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I was asked today how to fix a iPhone (or iPod Touch) which had Safari (Apples Internet Browser) Frozen.

The problem was that Safari on the iPod Touch would not accept any touches to the address bar, search bar or bookmarks – basically the Safari GUI on the iPod was frozen.

The solution to fix this is fairly easy, but not everyone knows it. To fix and unfreeze the iPhone Safari App , do as follows;
- Load the Safari App on the iPod Touch / iPhone
- when Safari has loaded, press and hold the home button (the circular button in the middle of the iPod) until Safari quits
- your iPhone / iPod Touch should return to the home screen.

If this does not work you can try do an iPhone reset. The iPhone / iPod Touch reset is done by pressing and holding the home button and the power on/off button simultaneously, until you see the Apple logo and then release – while ignoring the “slide to turn off prompt” when doing this.

Its probably useful to clear your cache and cookies when this has resolved; this can be done by Going to Settings > Safari and select Clear History, Clear Cookies, and Clear Cache.

You can also ensure no further issues occur by turning off and repowering the iPod/iPhone once finished this.

Hopefully, this should solve any problems if you have an iPod Touch or iPhone with a Safari App which is Frozen.

If you are very unfortunate and your iPod / iPhone won’t start at all, review this fix which resolves this issue.
Click Here to Read this iPod Full Reset Fix

If you run a WordPress blog and you have an iPhone (or indeed an iPod Touch) then the WordPress iPod App is for you.

You can run multiple blogs using the same App. There was a previous version of the WordPress App but if you had this old version WordPress for iPhone 2 or 2.1 won’t automatically update the old app to 2.0.

The new WordPress App has a better user interface overhaul, some improvements to the software, some bug fixes, as well as some requests.

The WordPress App 2.0 and 2.1 allows you to add and update your posts and blog pages.
The updates in the 2.0 / 2.1 version of the app are.
* A better user interface making it easy to view comments, posts, and pages with a brand new comments interface
* Posts are automatically saved and restored if network connection is lost during publishing
* The Wordpress App re-opens in the blog you last used
* You can manually enter the XMLRPC endpoint for non-standard setups – other XML issues resolved.
* Fixed edge case where local drafts were sometimes not saved
* Fixed the order of photos so that they’re displayed in the order they’re uploaded
* A post or page can be deleted by swiping across its title in the Posts or Pages list
* People who made comments, their email addresses are now visible
* Fixes for the link helper, errors in using the more tag, Comments section and URL issues.

The benefit of this great App is that you can compose a few blog entries even without WiFi or 3G connection. As soon as you have connection you can just hit the post button and update to your hearts content.
You can Download the WordPress iPod App from the iTunes App Store.
http://itunes.com/app/wordpress2

Apple has launched a great App for iPod Touch and iPhone called the ‘12 Days of Christmas’ . It is a promo app which runs from December 26 to January 6. The Apple App allows anyone with an iTunes account in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Norway, and Portugal to download a free song, music video, app, television show, or film from the iTunes store.

Push Notifications are used so that you get daily reminders on the daily free app, tune or other great gift from Apple.If you want to see this great App click this iTunes link. You can also connect to Facebook and recommend the download to your friends – if you like it.

It is pretty good – so far I have downloaded a Foo Fighters track and the Trivial Pursuit App from iTunes. Todays freebie was a Leona Lewis track which needless to say I did not avail of … no offense to Leona but I’m just not a fan!

If you have an iPod Touch or iPhone Get downloading and enjoy!