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iPhone: Add a webpage bookmark in Safari

The iPhone’s built-in web browser Safari is the best mobile browser I’ve ever used and I suspect that it will be getting a lot of use from new iPhone users. Adding a bookmark for an interesting or important website is a fundamental browser operation which is easily done on the iPhone.

iPhone: Add bookmark folders

The iPhone will be a great tool for people who thrive on being extremely organized. You know who you are. If you are also a thorough bookmarker, sorting them into hierarchical folders is a must. While your iPhone can sync your Safari bookmarks and those folders, you may want to add a new category while you’re away from your desktop.

iPhone: Send the current Safari URL to someone by email

Find a great webpage on your iPhone and want to share it with someone? There is a quick and easy way to do this.

iPhone: Force quit a frozen or hung application

If your iPhone behaves strangely and you think that an application on it is frozen or not responding, you can close the application easily.

iPhone: Delete a calendar event

Find a way to weasel out of that four hour Friday afternoon meeting? Enjoy the satisfaction of deleting the event directly on your iPhone after hanging up with your boss (you can stop the fake coughing now).

iPhone: Enable and use the caps lock keyboard feature

By default, the caps lock feature on the iPhone keyboard is disabled. If you do a lot of shouting in your emails, you’ll want to be able to lock the shift button down. Here’s how.

iPhone: Turn power on and off

To conserver power or if you’ve finally had enough of being connected to everything all the time (ha!), you can easily power off your iPhone.

iPhone: Enable automatic email checks

By default, the iPhone will only check for new emails manually when you open the Mail screen or when you tap the refresh icon (the icon in the lower left screen of the email list). You can configure your iPhone to automatically check for new emails by following these easy steps.

iPhone: Clear cookies in Safari browser

Different folks want to clear their cookies for different reasons. The paranoia-prone like to remove them because of perceived privacy issues. Developers need to remove them in order to fully test some applications. Others need to clear them in order to erase all evidence of their, um, browsing history. Regardless, clearing the cookies in your iPhone’s Safari is easy.

iPhone: Change preview size of emails

When looking at a list of emails, the iPhone can display the first few lines of the email, up to five, or none at all to make a more compact list. It’s easy to change this preview length to find what works best for you.

Mozilla Sunbird: Import Your Outlook Calendar Appointments

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If you have decided to start using Sunbird instead of your Outlook calendar, you are going to want to have any appointments in Outlook to be on your new calendar. Instead of retyping the appointments, follow these steps:

RealPlayer 11: Enable Web Downloading to Grab Internet Videos

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The new RealPlayer makes it easy to download and play videos you view in your web browser, such as those from YouTube. However, if you didn’t opt for the “Download this Video” button to appear in your browser during the installation of RealPlayer, you won’t have this great option. No worries though, simply follow these steps to enable the functionality: