Secret Little Trick....

There is a Secret little trick that Apple™ hasn't told you about the iPhone and iTouch.....
I call it Screen shot:
(This is How you do it)
-Hold down home button
-While holding that down press the sleep button once.
it should show ur screen flash to white and fade back in.
Go to your Photos and a picture of your Home screen should be there
Now you can do this to anything for example: a website, a problem you are having with a App, or anything else from iPhone/iTouch.
Thanks,
Dylan

Yeah this is pretty old since it's been mentioned in so many threads. Just look up tips and tricks and you'll find 50 other great tips....some of which aren't even mentioned on apple's site.
Since you are on the screenshot topic...something interesting:
"Jonathan Zdziarski showed that every time you press the Home button on your iPhone, a screen capture is taken in order to produce a visual effect. This image is then cached and later deleted. Zdziarski says that there have been cases of law enforcement looking up sex offenders' old data and checking recovered screenshots." This revelation occurred in the midst of a webcast on iPhone forensics, demonstrating how to bypass the iPhone's password security (not trivial but doable). Video from the talk is not online yet but is promised soon over at O'Reilly.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/hacker-says-sec.html

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Neat Little Trick!!!

So today I turned on my Macbook and opened iTunes then as i went to minimize it by clicking the yellow gem button i hit shift while clicking the button. As you know most people have the Genie effect turned on so it kind of ***** the open window into the taskbar, well by holding shift while you click minimize it does the whole genie effect in slow motion haha
not sure what youd use it for but still fun.
also let me know if this is a glitch with my macbook or it really is a little trick haha

Yeh I love doing that, mostly to impress people.
I like this sort of inverted colour thing LOL. Im joking....
But for some reason I have not yet turned it off.....
EDIT: ARGGHHH!!! Just turned off anf now temporary blinded, I love the brightness of this screen!!!!

Secret dragging tricks and keyboard shortcuts - are these published anywhere?

