More iPhone tips and tricks

As part of the iPhone series on Forte44, we will now bring you our top iPhone user tips:

• You can tap and hold keys for special characters. Lots of people do accidentally discover this but they want to write “café” without an experiment. Now what happens if you tap the currency symbol? You can get many symbols! Wow!

• When returning from a page of apps to the home page, you can tap at the precise moment you reach the page in passing by it that contains the app you want, instead of a trek flicking back and forwards.

• It’s easy to forget the peripheral properties of the iPhone. Moreover, it can be a remote control when not in a WiFi zone. Connect it to a Mac’s ad hoc network and then use RemotePad, iTunes or Keynote remotes just as you would at home.

• If the WiFi doesn’t seem to be working properly, renewing the lease at Settings > WiFi > Network name can work. Alternatively, you can Telnet the router and issue commands that way! App Store clients are readily available.