1000s iPhone Tips and Tricks (1-100)
Here the first 100 tips and tricks of the 1000 list, I have collected them from all over the internet to my own usage, but found it interesting to let you master them while I upload the next 100. Some of them work fine on the ipod touch, but not all tips are guaranteed to do so.
1.- How To Create A WebClip Icon For Your Site
This is a good tip for those of you who design web sites and applications geared toward the iPhone. Dan Dickinson posted instructions for creating the icon for your site that shows up on the springboard when someone creates a web clip for it.
Create a 57×57 PNG.
Name it “apple-touch-icon.png”
Throw it in the root folder of your website. (Not the root of your server ,the root of your web documents.)
You can also place the image in a link tag in the head of your document, like so:
You can get more info at the iPhone Dev Center under “Create a WebClip Bookmark Icon”.
2.- What to do if your iPhone gets wet
Whether the culprit is a sink, toilet or rainstorm, getting your iPhone soaked in water or any other liquid is bad news. If the unthinkable happens, and you don’t have insurance, your best bet is to make sure the iPhone is off, swap it down with a dry cloth, then do one of the following immediately:
Put your iPhone in a tub or bag of uncooked rice and let it sit for several hours (up to 2 days).
Place your iPhone in a plastic bag with a few silica packets.
Put your iPhone in a hearing aid dryer for several hours.
The point with all of these methods is to draw all moisture out of the phone as quickly as possible. Just air-drying the unit is an option, but won’t act as quickly as the aforementioned methods.
If none of these tactics prove effective, and your iPhone loses significant or all functionality, an Apple FAQ states that if you own an iPhone and it requires service for any reason other than the battery (which costs $86 total to replace), Apple will repair your iPhone for the service fee listed below, plus $6.95 for shipping and handling:
4GB: $199
8GB: $249
Presumably this includes liquid damage, though Apple states “Service may not be available if your iPhone has been damaged due to accident or abuse.”
We’ve received reports from some readers who had success having their liquid-damaged iPhones replaced free of charge by geniuses at the Apple Store, but don’t count on it. This type of replacement is likely only if it can be proven that the device was damaged during routine use.
3.- Set up Hotmail on the iPhone via Gmail
I know a few people who have had Hotmail address for a long time and don’t want to change. They also have bought iPhones and now have no way to use the built-in client on the iPhone to read mail. This solutions lets them read Hotmail on their iPhone. (Actually, the same setup can apply for Apple Mail, too.) One catch here is that your Hotmail account must support Forwarding. You can see it is does under the Hotmail Options.
Basically these instructions help you set up forwarding in Hotmail so that incoming messages are forwarded from Hotmail to a Gmail account. This also sets up Gmail and the iPhone to make replies and new messages look like they come from Hotmail. When complete, you can read, reply, and send messages in Gmail and the iPhone as if you were on Hotmail.
With this solution in place:
Email people send to your Hotmail address will be visible on your iPhone in the built-in iPhone Mail software.
If you reply to a message on the iPhone or in Gmail, to your recipients it will look like it came from your Hotmail address.
You can still check mail using Hotmail on the web if you like.
You can also log into Gmail and see your Hotmail messages there.
An added bonus is that you will benefit from Gmail’s junk mail filter, which is excellent.
Since Gmail supports IMAP, the iPhone and the Gmail mailbox is synced nicely as you read, delete and filter messages.
Note: While you can still read email on the Hotmail website as you currently do, there is an advantage to reading your Hotmail in your new Gmail account. The iPhone and the Gmail account will be synced — so for example, Gmail and the iPhone will keep track of which messages you have read on either device. If you get a message and read it on the iPhone, when you check your Gmail account it will also show as read. Were you to check your mail on Hotmail.com, messages you have already read on the iPhone will show as new.
