iPhone Tricks You Might Not Have Known (iPod Touch Tricks Included)

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Whether you’re an iPhone rookie or a weathered pro, take a look at these quick-and-easy iPhone tips and tricks which not only save you time, but ease your overall iPhone experience.

(These items are listed in no particular order.)

1. Scroll to Top of Page  -

In any application, Safari included, you can automatically scroll to the top of the page by tapping on the “top bar”, which has the time, service bars, and battery. In Safari, this not only brings you to the top of the page, but also brings up the URL bar.

Continue reading for the next 11 useful iPhone tips and tricks.

Installing Windows 7 on a MacBook Air

Roughly a year after my Windows Vista installation on a MacBook Air (MBA), it is time for an update. Running Windows 7 for quite some time on my personal laptop and on my office systems, I decided it was time for an upgrade.

Vista runs great on the MBA. I almost never had any issues. Since a few weeks ago the keyboard backlight has to be turned on manually. Sometimes the laptop does not come back from sleep and requires hard reboot (same but less often in Mac OS). That said I consider the MBA a decent system to run Windows Vista.

So far we (we? See later) have only little experience running Windows 7 Beta on the MBA but boot time has greatly improved and resume from sleep hasn’t caused any issues. The keyboard backlight works again. The whole system seems to run much faster and is more responsive.

Read on to find out about my installation of 32-bit Vista Ultimate on a MacBook Air.

Vista on a MacBook Air – Wrap up

Quite a few people sent private email or left comments on the previous post about the Vista install. Thanks very much for your attention, tips and questions and apologize if I have not replied to you!

I ended up with a Windows Vista Boot Camp installation and the MBA is very, very rarely booted into the Mac OS. I kept both, Vista and the Mac OS, up to date with fixes and Service Packs and both OSses work very well on the MBA.

Below an image of the perf. information window of Windows Vista on the MBA:

How to Install Mac OS X 10 3 (Panther) on Your Windows PC

1. 1
   Decompress the PearPC archive into a directory such as "C:\PearPC".
2. 2
   Create your ISO file from the Mac OS X 10.3 installation CD 1 using your favorite burning/ripping software. You can find documentation at the software's website for creating ISO image files.
3. 3
   Save the .dll file to the PearPC directory as "macosx10.3.iso".
4. 4
   Install the PearPC Control Panel and start it up. Click "File">"Create Virtual Hard Drive". When the window opens, under "Hard Drive Size", move the slider till you get the virtual size you want. 3GB is plenty to install the operating system.
   • Try using 6GB. It lowers errors to 20%. Only use 3GB if you're low on disk space.
5. 5
   Click "Browse". Browse your way to the PearPC directory, and save the HD image as "MacHD3GB.img". Once you've done that, click "Create Hard Disk".
6. 6
   Click "File">"New Configuration File" with the PearPC Control Panel. A Wizard pops up.
7. 7
   Now that you're looking at the Wizard window, click "Continue". Next to "PearPC Specifics", click "Browse", and find "ppc.exe" which is in the PearPC directory you extracted it to. Use which ever one of the icons you want to.