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The iPhone can hold a running list of all the email that’s been sent to the email accounts you’ve configured the phone to check. But you won’t want to save some email — spam, annoying messages, things with large attachments that you don’t want to view on the iPhone. In that case, you’ll want to delete email. Here are four very simple steps to deleting iPhone email:
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 1-3 Minutes
Here’s How:

1. Go into your email and view your email account inbox.
2. To delete a message, quickly run your finger from left to right over the message you wish to delete.
3. This will produce a red “delete” button at the right of the message.
4. Tap that and the email will be deleted from your iPhone.

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The iPhone 3GS  isn’t the first smartphone that can record video. The twist that Apple gave the 3GS is that not only can you record video, but you can also edit videos and share them via email, text message, or YouTube.

Because the iPhone 3GS is a phone, don’t expect a full-featured video editor. Video editors that include intensive features like effects and sound editing require complex, and often-expensive, desktop video editing programs. That’s just not possible on a phone with a touch interface. What the 3GS’ editor will let you do is trim and snip videos, so you can save just the good part of a recording.
Difficulty: Average
Time Required: A few minutes
Here’s How:

1. To edit a video, you’ll of course need to have recorded video on your 3GS. Once you’ve done that, you’ll need to go to your Camera Roll to edit (if you just took the video, simply click the box in the lower left corner. If you’re looking to edit a video taken earlier, tap on the Photos app, then Camera Roll, and find the video you want to edit).
2. At the top of the window, you’ll see a timeline bar showing frames from throughout your video. A small silver bar rests on top of the timeline bar. You can tap and drag the silver bar to move forward and backward throughout the video. This lets you quickly get to the part of the video you want to edit.
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To edit the video – which, remember, means just trimming footage off one end or the other – tap and hold either end of the timeline bar (there are two little lines at each end of the bar). At this point, the bar will turn yellow and a button labeled “trim” will appear above the timeline bar.

Drag either end of the yellow bar to cut out the parts of the video you don’t want to save. The section of the video shown within the yellow bar is what you’ll be saving.
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When you’re happy with your selection, tap the “Trim” button at the top right. You’ll be given two options: Trim Original or Save as New Clip. If you choose Trim Original, you cut from the original video and will permanently delete the sections you remove. If you choose this, be sure you’re making the right decision: there’s no undoing it; the video will be gone.

for more flexibility, choose Save as New Clip. This will save the trimmed version of the video as a new file on your iPhone, allowing you to view the new clip, but also return to the old one to make other edits if you’re not happy with your handiwork.
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Once you’ve created and saved the clip as you want it, you’ve got four options for what to do with it. You can simply save it and then sync it to your computer as normal. But, if you tap the arrow button at the bottom left of the screen, you’ll have three options: Email Video, MMS, or Send to YouTube.

Choosing email will email the video to any address from your phone. Choosing MMS will send the video as a text message. Send to YouTube will automatically format the video for YouTube and post it to your account (this requires a YouTube account) for all the world to see.

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Thanks to its bigger screen and landscape orientation, the iPhone is a much better device to watch movies on than any previous version of the iPod.

The iPod, with its vertical, 2.5-inch wide screen, is an OK video platform — even better for shorter videos — but the iPhone and its 3.5-inch screen clearly had good video experience built in from the design stage. Not everything about watching a movie – whether a purchase, rental, or ripped DVD – on the iPhone is perfect, but portable video in your pocket now seems a much more appealing entertainment option.
iPhone Video: To Letterbox or Not to Letteorbx

When you begin watching video on an iPhone, the screen automatically changes to a horizontal orientation. This provides the best display of video, replicating the horizontal format of modern TVs. Generally this works well, but for some movies you’ll have to choose between cutting off the edges of the picture and watching a smaller, letterboxed image. It’s not a terrible choice, but it would be nice if the playback were smart enough not to force viewers to make it.

The choice becomes a little more complicated with movies that benefit from a bigger picture. Intense character-driven dramas don’t lose much from letterboxing, but one of my test movies was Transformers, a movie that surely increases in impact the bigger it gets. In order to see the whole picture and not lose the edges, I chose the letterbox display and its attendant smaller image. This may have dampened the excitement of certain parts of the movie, but seeing the whole picture seemed worth it.

Generally, video looks and sounds great on the iPhone. Of course this is determined, in part, by the encoding of the video, but anything purchased or rented from the iTunes Store ought to be pleasing to all but the very most discerning eye.
Holding the iPhone: Handcramps?

Just like with the iPod, holding the iPhone in your hands long enough to watch a full TV show or movie can be a little taxing. With a long movie, you’ll be holding the iPhone a few inches from your face, and at just the right angle (a little tilt in one direction of the other can make the image too light or too dark), for quite a while. With Transformers, I was clutching and tilting my iPhone for over two hours.

Some iPhone cases try to help with this by including built-in stands. I’m not sure I see the value of this since that assumes that you’re watching the movie in a place with a flat surface. If you’re in such a place, like a home, why not watch the movie on a TV (with adapter cables) or computer?
Best for Travel

It seems to me that the situation most suited to watching video on the iPhone is travel. Bringing a movie or two along with you on your phone for a long bus, plane, or train ride seems like a great way to pass the time.

Despite not yet being a flawless experience, watching video on the iPhone is a substantial upgrade over watching it on the traditional iPod and a great option for travelers.

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