Top iPhone firmware 2.0 tips and tricks
1. Caps Lock
I don?t really know why, but a lot of people seem to have the urge to write in ALL CAPS. Personally I find it annoying but then again I guess that is a matter of taste (and maturity). So How do you activate caps lock on the iPhone? Simply double tap on the caps lock key anytime your in the keyboard mode. The caps key should turn blue and YOU CAN SHOUT ALL YOU WANT!
Not working for you? You might have to activate this functionality in your settings, they are off by default. Go to Settings -> General -> Keyboard and enable the caps lock function.
2. Take a screenshot
How do folks get all these nifty screenshots of iPhones up on their blogs?
The new iPhone 2.0 software has a screenshot functionality: Hold the Home button (the round one on the bottom of the front screen) and press the power button at the top. Your screen will flash and presto you have a screenshot of whatever you where looking at in that moment floating around your camera roll.
3. Appstore – New Apps
A functionality I?ve been sorely missing from the Appstore is the possibility to see new products or a list of updated software (as far as you haven?t installed it yet that is). Here the fine folks over at Pinch Media come in to save the day. They have an unofficial RSS feed to keep up with iTunes App Store additions. The categories are New Apps, Updated Apps, Top 100 free apps, and Top 100 paid apps.
4. Domain ending / TLD short cut
When you type a website URL in the address bar or enter an email address in mail, you can now hold down the ?.com? button to get a selection of 3 other domain name endings: ?.net,? ?.edu,? and ?.org?.
You can also get your local language specific top level domains displayed by setting your correct keyboard or keyboards. To do so go to General -> Keyboard -> International Keyboards and turn ON the desire keyboards.
You can then rotate through the languages by tapping the small ?globe? icon on the left side of the spacebar to select the language. After having selected the desired language you will then also get the most common top level domain for that country e.g. for Germany you will get .edu, .org, .de, .com.
5. Disable the auto-correction / dictionary function on the iPhone 2.0
This has been driving me absolutely crazy! I hate auto-correction since I like to communicate in a bilingual mish-mash and after typing half a mail/sms I usually see that my phone has auto-corrected every other word to some crap?
Now for the old iPhone software there was a very convenient little tweak called ?Kb application? that you just need to install and suddenly under the keyboard settings you had a little slider to disable the auto correction. Unfortunately such a tool doesn?t exist yet for 2.0.
However if you happen to feel adventurous then of course there is a way:
Step 1. SSH to iPhone
You need a jailbroken iPhone for this and you need to install SSHd via Cydia.
Then you can telnet to the IP of your phone. The IP address of your iPhone is listed under the WiFi connection you have established, press the blue > button for it under Settings -> Wi-Fi.
Step 2. Goto the directory: /System/Library/TextInput
Step 3. Rename ?TextInput_en.bundle? to whatever you like (e.g. ?TextInput_en.backup) and voila the auto-correction is disabled for that language. Obviously if you are using a different language/keyboard setting you need to rename that file, e.g. ?TextInput_de.bundle? needs to be renamed for German.
As usual if you go fiddling with your phone and don?t know what you are doing don?t come crying to me when it?s broke, otherwise I wish you happy hacking?.