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 …

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 …

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 …