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5 Common iPhone Problems and Their Solutions iPhone is no miracle, its a man-made phone like other mobile phones. Apple iPhone might be overwhelmed with rave reviews. No doubt iPhone is rocking - turning heads with its beauty and featues, but like all other phones it's not invincible. Behind these praises, the Cupertino company might have overheard the annoyances or nuisances about their smartphone that getting under the user's skin.

Well, some of the most common pains that you might come across while using your iPhone include - default apps can’t be hidden, Pandora and other apps not running in the background, grueling task of browsing the App Store and pacified IMAP in Gmail. When there are problems, solutions are bound to come up, almost by default. We decided to highlight the common iPhone problems and share their solutions with you.

1. Easy browsing App Store

Out of the massive junk of apps in App store its too tiring to find your chosen one. Only if you know that release date, you might get the top 100 apps released in that category. Even that might yield a number of unwanted results. Although Apple provides search keywords the function is a bit kinky.

To avoid this Apple needs to come up with a Show All feature. It would allow you to sort out apps by name or rank.
Solution

Well, there's a cool app, Apple Miner that makes browsing the store a cakewalk. It offers you a list of apps that go on sale including the paid apps that are being given away and those that create a watch list for discounts. To filter the choice you can take the help of sites like Macworld's App Guide, Apptism and AppBeacon.

2. Run Pandora and other apps in background
One of the top features in iPhone is that ability to stream Internet radio stations such as Pandora and Slacker from anywhere with a 3G or Wi-Fi connection. However, what's most irritating is that the music is snapped as soon as you start playing games or check emails.

To make things work their way Apple needs to allow certain apps to run at the same time. Well, how come iPod plays the music in background? Hope iPhone's audio system does that same.
Solution

This one is exclusively meant for Jailbreakers, if you have a free get-out-of-jail card download Gaizin's multitasking app iphone-backgrounder.

3. Operating IMAP Gmail
Most of you iPhone owners must be knowing that you can configure the iPhone's Mail app to retrieve your Gmail. Unfortunately, iPhone's Mail app doesn't include all the features you prefer in Gmail, particularly threaded viewing and starting. In case you like email friends or engage in long conversation threads during the day the Mail app would be quickly overwhelmed.
Solution

There's no way you can replace the Mail app completely. However, you can swap it for Gmail's Web app, which sports an iPhone-optimized layout. Recently, the swipe recognition was added. For more you might archieve e-mail messages with a finger stroke and caching would come along with HTML5 support. Add Gmail to the iPhone home page through + button in Safari and shun the old Mail app

4. Create Contact List Groups
One of the most unbearable features with iPhone is that it lists all your contacts under one category. So you can't split your friends and your colleagues in separate groups. Further, you have no options to create custom groups. All your contacts are co-existing in a massive list unless you creates subsections using your computer.

Well, if you are still waiting for Apple to fix it, move out.
Solution

There's a cool app that can create contact list groups for you. With ABContacts you can set up smart files that can categorize your contacts according to groups by name, location, place of employment, or notes.

5. Hide default apps
iPhone's start screen is stuffed with shortcuts of default applications whether you use them or not. For instance, not many of you check the Dow Jones Industrial Average or the weather frequently. These default iPhone apps can't be hidden or customized.
Solution

A quick and nasty solution to this is to isolate the undesirable apps on your last home page. For jailbreakers, you might seek programs like Sbsettings or Poof.
For a an ideal way to get rid of the unwanted default iPhone apps follow the steps below
Step 1: Move any app you don't want on your iPhone like iTune Store, Camera, weather to the 9th page.

Step 2: Arrange the apps you wanna delete to the right most location on the page

Step 3: Now you need to move the iPhone app to the hidden 10th page on iPhone. In order to dump the you can simply push the icons off the screen. When you drag an application from one page to another, it pushes all the apps on that page down to the right 1 space. Make sure that the 8th page has at least 1 more application on it than the number of apps you wanna delete on page 9. Now press and hold an app in the page 8 and start dragging the application from page 8 to page 9. When you release each of the applications the right most app will disappear. It's gone into the hidden 10 page.

Well, whenever you like to restore the hidden app, switch off iPhone and switch it on, its as simple as that

How to See Things From Friends You Shouldn’t in Facebook This little hack will show you how to see some information concerning your friends that you should not have direct access to.
In this little hack sample, I will show you how to get access to any free gifts, and the messages associated to them, of your friends.

You just need to get the user ID of the friend you want to get some more information.

To get the user ID and if you don’t know what it is or how to do it, just follow the instructions I gave in this previous article:

http://www.tools4facebook.com/2008/03/04/facebook-hack-how-to-see-tagged-photos-from-anyone-on-facebook/

When you have the user ID, let’s suppose it is 123456789, you just need to replace it in one of the following url and to navigate to this page.

http://apps.facebook.com/freegifts/?from=123456789

http://apps.facebook.com/freegifts/?to=123456789

Voilà! It was not so difficult, was it?

So, now that you know it is possible for your friends to see the history of all you received and sent gift, just act in consequence.

Finding for Someone Online Finding a way to contact someone has gotten a lot easier: just type their name into Google and follow a few links. For many people, you’ll quickly find a profile on Facebook, a blog or even an email address you can use to get in touch. But a Google search doesn’t turn up good results for everyone. Maybe the person you’re trying to reach has a fairly common name. You may need a tool a little better than a simple Google search to find him.

