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iPhone Tips : How to Add Emoji to the iPhone

A lot of people been asking about this. Here’s a tip on how to add emoji/ japanase emoticons to your iphone so that you can use it in your SMS messages.

First of all, you have to Download Frostyplace for 99 cents from the iTunes app store. After that, launch the application…

Then…

1) Tap two or three stories (it doesn’t matter which). They will be in Japanese:

2) Tap the second icon on the bottom right of the app. Then tap on two or three stories (again, doesn’t matter which):
3) Close the application
4) Open the iPhone “Settings“.

5) Tap “General“, scroll down and then tap “Keyboard“.

6) Tap International Keyboards at the bottom of the screen. Scroll down and tap “Japanese“.

7) Slide the “Emoji” tab to ON and its done !!

To use the emoji, open the SMS app and hit the Globe icon at the bottom of the screen. Note that there are 6 tabs for 6 sets of emoji, but there are multiple pages of icons for each set of emoji. Drag your finger right to left to view them all.

iTunes App Store: 200 Million App Downloads in Last 45 Days

Apple Inc announced yesterday that 200 million apps have been downloaded from the iTunes App Store since December 5, 2008. That’s quite an accomplishment, considering 300 million had been downloaded during the first five months. Third-party apps for the iPhone were introduced to iTunes in mid July 2008.

The 500 million downloads in 6 months comes close to matching the pace of digital music, which saw 1.07 billion downloads in 2008, according to The Nielsen Co. At this rate, it’s possible iTunes apps could become a larger industry, in terms of downloads, than the entire digital music business combined.

The total number of applications in the App store during the same time period grew from 10,000 to 15,000.

iPhone Game : PAC-MAN Lite

Download PAC-MAN Lite for iPhone free.

PAC-MAN Lite… Take a chomp of the arcade classic, right on your iPhone / iPod Touch! Relive this classic with PAC-MAN Lite, a full-featured FREE demo of PAC-MAN’s first stage! Who can forget the countless hours and quarters spent avoiding pesky ghosts while chompin’ on dots and gobbling up the fruit for bonus points?

Guide PAC-MAN with three new control modes. Dodge pesky ghosts by tilting or rotating your iPhone in Accelerometer Mode. Navigate through the mazes by touching the onscreen Directional Pad in D-Pad Mode. Chomp on dots with the swipe of a finger in Swipe Mode.

Download PAC-MAN Lite via iTunes

iPhone Game : Tap tap Revenge

Download Tap tap revenge game for free here. We can say Tap tap revenge, a free iPhone music game is Guitar Hero-like game for iPhone & iPod. It’s fan-freaking-tastic good time. Great game play, great sound and great graphics make this my #1 FREE game in the App Store.

Download Tap Tap Revenge for free on iTunes.

Official Tap Tap Revenge website.

How to Copy and Paste in Iphone

Since Apple won’t add copy and paste on the iPhone or iPod Touch someone else had to implement something to take care of copy and paste. ?Clipboard allows the end user to copy and paste text. ?Clipboard is a global copy and paste solution for the iPhoneOS 2.2 based on iKeyEx.

To Install ?Clipboard :

1. Open Cydia
2. Download and Install ?Clipboard from Cydia (BigBoss Repo)
3. Open the Settings app and go to General -> Keyboard -> International -> and turn on the ?Clipboard

Read more about how to use ?Clipboard here

iPhone Apps : iPhone Bandwidth Tester (free)

Tests your download speed in Safari. The results are being compiled into a database so relative performance of GPRS, EDGE, 3G etc can be compared and mapped.

Visit iPhone Bandwidth Tester