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iPhone magic video

iPhone Fan — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:26:01 +0000

Quite a cool little video by magician Marco Tempest..

10 tips to make your iPhone battery last longer

iPhone Fan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:49:25 +0000

The iPhone battery doesn’t last too long if you’re very active on the phone, so here are 10 tips and tricks to help your iPhone stay alive!

1. Store and use the iPhone at room temperature

Direct sunshine or putting the iPhone in the glove compartment of a warm car will cause your iPhone’s battery life to drop sharply. The iPhone functions well between 0 degrees centigrade and 35 degrees centigrade (32-95° F).

You should store your iPhone in conditions between -20° C and 45° C (-4° F to 113° F).

The ideal battery life environment for both usage and storage is room temperature: 22° C (72° F).

2. Change Mail autochecking from every 15 minutes to every hour

Go to Settings
Click on Mail
Click on Auto-check and increase the interval or turn it off altogether

3. Turn off Wi-fi

If you don’t need to use Wi-Fi constantly then you will get better battery life by turning it off and then enabling it when you want to browse via a hot spot.

Go to Settings
Click on Wi-Fi
Click on Off

4. Turn off Bluetooth

Go to Settings
Click on General
Click on Bluetooth
Select Off

5. Reduce the display’s brightness

Go to Settings
Click on Brightness
Drag the slider to the left to dim the display’s brightness

6. Enable the display’s Auto-Brightness

Alternatively you could enable Auto-Brightness so the iPhone’s display is automatically adjusted to match the current lighting conditions:

Go to Settings
Click on Brightness
Set Auto-Brightness to On

7. Lock the iPhone

It may sound obvious but locking the iPhone as soon as you’ve finished using it will turn off the display immediately and ensure that it won’t be making persistent calls while it’s in your pocket. Simply click on the Sleep/Wake button on the upper right hand of the iPhone.

8. Enable Auto-Lock

Better still, if you can get into the habit of locking your iPhone yourself simply turn on the Auto-Lock feature:

Go to Settings
Click on General
Click on Auto-Lock
Select a duration before the Auto-Lock kicks in, eg 1 minute or less

9. Turn off keyboard clicks

If you regularly use the iPhone’s touch keyboard then the constant need to generate audio keyboard clicks can add to the iPhone’s power consumption. To turn off keyboard clicks:

Go to Settings
Click on Sounds
Turn Keyboard clicks to Off

10. Turn off the music equalizer (EQ)

The iPhone’s audio equalizer may add some oomph to the songs but it also delivers a powerful blow to the handset’s battery life because of the constant processing it requires. To turn off the EQ:

Go to Settings
Click on iPod
Select EQ and click on Flat

iPhone could become a wind music instrument?

iPhone Fan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:05:42 +0000

Have you ever thought that the iPhone could become a wind music instrument? Apparently it is possible with the great application designed by Smule called Ocarina. Check this out on the App Store, it’s already a massive success, and it’s not finished, and finally it is cheap.

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DIY iPhone 3g Stand – free

iPhone Fan — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:33:18 +0000

Some cool news is floating around the place about a DIY guide on how to create a stand for the iPhone using just the packaging which comes with the phone, take a look at this:

Truly brilliant I tell you!

iPhone Forensics book by O’Reilly

iPhone Fan — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:32:32 +0000

With iPhone use increasing in business networks, IT and security professionals face a serious challenge: these devices store an enormous amount of information. If your staff conducts business with iPhones, you need to know how to recover, analyze, and securely destroy sensitive data. iPhone Forensics supplies the knowledge necessary to conduct complete and highly specialized forensic analysis of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch.

