The iPhone is one of the most popular smartphones on the market, selling millions of units worldwide each year and its popularity seems to grow each time they release a new iPhone (which has happened each year since 2007).

The iPhone is such an incredibly powerful device and so easy to use, it’s part of its appeal. Yet there are a lot of tips, tricks and shortcuts that many iPhone users don’t seem to know about! So, in this post we’re going to take a look through the top tips & tricks for your iPhone.

If you have any of your own tips or tricks that aren’t covered in this post, then be sure to leave them in a comment at the bottom of the post!

Take screenshots on your iPhone

There may be times when you want to take a snapshot (or screenshot) of what’s currently displayed on your iPhone screen. You can do this by pressing the home button and sleep / power button at the same time. You will hear the camera clicker sound and your screenshot will be saved along with the rest of your photos.

Control the camera shutter with volume buttons

Taking a photo on your iPhone by using the on-screen button to activate the shutter can be tricky and can lead to blurred photo’s. Did you know that you can turn your iPhone onto its side and use the + volume button like a shutter clicker on a camera? It’s easier to keep the iPhone stable and feels just like you’re using a digital camera.

Dismiss auto-corrections and suggested words

Sometimes when you’re sending an email or typing a text (or quite often in my case), your iPhone will pop up with an auto correction or suggested word. You don’t have to try and click the tiny ‘x’ next to the word, you can cancel the auto correction by tapping anywhere on the screen.

Shortcut to Camera app

When your iPhone is locked with the screen off, you can double click the home button and you’ll see a camera icon showing next to the ‘slide to unlock’ message – hit that camera icon and the camera app loads!

Location based reminders

You can use siri to set location based reminders, for example “remind me to pickup the milk when I leave here” or “remind me to call Jane when I get home” and Siri will remind you accordingly.

Find a lost / stolen iPhone

Using iCloud.com (providing you are signed up) you can use the track my iPhone feature to locate your iPhone wherever it is, as long as it has WiFi or 3G connectivity you’ll be able to locate it, display a message on the screen, lock it and delete all the data!

How to revive a frozen iPhone

Sometimes your iPhone may become unresponsive, if that happens, don’t worry – do this; press and hold the Home button and the Sleep / Power button at the same time, after a few moments the iPhone should prompt you to ‘Slide to Power Off’ – voila.

Add websites to your homescreen like Apps

You can add websites that you visit regularly on your iPhone to your homescreen so you can open them just like apps. When you’re on the website in Safari, just click the ‘Go To’ icon and then click the ‘Add to Home Screen’ text, you’ll then see it listed just like an App on your homescreen.

Create playlists on the go

You no longer need a computer to make new playlists, you can do it on the go! Just open the music app, hit playlists and then ‘Add Playlist’, you can then scroll through your songs and add them individually, by album or by artist.

Hopefully you’ve picked up a few tips and shortcuts here that you didn’t know about before, they make the iPhone even easier and more efficient to use.

Once again, if you know of any cool tips that I missed in this post, then please feel free to share them in the comments section below!

Author Bio: Nathan is an iPhone enthusiast who loves all things iPhone; he even runs own new iPhone 5 unlocking service at http://www.unlockiphoneww.com/unlocking/iphone-5/

Talking about pioneering technology when it comes to prestige, durability and credibility of products, Apple will never be out from the list. From telecommunications, gaming consoles, music and now television, Apple has dominated the entertainment world by putting some taste of innovations to their products.

However, we cannot define perfection without failures. Perfection is molded from the numerous failures and shortcomings. Like Apple products, there are few errands that need to be perfected in order for them to perfect their own craft.

One of the seen products is the Apple HD TV which problems are more concentrated in wireless internet connections. To further discuss possible problems with the connection, let us identify some of the cause and effects.

Internet connection source

Apple HD TV is very sensitive to the internet connection source. Unlike other products, Apple has maintained its credibility because of its high technical securities in their products. It can identify unsecured networks.

