The iPhone consists of a built-in facility, which allows the user to search for Wi-Fi hotspots in any area. This facility can easily be accessed on the iPhone by tapping the Maps icon on the iPhone’s Home screen and then simply type ‘hotspot’ and a zip code for the area you wish to search in. If there are available hotspots in the area a map will be displayed with pushpins indicating the available hotspots for the iPhone.

The maps facility on the iPhone will only indicate the available hotspots, but do not indicate any further information on these hotspots, which may be a turn-off to a number of users, especially those looking for free hotspots.

There, however, exist a software application which allows the iPhone user to search for hotspots, paid or free and provide a short review on each hotspot in regards to signal strengths and more. This is a useful utility, which is available free of charge to iPhone users.

JiWire Wi-Fi Finder offers users a clean and user friendly interface allowing the user to search for Wi-Fi hotspots in more than 150 000 locations throughout 135 countries. Once you conduct a search and hotspots are found, you will be in a position to view the locations’ name, address and phone number. With JiWire Wi-Fi Finder you are able to find either free or paid hotspots and read short reviews on the signal strength at each available facility.

JiWire Wi-Fi Finder is a very easy-to-use application and best of all it is free! iPhone users can simply visit http://iphone.jiwire.com where more information can be viewed on the product and downloaded.

By: Kaung | KMKBlog.com

Ever thought of writing an iPhone related book with image illustrations? Need to capture a certain screen in order to proof something to someone? Initially upon the launch of the iPhone, this was not possible. People had to set up tripods and mount cameras in order to capture various screens of the iPhone. At Apple the manufacturers used a specially developed button on the iPhone to capture screens, but this was never made available to the public, but later came iPhone 2.0…

Today any iPhone user has the ability to capture any screen of the iPhone and save it as an image. Here is how this is done:

Step 1:

Find the screen you want to take an image of.

Step 2:

Hold down the ‘Home’ button and while it’s down, press the ‘Sleep/Wake’ switch at the top of the iPhone.

The screen will flash white and automatically save the screen image to the iPhone’s camera roll.

All screen recordings will be saved in jpeg format and will be 480 x 320 pixels in size. From here users will be in a position to e-mail the image, transfer it to a computer or utilize the image as an iPhone’s wallpaper.

By: Kaung | KMKBlog.com

Call waiting is not unique to the iPhone and has been available to general mobile phone users for years. This facility is, however, a feature of the iPhone a user may make use of. With the Call Waiting feature the iPhone user will be alerted of an incoming phone call while he/she is currently busy on a call.

On the iPhone, the user may simply click on the Flash key, which will automatically answer the second incoming call and placing the first call on hold. This is a great facility on every mobile device, which will allow a user not to miss any important incoming calls.

Many mobile users do not make use of the Call Waiting facility, as this is seen to be rude towards the callers. However, at times a user might be waiting for an important call and be interrupted by another less important call. This facility will notify the iPhone user of the incoming call while being busy in a conversation.

Incoming call options

Upon receiving an incoming call, the screen displays the name or number of the caller. The following options are offered on the screen of the iPhone:

Ignore

Choosing this option will divert the call immediately to voicemail. The initial caller will have no indication of what had occurred.

Hold Call + Answer

This option will answer the second incoming call and automatically place the initial call on hold. It will be appropriate of the iPhone user to inform the initial caller that he/she will be placed on hold.

From here the iPhone user may connect between the callers as he/she wish or merge all callers in a conference call.

End Call + Answer

By tapping this option the iPhone user will terminate the initial call automatically and answer the new incoming call.

Can Call Waiting be Turned Off?

The iPhone user may turn off the call waiting facility. By doing this all incoming calls, when busy, will be diverted to voicemail.

By: Kaung | KMKBlog.com

The iPhone offer users a cool feature not many know it had. Call forwarding allows the iPhone user to route all calls received to the iPhone number to a different phone number. Call forwarding has numerous advantages, which include the following:

• In the event of a battery replacement, all your calls can be forwarded to your office or home phone in the period your phone will be off.
• In the event of a flat battery being charged, you can divert all call received to another number and not miss any important call.
• When in an area with limited or no coverage, or roaming abroad, you may divert all calls to an Internet-based answering service, which will record messages and forward them to your iPhone as an e-mail attachment.

Two useful Internet-based answering services include www.grandcentral.com and www.callwave.com. These are complementary services to the iPhone and come highly recommended.

When activating or deactivating the call forwarding facility, you will need to be in an area where you have coverage.

Turning Call Forwarding On or Off

From the Home screen tap on ‘Settings’ > Call > Forwarding.

Now turn Call Forwarding on and tap in the number you wish to forward your calls to.

In order to turn Call Forwarding off, from the Home screen screen tap on ‘Settings’ > Phone > Call Forwarding and then turn it off. You will then start receiving calls again.

By: Kaung | KMKBlog.com

The majority of iPhone users will make use of the standard Safari browser in order to access the Internet on their iPhones. Of late, Internet Explorer developed and launched their own browser for the iPhone and a number of users might prefer IE as their browser of choice.

The Internet can be accessed by tapping the Safari icon on the iPhone’s Home screen.

