iPhone & iPod touch Superguide

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Foreword Apple's iPhone isn't just another mobile phone. The iPod touch isn't just another music player. They' re also the smallest Macs ever createdbecause underneath that glass touch screen, they're running Mac OS X. The iPhone and iPod touch represent the second time Apple has tried 10 completely rethink the way we connect with our computers. The original Macintosh changed the world by providing a physical control (the mouse) that moved a cursor on a computer interface. But the iPhone and iPod touch do it one better. Now, instead of pushing around a mouse to make a disembodied arrow or hand move on the computer screen, you use your finger to do all the moving . When you touch a photo, a Web page, or an e-mail message and slide your finger across the screen, the image moves along with your touch, as if you were moving a physical object. There's no cursor on the screen because your finger is your pointer-and pointing, despite what your mother may have told you, is just what fingers are meant to do. That brings us to the subject of this book. Why in the world wou ld Macworld publish an entire book about devices that are supposed to be so intuitive? It's a question I get a lot, including from people at Apple. Their goal-and it's a smart one to shoot for-is to make an incredibly complex technology as easy to use as possible. And these devices are easy to use, which is one reason they're so appealing. But make no mistake about it: your device is a computer. And a full Web browser. And an e-mail client. It can run thousands of programs w rit~ ten by independent developers, connect to Wi -Fi networks, and even log in to your employer's Virtual Private Network (VPN). But as easy as they are to use, the iPhone and iPod touch have an ocean of depth. Our goal is to help you plumb those depths and uncover more of your device's hidden potential. In the pages of this book, we'll give you not only the basics but also more-advanced tips, tricks, and troubleshooting advice. And for the very latest iPhone and iPod touch coverage, be sure to visit iPhone Central (iphone.macworld.com) and our App Guide (appguide.com).

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43 Using the Phone From making calls to answering voice mail, we'll show you how to quickly navigate the iPhone's most important features.

The iPhone at a Glance

Familiarize yourself with your device's hardware features, including every button, switch, slot, and plug.

50 Checking E-mail 14 Changing Your Settings

Review the basics on how to set up new e-mail accounts and work with messages-including viewing attachments. We've also got tips for mastering the virtual keyboard.

Take a tour of the Settings menu, where you can change your ringtone, check how many minutes you've used, and set preferences for third-party apps.

61 Sending Messages 26 Getting On the Network

The Messages app offers a convenient way to have a brief conversation or share images and video. Learn how to carry on multiple conversations and other tricks.

Get the most out of Wi-Fi, EDGE, and 3G networks. We'll show you how 10 connect and what precautions to take to protect your data.

31 Navigation Basics Take a crash course in cut, copy, and paste, and become a search pro wi th the Spotlight feature.

Staying in Touch 36 Managing Contacts At the heart of all of the iPhone's communication features lies the Contacts list. Here's how to create, sync, access, and organize your contacts.

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Multimedia on the iPhone 66 Navigating Music and Videos Learn how to navigate your media library easily, how to access some of the less obvious features, and how to create playlists on the fly.

77 Using YouTube If you get bored with the video files synced to your iPhone, you can access streaming content from YouTube's online video warehouse.

80 Smart Syncing Strategies Do you have more music, podcasts, and videos than will fit on your iPhone? Learn how to get the most from the iPhone's storage by slimming down files and setting up smart playlists.

Maximize Productivity 102 Surf the Web Safari on the iPhone packs a lot of power. Navigate the Web, manage your bookmarks, and learn the smart way to check ASS feeds.

91 Converting Video for the iPhone With the help of some free or low-cost software, you can quickly convert videos from your hard drive or other sources to enjoy while on the road.

112 Maps and GPS Use iPhone's Maps program and GPS powers to find local businesses, follow driving directions, and keep an eye on traffic.

93 Working with Photos and Videos

118 Scheduling

We'll show you how to get content onto the iPhone, use the built-in camera, record video, and show off your creations to others.

Track time wi th smart calendar syncing and alarm settings. Here's how to manage events and deadlines without missing a beat.

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123 The iPhone 's Other Applications

152 Stay Connected Stay up-to-date on the latest news, changing stock prices, and your friends ' Twitter feeds.

Meet the iPhone and iPod touch's other default applications: Calculator, Notes, Stocks, Weather, Voice Memos, and Compass.

154 Have Fun These apps are an excellent aid to cutting loose. Usten to the radio, find movie times, edit photos, and, of course, play games.

Troubleshooting Tips 130 Tools of the Trade

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Every iPhone and iPod touch owner should learn these simple steps. They will help you recover fast from the most common problems.

160 Cases Keep your device safe from drops, scrapes, and other mishaps with these cases. Whether you want something stylish, rugged, or invisible, there's a case for you .

136 Fixing Common Problems Whether it's stubborn e-mail attachments, confusing sync options, or a missing iPhone, here are our tips on how to solve some of the most common conundrums.

163 Headphones Improve sound and get interesting features, such as noise-canceling technology, when you invest in a good pair of thirdparty headphones.

Third-Party Apps 146 Accessing Apps Get acquainted with Apple's App Store and learn how to download and manage any of the thousands of third-party apps available.

167 Speakers Find the right iPhone speakers for any setup in our recommendations, which cover every size and budget.

149 Be Productive Use your iPhone and iPod touch to accomplish more with these productivity apps, which let you log time, organize your searches, and transfer files.

169 Power Accessories Keep your iPhone and iPod touch juiced and ready to go with these clever power-related gadgets.

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Contributors Senior Contributor and troubleshooting guru Ted l andau 's latest book is Take Control of Your iPhone (Take Control Books, 2008, takecon trolbooks.com).

Ben Boychuk is a freelance writer and columnist in Rialto, California. Senior Editor Christopher Breen is the author of The iPod and ITunes Pocket Guide, third edition, and The iPhone Pocket Guide, second edition (Peachpit Press, 2008).

Associate Editor Dan Moren is the editor of MacUser.com and a contributor to the iPhone Central blog .

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Jon Seff is Macworld's senior news editor and resident expert on converting video files for the iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, and any other medium imaginable.

Jim Dalrymple is CEO and publisher of Loop Insight (Ioopinsight. com). Jim has a video training series on MacProVideo.com on how to record guitars using a Mac .

Jason Snell, Macworld's editorial director, guides you through the iPhone basics.

Glenn Fleishma n writes about Wi-Fi at wifinetnews.com and is the author of Take Contro l of Sharing Files in Leopard (TidBits Publishing, 2007, takecontrolbooks.com). Senior Editor Dan Frakes reviews iPod, iPhone, and audio gear for Macworld and runs Macworld.com's Mac Gems and Mobile Mac blogs.

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s its name promises, the iPhone is a phone. But it 's also a handheld computer, offering Web browsing, e-mail, GPS capabilities, and much more. Add to that the huge selection of applications available in the ApD Store, and the iPhone can be anything from a powerful game console to a Spanish teacher. To top it off, the iPhone is also an outstanding iPod. In shorl, iI's unlike any cell phone you've ever used before. But to unlock all that your iPhone can do, you'll need to know your way around both the interface and the iPhone's settings and preferences. In this chapter, we'U introduce you to the most important features on your iPhone (and iPod louch) and get you up and running as quickly as possible.

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The iPhone at a Glance t's always best to start from the beginning . And the beginning, in this case, is the outside of the iPhone-the slots, buttons, switches, and ports . Here's what you'll find . (Most of these features also exist on the original iPhone and on the iPod touch, except where noted .)

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of the Home screen will take you to the Spotlight search screen . If you quickly press the button twice when the phone is locked, you'll be able to access basic iPod controls. At all other times, a double-click of the Home button can either take you to the Home or Search screens, bring up your iPhone Favorites, or switch to the iPod or Camera apps-you can choose which by using the Settings app, under General: Home Button. On the iPhone 3GS, pressing and holding the Home button for two seconds will activate Voice Control.

" Receiver With no headphones plugged in, this is where you'll place your ear to listen to incoming calls. (This feature doesn't appear on the iPod touch .)

€) Touch-Screen Display Unlike other smart phones, the iPhone doesn't have a tactile keyboard or a bunch of navigation buttons. Instead, you' ll use its 3.5inch touch-screen display to make selections, type e-mail messages and Web addresses, dial phone numbers, and change settings . The display is made from opticalquality glass, which makes it highly scratch-resistant On the iPhone 3GS the screen also has an oilresistant coating to make it easier to wipe off smudges. The screen has a resolution of 320 by 480 pixels at 160 pixels per inch (much higher than that of most computer displays).

o Speaker You'll find the speaker on the bottom edge of the iPhone, on the left side. If you have a caller on speakerphone, this is where the sound will come out. It'll also play anything that makes noise on your iPod, including music and a video's audio track. Because the iPhone has just one speaker, it plays all audio in mono ~n a single channeQ. (On the iPod touch the speaker is located inside the body of the iPod rather than on the bottom.)

a Home Button The only physical button on the face of the iPhone, the Home button is your shortcut out of the current program and back to the iPhone's main interface. You can also press this button to wake up a snoozing iPhone. If you're looking at the iPhone's Home screen, pressing the button will take you back to the first page of the Home screen. Pressing the button when you're already on the first page

(3 Dock Connector The iPhone uses the standard 30pin iPod dock connector to hook up with your computer or other accessories. But keep in mind that the iPhone is a different shape than the iPod models, so it may not fit right in some accessories. And

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interference from the iPhone's cellular antenna may mean that external speakers don't work as well, or at all, unless you turn on Airplane mode. (When you place the iPhone in a dock-connector speaker system not designed specifically for the iPhone, it automatically asks if you want to switch modes.)

or buy an add-on adapter that lets you use your favorite headphones wi th the adapter's own microphone. The first-generation iPhone's recessed jack requires an adapter to work with many thirdparty headphones .

c) Camera The back of the iPhone sports the lens of the phone's built-in camera. Camera images are previewed on the screen so you can properly frame your shot. (The iPod touch doesn 't have a camera.) On the iPhone 3GS, the video camera uses the same lens.

4j Microphone The iPhone's internal microphone is found on the bottom right of the device. You can use it for making calls, recording voice memos, voice control (3GS only), and many other purposes. (There's no microphone on the iPod touch.)

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Press this button to lock your iPhone's screen. (The phone will still recei ve calls and play music, but the screen itself will be off.) If it's already locked, you can press this button to wake it up, then slide your finger across the bottom of the touch screen to unlock it. To turn the iPhone completely off, hold the Sleep/Wake button down

This is a standard 3.5mm audio jack, like the one used on iPods, rather than the smaller 2.5mm size found on many cell phones. You can use any sort of headphones with it, though if you want to talk as well as listen, you'll need to use Apple's included earbuds, buy a set with a built-in microphone,

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for a few seconds, until the red "slide to power off" slider appears. (When shut down, the iPhone won't ring, play music, or anything else.) To turn the iPhone back on, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears . If you wish to silence an incoming call, press the Sleep/Wake button . If you want to decline an incoming call and send it directly to voice mail, press the Sleep/Wake button twice quickly.

card, insert the end of a paper clip into the small hole and push. (Because the iPod touch isn't a phone, it has no SIM card.)

(3 Volume Up and Down Buttons Below the silent ringer switch are the iPhone's volume buttons. Press up to increase volume and down to decrease volume. This affects not only the volume of calls, but also application sounds and audio and video playback.

