Some General iPhone tips & tricks
Contents
Tips
Ringtones
Wallpapers
Web Apps
You can go to http://www.apple.com/webapps/to browse many web apps available for iphone. When you go to the
address of a web app, simply press the plus sign at the bottom of the
page, then click 'Add to Home Screen'.
The only web app I use anymore is ESPN
Tips
I highly recommend watching the guided tour (link) from apple's website, so I'll skip a bunch of very useful tips & tricks shared in that video. Also, tons of tips on Apple's iPhone Site.
Contacts - On a Mac, in Address Book you can customize the names of
phones (useful for families with multiple phones), so for instance,
instead of going to my sister's family info (Jamie & VIrgil Vaduva)
and seeing "Home, Mobile, Mobile" for their lables, I see "Home,
Virgil's Cell & Jamie's Cell" I find that very useful.
When on any homescreen on your iphone, double tap the Home button
to go directly to the Favorites section of the phone app - because of this feature, I don't find it
necessary to keep the phone icon in the dock.
I highly recommend clear armorfor your phone. I have it & it's basically invisible, but
very tough. Check out the site to find out more. $20
There's a way to make customized webclips (icons for your web apps). Go here on your iphone & follow the complicated instructions. Here is the website that tells about it. Really cool if you have a website you wanna bookmark on your homepage, but they don't provide an icon.
When searching for apps in the iTunes app store, there are a couple of ways to 'power search'. Any time your in the iTunes store, and you use the search in the upper right of the iTunes application, it'll give all these results. From there, click "Power Search" then in the drop-down menu, select "Applications". For another option, when on the front page of the iTunes store, click on App Store in the side bar in the upper left. Then in the iTunes menu click View > Show Browser (or "command + B" on a mac or I assume "Control + B" in windows). This will show a long list of nothing but the title of apps - by category.
Ringtones*
If you weren't aware, you can go to any given contact & choose a specific ringtone for when they call you. Some of these below, I use for my alarm clock. To add any of these ringtones, simply download them, then drag them to the ringtones section in iTunes. You can make your own ringtones with Garageband.
Song Ringtones
All This Time Still Falling (Erasure)
Bizzar Love Triangle (New Order)
Carol of the Bells (Glory of Christmas)
Carol of the Bells (Nylons)
Dr. Who (Theme Song)
Eleanor Rigby (Beatles)
Everybody Everybody (Homestarruner)
Everybody to the Limit (Strongbad)
Gimme Gimme Gimme (ABBA)
Good Morning (Beatles)
Grease (Theme Song)
Halloween (Theme Song)
I love Saturday (Erasure)
Im Only Sleeping (Beatles)
Inspector Gadget (Theme Song)
It is You (Newsboys - this has consistently been my favorite ringtone)
A Little Respect (Erasure)
Mais Que Nada (Brazil 66)
Never Gonna Give You Up (if you wanna get Rick Rolled when someone calls)
Dragostea Din Tei (O-Zone)
One Week (Bare Naked Ladies)
Oxygen (The Echoing Green)
Ring Ring (Abba)
Safety Dance (The Echoing Green)
Say The Words (DC Talk)
Scooby Doo (Theme Song)
Sonata in D Major (Michael W. Smith)
Super Mario Bros (Theme Song)
The System is Down (Strongbad)
This Day (Audio A)
Total Eclipse of the Heart (Nicki French)
Twighlight Zone (Underground Spell)
Voulez-Vous (Erasure - Abba cover)
Waiting Room (La Rue)
You Spin Me Right Round (Dead or Alive)
Young Folks (Peter Bjorn and John)
Tone Ringtones
Never Gonna Be Alone (FFH)
Wallpapers*
There are tons of free wallpapers online (just google "iphone wallpaper(s)"). Below is a selection of wallpapers as well as a link to one site with a HUGE selection of iphone wallpapers. http://www.thememyphone.com/index.php
It's also very easy create your own. Just take a pic or desktop wallpaper you like & crop it to the size of your iphone (320 x 480 px).
