Synopses & Reviews
You finally did it—you bought the gizmo that everyone's talking about. Maybe you've already figured out how to play music or make phone calls, but then what?
How does the voicemail work? And that keyboard? What about all of those cool apps-which ones do you need, and how do you get them? You need a book like My New iPhone to make everything easy.
This simple, project-oriented book will have you using the best features of your iPhone or iPod Touch in no time. Rather than drag you through some boring manual, My New iPhone focuses on individual, fun projects, like configuring multiple email accounts, transferring your music, and syncing your computer with your iPhone.
Wallace Wang, author of the best-selling My New Mac, will show you, step-by-step, how to:
- View weather predictions, traffic patterns, flight information, and stocks
- Take notes, text message your friends, and browse the web
- Customize your iPhone by rearranging icons and changing its wallpaper and sound effects
- Find and install the best new applications and games
- Browse iTunes, listen to music, and watch YouTube videos
- Use Skype to call your family for free
- Create your own ringtones and get free podcasts and audiobooks
Sure, your iPhone makes calls, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. Find out what lies below the surface with My New iPhone.
Synopsis
The release of Apple's iPhone 3G has hooked millions of new iPhone users, and maybe you're one of them. While you're probably awestruck by the iPhone interface and its multitude of tools, you might be finding it challenging to make the switch to the iPhone, especially if you're moving from a plain-old cell phone. My New iPhone makes it easy for you to delight in the amazing and intricate innovations of your iPhone.
Since no one wants to read a dense manual just to get something done, My New iPhone takes a project-oriented approach. Rather than focus each chapter on a specific feature of the iPhone (as most beginner books do), best-selling author Wallace Wang shows you how to use an iPhone to accomplish specific tasks, whether that's connecting to a particular email account, checking the weather, transferring music, or turning the iPhone into a radio. Leave the dry manual in the box and start playing today.
Synopsis
Rather than focus each chapter on a specific feature of the iPhone, this essential guide shows how to use an iPhone to accomplish specific tasks, whether that's connecting to a particular e-mail account, checking the weather, transferring music, or turning the iPhone into a radio.
About the Author
Best-selling computer book author Wallace Wang (The Book of Nero 6, Steal This File Sharing Book, both No Starch Press, and Visual Basic 6 for Dummies), is a former contributor to Boardwatch Magazine, where he wrote a monthly column called "Notes From the Underground." He is a successful stand-up comic who has appeared on A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas.
Table of Contents
Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; How This Book Is Organized; Part I: Getting Started; Chapter 1: Turning Your iPhone On and Off; 1.1 What You'll Be Using; 1.2 Turning On Your iPhone; 1.3 Turning Off Your iPhone; 1.4 Putting Your iPhone to Sleep; 1.5 Putting Your iPhone to Sleep Automatically; 1.6 Waking Up Your iPhone from Sleep; 1.7 Turning On Airplane Mode; 1.8 Additional Ideas for Turning Your iPhone On and Off; Chapter 2: Charging and Conserving Battery Power; 2.1 What You'll Be Using; 2.2 Recharging Your iPhone; 2.3 Turning Off Bluetooth; 2.4 Turning Off Wi-Fi and 3G; 2.5 Turning Off Push Accounts; 2.6 Turning Off Location Services; 2.7 Additional Ideas for Conserving Power; Chapter 3: Controlling the User Interface; 3.1 What You'll Be Using; 3.2 Viewing the Home Screen; 3.3 Modifying the Home Button; 3.4 Turning the Ringer On and Off; 3.5 Adjusting the Volume; 3.6 Using the Multi-Touch Screen; 3.7 Additional Ideas for Controlling Your iPhone; Chapter 4: Typing on the Virtual Keyboard; 4.1 What You'll