Blog archive: February 2010

Yay! Etre Touchy Gloves appeared on FIVE's The Gadget Show on Monday!

In case you missed it, the show revolved around a challenge that saw presenters Suzi, Jason, Ortis and Jon unceremoniously dumped in 200 acres of snowy woodland and forced to use the latest technology to evade capture by a team of Special Forces hard men.

Suzi decided to fight (using some hi-tech weapons to fend off her pursuers), while Jason chose "flight" and Ortis elected to hide. Jon, however, decided to use his smartphone to manoeuvre his way out of the woods and into the nearest pub...using our gloves to protect his hands from the cold while doing so!

At the time of writing, you can watch the whole episode on FIVE's website.

Over the course of the last two weeks we've posted 10 wacky, video-based tips aimed at helping you get the most out of your iPhone/iPod Touch. Here they all are again - in one place - in case you missed any of them. Enjoy!

If you're like most people, then you probably have a certain set of websites that you visit on your iPhone every day - you might even visit them lots of times a day. You know, your favourite news provider, sports site or webmail application, for example. If you're clever, you've probably bookmarked these sites in Safari. However, while this saves you the time and effort of having to type in their URL each time you want to visit them, activating these bookmarks still requires an unnecessary amount of tippety-tapping. From the Home screen, for example, you have to tap Safari...Bookmarks...and then the frequently-visited site's name...which isn't exactly efficient now, is it?

Which is exactly why Apple made it possible to place a shortcut to any web page you like, directly on your Home screen. Here's how...

The iPhone's standard Home screen is only large enough to hold 20 icons. That's more than enough room to display those relating to essential functions like your Phone, Email and SMS. But once you start installing programs from the App Store, space soon starts to run out and your poor old Home screen starts to get pretty cramped.

How can you alleviate this problem?

Simple: Make some more Home screens and spread your new program icons across them. Here's how...

In the olden days - the days of iPhone 1.0, that is - the only way to save a picture on a website was to stare at it until you had burnt its impression onto your retinas.

Thankfully, life is much easier these days...

The iPhone's speakerphone is quieter than a mute mouse trapped in a soundproof booth in an underground basement. Even with its volume turned up to eleven. So here's a simple tip for making the darned thing louder...

Downloading web pages on your iPhone over an EDGE connection can take forever. So if you're frequently forced to browse this way, here's a site that's worth bookmarking...