This is the basic thing to do when you are dealing with the wireless internet connection. Always check the reliability of your internet connection and make sure that your internet service provider is giving you the speed that you paid for.

Check the DNS settings

Now after checking the internet connection, another way to fix the issue is to change manually the DNS settings of your Apple HD TV. Usually, Apple TV will automatically detect DNS settings. However, in some cases, different DNS can be identified by the product especially when there is a multiple connection. You can try to put the DNS manually by going to Settings, General, Network, and Configure TCP/IP and then choose manually.

Check the hardware

Check your wifi router. Since most of the wifi routers should be identified first by Apple products, it is very helpful to keep those drivers. In the other hand, most routers won’t connect to some products that they do not recognize. So the thing is to completely configure both the Apple HD TV and your wifi router so that they will be synchronized.

Mirroring

Another best feature about Apple products is it allows mirroring of movies from different apple products like iPhone and iPad. These products have a light internet hardware that is capable to handle wireless internet connection. If you can play movies without any issues like buffering in your iPhone and iPad, then you can probably use it to mirror it in your Apple HD TV.

Check Your Time Zone

Now, this is a little weird because Apple TVs are very sensitive to time zones. This is because they must have a good timing on the available shows on TV. Usually, it has automatic clock set up which really depends on the nearest internet connection source you got. Check the correct time zone in your area by going to settings. In there, you can select your place to where it will be automatically set the time. However, if there are still discrepancies with the time, you may check the third party applications.

Mr. Jashon Wills is an internet expert and a technology lover. He writes articles after reviewing most the latest technologies and services in the online world. You may check his articles at Broadband Expert.

Cell phones are in demand right around the world, from boys and girls, men and women, grandpas and grandmas, all kinds of people and for a variety of purposes. Whether you’re a full-time professional looking for a cell that you can use while on the train to a business meeting or a cool teenager looking for something that allows you to update your Facebook status every few minutes, the options are there for everyone.

Simple cell phones are available for people wanting to ring the family once a week, carrying it around for emergencies, while the more elaborate and technologically advanced models are there for the real gadget lover.

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Unfortunately a lot of cell phones cost substantial amounts of money, with many prices comfortably inside the 3-figured bracket and that’s before you start talking about contracts and call time. Like most luxury items, if you want the very best and the latest, you have to pay top dollar for the privilege, especially with phones such as the iPhone or Blackberry.

If you go into a store or online, you can find that there are a great deal of offers available that will help to reduce the price of the overall cell plan – something everybody wants – and you can even find that you can pick a brand new cell up for absolutely nothing with certain carriers.

Go online and type in the carrier you’re looking for, take T-Mobile free cell phones as an example, or go into your nearest cell phone store and ask about the packages available which enable you to take out a contract or prepaid deal whereby you only pay for the deal, not the phone. This doesn’t necessarily only apply to old models of cell phones with some of the very latest models included in a number of deals.

By taking advantage of deals which allow you to pay absolutely nothing for the handset itself, it frees up your budget to spend a little bit extra – if necessary – on your plan. This means that you could pay a bit more each month for additional minutes to make more calls, or for more messages to stay in regular contact with your friends, or even data to allow you to spend more time using the Internet on your phone, if that’s your thing. Alternatively, you could just put the money back in the account and save it for your next touch of luxury!

Among the trending topics on the internet recently, Windows 8 is undoubtedly the one that should not be ignored. No matter when Windows 8 will be finally released, making more Blu-ray backups on your computer is far more than a prescient move.

If you back up Blu-ray discs on your PC, once you use Windows 8 OS one day, you will have a lot of HD Blu-ray videos and movies available so that you can play any of them (say, watch 1080p HD videos) conveniently through common player software without the need to worry about the damage or loss of the real Blu-ray disc any more. You can even burn the Blu-ray folder to another Blu-ray to make of physical copy and send it to others as a gift.

Although Windows 8 will certainly have advanced technologies to support playing DVD and Blu-ray, it cannot back up Blu-ray. WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is the one you need as a professional Blu-ray backup tool for Windows 8.