Be Using; 4.2 Switching Between Keyboards; 4.3 Using the Virtual Keyboard; 4.4 Customizing the Virtual Keyboard; 4.5 Using Safari's Keyboard; 4.6 Additional Ideas for Typing on Your iPhone; Chapter 5: Searching Your iPhone; 5.1 What You'll Be Using; 5.2 Using the Search Feature; 5.3 Additional Ideas for Searching Your iPhone; Part II: Modifying Your iPhone; Chapter 6: Rearranging Icons on the Home Screen; 6.1 What You'll Be Using; 6.2 Rearranging Icons; 6.3 Resetting Your Home Screen; 6.4 Additional Ideas for Customizing Your Home Screen; Chapter 7: Customizing Your iPhone; 7.1 What You'll Be Using; 7.2 Turning Vibrate Mode On and Off; 7.3 Changing Sounds; 7.4 Changing the Screen Brightness; 7.5 Changing the Wallpaper; 7.6 Customizing the Regional Settings; 7.7 Additional Ideas for Customizing Your iPhone; Chapter 8: Updating Your iPhone; 8.1 What You'll Be Using; 8.2 Downloading iTunes; 8.3 Getting Updates; 8.4 Additional Ideas for Updating Your iPhone; Chapter 9: Changing Your iphone's Language; 9.1 What You'll Be Using; 9.2 Choosing a Default Language; 9.3 Using International Keyboards; 9.4 Additional Ideas for Changing Your iPhone's Language; Chapter 10: Resetting and Troubleshooting; 10.1 What You'll Be Using; 10.2 Shutting Down a Frozen Program; 10.3 Restarting Your iPhone; 10.4 Resetting Your iPhone; 10.5 Restoring Your iPhone; 10.6 Additional Ideas for Troubleshooting Your iPhone; Chapter 11: Installing and Uninstalling Applications; 11.1 What You'll Be Using; 11.2 Finding Software for Your iPhone; 11.3 Reading and Writing Software Reviews; 11.4 Installing a Program; 11.5 Updating Programs; 11.6 Deleting a Program; 11.7 Installing and Deleting Software with iTunes; 11.8 Additional Ideas for Installing and Uninstalling Applications; Chapter 12: Synchronizing Data Between Your Computer and Your iPhone; 12.1 What You'll Be Using; 12.2 Synchronizing Data; 12.3 Additional Ideas for Synchronizing Data; Part III: Making Phone Calls; Chapter 13: Making Calls; 13.1 What You'll Be Using; 13.2 Dialing a Phone Number; 13.3 Hiding Your Caller ID; 13.4 Additional Ideas for Making Calls from Your iPhone; Chapter 14: Answering Calls; 14.1 What You'll Be Using; 14.2 Answering and Ending a Call; 14.3 Using Ringtones; 14.4 Using Voicemail; 14.5 Setting Up Call Forwarding and Call Waiting; 14.6 Additional Ideas for Answering Calls; Chapter 15: Making Conference Calls and Other Stuff to Do While Talking on Your iPhone; 15.1 What You'll Be Using; 15.2 Displaying Options; 15.3 Muting the Speaker; 15.4 Using Keys on the Keypad; 15.5 Turning on the Speakerphone; 15.6 Using Conference Calls; 15.7 Putting a Caller on Hold; 15.8 Taking Another Call While Talking to Someone Else; 15.9 Viewing Your Contacts; 15.10 Additional Ideas for Talking on Your iPhone; Chapter 16: Sending and Receiving Text Messages; 16.1 What You'll Be Using; 16.2 Sending Text Messages; 16.3 Sending a Picture; 16.4 Sending an Audio File; 16.5 Viewing Text Messages; 16.6 Clearing and Deleting Text Messages; 16.7 Additional Ideas for Using Text Messages; Chapter 17: Reviewing Your Bill and Other Information; 17.1 What You'll Be Using; 17.2 Finding Your Phone Number; 17.3 Viewing Your Account Information; 17.4 Checking Your iPhone's Usage; 17.5 Viewing the Technical Details of Your iPhone; 17.6 Additional Ideas for Reviewing Your iPhone Information; Chapter 18: Creating Ringtones; 18.1 What You'll Be Using; 18.2 Creating Ringtones in iTunes; 18.3 Creating Ringtones in GarageBand '09; 18.4 Additional Ideas for Using Ringtones; Part IV: Enjoying Music, Pictures, and Movies; Chapter 19: Listening to Music; 19.1 What You'll Be Using; 19.2 Playing Your Songs; 19.3 Controlling Your Music; 19.4 Navigating Between Screens While Playing Music; 19.5 Additional Ideas for Listening to Music; Chapter 20: Listening to Groups of Songs; 20.1 What You'll Be Using; 20.2 Creating a Playlist; 20.3 Listening to Songs by Album; 20.4 Additional Ideas for Listening to Playlists; Chapter 21: Customizing Your iPod Settings; 21.1 What You'll Be Using; 21.2 