight,
realtime, direct chart plotter in a Cessna 150 or even an ultralight...
(c;

The waypoints and trails work with any repository so you can plot a
course and fly it right on the screen....

Look for AIRPORT FINDER on the list on the webpage.