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How do I: the best iPhone apps for kids
Present a small child with a computer and it’s a confusing jumble of buttons. Even a mouse isn’t that straightforward to use for tiny hands. However, we are nearly all blessed with the most versatile controller of all. Our fingers. Hand a touchscreen device to a child and they pick up the interaction almost instantly … Continue reading
How do I: tip for restarting your data connection
Commuters in particular will be familiar and frustrated with the randomness with which your data connection can drop. Sometimes it’s simple physics. You’re in a tunnel and the signal can’t reach you. However, other times you’re in an urban area with no significant tall buildings or crowds interfering with the signal and you can’t seem … Continue reading
How do I: switch on battery percentage
Although the iPhone 4′s battery life has improved things, one of the downsides of owning a power-hungry Smartphone, such as the iPhone, is battery life. Or the lack of it. You’ll soon become accustomed to the stress of getting caught short when the low battery notification button appears. Thankfully you can mitigate this by having … Continue reading
How do I: download a web image on an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
Another of those tips that’s obvious once you know, but a mystery until you do. If you’re looking to take a screengrab, then go here, but if it’s a specific image in your phone’s web browser, then all you need to do is the below. Open up your web browser and go the image you’re … Continue reading
How do I: 5 ways to protect your iPhone
Whether your mobile contract subsidy hid the big number from you or not, there’s no getting away from the fact that iPhones are expensive. Also beautiful, useful and an endless source of mobile entertainment but you usually get what you pay for. As such it is surprising that many people treat their pocket-sized bundle of joy … Continue reading
How do I: lock portrait view on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
Many apps have a single orientation, portrait or landscape, but many allow you to view the content in either orientation, such as the default Safari internet browser. If you’re looking to lock the screen orientation on your device to portrait, then look no further. Here’s what you do: Doubleclick the Home button and a footer … Continue reading
How do I: take a screengrab on an iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
One of the beauties of the iOS set of products – iPhone, iPod touch and iPad – is that they come with no instruction manual. They should be easy to enough to use not to require one. However, this is one of those tips that’s so obvious to some, but unknown to many other new … Continue reading
How do I: organise my apps into folders
If you have even a passing interest in apps, let alone if you’re an app reviewer, then in no time at all your handset will contain screen after screen of apps. Help is at hand though. On Apple devices with iOS4 (nearly all iPhones and iPod touches and all iPads can be updated to this), there … Continue reading
How do I: choosing my first apps
You have to hand it to them, Apple do a great job with packaging. OK, a great job with design, full stop. You open the clean, white box and there is is, your (and millions of other peoples’) object of desire. You’ve heard about apps. A wonderfully simple way of rebranding the inaccessible and technical … Continue reading
How do I: close down apps
Apple’s addition of multitasking to the iOS software was long in the coming, but worth the wait. Generally, it manages the memory well meaning you don’t need to close down apps running the background and can just get on with what you’re doing without having to think about memory issues. However, sometimes if you have … Continue reading