Modifying Audio Output; 21.3 Modifying the iPod Icons; 21.4 Additional Ideas for Customizing Your iPod Settings; Chapter 22: Turning Your iPhone into a Radio; 22.1 What You'll Be Using; 22.2 Finding Radio Applications in the App Store; 22.3 Listening to AOL Radio; 22.4 Listening to Pandora Radio; 22.5 Listening to Stitcher Radio; 22.6 Additional Ideas for Listening to the Radio on Your iPhone; Chapter 23: Watching YouTube Videos; 23.1 What You'll Be Using; 23.2 Browsing YouTube's Video Library; 23.3 Searching for a YouTube Video; 23.4 Watching a YouTube Video; 23.5 Viewing Bookmarked YouTube Videos; 23.6 Additional Ideas for Watching YouTube Videos; Chapter 24: Watching TV Shows and Movies; 24.1 What You'll Be Using; 24.2 Downloading TV Shows and Movies; 24.3 Viewing a Video; 24.4 Customizing Video Playback; 24.5 Putting Home Movies on Your iPhone; 24.6 Additional Ideas for Watching TV Shows and Movies; Chapter 25: Listening to Audiobooks and Podcasts; 25.1 What You'll Be Using; 25.2 Downloading Audiobooks and Podcasts; 25.3 Listening to Audiobooks; 25.4 Listening to Podcasts; 25.5 Additional Ideas for Listening to Audiobooks and Podcasts; Chapter 26: Browsing the iTunes Store; 26.1 What You'll Be Using; 26.2 Browsing Through iTunes; 26.3 Additional Ideas for Browsing the iTunes Store; Part V: Browsing the Internet; Chapter 27: Viewing Web Pages; 27.1 What You'll Be Using; 27.2 Connecting to the Internet; 27.3 Viewing a Website; 27.4 Changing How Your iPhone Displays Web Pages; 27.5 Opening and Switching Between Multiple Websites; 27.6 Additional Ideas for Browsing the Internet on Your iPhone; Chapter 28: Bookmarking Your Favorite Websites; 28.1 What You'll Be Using; 28.2 Viewing a Bookmarked Website; 28.3 Saving a Bookmark; 28.4 Organizing Bookmarks; 28.5 Revisiting Previously Viewed Websites; 28.6 Additional Ideas for Saving Bookmarks; Chapter 29: Personalizing the Safari Browser; 29.1 What You'll Be Using; 29.2 Switching Search Engines; 29.3 Turning AutoFill On and Off; 29.4 Securing Safari; 29.5 Clearing Your Tracks; 29.6 Additional Ideas for Modifying Safari; Chapter 30: Copying and Pasting Text from a Web Page; 30.1 What You'll Be Using; 30.2 Copying Text from a Web Page; 30.3 Pasting Text; 30.4 Additional Ideas for Copying Text From a Web Page; Chapter 31: Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network; 31.1 What You'll Be Using; 31.2 Configuring an iPhone to Work with a Private Wi-Fi Connection; 31.3 Choosing Between Multiple Wi-Fi Networks; 31.4 Forgetting a Wi-Fi Network; 31.5 Deleting Wi-Fi Network Information; 31.6 Additional Ideas for Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network; Part VI: Using Email; Chapter 32: Setting Up an Email Account; 32.1 What You'll Be Using; 32.2 Configuring Your iPhone for Your Email Account; 32.3 Deleting an Email Account from Your iPhone; 32.4 Additional Ideas for Setting Up Email Accounts; Chapter 33: Reading Email; 33.1 What You'll Be Using; 33.2 Reading a Message; 33.3 Viewing Other Email Messages; 33.4 Deleting a Message; 33.5 Moving a Message; 33.6 Customizing the Appearance of the Mail Application; 33.7 Defining How Often Messages Are Retrieved; 33.8 Additional Ideas for Reading Your Email; Chapter 34: Writing and Sending Email; 34.1 What You'll Be Using; 34.2 Configuring Settings for the Mail Application; 34.3 Writing a New Message; 34.4 Replying to a Message; 34.5 Working with Drafts; 34.6 Sending a Photo; 34.7 Additional Ideas for Writing and Sending Email; Part VII: Business Stuff; Chapter 35: Taking Notes; 35.1 What You'll Be Using; 35.2 Typing a Note; 35.3 Viewing and Editing a Note; 35.4 Deleting a Note; 35.5 Emailing a Note; 35.6 Using Phone Numbers and Email Addresses in a Note; 35.7 Additional Ideas for Using Notes; Chapter 36: Recording Voice Memos; 36.1 What You'll Be Using; 36.2 Recording a Memo; 36.3 Listening to a Memo; 36.4 Sharing a Memo; 36.5 Editing a Memo; 36.6 Deleting a Memo; 36.7 Additional Ideas for Recording Voice Memos; Chapter 37: Storing Contact Information; 37.1 What You'll