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How to Make an On-The-Go Playlist on the iPhone

For all the great features on the iPhone, some haven’t made instant sense to me.

Perhaps it was a brain kluge on my part, but it took me a while to figure out how to create a playlist on my Iphone. With my old iPod seemed more intuitive when it came to playlist creation.

Here’s how to make an On-The-Go playlist on your iPhone. Fairly simple stuff after you learn one key idea about the iPhone playlist interface.

To Begin

Navigate to the “Ipod” located in the lower right of your Iphone’s screen.

Click the “Playlists” icon. And then, click “On-The-Go” to begin creating your playlists.

When you’re on the “On-The-Go” playlist screen, it should be empty.

Adding The First Song

Click “Edit” and then click the “+” sign.

Here’s the big tip!

At this point, you can now add any song from anywhere in your iPod such as another playlist, or the “Artists” section or the “Songs” section. Use the bottom nav to go between section and add from whatever mode you want.

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How Do I Make A Screenshot of My Iphone? – Tip

With the “2.0″ update to the iPhone firmware, users were able to make screenshots of their iPhone.

Here’s “how to” take a screenshot, and then access it. You might also think of this as another way to do “Print Screen” on your computer at home – but on your iPhone.

First, navigate to whatever it is that you want to make a screenshot of.  You should be able to make screenshots of most application states – even games, presumably (prove you got to X level!!).

Next, depress the “lock” button on the top of your iPhone and the “home” button simultaneously.

You should see a brief flash as if a picture has been taken.

Now, that you have made your screenshot, go to “Photos” through the Home screen.

The last photo taken should be your screenshot. Send it to friends, download it and prove that you now know how to make a screenshot using your iPhone.

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Flickr on Your iPhone: New Optimized Site for Photos

A lot of the news lately has been focused on iPhone apps, but impressive mobile sites are also available and optimized for the iPhone.

The new mobile site on Flickr is focused toward iPhone user with a typically, slick and highly usable Flickr interface. Now if you could easily take your iPhone cameraphone pictures and send them to Flickr easily, that would be perfect.

CNET reviewed the new Flickr site today and points out a great feature which is automatically scaling of photos. One drawback is that you can’t currently navigate between different sizes of the photos on the mobile site. We suggest a work around which is to go to “www.flickr.com” (the main site) rather than the iPhone site “m.flickr.com” if you really want the different sizes.

We like the navigation capabilities that are available when you view individual photos on the iPhone-optimized mobile site. Next to a larger thumbnail of your photo are two smaller thumbnails showing you the next and previous image in the photostream that you are viewing with arrows overlayed on each of the images. If only AT&T’s Edge network would bring the images down a bit faster, we’d love it. Still, this is a great new way to access your photos.

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New iPhone Reading App, Stanza, Overpowers Kindle

The power of the Kindle as well as the massive investment behind it by Amazon is well-known. Amazon hopes that someday the Kindle will be the de facto source for reading digital eBooks – and likely magazines, newspapers and other periodicals. But, the Apple iPhone has apps and Forbes says Kindle now has a significant new competitor – and due to only three people’s hard work.

According to the article, Amazon is projected to sell 380,000 Kindle units in 2008. The new Stanza iPhone App was released in July and has already been downloaded 395,000 times. On their website, Portland, Ore.-based Lexcycle and its three-person development team, says it developed Stanza to “read eBooks on your Mac or PC and share with your iPhone, iPod Touch, & Kindle.”

Forbes notes the good and the bad of Stanza. On the good side, Stanza is faster than the Kindle in turning pages and in usability. But among the negatives, it’s hard on the eyes and it eats up the iPhone’s battery.

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New Obama iPhone App Takes Campaign To iPhone

Everyone is talking about it in the blogosphere, so why not us, too?
The Obama campaign continues to pound away with a relentless digital strategy that has included a popular community destination site, online fundraising, extensive email campaigns and, now, an iPhone app. Download it here.

But this isn’t just an app to get you to read more about Barack Obama. For example, the application cleverly ranks your contacts so that anyone you know in key battleground states such as New Mexico or Pennsylvania will be prioritized and highlighted. Presumably, you will call them to tell them about voting for Obama if you choose to use the app.

IPhone Atlas makes note of the GPS feature which allows you to find out about where the nearest Obama campaign headquarters location is.

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Apple To Exchange iPhone 3G Adapter

Announced late today by Apple, the ultracompact USB adapter that shipped with all iPhone 3Gs sold in the U.S., Japan, Canada, Mexico and several other countries in Latin America are being recalled – in the form of an exchange.

If you have a 3G, you can pick up an adapter at an Apple store or sign up online beginning October 10.

