You might need to know the MAC address of your iPhone 3G phone if your router is setup for MAC address filtering. You can locate it by following these menus.
1. Choose Settings.
2. Choose General.
3. Choose About.
4. Scroll down to Wi-Fi Address, that is your MAC address.
If you live in a house with a family, starting up your Mac can be a problem late at night. That startup chime can really wake people from their slumber. You can disable the sound though through the use of third party software.
1. Download and install StartupSound.prefPane.
2. Open System Preferences.
3. Click Startup Sound.
4. Click the Mute checkbox to turn off the startup sound completely. You can also just lower the volume if you wish.
See also: Control the startup chime’s volume
I recently was using iPhoto on my Mac Powerbook, and received an error:
An error occurred while trying to save your photo library.
It also said:
Some recent changes may be lost. Make sure your hard disk has enough space and that iPhoto is able to access the iPhoto Library.
I was lost about what to do. Luckily I found this post about the issue.
As instructed, I…
2. Using this software, I applied the settings below to my iPhoto Library Folder.
These steps worked great. I no longer have the annoying error message.
There are some people that have been getting impatient when updating their iPhone to the version 2.0 software. They see a screen that says Restoring iPhone Software, but it stays there for hours and seems stalled or frozen. So what do you do?
Let your iPhone sit! I don’t care if it’s been 5 hours. Leave it alone and do not unplug it. Leave it updating all night if you have to. The update can take 30 minutes to about 6 hours. If it’s taking longer, leave it anyway and see if it finishes.
If you’ve waited overnight and your iPhone screen has still not changed, then it’s probably time to say you have an iBrick. You will need to have it repaired by Apple at that point.
Want to take a screen shot of your Apple iPhone screen? With the 2.0 version of applications you now can. This works with both the classic and 3G versions.
Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time. The screen should flash briefly. Now check out your photo album. It should contain a photo in it with a picture of your screen.
If your home screen has become a complete mess, you can always reset it using these steps.
1. Select Settings.
2. Select General.
3. Select Reset.
4. Tap Reset Home Screen Layout.
How to turn the iPhone 3G on or off.
Turn iPhone On
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Turn iPhone Off
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds until the red slider appears, then slide the slider.
How to get music from your computer to your iPod music player.
1. Download iTunes and install it.
2. Launch iTunes and you can drag and drop the song files or folders with the music files to the iTunes window. The music files will then be added to the iTunes library.
3. Attach your iPod to the computer. You can then drag and drop the songs from the iTunes library over to the iPod device, which should be listed on the left side.
Note: The first time you connect an iPod to a computer, it may ask you to setup the device with a name and a few other preferences.
4. It can take a while for music files to transfer. You can see the progress of the file transfer at the top of the iTunes screen. When you are done moving files to the iPod, you can eject it by pressing the eject icon next to the device on the left side.
How to transfer specific songs or all songs from a CD to the iPod using iTunes.
1. Open iTunes and insert the CD that you wish to import.
2. You might get a prompt to import the CD. If you want to import every song on the disc, select Yes and skip to Step 5. If you only want to import specific songs from the CD, click No.
3. Select the CD on the left side. You can now uncheck the songs you don’t want to import.
4. Click Import CD in the lower right corner of the screen.
5. iTunes will start importing music from the disc.
6. Attach your iPod to the computer.
7. Click Library on the left side of the iTunes screen. Drag and drop the songs that have been imported over to your iPod device which should also be listed on the left side.
8. Eject your iPod when it’s done transferring the songs and enjoy.
How to change the volume on your iPod device.
On all iPod’s except for the Touch, the entire wheel can be used to increase or decrease the volume of the music. Simply slide your finger around the outside of the wheel. Slide it around counter-clockwise to turn the volume down, clockwise to turn the volume up.
So you decided to jump into the pool with your iPod on? Maybe your were listening to it while doing your business, then got up and it slid right into the toilet? Well, there is still hope for your iPod. Give your iPod the best chance with these tips:
Do not attempt to turn your iPod back on right away
It’s not so much the water that damages electronics, but the short that can happen if you power them on when they are still wet. Keep it off until you know it’s totally dry.
Remove all peripherals from the device
Take the case off, headphones and any other items that might be attached to your iPod.
Use a vacuum
Take then handheld part of a vacuum cleaner and run it around the device. Try to get as much of the water out of it as possible. DO NOT use an item like a blow dryer. That will only force air into other areas of your iPod and may cause more damage.
Leave the device in a well ventilated area
Place the device face up in an area where the water will evaporate out of it. What I like to do is put it in front of a low running fan. Leave it there for at least 3 days, longer if it’s really saturated.
The setting to toggle Shuffle mode on or off on the iPod Touch can be pretty difficult to find. Here’s how to enable or disable song shuffling.
1. Access the Now Playing screen.
2. Tap the album cover.
3. Tap the crossing arrows to enable or disable Shuffle (blue means it’s on).
My iPod Nano recently started skipping some songs here and there. I thought that maybe there was a problem with the music file, but it would play fine on the PC. I had purchased the song in iTunes, so it wasn’t a problem with a rouge file or anything like that. I tried these steps recommended by Apple here.
First I reauthorized my iTunes.
That didn’t work, so I had to restore my iPod to the factory settings. Finally that did it. It was kind of annoying to have to reload all of my music over again.
Prevent the iPod Touch from syncing just 1 time when you connect it to the computer.
1. Open iTunes.
2. Windows: Hold down Shift and CTRL until you see the device appear in iTunes.
Mac: Hold down Command and Option until you see the device appear in iTunes.
Prevent your iPod Touch from automatically syncing when you plug in the device to your computer.
1. With the iPod Touch connected to the computer, select the device in iTunes.
2. Click the Summary tab.
3. Uncheck the box Open iTunes when this iPod is connected.
Now you can sync the device only when you want to by clicking the Sync button in the lower right corner of the window.
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