I have searched for some and stumbled upon others. But I have not seen any of these published or posted anywhere. If so, can you tell me? Either way, you may find some useful ones here. Enjoy! (I think most of these work in Lion. Any keyboard shortcuts you know for Time Machine would be most welcome.)
*** THE DOCK ***
Press ^F3 to move to the dock. Use the arrow keys to select an icon. You can also use autocomplete (type the first few letters of the icon's name). Then press Opt-arrow_key to move the *icon* among the other icons on the Dock. Thus you can change the order of the icons on the Dock using only the keyboard.
*** DRAGGING TRICKS ***
o SAVE-AS SHEET TRICK
Open an app's Save As sheet. Drag a folder or its proxy icon to anywhere in the Save As sheet except the sidebar and that updates the directory (folder) field with that folder. Drag a file or its proxy icon to the Save As sheet (anywhere except the sidebar) and that updates both the directory (folder) and file fields accordingly.
Why do I do this? I find it easier to use the actual Finder, or I may already have a Finder window in the right directory.
You can also click on a directory or file in the Save As sheet to populate the directory or file fields, respectively. Then edit the filename to a slightly different name.
o COPY A FOLDER TREE TO A TEXT DOCUMENT
Open a true text-only editor session using an app like TextWrangler (not TextEdit!). Drag a folder (or its proxy icon) from the Finder into the editor window. Viola`! The names of the folder and all its subfolders and files are pasted into the text buffer in a properly indented form.
o COPY A FILE TO A TEXT DOCUMENT
Drag a file from the Finder into a text-only editor like TextWrangler or similar (not TextEdit!) and the _contents_ of the file (not its icon) are inserted into the document.
o MAKE A NEW FILE THAT CONTAINS SELECTED TEXT
Select some text. Drag it to a folder. This creates a "textClipping" file which contains the selected text. Opens as a "Finder document".
o COPY A PHOTO FROM IPHOTO TO A FOLDER
Open iPhoto. Drag (to copy) a photo to a folder. Makes a jpeg file of the photo in that folder.
*** KEYBOARD TRICKS ***
o MENUS AND LISTS
Opt-U/D: Move highlight bar to top or bottom of most menus and lists. Does not work in Spotlight drop-down menu. Works in Snow Leopard Mac Mail (v 4.5, anyway) if you hold it down for a second: you get an error signal, but it works anyway.
PgUp/PgDn | Home/End: Moves highlight bar to top or bottom of menus. Moves only the view for lists.
Opt-Spacebar: Move highlight to the alphabetically first item in a menu (except in the Spotlight drop-down menu).
o SPOTLIGHT DROP-DOWN MENU
After selecting an item on the drop-down menu via the arrow keys:
Cmd-Return: Open enclosing folder.
o SPOTLIGHT WINDOW
If ^F7 is set to "all controls", press ^F7 four times if it's the first search in a particular Spotlight window; two, otherwise. This moves you to the list of results.
If ^F7 is set to "text boxes and lists only", just Tab.
o CALENDAR WIDGET
Home: go to the current year and month.
Up, down, left, right arrows: go one year back, one year forward, one month back, one month forward. Hold a L or R arrow down to autorepeat through the years. (You can't do _that_ with the mouse!) Also works with U and D for the months.
o SPELL CHECK
Cmd-Shift-; - Open spelling pane. But you knew that one. Press ^F6 to get to the pane. Tab around to everything except Define and Guess. With the focus on the replacements list, use the arrow keys to select a replacement word from the list. (Press the spacebar to run the control with the highlight perimiter and press Return to run the control with the solid highlighting.)
o MAIL
Cmd-I - Open Account Info window
o NAVIGATING HELP PANES
- Old-style help panes :
Open the menu pane in the usual way. The Highlight perimeter will be on the search window.
Tab: Move among the Search field, the page, and the controls on top. Add Shift to reverse.
When on the page:
Use the usual navigation keys -- Up, Down, Home, End, Page up, and Page Down, Spacebar, Shift-Spacebar -- to scroll through the page.
Opt-Tab: move among the links on the page or items in a "Help Topics" list. The highlight perimeter will be rectangular. Press Return or Enter to click the selected link or item. Add Shift to reverse direction.
Cmd-F: Open the Find bar. Move about with Tab. Move among the arrows with L or R arrow keys. To find a string: Type your search string in the Find field. Press Return or Enter. Press again to find the next occurrence, etc.
To go to the page from the Find bar: Shift-Tab to the left or right arrow. Then press Shift-Tab two more times.
To close the Find bar: Tab to Done and press the spacebar or just press Escape.
You can return to the app via ^F6, but the help pane stays open.
When the highlight perimeter is on one of the arrow controls, press Spacebar to click it. If the left arrow control is selected press the down arrow to see places going backward. If the right arrow control is selected press the Down arrow to see a list of places going forward. Either way, use the usual menu navigational shortcuts.
When the highlight perimeter is on the Home control, press the down arrow to get a menu of apps. (The mouse way for this is to click and hold and "drag" and release as above.) The usual menu navigational shortcuts are valid. Also, you can press the spacebar to go Home.
When the highlight perimeter is on the Gear button, press the spacebar or down arrow to get the drop-down menu. The usual menu navigational shortcuts are in effect.
(To do any of the above three with the mouse, click on the control and hold the mouse button down, then without releasing the mouse button, move the pointer to highlight the desired item on the menu and release the mouse button.)
- New-style help panes:
Open the menu pane in the usual way. The Highlight perimeter will be on the search window.
Tab to move around to most things. The table of contents becomes keyboard-active one Tab-press past the Search field, at which point use the L and R arrow keys to navigate the Contents panel, and the U and D arrow keys to move the down and up the page.
To be able to use PageUp and PageDn, Tab to the back/forward button, then press Shift-Opt-Tab.
Cmd-F: Opens the Find bar. Navigate with Tab and L/R arrow keys. When you are on this bar, press Shift-Tab repeatedly until the highlight perimeter moves out. Then press Shift-Tab once more to go back to the page, where the L and R arrow keys move you around the TOC sidebar and the U and D arrow keys scroll the page.
AFAIK, you can choose Get Started or Browse Help only with the mouse.
You can return to the app via ^F6, but the help pane stays open.
AEF

