Awesome Techs

General Tips:

• If you’re scrolling through a long document/page in an application – if you tap the bar at the top of your screen containing the time and battery, the application will automatically scroll up to the top of the document/page.
• To take a screenshot of any screen of your iPod (including the lock screen), hold the power and home buttons and release them. A white flash will appear on screen and a screenshot will appear in your Photos application.
• If your iPod is frozen and will not respond, you can force reboot by holding the power and home buttons until your device turns off. Please note that this is not recommended and is the equivalent of pulling the cord out of your computer to turn it off.
• Need a spare cleaning cloth for your touch, or an extra cloth to rest your iPod touch on while at work or school? Just go to your local vision care store (or pharmacy) and get an eyeglass/sunglass “cleaning cloth”. Cheap and works great!
• If you wish to change your device’s root SFTP password, open Terminal and type ‘passwd’. You will then be prompted to change your password.

Tips and Tricks Regarding Media

• Double tapping the home button in any application, or with the screen off will bring up the music controls.
• When watching a video, tap to bring up the onscreen controls. When you are done watching a video make sure you press done so your progress will be saved.
• When listening to an audiobook, iTunes and your iPod create a new chapter list unrelated to the subject of the book. It’s accessible using the same control used for viewing audio tracks (upper right of screen).
• When playing media, press and hold the forward button to incrementally increase the speed of playback. When the media is paused, holding the fast forward button will make the media play slower.
• When listening to music, double tap the album artwork to have it flip over. You can then view the tracklisting of the album.
• If you pull your headphones out of the socket, any currently playing media will pause.
• If you would like to view the lyrics of a song (if you’ve added lyrics), by tapping the album art on the Now Playing screen.

Tips and Tricks Regarding Battery

• Turn off WiFi to save battery power when not in use.
• JB ONLY: Turn off SSH via SBSettings.
• Make sure to completely close apps when you are done with them to save battery power. This is accomplished by pressing and holding the home button for approximately five seconds. This boosts battery life big time if you run lots of different apps all the time.
• You can charge your iPod Touch from any fully powered USB 2.0 port. A PS2 does not have a fully powered USB 2.0 port. Ports that will work include a computer, printer, or a media centre. The device does not have to have iTunes installed to provide power to your iPod Touch.
• To improve battery life, turn down brightness through the Settings application.

Home Screen Tips and Tricks

• If you would like to rearrange your Home Screen icons, tap and hold an icon until they all start to wiggle. Drag the icons around to rearrange them, and when it is satisfactory, press the home button.
• Websites without an icon will just be a screenshot for webclips, for websites like this zoom into an area of the site you would like the webclip icon to look like… ex. zoom into the website logo and that will be the webclip icon.
• Press the home button while on the home screen, and it will return to the initial home screen.
• Instead of sliding across the page, tapping imediately left or right of the page dots on the Home Screen and Weather will move to the next page.

THEMES: JAILBREAK ONLY

• If you want to set a picture as a permanent background (and not only in the “wake” screen) Set the picture as a background in settings or directly from the picture gallery. Then, open Winterboard and tap User Wallpaper.

Tips and Tricks for Keyboard

• When typing a lot of text in Safari turn it to horizontal view. The keyboard will be bigger and you can get a better grip of the Touch while typing with two thumbs.
• When typing, if you press the space bar twice after a word it will insert a period and another space.
• When using the keyboard, if you hold the delete key down for about 3 seconds it will change from deleting letters to deleting words.
• Holding down letters on the keyboard will pop up the accents/symbols associated with those letters. Once it pops up, slide your finger over to the accent/symbol you like.
• When typing if you want to add something from the numbers keyboard just hold down the numbers and slide your finger to the number or symbol you want, and release. It will take you back to your letters keyboard. This way you dont have to tap numbers, tap your number, then tap numbers again to go back. This also applies for using the ‘shift’ key to apply capital letters.
• Make a spelling mistake? Press and hold the word you spelt wrong and a magnifying glass will appear. Slide your finger back and forwth to move the cursor.

Tips and Tricks for Safari Browser

• When in Safari, if you are presented with a link, hold your finger over the link, and a bubble will appear showing the URL that the link is tied to.
• In Safari since you can’t open links in a new windows, you can open a new page, tap the bookmarks icon, tap the history folder and direct yourself to the last page you were just on and tap the link from there. You can also use a javascript bookmarklet called Tabulate.
• When you’re on a website that has a frame or an iframe with scrollbars in it, use two fingers on that frame to scroll that window and back to a single finger to scroll the whole page.
• If you would like to save an image from the web, simply tap and hold the image to save it.
• In Safari double tap to zoom in or out. You can also “pinch” (putting your thumb and index finger on the screen and pinching in and out) to zoom in Safari, Maps, and in Pictures.

