iPhone Noob

iPod Touch Tips

2008-08-28T12:19:00.001-07:00

I made this info for my friend but I thought I'd post it here as well.

iPod Touch Info

Must Have

- Google

- Pandora (streaming music)

- 1337pwn (xbox live friends status, send messages through too)

- Facebook

- MySpace

- AIM

- Banner Free (scrolling ticker displays what you want)

- Remote (control your iTunes)

- Freebird (a lighter for concerts)

- Cannon Game (Cool NLOS tank game)

- myLite (flashlight with cool presets)

Optional

- Evernote (best used on iPhone)

- Ping.fm (streaming music)

- Where (find stuff near you, restaurants, zipcars, starbucks...)

- NBC Traffic Camera (best in bigger cities)

- Twitterific (twitter app)

- Pownce (pownce app)

- Simplify (stream your music from iTunes to your iPod, works best on iPhone)

- Kaleidoscope

- Audi A4 (driving game)

- Subway Lite (puzzle game)

- Last.fm (streaming music)

Misc.

How to take a picture of your screen (screen capture)

- Hold the Home button and press the Hold button once. The screen will flash white and the picture will be saved in your Photos. You can email them to get them off.

To move icons to different screens, press and hold on any icon. They will all start to wiggle, now you can drag them and rearrange them.

To add bookmarks to your home page, when you are surfing and you want to bookmark a page, click the "+" icon and instead of just clicking Add Bookmark, click Add to Home Screen. Rearrange as needed.

Check iTunes daily under the All Free Apps as they are updated frequently.

Great links for more info:

- http://www.ilounge.com/

- http://www.iphonenoob.blogspot.com/

- http://fingergaming.com/

- http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/

- http://gizmodo.com/5023924/iphone-app-review-marathon-liveblog

Tips:

- Bring charger to work (its just a USB cable)

- Set brightness to halfway (it's pretty bright already)

- At night... either charge it, turn it off, or turn off wifi, sometimes it can get quite dead.

Font and Color Test

2008-07-25T08:08:00.000-07:00

What

Where

How

Why

When

Who

Booya Matt

Font Test

2008-07-25T07:56:00.000-07:00

This is a test of the font.

Normal

Large

Largest

mobileME Tip - Contacts/Calendar Sync

2008-07-24T13:20:00.001-07:00

Welp, you have heard the news mobileMe.. not so hot.
As of right now everything in my mobileMe is up and running, but it did not come without glitches.
One sunny day coming home from work I wanted to call a friend. Slide to unlock, phone, contacts... GONE! VANISHED!
So today I want to share a tip I have shared in Apple Discussions which has helped at least 5 people. You know of the millions of mobileME users. Well, there were millions...
If you find your phone not syncing or syncing a few contacts or publishing only a fraction of your calendar events try this.

Delete your MobileMe (or .mac) account. (don't worry it will come back)

Add an account using MobileME settings. Set it all up.

Verify your Push setting is now on.

Restart your phone.
(No Photo of this one)

Open your contacts

And just wait for a few minutes. Not seconds, even if they appear, wait.

For several people this solved the problem of both the calendar and contacts. There is another trick you can do that is talked about at the end of this apple thread.

Note: You have to be sign up for mobileMe, use the push feature on your Mac/PC and iPhone in order for this post to be of any use.

As the dust settles...

2008-07-17T09:23:00.001-07:00

Just wrote a post on MacNoob

"...Well, it looks like that the iPhone has landed and the dust is just settling. Many people waited in line for hours, some got in and out and were talking in minutes, and others got no iPhone at all..."

iTrapped

2008-07-17T09:22:00.001-07:00

[source]

iPhone what?

2008-07-11T09:22:00.001-07:00

I found this on MacRumors as someone's forum signature. This doesn't make sense (though I know what he's trying to say).

Last time I checked, there's no such thing as an iPhone 2G Nice try, but fail.

You obviously don't know what 3G is and/or means.

Heads will roll...

2008-07-11T09:22:00.000-07:00

[source]

iPhone Day!

2008-07-11T09:21:00.000-07:00

What is today? You know what today is. Cmon, act right.

iPhone Launch Day!

Why is today not a good day? I'm not in line. I'm not going to be in line. I'm not getting one. Though it's not for lack of wanting.

Oh, before I forget, for those of you with the new iPhone, check out this link for some cool free apps. They look really useful too.

[what's good and free in the apple app store]

iPhone 3G Unboxing from theappleofmyi on Vimeo.

I thought I'd throw in an unboxing for those of you who won't get to do one yourself!

My first thought about the iPhone 3G, when it was official, was that I didn't know what I thought about it being black or white plastic.

Apple just worked to redesign the iMac from white plastic to metal and glass. Oh, and before that, the iPods were only white, then were white and black, now are silver and black.

Whhhhaaaa!?!?!!???

Yeah. They kind of back pedaled on this one.

ALTHOUGH...

I think I know why. If you know anything about the iPhone, the first gen and the second gen are very different in price.

My guess is that the only way Apple could lower the price so much was to use less expensive material. See, I didn't say cheap.

Oh well, maybe I'm just looking to far into it.

I hope I get one, but who knows... I'm also in a contest to win one and hopefully i'll know by today, but I'll update you when I find out.