fane_j wrote:
Pardon me if I screwed up the quoting.
betaneptune wrote:
I guess you meant that unfortunately these don't have them.
(1) I meant that, unfortunately for your impressive work, there's nothing in it that hasn't already been documented elsewhere. The two items I mentioned contain your shortcuts, and many more besides.
I don't see any of them in either. I have Pogue's book and they're not there. In fact, I emailed these tricks to him and he was impressed with some of them. And of course there are more. I never claimed to have an exhaustive list. In fact, I doubt anyone has such a list.
(2) Mac OS X v10.6 has been out for, what is it, 3 years? If you think that there are any 'secret' shortcuts left, then you seriously underestimate the average Mac user. Some of that stuff is even older. For instance, the "Save-As Sheet Trick" dates back to Jaguar, or even before that. "Make a New File That Contains Selected Text" is older than Mac OS X itself!
Well, first of all there's no need to get hostile.
I don't underestimate the average Mac user. But I would venture to guess that most are heavily mouse oriented and would not even be interested in the keyboard tricks I posted. And I only said that I haven't seen them on any website, not that no one else in the world knows about them.
Additionally, there have been things missed by the smartest of people. Stereo vision was missed even by Issac Newton, one of the biggest geniuses to grace the planet! It was Wheatstone who first picked up on it. And it used to be thought that a cube flying by at relatvisitic speed would appear foreshortened in the direction of motion. In fact, as was noted decades after relativity was published, it in fact appears rotated. If super smart people could miss this, then perhaps those few who publish these tricks may not know about them.
Re the save-as trick and the new-file-contains-your-text tricks: fine, they're old, but so are many of the tricks that are posted on websites. So why some old ones but not others? How about cut and paste? I bet they're pretty old but that doesn't prevent people from posting them, as in your first reference!
(3) Also unfortunately, your listing mixes up shortcuts and 'tricks' of different categories. For instance, "Copy a File to a Text Document" is not secret, it is not a trick, and it is not relevant. What an app does with a file dropped onto an open document of its own does not depend on the system, but on the app and how it was programmed. TextEdit inserts a text file's path while TextWrangler inserts the text file's contents not because the former is not a text editor, but because that's how each was designed to work. And TextWrangler's behaviour is documented in the accompanying manual.
So one of my tricks is lame. I don't see that as that big a deal.
Bottom line: I don't see any of them in the docs you referenced.
AEF

A Little Trick of iPod and iPhone

Hello,
Well here's the trick.
Go to the music app on your iPhone or iPod Touch
then play a song that has lyrics with it.
Then, tap once on the screen so the lyrics are shown.
Then, tap and hold with one finger.
Then, rub the screen with another finger.
Then it will return to the home screen immediately.
I don't know if anyone posted it before just delete this if it's already posted.

yep its a bit useless...
but it comes handy in a your-home-button-is-broken-and-you-are-playing-a-song-with-lyrics-and-you-will- die-if-you-don't-pause-immediately situation

So I was face timing my girlfriend and it just stopped working, it says "Error occurred during activation, Try again" :/ what do I do? Is there a way to fix this? I tried the dns thing, and every little trick in the book. What if she restored it?

Any help would be amazing.

I suspect an Apple server problem. Many users have been reporting problems with Messages and Facetime today.

Can't open animated GIF, even with secret trick (psd cs3)

Hi
I know a lot of people have had trouble with opening animated .gifs in photoshop cs3. I had that problem until I learned the little "trick" you could do (type *.* in "import video frames to layers") and then simply open the gif. This has worked one my computer for some time, but then all of a sudden it stopped working. I thought it was odd and then I formatted my computer and installed a few windows updates and then installed adobe photoshop cs3 and then quicktime. But it still won't open GIF as it used to do. And it's very odd, as my laptop can do it (and it has just been newly reformatted too). I know Adobe's own solution, which is to use fireworks, but I find it to be a crappy program, so I'm not going to use that. I want to be able to import GIFs into photoshop as I used to :/
Hope someone has encountered this problem too. I know a lot of people had been able to use the trick, but I havn't been able to find anyone who has the crash problem.
Know of this?