The same goes for deleting messages. If you delete a message on the Gmail site, these will be deleted from the iPhone, too. The same is true for filters. You can set up filters on the Gmail site, and this filtering will by synced to the iPhone. None of this is synced with the mail you see on Hotmail.com. So basically, if you implement this, you are better off just checking and reading your Hotmail messages in Gmail, but its up to you.
In addition to these steps, you may need to do work to bring your Hotmail address book to Gmail. Gmail has some instructions to help with that.
Start with Gmail. Create a new Gmail account. Note that you could use an existing Gmail account for this solution. This has some tradeoffs, one being that messages you send from the iPhone appear to come from that Gmail account instead of your existing Hotmail account. If you just want to keep your Hotmail account intact and use that as your main account, I think it’s better for to create a new Gmail account and just use that for handling Hotmail.
Under Settings, go to Forwarding and POP/IMAP » Enable IMAP. Save the changes. Under Settings and then Accounts, add another email address — add your existing Hotmail account.
Now go to Hotmail. In your inbox, there should be a message from Gmail; you need to click on a link in that message. Next go to Options and set up forwarding to your new Gmail account. It’s up to you whether messages are retained in Hotmail. (If you don’t have an option for forwarding, you may be out of luck. Perhaps others have advice on how to get Hotmail to allow this.)
Back to Gmail: There should be a message from Hotmail; you need to click on a link in that message. Now back into Gmail settings, under Accounts, you should see your Hotmail email address listed. Click on the link that says Make Default. From here on, you can use Gmail as your way to check Hotmail. You actually do not need to login to Hotmail any more to read mail, you can use your Gmail account as the web-based way to check Hotmail.
Now how to access from iPhone: On the iPhone, go to Settings and then Mail. Delete any previous attempts you’ve made to make a Hotmail account — these can cause problems with the new account you create. Create a new email account by clicking Add Account. On the next screen, choose Other (don’t pick Gmail). Here are the settings:
Name: Your Name
Address: Your current hotmail.com email address
Description: (can be anything) “hotmail”
Incoming Mail Server:
HostName: imap.gmail.com
UserName: yournewaddress@gmail.com
Password: the password for this gmail account
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com
UserName: yournewaddress@gmail.com
Password: the password for this gmail account
All other settings should match the defaults.
Send yourself a test message to your Hotmail account from another account. Give it a few minutes, and it should then show on your iPhone.
4.- Double-Tapping
Double-tapping is actually pretty rare on the iPhone. It’s not like the Mac or Windows, where double-clicking the mouse means “open.” On the iPhone, you open something with one tap.
A double tap, therefore, is reserved for three functions:
In Photos, Google Maps, and Safari (the Web browser), double-tapping zooms in on whatever you tap, magnifying it by a factor of two.
In the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, “restore to original size” after you’ve zoomed in. (Weirdly, in Google Maps, you use a different gesture to zoom out: tap once with two fingers. That gesture appears nowhere else on the iPhone.)
When you’re watching a video, double-tapping eliminates or restores letterbox bars.
See, the iPhone’s screen is bright, vibrant, and stunningly sharp. It’s not, however, the right shape for videos.
Standard TV shows are squarish, not rectangular. So when you watch TV shows, you get black letterbox columns on either side of the picture.
Movies have the opposite problem. They’re too wide for the iPhone screen. So when you watch movies, you wind up with letterbox bars above and below the picture.
Some people are fine with that. At least when letterbox bars are onscreen, you know you’re seeing the complete composition of the scene the director intended.
Other people can’t stand letterbox bars. You’re already watching on a pretty small screen; why sacrifice some of that precious area to black bars?
That’s why the iPhone gives you a choice. If you double-tap the video as it plays, you zoom in, magnifying the image so that it fills the entire screen.
Part of the image is now off the screen; now you’re not seeing the entire composition originally broadcast. You lose the top and bottom of TV scenes, or the left and right edges of movie scenes.
If this effect winds up chopping off something important—some text on the screen, for example—restoring the original letterbox view is just another double-tap away.