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Like other current GSM phones, the iPhone uses a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card-a small programmable card that contains personal data such as your phone number and carrier 10. Without an activated SIM card , an iPhone is basically an iPod touch- you can still use it on Wi-Fi. The top of the iPhone bears a small slot for the phone's SIM card (it's the one with the tiny hole). The iPhone's SIM card is preinstalled and turns on when you activate the phone through iTunes. To eject the SIM

On the left side of the phone is the ring/si lent switch . It does exactly what you'd suspect-push it toward the back of the phone (so that you see an orange dot), and the iPhone's speaker goes quiet. Pull it to ward the front of the phone, and the ringer is acti ve. Note that flipping the switch into silent mode does not silence audio playback in the phone's iPod area, and some iPhone apps may still make noise. (This switch doesn't appear on the iPod touch.)

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and hold the microphone for a few seconds. The iPhone will beep twice to let you know it's done the job. While on a call, you can take an incoming call and put the current call on hold by squeezing the button once. To end the current call and answer an incoming call, or to return to a call you've put on hold, squeeze and hold the button for two seconds. On the iPhone 3GS, you can also squeeze and hold the button for two seconds to activate voice control. The iPhone 3GS's headphones also come with convenient volume up and down buttons, on either side of the central button.

The iPhone headphones operate exactly like an iPod's earbuds. You can listen to calls through them, as well as hear audio from the iPod program and other apps. iPhone headphones have a small microphone attached to the cable dangling down from the right earbud. This microphone picks up your voice when you speak during a call. The headphones have builtin controls. Squeeze the center button once while listening to music or watching a video to pause playback. Squeeze it twice in succession to skip to the next track. Squeeze it three times to skip back to the previous track. If a call comes in , you can squeeze the microphone once to answer a call and again to end the call. If you wish to decline an incoming call and send it to voice mail, squeeze

iPodTouch Although this book might seem to focus on the iPhone, most of what we write will cover the iPod touch, which is essentially the iPhone without the phone part. Generally when we say iPhone, we mean the iPod touch, too. We'll specify when certain features don't work on the iPod touch.

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iPhone and iPod touch features With each release of a new iPhone or iPod touch, owners of older devices are left to wonder exactly which features they can and can't use . Here's a list comparing what each device can do with iPhone 3 .0 installed .

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Changing Your Settings any iPhone programs don't have individual preferences screens as they do in as x or in Windows. Instead, you'll access these programs' options from the Settings screen. This is also where you can change systemwide settings, such as sounds and choice of wallpaper. You'll also find options to enable Airplane mode (which disables the phone and wireless features) and wireless networking options. Because the Settings screen does so much, it's by far the most crowded space on the iPhone-there are 12 separate entries on its main screen (see "One Menu to Rule Them All"), plus entries for additional apps that choose to store settings there. Here's a look at what these settings do,

communications. When Airplane mode is on, an airplane will replace the bars in the top left corner of your screen. The Phone settings option will be grayed out and labeled Airplane Mode. (You can switch Wi-Fi back on after entering Airplane mode---convenient if

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Airplane Mode The Airplane mode feature will be very important to anyone who travels a lot (you must switch off phone and wireless features before takeoff), Airplane mode switches off all of your phone's wireless capabilities- Wi-Fi, your connection to the digital cell network, the technology necessary to make and recei ve calls, and Bluetooth

One Menu to Rule Them All Customizing your iPhone's settings is a snap (or in this case, a tap).

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you're on an airplane that supports Wi-Fi, or you're somewhere with no reliable cell network and you want to save battery life while still having Internet access via Wi-Fi.}

From here, you can turn Wi-Fi on or off, join an available network, or set whether the iPhone alerts you to available networks when you're out and about. (For more details on network settings, see MGetting On the Network" later in this chapter.) Even when you're in Airplane mode, you can have Wi-Fi turned on if you're someplace with an available connection.

Wi·Fi If you're currently connected to a Wi-Fi network, the Wi-Fi option will list the network's name to the right. Tap on the arrow at right to access the Wi-Fi Networks screen.

Sounds In the Sounds section, you can turn Vibrate mode on or off (for both silent and ring modes), change your ringtone, and turn sounds on or off for individual events such as new e-mail, new text messages, and so forth (see "Bring the Noise"). When you set an alert, moving the slider next to it from Off to On will let you hear what sound plays for that event (unfortunately, you can't change the sound). You can also mute keyboard clicks from here and change the volume of your ringtone---with either the on-screen slider or the volume buttons on the side of the phone.

Brightness By default the brightness of the iPhone adjusts automatically. The iPhone detects the light around it using three sensors to the left of the recei ver. It then makes the screen brighter or dimmer for optimal viewing. So, for example, if you're in a dark envi ronment, the iPhone

Bring the Noise Don't be embarrassed by bad ringtones or alert sounds. Pick the best noises (or vibrations) for you in the Sounds settings screen .

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Smart Battery Settings One problem with converged devices such as smart phones is battery life-with so many functions, it is easy to run down the battery without even noticing, That may be acceptable for a media player or handheld PDA-but not for a phone. The iPhone and iPod touch contain a single battery (which, as on the iPod, you can ' t remove or swap out yourself) to power everything. Apple says the battery will last up to five hours for talk on a 3G network (up to 12 on a 2G network), ten hours for video playback, nine hours for Internet browsing on Wi-Fi, or 24 hours for audio playback. Standby time is rated at up to 300 hours. But these guidelines generally reflect doing one of these things at a time, and in favorable circumstances. In the real world, you'll likely be doing a combination of these things over the course of a day, and in varying environments. This means you'll need to exercise good judgment if you want to ensure that you have enough juice lell for your phone once you're done listening to music, browsing the Web, or watching video . If you don't need to be available for emergency calls or messages, turning the iPhone off completely w ill conserve maximum battery life . To do so, press and hold the SieeplWake button for several seconds. If you want to use just the iPhone's alarm-clock feature, turn on Airplane mode; this disables all wireless functionality (phone, EDGE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) but lets you use the iPhone's non-Internet programs. Turning on Airplane mode is also a good idea when you want to use your iPhone strictly for its music-playing iPod functionality. This way, you can easily get more than a full day's worth of playtime from your iPhone. On the other hand, if you need to be able to receive emergency calls or messages, here's how to do so while using the least amount of battery power: from the Settings screen, disable Wi-R and Bluetooth ~n the General settings), turn off Push and set Fetch to Manually (in the Fetch New Data settings), and, in your Sounds settings, turn off Vibrate. Finally, put the iPhone in10 sleep mode by briefly pressing the Sleep! Wake button.

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will dim . When you're outside on a bright day, the display will brighten so you can see it. You can turn this feature off and manually adjust brightness with the on-screen slider in the Brightness screen.

USAGE The Usage section shows you how much you've used your iPhone and how long it's been on standby since you last charged it. This section also displays a summary of all call times and network data sent and received. Some of these statistics aren't terribly important to know, but others can be helpfu1. For example, it's useful to know how many minutes you've talked in the current time period so you won't go over your allotted minutes (and get charged extra for

Wallpaper Your wallpaper image appears whenever the iPhone is locked or you get a call from someone who doesn't have an assigned photo. In the Wallpaper screen, you choose which photo to display. You can choose one of Apple's bundled patterns, pictures you've taken with the iPhone's camera, or pictures you've synced to the iPhone (see "Background Check").

General The General section is the main hub of the iPhone's settings area. From here you can set the date and time, set a numeric pass code for your iPhone, enable Bluetooth and pair Bluetooth devices, control your network settings, restrict access to certain phone features, and more. ABOUT The About screen lists various details about your device such as the name of the network you're connected to, how much memory is free, and your phone's serial number. It's also the place where you can brag about the number of applications, songs, videos, and photos you've got on your iPhone.

Background Check Change your background to fit your mood in the Wal lpaper settings screen.

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doing so) . Tracking minutes is also useful if you're billing a client for time you spend in conversation (see "Just the Stats, Ma'am"). A large Reset Statistics button makes it easy to zero out all these values, as you might do at the end of a month. iPhone 3GS users can also choose whether to display the batterycharge percentage in the menu bar. NETWORK The Network menu lets you turn 3G networking on and off, so you can sacrifice the speed of the 3G data network in order to save battery life. You can also turn off international Data Roaming, which is very important if you travel abroaddata rates outside your home country will probably be exorbitant, and by turning off Data Roaming the iPhone will simply abstain from using the cellular data network when it's out of its home territory. On the Network screen you'll also see VPN and Wi-Fi options. Tapping on the Wi-Fi option will bring up the same Wi-Fi options you'll find on the top level of the Settings menu. VPN (virtual private network) is a scheme that lets outsiders securely tap into a private networi<-offsite workers joining their company's internal network, for example. (For more on networking, see "Getting On the Network" later in this chapter.) BLUETOOTH When this setting is switched on, the iPhone becomes discoverable over Bluetooth and will search for compatible

Just the Stats, Ma'am Keep track of how much talking, surfing, and battery draining you've been doing on your iPhone. devices, such as headphones and car connection kits. Note that the iPhone's Bluetooth capabilities are limited. For example, unlike most other Bluetooth-compatible phones, it can't talk to your computer over Bluetooth. LOCATION SERVICES The iPhone's Location Services feature lets apps-the ones that are built in and others that you download from the App Store-figure out where you are, using Wi-Fi, cellular tower

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data, and the Global Positioning System (GPS; iPhone 3G and 3GS only). If you want to globally bar all software from knowing your location, turn off Location Services. AUTO -LOCK After periods of inactivity, the iPhone locks so that touching its screen does nothingyou must wake it by pressing the Home or SleepIWake button . In the Auto-Lock screen, you set how much time passes before this happens. Your choices are one, two, three, four, or fi ve minutes, or never. PASSCODE LOCK You can assign a four-digit passcode to your iPhone so that no one can use it without entering the passcode (see "Locked Up"). Tap on this entry and you move to the Set Passcode screen, where you use the numeric keyboard to enter and verify a passcode. Once you've entered a passcode twice, you have the option to turn it off, change it, or set whether the phone requires a passcode immediately or after some period of inactivity, from one minute to four hours. A final option lets you set the phone to automatically erase all its data after ten failed attempts to enter the passcode. RESTRICTIONS This is the iPhone's parental controls section. You can set a passcode and then lock users out of certain features if they don't know the passcode. You can restrict adult iPod content, as well as access to Safari, YouTube, the iTunes Store, installing apps from

the App Store, taking pictures with the camera, and location services. In the Allowed Content section you can turn off the ability to make in-app purchases, choose a ratings system for your country, and block access to explicit music and podcast content. There are separate ratings entries for Movies, TV show, and Apps, which vary depending on your country. HOME This setting lets you define what happens when you

your 1i·; ~f;'m"tion from falling into the wrong hands by requiring a passcode to access your device.

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double-press on the Home button . It's a shortcut that can take you straight to the Home screen, Spotlight search screen, your Phone Favorites, the camera, or the iPod. You can also choose whether to override your default setting and bring up iPod controls if the iPod app is playing music. There is an option for Search Results where you can choose what type of results the Spotlight search returns. You can also choose the order in which Spotlight displays those

results by dragging and dropping the entries. DATE & TIME This screen lets you choose between a 12- or 24hour clock, which you can have set automatically (AT&T syncs the phone to the current time in your zone) or not. If you opt to not set your clock automatically, you can set your clock from here and choose what time zone you're in . KEYBOARD In the Keyboard screen you can turn four different typing features on or off. Auto-Correction prompts you with suggestions for words that you may have mistyped; it's a useful feature, but if you're too proud to ask for help you can turn it off here. Auto-Capitalization presses the shift key for you when you are at the beginning of a sentence. Enable Caps Lock lets you double-tap the shift key to go into Caps Lock mode, where all of your words will be in capital letters. And the "." Shortcut option is a trick that lets you tap the spacebar twice to insert a period, which is very useful at the end of a sentence. From beneath the International Keyboards menu you can choose which keyboards your iPhone will optionally support from a list of languages (see "Para Otros Idiomas"). If you opt for more than one keyboard, a small globe key will appear to the left of your spacebar, allowing you to toggle between all the international keyboard options you've enabled in

Para Otros Idiomas There's a keyboard option for every language you might type in.

