Friday Roundup for February 15th, 2008 – iPhone tips submitted by you

Happy Friday! We head into the weekend with a new roundup of iPhone tips and iPod touch tricks submitted by you, the most dedicated readers of Touchip. Don’t forget to share your own tip with us, or post them directly to our iPhone and iPod touch forums.

We have some real gems this week that the iPhone community won’t want to miss, like how to save web pages for offline viewing, or a simple way to read PDF documents. We also learn how to transfer music from the iPod or iPhone to iTunes on the computer. And we find out how to create some super handy shortcuts for common tasks right on your home screen using Springlets. Read on to learn more about these tips and more.

Submitted by Rusty:

I found this web site, iWebSaver, that saves entire web pages to your iPhone or iPod touch for offline viewing. This comes in handy if your want to read a web page but know you will lose your network connection. I’ve used this to save some reading material for when I commute by train or airplane. They also provide a bookmarklet that you can add to Safari making it super easy to save a web page with just a tap.

 

Submitted by Ron Cooper:

Here’s a handy little utility I use to help me view PDF documents on my iPhone. PDF2Image is a simple application that converts PDF to images, page by page, which you can then view on your iPhone. Best of all, it’s free.

 

Submitted by Alison:

I know there are other tools out there to help get your tunes off of your iPod or iPhone and onto your Mac, but this one is about the easiest one I have tried. iPod Access lists all the songs on your device and let’s you choose which ones you want to transfer. It’s great ’cause the the songs are searchable just like iTunes so you can find the songs you want pretty fast. You can also use this to move your music to an external drive for back up.

 

Submitted by Mohan Rushindar:

I find Springlets to be very useful for common tasks like looking up words in Wikipedia, Google, IMDB and others, all from my iPod touch home screen. You add these to your home screen, then tap and search without having to load the page before doing your search. They are very much like bookmarklets for your browser, except Springlets are for your home screen on iPhone or iPod touch. The Springlets I use most often are the speed dial and text buttons. Speed dial lets you create a custom button with a name and number for frequently called numbers without having to open the phone app. The text button opens up web sites in text-only mode (no images) which is great when I’m on the EDGE network.

 

Submitted by Ricky Bobby:

I spend a fair amount of time in my car and have been looking for ways to use my iPhone when driving. I found this interesting web page that has a lot of good information about integrating the iPhone into your vehicle. I thought other gear head geeks like me would like to know about it. Here’s the link: iPhone Car Integration Guide.

 

Submitted by Katie M:

Sometimes the iPhone’s speaker will go mute. This happens when the iPhone thinks a headset is plugged in, when it actually is not connected at all. I’ve noticed this a couple of times and even called Apple about it. If this happens to you, try plugging a headset in and the unplugging it a couple of times to see if that fixes the speaker. That’s what worked for me.

 

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