5.- Secrets of the Sensors
The iPhone has three cool sensors. First, it has an accelerometer that detects when you’ve rotated the iPhone into landscape orientation. In programs like Photos, Safari, and iPod, it triggers the screen image to rotate as well.
Camouflaged behind the black glass where you can’t see them except with a bright flashlight are two more sensors: a proximity sensor that shuts off the screen illumination and touch sensitivity when the phone is against your head (it works only in the Phone application), and an ambient-light sensor that brightens the display when you’re in sunlight and dims it in darker places.
Apple says that it experimented with having the light sensor active all the time, but it was weird to have the screen get brighter and darker all the time. So the sensor now samples the ambient light, and adjusts the brightness; it does this only once—each time you unlock the phone after waking it.
You can use that tip to your advantage. By covering up the sensor (just above the earpiece) as you unlock the phone, you force it to a low-power, dim screen-brightness setting (because the phone believes that it’s in a dark room). Or by holding it up to a light as you wake it, you get full brightness. In both cases, you’ve saved all the taps and navigation it would have taken you to find the manual brightness slider in Settings.
6.- Earbud Cord Switch
Without close inspection, you’d have a hard time telling the iPhone’s white stereo earbuds apart from a regular iPod’s—but don’t get them mixed up. The iPhone’s earbuds have a tiny, embedded clicker/microphone partway down the right earbud cord.
That’s right, “clicker/microphone.” The tiny bulge is the microphone for phone calls. But if you pinch the bulge, you’ll find that it clicks.
Pinch once to answer an incoming phone call. Pinch twice to dump the call to voicemail. (You can also tap or double-tap the Sleep/Wake switch on top of the iPhone for the same functions.)
During music or video playback, pinch once to pause the music; pinch again to resume playback.
During music playback, double-pinch to skip to the next song.
7.- Customizing the iPod Buttons
The iPod module on the iPhone starts out with buttons along the bottom for summoning four lists: Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.
But what about Albums? Genres? Composers?
They’re there, all right, but hidden; you have to tap More to see them.
But what if you use those lists more often than Artists or Songs? No problem: you can replace one of those starter buttons with a list of your own.
Tap More, and then tap the Edit button (upper-left corner). You arrive at the Configure screen. Here’s the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists: Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.
To replace one of the four starter icons, use a finger to drag an icon from the top half of the screen downward, directly onto the existing icon you want to replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag.
When you release your finger, you’ll see that the new icon has replaced the old one. Tap Done in the upper-right corner.
8.- Keyboard Speedups
Don’t bother using the Shift key to capitalize a new sentence. The iPhone does that capitalizing automatically.
Don’t put apostrophes in contractions, either; the iPhone will put those in for you, too.
9.- Force Quit, Hard Reset
The iPhone is pretty darned simple and stable, but it’s still a computer. In times of troubleshooting, these tips may come in handy:
Force quit a program. Press and hold the Home button for six seconds to force-quit a program that seems to be stuck.
Hard reset. If the entire iPhone locks up—it can happen—press and hold both the Home button and the Sleep/Wake switch for eight seconds. You’ll see the screen go black, and then the Apple logo appears as the iPhone reboots.
10.- How to Create Custom Ringtones in GarageBand 4.1.1 or QuickTime for Free
Here a couple of ways to create and use your own custom ringtones on the iPhone for free:
GarageBand (require: iLife)
For GarageBand users Apple’s latest update; 4.1.1 allows iPhone users to easily create their own Ringtones.
If the song you want is in your iTunes library; simply drag and drop the song from iTunes to Garageband into a new track.
Turn the cycle region on.
Adjust the cycle region of the song to accommodate what part of the song you want the ringtone to be; it can be any part of the song but must be 40 seconds or less.
Choose Share > Send Ringtone to iTunes
Sync with your iPhone, change your ringtone and have a friend phone you.
