One of my colleagues was recently talking about how many open networks he finds with his iPhone. The only problem is that after joining one, the iPhone wants to remember it, even whether that network doesn’t let him connect to the ‘net. It may seem like there’s no way to get the iPhone to “forget” [...]
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We’ve gotten a number of emails from iPhone users who are having a pesky problem with iPhoto. The photo app is opening everytime they go to connect their iPhone to their computer. Hardly a cause for panic, but an annoyance nonetheless. Fortunately, whether you’re suffering from iPhotoitis, there’s an easy solution courtesy of our very [...]
Ryan is very proud of the video he produced on how to clean your iPhone. Unfortunately, Apple clearly stated not to use window cleaners, household cleaners, aerosol sprays, solvents, alcohol, ammonia, or abrasives to clean iPhone. It has always been common sense (at least for me) to steer clear of any and all of the [...]
Macworld has just published a Secrets article about Automator.us’ iPhone Mail Rules v1.0, a collection of AppleScript-based Mail rules that let you do things like automatically transfer a picture on your iPhone to an iWeb blog page, mail pictures to your Mac and have them placed in iPhoto, send a knowledge to your Mac asking [...]
Over at The Mothership, we’ve posted 21 of our favorite iPhone tips, dealing with everything from Safari to Mail to the iPod features of the phone. Some of the tips — like Chris Breen’s storage solution — will be familiar to devoted iPhone Central readers, others will be new, but in either case, it’s nice [...]
I’ve been getting copies of sent emails from Gmail but really didn’t know why until now. The intelligent folks by at TUAW suggested turning off the “Use Recent Mode” setting. So here’s how: Go to Settings -> Mail -> (Your Gmail account) -> Advanced. Switch “Use Recent Mode” from ON to OFF. Don’t start freaking [...]
So, for example, whether you want to distinguish amidst a contact’s home and vacation home phone numbers, you might want to label one of the fields “Vacation.” Here’s how you do that: Choose a contact from your contacts menu and hit the “Edit” button in the top right corner. I created one, and now I [...]
It’s well-documented that it’s easy to whiz around a webpage thanks to the flicks and gestures Safari on the iPhone supports, but anything that cuts down on clicking and dragging is a Good Thing to my mind and so here’s a handy surfing tip. whether you’re reading a page that lacks a “return to top” [...]
Right now Apple doesn’t support importing DVDs or Flash video onto the iPhone via iTunes, but that doesn’t mean it’s not possible. ModMyiPhone have put together a great tutorial on how to turn existing media that’s so far incompatible with the iPhone’s video player into a format it’ll support, using iTunes at the final stage [...]
A bit ago, we reported on a trick that came out of David Pogue’s iPhone “lost manual” that clued us all in on a much quicker way to add singled-out strokes of punctuation while typing on the iPhone keyboard. During some experimentation, we learned that trick can plus be used to help speed up capitalizing [...]


Skype for iPad supports video calling and will be released very soon.