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iPod touch Anyone know any Undocumented 'touch Features/Tricks?

wpwj40e said:
Do NOT plug your touch into a mac or PC that sleeps - it will drain the battery and not charge. Turn off sleeping on your mac if using for charging your touch.
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So if you plug it into your mac while it's awake, let it charge, and then send the mac to sleep, would that do the same thing?

How about if you turned it completely off? Surely that would prevent the battery from draining overnight?
 
wpwj40e said:
Purchases from WIFI store: They do not automatically sync back - even if you are on auto. You must right click on your itouch in tunes and there will be a menu to sync purchases.
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Well, I bought a track on the Wifi store last night, downloaded it, listened to it, then plugged the touch back into the dock connected to my iMac. It automatically transferred the download over, and created a new playlist called 'Purchased on iPod touch'. So I'd say that they do indeed automatically sync back.:)
 
wonginator1221 said:
Pressing the home button doesn't quit out of an application.
If you hold the home button for 4 - 6 seconds it will "quit" the programs open and return you to the home screen.
Very helpful if Safari freezes up.


Also you can make your iPod touch think it's an iphone by setting a passcode (don't forget it, or you'll spend hours reimporting music after a system restore) under settings->general and then putting your ipod to sleep. if you enter the passcode wrong 6 times, it will say "iPhone is disabled
try again in 1 minute"
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Apple actually fixed that iphone locking error in the software update.

1. The tabs feature in Safari is really useful. Add new pages and go back to saved pages.

2. The itunes wifi music store is a nice 30 second song.

Hopefully the addition of more apps can add more features too.
 
wonginator1221 said:
If you hold the home button for 4 - 6 seconds it will "quit" the programs open and return you to the home screen.
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Hmmm, nice that it resents the program so you can start fresh.

BUT, the bigger question is "does it save battery life?"

I guess that really depends on whether Safari (or whatever) keeps on hogging processing power when its not being directly used.

Any thought?
 
Legit find

I saw this off of he apple forums, i tried it it's legit, I'm not sure if it's documented. BTW the touch is an amazing product, the interface is dead sexy.

I'm just going to quote him here..

"
I was listening to music on my iTouch and I was mucking around with coverflow and the Now Playing screen
I was tapping on everything and there is a little icon in the top right corner of the Now Playing window, and it is a picture of the back of ur playing album, when u tap it the CD artowrk turns over and reveals all the tracks on that album.
Der everyone knows that, so did i , i knew what it did before i touched it, anyway...
so then tapped on the Album cover once and as most of you know it brought up the on screen controls like time lapse and shuffle..
HERES THE DIFFERENT THING...
When you tap with one finger anywhere on the album cover, it brings up the above controls mentioned...
BUT
when i tapped the screen with 2 fingers, the album flipped around.
I had never known of this before, its never mentioned ANYWHERE that i have found,
but try it yourself,
TAP ONE FINGER FOR ONSCREEN CONTROLS
TAP TWO FINGERS FOR ALBUM TRACKS."
 
designclone said:
I saw this off of he apple forums, i tried it it's legit, I'm not sure if it's documented. BTW the touch is an amazing product, the interface is dead sexy.

I'm just going to quote him here..

"
I was listening to music on my iTouch and I was mucking around with coverflow and the Now Playing screen
I was tapping on everything and there is a little icon in the top right corner of the Now Playing window, and it is a picture of the back of ur playing album, when u tap it the CD artowrk turns over and reveals all the tracks on that album.
Der everyone knows that, so did i , i knew what it did before i touched it, anyway...
so then tapped on the Album cover once and as most of you know it brought up the on screen controls like time lapse and shuffle..
HERES THE DIFFERENT THING...
When you tap with one finger anywhere on the album cover, it brings up the above controls mentioned...
BUT
when i tapped the screen with 2 fingers, the album flipped around.
I had never known of this before, its never mentioned ANYWHERE that i have found,
but try it yourself,
TAP ONE FINGER FOR ONSCREEN CONTROLS
TAP TWO FINGERS FOR ALBUM TRACKS."
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Actually, to flip the album cover over and display the tracks... just double tap with one finger. Using 2 fingers doesn't always work... it just basically confuses the iPod into thinking you did a double tap. It's just a double tap... try it, it's more reliable anyway.
 
TheSpaz said:
Actually, to flip the album cover over and display the tracks... just double tap with one finger. Using 2 fingers doesn't always work... it just basically confuses the iPod into thinking you did a double tap. It's just a double tap... try it, it's more reliable anyway.
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i found that double tap works much better...and if you slide your finger across the album art (left to right) while listening to music, it will take you back to the previous menu, found this by accident...
 
bogman12 said:
Trick #1:

Hold the ipod in your hand with the screen in your palm. To the unsuspecting public, you're merely holding a run of the mill iPod.