sounds like you might have a conflict with QuickTime, seeing as the error is in MODNAME quicktime.qts
first, try resetting the PS prefs. hold CTRL+ALT+SHIFT on launch and then click Yes when prompted. if you have any preferences that you would prefer not to reset, close PS, move the preference files, then launch PS to create new ones. if it's not the problem, you can put them back later. Use the info in kb401600 if you don't know where the preference files are.
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401600
if resetting the prefs doesn't fix it, make sure you have the latest version of QuickTime installed (7.4.5) and that it can launch without problems. if you have problems using QT, let us know or post on Apple discussions to find a solution.
if you do have the latest version and the problem recently started, it may be that Apple broke something that PS uses in a recent update. uninstall the version you have, delete /program files/quicktime/ folder if it still exists, reboot, download an older version (apple has archived installers; search for "download quicktime 7.3.1 windows" OR "download quicktime 7.1.6 windows" on google to find it), then install it and reboot before trying PS.

Thanks to this little post from Droidlife I win 4.0.4

Just did this and I'm getting update now. It is the actual OTA not a scary online download. This only clears out data that is in your phone and for some reason gets you the update to push.
The 4.0.4 update is pushing out to a massive batch of Galaxy Nexus owners as you read this, however, there are still a number of you that have yet to be prompted. If you would like to speed up the process, you can try this little trick that dozens of readers have submitted as working like a charm.
1. From your phone, head into Settings>Apps>All.
2. Search for Google Services Framework.
3. Once found, tap on it and choose “Force stop.”
4. Then choose “Clear data.”
5. Back out of Apps to your About page in Settings and check for the System update.
You may have to repeat the steps a couple of times. Good luck!
Cheers @splendorthought and to everyone who sent this in!
Thanks Droidlife

I've been playing with Google Wallet for a few months now and since getting the 4.0.4 update it's still on my GNex but looks to still be blocked from the market I mean Play Store. I was able to load Wallet from my browser on my phone by following a Youtube video. As long as Google hasn't done something to stop this work around you might wanna give it a try.
Try watching this video or looking for something similar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI-f2T4cCWI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Card Trick Approval for HSN!!

I have been trying for awhile to get the HSN pop up credit approval with no luck. I just read a post from last year and I thought it was worth repeating. A little tricker than the other Comenity pop up approvals. Firstly I was approved for $ 2,000. Ok you put a couple of items in the cart and check out as a guest. Complete the billing and shipping screens and when it ask you to input your payment information, enter your credit card information. You will have to press the continue screen which allows you to review the order before you finalize the purchase. Once you press the continue screen, the pop up pre approval appears. Once you complete the pre approval and hopefully are approved, the credit information is replaced with your new HSN credit card number. You can then remove the items....I happened to like a pair of jeans and actually bought them! When I went to set up the Comenity account, I was unable to get any additional CL increase. I'm satisfied for now, lol!

ImaginaryFriend wrote:
Congrats. Now, go sign up for an EBates account. You don't actually need the EBates credit card to get a "big fat cash back check". Always login to EBates and then click on the HSN, Overstock, Lowes icons to begin your shopping. I get cash back from EBates and rewards points and free shipping from Overstock at the same time. That's how I shop.Thanks, I signed up!!!

ALTERNATE COLOR SCHEME TRICK FOR MAC'S

Hey all.
Just want to share a quick little trick I just found on my computer...Press Control, Option, Command (Apple button) and 8 on your keyboard. This will switch the color scheme on your monitor to negative color - all colors are now reversed - whites are black, etc. The color will stay this way until you press the buttons again. I have been told that this works on all Macs but I can only say that I've tried it on the G5 I am currently using. This may be old news to most Mac people but newer users (including myself until recently) probably do not know about this. Try it out people. It's worth a look.
Peace
Andrew

Yeah, it works on all macs...
Another is if you press command, option, and hit the plus sign, you will zoom in on you're display, to zoom out, you hit command option minus... It's all built into OS X as universal access features

What's the secret to magic move

I've been using Keynote for years and have yet to fully understand how to dependably get magic move to do what I want. At times it feels like there's no rhyme or reason. One moment a transition is working and the next it's unrepeatable.
Has anyone found a detailed magic move tutorial that explains the magic?
Or perhaps you might have some specific tips that will clear things up?
Thanks!

