If you are one of those folks who is disappointed that you cannot sync the notes on your iPhone to your PC thanks to the current limitation of the iPhone’s Notes application, then you have come to the right place.
The iPhone is spectacular in many aspects. You can’t imagine anything better for playing music, video, browsing web on a phone or personal device. Despite all that excitement, it needs work in certain applications. One of them is iPhone notes, that enables you to jot down pieces of information. iPhone notes is very handy to use, easily accessible, gives a list of your notes and a nice full screen when you edit it.
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January 23rd, 2009
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iPhone and all other Apple products supporting video like iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod Touch can only play the mp4 file format. After all, iPod is a media device and if there are issues with playing video, the usability of the device decreases. And generally there are some problems with video in iPod. The major problem for users is, as i said above, restriction to mp4 format. It means you can transfer and play only *.mp4 files on iPods and iPhones. The major issue, that thus arises, is trying to convert other videos to mp4 format, and the fact that mp4 is also of various types.
Apple uses MP4 part 14, and there are several other MP4 standards. Hence, only those converters customized to convert video to Apple supported mp4 format work perfectly well with all range of iPods and iPhones. The best, among the great variety of converters available, is Videora iPhone Converter. And not only iPhone but it supports all iPod formats. You can download it from here.
To Convert a Video, just follow the steps below.
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January 23rd, 2009
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IMAP (also known as Push email) is one of the two mail standards supported by the iPhone. Let me first tell you what is IMAP , before we learn how to set up your mail accounts on iPhone. If you setup your account using IMAP, you will receive email as soon as your email server receives it, just like a SMS. To use this you will need IMAP access to your mail server and also your mail server must support it. Of course, You can download the emails to your iPhone using POP too, but then your mailbox and phone will not be in sync. For eg : if you delete a mail on your phone, it will still remain on server. IMAP is more advanced which syncs both mail boxes. Whatever you do at one place, gets reflected everywhere. So, if you change something in Outlook (client) or via Outlook Web Access (browser), within moments your iPhone will show the exact same changes (and vice versa).
I will show you how to set up accounts on your iPhone for two famous email services, Gmail and Microsoft Exchange.
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January 21st, 2009
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iPhone has been around for a while now. We have had iPhone 3G, since some time too. Maybe we will have a iPhone Nano soon enough. But the fact remains, there are various hidden tweaks in the device , that when you find them, still amaze you. Most of them are very handy, and can be a user’s delight to know. These are some of them, which i could find. If you know one that’s not present here, please let me know.
Press & Hold For Alternate Characters
Keep holding any letter, and you get a popup of various versions of the character (i.e. to type España with the “ñ” simply hold “n” and simply slide/release to the appropriate character).
Automatically capitalize and add apostrophes
The iPhone automatically capitalizes certain words (”I” when you type “i”). It also automatically adds apostrophes (”I’m” when you type “Im”).
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January 15th, 2009
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Nokia 5800, the latest entrant in the touch-screen war, is the first product by Nokia. While others rolled out touch-screen products almost immediately after iPhone, Nokia has been more reserved and it appears it has succeeded in making a real rival for the iPhone. With Nokia 5800, Nokia has produced a device almost as good or even better in every aspect than the iPhone 3G.
Delivering on Nokia’s vision to provide the best total music experience possible, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic will be among the first devices to support Comes With Music, Nokia’s groundbreaking service which offers one year of unlimited access to the entire Nokia Music Store catalog.
Among the many features it offers some of the most prominent ones are the variety of input methods: stylus, plectrum and finger touch support for text input and UI control (alphanumeric keypad, full and mini qwerty keyboard, handwriting recognition). You can use the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to connect to mobile broadband using WLAN or HSDPA (3.5G). Supported WCDMA frequencies depend on the region where the device is available. You can also find directions and locations with the integrated A-GPS and included maps. Also the phone introduces the ‘Media Bar’, a handy drop down menu that provides direct access to music and entertainment, web and online sharing all at once.
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January 6th, 2009
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We all know much about the various features packed into the iPhone, but there are some that still escape the eye. One of the more unique features in the iPhone is its trio of sensors (orientation, light, and proximity ). The latter two being behind the glass, right above the earpiece.
The light sensor (for dimming the backlight) is great for saving power, but its use is nothing compared to the the other two sensors, which steal the show. It automatically adjusts the display’s brightness to the appropriate level for the current ambient light, thereby enhancing the user experience and saving power at the same time.
