Posts tagged iphone
How to delete an iPhone application
Aug 8th
Click the home button, flick to the page that has the icon of the application or bookmark that you want to remove, and then tap and hold for a second. The application icons will start to wiggle, but they’ll also have a button that is an X inside a circle in the upper left corner. Tap the X to uninstall the application.
Tricks with Safari on the iPhone
Aug 8th
If you click the time bar at the top of the screen, safari will quickly scroll to the top of the frame where the location field is, set the focus to the location field, and expose the search field as well.
Double-tapping in safari alternatively zooms into a block of text or zooms back to fit-width-to-page. Two-finger pinch-zoom works too, which can help in filling out forms (like google’s search box).
iPhone’s iPod Time Scrubber
Jul 27th
In iTunes, while holding the iPhone in portrait mode, tap the middle of the album art. A time-scrubber widget will show up right below the song title, allowing you to jump to a certain point in the current song.
This is really handy for audiobooks and podcasts, but the longer the song/podcast, the less precise the 1-inch scrubber is.
I wonder why they gave up on the scrollwheel?
Update August 2009:
Apple addressed the problem with precision in the scrubber in the iPhone 3.0 system update.
Once you see the scrubber, touch and hold your finger on the scrubber, and move your finger down the screen — the farther away from the scrubber you hold your finger, the slower you will fast-forward or rewind. They also gave a “rewind 30 seconds” button that is niftiness, too. Well done!
“Backing up iPhone” taking forever? Reset iSync!
Jul 14th
Update 9/14/2008:
Backup speed was addressed in iPhone software version 2.1. Launch iTunes, dock your iPhone, and click “Check for Update”.
And now back to the original article:
I was surprised to see my brand-new iPhone 3G taking more than 15 minutes to synchronize with iTunes. It would get “stuck” in “Backing up iPhone…”
It looks like there are two reasons why the backup process takes longer — iTunes backing up newly-installed applications, and MobileMe/iSync database cruftiness. Expect sync’ing to take a while if you’ve installed new applications. If you haven’t installed new applications, you should try resetting the iSync database.
It’s pretty simple:
- Close iTunes.
- Start iSync
- Click iSync > Preferences.
- Click “Reset Sync History…
The next time you sync with iTunes, the “Backing up” step should be dramatically shorter.
Another interesting solution involves Vacuuming your syncdb. If you’ve got MacPorts installed, it’s easy:
sudo port install sqlite3 sqlite3 \ ~/Library/Application\ Support/SyncServices/Local/data.syncdb\ vacuum