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The question of how well the iPhone 3G may (or may not) access and maintain a wireless connection to a 3G network remains open. Be that as it may, when you do connect to the Web or e-mail via a high-speed 3G connection, the results are impressive, blowing away - for the most part - the original iPhone's EDGE-only cellular-wireless connectivity. The problem is 3G takes a toll on the iPhone 3G's battery life. A toll that can be pretty frustrating when you go to make a phone call or are waiting to receive one, only to discover there's very little, if any, juice left to keep you going.
There are several settings you can turn off in the iPhone 3G to maximize battery life. These range from Bluetooth to GPS to Wi-Fi to...3G connectivity. How important you find any of these features depends on your personal preferences. (See here for a full list of suggestions on "The Art of iPhone Battery Life.")
Notwithstanding Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, turning off 3G is the one that should have the most immediate impact on the length of time between charges. Especially for someone - like me - who uses the iPhone primarily as an Internet-access device.
Sure, the toll on cellular-wireless data performance is going to be great. However, the more iPhone-optimized sites you access, and there are more all the time, the less noticeable the difference between EDGE and 3G.
Anyway, if you're one the people who feel they've been experiencing the 3G network performance issues with their iPhone 3G, going with EDGE exclusively may not be such a bad thing to do until the problem's been fully resolved.
See how to disable 3G in the iPhone 3G after the jump.
Author: Amy Mayer
Keeping your personal finances in order with a program like Quicken means you can tell quickly how much wriggle room you've got til your next payday. But when you're out and about and contemplating an un-planned (okay, impulse) purchase, chances are you're laptop's not handy. But your phone surely is. Enter, Quicken Beam. Sign up for the free service, and whenever you want, you send a text message and receive back your balance and your last five transactions.
Rather than a full hard reset, all you need to do is hold down the iPhone's Home button for a six seconds or so writes the iPhone Blog, however. This will open up resources and return you to the Home Screen in far less time than it takes when resetting everything through a hard reset.
As with the Mac, this procedure is referred to as a Force Quit.
Tired of the iPhone's default "Sent from my iPhone" signature at the bottom of every e-mail you send? If so, it's easy enough to change it to one more to your liking or get rid of it altogether.
From the iPhone's home screen, tap on Settings --> Mail, Contacs, Calendars --> Signature.
If you don't see Signature right away, don't worry, it is located further down the page. A sweep or two of your finger and you'll see it.
Once in Signature simply delete all the text. Leave the text field empty if you don't want another e-mail signature. If you do, however, simply use the iPhone keyboard to type one in.
For an application to be compatible, developers must participate in the OpenClip program, so as to integrate OpenClip's open source framework into their software.
Applications that don't integrate the OpenClip framework can't be copy and pasted to and from in this system You can find a list of OPenClip-compatible applications here.
So far there are eight that have pledged support and a couple that are listed as coming soon. The more who adopt OpenClip the more useful OpenClip will become.
OpenClip provides a useful Faq about its cut and past solution, which it acknoledges in interim until Apple finally integrates the feature itself ,here. See the video below to see OpenClip's copy/paste solution in action.
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Author: Philip L. Graitcer
As you can tell from my last post, I have downloaded six third-party applications on my iPhone that I like a lot. Most of the time, they work well, but still, they have little problems: Sometimes the New York Times app takes me back to the iPhone's home page or MLB.com At Bat 2008 just doesn't load. Here's how to troubleshoot your applications.
After each step, check to see if the problem still occurs.Author: Amy Mayer
The Internet browsing tool Zumobi has an Olympic offering. Follow athletes' progress, get Olympic news and more from Lenovo's "Voices" and "Olympic Podium" Web sites on this free mobile widget.