Misc Tips and Tricks

• Whilst in Mail’s inbox view, sliding your finger from left to right on a message the ‘delete’ button will appear. This also applies in the list view of the Videos application. You can also delete Mail in bulk by tapping ‘edit’ and selecting the Mail you want to have deleted.

• In Google Maps, double tapping zooms in as expected, but single tapping with two fingers zooms out.

• The ‘Notes’ application is an easy way to draft mail. The ‘mail’ icon provides a link to iPhone’s Mail and saved contacts.

• To use a scientific calculator, simply enter the Calculator application, and turn the device sideways.

Credits: Google

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analyst Robert Chen commented about the features that the new iPhone may have. He said,

“Apple’s going to put a lot of innovation, not just on the hardware, but also on the software of the new iPhone.”

Apple Inc. is likely to have a new iPhone available in June with a better camera and possibly a touch-sensitive back. these updates have been long expected and this will be a good reason for iPhone to compete with the features of other equivalent smartphones. The main updates may be a 5 MegaPixel camera and touch sensitive casing similar to that of Magic Mouse. this magic mouse feature replaces the need foe clicking buttons. Also there may be an update to the iPhone firmware.

If you are having this, don’t just freak out. More more users are experiencing these  problems. actually apples support forums are filled with queries regarding this nowadays.

The posts report that – in most cases – iTunes 9 for Windows will recognize the iPhone, but when a sync is attempted, users are greeted with a cryptic “error 0xE8000065″ – an iPhone-connection failure notification.

“Although the reported configurations that are unable to sync iPhones with iTunes for Windows are many and varied, they have one thing in common: Intel’s new P55 Express chipset.”

The register said about this.

Either Apple or microsoft have to do something. As per the register reports, microsoft has already took a step and currently they are investigating the issue, whether this has something to deal with Windows 7.

T03 has managed to grab a few pictures of the upcoming Zune HD before they are officially posted, sometime soon in company of a juicy announcement. There’s nothing too major in the leaked gallery, except for the unveiling of a black color option for the device. the silver one is already been there in the internet, but now it appears that the portable media player will come in black as well.

As per Microsoft, the Zune HD is a multitouch device with a 16:9 OLED screen, Web browser, HD radio support, and full support for 720p video though its HDMI out port. Also the device would be powered by Nvidia’s Tegra.

In terms of information that is yet to be revealed, the device is rumored to be arriving next month in 16GB and 32GB flavors. A third, 64GB version, may follow sometime after. The base model is rumored to be priced somewhere between $249 and $280. The upcoming announcement should shed some light on what Microsoft is planning.

You can see more Pics Here : http://t03.us/2009/08/new-zune-hd-pictures-surface/

WHEN AN 11 YEAR-OLD GIRL’S Ipod exploded, Jobs Mob sent her family a letter threatening legal action if they blabbed about the incident.

Stanborough (the schoolgirls father) told the Times,

Ken Stanborough from Liverpool accidentally dropped his daughter Ellie’s Ipod. The device started hissing and overheating rapidly, so he threw it into the garden where it exploded with a pop and jumped 10 feet into the air.

According to INQUIRER Newsdesk,

Naturally enough, Stanborough contacted retailer Argos where he’d bought the music player, and Apple, to obtain a refund.

After a telephone conversation with Apple, the company sent Stanborough a letter denying liability but offering a refund, so far so standard procedure. But the letter also ordered the family to keep news of the settlement secret, otherwise Apple would seek damages and legal costs.

Stanborough has declined to sign the letter and Apple and Argos have yet to examine Ellie’s fiery Ipod.

Rumors are swirling about the new ipod touch to come with mic and camera. These are some of the most wanted features to the popular media player.

Wired news says:

A well-connected source tells us those rumors are on the money, and that Apple’s factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones. An Apple spokesman declined to comment when reached by phone.

If iPod Touches with cameras and microphones go on sale “in two to three months,” as our source expects them to (and which corresponds with our expected timeframe), they will transform the entertainment-oriented iPod Touch line into a voice communications tool wherever WiFi is available.

With the help of skype and wifi now this ipod can be theoretically turned to  a phone. Atleast this is a good news.