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!

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.

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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.

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The heavy weight participants that have recently entered the web warfare are Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. The question is, who is the best and who is the worst. However, from the user point of view, we are flabbergasted as which should be our ideal pick. The sources of our bewilderment are the positive features in each of these, which are quite tempting. On the other hand, the balanced presence of demerits makes us thoughtful as well. We are, thus, clueless and the battle of Google v/s Microsoft v/s Dropbox continues with an open end. However, let us try to find out a proper answer to this question.

Microsoft and Google’s recent stance was really remarkable and they have launched services, such as SkyDrive and Google drive respectively to give Dropbox a run for money. However, Dropbox is also not a species to tolerate dejection. So, it has come up with improved services and lurkers such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Let us take a closer look at what is the offer that each of them have for us.

Positive Features Of Services

Google Drive, the extended user end service of Google, has finally hit the market, thereby ending months of speculation. The good news that it offers us is that it comes with 5 GB free service and as much as 1TB in exchange of a nominal monthly fee. Added to this, a host of easy to operate sharing options comes as a bonus treat from Google. The Microsoft evolution, Sky Drive gets a fresh new look this time, with extended offers and novel propositions. Dropbox, joins the warfare with newly updated space for referrals along with improvisation and betterment of services and already present offers.

Let us have a neat idea on the positive offers they are presenting.

Pricing And Storage

Now Google claims to get bigger with a tempting storage space of complementary 5GB. So, the users will get greater opportunity to store more images, documents, contents and photographs now. Those higher resolution pictures, which had been a pain to store in Google until recently, will get squeezed inside the space without any laborious effort at all! In case if you still find the free storage space insufficient for you, all you need to do is to pay more $2.49 a month to get a bonus of 235 GB space. Options for power users are 100 GB of space for a monthly rental of $4.99 and $49.99 per month for 1TB in the cloud.

Microsoft’s stance is entirely different in this respect. It has rescaled its free space from 25 GB to 7GB! So, new users have to be satisfied with only 7GB of free space. However, it is still greater than Google. The lucrative offer that Microsoft makes is that a yearly package of 20GB will be available for $10, 50 GB for $25 and 100 GB for $50.

Dropbox’s offers might sound very nominal, being only 2GB free space. But, you can increase it to 500MBs extra with Dropbox referrals. So, you will achieve 16GB of free space at the end of it. The monthly and yearly pay plans are also quite profitable. With $9.99 a month you will get 50GBs of space. Likewise, you will get 50GBs a year with $99 and 100GB for $19.99 or the same space with yearly rate of $199 only. The powers users will be offered a group plan of $795 a year for 1TB. It will be enjoyed by five users in all, with individual space worth $125 a year per user. Some of the best online cloud services also performs well.

Sharing Options

Live document collaboration is a great feature being offered by Google Drive. A document can be worked upon with a group, while all the modifications you make will be synced back to Google Drive. The changes that you are entitled to, will also be backed by notifications pointing out the changes made in your document. You can extract out photos from Google Drive and attach them into the social networking sites and Google +.
Microsoft’s sharing looks much simpler. Sending large mail attachments will be easier with Sky Drive. An upload that you make shall only be accompanied by a web link by you to any recipient of your choice. This can be done in the form of posting in social networks or instant message.

Dropbox gives the option to share all the contents of its folder with every other Dropbox user. It will comprise of essential links to every file and folder you create. But, these will only be presented to them as readable and downloadable versions, without any permission to edit them.

Accessibility To Desktop Features

Till recently, Google and Microsoft lacked the Drop Box like desktop features. But the steep competition in the sphere has made them launch extensions that allow easy drag and drop options for the PC and Mac users just as they do with their desktop.

Sky Drive gives an additional feature to its users by auto synchronizing all the images in the folders and making them available all other devices running on Sky Drive. Fetch functionality option also enables users to access any file from their PC, fetch and divert it to any other system they are currently working on. But installation of Sky Drive is mandatory of course.

Mobile Applications

Mobile app is another sphere in this field that keeps the competition alive. The built-in Android apps feature in Google Drive is one of them. The users can share directly downloaded, uploaded and shared documents to their Drive account. But you cannot enjoy this privilege offline. Google reports that it is working to solve this iOS issue.

Microsoft presents Windows Phone apps with sharing options with iPad and iPhone. Sky Drive meant for iOS gives the user benefit to upload, manage and share photos and services even with a third party iOS application, which sounds very interesting.

Although Dropbox still lacks a Windows gadget, its plethora of smart apps includes iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android. However, it is needless to say that Dropbox is well aware of its lacuna and will sort it out soon. New Dropbox for Android sets free backup of your photos and videos, this is truly a great way to save your moments automatically.

The inspirational approach of Dropbox is clearly visible from the footsteps of Microsoft and Google. While Google’s USP us its easy sharing and collaborating options, more storage facility and iOS apps of Sky Drive is Microsoft’s USP. Drop Box takes it share of devoted users by virtue of hi end products and services. Thus, it is best to say that which is the best is solely dependent upon the end use of the user.

Alia Haley is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and autos. Beside this she is fond of cars and fancy accessories. Recently an article on Google Vision attracted her attention. These days she is busy in writing an article on green future.

SEO plug-ins

The SEO plug-in is used to make your search engine most effective. There is not a single SEO plug in, there is a list of SEO plug in and you must be careful while choosing the SEO plug-in. you can select any of your SEO plug in by considering its features that would be useful for you. If you use the WordPress plug-in in the right way then you can definitely improve your WordPress powered websites in many ways that you can not even imagine. There is plug-ins that helps in AD management. There is other plug-ins if you want the people to share and follow your content on the social webs.

All in one SEO

Among so many of the plug-ins “all in one SEO” is the plug-in that can create the meta-tag automatically on each post and page. All in one SEO is the plug-in that is used by the millions of the people around the world. Because all in one SEO is the automatic plug-in so it can help you if you do not know much about the development of the wordpress and SEO, what you need is to install it and fill out some details and it will work on its own. It supports the Google analytics and custom post types. It can automatically optimize the title for your search engine.

WordPress SEO by Yoast

Another WordPress plug-in of SEO that is available is the WordPress SEO by Yoast. This plug-in is very easy and good to use for site. It helps you to make a best and effective use of your page contents, titles, images, and lots of many other things related to the sites in a very short preview. You can write the better with WordPress SEO. It can give you the good analysis of a page.

Feature of Headspace 

HeadSpace2 WordPress SEO gives you that features by which you can make your site and keep it on the level where your site can be on the top of the search engine results. Headspace is available in so many languages. This SEO plug-in knows about all the work that your blogs needs to be benefited and noticed. 

SEO smart link

This WordPress SEO plug-in can help you to automatically form the internal links from the posts. You can get your blog posts interlinked to with the other sites. You can easily set up the matching URLs and your own keywords through this SEO smart link. SEO smart link gives you the opportunity to open the links in new window.

SEO Search Terms Tagging

This is another WordPress plug-in that helps to gain the huge followers for your website and it helps you to ensure that all of the posts are indexed and it can increase the number of cataloged page. Through this SEO WordPress you can tag the popular search terms under every post. You can know and get the information about all those keywords which are best for your blogs and the websites.

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