It’s no secret that I have had quite a few crashes with my iPhone since upgrading to the 2.0.2 firmware, and subsequently I have spent more than my fair share of time moving application icons from page to page trying to get things arranged how they were “pre-crash”. On top of that, often updating an app will cause it to move to the first open space on your iPhone, even if that spot is on page 1 and the app used to be on page 3. If, like me you often have 3, 4, 8 (or more) full pages of apps to rearrange after each crash, this time can quickly add up, as dragging an app between pages will push all the apps down one spot.

Luckily for you, I have discovered an easy trick that will help save you a ton of time the next time you need to move an application’s position between pages without messing up all the pages in between. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever wanted to temporarily disable your iPhone from auto-syncing when you hook it to your computer? No? Well, you may want to one day, and here’s how to do it: Read the rest of this entry »

My wife has one of those annoying names with a “special” symbol in it (she’s got one of those weird “e’s” with an accent over it). It’s not her fault, I blame her parents, but it doesn’t mean I don’t have to deal with it.

“Option+e+e” on the computer is not an option on the iPhone’s keyboard.

If you’re new to the iPhone and its multi-function keyboard, you may not know that it is capable of generating far more characters than you see by default. Sure, hitting that “123″ button will give you some numbers and a couple punctuation symbols, and sure, from that screen hitting the little “#+=” button will give you even more characters, but did you know you can type all sorts of freaky characters with a simple trick? Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, it can be done, but it ain’t easy. Faithful TICS reader brnmbrns has discovered that it is indeed possible to grab a shot of the lock screen in version 2.0.2 of the firmware, and as you can see above, I have verified this. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »

If you have a lot of ugly friends, odds are your camera roll could use a little sprucing up. Luckily for you, there’s a way you can grab photos from the web and from e-mail messages and save them to your iPhone for later viewing, e-mailing, or for use as wallpaper replacements. Here’s how: Read the rest of this entry »