iPhone: The Missing Manual: Covers All Models with 3.0 Software-including the iPhone 3GS

by David Pogue

Overview

If you have a new iPhone 3GS, or just updated your 3G with iPhone 3.0, iPhone: The Missing Manual, will bring you up to speed quickly. New York Times tech columnist David Pogue gives you a guided tour of every feature, with lots of tips, tricks, and surprises. You'll learn how to make calls and play songs by voice control, take great photos, keep track of your schedule, and more.

This entertaining book offers complete step-by-step instructions for doing everything from setting up and accessorizing your iPhone to troubleshooting. If you want to learn how iPhone 3.0 lets you search your phone, cut, copy, and paste, and lots more, this full-color book is the best, most objective resource available.

• Use it as a phone -- save time with things like Visual Voicemail, contact searching, and more
• Treat it as an iPod -- listen to music, upload and view photos, and fill the iPhone with TV shows and movies
• Take the iPhone online -- get online, browse the Web, read and compose email in landscape, send photos, contacts, audio files, and more
• Go beyond the iPhone -- use iPhone with iTunes, sync it with your calendar, and learn about the App Store, where you can select from thousands of iPhone apps

Unlock the full potential of your iPhone with the book that should have been in the box.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449379575
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/21/2009
Series:	Missing Manual Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	17 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.

