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How to Find, Message, Lock or Erase Your Lost iPhone with FindmyiPhone

If you’re not familiar with it already, MobileMe is Apple’s answer to a remote syncing service for the iPhone, allowing you to keep contacts, calendar appointments, images and more constantly synchronized to your iPhone on the go. Probably the best reason to have MobileMe at the moment aside from syncing is FindmyiPhone, a service that allows you to track your lost or stolen iPhone, send the thieves love notes and alert the police as to their location with a handy Google map. Here’s how to do all of that cool stuff with FindmyiPhone..

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Fix For Old Notes Not Syncing to iPhone

Notes syncing has been around since early versions of the iPhone OS, but a new option to sync to MobileMe was added in iOS 4 to allow you to sync notes to the cloud. If you’ve had trouble syncing older notes to your iPhone with either the local method or MobileMe, there is a simple fix that may help you.

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How to Disable Facebook Places Feature

The Facebook app for iPhone now has support for the Places feature, sa check-in service that allows you to tag where you are and where you’ve been. Unfortunately this seems like a better idea on paper than it does in practice. If other people tracking your every move sounds like something you’d rather not have happen, here’s how to disable the Facebook Places feature…

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13 Sweet Ways to Use the iPhone Headphone Button

Yesterday we covered some ways to control the iPod app on your iPhone with the headphone cable buttons. But they can do much more than just control your music! Read on to be edumicated!

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10 Tips That Will Change the Way you Use your iPhone

The tips contained in this post are so top secret, so obscure, that when you read them, your very brain might melt away into a puddle of goo! Not really, but you might find a gem or two in this list that could really change the way you use your iPhone, or at the very least, impress your friends and family with your techspertise! Some of these tips are things we’ve covered in the past, but some are completely new, so be sure to check them out!

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How to Set the Number of Rings Before iPhone Goes to Voicemail

I hate voicemail, it’s a waste of time and I can’t remember the last time that I got a voicemail that was so urgent that someone couldn’t just text or email me. My phone is almost always with me, so usually me getting voicemail is a result of not getting to the answer button fast enough. If you have the same problem, here is how you change the amount of time that your iPhone will ring before going to voicemail.

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How to Use Your Headphones to Control Your iPhone Music

The multifunction button located on your headphones does a lot more than answer your iPhone or hang it up. You can control the music that’s playing with a surprising amount of functions hidden in that little button. So much so that I hardly ever touch my iPhone to control my iPod any more.

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iPhone Accessibility Options for Visually Impaired Users

Apple has a long history of making sure that users with impaired vision or hearing have the ability to use their products, and the iPhone is no exception. There are some great accessibility options built in to the iPhone’s interface, you just have to know where to look. Some of them are even useful for just about any user as well.

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Listen to Large or Long Podcasts on Your iPhone over Edge or 3G

The ability to download podcasts directly from the iTunes store on the iPhone was added a while back, but just like any other over-the-air download, you’re limited to downloading smaller podcasts that are under the 20MB file size cap. This means that hour-long or video podcasts are definitely out of the question unless you’re connected [...]

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Get to Websites Quicker on Your iPhone

Today’s tip is a dead simple one but I still see people making the process of typing in the address of a website, especially a commonly visited one, way harder than it has to be. If you want to get to your favorite money-spending site lets say… mine is Apple.com…. you might tap you address [...]

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