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Today’s Tips and Tricks- Get a Bigger Keyboard

2 February 2010

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Turning your iPhone sideways will make your keyboard bigger in all in-built applications, including E-mail, Notes, Text messaging and Safari. In Safari however, once you are editing the address the orientation is locked, so turn your phone sidways before tapping the address bar. [Posted with iBlogger from my 3G]

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Today’s Tips and Tricks- Punctuate Quickly

1 February 2010

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To quickly enter punctuation or numbers while using the keyboard, press and hold the 123 button and, keeping your finger down, slide to any number or punctuation. When you release your finger that one character will be inserted and the usual qwerty keyboard will reappear. You can use the same technique to quickly insert single- [...]

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Today’s Tips and Tricks- Hold the Keyboard keys for Extras

26 January 2010

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If you hold down a letter on the keyboard, a pop-up appears containing various accented versions of the character. You can do the same with certain punctuation characters to reveal alternatives.

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Today’s Tips and Tricks- Shake to Undo & Redo

25 January 2010

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When typing in any application or when using cut, copy and paste, you can shake the iphone to Undo your typing. Shake again to Redo. Your iPhone will pop-up a query to double check what you want to do. Try it out.

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Today’s Tips and Tricks- Make typing easier

20 January 2010

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When typing, sometimes you need the next few letters to be capitalized. For example typing, iPhoneGlance is GREAT, or all upper-case letters such as HELP. The iPhone allows you to use the shift key,

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Tips and tricks – Undo-typing quick

28 September 2009

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Ever typed a long  SMS or email and then realize that what you just type isnt what you wanted to. Well there is an easy way to Undo what you type without having to back space. Simply shake the iPhone and a dialogue box appears that say Undo-typing or cancel.

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