iPhone 4 Portable Genius E-Book

Paul McFedries

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Portable Genius
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Seitenzahl: 427

Beschreibung

A handy, quick-access guide to getting the most out of theiPhone 4 If you love all the great stuff that makes up the Apple digitallifestyle, you no doubt consider your iPhone 4 to be indispensable.The newest edition of iPhone Portable Genius is packed withthe information you need to make this wonderful device even better.You'll find great iPhone tips at your fingertips--things likethe latest hot app from the App Store, novel ways to control calls,and more--and they're all designed to make your life easier,save you time, and help you avoid hassle. Best of all, this bookfeatures full-color screenshots, so it's easy to navigate, and itdoesn't skip any of the essentials. * Includes savvy advice and plenty of no-nonsense content in ahip way that is easy to access * Covers key tools, topics, and shortcuts * Features Genius icons throughout the book--smart orinnovative ways to handle tasks and save yourself time * Get better acquainted with your iPhone 4 in a fun way--asif your friends were showing you what to do--with iPhone 4Portable Genius.

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iPhone® 4 Portable Genius

Table of Contents

How Do I Configure My iPhone?

Customizing the Home Screen to Suit Your Style

Creating an app folder

Adding a Safari Web Clip to the Home screen

Resetting the default Home screen layout

Setting the iPhone Wallpaper

Using a predefined wallpaper

Using an existing photo as the wallpaper

Taking a wallpaper photo with the iPhone camera

More Useful iPhone Configuration Techniques

Turning sounds on and off

Adjusting the brightness of the screen

Customizing the keyboard

Configuring parental controls

Customizing app notifications

Resetting the iPhone

Protecting Your iPhone

Protecting your iPhone with a passcode

Configuring your iPhone to sleep automatically

Backing up your iPhone

Using MobileMe to Find and Protect a Lost iPhone

Enhancing Your iPhone with the App Store

Accessing the App Store on your computer

Syncing apps

Accessing the App Store on Your iPhone

Viewing and updating your apps

Connecting Your iPhone with Bluetooth Devices

Making your iPhone discoverable

Pairing your iPhone with a Bluetooth headset

Selecting a paired headset as the audio output device

Unpairing your iPhone from a Bluetooth device

How Do I Connect My iPhone to a Network?

Understanding Internet Access Networks

Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network

Making your first connection

Connecting to known networks

Stopping the incessant Wi-Fi network prompts

Connecting to a hidden Wi-Fi network

Turning off the Wi-Fi antenna to save power

Tethering a Computer to Your iPhone’s Internet Connection

Keeping an Eye on Your Data Usage

Controlling Network Data

Turning off 3G

Turning off cellular data

Turning off data roaming

Switching your iPhone to airplane mode

Creating a VPN Network Connection

How Can I Get More Out of the Phone App?

Working with Outgoing Calls

Making calls quickly

Voice dialing a call

Configuring your iPhone to not show your caller ID

Handling Incoming Calls

Silencing an incoming call

Sending an incoming call directly to voicemail

Turning off the iPhone Call Waiting feature

Forwarding iPhone calls to another number

Juggling Multiple Calls and Conference Calls

Using Other iPhone Features While On a Call

Managing Your Favorites List

Working with Contacts from the Phone App

Converting a phone number into a contact

Assigning a ringtone to a contact

Video Calling with FaceTime

How Can I Make the Most of Web Surfing with My iPhone?

Touchscreen Tips for Web Sites

Filling in Online Forms

Saving Web site login passwords

Using Bookmarks for Faster Surfing

Adding bookmarks by hand

Getting Firefox bookmarks into your iPhone

Managing your bookmarks

Retracing your steps with the handy History list

Maintaining your privacy by deleting the History list

Getting Even More Out of Safari on Your iPhone

Opening and managing multiple browser pages

Changing the default search engine

Viewing an RSS feed

Dialing a phone number from a Web page

Setting the Web browser security options

How Do I Maximize E-mail on My iPhone?

Managing Your iPhone E-mail Accounts

Adding an account by hand

Specifying the default account

Switching to another account

Temporarily disabling an account

Deleting an account

Configuring E-mail Accounts

Managing multiple devices by leaving messages on the server

Fixing outgoing e-mail problems by using a different server port

Configuring authentication for outgoing mail

Configuring E-mail Messages

Configuring iPhone to automatically check for new messages

Displaying more messages in your Inbox message list

Processing e-mail faster by identifying messages sent to you

Placing a phone call from an e-mail message

E-mailing a link to a Web page

Setting a minimum message font size

Creating a custom iPhone signature

Preventing Mail from organizing messages by thread

Deleting Gmail messages instead of archiving them

Configuring your Exchange ActiveSync settings

How Can I Take Control of Syncing My iPhone?

Syncing Your iPhone Automatically

Bypassing the automatic sync

Troubleshooting automatic syncing

Syncing Your iPhone Manually

Syncing Information with Your iPhone

Syncing your contacts

Syncing your calendar

Syncing your e-mail account

Syncing your bookmarks

Syncing your notes

Merging data from two or more computers

Handling sync conflicts

Handling large iPhone-to-computer sync changes

Replacing your iPhone’s data with fresh info

Syncing Media with Your iPhone

Syncing music and music videos

Syncing podcasts

Syncing audiobooks

Syncing movies

Syncing TV show episodes

Syncing eBooks

Syncing computer photos to your iPhone

Syncing iPhone photos to your computer

Preventing your iPhone from sending photos to your computer

Syncing media with two or more computers

How Can I Get More Out of My iPhone’s Audio Features?

Using Audio Accessories with Your iPhone

Getting More Out of Your iPhone’s iPod App

Creating a custom iPod menu bar

Rating a song

Browsing music with Cover Flow

Controlling music with voice commands

Turning off the Shake to Shuffle feature

Answering an incoming call while listening to music on the headset

Getting More Out of Your iPhone’s iTunes App

Creating a custom iTunes menu bar

Redeeming an iTunes gift card

Creating a Custom Ringtone for Your iPhone

Working with Playlists

Creating a favorite tunes playlist for your iPhone

Creating a playlist on your iPhone

Creating a Genius playlist on your iPhone

Customizing Your iPhone’s Audio Settings

How Do I Max Out My iPhone’s Photo and Video Features?

Getting More Out of Your iPhone’s Photos

Taking advantage of the new iPhone 4 camera features

Scrolling, rotating, zooming, and panning photos

Adding an existing photo to a contact

Taking a contact’s photo with the iPhone camera

Sending a photo via e-mail

Sending a photo using MMS

Sending a photo to your Flickr account

Saving a photo from an MMS message

Starting a photo slide show

Creating a custom photo slide show

Playing a slide show with background music

Deleting a photo

Getting More Out of Your iPhone’s Video Features

Playing videos, movies, and TV shows

Playing just the audio portion of a music video

Playing iPhone videos on your TV

Converting a video file to iPhone format

Recording video with the iPhone camera

Editing recorded video

Sending a video via e-mail

Sending a video via MMS

Uploading recorded video to YouTube

Customizing your iPhone’s video settings

Editing Video with iMovie for iPhone

Creating a new iMovie project

Opening a project for editing

Importing media into your project

Working with video clips

Working with your project

Can I Use My iPhone to Manage Contacts and Appointments?

Managing Your Contacts

Creating a new contact

Editing an existing contact

Assigning phone numbers to a contact

Assigning e-mail addresses to a contact

Assigning Web addresses to a contact

Assigning physical addresses to a contact

Creating a custom label

Adding extra fields to a contact

Keeping track of birthdays and anniversaries

Add notes to a contact

Creating a new contact from an electronic business card

Delete a contact field

Delete a contact

Tracking Your Appointments

Adding an appointment to your calendar

Editing an existing appointment

Setting up a repeating event

Converting an event to an all-day event

Adding an alert to an event

Setting a birthday or anniversary reminder

Displaying a list of your upcoming events

Handling Microsoft Exchange meeting requests

How Do I Use My iPhone to Navigate My World?