To date, only some 3G users have experienced prongs that become detached from the adapter, but Apple suggests that it is taking no chances and making this offer to all 3G users in the affected countries.

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New Google Earth iPhone App – Earthscape – It’s Free

If you have a 3G phone and are looking for a cool, new mapping iPhone app, TechCrunch just turned us on to Earthscape which is free for a limited time through the iTunes store.

You can download it here.

Not only does it have GPS functionality and integration with Google Earth (which includes a 3-year-old sky view of New York City), but it also integrates with relevant entries made by “editors” over at Wikipedia and shows you photos on Flickr taken at any given location.

For example, if a photos has been taken near the Fillmore East’s old location on New York City’s Second Avenue and have been geo-tagged, you would see a marker in Earthscape that you could click for that photo.

It’s a graphical touring book for the iPhone, if you will. Fodor’s eat your heart out. And, to reiterate, this uses Google Earth (kinda) not Google Maps – a much cooler effect.

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Apple Remote Iphone App Gets Update

According to reports by MacWorld and others, the Apple Remote iPhone app has been updated to version 1.1 and includes support for the new “Genius” feature.

If you haven’t tried the new Genius feature yet – make sure you do. We feel like it’s unlocked our library of music by making memorable playlists from the depths of our treasure trove of greatest hits from the 80s.

Now, that the Remote app has been updated, we’ll be able to use our iPhone to manipulate Genius lists on the Apple iMac G4 that houses the gigabytes of music our current iPhone cannot handle.

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New iPhone App – Baby Naming from Neutrinos

In the category of “You Think You’ve Heard of All the iPhone Apps” comes a new baby naming iPhone app from Neutrinos called “Baby Names“.

It hasn’t been long since the app was birthed in iTunes, but as of this writing, the application has earned 3 out of 5 stars after five reviews.

15,500 Names To Choose From

According to the intro on the $4.99 app, it has over 15,500 names of 130 origins and has social networking features such as list and email capabilities which allows your mother or some other interested party to give their two cents about your impending tax write-off’s name.

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How Do I Make Custom iPhone Icons for My Websites?

With a growing list of apps and web bookmarks on the home screen of your iPhone, you may want to “pretty up” some of those web bookmarks and turn them into custom icons rather than settle for a screenshot of the website. You can do this – but only for websites you control.

Keep in mind, the iPhone home screen icon is a different file than the favicon.ico file that creates an image in the bookmarks or on the tabs of a web browser.

iPhone Custom Icon How-To

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New iPhone Firmware 2.1 Update Hangs iPhone – Solution

With the important new bug fixes in the iPhone firmware 2.1 update, everyone needs to get the firmware installed.

But, we ran into an iPhone problem when downloading and then updating our firmware. Fortunately, the fix was easy.

The Issue

With iTunes 8.0 already installed, we plugged in our Apple iPhone through the USB cable to our iMac G4. Itunes recognized we did not have the new firmware when we clicked “Check for Updates,” so it offered to download and install it which we immediately accepted.

After the installation, we tried to use the new iPhone while it was still hooked up to the computer. We noticed, for example, we couldn’t get simple weather updates using the weather app that has been in our iPhone since day 1. Also, email didn’t seem to download anything and we couldn’t call anyone.

The Solution

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Hurricane Ike: Weather Blogs on Your Iphone

One of our favorite blogs formatted for the Iphone is for weather: Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog. This guy knows his weather. Masters co-founded the popular weather site, Weather Underground in 1995 and flew with the NOAA Hurricane Hunters back in the ’80s.

His post today covering Hurricane Ike which is approaching Galveston Bay is thorough and intense with a firm warning that “the hurricane is much larger and more powerful than Category 5 Katrina or Category 5 Rita.” Sobering to say the least.

Masters got his PHD in meteorology from Michigan.

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iPhone App: Yahoo! OneConnect for iPhone

We cover iPhone apps here from time to time and the new app coming from Yahoo!, One Connect, has piqued our interest.

There are many IM communication apps out there but Yahoo!’s Instant Messenger’s ability to send messages via text rather than as an instant message has always been helpful. As a result, the user on the other end always gets the text even when they’re not online. AOL’s AIM instant messenger client does not do provide the same feature, for example.

But, Yahoo! OneConnect from Yahoo! Mobile is much more than just an IM app. It achieves which many companies such as Google and Facebook are trying to build not just for the Apple iPhone.

Users have many profiles and instant messaging accounts in their social network world, and they ideally need to be able to integrate with all of them through one client.

According to the Yahoo! Mobile team interviewed by Jennifer Dolcourt at CNET, OneConnect will allow you to: update photos and contacts on and through your iPhone, send status messages at your favorite social networks and send free IMs and text messages.

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Skype for the iPhone: Coming Soon?

