Friday Roundup for May 8th, 2009 – iPhone tips submitted by you

Touchtip’s Friday Roundup returns this week with the very best iPhone tips from our readers!

This round includes some secret tips that even expert iPhone users may not know about. Wanna learn the best way to force your iPhone to learn new words so that typing is even easier? How about a handy tip for disabling your network connection, or how to quit a frozen app without having to restart? Keep reading to learn all of these handy iPhone tips and more.

Force Your iPhone to Learn New Words
Submitted by Beanish

The iPhone will supposedly learn new words so that you can tap them in quicker with the auto correct feature. However, this learning algorithm doesn’t seem to apply to all iPhone apps. I use the Notes app all the time and I was really getting frustrated that some of the jargon words I use often were not getting “learned” by my iPhone. I then recalled how Safari tends to remember new words, so I went to Google’s home page in Safari and tapped the words into the search field that I wanted my iPhone to remember. After that, I went back to Notes and voila, the new words were now available as I tapped. So if you want to force your iPhone to learn new words, tap them into Google using Safari to ensure that they get stored in the iPhone’s keyboard text database.

 

Disable iPhone 3G GPRS or Edge Connections
Submitted by Val Vega

This is a great trick if you have kids that play with your iPhone and you’re worried about them using the network. Tap into your network settings (Setting > General > Network > Cellular Data Network). In the “APN, Username and Password” field, type in any words so that your iPhone will not pass the correct values to the service providers thus preventing network access. You may have to restart your iPhone after changing the values.

 

Force Quit a Frozen App
Submitted by gmonkey

I admit it, I’m an app whore. I download all kinds of free apps to try them out, mostly games. There are some great free apps to be had in the App Store, and so many crappy ones that crash. I used to have to restart my iPhone whenever an app froze on me, but now I just hold the home button down for about six seconds to force quit the frozen app. Why don’t they tell you this in the manual? Not that anyone would read it anyways, but still.

 

Fast Forward and Rewind Music and Videos
Submitted by jj_tigereye

Did you know you can fast forward or rewind music and videos quicker than using the skip button? You can do this by touching and holding the skip forward or skip backward button. I find this trick especially handy when viewing videos on my iPod touch.

 

Find the Hidden Scientific Calculator
Submitted by Daniel Burkowski

Okay, I had no idea the iPhone came with a scientific calculator until I stumbled on it quite by accident. Maybe I’m not the only person who didn’t know this trick so I thought I’d share it here. Fire up the calculator on your iPhone or iPod touch, then turn it to landscape mode. This brings up the scientific calculator! I wish I had known this earlier this year when I was in calc class.

 

Migrate Your Data from Any Cell Phone to iPhone
Submitted by Diana Payne

I found this handy utility that helped me migrate contacts, events, tasks, notes, bookmarks, photos, music and movies to my new iPhone 3G. It’s called Fone2Phone.

 

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