posted on 21.07.10 iPhone Tip: Spotlight Search

When I first got my iPhone 4 I would go into contacts and scroll through the endless list to find the person I desired to call. This could take some time to do. Then one day I decided to try the spotlight search on the iPhone 4. After swiping my finger to the left when I was on my home screen I was there. This simple one line search box can do so much for you. 

If you want to make a call to someone just type their first or last

name and click the link, boom call’s being made.

If you want to play a song from Kid Cudi just type “Kid” and all your Kid Cudi songs will show up. Press and begin to enjoy. 

Don’t want to search through your endless folders of Apps? Type twitter in the Spotlight Search bar and the app is the first result. touch to launch. 

Spotlight has changed the way I use my iPhone in the weeks since the iPhone 4 launch. I don’t know how I did anything before without using the Spotlight Search feature. I strongly recommend using it. 

also on a side note: You can change the way that results appear for you. Just go into Settings > General > Spotlight Search. you can rearrange the way that the search results appear and customize it to what you search for heavily. 



posted on 15.07.10 My iPhone 4 Story

I was one of the hopeful and anxious fanboys who was up at 3am on June 15th trying to press their way through Apple’s pre-order process. With no luck by 4am I decided to try again in the morning. I arrived at a local AT&T store for their opening time of 10am. There were a few people waiting outside playing with their iPhone 3G’s and 3GS’s pretending like they were the only ones there for the iPhone 4. So after I checked in with Foursquare letting the world know where I was the doors opened. A lined formed. The first order didn’t even go through. They switched to paper order forms, I was having none of that and left.  

The horrors of AT&T’s servers crashed both their site and Apple’s site all day. Finally at 4pm EST I headed back to the AT&T Store that had failed me in the morning. I successfully placed my order for a 32GB iPhone 4. 

I got home and got my iPhone 4 order confirmation email from AT&T. I was happy. But then I was nervous. I had read many reports online of people having their AT&T order cancelled on them or not receiving their iPhones on the day of launch. I would be horrified if I didn’t receive my iPhone 4 on June 24th. So i checked my email hourly on my slow iPhone 3G(gross.) for an email from AT&T letting me know it shipped. I got nothing until the 23rd.

Luckily on the 24th my iPhone 4 was delivered by UPS in typical UPS terrible packaging. the iPhone 4 box in a bigger box that had the iPhone 4 box just moving freely within the bigger box, exactly what I want for my $300 purchase. 

Well all-in-all I love this phone, but there are some issues. Firstly the death grip(even though I hate that name) is a problem that needs to be fixed. A case does fix everything, and hopefully it’s software related but I doubt it. 

I have the phone, I use it everyday, it’s still better than any Droid phone out there by far, and the UI is unbeatable. So am I happy with my purchase of the best that money can buy? Yes. 

posted on 06.07.10
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