Unlike Safari for the PC/Mac, Safari on the iPhone does not let you specify a start page when you open the browser. However, we’ve come up with a work around that more or less performs the same function.
Step 1: Open up the page you’d like to make your start page in Safari (we’ll assume for this exercise you want theiphonecheatsheet.com – and why wouldn’t you?!).
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Have you ever wanted to grab a screenshot of something on your iPhone? No? Well, just humor us. Let’s pretend you just got the high score in Critter Crunch, and wanted to e-mail a shot to your friends before your iPhone crashes and you lose your proof. Well, Apple has actually made it pretty easy to grab a shot of whatever happens to be on your iPhone’s screen with the newly released version 2 iPhone firmware update. Simply follow these steps.
Taking an iPhone screen shot is as easy as 1, 2, 3
When I upgraded to a new iPhone 3G from my first gen iPhone, I was magnanimous enough to pass my old iPhone down to my wife. Since she had seen me using the iPhone for the past year, I sort of took for granted that she knew what do to with it and I didn’t really go too crazy with the tutorials. However, the other night she was listening to music on her iPhone and I began babbling on about some geeky thing or another, and I noticed she unlocked her iPhone to pause it before pretending to care what I was talking about (she’s good like that).
“You know, if you squeeze that microphone on the cord, it will pause the track for you,” I said. “Really?” “Yep. And if hit click it twice, it will skip to the next track“. Well, her eyes lit up, as if she’d suddenly regained some of her missing iPod clickwheel functionality.
It then occurred to me that there may be others out there who are technologically savvy enough to know they WANT the iPhone, but not nerdy enough to read the manual, or perhaps they are inheriting it as my wife did and don’t even know what questions to ask. To that end, I present our first Newbie Tip: Get the most out of your iPhone’s Ear Buds. Here’s what you can do with them (besides listen to music). Read the rest of this entry »
