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Apple has restricted many things in iPhone one of them was Disabling WIFI as soon as screen is locked to prevent battery. I’m not against it but there are times when you download a large file from cydia using WiFi and your screen gets locked, you lose the WiFi and download stops, this is [...]
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iPhone’s shake feature is now not only limited to its iPod app to Shuffle songs. Yes you heard right, Now you can launch any app that is installed on your iPhone just by shaking. If you’ve any favorite app that you use it every now and then and you dont want to flip pages to launch that [...]
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bQWERTY keyboard works with iKeyEx, if iKeyEx is not installed, bQWERTY will install it. Once installed you’ve to enable it from iKeyx.
Enabling bQWERTY keyboard is quite complicated.
Just follow the below steps and screenshots to enable it:
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Many of us don’t like to use Internet Explorer, mostly these days everyone is either on Google Chrome or on Firefox. There are times when we wanted to sync our bookmarks that are on PC to iPhone, Currently Apple only supports syncing bookmarks with Internet Explorer for Windows users, which sucks. I always wanted my [...]
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iPhone 3.0 is available for all versions of the Apple iPhone. So our good old iPhone 1st gen also gets to taste OS 3.0 with some cool addons . One of the amazing features that 3.0 brings is Push Notifications(but its not working for this oldie ). If you have 2G and Push [...]
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In a recent article I had mentioned that cydia was crashing on the ‘loading data’ screen. I tried finding the cause and the solution to this problem on many forums but didn’t find anything. But in a comment someone gave me a link to a site who had cause and also the solution to it. [...]
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Browsing through media content on iPhone Safari? Want to save it? Its simple…
You need Mplayer, Safari Download Plugin and Mobile finder. Both are available via Cydia. Now go to any site that has video embedded content. Safari download plugin will allow you to download this video / audio to your iPhone file system. By [...]
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Wondering how to get the iPhone OS 3.0 before your friends? Well…
Beta versions of iPhone OS 3.0 have leaked on the www and is freely available for iPhone users to download and try. The torrent firmware is available for download on the links provided @livecrunch.
Though iTunes wont officially show you the 3.0 update when [...]
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Making the iPhone play an Video in the background is actually possible. So while you type and SMS or Browse through photos on Coloris the video would keep playing in the Background.
A loop hole in the firmware allows this on any iPhone firmware upto the current v2.2.1. The iPhone sure is capable of some good [...]
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Finally the iPod Touch 2G gets freedom. While the iPhone, iPod Touch 1G, iPhone 3G have been jailbreaked long back using quickpwn, winpwn etc. The iPod Touch 2G took some time. A paid unlock for the iPod Touch 2G ‘NitroKey Slipstream‘ is finally out for use via PC. Costing $15 this will get you all [...]
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Adding Xsellize source can be tricky. The source brings some really cool apps for FREE.
You need to generate a username+password to add this source. To get the username and password you will have to register on www.xsellize.com and then use the same username-password in the source.
It goes something like this. If your username is wxyz [...]
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The iPhone browser is awesome and to make surfing really quick the keyboard (when typing in the mobile safari address bar) shows a .com shortcut button. But the www is not all about .com. There are other extensions that you would use regularly.
So here is the trick. Just hold down the .com button a little [...]
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Used some friends iPhone to setup and you email temporarily? Wondering how to delete your mail account in iPhone? Well its simple. the option to delete an mail account is in the Settings>Mail, contacts, calendars. Simple/ Sweet!
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How to save email messages as drafts in the iPhone:
A quick way to put a unfinished message to drafts in the iPhone Mail app is to click CANCEL. Instead of deleting and message the App Actually pops up an option to Save the message…
Clicking Save will place the email in your drafts folder!
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Update: Version 0.9.5-5 of Clippy is now out.
Clippy app via Cydia recently showed an update. I updated the version and was shocked to see that the cut-copy-paste menu above the keyboard missing. Earlier the option had to be accessed by pressing The ‘123‘ button on your keyboard (this is while copying text from an existing [...]
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Backing up data on the iPhone has always been a problem. Whenever you wish to upgrade the iphone firmware there is always a hesitancy because you always have a problem of losing your priceless data. It can be applications, contacs, files,photos etc. Though you can backup them up via iTunes as well (except third-party apps) [...]
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Accidentally upgraded to frimware v2.2.1?
Want to Jailbreak or Unlock your iPhone v2.2.1?
Much to your delight its possible to Downgrade to V2.2 … !! read on
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Net surfing on the iPhone is considered to be a a pleasure on the iPhone. However low internet speed due to poor 3G connection OR use of edge spoils the fun. The iPhone Safari takes a of of time to load a site which don’t have mobile version. This is because the site may [...]
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While viewing any message on the iPhone look for the details tab. Under this you will get an option to mark the message as unread. Tap on it and done!
Note: This is for marking emails as unread; and not sms / text messages
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How do I copy and paste text on the iPhone / iPod Touch?
This is the most common question that I hear new iPhone users asking. But its time that iPhone bashers get a good reply. We have already have CopierCin, Sms2Mail and Pastebud. But with Clippy Beta the final punch on the iPhone with [...]
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There are two ways of disabling text message preview from showing up on the unlock screen or springboard.
1. By enabling the Passcode Lock: Go to Settings>General>PassCode Lock – Once you enable the passcode it gives you an option “Show SMS Preview on/off”. Turnign it Off solves your problem. Though entering the passcode again and again [...]
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On a normal PC you can just move the cursor over a link to see the URL it goes to. But how do we do that on the iPhone? Well the Mobile Safari allows this! Just hold your finger on the link and an information balloon displaying the link target URL will show up. Cheers
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A less know iPhone trick in iPhone’s mobile safari is the option to click on any phone number appearing on the safari webpage to dial it. While this is common in most smartphones for phone numbers in SMS messages, the iPhone allows this inside Safari!
So the next time you want to dial a phone [...]
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