Making the Most of Your iPhone

Making the Most of Your iPhone

The iPhone literally has it all - phone, Internet access, games, music, and a built-in digital camera. Playing around with the iPhone is so much fun - who cares if you have to wait in line at the post office? Once you’ve learned the basics, here are a few tricks to get even more from your iPhone:

Get more in less space – setting the font to the smallest size lets you read more of a story or email in the screen. This makes checking email a faster process. But if you find it hard to see, just increase the font size for more comfortable reading. What’s great is that you can adjust the font to your personal preferences.

Add to spell check – To make you look good, iPhone flags a word that it thinks is misspelled. Sometimes it’s a business related word or just a slang word, but it’s not an error. To “teach” your iPhone a new word, press 3 times to cancel the correction and the word will become part of your iPhone dictionary!

Speed up scrolling – The touch-sensitive screen makes scrolling really easy. Sometimes you get to the bottom of an Internet article and want to start again. Instead of scrolling, just tap once at the top of the iPhone screen. That tap takes you right back to the beginning in the same way that you can quickly get to the top using your computer keyboard.

Take a closer look – The iPhone has a magnifying glass that lets you zoom in on a section of words. Tapping and holding brings up the magnifying glass. Focusing on the area you’re editing makes it easier to focus on this smaller screen.

Bring on the videos – The iPhone offers the option to watch videos but they have to be in the right format. YouTube is cozy with Apple, so the videos posted work well on the iPhone.

Over 10,000 YouTube videos already have the H264 encoding, so there’s plenty of choices. If you want to watch any other videos, you may have to get the format adapted to your iPhone first.

Get a designer theme – After spending all that money on an iPhone, you certainly don’t want yours to have the same theme as someone else has. Why not download free iPhone themes directly into the phone? Download the “Hack Toolkit” to get into the iPhone and change themes. Several Internet sites offer these themes.

Can the Spam – By adding a Yahoo mail link in bookmarks you can use the “delete all” function to dump a pile of junk. That’s faster than deleting them one at a time.

iPhone enthusiasts are always sharing their personal techniques on how they maximize their interaction with their high-tech gadget. In a society where shortcuts are highly revered, this cell caters to your cravings for more time.

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