Enjoying iPhone Pictures
We have all seen and admired the ease at which we can store and manage photos in
iPhone. But there is so much more we can do with it. We need to be able to see the
photos and admire it and Apple gave us the right tools to do so. Here are some ways
in which you can handle the collection of photos you have.
Viewing pictures: Flick left, flick right, flick left again and continue flicking. That�s
how easy it is to view the next or the previous picture in your collection. You could
also use the left and right arrows at the bottom to do this.
Landscape view or portrait view: This is iPhone at its best! Do you know how an
accelerometer works? Open a photo and tilt your iPhone sideways you see that in
action. You can orient the picture to view a landscape view or a portrait view just by
turning the iPhone sideways. That�s a lot of fun!
Zooming: You can double tap to make an image larger and double tap it again to
make it smaller. Another way of doing it is by pinching to make the image smaller
and un-pinching it to make the image larger.
Panning: You can just drag your finger across the surface of the iPhone to pan across
a picture. This is something that you will really enjoy when you want to see a part of
a picture in detail.
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Timesaving map tools
If you have used the maps application in iPhone, you know that this is a really useful application. You end up using this application over and over to find the nearby Mickey D�s or the route to the amusement park iPhone has some features that will easily let you save searched locations that make your life easy. There are three main features that are of use here:
� Bookmarks: The bookmarks here work the same way as it does in any web browser. To use this feature you need to tap on the little �>� that is available on the top right corner of a space you have searched. This provides more info on the selected search location. Here just tap the �Add to bookmarks� button. The searched location is added to your bookmarks. A bookmark once stored can be recalled by tapping on the bookmarks button at the bottom of the screen and selecting the bookmark you want to search.
� Recent: Every search you made are stored in a �Recents� list. You can access this list by going to �Bookmarks > Recents�. Here just tap on the item name to open that search in the maps application.
� Contacts: You can store the location of a contact in your iPhone. To view that contact�s location, you just need to tap �Bookmarks� and then tap �Contacts� in the maps application. Here you just select a contact to view the location.
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Few more tricks on typing faster
So it has been a tough time typing on the nasty iPhone keyboard. You might have read
articles on this website about how to use the keyboard in the iPhone more efficiently.
Here are a few advanted tips and tricks about your iPhone.
If you understand how the iPhone is managing your keyboard you will be amazed at the
technology used to make your life easy. Apple knows pretty well that your fingertips are
bigger than the keys they have provided. If you saw the size of the keys and started
typing with only the skinny tip of your finger, you will notice that it gets really hard to
type. What you should actually be doing is to use the whole pad of your fingertip. You
should notice that the accuracy of typing actually does not change if you use a larger
portion of your finger to �tap� the keys.
This is done using a very intelligent algorithm in the iPhone keypad. The areas allocated
for the keypad are dynamic. This means that the white key portion is not the only area
that is allocated to sense your key taps. The area spreads around to get adjusted to the
way you use the keypad. A larger area is allocated to the keys you use more often.
There is a lot of intelligence behind the Apple iPhone keypad. You should know these
well to get the maximum out of your iPhone.
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Hunting YouTube videos
iPhone has an integrated YouTube application that lets you view videos directly
without bothering to go through safari. Here are some ways you can search for
videos on YouTube from among the millions of videos that are available. These
ofcourse are more of YouTube features but made more easily accessible by iPhone.
Featured: These are videos that are recommended by the YouTube staff.
Most viewed: This contains a list of the most popular videos seen on YouTube. Tap
this and you can see the list of YouTube blockbusters. You can sort them by current
day, current month or all time to check the videos in vogue.
Bookmarks: When you come across a video that you like, bookmark them. You will
be able to access all your bookmarked videos just by a tap if you do so.
Search: Select the search field on your iPhone and type in the name you want to
search for using the virtual keyboard. This is perhaps the best method to search for
videos on YouTube.
More: This only displays other buttons that were not fitting on the iPhone screen.
Most Recent: This displays a list of videos that were added recently.
Top Rated: YouTubers choice. This lists videos that are rated best by YouTubers.
History: Videos that you have recently viewed.
As the YouTube application can only display four buttons at a time you can select the
edit button (first tap more) the then just rearrange them as you like to use it.
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Getting crazy with ringtones
One of the first things people do when they buy a new shiny cell phone is try
different ringtones. iPhone after all is a cell phone too! You should play around with
the ringtones that are available on this. Here is how you access the ringtones that
are built into your iPhone.
1. Go to your home screen by pressing the home button
2. Here tap settings to go to the iPhone settings.
3. In the settings panel tap sounds to get a list of available ringtones
4. Tap a ringtone to access the available ringtones.
5. You can scroll among the available ringtones by flicking your finger up and
down the list.
6. In the list you can select a ringtone to hear the sound of it.
7. The ringtone you just played will be the ringtone that was selected. If you
don�t like the current selection make a different selection.
