As you well know, the Iphone is the coolest gadget to hit the world in the last couple of years. This little machine is designed to keep you connected, entertained and make life a whole lot easier by incorporating computer, Music, Internet, and phone in a device that fits in the palm of your hand. Watch what Microsoft is doing to Stop Apple
Thanks for visiting and read on!!
Below are just a few cool things you can do with your IPhone. Keep in mind that this page will be updated weekly to reflect NEW tricks available for the Iphone. Also, I've provided a comment box at the end of this page that can obtain comments from readers and to help us build a community to learn new features that you all feel should be included in this page.
Also, don't forget to explore all of the music available legally at your finger tips
do you need an Iphone or Ipod Touch?
Here are some discounts for you
Continue with tips below!!
1. 'Blue dot' yourself on Google Maps
Unlike the original iPhone, the iPhone 3G features integrated GPS technology. To test it out, run outside, hit the Maps icon and press the small blue 'locate me' button in the bottom-left corner.
The iPhone's GPS will triangulate your position and show your current location as a pulsating blue dot. Now run up the street and watch that little dot move! Cool huh?
2. Take a 2 Megapixel photo
Thanks to the GPS technology inside the new iPhone 3G, whenever you take a photo using the 2MP camera you can 'geo-tag' the image with your current location. Your excitement at this feature will only be tempered by the realisation that the iPhone's camera is, sadly, a bit rubbish.
3. Connect to Wi-Fi
While the new iPhone is capable of 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi is faster. To set up your iPhone to automatically connect to your wireless network, press the Settings icon and select the Wi-Fi option.
Any networks you register will be joined automatically whenever you're in range. O2 subscribers in the UK also have free access to over 9,000 Wi-Fi hotspots operated by The Cloud and BT OpenZone. Nice.
4. Set up your email
The iPhone can support multiple POP/IMAP accounts and features one-click setup routines for Yahoo! Mail, Google Mail, MobileMe and AOL. Sure, other phones offer mobile email but few do it so beautifully and easily as the iPhone.
You'll find the Mail option in the Settings menu. If you're still feeling smug, set your default email signature to 'Sent from my iPhone 3G'.
5. Buy a song on iTunes
You no longer need to use a PC or Mac to buy music from the iTunes store. Tap the purple iTunes button to launch the Wi-Fi Music Store.
Once you're a registered iTuner, whatever you buy on your iPhone will be automatically transferred to your computer when you sync. I just bought 'Sweet About Me' by Gabriella Cilmi.
6. Download Super Monkey Ball from the App Store
New to version 2.0 of the iPhone firmware is the App Store. This ice-blue icon gives you one-tap access to what is essentially an 'iTunes for software', a buffet table of new games, utilities, add-ons and tools designed specifically for
7. Go portrait. Go landscape.
The iPhone's accelerometer auto-detects the way that you're holding your iPhone. The best demonstration of this is when you're browsing the web. Fire up the Safari browser and load up the TechRadar home page – www.techradar.com. (Other websites are available...)
Now turn your iPhone 90-degrees to rotate the view from portrait to landscape mode. Note: if you rotate the iPhone 3G's Calculator app sideways it activates the new scientific version.
8. Change your iPhone's wallpaper
You can customise the iPhone's opening screen with any photo or image stored in the iPhone. Once you have an image of your wife / husband/ girlfriend / boyfriend / life partner / dog / cat / car / favourite football player / Playboy bunny / or a random piece of art, open it in the Photos application and click the bottom-left icon. This will give you three options – Use As Wallpaper, Email Photo or Assign to Contact.
9. Change your ringtone
Everybody seems to use the default 'Old Phone' ringtone. Why? Probably because it's the best of a bad bunch. Apple sells ringtones on the iTunes store. But a free option is to use the Audiko website – upload a song, snip out a catchy fragment and then download the .m4r file to your iPhone.
10. Add the best web apps
Up until the launch of the iPhone 2.0 software and the App Store, Apple wouldn't let developers install applications on the iPhone. So we had to make do with watered down, Internet-only web apps. But even with the arrival of the App Store, there are still some web apps worth having. You can browse through the selection on Apple's web apps page.
Check out the BBC iPlayer Buddy and the Facebook app.
And there's a useful selection of apps on TheMacBox website, including a UK train timetable and national cinema info.
11. Wiggle your icons
If you've been downloading native apps from the App Store and adding web apps, your iPhone's home screen could be getting a little crowded. Did you know that you can rearrange the icons and move them to different virtual pages?
Just press and hold any icon to activate 'wiggle' mode. Then simply drag and drop your wiggling icons to wherever you want to put them.
12. Multi-task (and impress your friends)
The rest of your iPhone's functionality isn't inaccessible when you're on a call. If you're using the hands-free headphones or have a call on speaker, press the Home button to minimise the call screen.
You can then access your Notes, E-mail, Google Maps and other applications while you talk. Just tap on the green bar at the top of the home screen to return to the call.
13. The iPhone is an incredible video player. So why not convert some video so you can watch it on the move? For PCs running Windows, try the Videora iPhone Converter. It's a free application that can transcode all manner of video files including DivX, Xvid, VOB and MPEG. Mac owners should take a look at iSquint or its more advanced version, VisualHub.
