ipod touch secrets: Take screen shots
ipod touch secret 1 of 8: ipod touch secret one of two: Just by pressing the home key, keep it pressed, and press the other little black side button. They get saved in your photo album and can be copied from your ipod touch when you connect it to your computer. it shows up in explorer under windows. My iMac is broken.
ipod touch secrets: Save web page images
ipod touch secret 2 of 8: While surfing by touching any image, keep it touched until a popup asks if you want to save it. The pics can be called up, viewed and deleted from the photos icon. When you connect your ipod touch to your computer, the ipod touch will also show up as a usb camera device in explorer. You can then copy the photos to your harddrive or delete them. You cannot copy photos from your harddrive back onto theipod touch!
ipod touch secrets: Use the Mini Music Player
ipod touch secret 3 of 8: When the screen is locked - Double click home key.
ipod touch secrets: Save space on a ipod touch.
ipod touch secret 4 of 8: Unclick on unwanted songs and videos in itunes and then click the "only synchronize marked files" This is really helpful if you only want to a few itunes music to take around at a time.
ipod touch secrets: Where are the umlauts or where is φδόΔάΦί on my ipod touch?
ipod touch secret 5 of 8: If your missing umlauts on your international keyboard just hold down the key for a bit longer and an addition sub-key row will be shown displaying all other versions of the the letter.
ipod touch secrets: Where are the other domains. What about .net .co.jp or .de and the rest?
ipod touch secret 5b of 8: So you've found the umlauts. Now hold down the .com key in safari for a bit longer and an addition sub-key row will be shown displaying a few other domain names. Although I would have like .de instead of .com when I use the QUERTZ keyboard. Where is .co.uk?
ipod touch secrets: Home Page Icons.
ipod touch secret 6: The perfect bookmark. Make a png graphic with 57 x 57 pixels with the filename "customIcon.png". The glass effect is automatically done by safari in you ipod touch so you do not need any expensive graphic programs.
Add the following source code in the head part of you page source code.
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/customIcon.png"/>
You could even shorten the title of your web page so that it doe not need editing in the bookmarks. Longer titles get cropped in the MID.....DLE.
ipod touch secrets: make your website a pleasure to read on an ipod touch.
ipod touch secret 7: There is a little ipod touch secret when surfing with an ipod touch (especially when its upright), double tap on a paragraph and safari will zoom in on its width. This is great for multi-column sites, but a really bummer for wide para.....graphs which stretch all the way across the screen.
A rule of thumb for readability is a paragraph should be 45-75 spaces in width and spaces means all characters, punctuation, and white space. Funnily enough this is about the same what is readable on an ipod touch. So give it a try on your webpage. Zoom in on your wide paragraph until you can read it, then alter the margins to suit. I adjusted mine down to 58 spaces so it should not only be pleasant to read - but also gives me room to add some ads!
ipod touch secrets: split excel files into managable lists for gflash+:
ipod touch secret 8: It is not really a ipod touch secret but if your using gflashpro you can use this excel macro to cut long lists down to 100 card pairs. The activespread should contain a list of pairs in columns A and B respectively. Study, use own risk and customize the code as required. The output files are in the format originalWorksheetName_CardBlock_FirstBlockEntry_LastBlockEntry.xls eg FlashCard_2_201_300.xls would be the second set of cards from the original list FLashcard.xls with the entry from 201 to 300
ipod touch secrets: Do not jail break
ipod touch secret 9 of 8 (bonus): Upgrade your older 1st or 2nd generation ipod touch for offline apps for about 10 dollars.
