The ability to rate songs is a great feature for rediscovering hidden gems buried in your iPhone playlists. The procedure to rank songs in the iPod is rather simple really. On your iPhone tap iPod and then start playing any song. Tap on the cover art of the song or on the default cover art musical note icon while the song is playing and the cover art will flip over, exposing the album playlist. Above the playlist you will see a white star. Just tap the star and drag it to the right and you have just ranked your music using your iPhone. Happy stars!
iPhone software 2.1 has dramatically increased the stability of my iPhone 3G. The slow text messaging bug has gone away. I’ve noticed that they have removed the box surrounding the 3G and the E in the status bar. This update seems to have fixed the annoying bug where the contact list would not respond to touch instantly after launching it. The iPhone 2.1 update is crucial to improving battery life and dropped calls on the iPhone 3G.
How to update:
1. Download and install iTunes 8 and connect iPhone to computer.
2. When iTunes opens click your iPhone under devices under the left.
3. Click Check for Update on the Summary tab.
4. Click Download and Install and leave your iPhone connected until the update is complete.
AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots are offering iPhone owners free access to the high speed internet that is currently being offered at Starbucks, Barnes & Noble, McDonalds and other locations nationwide! When you are in the vicinity of an AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot you can access the network by logging in with your iPhone number by tapping on Safari and surfing to any webpage. During the http query the iPhone will be detected by AT&T’s user agent which allows access after you enter your iPhone’s number.
Looking for a quick, easy way to check your remaining minutes on your iPhone? Dial *646# from the phone’s keypad and tap the Create New Contact button in the lower left hand corner of the screen. There is a picture of a silhouette of a head and shoulders next to a plus sign on the Create New Contact button. Next, name the new contact ‘AT&T Minutes’ and save your new contact. Open up your Contacts list and tap on your ‘AT&T Minutes’ contact, followed by ‘Add to Favorites’. Your new ‘AT&T Minutes’ contact will be listed in your iPhone Favorites list and now checking your minutes is a quick, easy, fairly painless process - without having to go the conventional route, which also works to check your minutes as well: Settings, Phone, AT&T Services and then View My Minutes. This shortcut can help save you money by helping you keep track of how many minutes you have used this month talking on your iPhone. Saving money is easy when you are not going over your rate plan’s AT&T wireless minutes for the month!
You can type much more efficiently on the iPhone keyboard if you keep this simple tip in mind. When you touch the iPhone’s keyboard you can see the character, letter or number you touch becomes magnified (unless you have extremely long nails). If you touch the wrong character just leave your finger on the iPhone screen and *MOVE IT AROUND* until you get to the right character and then take your finger off of the screen. Easy as pie! In the long run, you will get used to it and above all it will save you time from having to backspace and then re-type the correct character, letter or number. Happy typing! :)
This procedure allows your iPhone to ring for longer or shorter periods than the default setting of 20 seconds before voicemail answers. *** Attempt at your own risk but if you pay attention to the keys you input and follow the directions you should have no problems.
1. On your phone, dial *#61# and click Call
The screen will display:
Setting Interrogation Succeeded Voice Call Forwarding When Unanswered Forwards to +1xxxYYYzzzz Enabled
2. Write down the xxxYYYzzz number (including +1) - this is the number to your voicemail.
3. In order to make the + appear on the keypad in the next step you’ll have to hold Zero down for a few seconds, then it will become a Plus (+). Dial **61*+1xxxYYYzzzz**30# and hit Call. +1xxxYYYzzzz is the number you wrote down previously, 30 is the delay in seconds. The delay can be set in 5 second increments, 30 is maximum.
4. Dial *#61# to verify that the new settings are active.
5. Verify working voice mail.
If you find you or your contacts are not being forwarded to your voice mail you have incorrectly altered your voice mail forward number.
To find out what it is and try again:
Dial ##002# and send. This will reset that forward number to factory defaults.
By then Dialing *#61# you will again display the your current (default) voice mail forwarding number.
Return to step [2] and continue.