You can also assign specific ringtones to callers by selecting the caller, and then tap
assign ringtone. You will now come back to the same ringtone list you saw a few
minutes ago. Choose the ringtone that you wish to assign to the user.
To add new ringtones you will have to buy new ringtones from the internet and add
them to your iPhone. Currently there is no method to save new ringtones into your
iPhone from iTunes.
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Creating playlists on iPhone
There are two grand ways of creating playlists on your iPhone: the iTunes way and
the iPod way. Of course you can create a playlist in iTunes and then just sync it with
your iPhone. But when you are roaming around, you do not have resources to
actually plug in to a computer and create a playlist and then upload it onto your
iPhone. Do you? In suck a situation you would create an “On-the-go” playlist. We’ll
tell you how to do it.
1. First tap the iPod icon. If you don’t know where to locate it yet, it is in the
bottom right corner of the home screen.
2. Here you will find a playlists icon at the bottom of the screen. Tap it and you
will enter the playlist edit mode.
3. In the playlist edit mode, tap the first item – “On the go”.
4. Now you will get an alphabetical listing of all the songs that are available on
your iPod. To the right of each song is a little “+”.
5. Tap the “+” sign to add the song to the “On the go” playlist.
6. Once you have all the songs you want in the playist, tap the “Done” button on
the top right corner.
The good thing about an “On the go” playlist is that it gets saved on your system
when you sync it using iTunes.
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Sleep to the sound of music
No, we are not saying that the movie puts you to sleep. We are talking about that
blissful sleep you get when you are listening so some of those oldies. To make this
sleep more blissful Apple has provided a way to turn off the songs once you are
asleep. All you have to do is use the sleep timer. Here is how you do it.
1. In your home screen locate and tap the clock button.
2. Now in the lower right corner find the timer icon and tap it
3. In the timer, set the number of hours and minutes you want the iPhone to
play. Once you have set the time tap the “When Timer Ends” button.
4. Now, specify what has to be done when the timer ends. In our case tap the
“Sleep iPod” button.
5. Tap the set button in the top right corner. You are all done now. All you have
to do is start the timer and sleep.
6. Finally tap the “Start” button. This is not hard to find, it is the big green one
right in the center.
Now your iPhone will play for a while and once the timer ends the iPod will go to
sleep.
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Geotagging
Sounds like a fancy word doesn’t it? If you start talking to a geek (iPhone really is very
geek friendly) about a GPS system and a camera, then they might start talking about
geotagging. So its time you understood what geotagging really is.
You might have seen the little time stamp on the photos you take with your iPhone. This
is a rather simple application. The iPhone uses the inbuilt clock to embed the time at
which the photo was snapped into the photo. Now considering the fact that your iPhone
has an inbuilt GPS along with the camera, wouldn’t it be nice if it could store the location
at which the photo was taken along with the time at which the photo?
This is what geotagging does. It embeds an invisible value for the latitude and longitude
at which you were when you snapped a photo into the photo that was taken. Your iPhone
can tag almost every photo you take. With this you will add more value to every single
picture you take from your iPhone. With this you can arrange your pictures by
chronology or by location. iPhone really makes things nice and easy. Next time you take
a photo talk to your geeky friends about the geotag embedded in it.
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Visual voicemail
With iPhone you have the special option of actually looking at your voicemails.
Previously you had to call in the voicemail number and enter your password and then
make a bunch of selections and then continue with several other selections after you are
done listening to the voice mail. This entire process is made very user friendly with the
Apple iPhone. You can view the voice messages as if they were text messages by
avoiding all the dialing and the key strokes.
When you get a voice mail it is listed among all the existing voice mails. These voice
mails can be identified by the number you have stored in your contacts list. If a number is
not stored in your contacts list the number is displayed instead of the name.
When you listen to a voicemail, you will have the option of either calling back or deleting
it. This avoids several seconds of listening to the automated voice saying ‘to save this
message press pound, to delete this message press 9′.
You can even scroll through your message using a slider on the screen. If you didn’t
catch what the person who left you a message said, you could just slide back to the point
you want to listen to again.
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Using volume preferences on iPhone
There are some settings that will make your time with the iPod in your iPhone a
pleasant experience. Firstly let us start with the basics: the volume settings.
Ever had that problem where the volume of one song is very less compared to the
other? You play a song that has a low volume and a song right after that just blasts
out of the earphones making you shuffle your pockets for that mp3 player? iTunes
has a setting to prevent this from happening. You can tell iTunes to play all songs at
the same volume level. Here’s how you do that:
* Choose iTunes > preferences (Mac) or Edit > Preferences (PC)
* Click the playback tab
* Select the sound check box to enable it.
Once you have the settings set on iTunes, you can tell your iPhone to use the
settings used by iTunes. Here’s how you do that:
* Go to the home screen on your iPhone
* Tap settings
* Tap iPod
* Now tap sound check to turn the feature on.
Once you have these features set, you can listen to your songs comfortably without
changing the volume during playback.
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