Trick #2:

Sometimes, when you tab the screen a bunch of times followed by some random interface button smashing, you'll bring up the standard OS X volumn control, just like the volumn control on the iphone. Then you can say to yourself, "Yep, this is just like the iPhone.."
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I don't think this is documented, but I may be wrong:

When you have the ipod touch in a dock, you can use the apple remote to adjust the volume (bringing up the OS X volume control widget).

Also, this is documented, but I didn't figure it out until I read through the online manual:

On any screen where you have the black/white buttons on the bottom (like the music screen has "Songs", "artists", "Playlists" and "More.." on the bottom. You can click edit and reconfigure those shortcuts. So now instead of "Songs" I have "Podcasts" on my music home screen. Pretty nifty -- especially since I was griping about how those presets were annoying just a few days ago.
 
This is more of a minor iTunes thing, but it was a good discovery for managing movies on my Touch.

I love iTunes for music, but I don't like using iTunes to manage movies, mainly because I run out of hard drive space unless I burn my rips to DVD. In addition to music, I do keep a lot of small video clips in iTunes- converted YouTubes, etc. So I generally have iTunes copy all files to its iTunes folder when adding stuff.

You can copy movie files directly from Finder to your iPod Touch, without having to add (and copy) them to your iTunes library first. So if they're on your desktop or on a DVD, just find them and drag them onto your iPod Touch in the iTunes sidebar. As long as the video is Touch-compatible, it will copy directly to your Touch.
 
EssentialParado said:
I don't understand this at all. I tried reading the article twice but I don't get how it's working. It just explains how to do it and the end result, but how does it work?

I don't understand how it's transferring these files to the Touch/iPhone and having them available offline.
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The article doesn't really explain it. In addition to URIs that start with "http:" or "ftp:", there is a newish URI that starts with "data:". This URI is intended for storing inline data in a web page...for example if you had a small bullet point graphic you could refer to it in a data: URI instead of linking to the image itself. It saves the overhead of a separate browser request to get that tiny file.

So in Safari mobile if you store a data link you can encode any kind of data in there and it will be available offline all the time. Essentially the URI itself contains all of the data encoded into the link...so a 3k image has a 3k link stored in the safari bookmarks.

I'm not sure how well this scales, though. I doubt the ipod touch bookmarks programmer ever considered people storing a gigabyte of data in their bookmarks.
 
savar said:
I'm not sure how well this scales, though. I doubt the ipod touch bookmarks programmer ever considered people storing a gigabyte of data in their bookmarks.
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It scales very good up to a point. I haven't tried really large (1 MB+) files, but for files in the tens to hundreds of kb range, files load pretty quickly.

Because you can't mark your progress within a file, I haven't tried loading any ebooks or anything like that. But I imagine it would work pretty well with TXT ebooks. Such files load up in mobile Safari pretty reasonably.

The fact that it's a bookmark doesn't seem to make it harder for Safari to deal with, than if you just loaded the same large file via the web.
 
madmaxmedia said:
You can store readable files (txt,doc,rtf,html,pdf,jpg) within Safari bookmarks, sync them to your Touch, and read them on your Touch-

http://www.insanelygreattees.com/news/?p=51

You can of course organize these via Safari folders.

Great way to read PDF's in landscape mode, though you can't create bookmarks. Pretty cool-
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Anyone know of a similar program that works with Windows? I tried converting and then putting the bookmark in Safari and then syncing to itunes, but when I try and view it, it tells me I need to be connected to server?
 
I went into my local MRCS store the today. I was expecting to see a few Nanos a couple of Classics and zero Touch's. I was right. So I started cahtting to the guy and he said that he had one. I asked if they had a demo. He did. I started to do the usual, Music, safari etc.
Then out of the blue (No pun intended) the screen flashes up.

Bluetooth not active.

It then promptly died on me. First thought: Is this guy gonna kill me for this and WTF Bluetooth?

Any other experience with this?
 
ipodtoucher said:
i found that double tap works much better...and if you slide your finger across the album art (left to right) while listening to music, it will take you back to the previous menu, found this by accident...
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It's inconsistent, just simply tap the "LEFT ARROW" and it will take you back to previous menu.
 
If you are in safari and come across an embedded flash youtube clip on a website, when you click it it minimizes safari and opens the youtube app and plays the clip.

This doesn't work for all youtube clips, only ones that are available in the iphone/appletv specific h.264 encode.
 
Don't think this one's documented in the manual...
Also, i don't have a touch and only saw this vid on YouTube, which i can't find anymore..

Anyway, here it is.. when typing, hold your finger on the delete key and while still holding, drag left on the screen to delete multiple characters, if you delete too many just drag back in the opposite direction and the delete will be undone.
Haven't had a chance to try this one for myself, so let me know how it goes.

EDIT:
Sorry, just found the Video.. Here's a link: Delete Feature

Also, i came across this video, not really a tip, more of a bug, but maybe someone will be able to put it to good use: Link
Basically a way to rotate photos...
 
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