From the category archives:
iPhone
by Ross McKillop on April 20, 2009
This iPhone App review is a guest post by Jason Kaneshiro, who does lots of iPhone App reviews on his site, Webomatica, in addition to Switching To Mac.
In Diner Dash you help Flo wait tables at an increasingly busy restaurant. Seat customers, take orders, serve food, and bus tables as efficiently as possible. Taking too long at any task creates unhappy customers, who just might leave in frustration. [click to continue...]
by Sukrit Dhandhania on March 18, 2009
Pano is a fantastic iPhone application for taking panoramic photographs. It’s from the folks at Debacle Software. From the looks of it it’s a very simple application with just two buttons, but don’t be fooled by that. It is very useful and great fun to use. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on March 16, 2009
This brief tutorial will show you how to determine how much data you’ve used on your iPhone’s wireless data plan. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on September 8, 2008
This brief tutorial will guide you through using Cydia on your Jailbroken iPhone/iPod Touch to install WiFiToggle - an app that makes enabling and disabling WiFi a “one tap” affair. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on August 11, 2008
by Ross McKillop on August 8, 2008
Double-tap the space button in any application (with the on-screen keyboard) and it will add a period, a space, and automatically switch to upper-case for the next key. Yep, that’s it.

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by Ross McKillop on August 4, 2008
If you’re having problems setting up the Remote software for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch, follow the steps outlined in this tutorial and you should be up and running in no time. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on July 31, 2008
Below you’ll find 20 resources that contain a total of over 15,000 wallpapers for the iPhone and iPod Touch. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on July 21, 2008
by Ross McKillop on July 14, 2008
Here’s another reader requested tutorial - how to take screenshots using your iPhone or iPod Touch (with the 2.0 firmware, non-jailbroken) and how to access them. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on July 14, 2008
This tutorial was created in response to several emails I’ve received on the subject. It’s another one of those “obvious, but easily overlooked” topics.
- To change the order of the icons on your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen (often referred to as the springboard) - tap and hold down any one of the icons. After holding down the icon for a couple of seconds, all of your icons will start to “wiggle”, and the applications that can be removed - generally those you have installed from the App Store - will have small X’s in the upper-left corner.

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- While the icons are wiggling, tap and hold down the one you want to move, and drag it to whatever location you want.

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- Repeat step #2 until you’re happy with your springboard layout. When you’re done, click the “bottom” button on your iPhone/iPod Touch.
by Ross McKillop on July 12, 2008
I’m not much of a video game reviewer, so I’ll keep it brief and just include a bunch of screenshots. It’s fun. Getting used to the controls takes some time, and Mario Kart for Wii it is not. But it’s fun. And for $10, the price is certainly right. More screenshots after the jump.

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by Ross McKillop on July 12, 2008
So you’ve downloaded, perhaps even purchased, some of the new iPhone/iPod Touch apps from the App Store. Then you discovered you don’t really want or need that app. This tutorial will guide you in deleting it from your iPhone or iPod Touch. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on July 11, 2008
One of the great new features of the 2.0 iPhone/iPod Touch software is the App Store. One of the great (free) things in the App Store, is Remote. This tutorial will guide you through downloading, installing, setting up and using Remote to control iTunes from your iPhone and/or iPod Touch. [click to continue...]
by Ross McKillop on June 11, 2008
At first it was called vlc4iphone, now it’s called ZodPlay, and at some point in the not too distant future it will once again be called vlc4phone (naming history details can be found here). Regardless of its name, it can play .ogg and .flac files - something which a number of us have been hoping against hope would happen some day. [click to continue...]