Be Using; 37.2 Importing Contact Data from Other Programs; 37.3 Storing Names and Other Information; 37.4 Finding a Contact; 37.5 Editing Contacts; 37.6 Sharing Contacts; 37.7 Deleting Contacts; 37.8 Customizing the Contacts Application; 37.9 Additional Ideas for Storing Contacts on Your iPhone; Chapter 38: Keeping Track of Appointments; 38.1 What You'll Be Using; 38.2 Importing Appointment Data from Other Programs; 38.3 Setting an Appointment; 38.4 Viewing a Calendar; 38.5 Editing an Appointment; 38.6 Creating a Recurring Appointment; 38.7 Setting a Reminder for an Appointment; 38.8 Additional Ideas for Storing Appointments on Your iPhone; Chapter 39: Viewing Maps; 39.1 What You'll Be Using; 39.2 Viewing a Map; 39.3 Checking Traffic; 39.4 Additional Ideas for Viewing Maps; Chapter 40: Finding a Location and Getting Directions; 40.1 What You'll Be Using; 40.2 Getting Directions; 40.3 Finding Businesses on a Map; 40.4 Marking a Location on a Map; 40.5 Finding a Pin Location; 40.6 Viewing Google Street View; 40.7 Deleting a Pin; 40.8 Finding a Recent Search; 40.9 Additional Ideas for Getting Directions; Part VIII: Fun Stuff; Chapter 41: Taking Pictures; 41.1 What You'll Be Using; 41.2 Taking and Viewing Pictures; 41.3 Capturing Screenshots; 41.4 Additional Ideas for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone; Chapter 42: Viewing Stored Pictures; 42.1 What You'll Be Using; 42.2 Viewing Pictures as a Slideshow; 42.3 Viewing Pictures Manually; 42.4 Sharing Pictures; 42.5 Additional Ideas for Viewing Pictures on Your iPhone; Chapter 43: Checking the Weather Forecast; 43.1 What You'll Be Using; 43.2 Defining a City for a Forecast; 43.3 Viewing a Forecast; 43.4 Additional Ideas for Checking the Weather Forecast; Chapter 44: Watching the Stock Market; 44.1 What You'll Be Using; 44.2 Defining Stocks to Watch; 44.3 Viewing Your Stock Listings; 44.4 Additional Ideas for Viewing Stock Quotes; Chapter 45: Using Your iPhone as a Clock, Alarm Clock, Stopwatch, and Timer; 45.1 What You'll Be Using; 45.2 Viewing the Time; 45.3 Adding Time Zones to the World Clock; 45.4 Setting an Alarm; 45.5 Using the Stopwatch; 45.6 Setting a Timer; 45.7 Setting the Time; 45.8 Additional Ideas for Using the Clock Application; Part IX: Safety and Privacy; Chapter 46: Protecting Your iPhone with a Passcode; 46.1 What You'll Be Using; 46.2 Setting a Passcode; 46.3 Modifying Your Passcode; 46.4 Additional Ideas for Protecting Your iPhone; Chapter 47: Making an iPhone Kid Friendly; 47.1 What You'll Be Using; 47.2 Blocking iPhone Features; 47.3 Restricting Content; 47.4 Disabling Restrictions; 47.5 Additional Ideas for Using Restrictions on Your iPhone; Part X: Cool Things You Can Do with Apps; Chapter 48: Keeping Up with the News; 48.1 What You'll Be Using; 48.2 Getting News Apps; 48.3 Using the NYTimes App; 48.4 Using the BBCReader App; 48.5 Using the Variety App; 48.6 Using the SCI FI Wire App; 48.7 Additional Ideas for Keeping Up with the News on Your iPhone; Chapter 49: Storing Reference Material; 49.1 What You'll Be Using; 49.2 Getting Reference Apps; 49.3 Using the Bible App; 49.4 Using the AllCountries App; 49.5 Using the Dictionaire App; 49.6 Using the iThesaurus App; 49.7 Additional Ideas for Storing Reference Materials on Your iPhone; Chapter 50: Traveling with Your iPhone; 50.1 What You'll Be Using; 50.2 Getting Travel Information Apps; 50.3 Using the Trapster App; 50.4 Using the Taxi Magic App; 50.5 Using the Flight Sites App; 50.6 Additional Ideas for Using Your iPhone While Traveling; Chapter 51: Playing Games; 51.1 What You'll Be Using; 51.2 Getting Game Apps; 51.3 Using the iChess App; 51.4 Using the Checkers Free App; 51.5 Using the Sudoku App; 51.6 Using the WordSearch Unlimited Lite App; 51.7 Additional Ideas for Playing Games on Your iPhone; Chapter 52: Communicating for Free; 52.1 What You'll Be Using; 52.2 Getting Free Communication Apps; 52.3 Using Skype; 52.4 Using AIM; 52.5 Using TwitterFon and Twitter Trend; 52.6 Additional Ideas for Communicating for Free; The Next Step; Updates;