Smartphone Photography

We all know the saying “the best camera is the one you have with you” and if you have an Apple iPhone 4S, or any high-end smartphone released over the past 6 months you probably have a pretty fantastic point-n-shoot in your pocket right now.

New Year, New Outlook, A Better Start

Your smartphone is a fantastic time management tool, personal financial manager, health monitor and over all personal assistant that fits in your pocket. Keeping that in mind why not take the time to use it to get your life and your business back in order in 2011. Stop listening to all the quick fixes that don’t work except for your emptying your bank acount and draw the line to invest some time and effort into you. Become the Uber Power user of your life.

iOS Quick Tip: Two-Finger Scrolling in Mobile Safari

When using your home computer scrolling within boxes and lists on web pages is simple. You just move the on-screen pointer on to scrollbar, click and hold the left mouse button and move the scrollbar up and down.

Now if you encounter a scrolling box or list while surfing on your iPhone in Safari and you try to scroll with your finger, you’ll find that the entire page scrolls, instead of just the box. The trick here to scrolling such areas is to use two fingers. Placing two fingers on the area you want to scroll is the desktop equivalent of the click and hold action. When your done just go back to one-finger scrolling.

Downgrading iPhone Applications

Recently, Ilium Software; the developers of the popular eWallet software submitted an update to Apple’s App Store for that particular application. This update was subsequently released earlier (Thursday, Nov. 26 to be exact) than the expected Tuesday, Dec. 1st release date which was to coincide with the release of eWallet 7 for all the mobile platforms they create for. More importantly though, it was meant to be released  simultaneously with the eWallet desktop client ver. 7 because the new version is not backwards compatible with their last release eWallet v6.1.3.

iTunes…! I Need This Backup File Not That One

This past weekend my daughter was playing her favorite game of Pocket God on my iPhone. Somehow during that time the inevitable happened (when you mix kids with expensive gadgets)… system crash. The result of this was rather odd as the small home screen icons were enlarged to nearly 2″ x 2″ in size. Scrolling was minimal at best and even a reset did nothing but make unlocking the iPhone impossible. The only option left open was to do a complete restore. The problem here which I found out only afterward was that it reinstalled the same corrupted backup. The only full backup registered by iTunes before this was back in October just under a month ago. This was not looking good at all.