Always ensure your iPhone has the latest software from Apple Using the latest version of iTunes, you can update your iPhone with the latest software. Connect your iPhone to your computer, then select iPhone in the Source List. In the Summary panel, click “Check for Updates” Click Update to install the latest version
Reboot Your Phone If your iPhone suddenly stops responding, the Home button does nothing etc Press and hold the Home button for about six seconds to quit any application that might have locked up your iPhone. If that does not work press and hold both the Home and sleep/wake buttons; after about ten seconds the
Sync Notes One of the major limitations of the iPhone’s Notes application is that you can’t sync it to yor Mac etc. There is a cheat of sorts Every contact has a notes field so you can create a contact and paste any info you like in the notes field for that contact in Address
Recover “Lost” E-mails If you try to send an e-mail but the iPhone can’t get network access a temporary Outgoing folder is created to hold the message. You can access this folder from the main screen of the sending account; the folder will disappear once network access is available and the message is sent.
Mark Read Messages as Unread There doesn’t appear to be any way to mark read messages as unread on the iPhone but there is, its is not clearly visable. While viewing a message, tap on Details (this is located to the right of the `From` details, it may read `Hide`, if it does click on
Avoid Mail Confusion do not give two e-mail accounts the same name, because Mail will get confused and copy the settings from one account to the other. You will not be able to rectify this by renaming one account; you’ll need to delete one of the accounts and then re-create it.
Windows Live MovieMaker will not let you import network files by default. This quick Registry ammendment will solve this a problem. Just run REGEDIT, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindows LiveMovie Maker, add a DWORD value called AllowNetworkFiles and set it to 1
If you have a HP multifunction printer with its “Full Feature Software solution” or “Basic Driver solution” installed then, after upgrading to Windows 7, you may find the printer stops working. Press the buttons on the front of the printer and nothing will happen; launch the software manually and you’ll see reports that it
Click Start > Computer in Windows 7 and you’ll find system folders like Control Panel and the Recycle Bin are no longer displayed in the left-hand Explore pane. To resolve this issue: Click Tools , then Folder Options, check “Show all folders”, click OK and all your top-level system folders will reappear.
The windows 7 taskbar buttons, can make it difficult to tell at a glance whether an icon is a running application or a pinned shortcut. If this sounds like you then there’s an easy way to restore more standard taskbar buttons, though – right-click the taskbar, select Properties, and set Taskbar Buttons to “Never combine”
