Interesting Iphone tricks

1. Go to Top of the screen  -

In any app that you may be using ,even the browser, you can automatically scroll to the top by hitting on the "top bar", which has the time, service bars, and battery. 

     2.  No more typing in "http" or ".com"

When you wanna hit a site, you don't have to type the "www" or the ".com".. Note: Your search engine must be set to Google, not Yahoo.

          4.   Press & Hold For Alternate Characters -

Hold a letter for a popup of various versions of the character (i.e. to type España with the "ñ" simply hold "n" and simply slide/release to the appropriate character).

      5.   Click & Hold URL's -

In Safari, hold a link to see the URL and site name.

      6.   Soft Reset -

Press and hold the Home button and the Sleep button to restart your iPhone. A white light will flash, the screen will shut off and then turn back on. Keep holding until the screen turns back on.

      7.   Take a Screenshot -

To take a screenshot, hold the home button and click the sleep button. The screen will flash white and the screenshot will be stored in your camera roll.

      8.   Set Parental Controls -

You can enable certain restrictions or parental controls on your iPhone. You can block explicit lyrics, Safari, YouTube, iTunes, or the App Store. Just go to Settings, General, Restrictions.

      9.   Save Any Image from Safari -

To save any image from the web to your camera roll, simply press and hold the image. A menu will appear asking "Save Image" or "Cancel". Once the image is in your camera roll, you can set it as your wallpaper.

      10.  Fast Forward/Rewind Music & Video -

Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art to manually FF/rewind.

      11.   Delete Emails -

You can do both "bulk deletes" and "individual deletes" when browsing email. To do a bulk delete, simply click Edit, check off the desired emails, and then choose delete or move. To delete a single email, simply "cross it out" by swiping your finger across the email, then press delete.

How To Increase iPhone Battery Life

• Minimize use of location services: Applications that actively use location services such as Maps may reduce battery life. To disable location services, go to Settings > General > Location Services or use location services only when needed.
• Turn off push notifications: Some applications from the App Store use the Apple Push Notification Service to alert you of new data. Those applications that extensively rely on push notifications (such as instant messaging applications) may impact battery life. To disable push notifications, go to Settings > Notifications and set Notifications to Off. Note that this does not prevent new data from being received when the application is opened. Also, the Notifications setting will not be visible if you do not have any applications installed that support push notifications.
• Fetch new data less frequently: Applications such as Mail can be set to fetch data wirelessly at specific intervals. The more frequently email or other data is fetched, the quicker your battery may drain. To fetch new data manually, from the Home screen choose Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Manually. To increase the fetch interval, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and tap Hourly. Note that this is a global setting and applies to all applications that do not support push services.
• Turn off push mail: If you have a push mail account such as Yahoo!, MobileMe or Microsoft Exchange, turn off push when you don’t need it. Go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data and set Push to Off. Messages sent to your push email accounts will now be received on your phone based on the global Fetch setting rather than as they arrive. If the global Fetch setting is set to Manually, you will not be able to locate your iPhone using the MobileMe Find My iPhone feature.
• Auto-check fewer email accounts: You can save power by checking fewer email accounts. This can be accomplished by turning off an email account or by deleting it. To turn off an account, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, choose an email account, and set Account to Off. To remove an account, go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars, choose an email account, and tap Delete Account.
• Minimize use of third-party applications: Excessive use of applications such as games that prevent the screen from dimming or shutting off or applications that use location services can reduce battery life.
• Turn off Wi-Fi: If you rarely use Wi-Fi, you can turn it off to save power. Go to Settings > Wi-Fi and set Wi-Fi to Off. Note that if you frequently use your iPhone to browse the web, battery life may be improved by using Wi-Fi instead of cellular data networks.
• Turn off Bluetooth: If you rarely use a Bluetooth headset or car kit, you can turn off Bluetooth to save power. Go to Settings > General > Bluetooth and set Bluetooth to Off.
• Use Airplane Mode in low- or no-coverage areas: Because your iPhone always tries to maintain a connection with the cellular network, it may use more power in low- or no-coverage areas. Turning on Airplane Mode can increase battery life in these situations; however, you will be unable to make or receive calls. To turn on Airplane Mode, go to Settings and set Airplane Mode to On.
• Adjust brightness: Dimming the screen is another way to extend battery life. Go to Settings > Brightness and drag the slider to the left to lower the default screen brightness. In addition, turning on Auto-Brightness allows the screen to adjust its brightness based on current lighting conditions. Go to Settings > Brightness and set Auto-Brightness to On.
• Turn off EQ: Applying an equalizer setting to song playback on your iPhone can decrease battery life. To turn EQ off, go to Settings > iPod > EQ and tap Off. Note that if you’ve added EQ to songs directly in iTunes, you’ll need to set EQ on iPhone to Flat in order to have the same effect as Off because iPhone keeps your iTunes settings intact. Go to Settings > iPod > EQ and tap Flat.
• Turn off 3G: Using 3G cellular networks loads data faster, but may also decrease battery life, especially in areas with limited 3G coverage. To disable 3G, from the Home screen choose Settings > General > Network and set Enable 3G to Off. You will still be able to make and receive calls and access cellular data networks via EDGE or GPRS where available.

