Rick's Google Day

How to take a screenshot of iPhone/Touch screen:

• navigate to desired screen
• hold Home button
• press Sleep switch on top
• screen flashes white
• picture is saved to 'Camera Roll' / 'Saved Photos'
• email it to yourself

Print from a computer to the iPhone/Touch:
(turns an iPhone/Touch into a piece of paper)

install free software on your computer, then "print" a file to your iPhone
• appears to send an image to the ACTPrint iPhone application

99 cents ACTPrinter (the FAQ)

AppCraver review

I didn't try it.

Print from iPhone/Touch to a piece of paper:
a bad example

PrinterShare (in action)
free appstore app / free computer app

http://www.printershare.com/download-macos.sdf

• 20 free pages (100 @ $4.95 or unlimited @ $9.95 per month)
• printed copy looks like a halftone graphic even though it started as real text (it looks so bad I don't want to know more)
• and there is an ad on the bottom of the printed page
• must print via a desktop machine that is pre-configured with a printer

Print from iPhone/Touch to a piece of paper:
a good example

ePrint free (in action)

• couldn't resolve FQDN, the printer needs to be IP address
• doesn't need a host or web account
• nice quality

Some tricks I discovered by accident (OS 4.1, 4th generation touch):

Press and hold the home button
for voice control

Press home twice to get
list of apps running in background.
Slide left and right to see the list.

quitbackground

Press and hold an app icon,
they change to the minus sign and wiggle.
Touch the minus sign to stop
the background process. The app icon will
disappear when it has quit.

bgapps

While you have this screen up....
slide the apps off the right and you can
lock your screen in Portrait mode.

The lock/circle icon toggles Portrait Orientation lock.
The music icons do what we expect them to do.

References

Screenshot
http://www.ehow.com/how_4605966_screen-shot-iphone-screenshot-app.html

Printing
in general: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/195262/printing_from_your_iphone_ipod_touch_and_ipad.html
printershare: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/printershare-mobile-phone/id367804841
eprint free: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eprint-free/id304220730?mt=8
apple has something coming for printing in iPhone OS 4.2: http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/15/apples-iphone-os-wireless-printing-dubbed-airprint-still-coming-in-november/

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