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 …
Category Archives: Built in features
Quick Tip: See the Web address before going there
When in the iPhone / Touch Web browser (Safari) and are viewing a Web site. You will have the usual links to other sites appear just like on your desktop browser. Normally you tap a link and are taken to another page or site. Before making a jump from a tap on a link that …
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Quick Tip: Moving through your Contacts
When looking for a name in the Contacts (Phone) list. You can go to the top of the list and Search, you can sweep your finger up/down the screen to scroll, or you can tap a letter on the right to jump to that letter group of names. I must have too big of fingers, …
Application Settings
You have installed a couple applications and now want to personalize them. But, unlike your desktop computer, there isn’t a pull down menu to get to your Preferences for each application. Many iPhone and Touch applications do in fact have some Settings you can adjust. For example, Facebook let’s you adjust your ‘shake to reload’ …
Tap tap – what a double tap gets you
Safari – when viewing a Web site with multiple columns of text, double taping on one will zoom in so it is larger and just that column shows on the screen. Keyboard Caps – the ‘shift’ key that normally capitalizes the next letter can be locked on by double tapping it. The key will turn …