From page 107 of the Keynote User Guide:
Tips for Creating a Magic Move Transition
Magic Move doesn’t work with tables, charts, or movies.
For best results with a Magic Move transition, duplicate the slide and apply the Magic Move transition between the original and the duplicate.
To set up a Magic Move transition:
1 Create a slide and place the objects (text, shapes, images) where you want them.
2 Select the slide in the Slide Navigator and press Command-D to duplicate the slide.
3 On the copy of the slide, reposition and resize some or all of the text, shapes, and images on the slide.
4 Add any additional text or graphics you want to add to the copied slide, and delete any objects you don’t want on it.
5 Select the first slide of the pair and apply the Magic Move transition.
That being said, there are a lot of little tricks. For example, you can usually group objects to exclude them from Magic Move matching, and if you have an object that isn't matching between slides, usually deleting it from the second, copying it from the first, then pasting it onto the second will match them.
Do you have specific examples of Magic Move not doing what you want it to? If so, we might be able to help you out.
(And if you want Apple to know about it and hopefully fix it in the next release, you could tell them what isn't working for you via their feedback form, or—to be ESPECIALLY helpful—file a bug at http://bugreporter.apple.com and attach the misbehaving Keynote decks to those bugs.)

Anyone know a trick to remove static from paper??

Not an ID question but more of a printing question that has really created a nightmare at work today!! Anyone know of any little tricks to remove static from glossy text paper so pages dont stick when printing? When I opened up the paper packets, you could hear the cracking from the static bigtime. I fanned all sides of the paper after putting into the printer and sheet are still sticking really bad! Any thoughts?? Unfortunately just touching the paper like you would another person to get the shock out doesnt work :-(

Eugene's spent some time in the pressroom - a very concise explanation of how to handle paper.
If you've never done this before with gloss text weight, limit yourself to 1/2" lifts.

CODE TRICK: event dispatch thread and tables

This is a handy little trick for all you MVC users out there...
I was working on a table class and I had this little issue that came up about not calling the AbstractTableModel's update (fireXxx()) methods from outside the event dispatch thread.
As I'm one to create my own table models anyway, to match my data source, I found this little trick, with a little help from java.awt.EventQueue, works nicely to let the method be called from any place without having to worry about what thread it's in. Seems to work well...
     * Overridden to make safe when calling from the event dispatch thread
     * or another thread.
     * @see javax.swing.table.AbstractTableModel#fireTableRowsUpdated(int, int)
    public void fireTableRowsUpdated(final int firstRow, final int lastRow)
        if(EventQueue.isDispatchThread())
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                SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
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                        MyTableModel.super.fireTableRowsUpdated(firstRow, lastRow);
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http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/timer/index.html

Access Denied in RD3...found a trick to make it work

First of all, I have the same problem of many users.
My network is behind a wireless router, I have a G5 Quad, a Mini Core Duo, an Imac Core Duo and a MBPro in the same network.
I can easily manage and access ANY computer EXCEPT the G5 Quad. In that computer I can do anything except Control and Observe.
I opened all the ports, I made the forwardings but no result.
So I downloaded the VNC program "Chicken of the VNC", with that everything works, but I found a little trick to have also RD3 working.
First of all, create in the computer you can't access another account, and open the firewall settings for RD3 in system - preferences - sharing.
Then, if in your normal account you can't use RD3, log in with Chicken of the VNC, switch to the other account, close chicken of the VNC, open RD3 and control the PC. In my case, it worked, so I swithced back to my normal account under RD3 and it works perfectly UNTIL I REBOOT THE PC.
This is my experience, I hope that this helps.
HI!