Finding Your Way with Maps and GPS

Viewing your destination

Displaying your current location

Displaying a map of a contact’s location

Saving a location as a bookmark for easier access

Specifying a location when you don’t know the exact address

Getting directions to a location

Getting live traffic information

Controlling app access to GPS

Sharing Map Data

E-mailing a map location

Sending a map location using MMS

Getting your bearings with the Compass

How Do I Manage My eBook Library on My iPhone?

Installing the iBooks App

Getting Your Head around eBook Formats

Managing Your iBooks Library

Browsing books in the iBookstore

Downloading a free eBook

Sampling an eBook

Purchasing an eBook

Adding other EPUB eBooks to your library

Editing the iBooks Library

Syncing Your iBooks Library

Running the Sync

Creating a custom eBook cover

Reading eBooks with the iBooks App

Controlling eBooks on the reading screen

Formatting eBook text

Saving your spot with a bookmark

Looking up a word in the dictionary

Highlighting text

Adding a note to an eBook

Reading Other eBooks on Your iPhone

How Do I Keep My Life In Sync with MobileMe?

Understanding MobileMe

Understanding MobileMe Device Support

Configuring MobileMe on Your iPhone

Setting up your MobileMe account on your iPhone

Setting up MobileMe synchronization on your iPhone

Configuring MobileMe on Your Mac

Setting up your MobileMe account on your Mac

Setting up MobileMe synchronization on your Mac

Configuring MobileMe on Your Windows PC

Using Your iPhone to Work with MobileMe Photos and Videos

Using your iPhone to send photos to the MobileMe gallery

Viewing your MobileMe Gallery in your iPhone

How Do I Fix My iPhone?

General Techniques for Troubleshooting Your iPhone

Troubleshooting connected devices

Updating the iPhone software

Restoring the iPhone’s data and settings

Putting your iPhone in Device Firmware Upgrade mode

Taking Care of the iPhone Battery

Tracking battery use

Tips for extending your battery life

Solving Specific Problems

Your battery won’t charge

You have trouble accessing a Wi-Fi network

iTunes doesn’t see your iPhone

iTunes doesn’t sync your iPhone

You have trouble syncing music or videos

Your iPhone doesn’t recognize your SIM card

You can’t get your iPhone’s serial number

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iPhone® 4 Portable Genius

by Paul McFedries

iPhone® 4 Portable Genius

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About the Author

Paul McFedries is a Mac expert and full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 70 books to his credit. Paul’s books have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles iPad Portable Genius, Macs Portable Genius, MacBook Air Portable Genius, Switching to a Mac Portable Genius, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macs, and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a Web site that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the language. Paul invites you to drop by his Web site at www.mcfedries.com and follow his tweets at www.twitter.com/paulmcf.

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to the loving memory of Gypsy, the Best Dog Ever.

Author’s Acknowledgments

If you think using the iPhone is a blast, you should try writing about it! I had so much fun poking and prodding the iPhone 4 to see just what it’s capable of, that I’m worried my publisher won’t pay me next time. (Kidding!) Adding to the fun were the great people at Wiley that I got to work with. They included Senior Acquisitions Editor Stephanie McComb, who was kind enough (or was it brave enough?) to ask me to write the book; Project Editor Cricket Krengel, whose unflappable calm under intense pressure is beyond admirable; and Technical Editor Thomas Myer, who made sure my instructions didn’t zig when they were supposed to zag. Many heartfelt thanks to all of you for outstanding work on this project.

The iPhone is a success not because tens of millions of them have been sold (or, I should say, not only because tens of millions of them have been sold; that’s a lot of phones!), but because the iPhone in just a couple of years has reached the status of a cultural icon. Even people who don’t care much for gadgets in general and cell phones in particular know about the iPhone. And for those of us who do care about gadgets, the iPhone elicits a kind of technological longing that can only be satisfied in one way: by buying one. (Or, in my case, by buying four of them!)