Table of Contents

The Missing Credits; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; About the iPhone; About This Book; Part 1: The iPhone as Phone; Chapter 1: The Guided Tour; 1.1 Sleep Switch (On/Off); 1.2 Sim Card Slot; 1.3 Headphone Jack; 1.4 The Screen; 1.5 Screen Icons; 1.6 Home Button; 1.7 Silencer Switch, Volume Keys; 1.8 The Bottom and the Back; 1.9 iPhone 4 Special Bits; 1.10 In the Box; 1.11 Seven Basic Finger Techniques; 1.12 Charging the iPhone; 1.13 Battery Life Tips; 1.14 The Home Screen; Chapter 2: Typing, Editing, & Searching; 2.1 The Keyboard; 2.2 Connecting a Real Keyboard; 2.3 Cut, Copy, Paste; 2.4 Spotlight: Global Search; Chapter 3: Phone Calls & FaceTime; 3.1 Dialing from the Phone App; 3.2 The Favorites List; 3.3 The Recents List; 3.4 The Contacts List; 3.5 The Keypad; 3.6 Voice Dialing; 3.7 Answering Calls; 3.8 Fun with Phone Calls; 3.9 Overseas Calling; 3.10 FaceTime; Chapter 4: Voicemail, Texting, & Other Phone Tricks; 4.1 Visual Voicemail; 4.2 Text Messages (SMS); 4.3 Chat Programs; 4.4 Call Waiting; 4.5 Call Forwarding; 4.6 Caller ID; 4.7 Bluetooth Earpieces and Car Kits; 4.8 Custom Ringtones; 4.9 GarageBand Ringtones; 4.10 Nike + iPhone; 4.11 Talking Buttons—and Accessibility; Part 2: Pix, Flix, & Apps; Chapter 5: The iPhone as iPod; 5.1 List Land; 5.2 Artists, Songs, Videos; 5.3 Cover Flow; 5.4 The Now Playing Screen (Music); 5.5 Controlling Playback (Music); 5.6 Multi(music)tasking; 5.7 Bluetooth Stereo Headphones; 5.8 Controlling Playback (Video); 5.9 Zoom/Unzoom; 5.10 Familiar iPod Features; 5.11 The Wireless iTunes Store; Chapter 6: Taking Photos, Shooting Video; 6.1 Opening Photos; 6.2 Photo Wallpaper; 6.3 Three Ways to Send Photos or Videos; 6.4 Headshots for Contacts; 6.5 Taking Still Photos; 6.6 Capturing the Screen; 6.7 Recording Video; 6.8 Geotagging; Chapter 7: All About Apps; 7.1 Welcome to App Heaven; 7.2 Two Ways to the App Store; 7.3 Organizing Your Apps; 7.4 Folders; 7.5 App Preferences; 7.6 App Updates; 7.7 How to Find Good Apps; 7.8 Multitasking; 7.9 Troubleshooting Apps; Chapter 8: Maps, Apps, & iBooks; 8.1 Calendar; 8.2 YouTube; 8.3 Stocks; 8.4 Maps; 8.5 Weather; 8.6 Voice Memos; 8.7 Notes; 8.8 Clock; 8.9 Calculator; 8.10 Compass; 8.11 iBooks; Part 3: The iPhone Online; Chapter 9: Getting Online; 9.1 A Tale of Three Networks; 9.2 Sequence of Connections; 9.3 The List of Hot Spots; 9.4 Commercial Hot Spots; 9.5 How to Turn Off 3G; 9.6 Airplane Mode and WiFi Off Mode; 9.7 Tethering; Chapter 10: The Web; 10.1 Safari Tour; 10.2 Zooming and Scrolling; 10.3 The Address Bar; 10.4 Bookmarks; 10.5 Web Clips; 10.6 The History List; 10.7 Tapping Links; 10.8 Saving Graphics; 10.9 AutoFill; 10.10 Searching the Web; 10.11 Audio and Video on the Web; 10.12 Manipulating Multiple Pages; 10.13 RSS: The Missing Manual; 10.14 Web Security; 10.15 Web Applications; Chapter 11: Email; 11.1 Setting Up Your Account; 11.2 The “Two-Mailbox Problem”; 11.3 Downloading Mail; 11.4 What to Do with a Message; 11.5 Writing Messages; 11.6 Surviving Email Overload; Part 4: Connections; Chapter 12: Syncing with iTunes; 12.1 The iTunes Window: What’s Where; 12.2 Five Ways to Get Music and Video; 12.3 Playlists; 12.4 Authorizing Computers; 12.5 TV, Movies, and Movie Rentals; 12.6 Automatic Syncing; 12.7 12 Tabs to Glory; 12.8 Info Tab (Contacts, Calendars, Settings); 12.9 The Apps Tab; 12.10 The Ringtones Tab; 12.11 The Music Tab; 12.12 The Movies & TV Shows Tabs; 12.13 The Podcasts & iTunes U Tabs; 12.14 The Books Tab; 12.15 The Photos Tab (Computer→iPhone); 12.16 One iPhone, Multiple Computers; 12.17 One Computer, Multiple iPhones; 12.18 Conflicts; 12.19 One-Way Emergency Sync; 12.20 Backing Up the iPhone; Chapter 13: MobileMe; 13.1 The Setup; 13.2 How It Works; 13.3 MobileMe on the iPhone; 13.4 MobileMe Photos and Videos; 13.5 Find My iPhone; Chapter 14: The Corporate iPhone; 14.1 The Perks; 14.2 Setup; 14.3 Exchange + Your Stuff; 14.4 A Word on Troubleshooting; 14.5 Virtual Private Networking (VPN); Chapter 15: Settings; 15.1 Airplane Mode; 15.2 WiFi; 15.3 Carrier; 15.4 Notifications; 15.5 Sounds; 15.6 Brightness; 15.7 Wallpaper; 15.8 General; 15.9 Mail, Contacts, Calendars; 15.10 Phone; 15.11 Safari; 15.12 Messages; 15.13 iPod; 15.14 Photos; 15.15 Store; 15.16 App Preferences; Part 5: Appendixes; Setup and Signup; Activation; AT&T Fringe Cases; Upgrrrrrrading an Older iPhone; Accessorizing the iPhone; Proper Shopping for the iPhone; Protecting Your iPhone; Making the iPhone Heard; Power to the iPhone; Snap-On Accessories; Double-Dipping: iPod Accessories; Troubleshooting & Maintenance; First Rule: Install the Updates; Reset: Six Degrees of Desperation; iPhone Doesn’t Turn On; Doesn’t Show Up in iTunes; Phone and Internet Problems; Email Problems; Problems That Aren’t Really Problems; iPod Problems; Warranty and Repair; Where to Go From Here;

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. His funny tech videos appear weekly on CNBC. And with 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how- to authors. In 1999, he launched his own series of amusing, practical, and user-friendly computer books called Missing Manuals, which now includes 100 titles.