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Geek Tip: gOffice The iPhone Word Program
So you've already saved the ruler pic on your iPhone for measurement emergencies—check. Now I suggest you bookmark the website gOffice so you can easily create word documents.
Featured on Chip Chick, you can use this site on your iPhone as a textedit program while on the go.
Geek Tip: Take a Self Portrait With Your iPhone
One of my favorite iPhone features is its camera. It's of impressive quality for a cell phone camera, and has gotten successively better with each generation of iPhone released. Add the plethora of accessories meant to enhance the iPhone's camera and applications to enhance your photos, and my iPhone can produce better photos than my camera.
Geek Tip: Keyboard Spill Solutions
Last week I overheard a co-worker saying she had an incident with her cuppa Joe and keyboard. The first thing I thought was, phew - glad that hasn't happened to me! Sure enough, I was enjoying my morning tea the next day and with a quick clumsy move (blame it on the geekiness), my tea tipped over.
Geek Tip: Use Your iPhone As A Ruler
If you've got an iPhone, here's a nifty tip that will instantly put a ruler in your hand.
Billy Chasen has ingeniously created a digital ruler that will fit your whole iPhone screen so it looks like you have a real ruler. All you have to do is add it to your pictures and sync it onto your iPhone (although don't try to do it online as the dimensions will be off).
Geek Tip: iPhone Typing Shortcut
I assumed that when David Pogue was going to address the most annoying thing about the iPhone's keyboard on his Missing Manual site, it would be the the fact that the phone makes it difficult for those of us with less than slender fingers to type, We'll leave that one for another day, but what he does provide is a great iPhone tip and solution for, is how to add punctuation to text simultaneously without having to switch back and forth from the '.?123' key to the 'ABC' key- which I've learned can be a big pain in the yoohaw! Keep reading to learn how to do this. To type on the iPhone with one single gesture: touch the '.?123' key while holding your finger down.
Geek Tip: Control Your iPod While Your iPhone Is Locked
It's time for another iPhone tip I wish I'd known about much sooner. Today's revelation: you are able to control the iPod on your iPhone even while the phone is locked.
If your phone is locked but you'd like to listen to music, double click the home button.
Geek Tip: Get Free iPhone Wallpapers From Poolga
Arty iPhone users, if you don't know about Poolga yet, then allow me to introduce you.
Poolga is a website full of totally free iPhone wallpapers, but these aren't boring or generic images, they're edgy-cool pieces of art that happen to fit the aspect ratio of your iPhone's screen so that every time you pick up your phone, you see a radical image.
Even the now-defunct iPhoneky urges you to go Poolga.
10 More Blackberry Tips and Tricks!
I had you at Blackberry, didn't I? Although I'm addicted to my iPhone, there's a special place in my heart for my Crackberry. We've had a lot of fun times together, so I must pay homage to the newer phones that have hit the market and show you even more cool tips and tricks you may not know about.
Geek Tip: Write a Letter to Future You With FutureMe.org
One of my favorite songs, "Ooh La La," goes, "I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger." Well with FutureMe.org, you can at least remind yourself then what you know now. This website lets you write an email to yourself and set it to send in the future, 1, 5, 10 years later —whenever Future Your wants to hear from Old You.
Yes, You Can Take Screenshots on Your BlackBerry
You already know that you can easily take screenshots on your iPhone with just a few clicks, but taking a screenshot on your BlackBerry may prove to be a little more difficult . . .
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