Gadgetory

it's never too late to find out that the Apple headphones that came with your iPhone can do a lot more than adjust the volume so after seeing a handy slide show about all these cool functions on Business Insider I thought I'd share them with you in a video and by the way you can use all these tricks with an iPod or iPad and with any other third party headphones I have a mic and remote with these three buttons ok let's start with the basics if you're listening to a song you can toggle pause or play by tapping the center button once to fast-forward a song tap the middle button twice and long press on the second tab to rewind a song tap three times and long press on the third tab to skip a song double tap and to go to a previous song triple tap ok here is a commonly used one if you have an incoming call tap once to answer and when you're done tap once to hang up you can also ignore an incoming call by long pressing the middle button you should hear two beeps to confirm that that person was sent to voicemail now if you're on the phone and get a new call tap the center button once to switch calls to hang up on that new call hold the middle button down for two seconds here's one of my favorites you can achieve super steady shots by using the headphones as a shutter release just frame the shot and tap the volume up button to take the photo okay one last one for you iPhone 4s owners you can activate Siri by long pressing the center button then go on and say your command call Chris Parker now that you know everything your headphones can do you'll probably want to practice make flashcards rewatch this video or bookmark the written details from howtosing.com for CNET I'm Sharon Vaknin