“This book is a must for anyone attempting to examine the iPhone. The level of forensic detail is excellent. If only all guides to forensics were written with this clarity!” -Andrew Sheldon, Director of Evidence Talks, computer forensics experts

With iPhone use increasing in business networks, IT and security professionals face a serious challenge: these devices store an enormous amount of information. If your staff conducts business with an iPhone, you need to know how to recover, analyze, and securely destroy sensitive data. iPhone Forensics supplies the knowledge necessary to conduct complete and highly specialized forensic analysis of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch. This book helps you:

Determine what type of data is stored on the device
Break v1.x and v2.x passcode-protected iPhones to gain access to the device
Build a custom recovery toolkit for the iPhone
Interrupt iPhone 3G’s “secure wipe” process
Conduct data recovery of a v1.x and v2.x iPhone user disk partition, and preserve and recover the entire raw user disk partition
Recover deleted voicemail, images, email, and other personal data, using data carving techniques
Recover geotagged metadata from camera photos
Discover Google map lookups, typing cache, and other data stored on the live file system
Extract contact information from the iPhone’s database
Use different recovery strategies based on case needs

And more. iPhone Forensics includes techniques used by more than 200 law enforcement agencies worldwide, and is a must-have for any corporate compliance and disaster recovery plan.

iPhone 2.0 Software Screenshot

Switch — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:47:08 +0000

It has been called for, for quite some time. Users wanted a way for them to be able to take pictures of the screen of the phone, from the phone itself.

Well, its available via the iPhones operating system (2.0) by pressing the Home & Sleep/Wake buttons together. The screen of the phone will then briefly flash and whatever was onscreen at that moment, will be saved to the Camera Roll.

This feature can also apparently be enabled on 1.1.4 through the use of a .plist file.

Five Downsides of iPhone 3G

Switch — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:24:14 +0000

There is a lot to be said for all the positives of the new iPhone 3g… but lets take a moment to focus on some of the negative aspects…

First and foremost (to ease us into the bad) here is a bittersweet problem -
With bandwidth being as expensive as it is in South Africa – One really wonders what the overall total cost of ownership would be for running an iPhone in this country.

Recent international figures indicate that consumer usage of bandwidth may be up to 30 times higher than on a regular phone.
All that ooohing and ahh’ing over a rich web experience and the host of available things to do on the phone would undoubtedly lead to more usage and may result in overall prices.
The prospect of having GPS functionality on your phone is great, but the truth is that the A-GPS technology that is present in the new iPhone (a technology which factors in hot-spot and cell phone tower location data into positioning calculations) is only really as good as the information the iPhone is being fed. Does Vodacom have this functionality present on their cell towers, and if so, how wide-spread is it?Then there are the maps, which are a separate issue altogether, what map data will the phone make use of, can it be updated, would there be a choice of 3rd party mapping, and how complete are those maps?

On the iPhone (1st Gen) – There was also an apparent issue with connecting to a laptop via bluetooth, to use the phone as a dial-up modem for laptop surfing. A few hacks were discussed to make this a reality. Has that issue been resolved in the iPhone 3g?The new specifications are still reporting to have “Bluetooth support for headsets only” – This isn’t nearly enough of a standard if the iPhone wants to compete with the other vendors in this arena.
The battery life is not actually as long as it reportedly is the iPhone specs informational pages. Some people see the iPhone as an expensive teenagers toy, whilst others hope to embrace the host of features it offers to use it as a successful business tool. How will the limited battery life effect this?The battery is also not user-replaceable and this could lead to more expensive ownership in the long-term.
Video Camera & MMS – There is still no video recording, and the only apparent way to send images from the phone is via email, and not by MMS like some of the other phone vendors allow.

Some people were “put-out” by how quickly the iPhone 3g was put out after the iPhone 2g – My gut tells me that Apple have done this new version of phone largely in response to the wide spread jail-breaking of the 1st generation iPhone, and in an attempt to drive market penitration in many more countries. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if a 3rd generation of iPhone was to hit the shelves a year and a half – two years from now…

Free calls with Skype on your iPhone 3G

iPhone Fan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:00:59 +0000

Do you want to access Skype on your mobile phone and enjoy free Skype chats and cost-effective calling at SkypeOut rates?

Grab your iPhone, point the browser to s4iphone.com and you’re already on your way! IM+ for Skype is also avail on BlackBerry RIM, Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Symbian S60 and J2ME Phones.

IM+ for Skype is a fully mobile application that enables voice and text communication with other Skype users and provides cost-effective calling to
landlines and mobiles.

Four fantastic features:

Call Skype users to their PCs
Make cost-effective calls to any destination
See who is online and chat with Skype users
One Time Fee, all updates included

Click here to read more about IM+ for Skype!