(Our Tech Blog) Since its inception, iPhone has always been regarded as one of the best smartphones that ever have been created. It has everything, which can attract anyone from a simple college going child using it just for music purpose or to a businessman exploiting its functionality to optimum level. iPhone has always been in controversies good or bad, but mostly in good ones relating it to the best in almost all categories like performance, graphic capability and look and feel.
The latest development of the iPhone series, iPhone 4GS has been released with new iOS 4. This new operating system has some important improvements over its predecessor. Not much is known about this alien looking operating system iOS, attributed to its incompatibility with all other third party cell phones or applications. Let us try to prick the hood that is covering this beautiful OS.
Here are some cool iPhone tricks and tips which might interest you:
Lock your iPhone orientation
Apple has provided orientation sensor along with its iOS which detects the way in which the iPhone is held and changes the screen orientation according to it. But while reading an iBook or viewing a page in Safari, this otherwise attractive feature becomes a problem as the screen orientation keeps on flickering. So one can lock the screen orientation if it likes. All one has to do is double tap on ‘Home’ button and swipe its finger over activated app bar to right to reveal iPhone controls and Portrait lock.
Scroll easily to the top of any web page
If you are sliding down over a web page to get more information and once this is done, getting back to the top of the page becomes a hectic work. But iPhone provides you a shortcut that would cut your 90% of efforts and is known to very few of the users. Just a gentle tap on the Top bar and the trick is done for you.
Screenshots
One of the most interesting features that are found in very few cell phones is ability to take screen shots. With iPhone you can take screenshots at any time without worrying for current application. Just press and hold “Home” button for some time and press “sleep” button once. Your screen will flash white and the respective screenshot will be store in your iPhone.
Insert a period while typing
After reading the title, one may think that how can inserting period be a trick? Well, yes, Apple does have provided a small short cut in this one. While typing rather than inserting a period yourself, using keyboard menu, double taping on space bar will insert a period followed by a space to the text.
Alternative characters
Sometimes, we do require some special characters for additional effect. We can easily use such additional characters by holding down any letter on keyboard. This provides additional popup with some interesting versions of characters.
There are some tricks which we felt are the best suited for everyone to know. Off course there are hundreds of tricks available under the giant hood of iOS; but all of them can be found on internet. Here are some additional tricks which you might love to learn about: switching to the UK English, killing a running app, turning caps lock on, selecting an icon for bookmarked page etc.
source: http://www.geeksdesk.com/cool-iphone-4-tricks-tips/