1. 123people
123people provides a good start when you’re looking for someone online. You can type in just a first name and a last name and get pictures, phone numbers, email addresses, Amazon wishlists, websites, documents and more. It turns up a lot of search results for relatively common names — or names that refer to someone famous in addition to the person you’re looking for. The only drawback to so much information is that it can take a little while to search through it all and find the specific person you’re searching for.

2. Pipl
Pipl is a free search tool, although it brings in results from several other sites which do charge for access to particular records. Between those various sources, Pipl turns up a good number addresses and phone numbers, along with links to public records, online mentions and other useful pieces of information. Particularly helpful is Pipl’s ability to search withing a specific city, state or zip code. If you know the geographic location of the person in question, you’ll be able to narrow down search results to that area.

3. YoName
If you’re confident the person you want to find has a profile on some social networking site, a good search tool is YoName. The site searches across a whole list of different social networking sites, from big names like MySpace to less common options like Webshots. The results can take a little time to look through, but the process is made easier by the fact that they’re laid out in a table — you can browse through it quickly.

4. Zoom Info
Zoom Info is particularly useful if you’re looking to connect with someone at their job. Search results include job titles and employers, along with locations. The site offers a ‘contact this person’ button, but requires you to sign up for a free trial in order to use it. After the free trial, using that button and some of the site’s other features cost $99 per month. If you’re willing to do a little more legwork by calling up the company listed and seeing if you can ask for a direct number or email address, you can generally skip paying that fee.

5. Jobster
Jobster’s main focus is searching for jobs, but it also offers a tool to search for individuals. In most cases, it’s used for employers and recruiters looking for leads — but it can offer up some contact information that can help your search. A few other job sites offer a similar opportunity, as well.

6. Inmate Search
Unfortunately, you may find yourself in need of Inmate Search — while the site isn’t pretty, it includes a list of contact information for each state’s system for finding inmates, as well as the federal system. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of options for searching all states at once, but if you know the state the person you’re looking for might be incarcerated in, you can speed up the search process.

7. Intelius
To access most of the information available through Intelius, you’ll be asked to pay a fee. The site offers everything from phone numbers to complete background checks and actually can have useful information. I have purchased information from Intelius in the past and it did lead me to exactly the person I was looking for. However, I know the price tag (often starting around $40) can be off-putting, especially if you’re only casually searching or if you need to find information on a long list of people.

8. Zaba Search
I know many people who swear by Zaba Search when it comes to searching public records for free. I’ve had minimal luck on it myself, but if you’re having some difficulty, it may be worth a try. The reverse phone look on Zaba Search is particularly problematic — the site actually uses Intelius to look up phone numbers, which charges for the information.

Customise Your 404 Page At some stage in your internet surfing, you will have landed on a web page that says Error 404 Page Not Found. It can be annoying for visitors, but with a bit of care and attention, you can create a page that may intrigue your visitors and make them like you even more!

What is a 404 Page?

A 404 page is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server but the server could not find what was requested. This can happen for several reasons;
1. The page has been moved
2. A link from another site is incorrect
3. The visitor may have made a mistake typing in a URL

What Makes a Good 404 Error Page?

Think of the 404 as taking your lost visitor’s hand and guiding them gently to another part of your site.

1. Explain what the page is. Don’t assume that everyone is familiar with the term 404. The average lay person might think something has gone dramatically wrong (and I’m thinking of my parents here) when they see ERROR 404 in big letters on their screen.

2. Don’t let the visitor feel like it’s their fault that the page can’t be found, and don’t just tell them to correct their spelling. Odds are they won’t be back.

3. To improve their experience you should always allow them to go somewhere other than back using the browser Back button. Do not create dead ends.

4. Include links to other parts of your site.

5. Offer visitors a way to contact the webmaster to let them know a link is broken. Visitors are more likely to do this if offered a form.

6. Use Search boxes

7. An interesting or humorous graphic goes a long way towards creating goodwill.

By customising your 404 Error Page using some or all of these tips, you are going a long way towards keeping people on your site.

Some Examples

There are some wonderful showcases of 404 Pages on the web. I’ve picked out 10 examples that I felt were eyecatching and useful.

Unfinity Design gives a short explanation that the page can’t be found and a number of links back to various parts of their site.

CSS Scoop serves up a melting scoop of ice-cream which is a link back to the homepage. The navigation bar at the top allows visitors to jump to those sections of the site.

DigiGuru has a very interesting 404 page, which transitions through a number of pictures, whilst giving links back to the main site, his email and phone number, AND information about a walk through the South Pole.

Roymond.com – I have to admit I included this one because it made me laugh. As well as displaying a humorous (in a slightly twisted way) image on the 404 page, there are a full set of links back to the main site.

Ultrapop shows a nice image with an order to return to base.

Moo has a simple and “caring” message with links to its products and to the homepage.

Hootsuite.com has a missing fowl theme with a brief explanation of why the page was not found and a link back to the homepage.

As well as sharks with lasers, on the Renkoo Error Page you get links back to various parts of the site.

Clean, witty and offering lots of ways out of the 404 page including the search box, the Tinted Pixelsite also adds a nice little touch saying “It’s most certainly not your fault”

The 404 page for Blue Daniel is exceptional. While it only offers one link back to the main site, It’s made in Flash and is very imaginative.

Out of interest, when you accidentally land on a 404 Error page, do you hit the back button without thinking any more about it? Or do you try some of the suggested links? Which 404 pages have you seen recently that impressed you?

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