Your first step you may want to take in browsing websites is by tapping the address bar on the top of the iPhone screen. In doing this you will notice a virtual browser opening on the screen.

On the virtual keyboard you will notice three buttons not appearing on a general keyboard, they are the .com button, the slash (/) button and the dot (.) button. These buttons are welcomed by the majority of active Internet users on the iPhone and makes life much easier when you need to type in URL’s.

Now you may start typing the URL’s of the websites you wish to visit. The browser has a unique function in storing information of websites you have visited. This is also another useful function offered by the iPhone. When you wish to enter a URL into the address bar, you can simply type the first single letter of the website you wish to visit. All websites starting with that letter will be displayed by the iPhone and you can simply tap the name of the website you wish to visit.

Now you know how to access a website on your iPhone. Here are a few tips for viewing websites and making the most of your Internet usage experience on your iPhone.

- While in a website, double tap on an area your wish to view. This will zoom in on the area you have tapped and display it the full size of your screen.

- Using your finger, you can press down on a page and drag it around on the screen. This is also known as Panning.

- Rotate your iPhone in a horizontal position. You are now in a position to view the web in wide screen!

Opening more than one web pages on your iPhone

Need to open more than one web page at a time?

The iPhone consists of a useful facility, which will allow you to open more than one web page at a time. In order to do this, simply tap the pages icon, which is located on the right side of the navigation bar. A new page will pop up on the screen and you may enter a new URL of a website you wish to visit.

The small number you see in the pages icon displays the number of current open web pages. In order to navigate through the different web pages, simply move your finger to the left or right of the screen. You may then tap on a website to open it in full screen size.

In order to close a web page, simply tap the ‘X’ in the red circle at the upper left hand of the page.

Bookmarking Webpages with Your iPhone

Bookmarking websites is a great way of quickly visiting useful websites. This is also a great feature offered by the iPhone. While viewing a website you simply click on the ‘x” at the upper left corner of the screen. You may accept the default bookmark name by clicking save or simply rename the bookmark name by tapping the ‘x’ in a circle next to the name.

By: Kaung | KMKBlog.com

Building traffic to your website

In order for a webmaster to succeed in building a valuable website, you need traffic. Traffic, in short, is the number of visitors to a website, which will eventually determine the success of your website in terms of monetary resell value.

In building traffic to your website, and before we continue with this guide, you need to take into account the golden rule:

“Building traffic does not cost a lot of money, but rather some time and effort you dedicate to establishing a good traffic base. Also, remember, traffic to your website does not happen overnight!”

In this guide we will focus on building long term and quality traffic to your website. By following the steps in this guide, you will soon find visitors visiting your website on a routine basis.

Before we continue explaining some methods you can follow in establishing traffic to your website, we need to focus on the basics first. The basics we are referring to is your website itself. You need to ensure that your website is in the correct format and complete before you attempt any of the suggestions contained in this guide.

An improper formulated or incomplete website will prevent your site from being promoted correctly and will cause you to loose tons of potential visitors.

Your website

A completed website

The first and foremost important factor is to ensure that the design and information contained within your website is complete. There should be no broken hyperlinks between pages, broken links to images or ‘Under Construction’ pages.

Take the time to visit each page of your website and ensure that it is complete. Make use of this opportunity to look at spelling or grammatical errors and fix them.

Your HTML Structure

The HTML structure of a website is of utmost importance when it comes to search engine visibility. If your HTML structure is correct, the majority of search engines will be in a position to crawl your website. An incorrect HTML structure will lead to you losing thousands of potential visitors as search engines will be prevented from crawling and indexing your website.

When looking at your HTML structure, there are three tags that should always be present and completed on each and every website page. They are:
1. The Title Tag
2. The Meta Description Tag
3. The Meta Keywords Tag

These tags are used by search engines to identify the contents of your web pages.

Tip: In each of these attributes you should always mention your main keyword of your website at least once, but not more than twice.

Another important tag in your web pages is the <h1> <h2> and <h3> tags. These are often refer to as your Heading tags and many search engines pay particular attention to these tags in order to identify the content of the various web pages.

Many search engines only look at the first <h1> tag, as this is seen as the most important tag. For this reason, you will always ensure that your Heading tags contain at least your most important keyword.

Years ago, Meta tags played a huge role in search engine rankings, but this has changed. Search engines have become more complicated in their algorithms when determining rankings and are now focusing more on the actual content of your web pages than on your Meta tags. For this reason you should not expect high rankings in search engine results, but rather ensure that your website is at least crawled and indexed.

Search Engine Spiders

Search engine spiders, in short a programmed script, which will visit your website and collect certain information, such as content, code, link popularity, etc. This information is then analysed by an algorithm which will determine your search engine ranking for various keywords related to your website.

Here are some tips, which will ensure that search engine spiders read the content of your website:

1. Use HTML

Although various scripting languages, such as Javascript or flash, add cool features to your website, the majority of search engines do not read these scripts. Limit the usage of these scripts to the utmost minimum and stick to the plain old HTML language.