*** Use this tutorial at your own risk ***…and if you have the time you can always give AT&T a call to have them change the number of rings on an incoming call before Visual Voicemail kicks in. I was able to quickly change the duration on my own, using these diagnostic iPhone GSM codes. The default time duration before Visual Voicemail intercepts the call is set by AT&T to 20 seconds. You will be able to add another 10 seconds yourself, but if you want your callers to wait more than 30 seconds before voicemail picks up then you’ll need to contact AT&T technical support - they can change the duration to 45 seconds upon request.
I am going to try to explain how you *CAN* send MMS picture messages with iPhone. Simply select the photo you want to send in your iPhone’s camera roll and address it to your recipient’s 10 digit wireless number followed by the MMS server for their wireless provider. Example: Send the photo via email to 1234567890@mmsserveraddressgoeshere.com.
For example, if your intended recipient is a Verizon Wireless customer you would email the pictures to 8885551212@vzwpix.com. This is the email address for your recipient’s Verizon Wireless phone. An easy way to obtain all of the email addresses for your friends’ and family member’s phones is to setup your email on your iPhone and have your friends and family send you a picture message first - not to your wireless number - but to the email address you’ve already configured on your iPhone. When you get their email, you’ll notice that it is sent from the email address for THEIR phone. Just tap the blue circle with the white plus inside of it next to sender’s email address and save that email address to the subsequent contact in your iPhone.
You can use the list below to find the corresponding MMS server for your intended recipient’s wireless provider and append the MMS server behind the @ symbol following their wireless number (example: Sending a photograph via email to 8005551212@mms.att.net would work for a friend who does not have an iPhone but has wireless service provided by AT&T or Cingular)
Known wireless provider MMS servers within the United States:
VoiceStream / T-Mobile = xxxxxxxxxx@voicestream.ne t
WebLink Wiereless = xxxxxxxxxx@airmessage.net
WebLink Wiereless = xxxxxxxxxx@pagemart.net
Wyndtell = xxxxxxxxxx@wyndtell.com
There are other options available…you can simply send a message to xxxxxxxxxx@teleflip.com and they will automatically detect the carrier. Read on to find out more about Teleflip and also learn the MMS server names of international service providers.
Teleflip is free to use. For more information: https://www.teleflip.com/blog/services/flipout/
You can listen to audio on iPhone with your Bluetooth headset quite easily. Just pair your headset with iPhone and tap on the Phone application from the home screen. Next tap Voicemail…in the voicemail menu just tap in the upper right hand corner where you can choose your audio source for listening to your voicemails. After you select your paired headset click on the home button and quickly tap the iPod application. Play a song and you can now hear the audio through your Bluetooth headset - although it does play simultaneously from the iPhone’s built-in speakers…just turn the volume down on the iPhone and increase the volume with your headset and you should be able to hear the music loud enough to warrant putting the iPhone in your pocket so the speaker audio will not be so overpowering to the audio streaming into your ear from the Bluetooth headset. Via TUAW
So you want to edit your Myspace profile and there’s no computer around anywhere. Fortunately, you have your iPhone and so you login and begin editing your profile. Wait a minute…what’s this? You can only see the first few lines of code in the editable text boxes. How will you edit your profile if you cannot type your modifications to the code where they need to be precisely?
The solution is to tap within the text box or field that you would like to edit and then try scrolling the data within the selected text box by using two fingers instead of the conventional single digit. You now have the ability to make changes within any editable text box you may encounter during your browsing adventures. Scroll down to the spot you would like to edit, then tap the screen to bring up the keyboard and commence typing…Have fun!
You can sync notes to your computer without emailing them by creating a fake contact and entering your notes in that contact’s Notes field. The next time you sync your contacts to your Mac or PC your notes will be readily available within the Address Book vCard for the fake contact we just created. Now your notes stay secret, secure and safe…Just open up your contact manager (OS X: Address Book) (Vista: Windows Contacts) (XP: Windows Address Book) and call up the vCard contact entry for our newly-created note-bearing contact and bask in the glory of your notes on your computer, easy as pie.
Recent Comments