Stargazers
A parent and his child use a mobile phone and tablet to aid them during a stargazing party.
Copyright ©2014 Dave Rahardja.
Full Moon
A shot of the full moon, taken on the night of a lunar eclipse.
I used a 70–200 mm 𝑓/2.8 lens at maximum zoom, plus a 1.7x teleconverter. The picture you see above is a 1:1 crop of the detail area as taken on my D800.
Unfortunately I have to do something called “sleep” tonight, and I’ll miss the actual eclipse. Ah well.
Copyright ©2014 Dave Rahardja. All rights reserved.
The Amazing iPhone Home Button
October 2, 2014
Updated October 16, 2016
How many things can the iPhone Home Button do? Let’s see…
- Go to home screen (press while unlocked)
- Wake the phone from sleep (press while locked)
- Launch/cancel fast app switching (double press while unlocked)
- Launch Siri (press and hold)
- Unlock the phone with Touch ID (touch)
- Make a purchase on iTunes Store (touch)
- Authorize an app to access a Keychain item (touch)
- Enable/disable accessibility options (triple press)
- Reachability (double touch)
- Apple Pay (double press or touch and hold)
- Take a screenshot (press and hold, press sleep/wake button)
- Take a
stackshotsysdiagnose (press and hold, press a volume button) - Enter DFU mode (no longer works with iPhone 7)
- Dismiss Notification Center or Control Center (press while NC or CC is displayed)
- Dismiss lock screen camera (press)
- Go to the home screen from lock screen (press) (iOS 10)
- Dismiss a pulled-down notification (press) (iOS 10)
- Make a purchase in Safari (touch) (iOS 10)
Removed functionality:
- ✗ Show/hide media playback controls over lock screen (press while locked) (removed in iOS 10)
Credit goes to Guy English for inspiring this.
Update: Found a 15th use.
Update: Updated for iOS 10.
Secure your iPhone with a Long Numeric Passcode
A great way to secure your iPhone is to use a long passcode. But setting a typical long passcode that has letters and numbers in it results in an unlock screen that looks like this:
I find the alphanumeric keys too small to hit accurately, especially if I’m one-handing the phone.
But did you know you can set a long numeric passcode, and your lock screen will look like this?
So much better! You get the benefits of a long passcode, but you retain the convenience of a large number pad for one-handed use. As a bonus, people can’t tell how long your passcode is, which makes it even harder to guess.
You know what’s best?
Copyright ©2014 Dave Rahardja