Via LifeHacker.However this expects you to own iLife which some users don’t so here’s another way which everyone can do with QuickTime that comes with every installation of Mac OSX.
QuickTime
Open the Song in QuickTime
Adjust the Selection Indicators to where want the ringtone to start and end (>40secs)
Copy the selection (?C)
Open new QuickTime Window
Paste the selection (?V)
Export (?E) the file as “INSERT_NAME_HERE”.m4r
Double click on the newly created Ringtone (in the Finder)
Sync with your iPhone, change your ringtone and have a friend phone you.
Unfortunately there are a few more steps but it just as simple, will work on both Macs and Windows and it is 100% free.Update: Apparently the regular version of QuickTime doesn’t have Selection Indicators so doing it that way will cost you $29.95. However you can accomplish this with any Audio Mixer/Editor; for example use Fission’s trial to edit the song into the ring tone you want and save it as .m4r. Or as Brad’s comment below shows you can also do this with the open source Audacity.
11.- Access all of your Mac Media directly from your iPhone with iPhone Remote
Features:
Stream music and videos from your computer learn how
Screen capture with mouse click and basic typing support
Simple iTunes Remote control
Browse your files
Run applescript remotely
iSight image capture
Basic Spotlight search
Easily create and add more apps
Security Considerations
This is still a developer prototype and is intended only as a demo to get people started.
It will have the same access privileges as your user account
The login and password you specify will be stored on disk, so should be different, but as strong as your account password.
Don’t leave it running if you aren’t using it
Usage
Run iPhone Remote (Requires OS X 10.4)
Choose a web login/password
Open to https://
If you want to access your computer from outside of your local network, you may need to configure your router or firewall to support it.
Grab a copy of iPhone Remote here
12.- Keyboard shortcut
If you alternate between the 2 keyboards (AZ and 123) a lot then you can save some typing by keeping the 123 pressed when you select that keyboard and dragging your finger to the chosen number or punctuation mark. Then lot go and you will be returned to the AZ keyboard.
13.- Loudest speaker volume ever?
I think I’ve found a way to get the loudest speaker volume on an iPhone or have stupidly messed up my tiny speaker on my iPhone. But the honest true, it works NICE & CLEAR…
I was playing around with trying to get my iphone speaker volume louder and my ringtones, but I wasn’t happy with the different changes on my “SystemSoundMaximunVolume.plist” so, I grabbed a needle and sticked it into every single tiny hold on the bottom left corner of the iPhone. I think it was dirty in there or something because now this **** is EXACTLY how I wanted it since day one… LOUD!!! I really hope I didn’t mess up the speaker though.
Has anyone done this? maybe my speaker was dirty and it’s now cleaned up? or I have sticked the needle into the speaker without messing it up and it made some air ways and made it louder? whatever it is, I now love the speaker phone.
14.- Ibug - Bug crawling your iphone screen
Get the ibug at www.hottrix.com
15.- Play your tunes with PocketGuitar
PocketGuitar is a virtual guitar for iPhone and iPod touch. You can even have guitar sessions with the songs in your iPod!
It has been tested on iPod touch 1.1.1.
Installation
Launch Installer, choose “Sources” and add http://podmap.net/apps to your repositories.
PocketGuitar will appear under “Toys” category.
16.- Locations. Watch webcams all over the world.
Locations is an iPhone application for watching online webcam images.
Grab it here
17.- Scrolling Safari
If you’re scrolling through Safari, the address bar comes with you, disappearing after the first few swipes. But no matter how far down you’ve scrolled, tapping the top of the screen (where the network and wireless icons are) will instantly rocket you back to the address bar.
If you haven’t been to a site with a drop-down search field (like the country chooser on Apple.com), go do so. Apple has even found a way to make that enjoyable.
18.- Drop-down menus are easy - and even fun - to navigate.