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words you've added to the dictionary by declining a suggestion multiple times. Reset Home Screen Layout will move all the icons on your Home screen back to their initial positions. And Reset Location Warnings means that apps that want to know your physical location will need to ask you again before they discover that location (for more on fix ing your iPhone, see the "Trou bleshooting Tips" chapter).

this menu . (You can find this same menu in Settings: General: International: Keyboards.) INTERNATIONAL Choose what language you'd prefer your iPhone to use from this menu. In addition, you can set your keyboard options (see above) and choose what format the iPhone uses to display times, dates, and phone numbers by default. ACCESSIBILITY Only users of the iPhone 3GS will see this screen, which includes the ability to turn VoiceOver spoken items on and off, turn systemwide zooming on and off, invert the entire iPhone interface to white on black, force all audio to mono, and even automatically speak autocorrections and capitalizations. RESET You'll find this screen useful if your iPhone behaves strangely- if it routinely locks up or programs unexpectedly quit, for example--or if you simply want to start from scratch. Reset All Settings will reset the iPhone's settings but won't delete any media (see "A Fresh Start"). Erase All Content And Settings is more extreme than Reset All Settings, erasing settings as well as data and media- essentially wiping your iPhone clean. Reset Network Settings will take you back to the phone's original network settings. Reset Keyboard Dictionary will return the iPhone's dictionary to its default, erasing any

A Fresh Start If your iPhone is misbehaving , one solution may be a ful l reset.

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Mail, Contacts, Calendars

the name of the account to edit the usual litany of mail settings, including server names, user names, and passwords. If you've added an account on Apple's MobileMe service or on a Microsoft Exchange server, you'll be able to set which kinds of data-mail, contacts, calendars, and (for MobileMe) bookmarksyou want to sync to the phone (see "Exchange Rate''). In the MobileMe account settings, you can also turn on the Find My iPhone feature (for more on this tool, see the Troubleshooting chapter.) It's easy to add a new account. Tap on Add Account and you 'll see a screen that offers these choices: Microsoft Exchange, Mobile Me, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, and Other. The first five are largely templated-all you need to do is enter a few basic items and the iPhone takes care of the more arcane elements of setup, such as POP and SMTP or IMAP configuration options. Choosing Other lets you configure IMAP and POP accounts yourself. There are also options for adding LDAP contact accounts, CalDAV calendar accounts, and subscribed calendars. FETCH NEW DATA In the Fetch New Data section, you'll choose how often your iPhone will connect to the Internet and bring back new mail and updated contact or calendar data. The first option, Push, is currently only available to Exchange, MobileMe, and Yahoo

The Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen is the hub of all the settings pertaining to-you guessed it-your mail, contacts, and calendars. ACCOUNTS From the Accounts area, you can see your existing accounts, add new ones, and modify the settings for each existing account. For standard POP and IMAP mail accounts, you can tap on

iPhone allows Exchange you to specify exactly what you want to sync with your Microsoft Exchange server account.

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Choose Manually and it'll only check when you tell it to. If you tap on Advanced, you can choose whether to override your Push and Fetch settings for individual accounts. MAIL In the Mail area you can control how many messages are displayed, how much of each message appears in the preview, the minimum font size used (small, medium, large, extra large, giant), whether to show To and Cc labels, whether to ask before deleting a message, and whether to load remote images. You can also set whether you always want to BCC yourself, to create a signature (the default is "Sent From My iPhone"), and, if you have multiple mail accounts, to set a default account, which is wha t the iPhone uses when it creates a message from a program other than Mail. CONTACTS In the Contacts area, you can control how contacts are sorted on your phone and how they are displayed (either First, Last or Last, First). If you're syncing contacts to more than one server (for instance, to both MobileMe and Exchange), you can also set a default account for new contacts you create on the iPhone. CALENDARS In the Calendars area, you can choose to be alerted to new invitations after syncing calendars, what time zone you want to display items in, and which calendar should be used by default

Mail users. It lets you choose whether you want new updates to be sent to your phone automatically as they happen-the ultimate in instant gratification, but a feature that will also drain your battery. Third-party apps can also take advantage of push technology. You can also choose a global setting for how often to fetch data, for tasks that don't support push-for example, e-mail from a mail server that doesn't do push.

Hangin ' on the Telephone FOl'Ward your phone calls, turn off call waiting, hide your cal ler 10, and turn on TTY in the Phone settings screen.

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when new events are created from outside of the Calendar program.

Phone In the Phone screen (iPhones only), you'll see your cell number at the top . In the Calls section, you can enable call forwarding and call waiting, and tell the iPhone whether to broadcast your caller 10 whenever you call someone (see "Hangin' on the Telephone"). You can also turn the TIY option on or off (TTY, or teletypewriter, is a technology tha1 allows people with hearing and speech impairments to connect special equipment to their phones in order to communicate through text or by relaying messages to operators, who then speak the text) . At the bottom of the screen you'll see options for changing your voice-mail password and creating a password for your SIM card so it can't be used in other phones without that password. Tap on AT&T Services to see a list of AT&T service numbers (646 to view your minutes, for example), as well as an AT&T MyAccount button. Tap on this to launch Safari and go to a page where you can manage your AT&T account.

How 00 You like Your Video? Get the most out of videos on the iPhone by adjusting the iPod settings. cookies, and cache. Clearing the cache in particular can help solve issues you may be having with Safari on the iPhone-if it's con~ stantly crashing, for instance, it's possible that a bad cache file is causing the problem. You can also change the default search engine from Google to Yahoo. Perhaps the most important item in this screen, however, is AutoFill, which can save you time by automatically filling out Web forms using your contact informa·

Safari In the Safari screen, you can block pop-ups, enable or disable JavaScript and plug-ins, and clear the history,

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tion or user names and passwords you've previously entered. When you turn on the Use Contact Info slider, you' ll be able to select your default contact in the My Info field . In this screen you can also turn the Names & Passwords option on or off, and tap on Clear All to delete saved information.

playing from the beginning or pick up where you last left off and turn closed-captioning for video on or off (see "How Do You Like Your Video?") . If you're attaching your iPhone to an external TV via Apple's video adapter cable, you can tell the iPhone whether that TV is widescreen or not and set the phone to output in either NTSC (the TV standard in North America and parts of Asia) or PAL (most of the rest of the world).

Messages The Messages screen (iPhones only) lets you control how text and MMS alerts are displayed . You can set whether your alerts show a preview of the message text, and whether the iPhone should keep nagging you if you don 't respond to a message the first time it alerts you. When Repeat Alert is on, you'll get a second ding 10 minutes after receiving an SMS.

Photos The Photos screen offers settings that control how slide shows work-how long each image appears on screen, which transitions are used , whether the slide show repeats from the beginning when it reaches the last picture, and whether to shuffle the photos.

iPod Store

The iPod entry in Settings contains a few iPodoptions, such as Shake To Shuffle, Sound Check (the feature that attempts to make all audio tracks play at approximately the same volume), EO, and maximum audio volume. You can also control whether you want videos to always start

The Store setting screen is where you go to log in or out of your iTunes account. If you are not logged in to an iTunes account, you'll be given the option to Sign In or Create New Account. Once you're Signed in, you can select View Account (to see payment and contact information) or Sign Out.

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Getting On the Network o take full advantage of WI~FI Wi-Fi, on the other hand, many of the Phone's and is quite fast, and Wi-Fi networks iPod touch's best featuresare relatively common-in your including Web browsing, getting home, at work, and at hundreds of directions and maps, checking thousands of Wi-Fi hotspots. But stocks, and downloading e-mail it's not available everywhere, and messages-you'll need~ YOU're dependent on the to have suitable acspeed of the Wi-Fi cess to the Internet. ~ network's connection to the Internet. ForKnow Your Options ......-..... tunately, AT&T includes The Phone 3G and 3GS ~ free access to its own Wi-Fi give you three choices for In• hotspot network as part of your ternet access: slow and common Phone plan- and that includes (EDGE), pretty fast and available in more than 7,000 Starbucks and only some cities (3G), or quite fast 10,000 McDonald's locations. but spotty (Wi-Fi). EDGE This cellular data stanUsing Wi-Fi Happily, the iPhone switches dard is ubiquitous across most of AT&T's network. Unfortunately, seamlessly between EDGE, 3G, and Wi-Fi, so you've always got it can be as slow as molasses, a backup plan when one form of averaging rates just two to three times faster than dial-up modems network isn 't available. However, at best, and far slower at worst. you'll probably want to connect to a Wi-Fi network whenever pos3G This more modern cellular sible, since it's the fastest of the data standard is available in many cities, though it's not as pervasive three options- and it's particularly handy if you're somewhere without as EDGE. Every iPhone service a good cellular signal. (You also plan offered by AT&T includes can't download content larger than unlimited use of EDGE and 3G. If you can get a 3G signal, you'll find 10MB from the iTunes Store unless that it's fairly fast-not as fast as a you're on a Wi-Fi network.) Wi-Fi broadband connection, but You can access your Wi-Fi setmore prevalent. tings from two locations: from the

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Wi-Fi menu at the top of the Settings screen, or from the Network screen in the General settings. From here you can turn Wi-Fi on or off. When it's on, a Choose A Network section appears. By default the iPhone will list any wireless networks within range (see "Galling All Wi-Fi"). Those that require a password will display a lock next to them . Open networks won't. You can gauge the strength of the Wi-Fi signal by looking at the radiating lines (next to the lock icon). You can quickly join a network by tapping on its name. If the network is protected, you 'll be prompted to enter its password. To view settings for any of the listed networks, tap on the blue arrow to the right of the network's name. In the resulting screen, you'll see a Forget This Network option. Tap on this if you wish to no longer automatically connect to that network when your iPhone sees it. (This is useful , for example, if you join an unprotected network only to find that it doesn't actually provide a connection to the Internet.) The Other option in this list lets you join a hidden network. Tap on it and you can enter the name of the network and specify what type of security it uses. When you're done, tap Join to join the network. At the bottom of the Wi-Fi Networks screen you'll see an Ask To Join Networks option. With this switched on, if you're not connect-

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ed to a known Wi-Fi network, your iPhone will automatically prompt you with a list of networks around you. If you switch this option off, you'll need to navigate to the Wi-Fi menu within Settings in order to pick a network. It's a trade-off between the annoyance of constantly being asked to join networks you don't want to join, and having to take a few extra steps every time you want to join a new network.

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Locating a Hot Spot

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Many businesses and cities have chosen to offer Internet access over Wi-Fi as an incentive to bring people into stores, downtowns, or lesser-traveled business districts. You can find a list of locations through online resources or any of the Wi-Fi locator apps currently in the App Store. JiWire.com fj iwire.com) offers a comprehensive hotspot directory online and in App form. Wi-Fi Free Spot (w ififreespotcom) specializes in finding no-cost Wi-Fi locations. For iPod touch users, many U.S. Starbucks outlets offer two hours of continuous free service each day to anyone with a Starbucks Card, a stored-value card you can use for purchases. Whone owners already have free Starbucks access through AT&T.) Starbucks has Wi-Fi in its 8,000 freestanding corporate-ow ned stores in the United States. Often, visiting a local park is all you need to do to get online. Many cities and even small tow ns provide free Wi-Fi in central and neighborhood parks, or central squares with free service. This includes famous parks like Bryant Park in New York City (right behind the main library branch, w hich itself has free Wi-Fi), and the central square in Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island, Maine. When you log into a Wi-Fi hotspot in Safari, a special Log In sheet will pop up. It should remember your information the next time you try to log in to that hotspot.