Part of the iPhone’s iconic status comes from its gorgeous design and from its remarkable interface which makes all the standard tasks — surfing, e-mailing, texting, scheduling, playing — easy and intuitive. But just as an attractive face or an easygoing manner can hide a personality of complexity and depth, so too does the iPhone hide many of its most useful and interesting features.

When you want to get beyond the iPhone’s basics and solve some of its riddles, you might consider making an appointment with your local Apple Store’s Genius Bar, and more often than not the on-duty genius gives you good advice on how to get your iPhone to do what you want it to do. The Genius Bar is a great thing, but it isn’t always a convenient thing, and in some cases, you may need to leave your iPhone for a while (No!) to get the problem checked out and hopefully resolved.

What you really need is a version of the Genius Bar that’s easier to access, more convenient, and doesn’t require tons of time or leaving your iPhone in the hands of a stranger. What you really need is a “portable” genius that enables you to be more productive and solve problems wherever you and your iPhone happen to be.

Welcome, therefore, to iPhone 4 Portable Genius. This book is like a mini Genius Bar all wrapped up in an easy-to-use, easy-to-access, and eminently portable format. In this book, you learn how to get more out of your iPhone 4 (and your iPhone 3GS, too) by learning how to access all the really powerful and timesaving features that aren’t obvious at a casual glance. In this book, you learn about all of the amazing new features found in the iPhone 4 and in iOS 4.0, including FaceTime video calling; HD video recording; advanced video editing with iMovie for the iPhone; managing your eBooks collection with the iBooks app; Mail’s universal Inbox; and much more. In this book, you learn how to prevent iPhone problems from occurring, and just in case your preventative measures are for naught, you learn how to fix many common problems yourself.

This book is for iPhone users who know the basics but want to take their iPhone education to a higher level. It’s a book for people who want to be more productive, more efficient, more creative, and more self-sufficient (at least as far as the iPhone goes). It’s a book for people who use their iPhone every day, but would like to incorporate it into more of their day-to-day activities. It’s a book I had a blast writing, so I think it’s a book you’ll enjoy reading.

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How Do I Configure My iPhone?

The iPhone is justly famous for its stylish, curvaceous design and for its slick, effortless touchscreen. However, although good looks and ease of use are important for any smartphone, it’s what you do with that phone that’s important. The iPhone helps by offering lots of features, but chances are those features aren’t set up to suit the way you work. Maybe your most-used Home screen icons aren’t at the top of the screen where they should be, or perhaps your iPhone goes to sleep too soon. This chapter shows you how to configure your iPhone to solve these and many other annoyances so the phone works the way you do.

Customizing the Home Screen to Suit Your Style

Setting the iPhone Wallpaper

More Useful iPhone Configuration Techniques

Protecting Your iPhone

Enhancing Your iPhone with the App Store

Connecting Your iPhone with Bluetooth Devices

Customizing the Home Screen to Suit Your Style

The Home screen is your starting point for all things iPhone, and what could be simpler? Just tap the icon you want and the app loads lickety-split. Ah, but things are never so simple, are they? In fact, there are a couple of hairs in the Home screen soup:

• The icons in the top row are a bit easier to find and a bit easier to tap.

• If you have more than 16 icons, they extend onto a second (or third or fourth) Home screen. If the app you want isn’t on the main Home screen, you must first flick to the screen that has the app’s icon (or tap its dot) and then tap the icon.

How do you end up with more than 16 icons? Easy: the App Store. This is an online retailer solely devoted to apps designed to work with the iPhone’s technologies: multi-touch, GPS, the accelerometer, wireless, and more. You can download apps via your cellular network or your Wi-Fi connection, so you can always get apps when you need them. I discuss the App Store a bit later in this chapter.