It may not seem so, but Apple’s virtual keyboard quietly adapts to each task it’s asked to perform. When typing an email address into your Address Book, for example, only pertinent characters appear - that is, a plus, hyphen and underscore. Plus, a “.com” key appears anchored next to the @ symbol and period. And when writing a contraction, the iPhone is smart enough to immediately switch back to the letter layout after the apostrophe is pressed. Let’s see a BlackBerry do that.
And there are other tricks, as well. As New York Times columnist David Pogue points out, if you don’t lift your finger when typing a punctuation mark, “incredibly, the ABC layout returns automatically.”
19.- URls sharing
Since there’s no ability to cut and paste, Apple has integrated email, Safari, and the iPhone, virtually eliminating the need for a clipboard. When I wanted to send the link of my blog to my wife, for example, a small Share button popped up in Safari, which created a new email and pasted the link into the body. Just hit the address bar to find it.
20.- Stopping incoming calls
To stop an incoming call from ringing, press the sleep / wake button. To send the call immediately to VoiceMail, press the sleep / wake button twice.
21.- Surfing Internet while talking
iPhone: You can get on the internet DURING a call! You can only do this if your connected to a WIFI network (it wont work via edge), just hit the home key and click on Safari. Now your surfing while talking! The person on the other end can’t hear the keyboard clicks either!
22.- How to make full screen contact pictures
1. browse to the contact and tap edit.
2. tap on the photo.
3. tap edit photo.
4. after it opens in fullscreen, tap set photo and save the contact.
23.- Keyboard: Shortcuts
The trick David Pogue mentions for entering a period (hold down the punctuation key and then slide to the period and release) will allow you to enter anything on the non-alpha keyboard and return to the alpha keyboard in one swipe.
24.-When typing a text message, hold your finger over the text field and it will enable a small magnifying glass that lets you move back and forward through text and spaces.
25.- To type in all caps, go to Settings>Keyboard and make sure ‘Enable Caps Lock’ is ON. Then when you’re typing a message, just double tap the cap key on the keyboard and it locks.
26.- If you are writing something and the iPhone flags a word as misspelled that you know is not misspelled, cancel the correction 3 times and the word will be put into the dictionary. If you write a lot, this feature is quite useful!
1. Type “welll” (3 L’s) and the iPhone will auto correct to “We’ll”
2. Type “Helll” (3 L’s) and the iPhone will auto correct to “He’ll”
3. Type “itsa” and the iPhone will auto correct to “It’s”
4. Type “weree” (2 E’s) and the iPhone will auto correct to “We’re”
(In general, repeating the last letter will tell us its a contraction. The “itsa” is an exception since it could go either way. Think “it’s a…” No need for jumping over to the secondary keyboard at all for the apostrophe.
27.- Google Maps
Typing in the three letter airport code while in maps will bring the airport up on the map. So if you are trying to view a map of say Renton, WA. Typing SEA (or sea) will bring up the Seattle airport. It’s relatively quick to zoom out, recenter over Renton, and zoom in again. It seems to recognize all primary and secondary US airports and many overseas airports as well.
28.- Tapping on the address in your contacts opens it up in Google maps.
29.- A two finger tap in google maps zooms out. this doesn’t really work anywhere else. one finger tap to zoom in, two to zoom out.
30.- Safari Tricks
When you’ve scrolled down to the bottom of a page, and you want to go back to the top- just tap on the top bar of the phone (where the Rogers or Fido and the time is) and the page jumps right back up to the beginning
31.- To email a page to someone tap on the address bar. The Share button on the top left will create a message for you!
32.- Page down. When not using a zoomed-in display, double-tap towards the bottom of the screen. The page will re-center around your tap. Make sure not to tap a link!
33.- Zoom onto a single picture. Double-tapping images in Safari zooms them to fit your iPhone display. If the picture is linked to a URL, this can prove a little tricky but it works great for non-linked images. Double-tap again to return to the unzoomed display.