Use the Right Port If your ISP uses an unusual port for its secure e-mail, you can setlhe iPhone's Mail program to accommodate it. (Port numbers are like num bered cubbies in a mailroorn : each cubby corresponds to a particular service, like chat, FTP, or e-mail.) To set up your account, tap on Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendars: Add Account: Other, Instead of entering just the mail server name (for example, pop ,gmail .com), append a colon and the port number, like so:

pop.gmail.com:99S.

Security The iPhone's eagerness to join other networks isn't necessarily good for you when you're trying to ensure that your data doesn't wind up in someone else's hands. There's plenty of evidence that some network snoopers spend a fair amount of time scooping up private e-mail messages and private information. Some of what the iPhone gives up pretty easily includes e-mail passwords for unprotected accounts, the contents of unprotected e-mail messages, and unencrypted Web page contents

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(typically sites not involving e-commeree or banking). When you're on an unprotected Wi-Fi network, you'll want to be conscious of what information you're potentially giving away. Here are some of the most important steps you can take. SECURE E-MAil By default, the iPhone uses SSL (Secure Sockets layer) encryption for POP, IMAp, and SMTP e-mail. SSL e-mail connections work just like secure Web sessions: the iPhone's e-mail soft-

and Mobile Me accounts that you set up from the Mail screen, SSL is the default option and shouldn't be changed . For accounts other than those four service providers, you'll need to check with your ISP to see if it supports SSL connections. If your ISP doesn't give you a secure option, you may be able to work around the problem by setting your e-mail account-at the serverto automatically fo rw ard or copy incoming messages to a secure service like Hushmail (www .hushmail.com). You can then set up a Mail account on your iPhone to retrieve e-mail from Hushmail w ith full confidence.

ware exchanges digital certificate information with the mail server and encrypts data in a w ay that makes it extremely difficult to decipher. For AOL, Gmail , Yahoo Mail,

Share Your Connection Tethering-sharing your mobile phone's data connection with your computer-is a new feature for iPhone 3G and 3GS owners. (Tethering is not available from all carriers, and many carriers charge extra for tethering usage, so check with your provider first. ) To start a tethering connection, go to Sellings: General: Network: Internet Tethering on your iPhone. You'll see an on/off slider and br;ef directions for connecting the phone to your computer. Drag the slider to on. You can tether your iPhone to your computer either using the USB dock-connector cable that came with your iPhone or over Bluetooth. Each approach requires configuring a few network settings on your computer; check with your provider or Apple's iPhone support Web site for the exact details. Once you've got a live tethering connection, you will see a blue bar at the top of your iPhone screen lor the duration of the connection. (A Bluetooth tethering connection will disconnect if your phone makes or receives any phone calls, so USB is likely the mare reliable approach.)

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VPN connection) . If your corporation requires that, turn on the RSA SecurlD option. If a password is required , you can choose to either enter it in the setup (in wh ich case the iPhone will automatically use it) or leave the field blank (the iPhone will then prompt you each time you connect to the VPN). L2TP connections also require a shared secret that a system administrator will give you. We recommend selecting Send All Traffic, which makes the iPhone encrypt all connections. When you're done, tap on Save. The profile appears in the VPN setting screen. Tap the profile to select it as your default. You can enable your VPN through the On/Off switch on the VPN setting screen. If you have just one VPN profile set up, that switch will also appear on the main Settings screen below the Airplane mode and Wi- Fi entries. If you have multiple profiles, you'll see the message "Not Connected," which, when tapped, takes you to the VPN setting screen. Unfortunately, the iPhone's VPN feature isn't as seamless as it should be. VPN connections drop off as your iPhone switches among Wi-Fi, EDGE, and 3G networks. This means you'll have to turn the VPN off and back on manually when you switch from one network connection to another.

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VPN As with laptop users, iPhone owners should use a virtual private network (VPN) when connecting to unfamiliar Wi-Fi networks. The iPhone supports three types of VPN connections and lets you set up multiple VPN profiles, each with unique information. This is great for users who require two or more VPNs for their job. A couple of services provide a Mac-friendly VPN for a monthly fee. WiTopia.net (witopia.net) may be the best and least expensive option for iPhone owners. When you purchase its $40-per-year VPN service, WiTopia throws in a free PPTP connection for the i Phone. To set up the VPN, navigate to Settings: General: Network: VPN, and tap on Add VPN Configuration. The Add Configuration dialog displays the three support flavors: L2TP, PPTP, and IPsec. Check with you r network administrator if you're not sure which one to use. If you use l2TP, for instance, you'll enter a name for the VPN connection, the VPN server's host name, and your account name. Some VPN servers require just a password, while others use twofactor authentication. In the latter case, you'll also enter a constantly changing code that appears on an RSA SecurlD token generator that you carry with you (you'll do this every time you enable the

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Navigation Basics Pple has adapted two classic Mac features for the iPhone and iPod touch. The cut, copy, and paste feature allows you to work with text and images between applications. Spotlight allows you to search your entire device from one powerful screen .

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Cut, Copy, and Paste It's telling that the most anticipated new feature of iPhone 3.0 is one that goes back to the earliest days of the graphical user interlace. Apple says that it had to take its time and make sure that it got this feature right, and it seems to have done just that. While cut, copy, and paste aren't available in every application, Apple has implemented it at a basic level , so it's available pretty much anywhere you deal with text. TEXT There are a couple of ways to use copy and paste on text. DOUble-tapping on a word will automatically select that word, highlighting it in blue and popping up a floating menu of options. What you're offered depends on whether the text is read -only- if so, you'll only be able to copy. If you're composing text, on the other hand, you can cut, copy, or paste. Alternatively, if you tap and hold on a word for a moment before releas-

Move It Cut, copy, and paste options appear in a floating menu once you've selected text. ing it, you'll also be provided with Select and Select All options. Once you 've selected text, you have the option to alter your selection by dragging the handles on either end of the selection (or in some apps, such as Safari, you may get a block wi th handles on all four sides). Dragging the handles brings up a magnified

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view that's similar to the loupe, but rectangular. The selection algorithm is smart, too: if you tap on one of the handles and drag quickly, it automatically detects spaces and makes sure that it never cuts off in the middle of a word ; should you want to select just part of a word, though, you can tap and drag the handles w ith more precision. LINKS AND IMAGES In addition to handling plain text, the Gut, copy, and paste feature handles

rich text such as styling and hyperlinks . To copy a link in Safari, tap and hold on any URL. A list of options will pop up, including Copy. Copy, cut, and paste aren't limited to text. You can also apply them to images in different applications. Press and hold on an image in Photos, Mail, or Safari to bring up copy options. SHAKE TO UNDO If at any point you make a mistake-say you paste something you didn't mean to-it's easy enough to fix. Just give the iPhone a quick shake, and it brings up a dialog box with an Undo button . There are multiple levels of undo, if you need to correct several mistakes, and you can redo actions as well , just in case you think better of them . The Undo Typing dialog box pops up when you shake your iPhone in a text-entry field.

Search with Spotlight Apple has brought as X's popular Spotlight feature, which lets you quickly find items anywhere on a Mac, to the iPhone and iPod touch . Now it's easier to find information and content fast. You access the Spotlight feature by going to the iPhone's Home screen and then swiping to the right. Alternatively, you can press the Home button when you're on the Home screen, or, using the Settings app, configure your iPhone to open Spotlight whenever you

Copy Cat To copy an image in Safari, tap on it and hold until this menu scrolls up. Tap on Copy.

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omit particular types of items from searches, as well as to change the order in which it displays results. In the Settings app, go to General: Home: Search Results. Spotlight will omit unchecked items from search results. To change the order of your search results, drag the three-lined handle for an item up or down in the list. Unfortunately, there's no way to exclude particular Mail folders or accounts from searches; for example, sent mail or, if you've got a Gmail account, junk-mail folders. APP· SPECIFIC SPOTLIGHT In addition to using the Spotlight screen to search your entire iPhone, you can use Spotlight within several apps; specifically, Calendar, Contacts, iPod, Mail, and Notes. By using these app-specific Spotlight interfaces, you can limit your search to each app's particu lar type of data; in addition , some apps provide options for fine-

double-press the Home key. You'll see a search field at the top of the screen, and the iPhone's on-screen keyboard will appear at the bottom. Begin typing your search term, and in a few seconds results will start to appear on the screen . By default, Spotlight searches your applications, Web clips, contacts, notes, e-mail messages, calendar events, and iPod content. Your search results are grouped by these item types : audio files in the iPod app, e-mail messages, calendar events, and so on. Tap on an item to open it in its respective application. Tapping on an app will launch it. Unlike Spotlight on the Mac, iPhone's Spotlight doesn't search the full content of every file on your phone. But it does search most of the important fields across Apple's built-in applications (see "Who's in the Spotlight?"). You can configure Spotlight to

Who's in the Spotlight? Here's a list of exactly what fields the Spotlight feature examines: Applications: each application's name Calendar. event titles, locations, and invitees Contacts: each contact's first, last, and company names iPod: the names of songs, artists, and albums for music tracks, as well as the titles of audiobooks, podcasts, and videos Mail: the To, From, and Subject fields of all local messages Oncluding Sent mail); message bodies are not searched Notes: the text of each note

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tuning your search. (In Calendar and Contacts, you see this app-specific Search field in List view as soon as you launch the app . But in iPod, Mail, and Notes, it's hidden by default. Just scroll up-meaning swipe your finger down the screen-to reveal the field at the top of the screen. In Mail, you need to be browsing a mailbox to access the Spotlight field; it won't appear in the Accounts view or while you're browsing the list of mailboxes in an account.) For example, when you're using the search field in Calendar, Contacts, iPod, or Notes, Spotlight limits the results to the contents of the respective app, so you aren't distracted by irrelevant data. The iPod app goes one step further by grouping your results into artists, albums, songs, movies, podcasts, podcast episodes, and so on. In Mail, Spotlight offers several search filters, letting you limit your search to message subjects, senders, or recipients. (Unfortunately, even when searching within the Mail app, Spotlight doesn't search the body of e-mail messages.) And for Exchange, MobileMe, and many IMAP servers, a Continue Search On Server option appears at the end of your list of results; tap on it, and Spotlight will expand your

Super Spotlight The Spotlight screen separates results by category. You can change the category order in Settings: General: Home: Search Results. search to messages on the server that you haven't downloaded to your phone. Unfortunately, and un like Spotlight in Mac OS X, Spotlight on the phone can 't search for, or within, data in third-party apps. It only searches for their names.

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he iPhone packs a lot of power into its slim frame. But firs t and foremost, it's a phone. In addition to the features you'd expect from a modern mobile phone, the iPhone includes a few extras you wouldn't-including a new way of interacting with your voice mail. But the iPhone doesn't limit the concept of communication to just calls. You can also use it to send e-mail or text messages to others. Although the process of making ~ calls and checking your 8-mail isn't complicated, you can save time and get more done by customizing a few settings and taking advantage of a few hidden shortcuts. We've got the inside scoop on managing your contacts, juggling multiple callers, saving e-mailed ~ photos, filling in the gaps in the included text f messaging application, and more.

