gthumb hangs at startup on Fedora when I plugged my iPhone on the USB. How to solve this? You need to unmount the iPhone: Open nautilus. Press F9 (may need twice) to open the side panel if it is not opened yet. Find your iPhone on the side panel and unmount it by click the…
I find Chrome on my iPhone caches pages/css/js files. That makes browsing faster. However, under some situation, I’d like to force it refresh the pages/css/js and give me the latest one. How to force Chrome on iPhone refresh pages and invalidate the caches? The only method as far as I can find is to clear…
I backup my iPhone with iTune to my local computer. Where can I find out the backup files of my iPhone by iTune? And how to get the real files (like songs, notes, etc.) from the backup files? The location of the backup files from iTune It depends on the computer’s operating system: Mac: ~/Library/Application…
How to Sync the Contacts in My iPhone with Google Gmail Account? To sync your Google contacts, one good method is using CardDAV. You’ll be able to edit, add, and remove contacts from your device and keep them in sync with your Google Gmail account. It is straightforward: Open the Settings application on your device….
iPhone has the touch screen. Is is possible to turn my iPhone to a wireless mouse on Linux? Use the WiFi Mouse app/server: http://wifimouse.necta.us/ First, install the WiFi Mouse app on you iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id591076411?mt=8 Second, install the WiFi Mouse server downloaded from http://wifimouse.necta.us/ If you are using Fedora Linux, you need to convert the .deb…
How To Find Out When Photos in The iPhone Were Taken? The default viewer in iPhone seems do not show these information. The iPhone has no native mechanism to see the photo taken date information. However there is the information. You need a 3’rd party application to view the EXIF data (time taken, GPS coordinates,…
Each time I play a video and lock the iPhone by pushing the power button, the video is automatically stopped. If I want to play a MTV and just listen to the music when I walking, I’d like the video play in the background. Is there a method to make this happen? I can do…
How to capture a photo with the remote adapter? You can take a shot by taping the volume-up button of the remote adapter on the earphone. In this way, you can achieve supersteady shots using the earphones as a shutter release.
How to input smiley faces in iPhone? I use Emoji Free app to enable the Emoji input methods. It is quite good and enables inputing of many nice smiley faces and icons. The app from App Store: Emoji Free app.
Call forwarding is useful if you are expected to be unavailable for receiving calls or lose cell phone coverage for some time. Call forwarding is not something that is “new” to modern phones. It is a feature which is invented in 1960s (the patent expired in 1980) of some telephone switching systems. But with iPhone/iOS,…
I encountered the problem on iPhone that MKV video files with AC3 are played with no sound. The OPlayer reports to me that “According to DTS patent, DTS is forbidden to play , None of the media player on iPhone/iPad can play DTS”. However, the video file can be played in MPlayer on Linux just…
I usually use iPhone in the English language. However, I find the iPhone calendar app includes a US holiday calendar subscribed while I am not in US and displaying US holidays in the iPhone calendar is no use and kind of annoying to me. After some investigation, I find the way to set the iPhone…
This post introduces how to play YouTube video in background on your iPhone. With this tip, you will need not to keep the YouTube app opening all the time. So you can use other apps on iPhone while listening to the music or talk or others from YouTube. This tip should also work on other…
VPNs are useful for testing viewing webpages from a remote location or visiting blocked websites. In this post, I will introduce a method for finding and using free VPNs on iPhone. Note that the VPNs are free and the providers are not identified. Hence, only use this method for visiting public webpages or keeping visiting…
Note that this was only tested on certain combinations like this (Windows 7 with iOS 8), this (Windows 7 with iOS 7), this and this (Windows 7 with iOS 9.3.2 (iphone 6s)). Windows 7 seems a possible Windows OS that can work. Recently, I tested it on Windows 8 and iOS 9. Unfortunately, it did…
iPhone is nice to take videos. However, one headache is the video may be rotated by 90 degree if you play it with non-Apple software such as MPlayer on Linux or Windows. This tutorial will introduce how to rotate the video taken from iPhone or other sources on Linux by 90 degree. The tool we…
The socks proxy I created following Proxy Using SSH Tunnel works very well on both Linux and Windows. However, when I try to configure my iPhone and iPad with iOS, I find iOS does not support socks proxy in its settings interface. I don’t know why it is not added while socks proxy is indeed…
iPhone’s automatic screen rotation is convenient. However, it is annoying under some situation, such as reading email in the bed. Fortunately, starting from iOS 4/iOS 5, iOS has an option to lock the screen rotation. A screenshot on iPhone (which worths a thousands words): For iOS 7 and iOS 8 For older versions of iOS…
When I tried to find a group of icons for my site, I got to the Web 2 Icons and decided to use it. Web2 icons is a set of icons of social networking in iPhone style. I used the RSS feed, twitter and facebook icons. But it has more icons in the package. It…
I experienced very slow WiFi network on Linux, while my iPhone seems surf the Internet quit fast. I pinged a site and the RTT is more than 1000ms! There must be something wrong with my Linux configuration. I tried to change the MTU from “Automatic” to “1400” on my Linux box. Surprisingly, it fix the…