Lock Your iPhone

It may seem obvious, but you should lock your iPhone when you aren’t using it. You will be able to receive calls and text messages while it is locked, but nothing happens if you touch the screen. To lock iPhone, press the Sleep/Wake button. You can also set the Auto-Lock interval so your iPhone will turn off more quickly after a period of inactivity. To set Auto-Lock, go to Settings > General > Auto-Lock and set the interval to a short time, such as 1 minute.

Use iPhone Regularly

For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down)

16 Android Features

Silence Your Email Notification Sound - You don’t have to put up with that annoying noise everytime you get a mail. Head over to Gmail’s settings menu and set the ringtone to silent. Other applications can be configured in a similar way.

Use a File Manager – It is best to use a file manager for phones with huge memory space. An application like Astro will help you browse through the data of your Android phone and carry out other file operations just like you would do on a computer.

Keyboard Shortcuts – Its best to use keyboard shortcuts wherever possible. Just Google search Android keyboard shortcuts to make yourself at home and increase speed with your use of the Android.

Pop Ups – It occurs anywhere and everywhere. If you want to make a pop up message disappear, just hold it and drag it down to remove it.

Google Voice – Install Google Voice and register. This will let you have a number of addon options with the normal ones.

Free Talk Time – An app like Fring, will let you make calls over Google Talk or Skype and that too for free.

Use MP3 As Ringtones – By default, MP3 aren’t available on the selection list for ringtones. For this, create a folder name Ringtones and shift all your songs over to the same folder. Your songs must be available now in the selection list of ringtones.

Alternate Browsers – There are other browsers than the inbuilt ones on the Android like the Dolphin Browser. These browsers offer tabbed browsing and other awesome stuff.

Backup Your Data – using the app MyBackup which saves everything from A to Z on your Android phone with no problem.

Music Junkie – If you are the music junkie, an app like TuneWiki will be really handy. It finds you lyrics of the current song and also lets you listen to internet radio.

Cut, Copy And Paste – Unlike Apple’s fussy cut, copy and what nots to do, here you just keep pressing on any text. In a browser, select Menu and then Select text.

Music Manger – If you got a lot of music, you can manage it by using Double Twist, a handy software. It also lets you import iTunes playlists.

Import Bookmarks – Import important links and pages from your PC to your Android Phone by using an app like MyBookmarks.

RingDroid – This is a handy app that lets you cut a certain part of a song and lets you keep it as a ringtone.

Track your Phone – Mobile Defense is an app that lets you keep track of your phone via the PC on GPS and then wipe off important data.

Photo Editing – Adobe is an expert at this stuff. Download Photoshop.com app to edit photos. Its free and compact too.

Outlook Express Error 800ccc0e POP3

*Error Message: 800ccc0e - Protocol: POP3* "The connection to the server has failed".

The indicates a blocked SMTP port.Verify with your System/Network Administrator about this,Alternatively,set your POP port to 110.A firewall or a network configuration can also cause this error.

Dont mess with Google,They Google-ised spam!

I m pretty sure that most of us hold more than 2 email accounts by now.Being a Gmail user since its inception.I couldnt help but notice the low amounts of spam that get into my Gmail inbox.Comparing it my Gmail to my other accounts like H**mail and Y*hoo,the differences are vast to say the least.Now I m not on a Google-competitor bashing spree here but really? ,just look at the spam themselves.The ones that managed to make it through Google are pure gibberish,Google has successfully forced spam to the point of illegibility.

Here's the news from Google.

Gmail fans often cite great spam protection as a key reason they love Gmail. It's relatively easy to catch spam messages; the challenge is to catch the right messages without blocking mail you want along the way.How do we do it? Our team of leading spam-fighting scientists uses a number of advanced Google technologies. Though in many cases our best weapon is you.

Community clicks
Gmail users play an important role in keeping spammy messages out of millions of inboxes. When the Gmail community votes with their clicks to report a particular email as spam, our system quickly learns to start blocking similar messages. The more spam the community marks, the smarter our system becomes.

Source http://www.google.com/mail/help/fightspam/spamexplained.html

How To Go Back To Your Previous Hardware Driver

If you happen to run into problems with a driver, Windows XP has a feature to roll back to a previous version

1. Click Start-->click Control Panel--> Performance and Maintenance.
2. Click "See basic information about your computer".
3. System Properties dialog box-->Hardware tab.
4. Click Device Manager.
5. In the Device Manager console-->right-click the device whose driver you want to rollback-->then click

Properties.
6. If the device is not working, it will likely appear with a red X or a yellow question mark.
7. Click the Driver tab-->then click Roll Back Driver.

Do take note that once you replace your driver ,the previous one that you have just replaced,will no longer be in existence.

Windows Media Player Error C00D0029

Windows Media Player Error C00D0029


The connection to the server has been lost. (Error=C00D0029)
-or-
Cannot open http://www......... Please verify that the path and filename are correct and try again. (Error=C00D0029)


This error signals a problem with the internet connection,verify that your internet connection is ok.
System settings,routers and firewalls could also be a cause.A recent installation of firewalls or an anti virus can trigger this error.