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Managing Contacts SYNC WITH THE MAC On the Mac, the iPhone syncs contacts from as X's Address Book, an online Yahoo Address Book, or-if you have iTunes 7.7 or later-your Google contacts. The first time you connect your phone to your Mac, iTunes will ask which contacts you want to import. You can choose to import every contact in as X's Ad dress Book or specify only selected groups-assuming you've created contact groups in Address Book (see "Importing Contacts"). Yahoo and Google users can sync their online contacts by selecting the respective Sync Contacts option for their service. Sup-

t the heart of the iPhone's communication features lies the Contacts list, a collection of phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other personal data about anyone you'd ever want to talk to. You don't just use this information to make calls; it also lets you avoid having to type in e-mail addresses every time you start a new message, or street addresses when you 're looking up directions. To truly take advantage of your device's features, you'll want an extensive-and up-to-date---list of contacts.

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Importing Contacts onto Your Device There are a few ways to get your contacts onto the iPhone or iPod touch. The easiest is via iTunes, which automatically syncs contacts between your computer and device. Although you can sync the iPhone's contacts wi th on Iy one computer at a time, it doesn 't necessarily have to be the same computer that you use to sync your media files. This is useful if you keep your address book at work and your music library at home. Syncing is also bidirectional-any changes made to a contact on the iPhone will show up on the computer, and vice versa.

iiIi1 Sort (tOut If you don't like the way the iPhone sorts your contacts, you can change that from the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section of the Settings screen. You can choose whether your contacts are sorted by last name or first name, as well as how they're displayed on screen ("Joe Smith" or ·Smith, Joe"). Unfortunately, you can 't sort by company name.

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Importing Contacts iTunes on the Mac lets you sync all of your Address Book contacts. Clicking on the Selected Groups option lets you transfer a more lim ited collection to your phone. ply your user name and password for the correct account and iTunes does the rest. If you store your contacts in a program other than Address Book or on a Web site other than Yahoo or Google, you may still be able to use them. The trick is to get your contacts into Address Book. If you're using Microsoft Entourage 2008, the process is actually quite simple. First, make sure you've updated to the latest version of Entourage, part of Microsoft Office 11.3.5 or later. Open Entourage's preferences, select the Sync Services screen, and then enable the option to Synchronize Contacts With Address Book And .Mac. Within minutes, your Entourage contacts w ill migrate

to Address Book. (Note that this sync goes both ways, so if Address Book wasn't empty, its information will also be copied to Entourage.) From that point on, Address Book, and hence the iPhone, will automatically reflect changes made to contacts in Entourage (and vice versa). Unfortunately, Entourage Categories and Groups aren't synchronized; you'll have to re-create them within Address Book (see "Group It"). OS X's Address Book also allows you to sync w ith Microsoft Exchange servers running Exchange 2000 or later. In the Address Book's General preferences pane select the Synchronize With Exchange option and enter the details about your account.

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For other address-book programs and Web services, you'l1 need to export your contacts in the vCard format (check the software or Web site documentation to find out how to do this) . Save these exported files to a folder on your Mac, and then simply drag them into the open Address Book window to import the contacts . The downside is that you won't be able to synchronize contacts, so whenever you make a change, you'll have to make it in both Address Book and in your main contacts program or Web site. SYNC WITH YOUR PC On a Windows PC , iTunes lets you sync from Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo's Address Book, Google Contacts, or the Windows Address Book. The latter includes any contacts

you've entered in Microsoft Outlook Express. (You can also reach the Windows Address Book from the Accessories menu; however, it's far more likely that you've been using this Contacts list via Outlook Express.) You can also pick specific groups from your address books to sync with the iPhone; these groups are then accessible via the Group screen, or via a Groups button that appears at the upper left of the All Contacts screen. IMPORT FROM A 81M CARD If you have a SIM card from an old phone. you can easily import those contacts onto your iPhone. Insert the SIM card into the slot on top of your iPhone. Go to Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Then scroll down and tap on Import SIM Contacts.

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plication in a new group. These contacts are stored on the server, not on your iPhone, so you must be connected to the Internet to view and search them . SYNC WIRELESSLY You can synchronize you r iPhone's contacts over the air, without connecting to your computer. However, in order to do so you need to be using either Apple's MobileMe service or a Microsoft Exchange server (including Google, via the Google Mobile service) . To enable over-the-air syncing on your iPhone, visit the Settings application and go to the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section . A list of the e-mail accounts on your phone will be displayed; tap on a MobileMe or Exchange account and you'll have the option to turn syncing on or off individually for Mail, Contacts, and Calendars (see "Instant Sync"). MobileMe users can also sync Web browser bookmarks. Once your contacts are set up to sync, any changes you make on your iPhone will be reflected in the service you sync with, for example in your MobileMe contacts on your Mac and on the Web, or with your Exchange address book. If you turn off mobile syncing at a later time, the synced contacts will be removed from your phone. You'll need to either re-enable syncing or connect your iPhone to your computer to restore them.

Instant Sync If you have a MobileMe account, you can set the iPhone to sync contact s, e-mail , and more while you're away from your computer. ACCESS AN LDAP ACCOUNT If you have an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) account, you can connect to it from your iPhone. You'll need the server address, a user name, and a password. Go to Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendars: Add Account: Other: Add LDAP Account. Enter your account information, tap on Next to verify your account, then tap on Save. The LDAP account will appear in your Contacts ap-

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Enter Contacts Manually You can also add contacts from the iPhone. To access your Contacts list, tap on the Contacts button from the Home screen or tap on the Phone button and then select Contacts from the row of buttons along the bottom of the screen. To start a new contact, tap on the plus sign (+) at the top right of the screen . A blank form will appear. Tap on each section to enter the appropriate contact information, including the name, number (or numbers, as the case may be), e-mail address, and Web site (see "New Additions"). But you're not limited to the default list of contact fields. Tap on Add Field to access a list of additional options, including birthday (or any important date), nickname, job title, instant messaging name, and a general Note field that you can use for any details that don't fit elsewhere. There are plenty of other cool things you can do with your contacts. For particularly important callers, such as your spouse or boss, you can assign a custom ringtone so you can immediately identify their calls. Apple provides 25 built-in ringtones, but you can add more by purchasing them via the iTunes Store, or you can use a third-party application such as Ambrosia Software's iToner (www .ambrosiasw.com) or Rogue Amoeba's Fission (www.rogueamoeba .com) to make your own.

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For people you call often, tap the Add To Favorites button at the bottom of the contact to create a shortcut to his or her number. You can further personalize your contacts by adding photos to them. The photo will appear on screen whenever you have that person on the line-for both in ~ coming and outgoing calls. To add a photo to a contact, tap on Edit at the top of the contact's Info screen, and then tap on Add Photo. You can add a photo from one of the iPhone's photo albums, or you can

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address book, you can quickly add that number to an existing contact or create a new contact for it by tapping on the arrow next to the phone number in the Recents list. In the resulting screen, tap on Create New Contact and fill in any additional contact information you may have, or tap on Add To Existing Contact and select an entry from your Contacts list. To delete a contact, tap on the Edit button at the top of that contact's entry and then scroll down to Delete Contact .

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the iPhone, you can look through them by tapping on the Groups button and selecting a group from the resulting list. Tap on a phone number to place a call immediately. If you tap on an address instead, the Maps program will open and pinpoint the contact's location . Tapping on an e-mail address will launch a blank e-mail in the iPhone's Mail client addressed to that contact. You can also send a text message by tapping the Text Message button, as long as you have a phone number for that contact.

Share a Contact If you want to share a contact on your iPhone with someone else, select the desired contact, scroll to the bottom of the entry, and tap on the Share Contact button_ This will open up a new e-mail with the contact attached as a vCard (.vcf) file. Enter an e-mail address to share it with and tap on Send. If you have an iPhone 3G or later and your carrier allows MMS messages, you can also share contacts via MMS message. When you tap on Share Contact at the bottom of

Search Party You can search for contacts from within the Address book, or use the main Spotlig ht search page the screen, you 'll see an additional option for MMS. Tap on MMS, pick a recipient for your message, and tap on Send.

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Using the Phone he iPhone makes initiating and answering calls a piece of cake. There's also plenty you can do while on the phone to manage multiple calls or locate useful information. And if you miss a call, don't worry-the iPhone has you covered there, too, with its Visual Voicemail feature.

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Fast Friends The Favorites pane gives you quick access to the people you call most often . Favorites button that appears at the bottom of a contact record to add someone to this list. From the Favorites screen, tap on a person's name to dial that number. Tap on the blue arrow next to the name to see the contact's full Info screen. If you decide you wan t to remove someone from your Favorites list, simply press the Edit button and then tap on the minus

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sign next to that name. To rearrange the contacts in the Favorites list, tap the Edit button and then tap and hold on the "handle" to the right of each contact; you can drag the contacts in the list to rearrange them .

Recents All incoming and outgoing calls are collected here. The Recents screen offers two buttons-All or Missed . The All button shows the name (if it's in your contacts) or phone number (if it's not) for all incoming and outgoing calls (see "While You Were Out''). If a number is in your Contacts list, the type of number (Mobile, Work, Home) will appear under the name, along with a small phone icon if it was an outgoing call. If it's an unknown number, the city and state for that area code will appear underneath . If the iPhone registers multiple calls to or from the same person in a short period of time, it shows the number of calls next to the person 's entry- higher numbers might reflect a sense of urgency. Missed calls are listed in red. The Missed button displays only those calls you've missed. If you tap on the blue arrow next to a person in the list, you'll find additional details, such as whether it was an incoming or outgoing call, the date and time each call was logged, and the dUration of the call. There are also options to send a text message or to share a contact. If the number isn't in your

While You Were Out The Recents list highlights missed calls in red. Tap on the blue arrow to access the person's contact info if he or she is in your address book, or additional options if not.

address book, this pane w ill give you the option to either create a new contact for it or add it to an existing contact. Tap on the name or number in the Recents list to call that person back.

Contacts This button gives you access to all of the contacts on your phone (see "Managing Contacts" earlier in this chapter for more details).

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Managing Phone Calls When someone calls you, two on-screen options appear on your iPhone: Accept or Decline. Tapping

On the Line Slide to unlock your phone and answer an incoming call.

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on the latter (red) button directs the call to voice mail. Tapping on the green Accept button answers the call. If your phone happens to be in battery-preserving locked mode when a call comes in, swiping the unlock slider automatically answers the call. If you don't want to answer a call while the phone is in locked mode, you can press the Sleep/ Wake button once to silence the ringing instead. Press it a second time to send the call to voice mail immediately. If you are using the earbuds included with your iPhone, squeezing the microphone button (located partway down the right w ire) will answer the call, piping audio through the earbuds. When you've completed the call, you can hang up by squeezing the microphone button a second time. If you're listening to music on you r iPhone, it will gradually lower the music volume and then pause playback when you answer a call; when you 're finished, playback will automatically resume and the volume will slowly ramp back up to the previous level.

