Posts Tagged as ‘iPhone’

June 25, 2009

iPhone 3G S Magnetometer Limited in Maps?

While driving, I wondered if the new iPhone 3G S had to be oriented with the screen parallel to the ground for the magnetometer to work properly, like a traditional compass.  This functionality is supposed to enhance the upcoming turn-by-turn GPS apps where a phone is clamped so that the screen is perpendicular to the [...]

May 11, 2009

Change Screens with a Tap

Instead of the usual flick gesture to navigate through screens of iPhone icons, I serendipitously found out that you can tap the slivers of space just under the fourth row of icons and to the right or left of the dots.

April 19, 2009

iPhone Scripture Memory

To memorize this week’s verse, Deuteronomy 7:9, I captured it from an iPhone Bible app and set it as the wallpaper. Now I can’t help but read it tens of times a day as I check my phone for the time, calls, texts, emails, web, music, weather, calculator, etc.