34.- Zoom a column. You can zoom text columns as well as pictures. Double-tap on the column to fit it to the display. Double-tap again to return out of the zoom. Not only does Safari zoom block-quoted text independently of regular text but if you move your finger after the first double-tap-to-fit, it interprets the next double-tap as a re-center page command rather than a return-to-previous-zoom. Smart.
35.- Stopping a scroll. After flicking a page to get it to scroll, you can tap the page at any time to stop that movement. Don’t forget, you can also manually drag the screen display to reset the part you’re viewing.
36.- You can type a website address without adding the ‘.com’ just like on Safari on a Mac.
37.- Examining the URL. To peek at a link’s destination, touch and hold the link for a few seconds. You can also do this with images to see if they are linked. If a link appears and you don’t want to activate it, just slide your finger away until the destination text disappears.
38.- Well just point your iPhone browser to a Video on google video and choose download for iPod/PSP and you can watch it right there in safari. This also shows that you can also watch videos in the vertical position not just landscape.
39.- Set up a bookmark at the top of Safari’s list (just below History, which can’t be moved) that points to “about:blank” (In fact “about:ANYTHING” works just as well, I’m not sure if there’s some keyword I can put in to get anything special.) Anyway, I use the bookmark to switch to a blank page once I’m done browsing.
From the post: Funny things to do with your iphone:
Now that you have your iPhone, what next? Enjoy it, put thing in it and play around….
iPhone Magic (Amazing)
iPhone Beer (Cool)
iPhone Popcorn (Nice)
iWash
iPhone Demo
More Tricks
From the post: Things to do with your iphone:
Applications
- Navizon Virtual GPS: If you’re directionally challenged, get this virtual positioning system for the iPhone.
- Network Test: Network Test makes it easy to run a quick speed test on your iPhone’s network connection.
- iSubwayMaps: Get NYC subway maps on your iPhone with this app.
- TextEdit: For a basic iPhone word processor, check out TUAW’s TextEdit.
- iPhoneGold: 100 Free iPhone Games: For serious iPhone gamers, check out this resource for all of the games you might want to play.
- TipCalc: This app calculates your tip and total, and even offers the option to split the total between a specified number.
- iPhone Colloquy: This IRC client is made for the iPhone.
- Texterity: With Texterity, you can read magazines on the iPhone.
- NFL Schedule: Get access to NFL schedules and standings on your iPhone with this app.
- MobileTerminal: This terminal emulator makes using native applications on your iPhone possible.
- Toodledo: This web-based to do list will help you use your iPhone to get organized and stay productive.
- Telekinesis: Get access to your Mac via your iPhone using this software.
- Tilt: This game utilizes the iPhone’s unique motion control.
- Quote Sheet: An ideal tool for businesspeople on the go, Quote Sheet is a quotation and sales tool that you can use on the iPhone.
- iPhoneChat: Chat on AIM using this instant messaging app for the iPhone.
- Delicious Library: Scan the barcode of your books, movies, music, or video games, and this app will create a library of your media.
- MakeiPhoneRingtone: With this app, you can drag and drop ringtones onto your iPhone.
- SeeqPod: With SeeqPod, you can listen to millions of songs found online.
- MyNumo: Practice for Vegas with this high quality blackjack casino game for the iPhone.
- Unit Converter: Convert over 500 units of measure and currency on the fly with Unit Converter.
- TubeTV: Mac users can use TubeTV to download YouTube videos and convert them to the iPhone’s video format.
- iTube: If you’re on a Windows machine, you can download iTube to do the same thing as TubeTV.
- iTetris: Play this fun favorite on the iPhone with iTetris.
- TV Forecast: Get this personalized TV guide for the iPhone.
- heysan!: Get access to AIM, MSN, and ICQ on your iPhone with this app.
- Diamenty: If you like Bejeweled, you’ll love to play Diamenty, the iPhone implementation of the game.
- AccuWeather: Get a 15-day weather forecast for any world location with this AccuWeather app for the iPhone.