Talking Points Use the on-screen options to access additional features while talking on the phone. To navigate a phone tree, tap on the Keypad button . "Talking Points"). The Hold button, on the other hand, mutes both ends of the conversation. You can use the keypad while on a call to navigate phone trees or dial extensions. Tap on the Speaker button to put the call on speakerphone, so you can chat without holding the iPhone up to your ear. If you need to look up a number or an address, tap on Contacts to access your address book. You can have more than one

On-Screen Options Six buttons appear during phone calls: Mute, Keypad, Speaker, Add Call, Hold, and Contacts. The Mute button turns off your microphone; you'll still be able to hear callers on the other end of the line, but they won't hear you (see

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person on the phone at a time. If you're on a call and want to add another caller, tap on the Contacts button or the Add Call button. The latter option will let you peruse not just your main contacts list, but also favorites, recents, and the keypad. The iPhone will put the first caller on hold wh ile you dial the number or tap on the appropriate contact. Once someone answers, you can tap on Merge Calls to combine the two calls into a conference call or tap on Swap to move between the two calls while keeping the callers separate (you can have only two people-besides yoursel f-on the phone at once). If you are already on a call when someone calls your phone, you'll be presented with two options : ignore, or hold call and answer. The first choice directs the incoming call to voice mail. The second places the current caller on hold while you answer the incoming call; you 'll then have the option to merge the two calls or swap between them. You can use the data functions of the iPhone, such as browsing the Web, checking your e-mail , or looking up locations in Maps, but if you have a first -generation iPhone, you can only do so when you ' re on a Wi-Fi network. iPhone 3G and 3GS users, on the other hand , can talk and browse simultaneously on the cellular data connection.

Party Line When a second call comes in, you can choose to end the first call, ignore the second call, or put the first call on hold.

Other Settings You can control additional phone features- such as call waiting, call forwarding, and caller ID-from the Phone section of the Settings screen (accessed from the Home screen). For example, tap on the Call Forwarding option to send incoming calls to another number. If you don't like being interrupted, you can also turn the Call Waiting feature off; incoming calls will immediately go to voice mail when

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you're on the line. The Caller ID option lets you choose whether your phone number is broadcast to other phones when you call them. This is also the place to access your carrier's customer support services if available.

Checking Voice Mail like all cell phones, the Phone lets you access you r voice mail while you're on the go. But that's where the similarities end. Unlike other voice-mail services, which require that you listen to all messages in the order in which you received them, Apple's implementation displays messages in a list, letting you pick and choose which messages you listen to and in what order. If you have new voice mails, your Slide To Unlock slider will instead say Slide To listen . This will jump you directly to your voicemail page. If your phone is already unlocked, you'll see a red number on the Voicemail button at the bottom of the screen. Tap on this button to retrieve your messages (see "Pick and Choose"). Unheard voice mails have a blue dot next to them. Tap on the message to begin playback. Tap on it again to pause. You can also use the on-screen slider to fast-forward or rewind a message, if you didn't quite catch the details. If you wan t to call the person back, just tap on the Call Back button. Tap on Delete

Pick and Choose The iPhone lets you choose which voice mail messages you want to listen to. If you accidentally delete a message, don 't worry; you can retrieve it by tapping on the Deleted Messages item. to get rid of the message entirely. Tapping on the blue arrow next to a voice mail message will take you to that person 's contact information; it will also display under his or her name the time and day that message was left and give you options to text that person, share his or her contact information, or add him or her to your favorites. You can also record your outgo-

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choose from a list of options, such as "mobile" or uhome." To speed things along, say a person's name followed by the particular phone number you wish to call ("Call Sally Sparrow work.") You can even tell Voice Control to dial a specific number: "Dial 867-5309 ."

ing voice mail greeting by tapping on the Greeting button in the top left of the Voicemail screen .

Voice Control To initiate Voice Control on the iPhone 3GS, hold down the Home button or the center button on the iPhone's headphones for about two seconds. You'll hear a quick double chime, indicating that it's your turn to speak. (Press the button again if you want to abort your Voice Control session without saying anything.) After the chime, you can choose from a small selection of commands. To dial a contact, just say "dial" or "call" followed by the name of the person you want to contact. If you just say the first name, Voice Control will try to figure out whom you meant. If you say a common name, Voice Control will offer you-via a pleasant yet robotic female voice-all the people in your address book with that name, and ask you to say which one you meant. If you start out by saying the person's full name, you 're more likely to get a hit the first time. If your contact has more than one phone number, Voice Control will prompt you to

Voice Box If Voice Control finds multiple matches for your request, you'll be asked to specify.

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Checking E-mail s it did with Safari, Apple has slimmed down X's Mail program for the iPhone. Mail's fast and powerful features make up for the device's lack of a physical keyboard. Not only does Mail display messages beautifully, it's easy to use. In this section, you'll get to know its best features, like autocorrect and the landscape keyboard. Learn how to set up new accounts, add images to messages, and keep your inbox organized.

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New Account The iPhone simpli· fies the process of adding an e-mail account from one of these services. To add an account from a different service provider, tap on Other. see a screen with large buttons for Microsoft Exchange, MobileMe, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL, and Other (see "New Account"). Note that you'll need to have an e·mail ac· count wi th one of these services or an ISP before setting it up on the iPhone.

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Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo, Gmail, MobileMe, and AOL E·mail Accounts Tap on one of the first four buttons and Mail displays a few basic fields for you to fill in: your name (this is your actual name-or at least the name you want to appear in the From field when people receive your e-mails), e-mail address, password, and a description (to help you distinguish multiple accounts). When you tap on Save, Mail automatically fills in all the necessary settings. The account should now be read y to go.

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Mail, Your Way Use the Mail, Contacts, Calendar screen to determine how many messages you see in your Inbox , set the font size of messages, and create a signature for outgoing messages. the outgoing (SMTP) server- not all SMTP servers require this.

Mail Preferences Once you have your accounts set up, you can use the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section of the Settings screen to set preferences for your accounts (see "Mail, Your Way"). For example, you can temporarily turn off an e-mail account by tapping on the account name and

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then moving the Account slider to Off (if it's a MobileMe account or Exchange account, slide the Mail slider to Off) . Your iPhone won't check the disabled account for new mail, nor will it appear in the main Mail Accounts list; however, it will remain available in the Mail settings so you can turn it back on at any time. Tap on an e-mail account to access settings for how that account works. Under Advanced account settings, you can enable SSL security for incoming and outgoing mail, as well as set an IMAP path prefix if your e-mail provider requires it (see "Getting on the Network" in the Getting Started chapter for more on security settings). General mail settings include how many messages each Inbox displays, how much of each message you see before tapping on it, what size font is used, and more. You can use the Signature option to change your e-mail Signature from the stock "Sent from my iPhone" (or delete it to omit the Signature entirely). However, unlike many e-mail clients, Mail on the iPhone offers only a single signature, which it automatically appends to every outgoing message.

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Avoid Creating Twin Accounts Don't give two e-mail accounts the same name (aka description). Mail will get confused and copy the settings from one account to the other. If this happens, you 'll need to delete one of the accounts and then re-create it .

screen. If you have multiple accounts, you'll see them listed on the Accounts screen; tap on an account to see its folders (for example, Inbox, Sent, and Trash) .

Browsing Your Inbox Every time you view your Inboxeither by tapping on it from the Mailboxes screen or by returning to it from another part of the iPhone-the iPhone will check that account for new mail. In fact, if you have an account set to check for mail manually, as opposed to on a schedule, this is one way to perform a manual check; the other is to tap on the circular-arrow icon at the bottom of the Inbox screen (see "Inside the Inbox"). The Mail button on the iPhone's Home screen displays the total number of unread messages across all your In boxes. Once in an Inbox, you'll see a

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also set this from the Mail, Contacts, Calendars screen in Settings. If you have more than that number of messages in an Inbox, scroll to the bottom of the Inbox and tap on the Load More Messages option. (The total number of messages on the selVer will appear below this.) If you want to jump back to the top of the mailbox, just tap the iPhone's status bar where the time is displayed . As with most iPhone programs, if you exit Mail and later go back to it, you'll be returned to the screen you were last viewing . Tapping on the left-arrow button at the top of the screen takes you up a level; repeatedly tapping on this button will eventually return you to the main Accounts screen . Unfortunately, if you've got multiple e-mail accounts set up on your iPhone, there's no option for viewing all incoming e-mail in a single In box. This means viewing mail for multiple accounts is a taphappy process of delving into an account, then its Inbox, then backing all the way out to the Accounts listing, then into an account, then into its Inbox, and so on.

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Navigating the Message To view an e-mail message (and thus mark it as read), tap on its title. E-mails appear very much as they do in a desktop e-mail program. However, to conselVe screen space, Mail limits the number of

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headers that appear at the top of your screen: by default, you'll see only the From field, subject, and date and time information . To see other header information, such as To and Cc fields, tap on the Details button . Tap on Hide to make this information disappear again . To keep gigantic files from clogging up your Inbox, Mail limits how much of an e-mail message it downloads (Apple doesn't say just what that size limit is) . If this happens, you'll see a button for downloading the entire message. You scroll through messages just as you do content in any other iPhone program-by flicking your finger across the screen. You can reverse-pinch to zoom in and pinch to zoom out. As with most programs on the iPhone, tapping on a Web link in an e-mail message switches to Safari and opens that URL; tapping on an e-mail link opens a new blank e-mail message with the To field filled out; tapping on a map link opens the Maps program and navigates to that location. But before you start tapping indiscriminately, try this little trick: when viewing an HTML e-mail, tap and hold on a link. You'll get a list of options, including Open and Copy. The link's full URL is shown at the top of the sheet. This is a great way to make su re that the "account update" e-mail you received is really going to take you to the site it claims it will.

Check It Out You can load an attached image, PDF, or Word document so it appears within the e-mail message. Once an image has loaded , tap and hold on it to save it to your Camera Roll or copy it. If a message includes an image as an attachment, you can view it right on the screen. To save an image, tap and hold on it; a panel will slide up with a Copy button and a Save Image button (see "Check It Out"). Tapping on Save Image will save the image to your Camera Roll in the Photos application. Copy will copy the image to your Clipboard . If the e-mail includes multiple images, there will be an

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additional option to save all of the images at once. If you don 't have a lot of time for downloading images, you have the option of disabling remote image loading. Go to Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendar and move the Load Remote Images slider to Off. You can still load images manually from within a message. You can also view Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and PDF attachments, although you can't edit them . According to Apple, Mail supports the following attachment file formats : .c, .cpp, .diff, .doc, .docx, .h, .hpp, .htm , .html, .m, .mm, .patch, .pdf,

.txt, .xls, and .xlsx . You can pinch to zoom and pan around attachments just like with images, as well as view them in either portrait or landscape orientation. While viewing a message, you can quickly go to the next or previous message in your Inbox by tapping on the up and down arrows at the lop of the screen. Although it's not obvious, you can mark a previously read message as unread. While viewing the message, tap on Details . This reveals a Mark As Unread option ; tap on it, and the next time you view your Inbox, the message will display the unread indicator.

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Deleting Messages You can delete a message, which moves it to the Trash folder, in one of several ways. If you have the e-mail open, simply tap on the trash-can icon at the bottom of the screen. The e-mail message will be sucked into the Trash and the next message will appear. If you're in the list view, on the other hand, you have two options for deleting messages without opening them. The quickest way is to simply swipe your fingertip across the message-from left to right or from right to left-and then tap on the Delete button that appears . The second way is to tap on the Edit button at the top of the screen, tap on the message, and then tap on the Delete button. In this mode you can select as many messages to delete as you like; Mail will mark them with a red check mark and they'll all be removed when you tap the Delete button at the bottom, which keeps a running total of how many messages you've selected. You can always tap the Cancel button if you think better of it. Unfortunately, there's no way to mark all or multiple messages as read. You also can't manually empty the Trash folder for an account. Instead, you'll have to either redelete messages inside the Trash folder, or wait for Mail's autodelete feature to delete them. To set how often Mail empties the Trash, open

Send a Letter Tapping on the left arrow gives you options to forward a message or reply to the sender.

the Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings, tap on the account's name, and tap on Advanced at the bottom of the screen. From the Advanced screen, tap on Remove and specify whether to erase deleted messages after a day, week, or month.

