How To Repair A Water Damaged iPhone

How many times have you almost dropped your iPhone into a puddle?  How many times have you dropped it into a puddle only to have it get ruined by its encounter?

Most people would buy a whole new iPhone at this point, especially since most warranties don’t cover water damage, but you may not have to.  A water damaged iPhone can be repaired, if you know what you’re doing; however, there is no completely foolproof method of repairing a water damaged iPhone.  These tips though should at least help.

1) Get The iPhone Dried Fast

If your iPhone accidentally takes a swim, get it out of the water as fast as you can and check it out.  Occasionally, if you’re lucky, your iPhone will work, or at least still partially work.  Next, dry your wet iPhone with a towel, as much as you can, and try any one of the following.


2) Turn Your iPhone Off

Leave it turned off for 48-72 hours so it can air dry and not get fried by being turned on with water in the circuits.  Put the iPhone somewhere warm and well ventilated, but not too hot or you’ll do even more damage to your phone.  And, don’t turn it on for the duration of up to seventy two hours or the drying effect will be ruined.  For some people, this works, other times, not so much.

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Video Genius iPad App – A Consumer Review

If you’ve had your iPad for about a year and a half, you’re pretty much carrying an antique in your pocket. With smartphone innovations coming at such a frantic pace, there’s a world of difference between the iPad 4 and 3GS, and their predecessors. One of the most dramatic differences is in camera capabilities – where the more recent phones have fancy video capabilities, owners of the earlier ones are stuck with 2.0-megapixel cameras, that just take pictures.

Video Genius - Apps for iPad 2
Video Genius – Apps for iPad 2

There’s nothing much you can do about that disparity, but there are a number of apps available that give older iPads video-capture features, such as Camera Plus Pro and Camera Genius. The makers of Camera Genius, CodeGoo, have also brought out Video Genius, a free standalone app that offers video-capture. With this, owners of older iPad and iPad 3G models can record video. The results don’t quite match what the iPad 4 and iPad 3GS can do, though.

Using Video Genius, you can shoot video in either landscape or portrait formats, although the controls don’t offer automatic orienting. When you launch Video Genius, you’ll see an interface similar to the camera app that’s built into the iPad – your viewfinder is the whole screen. To start recording, you tap the green button at the bottom of the screen – when video is being captured, this will flash and turn red. You film in either portrait or landscape by turning the phone appropriately, although the controls are static and don’t re-orient. (more…)

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Worldcard HD – Comprehensive App to Manage Your Business Contacts

Worldcard HD is a powerful contact manager for your iPad. It is the iPad version of its predecessor WorldCard Mobile – an award winning application for iPhone which helps the users to scan business cards and add the details to the contacts. WorldCard HD is specifically designed for business professionals, social entrepreneurs, sales or marketing professionals.

Worldcard HD
Worldcard HD

WorldCard HD allows you to add a business card just by taking a snap of the business card or from the camera roll or by importing from iPad contacts. WorldCard HD uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read the business cards. The OCR simply recognizes the text in the business cards and transfers to your iPad. All the details in the business cards like name, organization name, designation, contact number, fax will be automatically saved to your iPad. You can also add your contacts from iPhone 4S/4/3GS Photo Stream. (more…)

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