- OneTrip: Check out OneTrip for an easy to use shopping list that remembers items from one trip to the next.
- This Day In History: Find out what historical happenings occured today with this app.
- iPhoneAssassin: “Kill” other iPhone users in this game.
- JiWire: This WiFi hotspot finder makes it easy to find a place to get online. You can search for a specific address or find popular locations.
- Movies.app: Use Movies.app to find information on movie tickets, showtimes, ratings, and more. You’ll even be able to find links to buy tickets, view trailers and find theaters with Google Maps integration.
- Solitaire: Get the iPhone version of this perennial game favorite here.
- Pirate App: Turn any photo of a person into a pirate picture using this app.
- iLounge: Find news, forums, apps, and more with iLounge Mobile.
- iFlickr: Upload your iPhone photos directly to Flickr with this app.
- iPhone Sudoku: Take in a Sudoku game on the road with this fun app.
- do.Oh: This to do list is iPhone friendly.
- iWeathr: Get quick access to doppler radar with iWeather’s connection to weather.com.
- iSaber: The iSaber makes lightsaber noises and shows an image on the screen.
- Gas.app: With this app, you can find the cheapest gas in your area while you’re on the go.
- Earthcomber: With Earthcomber, you can find useful spots like restaurants, free WiFi, and ATMs. This app has GPS accuracy and integrates with Google Maps.
Tools+Hacks
- GUI Tool: Use this GUI tool to unlock your iPhone and use it with any SIM card.
- Widgetop: Widgetop opens up access to lots of widgets, including some that serve up Wikipedia searches and RSS.
- JuiceCaster: Use JuiceCaster to upload and share your iPhone media with others on MySpace, Blogger, and more.
- iPhoneDrive: Use your iPhone as a storage device with this tool.
- AddPhone: Add iPhone apps on the fly with this tool.
- iActivator: Activate and deactivate your iPhone with this tool.
- iPhoneWebDev on Google Groups: iPhone developers in search of assistance and knowledge should check out this forum for developers on Google Groups.
- iPhoneWebDev FAQs: Find answers to your iPhone development questions on this site.
- Dodgeball: With Dodgeball, you can broadcast the location of your iPhone, find friends, and map specific locations.
- MockDock: This tool links to iPhone-ready apps.
- MobileSyncBrowser: Back up your SMS text messages with this tool.
- iPhone Developer’s Wiki: For iPhone development guidance, be sure to check out this knowledgebase.
- TruPhone: Get VoIP on your iPhone using TruPhone’s service.
- Appleopolis: Use Appleopolis to find, manage, and rate iPhone applications from your device.
- TypePad for the iPhone: Blog on TypePad from your iPhone using this tool.
- Jott: Use Jott to transcribe an email to yourself from your iPhone. You’ll be able to store, manage, and share these messages.
- iUnlock: You can use your iPhone with any SIM card with this tool.
- iPhoney: If you’re developing for the iPhone, see how your app works on it using the iPhoney tool.
- Magic Tricks: Check out this resource for loads of magic tricks you can perform with your iPhone.
- Pickle: With Pickle, you can instantly share photos and videos with others by sending your files to a special email address.
- TestiPhone: See how the iPhone works by checking out this simulator.
- TUAW’s Screenshot Utility: Check out this general purpose screenshot utility for the iPhone.
- iPhoneWebDev Examples: If you’re an iPhone developer in need of examples, you’ll find what you need here.
- SSH for the iPhone: Use this tool to SSH into a server on the go.
- Popularity Dialer: Use the popularity Dialer to get a scheduled phone call that will conveniently interrupt you on a blind date or meeting with your boss. Or just to have another excuse to pull out your iPhone, of course!
- AppTap: Use this tool to install, uninstall, and update applications from multiple sources on your iPhone.
Guides+Tutorials
- Remote Control Your Computer with Your iPhone: Check out this guide to find out how to turn your iPhone into a killer remote control.
