Smile! A quick and easy way to take a picture.

On the iPhone you can now access the camera from the swipe screen!  To get to the camera just 'swipe up' on the camera icon.  You do not need enter your password to get to the camera.

Once you are in the camera you can easily take a picture using the 'Volume Up' button on the side of the iPhone.  I find this much easier than pushing the little button on the screen as I always jiggle the phone and ruin the picture.

I hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving.

Hidden keys (or more keyboard shortcuts)

Did you know apple has many hidden keys? For example the keyboard has a "." button but you want ".com", if you just hold down the "." button a whole list of .com extensions will pop up!

With iOS6 the keyboards have a slightly different layout.  Here are some other shortcuts...

Another that I couldn't get the right keyboard to show is if you press the comma key and apostrophe comes up!  I think the reason I couldn't find it is because with iOS 6 the keyboard layouts are different.

If you like what I teaching please forward it on to your friends!  Have questions?  Just let me know!  I love figuring out new tricks!  Also this works on the iPad too!

Tip #5 - Create your own typing shortcuts

I know everyone is driven crazy by auto correction.  But did you know you can create your own shortcuts?  For example I always misspell my name dirithy and it never auto corrects it!  So I put in a shortcut of 'dor' and it autocorrects it to 'Dorothy'!  Here's how you do it.

Go to Settings...

Select General...

Scroll down to Keyboard...

Select Shortcuts...

Select Plus Sign...

Now start typing your shortcuts!

Remember not to pick shortcuts that are real words, like if your name is Adam Sandler you would not want to create the shortcut 'as' because as is a common words, but you create the shortcut 'ads' or 'asa'.

Also if you capitalize the shortcut it will capitalize the word.  For example I have the shortcut 'ty' for 'thank you'.  If I type 'Ty' it will change to 'Thank you', or if type 'TY' it will change to 'Thank You'.