Wallpaper!!

   Yes, you can change the opening Wallpaper image on your iPhone/Touch.

It can be any image in your photo app, ones you have taken or added from your desktop. Also, it doesn’t have to be the full image, you can zoom in and use just a part of the picture.

 

I have a picture of my pup I took with my iPhone that included her on a big towel. What you see when you turn on my iPhone is just her Bichon smiling face.

 

You can not change the black background to the windows that have you application icons… I’m sure that feature is coming. For now it is just the screen that shows with the Time, Date and ‘Slide to Unlock’ when you first tap the Home button to wake your iPhone.

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Before you buy apps – How do you want to use your iPhone?

You will find in every app review and How To guide will first explain if the app is a stand alone or sharing application.

 

You should think through what you would like your iPhone to be to you prior to making application purchases. When we say ‘stand alone’ or ‘sharing’ we are talking about the data you input into the aftermarket application you spent your money on. 

 

Will you need to share information with others at work, in your household, in meetings? If you are creating or editing a document (text file, database, spreadsheet, calendar, ToDos, etc…) is it helpful to be able to share that item with others for their use and review.

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Installing applications – Tips you may not know

  We wont go very far into buying and installing applications on your iPhone and Touch. Apple encourages this activity so they make it VERY easy. From iTunes, select the iTunes Store option along the left side. One of the options you will have is “App Store”. Clicking on this option give you a whole area of applications that will do about anything you can image… about.

 

Free and for pay options arranged into Business, Entertainment, Finance, Games, Photography, Healthcare, and many more…

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Picture taking… Tall or Wide pictures

The built in camera – 

The screen button works like the keyboard in that it takes it’s picture when you release the button – not when you press it. You can launch the camera app, hold the software button down with your finger, hold your arm out to get just the right picture and release your finger. Great when you want to take a picture with yourself in it… no hunting around for the button.

Another feature is that the iPhone can take portrait (tall) and landscape (wide) pictures. Hold the phone tall and it takes narrow/tall pictures.

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An ‘X’ appears next to an icon – Deleting Applications

If you just noticed a little ‘x’ appear next to your application icons, it is because you are in the mode where you can move icons around. When in this mode, you can also delete applications.

 

Tapping the ‘x’ will bring up a window offing you to delete the app or to not (in case you accidentally clicked on the wrong application ‘x’). If you choose to ‘delete’ the application, it is still on your desktop computer so you can always reinstall. Many apps will loose any info you had entered into that application when you delete though. 

 

After removing an app, you will still be in the mode to move icons or delete other applications. You need to click the button on the front of your iPhone (the Home Button) to return to the normal usage mode.