The proximity sensor, which prevents you from accidentally interacting with the screen while the iPhone is pressed against your ear, switches off the display at about 0.75-inches away; the screen switches back on after you pull away about an inch. It detects when you lift iPhone to your ear and immediately turns off the display to save power and prevent inadvertent touches until iPhone is moved away.
The orientation sensor also worked well enough. Although you can’t turn the phone on its head, when browsing in Safari you can do a 180, jumping quickly from landscape left to landscape right. The iPhone does get confused sometimes due to odd angles, but on the whole performs very well. Its also well known as the accelerometer and finds use in many applications.
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January 2nd, 2009
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If you would like to sync your Google contacts with your iPhone, then you are at the right place. There are lots of local and over-the-air sync options to sync your google contacts with your iPhone. There are lots of third party applications that makes it happen too.
Official iTunes way
iTunes version 7.7 or later supports a feature which allows to sync Google contacts with your iPhone. All you got to do is just provide your Google login credentials to iTunes and iTunes will do the rest for you. Let me go with the traditional step-by-step How to Instructions to sync your google contacts with the iPhone.
Sync Steps
- Connect your iPhone to the PC and iTunes should automatically fire up
- Choose your iPhone from the iTunes device list
- Browse to the contacts section of the Info tab in iTunes
- Choose Google Contacts in the configuration option. This step slightly varies in iTunes(WIndows) and iTunes (Mac)
- Configure your Gmail/Google Username and Password and click OK/Apply
- Click Sync and you are done. Your Google contacts will sync with your iPhone next time.
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December 14th, 2008
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iPhone being an apple product has bigger windows user base than the mac userbase, So these users would love to sync their iPhone contacts with the Outlook contacts.
Outlook
You can sync your iPhone contacts with Microsoft Outlook Express,Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007. You should have a full version of the software for the sync to work. The sync may not work with trial versions of outlook.
iTunes
The usual iTunes software acts as an interface between Outlook and the iPhone and so iTunes software is mandatory to sync contacts between iPhone and Outlook. Better update your iTunes software to version 7.7.1 or later which is supposed to have fixes for all the issues relating to outlook synchronization.
Steps to Sync
- Connect your iPhone to your PC and iTunes should automatically fire up.
- Browse to the iTunes Info Tab
- Configure iTunes contacts sync with Outlook appropriately and click Apply
- Click Sync button
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December 14th, 2008
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iPhone comes with Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR . EDR stands for Enhanced Data Rate . This type of Bluetooth supports a rate of 3 Megabits/ second. Such a speed is enough to introduce a whole multiplex of Wireless communication features to the iPhone. There are various ways the iPhones Bluetooth can be used. It can be used as the normal hands free to a complex car kit or to wirelessly play your music from iPhone to other Bluetooth enabled device or as a remote control too.
The most standard headset available for iPhone is Apple’s own iPhone Bluetooth Headset. It is a nominal accessory and does not come with a lot of features. It works well to about 10 meters specifically with iPhone 3G. It lets you handle all iPhone calls through wireless. It is compact and lightweight Bluetooth Headset. You also get an iPhone Bluetooth Travel Cable for convenient syncing and charging. It costs $99 in all. You can get it at the Apple Store. The lithium-ion battery delivers up to 5.5 hours of talk time and up to 72 hours of standby time.
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December 9th, 2008
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iPhone 3G came with a very new and important feature, the GPS capability, which is integrated along with Google Maps. The GPS technology along with iPhone software, together would present a totally different mobile mapping interface.GPS means Global Positioning System. It uses information from earth-orbiting satellites to find your present location. A receiver estimates the distance to GPS satellites based on the time it takes for signals to reach it, then uses that information to identify its location. But there is more. iPhone 3G uses not only the GPS technology, but A-GPS , i.e, it tracks your location through the Wi-Fi signals and the information from cellular towers to determine a more accurate location. Thus, in a sense , the GPS technology helps us get a better location.
In iPhone 3G, if GPS is available, the iPhone displays a blue GPS indicator. But if you’re inside — without a clear line of sight to a GPS satellite — iPhone finds you via Wi-Fi. If you’re not in range of a Wi-Fi hot spot, iPhone finds you using cellular towers. And the size of a location circle tells you how accurately iPhone is able to calculate that location: The smaller the circle, the more accurate the location.
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December 7th, 2008
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