Given the flat-rate data plans these days for the iPhone and others, how is the big cheese of free VOIP, Skype, going to be able to survive?

Om Malik interviewed Skype CEO, Josh Silverman, this past week and he claimed that Skype for Pocket PC devices has been very popular with nearly 7 million downloads. Silverman said, “People don’t want just voice, they are looking for presence and chatting [of Skype].”

Malik adds that his recent discussions with telecom operators in Europe reveal that they make more money with Skype-enabled phones than non-Skype-enabled.

Rumors swirl that U.S. telecom operators may be planning their “Skype-killer” VOIP client but nothing has transpired to date.

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iPhone Firmware 2.1 on Friday

New iPhone 2.1 firmware will be released on Friday according to Steve Jobs at yesterday’s Apple event.

Engadget calls the update: “bug fixes galore” and quotes Jobs as saying there will be “No crashes.” We’re not sure if he meant the iPhone won’t crash, or if Apple’s servers won’t crash from everyone downloading the new firmware.

iPod Touch owners will also be able to use the update which is available for them now, but it will cost them $10.

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iPhone News from Yesterday’s Apple Event

Yesterday’s Apple Event starring Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, included announcments on new iPods and an update to iTunes but there was no huge impact seen from new products or applications related to iPhone news other than new 2.1 Firmware.

Still, there were some good stats unveiled including over 100,000,000 downloads of apps from the iTunes app store.

One of the cooler, new features in iTunes is something called “Genius” which intelligently and instantly makes playlists by looking at one song and then populating a playlist that relates to it.

“People have a lot of music on their devices that they haven’t listened to in ages,” Jobs said. “That’s what Genius does. It helps them rediscover music they already have.” Obviously, this is something the iPhone owners community will enjoy as well as iPod owners.

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New iTunes Tomorrow? Possible Iphone Impact

Kevin Rose of Digg fame has made a whole slew of predictions that have the blogosphere talking.

Among them, Kevin hears that there is a new update for iTunes coming. iTunes 8.0.

If he is correct, it would seem that at this time there is little impact to iPhone users in that other than new visualization capabilities within iTunes and library management tools, nothing will be updated for the iPhone.

But, if you’re looking for new, cheaper iPods, tomorrow will be a good day to buy them according to Rose as updated pricing is predicted that will make them cheaper and fit more in line with other products such as the $199 iPhone
3G.

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iPhone Slow Sync Solution Offered

At UKMac.net, a common problem and a solution for some users of the iPhone and iPod Touch who have found syncing their iPhone is taking forever.

If you have a USB hub and are connecting your iPhone to your computer through the device, it may be that all you need to do is plug your iPhone into one of the USB ports available directly on the computer – don’t use the hub.

In the comments of the post, readers note that this sync issue fix may only work for Apple Macintosh computer users and that slowness on the Windows platform continues to persist.

Here are MyNewIphoneWorld.com, we have noticed that everytime we sync to our G4 iMac (we always sync directly), it takes a minute or two to sync and says “Backing Up Data”. Not sure why the Iphone seems to need to do a backup every time – it should be doing a sync.

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Copy and Paste Available on the iPhone?

Gizmodo says it’s coming.

If there was one attribute which many Apple iPhone users would like in their iPhone it’s the copy-and-paste function with which they are familiar on their computers.

For example, would it not be handy to be able copy a segment from one email and paste into another on your iPhone?

Currently, you can’t do it without fudging.

According to Gizmodo, Apple’s multi-touch sensors of the future will allow users to select “Copy” and “Paste” between applications such as from email to the “Notes” application on the iPhone.

If you’re looking for the complete details on how it will all work, Apple’s registration of a patent application is available on the USPTO website.

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Our Favorite iPhone App: Facebook for iPhone

It’s been about two month since the iPhone apps store opened on iTunes, and thus far our favorite app is the Facebook app for iTunes (downloable here).

We have found that communication through the easy to use iPhone interface improves upon the website version, and syncs nicely with our texting. Noticing more what other people are doing on Facebook has been a key benefit – a.k.a. “Status Update.” When we’re using a computer’s browser, we tend to visit our own profile and own world, if you will.

SMS vs. Facebook Chat

Presciently, on AllFacebook in July, Nick O’Neill posited that the new Facebook app could mean the end to text messaging, or SMS, as we know it. We agree. For one, Facebook chat is free, SMS is not.

Also, the functionality is similar to any text messaging with Facebook, but the added features of the Facebook iPhone community application make it more useful – and it doesn’t hurt that the interface designed by the product team is very easy to use and looks great.

As VentureBeat has detailed, the Facebook app takes aim at Twitter, too – the popular micro-blogging service through “Status Update” – which asks users, “What are you doing?”

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