Jackin4Beats Magazine

Eric Clapton is an acclaimed musical artist, nicknamed Slowhand and known for his superb guitar playing ability.

Originally from Surrey, England, Clapton was born on March 30, 1945.

As far as his musical tastes go, he has been influenced by the blues, rock and psychedelic rock. He is considered by many people to be one of the world’s greatest guitarists.

And his achievements have been recognised by the winning of Grammy Awards, and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The first band that he joined, in 1963, was the Yardbirds, and he stayed with them until 1965 by which time he felt that they were moving into pop, and he wanted to stay with the blues.

Eric then joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, who would help Clapton establish himself as one of the worlds best blues guitarist

But he did not stay with them for very long, breaking away and forming the all time great band Cream, where he developed not only as a guitarist, but as a singer and songwriter.

Sad to say, Cream broke up in 1968 and Eric played with a number of other successful groups before he felt the need to take a break from the music industry.

Eric has released a number of solo albums including Theres one in every crowd, Another Ticket, Reptile, and Back Home.

This brief look at the life of Eric Clapton is just one of a series of articles that I am writing on various great performers. If you would like to be kept posted as each article comes out then please go to my website (see below) where you will find my email address. Just write to me and ask to be kept informed.

by Grace Johnson

Apple iPhone 3G has taken the globe by storm and while the wave of excitement hasn’t yet gone down, a couple of the users want to get the best out of their cellphones. There are numerous tips and tricks through which you may gain the productivity of your cellular phones.

The 1st tip is the use of dotcom key. The iPhone helps to type dotcom very easily while typing a web address. This actually helps to salvage a good deal of time but the ultimate time saver is when you click on the dotcom button a while longer, you will get apop-up list of options domains like .edu, .net and .org to select from while typing a web address. Other time saver is by tapping twice on the space bar, you can rapidly enter a full stop.

The 2nd tip is key-board associated productivity that can be derived from your Apple iPhone 3G. You may change a small letter to a capital letter by holding on to the shift key and then sliding your finger on the letter that needs to be changed.

The mobile phone also has a CAPS LOCK key which could be set by configuring your handset. In the mobile phone menu, go to settings /general /keyboard and enable the caps lock function. To utilize this shortcut you have to double tap the shift key and the caps lock function would be active.

The 3rd tip will be to save the most important region of your Apple iPhone 3G is the battery life. Apple iPhone 3G can truly be power hungry because of so many added gizmos functionalities that operate simultaneously. You can add more life to your battery by turing off the 3G connection for awhile when you are not applying it and turn back to EDGE (2G) or GPRS connection.

You could also outsmart your Apple iPhone 3G by fooling the hand sets ambient light detector that is placed above the ear piece which applies less power by reducing the display light of the screen when hold in a dark environment. All you need to do is hold your finger over the ambient display light and save some more of your phone’s battery.

The fourth tip is if you want a larger keyboard, you just have to flip the phone to a horizontal position andthen tap the safari browser and you can begin surfing the net and you will have a bigger key-board. In case while using your phone, whatever application gets frozen then you can just press and hold the Home button for approximately six seconds and the application would close.

The 5th tip would be, if you require to change the language or you wish to type a few text in foreign language, you merely need to hold and slide your finger on the letter key and a list of accented options would appear.

Even though you will find these tips in the manual but not numerous of us have the time to go through the entire manual and overlook most of the tips and tricks that can assist us utilise our Apple iPhone 3G very more efficiently. Hope these tips would assist you to use your handphones easily and efficiently.