- iPhone development with PHP and XML: Follow this guide to develop with the iPhone using tools you’re probably already familiar with.
- Simple business card iPhone/iPod stand: Follow the steps in this tutorial to create a cheap and easy stand for your iPhone.
- Listen to iPhone music through a Bluetooth headset: This guide describes how you can listen to audio through a Bluetooth headset.
- Run Widgets (kinda) on your iPhone: This tutorial shows you how to attempt to run Microsoft Dashboard widgets on the iPhone.
- Put Your Content in My Pocket: In this guide, Craig Hockenberry of A List Apart runs down the process of bringing your content to the iPhone.
- Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone: Check out this official developer’s guide from Apple.
- Unlocked iPhones: How to re-enable voicemail: If you’ve lost access to voicemail on your unlocked iPhone, check out this how-to for help.
- McCallum’s Awesome iPhone Period-Typing Shortcut: Use this iPhone typing trick to save both time and frustration.
- Quick guide to iPhone skinning: Changing the look of the home screen, keyboard and more: Get the lowdown on customizing the look of your iPhone in this how-to.
- David Pogue’s Favorite iPhone Tricks: Discover tips and tricks that David Pogue loves, but Apple hasn’t included in the manual.
- How to re-lock your unlocked iPhone to avoid bricking: Apple has warnediPhone users that a future software update could turn unlocked iPhones into inoperable gadgets, so if you want to be on the safe side, check out this tutorial on how to re-lock your device.
- The unofficial iPhone SDK: Guide to writing native iPhone applications: Get the lowdown on developing native iPhone apps in this guide.
- Hack the iPhone Notes App: Switch the font of your Notes app using this tutorial.
- mp3 Ringtone: Use this simple hack to turn any iTunes mp3 file into a ringtone.
- iPhone Development Standards: Check out this guide to standards in developing for the iPhone to ensure quality.
- iPhone voice dialing (sort of) for $5 a month: Get the lowdown on getting access to voice dialing with this guide.
- Installing the iPhone Developer Toolchain: A Simple How-To: Get some guidance on installing the iPhone developer toolchain here.
- Guide to native applications for the iPhone: This guide gives the lowdown on getting native applications onto your iPhone.
- 17 powerful bookmarklets for your iPhone: Read this post from LiveClever for 17 bookmarklets that give you quick access to text searches, Wikipedia, translation, and more.
- Install third-party iPhone applications–directly from your iPhone: Get iPhone apps on your device without having to use your Mac.
- iPhone 101: Uploading your Pictures to Flickr and Printing Sites: Find out how to upload your iPhone photos to popular sites here.
- Disabling the iPhone’s EDGE/GPRS data access: If you need to temporarily cut off your data access, follow the steps in this guide.
- 8 Ways to Get Ringtones Onto Your iPhone: This guide from Gizmodo runs down 8 options for getting iPhone ringtones.
- iPhone: How to Delete Email: Get rid of old emails on your iPhone using this tutorial.
- iPhone 101: Browser-based playlists: The Unoffocial Apple Weblog has created this guide to putting together a playlist that’s browser based, all on the fly.
- Short and Sweet SSH Guide for the iPhone: Get walked through setting up SSH in this guide from Gizmodo.
- Highrise for the iPhone: Check out this tutorial to find out how to integrate 37 Signals’ Highrise app with your iPhone.
- Blog From Your Cell Phone: This tutorial runs down how you can create a blog and send posts to it, all from your cell phone.
- iPhone Coding: Using the Accelerometer: The Unofficial Apple Weblog has put together this guide to using the iPhone’s Accelerometer.
- iPhone camera as microscope: Check this out to find out how to turn your iPhone’s camera into a microscope.
- How to sync the iPhone with two computers: Get your iTunes libraries from two computers synched up on one iPhone with this guide.
Part of this list was done by Jessica Hupp.
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