Ever misplaced your iPhone at home? A typical way of locating the device is to call it from another phone and listen for the ringing. But what if you have no other phone to call from? Many households have cut the cord on landlines and gone cell phone only. It’s easy. Just dial your device from the web. There are several free sites for this, and one of my…
iPhone 4 has a swappable back plate? YES. And changing it out is super easy to do, as Adriana finds out. Here, the iPhone 4′s glass backplate gets taken off and replaced with a metal one from iPhone components site http://cnn.cn. Check it…
Froyo (Android 2.2) on an iPhone 3G? Yep — when the news broke this week that users with a jailbroken iPhone 2G and 3G could load Froyo untethered, we just couldn’t resist. So we grabbed a spare iPhone 3G and documented the steps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooDuCpKwNLI In the video (toward the end, in the epilogue), you’ll see that we had a…
iOS 4.2 Golden Master Tutorial: How to download iOS 4.2 for your iPhone now, even before it’s publicly released. Daniel walks you through how to upload the iOS Gold Master on a Mac. (For a step-by-step written tutorial, hit up Today’s iPhone here: http://www.todaysiphone.com/2010/11/the-ios-4-2-install-for-early-adopters-only/…
Sometimes it’s the little things that matter most — this time, Daniel figures out how to lock that stupid Caps key for All Caps functionality. Plus, the Spotlight feature everyone sees, but few actually use: The web and Wiki…
This one’s for the cheapskates: Daniel demos how to temporarily turn off cellular data (so you don’t go over your limit) and the built-in way to see how many text messages that long SMS of yours is actually about to send — before you do…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR342xyt3aI Wanna create a playlist on the go? Daniel shows how you easy that is — and makes a heartfelt appeal for twitter followers. You don’t want to miss…
Giving an iPhone to your kid? Daniel shows you how to set restrictions right on the…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA7Nr2kNqaM Learn more about this new camera feature in iOS 4.1, and how it can make your iPhone photos sooo much better! Watch as Daniel takes it for a…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB71FMXdzz4 Ever annoyed by your phone going to sleep when you’re in the middle of a task? Daniel shows how simple it is to set the phone’s auto-lock function to whatever you want — from 1 minute to…
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