If anyone have questions, fell free to ask!

ITunes Causing Problems for Weeks

Hello--
I know that this question has been asked countless times...because I've read ALL of the questions and answers. I've also followed every single step and option the Apple Help Website has listed and have googled it, checked Dell and other PC forums and just done about everything I can think of.
Bottom line is, my iTunes has completely stopped working. The last time I had it open was when I moved to school at the end of August. It froze, so I killed it via task manager and have not been able to open it since. I didn't get an error message when it crashed the first time and continue to get no error message. I click on the iTunes icon on my desktop and nothing happens. It's not even running in the tool bar or the task manager. Literally, I've done EVERYTHING! Don't tell me to uninstall all Apple components and reinstall because I've done it...multiple times. Don't tell me to upgrade to 9 because it's been done. At this point I don't even care if I lose the thousands of songs in my library, I just want it to work again so I can add music to my iPod. I'm in college, I need my iPod for basic survival and I've been going nuts these last few weeks without it! Please, any little secrets, tips, tricks or answers will be greatly appreciated. I can't imagine that I'm going to have to survive without iTunes forever. Anything at all, even a point in the right direction. Please!!
Thanks so much!

does media monkey work for any operating system? i'm in the same boat as katie and i am at wits end without my music at school. i've tried everything as well and i'm giving up until itunes upgrades and hopefully fixes this mess.

[Solved] A Challenge: Loop meld to update *.pacnew files

I got no secret, I love meld . Does a great job of showing differences alot of times if even scattered all over the page, allows for copy and paste... vimdiff is good but requires a much more keypresses, copy and paste isn't as elegant, and with my fixed drop-down terminal is just too narrow to be able to do it well. So what I usually end up doing is:
find /etc -type f -name "*.pacnew"
and just go through them one at a time:
kdesu meld /etc/config /etc/config.pacnew
I haven't do much work with loops, so I was hoping that someone that knew a little about them that could create a script that would go through them one by one. I suppose this is going to be a little tricker because (I imagine) it's going to have to detect when the windowed instance closes.
From the knowledge I know, I would do:
#!/bin/bash
# etc-update - merge *.pacnew files with original configurations with meld
pacnew=$(find /etc -type f -name "*.pacnew")
for i in $pacnew
do
kdesu meld $i
done
Which isn't going to work very well. Well, I guess it could, but it's going to open them all at once and leave a nice scruched-up taskbar with *.pacnew files. Like to be able to go through them one by one.
Anyone had any experiences at this that could help?
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-03 01:46:55)

brisbin33 wrote:
http://pbrisbin.com:8080/bin/pacnews
just do a find/replace of vimdiff for meld (or whatever...)
Nice script, bris. If I had know about that before, I'd be using it. Do like the idea of the walk-through process and the saving of the the current one.
lol, I just read your last post and just what I thought about.
ugkbunb wrote:I just edited the pacdiff script to use meld and it worked great : ) -- I am not at home atm, but if you would like I can post up my edited pacdiff script.
Yeah, I saw that on the wiki. Said it was for CLI though so I didn't get to try.
@ lolilolicon, and Procyon
Still learning about pids, what I have seen was more complicated than this. Pretty clever.
Allan wrote:
Maybe....
#!/bin/bash
# etc-update - merge *.pacnew files with original configurations with meld
pacnew=$(find /etc -type f -name "*.pacnew")
for i in $pacnew
do
kdesu meld $(basename $i .pacmew) $i &
wait
done
Note - untested
Ah, very nice. Also fits into my knowledge of bash. Hadn't thought about just using & but it works great. Had to truncate the file extension and just used a bash filter:
#!/bin/bash
# pacnew-diff - merge *.pacnew files with original configurations with meld
pacnew=$(find /etc -type f -name "*.pacnew")
for config in $pacnew
do
kdesu meld ${config%\.*} $config &
wait
done
Like to be able to do a backup of the current config and then erase the pacnew file afterword, but havn't found out a way to do that without having to type in a password everytime, but, I guess, that can easily be done elsewhere.
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-02 20:27:17)

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