2. Use of Keywords

Search engines love reading information contained in tags. When placing images on your web pages always attempt to add keywords as descriptions to the images.

When making use of hyperlinks to internal web pages, make use of keywords that describe the different pages you’re linking to. As example, instead of creating a hyperlink like: Click here, rather create a link like: Visit my Car Racing page.

When creating your pages, always ensure that keywords are used in the filenames associated with your web pages. As example, if you have many pages do not name them page1.html, page2.html, page3.html. Rather spend time at looking at each page’s content and create page names like car-racing.html, car-accidents.html, etc.

3. Google Adsense

If you are signed up as a member of Google Adsense ensure that the ads are placed throughout your website. Once your website is uploaded and live, Google will automatically start to crawl your website.

Images

Ensure that all your images have completed HTML tags with descriptions. These are often great for search engine listings, such as Google’s Image search.

Great, we are done looking at your website. You have corrected and completed your website content and HTML source.

We are now ready to start with the recommended steps in attracting traffic to your website.

Day 1 – Search Engine Submission

There are tens of thousands of search engines on the Internet. Just by doing a Google search will damp the spirit of many prospective webmasters when they realise the large number of search engines they will need to submit their websites to.

Do not fear, here is a secret you need to know about search engines. The majority of Internet users only use a handful of search engines, with Google being the most popular, followed by Yahoo! The majority of search engines on the Internet are Meta search engines, meaning they extract their results from the larger search engines such as Google and Yahoo!

“So what are you trying to say?” you might ask. Well, what we are saying is that you need only to submit your website to a small number of search engines, the bigger ones. Eventually your website will appear on all the smaller search engines.

The first and foremost important step is to start submitting your website to the following search engines:

Google.com – http://www.google.com/addurl/
Yahoo.com – https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Live.com – http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx
Entireweb.com – http://www.entireweb.com/free_submission/
Scrubtheweb.com – http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html
Alexa.com – http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters#crawl_site

While at Alexa.com, also take a few moments to update the contact information for your website. If possible, download and install the Alexa browser. Each time you visit your website and work on it, you will be increasing your Alexa rank.

Aboutus.com

Go to the website, aboutus.com – www.aboutus.com. In the search box type in the URL of your website. A page will then be created automatically for your website. Having a page in aboutus.com is great for a backlink and actual traffic over a period of time.

You can now create an account with Aboutus.com and start to edit your website’s page.

Great, you have completed the submission. Now, please remember not to submit your website to any of the above-mentioned sites within at least 8 weeks. By submitting your site again may lead to you being banned from being listed in these search engines.

In all likelihood you will still have some time on your hand for the rest of today. Why not use this by submitting your website manually to smaller search engines? As stated, this is not necessary as many of them will display your results in any event when you are indexed by the larger search engines. In some instances, smaller search engines may index you quicker if you manually submit your website to them.

A list of recommended search engines and Day 2 and beyond totaling 15 pages can be purchased through the link below.
Topics covered are:
Day 2 & 3 – Directory Submissions
Day 4 – Bookmarking Your Site
Day 5 – Commenting on Blogs
Day 6 – Links Exchange
Day 7- 8 – Forum Posting
11 Steps Guide

BY: Kaung Ko | KMKBlog.com

MySpace is an online social community which was designed to be a network where members can make new friends, meet up with old friends, network businesses or partners, be creative or even marketing your own talents, business, products or services. Due to this aspect it is often required of users to create a website that will reflect the personality of the person or business joining this community. One of the functions offered to members of this community is the uploading of images and video files to the created websites on Myspace.com

Uploading Photos to MySpace

Before uploading any images to a Myspace.com website, it is of utmost importance that you consider every photograph you wish to upload. Remember, all photographs uploaded to Myspace.com websites are viewable by all Internet users. Again, of importance is to note that many businesses research social networking websites in order to conduct a background search on potential employment candidates. If you do upload a personal photograph of yourself place yourself in the shoes of another person and consider if you would offer an employment opportunity to the person in the image.

Special consideration needs be given to uploading images of minors. Users should always remember that there are a large number of predators around the Internet. Sexual offenders often identify potential victims by looking at profiles of minors. Other offenders may at times manipulate images of minors and distribute it illegally over the Internet.

Another aspect to take into consideration when posting images is to determine if the image might be in breach of any copyright infringements. Many Internet users often face civil litigation due to distributing copyrighted material.

Uploading Photos and Videos to MySpace.com

Uploading photos to a MySpace.com user account is quite easy. Once logged into your member account click on the links that says, “Add/edit photos.” You will then receive an alert, which restricts the upload of certain material, such as nudity or multimedia files that may breach copyright protection. You are then given the option of making photos visible to only you or to everyone.

After this you may choose the photograph from your hard drive and then upload the image to Myspace.com. Photos uploaded to MySpace.com can only be in .gif or .jpg format and must be smaller than 600k.

Once a photo is added you can create a caption for this photo.

MySpace.com members are free to search through existing video clips located on MySpace.com to find video clips to add to their own websites. Users may also upload their own videos for use on their own websites and for others to view and share.

The process of uploading videos is done in the same manner described above.

By: Kaung | KMKBlog.com