iPod Touch Tricks & Hacks

Sleep The iPod After A Certain Period Of Time


If you frequently listen to music on your iPhone before going to sleep, this is a pretty cool tip. You can set the iPod function to sleep after a desired period of time.
To set the sleep timer, launch the Clock. Select the Timer function. Set the amount of time you’d like to listen to your music before the iPod goes to sleep.

Tap on the “When Timer Ends” menu and you’ll be brought to a page where you’re able to select a particular alarm that is played when the timer ends. Scroll up and tap on “Sleep iPod”.


Customized Home shortcut


You can preconfigure double-clicking the Home button to quickly launch the camera, iPod, favorite contacts or Spotlight. Go to Settings -> General -> Home and set what you’d like the Home button to launch.

Delete Emails


You can do both "bulk deletes" and "individual deletes" when browsing email. To do a bulk delete, simply click Edit, check off the desired emails, and then choose delete or move. To delete a single email, simply "cross it out" by swiping your finger across the email, then press delete.
Fast Forward/Rewind Music & Video -
Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art to manually Forward/rewind.
Press And Hold A Number For Other Font

I'm not quite sure as to the purpose of this new feature, but it certainly is a new one. When typing, hold any of the numbers (0-9) on the keyboard and you can choose to write the number in a larger, different styled font.

Leave out Domain Extension
Here are some tips to use when typing in webpage address in Safari. If the webpage’s URL ends in “.com”, you can just leave out  “http://www.” and “.com” . Just enter “rediff” to go to “http://www.rediff.com”  However ,if the webpage’s URL doesn’t end in “.com” this trick doesn’t work. But, you can easily type “.net”, “.org” and “.edu” by pressing and holding on the “.com” button until the other domain name extensions appear. Slide to the one you need and let go to insert it into the URL.

 Scroll to the Top of the Page
When you are using iPhone applications, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the “top bar”, which has the time, service bars and the battery information. In Safari, this will also brings up the URL address bar as well.

Save Images in Safari
When you browse any web pages on Safari, simply touch the image and hold your finger until a menu show up, select Save Image. The downloaded image is saved under your Photo / Camera Roll.

Take Screenshots Anytime
You can take any screenshots at anytime easily on your iPhone. First of all, press and hold the “Home” button and then click the “Sleep” button once. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll immediately.

Inserting a Period
When you are typing on you iPhone, simply double tapping the “Space Bar” button at the end of a sentence, it will automatically insert a period followed by a space. It saves you a lot of time instead of pressing “124″ to get the numbers and symbols page where the period located in.

Customized Home shortcut
 You can preconfigure double-clicking the Home button to quickly launch the camera, iPod, favorite contacts or Spotlight. Go to Settings>General>Home and set what you’d like the Home button to launch.

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That's right...it's very much possible. There is an app called Air Sharing, that lets you do that. Really simple to use. So here's how you go about it:

1.Download Airsharing app from App Store.

2.Make sure your PC has Bonjour installed( I think it gets installed with iTunes by default).

3.You need to have a Wifi connection to use this though.

4.Open the app Airsharing on your iPhone.

5.You can connect to your iPhone by setting up your iPhone as a Network Drive on your PC, or you can also access your iPhone from your web browser.(the help pages in the App are very detailed, you will not face any issues in setting this up)

6.You can also configure it as a ad-hoc network.

Mac:

Open the Apple menu and select System Preferences.

Click Network.

Click AirPort.

Under Network Name, select Create Network.

Give your network a name (this is what you will connect to later on your iPhone), and a password if you wish. You can leave the channel option alone.

Click OK.

Windows 7:

Go to the Start Menu and type wireless in the search field

Click Manage Wireless Network

Click Add

Click Create an ad hoc network

Click Next

Give your network a name (this is what you will connect to later on your iPhone). Set up a password for your network if you wish.

Click Next

Windows Vista:

Open the Start menu, then click Control Panel.

Click Network and Internet.

Click Network and Sharing Center.

Click "Set up a connection or network" from the Tasks toolbar on the left.

Choose "Set up a wireless ad hoc (computer-to-computer) network."

Click Next.

Click Next.

Give your network a name (this is what you will connect to later on your iPhone).

Set up a password for your network if you wish.

Click Next.

Click Close.

Windows XP:

Open the Start menu, and click My Network Places.

Click "View network connections" from the Network Tasks toolbar on the left.

Find your wireless network connection, right click on it, and select Properties.

Click the Wireless Networks tab.

Click Advanced.

Select "Computer-to-computer (ad hoc) networks only" then click Close.

Click Add.

Give your network a name (this is what you will connect to later on your iPhone).

Set up a password for your network if you wish. Uncheck the box next to "The key is provided for me automatically" if you want to enter a password. Select Disabled in the Data encryption drop down menu if you do not wish to have a password.

Click OK.

Click OK.

Once done, just transfer your music and videos to your iPhone like you do a file transfer to a USB. The files will be opened in your iPhone using the quicktime player.

The biggest story around the iPhone 4 launch hasn't been about the phone's awesome new features, it's been about the flaky reception when it's held wrong. A left-handed grip on the phone messes with the baseband antenna, and users are ticked off. Steve Jobs, in typical Jobsian style, has responded with "just avoid holding it that way." Well, Apple might have a better response than that: a software update that fixes the problem and could be out as early as Monday.

How can a software update fix what seems to be a hardware flaw in the iPhone 4? Well, it turns out -- according to posts on Apple's tech support forums and AppleInsider -- that the way the phone changes frequencies is miscalibrated, and the lag during the change registers as "no service" instead of actually switching to the best frequency.

So, left-handed iPhone 4 owners, hope is not lost. Keep an eye out for iOS 4.0.1 next week.

[via AppleInsider]