This is a pretty specific tip for a relatively new device, but with WalMart now carrying iPhones more and more people will want and need to learn how to take advantage of their investment. The iPhone is a wonderful little tool…IF you learn how to use it and make it work for you.
One of the first things you can do with any piece of technology is customize it to fit your needs. With the iPhone, learning to customize the interface makes the unit more usable for you. This week, I show iPhone users how to customize the location of their icons on the iPhone launch screen or home screen.
- Touch and hold your finger on any icon
- When the icons start to jiggle, take your finger off the icon.
- Now you can drag any icon to any position by touching and dragging it to a new location or even a new screen by dragging it to the left or right edge of the screen.
- You can also drag the default icons off the toolbar at the bottom and drag the ones you use most often to the toolbar
- When you are finished moving your icons to positions that work best for you, push the button at the bottom of your iPhone.
As always, these tips make more sense by watching the video! And even if you aren’t an iPhone user, I think you will find it interesting to see the kind of tech that can be found in a phone today.
When I saw the title I was refering to the one where you slide the bar, not the one showing all of the applications. I have security set up on ours, but say I left my phone in a cab. I’d like someone to be able to turn it on and see it belongs to me, and how to contact me.
On the BlackBerry you could customize the fist screen.
You can do that on the iPhone by creating a Notepad document with the info you want, then use the screenshot utility built-in to the iPhone (pushing the front and top button simutaneously), then set that screenshot as your wallpaper in the Settings. There might be a more elegant way to do that with an app…try searching the app store in iTunes.
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