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iPhone Battery Woes
Troubleshooting a battery-sucking iPhone 4s [via Daring Fireball]
I wish that I had known about “Settings → General → About → Diagnostic & Usage → Diagnostic & Usage Data” before. My iPhone 3GS battery would drain quickly on road trips to my best customer. My “solution” was to delete and then add my Exchange email, calendar and contacts. I might have found something useful if I had known where to look.
iPhone Newbie - Scroll to Top
Scroll to the top of scrollable content by tapping the status bar at the iPhone display (status bar shown below).
Courtesy of 10 useful iPhone tips and Tricks
My complete list of iPhone usage tips.
iPhone Newbie - Display Song Lyrics
All idioms are learned; good idioms are only learned once.
— Alan Cooper
Display song lyrics on your iPhone by touching the cover art while the song is playing.
Which raises the question of how to populate lyrics data: use Needle Drop to cycle through songs in iTunes and Harmonic or GimmeSomeTune to retrieve and store the lyrics of the current song.
My complete list of iPhone usage tips is maintained in a TiddlyWiki.
Previously:
- iPhone Newbie: ScreenShot and Lists 19 July 2009
- iPhone Newbie 5 July, 2009
iPhone Newbie - ScreenShot and Lists
All idioms are learned; good idioms are only learned once.
— Alan Cooper
It seems obvious once you know it, but it took me a while to remove Cupertino, CA from my list of cities in the Weather app. Click on the thumbnails below to view larger images.
- Take a iPhone ScreenShot by selecting the home and sleep buttons simultaneously.
- Reorder items in a TableView control by touching the grab bars on the right (circled in red) and sliding up or down.
- Delete items in a TableView control by selecting the red circle with a horizontal bar. The circle will rotate and a Delete button will appear on the right.
My complete list of iPhone usage tips is maintained in a TiddlyWiki.
Previously:
- iPhone Newbie 5 July, 2009
Prowl for iPhone
If you’re a techie with an iPhone, then you need to get Prowl. Ostensibly a client allowing Growl to push notifications to your desktop to your iPhone, the 3rd party API allows push notifications from any computer connected to the internet.
I’ve been too cheap for SMS, but a one time investment of $2.99 in Prowl fits into anyone’s budget. Now I just need Zac West to make enough money to keep the server going.
iPhone Newbie
All idioms are learned; good idioms are only learned once.
— Alan Cooper
That’s the goal anyway. And it helps to have a photographic memory. My memory is more along the lines of finger painting, so I like to keep notes online:
- Make a ringtone from a DRM free song in iTunes.
- Hold down on an applications until the icons start wriggling to arrange application icons.
I’ll be keeping my complete list of iPhone usage tips in a TiddlyWiki.