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iPhone: The Missing Manual | 
 enlarge | Author: David Pogue
Publisher: Pogue Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0596513747
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.38456
EAN: 9780596513740
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Publication Date: August 6, 2007
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div class="content" h2iiPhone: The Missing Manual/i Sneak Preview: David Pogue's Favorite iPhone Tricks/h2 table width="200" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" align="right" tr tdimg src="http://www.missingmanual.com/images/missingmanuals/pogue_iphone_200.jpg" alt="David Pogue with his iPhone" border="0" align="right" style="padding-right:4px;padding-bottom:4px;" //td /tr /table p The iPhone's finger-driven interface seems natural and obvious. But when you really think about it, making it seem that way was no easy task. There are no menus in the iPhone software, for example, and no checkboxes or radio buttons. Everything on the screen has to be big enough for a fleshy fingertip./p pOn the other hand, the finger makes an outstanding pointing device; heck, you've been pointing with it all your life. It's much faster to scroll diagonally with a fingertip, for example, than with fussy adjustments on two different scroll bars. /p pHere, then, are some of the iPhone's unadvertised taps, double-taps, and other shortcuts, all culled from iiPhone: The Missing Manual/i. /p h3Double-Tapping/h3 p Double-tapping is actually pretty rare on the iPhone. It's not like the Mac or Windows, where double-clicking the mouse means "open." On the iPhone, you open something with ione/i tap. /p pA double tap, therefore, is reserved for three functions: /p p ul liIn Photos, Google Maps, and Safari (the Web browser), double-tapping zooms in on whatever you tap, magnifying it by a factor of two./li liIn the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, "restore to original size" after you've zoomed in. (Weirdly, in Google Maps, you use a different gesture to zoom out: tap emonce /emwith emtwo /emfingers. That gesture appears nowhere else on the iPhone.)/li liWhen you're watching a video, double-tapping eliminates or restores letterbox bars. /li /ul /p pSee, the iPhone's screen is bright, vibrant, and stunningly sharp. It's not, however, the right shape for videos. Standard TV shows are squarish, not rectangular. So when you watch TV shows, you get black letterbox columns on either side of the picture./p pMovies have the opposite problem. They're emtoo /emwide for the iPhone screen. So when you watch movies, you wind up with letterbox bars above and below the picture. Some people are fine with that. At least when letterbox bars are onscreen, you know you're seeing the complete composition of the scene the director intended. Other people can't stand letterbox bars. You're already watching on a pretty small screen; why sacrifice some of that precious area to black bars? That's why the iPhone gives you a choice. If you double-tap the video as it plays, you zoom in, magnifying the image so that it fills the entire screen. Part of the image is now off the screen; now you're not seeing the entire composition originally broadcast. You lose the top and bottom of TV scenes, or the left and right edges of movie scenes. If this effect winds up chopping off something important--some text on the screen, for example--restoring the original letterbox view is just another double-tap away./p h3Secrets of the Sensors/h3 pThe iPhone has three cool sensors. First, it has an accelerometer that detects when you've rotated the iPhone into landscape orientation. In programs like Photos, Safari, and iPod, it triggers the screen image to rotate as well./p pCamouflaged behind the black glass where you can't see them except with a bright flashlight are two more sensors: a proximity sensor that shuts off the screen illumination and touch sensitivity when the phone is against your head (it works only in the Phone application), and an ambient-light sensor that brightens the display when you're in sunlight and dims it in darker places. /p pApple says that it experimented with having the light sensor active all the time, but it was weird to have the screen get brighter and darker all the time. So the sensor now samples the ambient light, and adjusts the brightness; it does this only once--each time you unlock the phone after waking it./p p You can use that tip to your advantage. By covering up the sensor (just above the earpiece) as you unlock the phone, you force it to a low-power, dim screen-brightness setting (because the phone believes that it's in a dark room). Or by holding it up to a light as you wake it, you get full brightness. In both cases, you've saved all the taps and navigation it would have taken you to find the manual brightness slider in Settings. /p h3Earbud Cord Switch/h3 pWithout close inspection, you'd have a hard time telling the iPhone's white stereo earbuds apart from a regular iPod's--but don't get them mixed up. The iPhone's earbuds have a tiny, embedded clicker/microphone partway down the right earbud cord. /p pThat's right, "clicker/microphone." The tiny bulge is the microphone for phone calls. But if you pinch the bulge, you'll find that it clicks./p p ul liPinch once to answer an incoming phone call. Pinch for a couple seconds to dump the call to voicemail. (You can also double-tap the Sleep/Wake switch on top of the iPhone to send the call to voicemail.)/li liDuring music or video playback, pinch once to pause the music; pinch again to resume playback./li liDuring music playback, double-pinch to skip to the next song./li /ul /p h3Customizing the iPod Buttons/h3 pThe iPod module on the iPhone starts out with buttons along the bottom for summoning four lists: Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos./p pBut what about Albums? Genres? Composers? They're there, all right, but hidden; you have to tap More to see them./p pBut what if you use those lists more often than Artists or Songs? No problem: you can replace one of those starter buttons with a list of your own./p pTap More, and then tap the Edit button (upper-left corner). You arrive at the Configure screen. Here's the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists: Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos. /p pTo replace one of the four starter icons, use a finger to drag an icon from the top half of the screen downward, directly onto the iexisting /iicon you want to replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag./p pWhen you release your finger, you'll see that the new icon has replaced the old one. Tap Done in the upper-right corner./p h3Keyboard Speedups/h3 pDon't bother using the Shift key to capitalize a new sentence. The iPhone does that capitalizing automatically. Don't put