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How to make icons for web addresses on iPhone / iPod Touch

Ken — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:12:09 +0000

It’s quite an earlier Saturday morning in here and because I couldn’t sleep more, I start playing with my iPod Touch.

What I discovered it’s quite helpfully for everyone I guess. It’s about making shortcuts / icons on the screen for preferred web addresses. This means when you are accessing frequently some websites, you can create icons directly into the applications list onto your iPod Touch / iPhone screen and you can access these websites very easy and fast.

Steps:
1. open Safari Browser on your iPod Touch / iPhone
2. open your preferred website
3. tap the “+” sign on the bottom of the screen

4. tap “Add to Home Screen”

5. give it a name and press “Add”

Now you’ll have a small print screen or the website icon, as an icon into the apps list on your iPhone screen :)
Nice huh? ;)

How to Hide only Specific System Tray Icons

Ken — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:27:11 +0000

Two weeks ago I was giving the solution for hiding all the System Tray Icons and now, as I promise, I am talking about hiding only specific System Tray Icons. It’s verified both in Windows XP and Windows Vista.

1. Right click on the taskbar and select properties
2. Now select Notification Area and then click Customize
3. Now, click the specific icon you want to hide in system tray and select always hide in the dropdown box.
Windows by default display icons for active or urgent notifications and hide inactive ones.

This method is not guarantee that will work for any application.

How to Hide System Tray Icons Using Regedit Command

Ken — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:27:23 +0000

This tutorial is about how to hide all system tray icons using registry. It’s working perfect in XP and Windows Vista. In the next blog post I’ll show you how to hide only specific icons.

1. Open Start Menu >> Run, type regedit and press Enter

2. Go to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. Create a DWORD value by right clicking the right pane and click new, then DWORD value

4. Name the key as NoTrayItemsDisplay

5. Double click the key after creation and set the value as 1

6. Close registry and restart your computer in order for the settings to take into effect.

How to auto arrange icons on iPod Touch

Ken — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 05:44:49 +0000

Sometimes we have to delete applications on our iPod touch and after this we see that the numbers of the screens is the same like before deleting. This is more annoying if you delete several apps and there are gaps on 8 pages of icons.

The best way is to auto arrange apps software icons.
To do this, follow the next steps:

Solution:

Go to Settings / General / Reset / tap Reset Home Screen Layout

The bad thing is that you will see, after this reset, some changes on bottom bar and maybe you’ll have to add again your 4 preferred apps icons there. But after all, at least, you don’t need to download any software to auto arrange your icons and is a simple and elegant method ;)

There is another method to get the icons in a specific order, but everyone knows that is a pain to move the icons one-by-one. This is possible keeping a finger on one icon until all icons start wriggling. After that you can drag the icons you wanted, one by one, on another screen. This method still can be good if you want to move only a few icons, or if you want to add add/delete icons on the bottom bar. In this mode you can also, delete the apps touching the red “X”.