Computer Tricks and Secrets

How do you save a screenshot image of your iPhone, iPad or the iPod Touch screen? Unlike your Windows or Mac computer, there are no screen capture apps available for your iOS device and you actually don’t need one because the screen capture functionality in built right into your device.    Capture Screenshots of your iPhone or iPad Screen To save a screenshot image of your mobile screen, press and hold the Home button that is located at the bottom center of the device (you often use this button to exit the app and return to the home screen). While the home button is down,  press the Sleep (or Wake) button located on the opposite edge of the phone. The screen will flash momentarily,  you’ll also hear a click sound and the content of the current screen will be saved as a new image in your Photo Gallery. Do remember that the same key combination will reset your iPhone if you press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least 10 seconds. Although, th...

How to Find iPhone Manufacturing Date Finding manufacturing date of your iPhone is not a straight forward as you have to identify it from its serial number. You can know the year and date of manufactured for your iPhone by looking at it’s serial number. iPhone serial number is made of six(6) items, you have to decode the iPhone’s serial number, look out for:  FM Y PW UID CL S FM  = Factory and Machine ID (1st and 2nd digit) Y  = Year (3rd digit) PW  = Production Week (4 and 5th digit) UID  = Unique Identifier (6,7 and 8th digit) CL  = Color (A4=black) and (9 and 10th digit) S  = size (S=16GB, T=32GB) (11th digit) So just by looking your serial number you can know that when your iPhone was born