Why I Recommend WinX Blu-ray Decrypter:

No matter what you will do with Blu-ray digital video, one thing you have to make clear, that is, the software you choose to backup Blu-ray have to be perfectly compatible with the upcoming Windows 8.

WinX Blu-ray Decrypter is designed to well match with almost all Windows OS’s, namely, Win 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7 and even Windows 8. Besides, I have the reasons to make this recommendation as follows:

Reason 1: It is good at decrypting BD+, BD-Rom Mark, region code, UOPs, and latest AACS.
Reason 2: It can backup any kind of Blu-ray and keep original audio video quality.
Reason 3: It provides two Blu-ray copy modes for different uses.
Reason 4: It supports both 2D and 3D Blu-ray movies.
Reason 5: (the Most Important): It is now TOTALLY FREE (before May 25) on the official. Giveaway page of Digiarty Software: http://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/

Backup Blu-ray on Windows 8 PC in Two Modes:

Mode 1: Blu-ray to M2TS

The "Title Mode" supported by WinX Blu-ray Decrypter can meet your basic need of decrypting and backing up Blu-ray to an easily playable video file on your PC. It can at least be played by Windows Media Player, VLC, KMPlayer, MPlayer, DAPlayer, etc.

Mode 2: Blu-ray to a Folder

If you choose "Full Disc Mode" under Target Mode on the right of the software UI, you can have a complete 1:1 Blu-ray copy replica. This function is mainly to facilitate convenient Blu-ray burning.

Free Access to WinX Blu-ray Decrypter:

If you are a windows user with many Blu-ray discs, here is your access to get useful Blu-ray backup software for free.

Note: The giveaway is only valid before May 25, and the software activation should be done before May 27.

When we Google some phrase we are not just looking to get a number of webpages, but our intension is to get most accurate answers and also a little concept and exploring with out query. So this searching has been improved from Google and now it can more effectively understands your searched term and display bets result with relationship among them.

This new effective search is called Google Knowledge Graph: which is a collection of people, places and things around the world and how they are interconnected to each other. The Knowledge Graph is primarily based on semantic intelligence which includes reliable resources like Wikipedia, CIA World Factbook and Freebase.

See It In Action

It helps you connect your query to Google’s knowledgebase including above 500 million peoples, things and places to display most relevant info along the sidebar of your search results.

Finding The Right Thing

The phrases we use to search in Google have more than one meaning. With the help of Knowledge Graph google now understands the difference and help you narrow your result to more accurate for what you are looking for.

Get Best Summary

You can have more key facts on your searched term with most useful and interesting information for a particular topic, based on questions other people have asked for.

Digg Deeper & Broader

Make unexpected discoveries with your search and explore deep inside with information at your fingertips, you would be just surprise when you see it happen!

See the practical implementation of your searches based on Knowledge Graph. Give a try.

Introducing Google Knowledge Graph: things, not string | Google Official Blog 

There has been an immense rise in the advancements of mobile technology in recent times. One of the widely awaited smart phones from Samsung has unveiled, and is popularly known as Samsung Galaxy S III. This exclusive smart phone possesses some of the best features that one can expect from Android phones. It is basically a touch screen phone that comes in the form of candy bar and is available in two shades – pebble blue and marble white. The touch screen is quite bigger than other smart phones that are currently available in the market. The features of Samsung Galaxy S III are overall good, and can definitely be considered as one of the best smart phones.

As far as spying on Samsung Galaxy S III is concerned, there are quite a few mobile monitoring applications such as Flexispy, Mobistealth, Mobile Spy, and many more that effectively monitors the Samsung phones.

Features of spying applications for Samsung Galaxy S III are quite amazing and the application can be installed with ease. The major benefit of spying the Samsung Galaxy S III through mobile monitoring applications is that the information gets captured as well as logged in real time. The data remains intact in the spying application account.

How does the spying application work on Samsung Galaxy S III?

