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iPhone power tips

#19 | 3:09 |

Mr. Mobile

Wednesday April 29, 2009

Jay Goldman offers up his top five favorite iPhone power user tips to save time, finger strokes and hassle. From a way to instantly scroll to the top of a long web page to an easy way to bring up your iPod controls without exiting your current application, Mr. Mobile delivers.

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Tip #1
Tap to scroll through homescreen pages

Rather than sliding your finger back and forth to switch between homescreen pages, you can tap once in the bottom corner of the screen to flip to the next page.

Tip #2
Quick-scroll to the top of the page

Instead of scrolling back to the top of a particularly long web page, you can tap once on the iPhone status bar to be returned to the top of the page right away.

Tip #3
Snap a picture of your iPhone screen

To grab a screenshot of any iPhone screen, hold the home button press the power button or vice-versa.

Tip #4
Preview a Safari link

To see where a web page link is going to take you in Safari, tap and hold the link for to see the destination page title and URL.

Tip #5
Custom configure home button double-tap

Go into settings to customize what your home button does when double-tapped. Jay recommends associating it with your iPod controls.

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