Yes, I’m still enjoying my iPhone. Yes, I’ve been using it a lot — probably more than is healthy. I’m going to end up with thumbs that look like Popeye’s forearms at the rate I’m going. There were a number of things I had to learn about by experimenting or looking on the web. Here’s ten that you can make fun of me for not knowing.<\/p>\n
Delete mail by swiping your finger across it.<\/b> Right-to-left or left-to-right works. Other apps use this same approach — the iPhone app for the task-management site Remember the Milk lets you swipe tasks to mark them complete.<\/p>\n
Hold down the .com key to pop up a list of other top-level domains such as .net and .org.<\/b> This has made typing URLs in Safari much easier for me.<\/p>\n
On keyboards where there is no .com button, you can hold down the period to get a list of top-level domains.<\/b> That’s especially useful in Mail when you’re typing an email address.<\/p>\n
When typing a single number, punctuation mark or symbol, press and hold the 123 button, then slide your finger to the number or symbol you need.<\/b> The keyboard will then reset to letters automatically.<\/p>\n
Double-tap a column or image in Safari to make it resize to fill the screen.<\/b> Yeah, yeah, I know, they showed this in the iPhone commercials. Bite me.<\/p>\n
Use two fingers to scroll list or entry fields in Safari.<\/b> One finger scrolls the whole page, but two fingers scroll just the field.<\/p>\n
Scroll to the top of any page by tapping the top bar.<\/b><\/p>\n
Take a screenshot by holding the home button and then pressing the sleep button.<\/b><\/p>\n
You can change what double-clicking the home button does.<\/b> Look under Settings\/General\/Home Button. I set mine so that double-clicking the home button takes me to the iPod app.<\/p>\n
Double-click the home button while the phone is locked to bring up iPod controls.<\/b> I’ve set my phone to lock after a minute or so, and when I’m using the iPhone to play music, it’s nice not to have to fully wake it up to change songs.<\/p>\n
Any tips I’ve missed, fellow iPhone users?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, I’m still enjoying my iPhone. Yes, I’ve been using it a lot — probably more than is healthy. I’m going to end up with thumbs that look like Popeye’s forearms at the rate I’m going. There were a number of things I had to learn about by experimenting or looking on the web. Here’s … Continue reading Ten Tips and Tricks I’ve Learned About the iPhone<\/span>