Sending E-mail You can send an e-mail message in one of several ways. The easiest is to reply to an existing message by tapping on the left-arrow icon at the bottom of the viewing screen (see

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icon (it looks like a box with a pencil) from either the message-viewing or the message-list screen. Whichever process you use, you can manually enter recipient addresses (tap on the return key between each address you want to enter), or tap on the plus sign to add a recipient from your contacts list; if a contact has multiple e-mail addresses, you'll be asked to choose one. You can also Cc recipients or Bcc additional addresses, which will hide the recipients' addresses from other addressees. If you want to Bcc yourself on every email that you send, so you can be sure it goes through, you'll find a slider for that setting under the Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings.

"Send a Letter"). This brings up a dialog giving you three options: Reply, Reply All (if there was more than one recipient), or Forward. If you forward a message that includes attachments, you'll have the option of including the attachments or just forwarding the body of the message. If you want to send a new message to the sender of an existing message, tap on the person's name in the From field and then tap on Email in the resulting screen Of the person isn't in you r contac1s, in which case you'll also have the option of adding him or her) or on the person's e-mail address (if he or she is already in your contacts). Finally, to start a completely fresh e-mail, tap on the new- message

iiIil Stay Organized You can 't create e-mail folders on the iPhone, However, if you have an IMAP e-mail account, you can create folders on the IMAP server-for example, by using the MobileMe Web Mail interface for MobileMe accounts, These folders will appear on the iPhone after the next e-mail check, and their contents will be synced between the iPhone and the server. To move an open message into a folder, tap on the folder icon at the bottom of the screen while viewing the message. Then select a folder from the resulting list. You can also move multiple messages from the mailbox view by tapping the Edit button and then selecting several messages as though you were going to delete them. Instead of tapping the Delete button at the end, though, tap the Move button (which keeps a running tally of how many messages you have selected) and you'll be prompted for which mailbox to move them to. You can always tap Cancel if you decide not to move things.

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If you want to remove a recipient before sending a message, just tap on the To or Cc field, tap on the recipient address to select it, and then tap on the Delete button on the on-screen keyboard . Once you've entered your subject and message, tap on Send. If you have multiple accounts, your message will by default be sent from the account in which you created it-you can change that by tapping once on the CcJBcc, From field, which will then expand into three separate fields, and then again on the From field. That will bring up a selector that allows you to pick any of your addresses.

iiIll Save for Later If you want to save a message you're working on so you can come back to it later, tap on CanceL Instead of deleting the message immediately, Mail pops up a dialog offering you three options : Save, Don 't Save, or CanceL Tap on Save to place the message in your Drafts folder. If your account doesn't currently have a Drafts folder, Mail will create one. However, don't be alarmed if the message doesn't appear in Drafts immediately-it may take a while to show up.

Just Add Pictures There are multiple ways to add images to your e-mails. To Sefid photos you have on your iPhone, go to the Photos application. In thumbnail view, tap on the arrow icon in the bottom left corner. Select the photos you'd like to send (up to five), tap on Share, and then tap on Email. Fill in the To and Subject fields and add a message, if desired. While sharing limits you to five photos, you can copy as many as you like and paste them into an e-mail. You can also copy and paste images from other e- mails or applications. Tap and hold on an image until the Copy command appears. Tap on it and return to your e-mail. Tap and hold on the body of your e-mail, and then tap on the Paste button.

Typing Tips For many, the biggest challenge of the iPhone (aside from resisting buying one) is getting accustomed to the virtual keyboard . Here are some ways to tap into the iPhone's typing features.

Go Wide If you need more room to maneuver the iPhone keyboard, rotate your phone horizontally. This will switch your keyboard to landscape mode.

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key you've pressed when you take your finger off the key instead of when you tap on it. It takes a little getting used to, but the added benefit is that if you press a key and see that it's the wrong one, you can easily slide your finger to the correct key. In fact, here's a real time-saver: the next time you need to add a punctuation mark, press and hold the .?123 button until the numeric and punctuation keyboard appears, slide your finger to the key you want, and release it. Not only will you type the punctuation mark, but you' ll find yourself back in alphabet mode without having to press the ABC key.

Department of Corrections No matter how good a typist you are, mistakes happen. Fortunately, the iPhone's pretty darn smart. By looking at the letters near the ones you typed, it can deduce with surprising accuracy what you meant to type. This means you'll often get better results by powering through a word even if you notice you pressed a wrong key, rather than constantly pressing backspace to delete your mistakes. Once you've typed a few more letters, the iPhone w ill offer a suggestion in a text bubble (see "Helpful Suggestions"). To accept the iPhone's suggestion, just press the spacebar or a punctuation mark. If the iPhone is wrong, tap on the suggestion and it'll go away. Dismiss the iPhone's suggestion for

Helpful Suggestions The iPhone tries to guess what word you're typing. If it's ri ght, tap on the spacebar. the same word twice, and it'll add the word you actually type to the internal dictionary.

Unlock Caps Lock Typing in all caps may be considered impolite, but sometimes it's necessary. The caps lock functionality isn't enabled by default; to turn it on, go to Settings: General: Keyboard and tap on Enable Caps Lock. Then, when you're typing, quickly double-tap on the shift key; it'll turn blue to tell you caps lock is on. Tap on it once more to disable caps lock.

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exactly where you want. When you release, the curser will be in the correct spot and the Select, Select All, and Copy Or Paste options will appear. For more on using the cut, copy, and paste features, see the "Navigation Basics" section in the Getting Starled chapter).

There's a tendency to try to avoid accidentally pressing multiple keys . This habit can lead to trying to press only the desired key-which on the iPhone means that more often than not you end up pressing the wrong key anyway. Don't worry about pressing too many keys; the iPhone only registers one key at a time. Just press the key you want as squarely as possible and let the iPhone's corrective measures go to work for you.

First Period Everybody appreciates grammatical correctness, including the proper use of punctuation marks, but the iPhone's keyboard often makes it a pain to switch to punctuation mode and then back to letters. When you reach the end of a sentence, just hit the spacebar twice and the iPhone will automatically insert a period for you. (You can change this behavior by visiting the Settings: General: Keyboard screen and enable the "." Shortcut option). With the Auto-Capitalization option enabled, it will also automatically trigger the shift key for the first letter you type after a period.

Zoom and Edit If you discover a typo, it's easy enough to fix. Simply tap on the spot where you want the cursor to appear, and then tap on backspace to clear your mistake. However, controlling the cursor this way can be challenging. For more-precise results, tap and hold on the text to make a magnifying loupe appear. As you drag the loupe around, the text insertion paint will follow it so you can easily position the cursor

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Sending Messages ike most phones these days, the iPhone includes an application that lets you exchange SMS (Short Message Service) text messages and MMS (Multimedia Message Service) photos and videos with other mobile devices.

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Starting a Conversation To start a message, tap on the Messages app on the Home screen, and then tap on the new-message icon . You can enter a recipient's mobile number, type a contact's name (which, as with Mail, brings up a list of contacts that match; choose one by tapping on it), or tap on the plus sign to choose an existing contact from your Contacts list. Make sure you choose the contact's mobile number, or your message won't go anywhere. You can send messages to multiple contacts, but they count as multiple messages, so if you're paying per text message, keep that in mind. Use the on-screen keyboard to type a text message and then tap on Send. iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS users aren't limited to text messages- you can also send MMS message if your carrier allows it. To send a video (3GS only) or photo message (3G and 3GS), tap on the small camera icon to the left of the text field. Tap on Take Photo (or

Long-Distance Chats SMS conversations on the iPhone resemble an iChat window. Take Photo And Video on a 3GS) to take a new photo or video for your con versation. Tap on Choose Existing to pick an item already in your album. Tap on an incoming MMS message to view it full screen. You can also send contact information (vCards) and voice memos via MMS from within their respective applications. In the Contacts app, tap on the contact

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Instant Messaging on Your iPhone Want to get true instant messaging on your iPhone while you're away from your computer? Try a third-party instant messaging client. AIM AOL's iPhone app remains one of the best 1M clients on the iPhone, Though it 's limited to the AIM network, it displays your entire buddy list, lets you carry on multiple conversations, and lets you change your online status. Although apps can't run in the background, you can set AIM to keep you online when you quit the application, If you have Push Notification turned on, AIM will alert you to any new messages you receive, even though the program is off. Next time you open the app, it will display the messages you received. BeejivelM This iPhone chat app offers a lot to justify its $10 price tag. It supports multiple s€fVices. including Google Talk, Jabber. ICO, MSN, and Yahoo. and you can even log on to multiple accounts at one time and see all of your buddies in one list. Beejive lets you send and receive pictures and other files, and chatting has support for both portrait and landscape orientations. Like AIM. Beejive supports push notification. Mobile AIM Another alternative is AOL's Mobile AIM Service (mobile BeeJIvelM .aol.com). which can aut omatically lor.vard standard iChat and AIM messages to your iPhone as SMS messages. This arrangement works reasonably well, but has some significant drawbacks. First, it takes longer to send and receive SMS messages, and your messages count against your monthly SMS quota. Second, you can't use the service to initiate chat on your iPhone-you can only respond to chats that others initiate. Finally. messages you receive via Mobile AIM won't come directly from your buddies; rather. they'll appear to come from various gateway numbers. This means that in the iPhone's Text program. each Mobile AIM chat will appear in a different conversation entry.

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you want to share and then tap on MMS. To send a voice memo, open the Voice Memos app, tap on the memo you want to send, t ap on Share, then tap on MMS. Finally, 3G and 3GS users can also share Google Map locations via MMS. This information appears as a Contact, in the same way that it does when you share a person from your address book. Clicking on it brings up the address and a map link, and clicking on the link opens Maps and takes you to the location . After the initial message, conversations take place in a screen that looks nearly identical to an iChat w indow on a Mac. Your message to the recipient, and any subsequent messages you send to him or her, appear in colored balloons on the right side; any replies from that person appear on the left side in balloons of a different color (see "Long-Distance Chats"). Messages that appear wi thin a short interval are grouped together under a single time stamp showing when the back-and-forth started. If significant time has passed since the last message in the conversation, the next message will receive a new time stamp. To send another message to the same person, tap inside the text field at the bottom of the w indow. The Messages app preserves your entire conversation with the other person in a single screen.

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decide you 'd prefer to just send a text message instead, there's no need to return to the Home screen. Simply tap on the blue arrow next to the contact 's name or number, and then tap on the Text Message button at the bottom of the contact entry.

This window holds multiple conversations, so you can see any messages to and from a single recipient, even if they're days, weeks, or months apart. If you decide at any point during a message conversation that you'd rather have a live chat, Simply tap on the Call button at the top of the conversation screen to call the other person at the number used for messaging. To call a different number or to send an e-mail, tap on the Contact Info button to access his or her contact information. To quickly jump back to the top of the screen, just tap on the phone's status bar where the time is displayed.

