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How to: Remove duplicate iPhone Address Book entries

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:58:58 +0000

I’m not a real iPhone doctor, but I play one on the Internet even though I don’t actually own one. Troubleshooting them for my friends and relatives isn’t particularly glamorous but it’s another way to vicariously enjoy the iPhone, furtive trips to the shops aside, in this AT&T provincial 3G backwater.

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How to: Sync Address Book entries with phone numbers to iPhone

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:03:27 +0000

Are you annoyed that your iPhone includes many records with no phone numbers? Here’s a sweet little trick — including a ground floor primer on copying, compiling and running an AppleScript — to synchronize only Address Book entries that include telephone numbers.

As an iPod touch user, I’m quite happy to have a [...]

How to: Cache driving directions on your iPod touch

Ronald O Carlson — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:40:47 +0000

Going on a trip and you’re getting ready to print? Stop, don’t kill that tree! Here’s a cool money (and tree) saving trick for caching Google Map driving directions on your iPod touch.

This should be pretty straight forward:

1. Enter your Departure and Destination locations, and tap directions.

2. [...]

Apple Stores fixing cracked iPhone screens in-house

Ronald O Carlson — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:28:10 +0000

Apple’s little remarked decentralization of iPhone screen replacement services, installing the required equipment and displays at brick n’ mortar Apple Store locations, could be telling us a lot about the device’s future size and shape.

The Loop, current vehicle of MacCentral, Macworld and News.com doyen Jim Dalrymple, says that it [...]

How to: Troubleshoot, restart a frozen, crashed iPod nano

Ronald O Carlson — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:34:22 +0000

This morning my daugher came to me distraught, iPod nano in hand. It had crashed with the words “Connect to Power” fixed on the screen.

She had tried docking it on our iHome and dock-equipped Sony home stereo to no avail. She even tried toggling the “Hold” switch twice, which didn’t help [...]

How to: iPhone OS 3.0 home button tricks

Ronald O Carlson — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:31:42 +0000

Pressing the home button has gotten more useful with the release of iPhone OS 3.0. In addition to waking your handheld or returning you to the home screen from any application or page, you can do other neat stuff like bring up Spotlight, control iPod music and video, or even custom [...]

How to write an iPhone app

Michael W. Jones — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:31:10 +0000

With all the publicity about the success of the Apple App store, you may have asked yourself about what you need to do to write an iPhone application. Here’s your answer.

For the last year or so, Apple conference extravaganzas have been [...]

How to jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch

Michael W. Jones — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:59:14 +0000

If you have ever thought about jailbreaking your iPhone, you have probably wondered exactly how you do it. This post will give you the information you need to set your iPhone free.

Jailbreaking allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to [...]

How do I transfer songs from iTunes to iPhone?

Michael W. Jones — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:50:05 +0000

Regardless of the computer platform that you are running on, using the iTunes program is the best way to transfer songs between your computer and your iPhone. Here are the ins and outs.

The time to move songs between [...]

How do I get photos off my iPhone?

Michael W. Jones — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:19:31 +0000

There are two main ways to move the photos taken with your iPhone onto your computer, one way for Mac OS X users and another for Vista PC users. We’ll look at both below.

It should be simple to move [...]