apostrophes in contractions, either; the iPhone will put those in for you, too./p h3Force Quit, Reset/h3 pThe iPhone is pretty darned simple and stable, but it's still a computer. In times of troubleshooting, these tips may come in handy:/p p ul libForce quit a program. /bPress and hold the Home button for six seconds to force-quit a program that seems to be stuck./li libReset. /bIf the entire iPhone locks up--it can happen--press and hold iboth /ithe Home button and the Sleep/Wake switch for eight seconds. You'll see the screen go black, and then the Apple logo appears as the iPhone reboots./li /ul /p br/ hr noshade="noshade" size="1" class="bucketDivider"/br/ h2McCallum's Awesome iPhone Period-Typing Shortcut/h2 pI have in my possession a nugget, a secret bit of iPhone information that's so valuable, such a headache- and time-saver, that I don't know what to do with it./p pOne voice in my head says, "Hoard it! Keep it a secret until your book is published! If you reveal it, it'll be all over the Net in hours, and all your competitors' books will have it, too."/p pBut another voice says, "But this information is too good to keep quiet. Plus, you didn't discover it yourself. And besides, you're not gonna starve, either way."/p pEventually, the second little voice prevailed. I'm going to share with you the solution to one of the most annoying things, if not THE most annoying thing, about typing on the iPhone:/p pThe punctuation keys and alphabet keys appear in two different keyboard layouts./p pSo every time you want to type a period or a comma, it's a three-step, awkward dance: (1) Tap the ".?123" key in the lower left to summon the punctuation layout. (2) Type the period. (3) Type the ABC key in the lower left to return to the alphabet layout./p pImagine how excruciating it is to type, for example, "a P.O. Box in the U.S.A.!" That's 34 finger taps and 10 mode changes!/p pAnd therefore imagine how thrilled I was to receive an email from reader Andrew McCallum, containing a method of typing a period or a comma with only a SINGLE finger gesture./p pThe iPhone doesn't register most key presses until you *release* your finger. But Andrew discovered that the Shift and Punctuation keys register their taps on the *press-down* instead./p pSo here's what you can do, all in one motion:/p p1. Touch the ".?123" key, but don't lift your finger as the punctuation layout appears./p p2. Slide your finger a half inch onto the period or comma key, and release./p p Incredibly, the ABC layout returns automatically. You've typed a period or a comma with one finger touch instead of three. In fact, you can type ANY of the punctuation symbols the same way./p pThis makes a HUGE difference in the usability of the keyboard./p pType on, bro. /p hr noshade="noshade" size="1" class="bucketDivider"/br//div/div bBook Description/bbr /
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 Sub-title says it all September 19, 2008
Alnutt (Illinois)
The iPhone is pretty easy to figure out right out of the box but this book just puts the icing on the cake. There are "finesses" for different modes that just make the phone a lot more useful allow you to get the most out of it. Like Pogue's other "Missing Manual" books, it is a superb reference book.
LOVE IT LOVE IT August 14, 2008
Sue M. Lennox
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book, took it on the plane and read it from over to cover. Tons of terrific helps/hints for the IPhone. I've been recommending it to everyone that has an IPhone. It's a must have manual. Easy to read, easy to understand.
iPhone - The Unmissable Manual June 23, 2008
N. Herbert (Hong Kong)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
David Pogue's independant manual for the iPhone is, quite simply, a book you have to read if you have an iPhone - or are thinking of getting one. When you invest in an iPhone, one of the first things you'll notice as you open the box is the absence of a conventional instruction manual - especially after the ever-increasingly thick tomes supplied with Nokia et al. So whereas the iPhone is extremely user-friendly, it's accompanying leaflet is derisory if you really want to get the best from Apple's baby. In an easy-to-read and logical layout, the "Missing Manual" addresses all the questions you're ever likely to raise about iPhones and answers them. br / Now all we need is a Volume Two to do the same for the Version Two, 3G iPhone when it is (finally) released - and if Mr. Apple is reading this in Apple valley, US of A, please send me a 3G, V2 iPhone as soon as you can - after you've sent one to Mt. Pogue!
Useful June 9, 2008
K. Cortella (Denver, CO)
I found many things in the book that I would not have found on my own. Very useful.
This is THE book to get on iPhone June 1, 2008
Lisa Mills (Seattle, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I finally coughed up the $500 for the coveted iPhone, and swallowed the bitter pill of having to be indentured to a cell phone company for another 2 years. And I couldn't be more thrilled with the purchase! I LOVE my iPhone - some would say a little too much. br / br /However, my newfound love affair wouldn't be nearly as sweet if I hadn't also shelled out the $14 for iPhone: The Missing Manual. br / br /While I would never consider myself a technogeek, I am not un-savvy in the ways of Apple computers, software and iPods. I've been using Apple products for 15-20 years. So, I was a bit concerned that this book might be a bit too much along the lines of "How To Turn On Your iPhone" -- you know, basic stuff I'd already figured out. br / br /I was delighted to find that this book is chock full of hidden (and not so hidden) tricks and workarounds. Some of this stuff I would have NEVER figured out on my own. It's made my iPhone so much more useful and fun. br / br /Some examples: br /* How to send photos to your friend's cell phones. For some reason unknown to me, Apple didn't enable this phone to send photos directly to other cell phones. (possibly because this is more of an awesome iPod with a great phone feature, not the other way around.) Pogue gives the easy workaround, as well as the email addresses to make it happen. br / * Great tips on how to use Maps. This has become an app that I use much more than I thought I would, simply because it's sooo much more in-depth and useful than I ever imagined it would be. The app isn't very intuitive, however. If I hadn't read and re-read this section in the book, I would be totally missing out on this powerful application. br /* IF you don't want to be locked in to a 2-year agreement with ATT, BUY THIS BOOK BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR iPHONE!! Yep, there's a workaround for that, too! br / br /This book is easy to read, and it's easy to remember and immediately apply its tips and tricks. br /
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