Kill The Badges Hack iPhone and iPad

There are plenty of things you can do in Notifications on your iPhone and iPad, but one of the best things you can do to eliminate constant distractions isn’to kill all notifications.
By doing that you wind up creating a whole ton of uncertainty on your mobile devices, which can actually distract you more.

Notifications aren’t evil. They don’t steal your time as much as you’d like to think because they come and go. They don’t remain omnipresent on your device as you try to go about getting done what you need to get done in the moment. There is a much bigger culprit involved in stealing your attention and focus: those stinking badges.

Badges remain until you have dealt with them. They stand out like a sore thumb on your iOS devices, reminding you that there is something there that has to be dealt with. They draw you in and compel you to get rid of them, unlike banners and alerts that fade away. If you want to take a big step in improving your productivity on your iPhone and iPad, then implementing this hack will go a long way.

To turn off badges, go into Settings
and then Notifications. After that, check each app that you’ve given access to Notifications and use the slider to turn badges off. It’s as simple as that. No more red badges staring you in the face. You’ll still get any notifications you deem essential, but they won’t distract you nearly as much.
(For Mail you’ll have to go in a bit deeper, but you can disable badges for every mail account you’ve got set up once you do – even VIP emails.)

You could go a step further and kill all sounds, but this one simple thing is the single best thing you can do to boost your productivity on your iPhone or iPad.

Now I know what you’re thinking:
“Kill all badges? Really?! Are you sure?”
And my answer is: yes.

But if you’re not ready to jump into the deep end, then here are the 3 apps I recommend you keep active and the 3 app I recommend you absolutely
turn off.
Keep badges on for these apps:
Phone. That way you know if you missed a call.
Messages. Same idea here. (Both of these communication methods are meant for instant connection, so that’s why keeping them on is more acceptable than say, Mail.)
Your Task Management App. This will keep you from missing any appointments or important tasks for the day (although if you create a habit of checking this first thing in the morning then the badge could be considered redundant.)
Turn badges off for these apps: Mail. It’s not at all necessary to have this staring you in the face every time you have an unread email in your inbox.
Game Center. This takes you away from the work you need to be doing on the device.
Social Networking Apps. Same as above.
So what are you waiting for? Use this simple productivity hack today and steal back some of that focus and attention you’ve been losing.

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iPhone free commands and activities

iPhone 3G Commands

 Here is a list of the iPhone tricks that you can do to make using the iPhone 3G a little faster and a little easier. 

Typing

• Double tap the space bar when typing to do a full stop then space
  
• Need to insert or modify a letter in amazing you typed? Hold your finger over the word and a magnifying glass will appear. You can scroll to the right area of the word and make the appropriate changes.
  
• Double tap the shift key to enable caps lock
  
• Hold the ".com" button to get other common extensions (.net, .edu and .org)
  
• Hold on a letter to get character accents
  
• If needing one number or symbol mid typing hold the @123 key then drag to the number or symbol without lifting your finger. Once the figure is selected the keyboard will go without delay back to the alphabetical QWERTY keyboard.

Home Screen

• To move icons around on the home screen hold the icons until they shake. You can then drag them around or delete them if you no longer want them. Press the home key to save the rearranged setout.
  
• You can move among home screens by rhythm on the dots at the bottom (will move right if tapping on the right of the dots or left if beating the left of the dots).
  
• To add a webpage to your home screen, open the web page in Safari, click on the + sign and then select add to home screen.
  
• To improve the look of the web page icon zoom to a logo or something similar then click the + button (the icon is a snapshot of the part of the page you are currently viewing)

Phone Calls

• Press the Sleep/Wake button once when there is an received call to silence it
  
• When in a call press the home key to go to the home screen (can look at email etc at the same time as still on a call)
  
• Press the Sleep/Wake button twice when there is an incoming call to send directly to voice mail (useful in meetings where you forgot to revolve the phone to silent)

Safari

• Click on the top of the screen in safari to return to the top of the webpage
  
• To scroll in frame what is not showing scroll bars, put two fingers together and you can scroll
  
• Hold on an image to save it to your camera turn

Home Key

• Double tap the home key to bring up your favourites (or other assigned function in settings)
  
• When listening to the ipod in another application double tap the home key to bring up controls for the ipod.
  
• Hold the home key and press the sleep switch to take a photo of the current screen
  
• Hold the home key and sleep/wake button for about 10 seconds to revive the iphone (helpful if an application has unmoving)

Phone Information

• Dial *#06# to bring up your IMEI number
  
• To bring up a field test menu dial *3001#12345#* then press call

  

Other

• Delete an email or letter quickly by a steal across the message (works with videos too!)

Double tap on a video to zoom in to remove the black bars

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