iPod Touch Tricks & Tips

[thomashayes]

Through using your iPod Touch you invariably pick up little tricks to get things done quicker, or make life easier. Or maybe a cool unknown feature.

Let's collate them here for all to see. Post your tricks and tips on this thread, and I'll go through it now and then and pick them out and add them to the following list...

1. If you're scrolling through a long document/page in Safari - if you tap the bar at the top of your screen containing the time and battery, Safari will automatically scroll up to the top of the document/page and the show address bar.

2. Turn off WiFi and SSH (using Services from Installer) to save battery power when not in use.

3. Double clicking the home button in any application, or with the screen off will bring up the music controls.

4. Make sure to completely close apps when you are done with them to save battery power. This is accomplished by pressing and holding the home button for approximately five seconds. This boosts battery life big time if you run lots of different apps all the time.

5. Holding down letters on the keyboard will pop up the accents/symbols associated with those letters. Once it pops up, slide your finger over to the accent/symbol you like.

6. Whilst in Mail's inbox view, sliding your finger from left to right on a message the 'delete' button will appear. This also applies in the list view of the Videos application.

7. In Safari double tap to zoom in. You can also "pinch" (putting your thumb and index finger on the screen and pinching in and out) to zoom in Safari and in Pictures.

8. You can charge your iPod Touch from any powered USB port. Such as a computer, printer, media centre. The device does not have to have iTunes installed to provide power to your iPod Touch.

9. Need a spare cleaning cloth for your touch, or an extra cloth to rest your iPod touch on while at work or school? Just go to your local vision care store (or pharmacy) and get an eyeglass/sunglass "cleaning cloth". Cheap and works great!

10. When watching a video, tap to bring up the onscreen controls. When you are done watching a video make sure you press done so your progress will be saved.

11. If you want to set a picture as a permanent background (and not only in the "wake" screen) Set the picture as a background in settings or directly from the picture gallery then off the theme wallpaper in the SummerBoard settings.

12. When typing a lot of text in Safari turn it to horizontal view. The keyboard will be bigger and you can get a better grip of the Touch while typing with two thumbs.

13. When typing if you want to add something from the numbers keyboard just hold down the numbers and slide your finger to the number or symbol you want, and release. It will take you back to your letters keyboard. This way you dont have to tap numbers, tap your number, then tap numbers again to go back. This also applies for using the 'shift' key to apply capital letters.

14. When in Safari, if you are presented with a link, hold your finger over the link, and a bubble will appear showing the URL that the link is tied to.

15. In Safari since you can't open links in a new windows, you can open a new page, tap the bookmarks icon, tap the history folder and direct yourself to the last page you were just on and tap the link from there.

16. When listening to an audiobook, iTunes and your iPod create a new chapter list unrelated to the subject of the book. It's accessible using the same control used for viewing audio tracks (upper right of screen).

17. Make a spelling mistake? Press and hold the word you spelt wrong and a magnifying glass will appear. Slide your finger back and forwth to move the cursor.

18. When you're on a website that has a frame or an iframe with scrollbars in it, use two fingers on that frame to scroll that window and back to a single finger to scroll the whole page.

19. When typing, if you press the space bar twice after a word it will insert a period and another space.

20. If you wish to use the horizontal keyboard to chat on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, GTalk, ICQ, etc. Using Safari go to the site www.meebo.com and use it there.

[win2000b]

double clicking the home button in any app brings up music control

thomashayes: added - thank you!

[juke]

Handy, cheers.

[xmaxonx]

Thank you. This is very nice. Hopefully this thread will grow.

[Rallos]

Make sure to completely close apps when you are done with them to save battery power. This is accomplished by clicking and holding the home button for approximately five seconds. Boosts battery life big time if you run lots of different apps all the time.

ThomasHayes: Added - thank you!

[win2000b]

Holding down a letter on the keyboard will bring up alternative accents and stuff

ThomasHayes: Added - thank you!

[win2000b]

In mail sliding your finger over an email from left to right while in a folder view will bring up the delete button. Think this works in similar apps

ThomasHayes: Added - thank you!

[acfusion29]

Originally Posted by win2000b

In mail sliding your finger over an email from left to right while in a folder view will bring up the delete button. Think this works in similar apps

ThomasHayes: Added - thank you!

The same can be done for Videos

ThomasHayes: Added - thank you!

[charlienesh]

Double tapp on a picture or a website to zoom in.

thomashayes: Added - thank you!

[sagsi]

You can charge your iPod using your dock USB cable plugged into any PC ... the PC does not have to have iTunes installed on it to charge you iPod. For example, I do this at work

thomashayes: added - thank you!