You can download the spying software on the internet with ease and install the same on your Samsung Galaxy S III. By doing so, you would be in a position to listen to phone calls, retrieve text messages, control the Samsung phone remotely, track the correct location through GPS, and call logs. All the information stored in the Samsung Galaxy S III gets uploaded secretly into a website that is password protected. Out of so many spying applications, Mobile Spy has been considered to be one of the most accurate and effective spying applications that monitors every detail of your Samsung Galaxy S III phone. There are quite a reviews updated by its users that proves its effectiveness.
There are spying applications designed specifically for Samsung smart phones. These spying applications are highly useful for various reasons. Some of the primary reasons have been listed below.

Parents can worry less about their child as the spying application thoroughly monitors all the activities of their child. Intercepting the calls and text messages would help parents to keep a track of their child and preventive measures can be taken if they are associated with harmful people.

An employer can check if his employees are misusing the company provisions, and also staff productivity can be tracked with the help of spying applications. Employers can also protect the confidentiality of the data through this spying application. Most often, employees try to leak out company’s confidential information to the competitors or rivals. However, with the help of spying applications, employers can prevent such incidents.

You can find out what is cooking between your spouse and his or her friend/colleague. The precise location of your spouse can be tracked especially when your spouse makes frequent excuses that they are caught up in meetings. Spying application is one of the ideal ways to check the infidelity of spouses.

Anna loves to blog on latest mobile technologies. To know about her updates please view Mobile phone spying software.

Laptops are not strictly crucial for many people. While some folks need to be able to carry their entire office in a bag they can sling over their shoulder and carry through an airport or into a client’s office, for many people a laptop is more of a luxury than anything else. But just because you want something luxurious and not strictly necessary doesn’t mean you should have to pay out the nose for it.

There are tons of different ways to find a great laptop that will give you hours of enjoyment and convenience. You can use a lot of the same methods you would use normally to find a laptop at the "regular" price to get seriously discounted laptop deals. The following are a few ways you can make your laptop shopping experience a much easier and less expensive one.

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Open Box

A lot of people think that when you go to a big box retailer, you’re going to pay a huge price for anything you get. In some cases this is true, but in others it couldn’t be any further from the truth. In some cases, you actually have the chance to pick up a pretty reasonable discount on what is sometimes called an open box item. An open box item is close to brand new and carries the original manufacturer’s warranty, but it’s priced at a discount because someone opened the box.

In most cases, the laptop literally only left the box for a few minutes. So you can get a 20% discount in some cases because someone used the computer for a matter of minutes. It’s a pretty fair trade off.

Small Shops

Small shops have largely gone the way of the dinosaur, and this is a very sad statement about our society. However, if you can still find a tiny hole in the wall type of shop somewhere, it’s worth your time because they have superior customer service to offer you. Not only can they give you all kinds of great information without the hard sell you tend to find at big box retailers, but they can also usually point you in the direction of where you can find the best deal.

Going Online

The online world is ripe with all kinds of great deals. You can find a deal on any kind of laptop you might conceivably want. The only downside you’ll have to deal with is the fact that you’re still investing a level of trust in the seller. Sometimes the laptop you see in the ad is not quite what comes out of the box. If you do your research carefully and use an escrow company like Paypal or your credit card, you can find a pretty good deal.

Are you bored sending emails with old fashioned signatures which just defines your name, designation and contact details? Say goodbye to boring email signatures and step ahead with a free email template system which allows you to create your own styled emails templates and signatures.

BrandMyEmail is a new email template system which allows you control the looks of your email the way you like. You can create attractive, dynamic emails with real-time social media icons linked emails, signatures, your company header and many more.

Spice up your sent email’s with Twitter feeds, Flickr photos, YouTube videos and even you can add your recent blog post to the layout. Creating all these is super easy, BrandMyEmail allows you to use such features with single drag and drop, it is a personalized email template editor used to create a unique email template which then easily gets integrated with your Gmail.

How To Use BrandMyEmail?

Step 1: Create your personalized email template from BrandMyEmail.

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Below is a sample email template which i have created you can be more creative adding your favorite feature to your template.