Finally, you'll find lots of useful tips and tricks for the iPhone by watching the Guided Tour on Apple's website. Especially useful if you can't be bothered to read the manual. Like me
14. Radio & television set
There's a whole bunch of ways of getting good media onto your iPhone. The BBC's iPhone-optimised iPlayer site is genuinely very good – though it requires a WiFi connection, and you must be in the UK to access it. And you can record TV using, say, one of Elgato's TV tuners and then export the content to your iTunes library, ready to be synced to the iPhone. As far as apps go, try downloading Tuner Internet Radio – a centralised service for thousands of streaming radio stations from all over the world. Also Last.fm is a brilliant service that creates music stations tailored to your tastes. When Sling Media finally releases its iPhone client, which will allow live TV to be streamed from your home via one of its hardware encoder boxes – TV will truly have arrived on the iPhone.
15. Dictaphone
We're still puzzled as to why Apple hasn't added the ability to record voice memos to the iPhone – we can only assume that it's down the list of priorities, somewhere underneath adding 'copy and paste'. But thankfully there are some third-party developers stepping in. Our favourite is the iTalk application from Griffin, those clever folk who make rocking iPhone and Mac accessories. There's a free version with ads, or a £2.99 version that's ad-free, but they're functionally identical.
You can pick quality levels for new recordings, pause and resume the recording, and append new audio to existing recordings. You can even add text notes, which we've found to be helpful when conducting interviews. Once you're done, transfer recordings to your Mac (or PC; currently in beta) over Wi-Fi using a little helper app.16. Dictionary & thesaurus
Yes; with the iPhone, you have access to an internet-full of information, and with a few taps, you could track down definitions and synonyms for any word you care to mention. There are a few problems with this, however; it can be sluggish, is rarely optimised for the iPhone's screen, it can lack authority, and is usually focused on American – not British – English. Step forward, then, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus. It's a proper native app, so once it has launched, it's snappier than a website. The interface could be more elegant, and the quality of the recordings for pronunciation could be better, but it's great to have the authority of the OED in your pocket. Pricey, but no more so than the paper copy, and this is far more convenient. Definitions' words are hyperlinked too for extra mileage.
17. Library of classics
We love Classics, it's such a pretty little application that we wanted the chance to show you the bookshelf view here. It's very polished throughout, with pages that you flip with your finger, chapters, and a bookmark that keeps your place when you switch between different books. Unfortunately you can't add your own books to it – though the developers are committed to adding more classic books to the collection. So, if you're looking for a more extensible reader, try Stanza. This will read many text formats, so you could fill up your iPhone with a library's worth of copyright-free classic texts from the likes of Project Gutenberg. And if you used eReader on a Palm, say, you can access your entire eReader bookshelf through its iPhone app – over the air.
18. Old-fashioned camera
The camera on the iPhone is mediocre at best; we are all agreed on this. But you can at least make its poor quality charming by buying CameraBag. With it, you can apply a bunch of special effects either to pics already saved onto your iPhone, or taken directly with its camera – to make them look a lot more interesting. You can apply a Holga-like supersaturated effect called Helga, go mono, use a fish-eye lens effect, make it look like a Lomo shot, apply a Polaroid effect, or make the shot look like it was taken in 1962 or 1974, if you really wanted to. The effects are actually remarkably convincing, and we like the fact that the app will, if you set the preference, save the original untouched shot from the iPhone's camera as well as the cropped, edited shot, ready to be emailed or downloaded to your Mac.
19. Band
This was one of the apps that was demoed on-stage to show the power of the iPhone Software Development Kit, and it remains a great show-off app for the iPhone. You can think about Band in two ways. It's either just a little tinkering device, which is useful for singer-songwriters on the move, by giving them a pad that they can jam with to try out some ideas or to get some inspiration for new melodies. Or it's a pretty meaty multi-track recorder that you could, in theory at least, use to create a whole track from scratch. There are a range of instruments included – a keyboard, a bass guitar, an interactive appreciative audience, the drum kit shown here, and a fun 12-bar blues creator – and you can layer instruments together and overdub them as you start to build your mini musical masterpiece. It's not perfect; the timings can be tricky to get right, and the export options are, by the nature of the iPhone, a little limited, but it's great fun and is, as we say, a great app to have to show off your iPhone.
20. GPS logger
Trails records your position at regular intervals – and so works better with the GPS-aware iPhone 3G – and then maps the trail you took onto a political, satellite or terrain map, complete with altitude data. The latest version allows you to see your trail live on its map. Export the waypoint data too for use in other apps.
21. Lightsaber
Apologies if you thought this feature was all about useful stuff, because we're happy to recommend fluff as well, and it doesn't get much fluffier than Lightsaber Unleashed. It whums and buzzes convincingly as you move your phone around, and you can create your own custom character with photos from your collection.
23. Spirit level and tape measure
RulerPhone calculates lengths by getting you to take a photo of what you want to measure with a credit card in the scene. It will then calibrate to that, using some on-screen calipers. While it's not wildly accurate, it's perfectly good enough. Meanwhile, iHandy Carpenter packs a ruler, spirit level, protractor and plumb line into a slick, pretty app.
22. Shop
Sure, you can buy stuff on Apple's App Store and iTunes Store – the latter being even more compelling now most music is DRM-free and can be downloaded over the cell network – but that's just the start! Amazon's iPhone-optimised store (go to www.amazon.co.uk with Safari on your iPhone) – is great. As long as you have a mobile signal, you can shop!
