Treat your ‘built-in’ battery with respect

After the post on how to get maximum usable hours out of your iPhone through Settings tweaks, emails started coming in asking about if there is anything can be done to make the battery last. Since the battery is ‘built in’, iPhones and Touch devices have to be returned to Apple for battery replacements. Apple …

Add on hardware to max out your usage time

In a previous post we discussed how to adjust your iPhone to go longer between charges. If your like me and like to watch movies on long plane flights then expect to call, email, and use maps for hours after you land – you may need to be able to carry a bit of extra …

Keep things running longer, everyday

You may have noticed right off with your iPhone that you can not pull the battery out and put in another fully charged one. Apple chose to seal the battery inside like they have done on all of the iPod line. There are a few fine tuning tips you can do to get more hours …

Keyboards, tall and wide

Throughout the iPhone and Touch system you use a keyboard since the OS doesn’t support handwriting recognition. Holding the device the ‘tall’ normal way (called Portrait), you have a narrow keyboard to use so you have room above it to see what you are working on. When you turn the handheld on it’s side (Landscape) you …

A Stylus Pen that works on the iPhone and Touch

The beauty of the touch screen and layout of the iPhone / Touch has been that you can do what you need to with great success, just using your finger. The technology doesn’t see a pointed object touching the screen like a Palm or other touch screens do, it actually sees the conductance of your …