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How to change app Preferences on an iPhone

App settings.

Even iPod and iPhone apps have their Preferences. Here’s how to find and change Preferences and Settings for iPods and iPhones.

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How (not) to make screenshots on an iPhone

Translucent stripes on the iPhone.  I took a screenshot of an empty screen!

Mystified by some of the images in the photo album on your iPhone or iPod touch? Perhaps you’ve accidentally made some screenshots. Find out what happens.

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How to transfer web browser bookmarks to the iPhone

Sync Safari bookmarks to iPhone.

It’s silly to constantly type URLs into the Safari Address Bar on your iPhone. Use bookmarks from your Mac instead. Here’s how to synchronise Safari, and other, bookmarks.

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How to change the Wallpaper on an iPod touch

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Change the photo your iPhone or iPod touch displays at startup. Here’s how.

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Use iTunes to arrange apps on your iPhone screen

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Recent updates to iTunes, allow you to arrange apps on your iPhone or iPod within iTunes and then apply those changes to the handheld device. Here’s how.

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Tweet, tweet, Twitter – it's all the rage

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Twitter’s what everyone’s talking about these days. Do you know how to tweet on your Mac, iPhone or iPod touch?

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Map your photos with iPhoto '09

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Looking for photos you want to show people? The endless searching scenario is over, thanks to GPS-enabled cameras and cameraphones, and iPhoto ’09.

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GPS tells iPhone and iPhoto roughly where they are

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iPhoto can display the GPS data your iPhone or camera has recorded. But be careful: it may not be accurate!

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Restart or Reset your iPhone or iPod touch

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Is your iPhone ‘stuck’? Restart it or Reset it.

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Silence your iPhone

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We expect to do everything on the iPhone via the touch screen, but we mute it quickly and easily with a hardware button.

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