The iPhone User Guide

How to read PDF’s in iBooks

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Reading PDF’s on the iPhone 4 screen is an absolute dream, the high resolution screen makes it easy on the eyes and now thanks to iBooks, you can get PDF’s on your iPhone easily and quickly. Email the PDF file to yourself Hold your finger down on the PDF in your email Click ‘open in [...]

How to Change the Spotlight result order on your iPhone

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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The iPhone’s Spotlight Search functionality is a great improvement from early incarnations, but you can make it even more relevant to you just by tweaking the settings. In the “Settings” menu, go to “General,” then select “Spotlight Search.” You are then presented with a list of categories. By touching the three bars icon next to [...]

How to turn iBooks into audiobooks

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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Another one of the iPhone’s Accessibility options for the visually impaired, the “VoiceOver” feature is a gesture-based screen reader. Using slightly different controls (double tap to select and three fingers to scroll), VoiceOver essentially reads aloud what is on the phone’s screen. Aside from the obvious uses for the visually-impaired, this also means that iBooks [...]

How to lock the orientation of your iPhone screen

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

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A great feature for anyone who reads in bed, you can now lock the screen on your iPhone to stay in the portrait orientation and avoid that annoying switch between portrait and landscape you can get in certain situations. To activate the lock, tap the home button twice, then scroll to the screen on the [...]

Save Texts to Your Mac with Decipher TextMessage 1.4

Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Busy professionals who need to archive text messages from their iPhones on Mac computers have a handy tool in Decipher TextMessage 1.4. There are several ways to do this manually, but they all take time, and who has any to spare?

How to play DIVX on your iPhone

Monday, May 18, 2009

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YXFlash player for iPhone is a usable xvid, divx player which can also view downloaded flv videos. YXFlash player is out for iPhone and released in the BigBoss Cydia repository. This marks the first actually usable xvid / divx player for the iPhone. Finally you can watch that collection of avi files you have laying [...]