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2011年3月28日星期一

iPhone 5 is really coming this summer

The same shadowy figured which can’t decide whether the iPhone 5 is really coming this summer have now posited that even if it does, Apple’s next-gen iOS 5 operating system may not immediately come along for the ride. And this comes at a time when there’s increasing speculation that with the iPad 2 seemingly less than the grand revolution Apple must have originally envisioned, there just might be an iPad 3 coming before year’s end. Put two and two together, and the swamp monsters might as well be claiming that iOS 5 is in fact going to be timed for a late 2011 release – alongside the third generation iPad. With Apple’s nearly religious penchant for sticking with its annual calendar updates, common sense says it’s all a bunch of hooey; the iPhone 5 and iOS 5 will debut in the summer, with whatever features Apple has ready by then; more grand ambitions will simply be shelved it the calendar doesn’t line up. And the iPad 3 will be a March 2012 affair. But it does make one wonder… what if this particular wildcard posited by the shadowy figures just happens to be accurate? The implications would be, at the least, intriguing.
The intrigue starts with the fact that there’s only so much operating system development which can be done a phone. iOS 4 is arguably all the iPhone needs for now, with features finding their way in on the 4.x releases just as surely as they eventually would with iOS 5. So the iPhone 5 could launch with iOS 4.5 and few would decline to purchase it (or enjoy it) as a result. But the iPad is a different beast. While it’s still a semi-tethered spoke in Apple’s computer-centric wheel, Steve Jobs has made it clear that he eventually envisions the iPad as the mainstream computer of the future; traditional computers like the Mac and PC would be only for power users. In terms of being less of a “big ten inch iPhone” and more of a computer replacement, the iPad still has a long way to go. The iPad 2 gained a number of nice hardware specs, but doesn’t really come any closer to becoming a true “computer” than its predecessor did. And the iPad 3 can gain all the new specs its wants, but it’ll really come down to the on-screen environment, specifically the sophistication of the operating system itself as well as the kind of sophistication it allows third party developers to bring to the table. The notion that iOS 5 would go hand in hand with the iPad 3 would be an intriguing shift on Apple’s part, as the company has previously released new versions of iOS at the time a new iPhone was ready. Such an iPad-centric shift for iOS would signal that Apple now sees the iPad as a more vital part of the equation than the iPhone – or else that the iPhone experience has evolved such that it’s time to put more chips down on the iPad side of the table. It would also explain why in the heck Apple would be rolling out an iPad 3 in the same calendar year as the iPad 2 rollout.
But that’s all speculation into what Apple’s motives might be if anything the swamp monsters are claiming about the products involved is even true. And we’ve learned such claims are always a crapshoot at best. Smart money says the iPhone 5, iOS 5, and iPad 3 will arrive when they’re supposed to, according to Apple’s well entrenched calendar. But if the iPhone 5 does arrive this summer without iOS 5 in tow, it might be time to revisit the validity of the foggy-bottom claims. Here’s more on the iPhone 5.

2011年3月26日星期六

iPhone tips & tricks You May Haven't Known

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The iPhone, like the Mac, is extremely simple and intuitive to use. Odds are that you’ve never even cracked open the user manual since the way just about everything works is pretty obvious.
But its simplicity can be a double-edged sword… there are many small “convenience features” that are often hidden away. If Apple exposed them in a more obvious way, it’d take away from the elegance of the device. And its elegance is one of its strongest points.
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I’m sure that many of you are “power users” and probably know most of these tips and tricks. But I suspect that a lot of you are more casual iPhone users and will find this list useful. Even our team members that I showed the draft of this post to (people I consider iPhone experts), all picked up at least a tip or two that they weren’t already aware of. So I’ll bet there’s something Dell latitude d531 Batteries for everyone here…

1. Scroll to top

Tapping the status bar (the bar at the top with the clock) will make scrollable content scroll to the top. It comes in handy in situations like when you’ve scrolled down a long web page or mail message and you quickly need to get back to the top.
This may be the most convenient, yet hidden feature on the iPhone. I had my phone for months before stumbling upon it (and I didn’t even stumble upon it by playing around with the phone, but by reading the programming documentation on scroll views).
As far as I know, there’s no corresponding way to scroll to the bottom, though.

2. Screenshots

Simultaneously press the Home and Sleep/Wake buttons to take a screenshot of your current screen. You’ll hear a camera shutter sound, your screen will flash white, then the screenshot will appear in the “Saved Photos” library of the Photos app.

3. Saving images in Safari and Mail

Touching an image in Safari or Mail for a couple of seconds will present you with an action sheet which will enable you to save the image. As with taking screenshots, the image will get stored in the “Saved Photos” library of the Photos app.

4. Caps lock

Double-tap the Shift key to lock it.
This one’s actually somewhat intuitive but I was surprised by how many people aren’t aware of it.
Along somewhat similar lines, a handy way of saving a tap when you need to type a capital letter is to touch the Shift key then slide over to the desired key. This behavior also works for the Number key.

5. Extra keys

Do you need to type an umlauted-u (ü) but you’re not using the German keyboard? Touch and hold the U key and you get a set of additional keys to choose from.
In addition, there are several punctuation keys that behave similarly, so that you can type curly-quotes, etc.
And furthermore, when the keyboard is in “URL-mode”, where the “.com” key is available, touching and holding it pops-up additional options for quickly entering .net, .edu, and .org domains.

6. Lock / shut down / force quit / reset

You’d be surprised to know how many people don’t know how to turn their phone completely off. I’m not talking about “locking” the phone where you simply press the Sleep/Wake button on the top of your phone.
For a while, I was under the false impression that locking the phone was equivalent to putting your Mac to sleep. But when your phone is locked, the screen turns off but the app that’s running at the time continues to run. For instance a relaxation app is able to continue playing sound but save battery power with the screen off. So, locking your phone is actually more like “display sleep” on your Mac.
When should you turn your phone completely off? The two situation that I usually do this is when I’m almost out of battery and when my phone is acting kind of wonky.
If your battery’s almost dead and you’re nowhere near some way of charging it your best bet is to turn it off if you’re going to need it to make a call or check something on the ‘net (assuming you can forego and incoming calls/SMSs).
And if your phone’s been acting flaky, where apps are starting to get really slow Discount Dell latitude d620 Battery or behave unexpectedly, turning your phone off then back on usually gets things back to normal.
Have you ever been using an app and it’s become very unresponsive or completely frozen? You can force quit it by pressing the Home button for at least six seconds..
And finally, if your phone seems to be completely frozen where attempting to turn it off or force quit the current app does nothing, you can force a reset of your phone by pressing both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least ten seconds. Note that while Apple technically calls this a “reset”, it’s actually more like a “reboot” and none of your settings will be changed.

7. Home button options

A very underused, yet convenient feature is that you’re able to set the function for double-clicking the Home button. By default, this just brings you to the Home screen, meaning no different function than clicking the Home button once.
But if you go to the Settings app then navigate to General then Home Button, you’ll find a few handy options. I have mine set to go to my Phone Favorites but you can also set it to open the iPod app, or just show the iPod controls when music is playing.
And something I recently noticed after updgrading to the newest iPhone OS is that when you now click the Home button while already on the Home screen, it’ll quickly take you to the first page of apps. This is a great feature if you have your phone filled with apps… and who doesn’t these days?

8. Swipe to delete

In the Mail app and many others that use lists of items, you’re able to quickly delete an item by swiping your finger across the item… sort of emulating crossing something off a list. Doing so exposes a Delete button so that you’re able to confirm your action.