iPhone by Steve

Here’s a quick tip for faster text messaging. Your iPhone contacts list is good for more than just making phone calls.

What’s the easiest way to get to your favorites list on the iPhone?

This You Tube video is the best I’ve seen for getting your iPhone to work with Gmail IMAP. Just watch, learn, and do!

One thing I love my iPhone for is that it is a great tool to steal a few moments of productivity here and there. Maybe you’re waiting to pick the kids up from soccer practice, or maybe you’re in the waiting room at the dentist’s office, or whatever. Whenever you’ve got a few moments, it’s fun to fire up Safari on the iPhone and browse, but did you know you can draft email on the iPhone and send it later?

If you’re like me, I bet quite a few of your phone contacts have extension numbers, too.

In my contacts list, I have an entry like:

Tiger Woods

999-999-9999 X99

Which means that, as soon as my iPhone connects to Tiger’s telephone number, I’ve still got to input his extension number of 99 by hand.

If you’ve owned an iPhone long enough, then you know that sometimes AT&T’s spotty signal can cause you some problems, especially when working with web apps or with your email.

Have you ever tried to send an email on your iPhone, only to have it “disappear” because you lost your signal? Your first reaction is to worry because it seems like the message might be lost.

Here’s a tip that can help you when you are using Safari for browsing the web.

First, start Safari, and then turn your iPhone horizontally before you try to type in any web address.

By doing this, you should get a nice large keyboard to type on.

If you’ve had an iPhone for a while, I bet you use your finger to flick through your contacts list. Did you know that there’s a better way?

It shouldn’t happen very often, but sometimes you may have to reset your iPhone. Here is the procedure: