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Tapping on that small “globe” symbol to switch between your activated international keyboards is fun and all, but having a pop-up menu in 4.0 is even better. I’m not sure if this is beta 4 specific, but I certainly haven’t heard of it before accidentally activating it yesterday. All you …

One of my favourite little features in iPhone 4.0 is the inclusion of Messaging.app in the Spotlight Search, which lets me call up SMS conversations with specific contacts — sometimes with as little as two taps. Setup is very simple. Since my 10GB of music usually tend to knock other …

[JPEG on left, PNG on right] This is really a tip for users who take a lot of iPhone screenshots for web sites (hi, friends!). I use Pastebot for almost all of my image transferring, and I’ve noticed that it can export images to my Mac in two formats: .jpg …

While I was away, Awesome Note apparently added something awesome (surprise, surprise). They call it the Diary view, but I call it a great Momento App replacement. Sure, Awesome Note won’t import your Facebook and Twitter updates and create a you-centric timeline of events like Momento does, but it does …

Until we get metatag support in Simplenote, I’ll be using a set of Canadian style dash tags (ex. -JAiB, -food, -osx) that are so common amongst my people. This has been working quite nicely for the various kinds of notes I create, whether they be JAiB drafts or quick reminders …

Apple iPhone School posted a quick non-jailbreak tip for extending the iPhone’s home screen limit. By default, you can only have 11 home screens, but if you completely fill up your first and last home screens and leave Voice Memos as the very last icon, you can push your iPhone …

I’ve been using Pastebot (impressions here) to keep my iPhone wallpapers in cryogenic stasis until they’re needed. The cryo stasis part is probably unnecessary (been playing a lot of Mass Effect 2 lately) since wallpapers don’t age, spoil, or die, but they do normally have to be synced over from …

I’ve been using the web app for a few weeks now, and I’ve been absolutely loving the increased load speed. I’m not a huge email person – I get about 10 emails a day on average – but something had really started to slow the refresh rate of my Gmail …

As a former long-time user of Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC, I was eager to see if Dragon Dictation would include the same command syntax.  Largely, it has.   Here are some tips and a quick reference guide to some of the helpful things you can say during your dictation. …

This isn’t a step-by-step guide to surfing on mobile Safari, but rather a collection of little tips for surfing on the latest  iPhone firmware (3.1.2, at the time of writing). I’ve never thought that the iPhone was a machine so complicated that you’d need to buy a book about it, …

Calculators are the sentries that ward off calculations. Something about having one nearby seems to rid me of the need to compute calculations, but the moment I take it off of my first home screen (“well, won’t need this old thing…”) it’s as if all the stupid numbers decide to …