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but preserves the conversation itself in the Text Messages screenmaking it easy to start a fresh conversation. To send a text message to someone new, or to access another conversation, tap on the Messages button at the top of the screen. This exits the conversation and takes you to the main Text Messages screen, which lists all your current and saved conversations. You can delete any conversation completely by swiping your finger across the contact name and number and then tapping on the Delete button that appears. If you're in one conversation and messages arrive in different ones, the Messages button at the top of the conversation screen will display the number of unread messages in other chats. (The Messages app icon on the Home screen displays this information as welL) If you're doing something else entirely-for example, surfing the Web- a dialog pops up displaying the sender's name (or phone number, if the sender isn't in your contacts), a preview of the message, and options to ignore or view the message. You can enable a sound alert for new text messages from the Sounds screen in Settings. As of iPhone 3.0, you can also delete and forward individual messages. To do so, tap on the Edit key while in a conversation. As in Mail, little circles appear next to each of the bubbles. Tap on as

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Pick and Choose Tap on Edit to select messages within a conversation that you'd like to delete or forward. many messages as you wantcheck marks will appear next to their names and the background will be highlighted. At the bottom of the screen are buttons for Delete and Forward, each with a running tally of how many messages you've selected. Tap on Delete to remove just those messages. Tap on Forward to bring up a new message screen with the content of those messages automatically filled in the message field (multiple messages will be grouped as one message).

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and Videos f you've owned a display-bearing iPod for more than a month, your thumb will want to spring into its normal twirl-and-click position when you first unpack your iPhone or iPod touch . But when it comes to navigating the touch screens on your new device, you'll find that your index finger gets the heaviest workout.

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Finding Your Tunes When you tap on the iPod button on the device's Home screen, you're taken to the last iPod screen you accessed-the Now Playing or Playlists screen, for example. Arrayed along the bottom of the iPhone are buttons that let you quickly search different types of media. These include Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos, and More (see "iPod Basics"). The first four buttons are selfexplanatory. Tap on each to view a list of available playlists. artists, songs, and videos. Tap on the More button to access additional options, including Albums, Audiobooks, Compilations, Composers, Genres, and Podcasts. To walk back through the screen hierarchy, tap on the left-arrow button at the upper left of the screen.

iPod Basics To bnng up the main media screen, tap on the iPed button. Once you've tapped on a button-Songs, for example- you'll get an alphabetical list of every en try within that category (in the case of Songs, a list of every song on your iPhone). Flick your finger up or down to scroll through the list. If the list contains a lot of entries, you can use the letters running down

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Go with the Flow Turning your iPhone on its side turns on the Cover Flow view. Tap on an album to select a specific track.

your finger to the right or left to move from cover to cover. Tap on a cover that's visible on either side of the frontmost cover, and that cover will flow to the front. iTunes automatically downloads artwork for songs and podcasts purchased from the iTunes Store. For music you've ripped yourself, you can ask iTunes to try to locate the appropriate album cover; in iTunes, select Advanced: Get Album Artwork. To flip an album cover over and see its contents (or as much of them as your device holds) in Cover Flow, you can tap on the cover once or tap on the Info icon, indicated with a small i, at the screen's bottom right (see "Go with the Flow"). Tap once on a podcast's artwork, and it too flips and displays a list of episodes for that pod cast. You can flip back to the front cover by tapping on the Info icon again, or by tapping on the item's title bar. Whether you're searching through a list or Cover Flow, just tap on a song to play it.

the right side of the screen to jump quickly through the alphabet. The letters are on the small side, so you might not press the exact letter you're looking for, but it'll get you closer to your desired destination . For more-precise control, run your finger up and down the alphabet column to select a specific letter. To search all of your library using Spotlight from any of these screens, just scroll up-meaning swipe your finger down the screen. This reveals a hidden search field at the top of the screen. Type in part or all of an artist, album, song, playlist , or podcast name, and tap on Search. It searches all types of media, regard less of which screen you're on. If you prefer to navigate your audio library as though you were flipping through album covers, simply turn your iPhone on its side (landscape mode). This activates Cover Flow mode, which displays a cover for every album and podcast in your tibrary-a feature borrowed from iTunes. Swoop

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Playing Music The Now Playi ng screen is where you control the iPhone's music playback . (You must hold your iPhone in portrait mode to access these controls.) This screen offers three views, each of which has different controls . BASIC PLAYBACK In the main Now Playing screen, you'll see the album cover, playback controls (Previous, Play/Pause, and Forward), and a Volume slider. To toggle between Play and Pause, tap on the Play/Pause icon . To advance to the next track, tap once on the Forward icon. To move to the beginning of the currently playing track, tap on the Previous icon. To travel to the previous track, tap twice on Previous. Holding your finger on the Forward or Previous icon w ililet you fast-forward or rewind through the current track. Tap on the silver bali in the Volume

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iiIlJ Smarter SCI Ibbing It's easy to get more control over your timeline. Now there's a handy variable-precision scrubbing feature to help you find exactly what spot you 're looking for. Just tap on and hold the scrub bar (it will glow slightly to indicate you're in scrubbing mode). Now drag your finger up or down the screen to adjust the precision. The farther down you drag your finger, the more precise the scrubbing gets, starting at Hi-Speed, followed by Half Speed, Quarter Speed, and Fine, The more precise the scrubbing gets, the slower you move through the track, making it easier to jump back a second or two if you missed what was said. This feature works for pretty much any type of media in the iPod library,

slider and drag your finger to the left or right to decrease or increase volume, respectively. ADVANCED PLAYBACK Tap once on the Now Playing screen and you gain additional controls, including a playhead and a timeline that shows the length of the playing track and where you are in the track (see "Tune Controls"). You can drag the playhead to the right or left to move forward or back in the track. To either side of the timeline, you'll see controls for toggling through Repeat (the circular arrows to the left) and Shuffle (the crossed arrows to the right) modes. Tapping on the Repeat icon once makes the entire album replay once you've reached the last song. Tappi ng on it a second time repeats the current song. A third tap turns off Repeat.

Directly under the timeline is the Genius icon. Tapping on that icon launches the Genius feature (borrowed from iTunes 8), which creates a playlist based on similarities to the currently playing track. If you don 't like the songs picked, you can tap on the Refresh button to pick new songs. If you do like them , tap on Save to save the playlist. From the Genius menu , you can also tap on New, which lets you pick another song on which to base a playlist. ALBUM VIEW Finally, if you double-tap on the Now Playing screen or tap on the Playlist icon in the upper right corner, the cover flips to reveal the album 's tracks. In this screen you can not only choose tracks by tapping on them , but also rate the currently selected track. To assign a four-star rating, for example, just tap on the fourth dot. You can also wipe your finger

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on the iPhone, tap on the Playlists button at the bottom of the iPod screen, and then tap on the OnThe-Go entry that appears at the top of the Playlists screen. Select Playlists, Artists, or Songs from the bottom of the screen to choose how you want to locate songs (see "Options On-The-Go"). If you tap on Playlists , you' ll be presented with a list of all the playlists on your iPhone. If you select a playlist, you have the option of adding all the playlist's songs or selecting indi -

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You can mimic most of the playback controls using the headphones that come with the iPhone. Squeeze the headset's clicker once to pause playback. To restart playback, press again. Double-click QUickly to move to the next song in the playlist. Or triple-click Quickly to move to the previous song in the playlist. When controlling music playback from the iPhone's display rather than the headset, you must move to the Now Playing screen to pause playback, or tum the iPhone so it shifts to Cover Flow view and then tap on the PlaylPause icon that appears in the lower left COfner of the screen.

Options On-The-Go t. custom playllst without syncing by usmg On-The-Go playhsts. from side to side to add or remove stars. When you next sync your iPhone, these ratings will transfer to your music library.

Create On·The·Go Playjists Much like the iPod, the iPhone provides a limited way to create playlists directly on the device. This is called an On-The-Go playlist. if you're used to creating such playlists on your iPod, you'll l ind the iPhone process familiar. To create an On-The-Go playlist

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The iPhone and iPod touch provide a few global settings for audio playback-from playing all tracks at a consistent volume to a setting that helps you keep the lid on volume so your kids don 't blow their ears out before they reach voting age, To view these settings, tap on the Settings button on the iPhone's Home screen and then select iPod. Shake To Shuffle When you turn Shuffle mode on, you can jump to a new song with a flick of your wrist. When your music is playing, shake the phone and your song switches. Sound Check like an iPod, the iPhone comes with Sound Check-a feature that makes volume more consistent from one track to another. Note that just as with an iPod, Sound Check will work only if you've first turned it on in iTunes. You do this in the Playback tab of iTunes ' preferences. EO To change the timbre of the music-make it brighter, bassier, or punchier, for example-tap on EO, and then choose one of the 22 included equalization presets. Volume Limit The iPhone's documentation warns about the dangers of blasting high-volume music directly into your eardrums. If you 're planning to lay an iPhone 12:11 ..... .... AT&T . on your nearest and dearest and you know that person likes his or her music loud , consider setting a MUsic volume limit. F---~=~ Shs ke 10 Sh uffle Tap on Volume limit, slide your finger across the Volume slider Sound Chec k to set a desirable volume, and EO ) then tap on Lock Volume limit. A keypad will appear, asking you Volume Um i1 ) to enter and confirm a four-digit V'deo code. This locks the iPhone at this volume. St.,t Pleyl ng Where Lett Off ) To change the volume Closed Caption ing OFF limit later, press Unlock Volume Limit , which now appears on this screen, and enter your four-digit code when prompted.

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If you tap on Songs, you can choose to add all songs or add individual songs (though if you have a particularly large music library, the Add AU Songs option may not work). Similarly, if you tap on the More button, you can select tracks by Albums, Audiobooks, Compilations, Composers, Genres, Podcasts, or Videos. Just as w ith the Playlists, Artists, and Songs screens, you can choose everything in the list or individual tracks. When you've configured the On-The+Go playlist to your liking, tap on the Done button in the upper right corner of the On-The-Go screen. Later, if you decide to edit this playlist, tap on the On-The-Go playlist in the Playlists screen, and then tap on Edit. To remove individual tracks, tap on the minus sign H to the left of the track you want to delete and then tap on the Delete button that appears. To reorder the playlist, simply tap and hold on the List icon (three stacked lines) to the right of an entry, and then drag it up or down the playlist (see "Musical Chairs"). To add tracks, tap on the plus sign in the upper left corner of the window and proceed as you did when creating the original list-choosing categories from the bottom of the window and adding playlists, artists, songs, or categories of content from the More screen . To clear the playlist of its con tents, go the main On-The-Go playlist screen, tap on Clear, then

Musical Chairs Arrange the songs in your On -The-Go playUst by tapping on Edit and then dragging the List icon next to each song . vidual songs by tapping on the plus sign (+) next to each song's name. If you tap on Artists, you'll see a list of all the artists on your iPhone. Tap on an artist's name and you'll see a list of all that artist's albums on your iPhone. Tap on an album title and, again, you're offered the option to add all songs or choose individual songs to add. (If you have just a single album by that artist, no album entry w ill appear-only the songs on the album are listed.)

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Video in Your Pocket Skipping to your favorite part of a video is as easy as dragging the silver ball on the timeline 6),

tap on the red Clear Playlist button. When you next sync your iPhone, iTunes w ill turn your new On-The-Go Playlist into a regular playlist ~abeled On-The-Go followed by a number) and clear the decks for your next outing .

in the iPod settings. Then when you give your iPhone or iPod touch a shake, it jumps to a random new song no matter what its current play mode is.

Playing Pod casts Pod cast fans get special features in the iPod application. The podcast player features three unique buttons. On the left side under the timeline is an envelope icon. If you want to share w ith a friend, tapping on this button composes an e-mail with an iTunes link to the podcast you're listening to. In the middle is a circular arrow that lets you jump back exactly 30 seconds. On the right is a button to adjust the playback speed. Tap once for double speed, again for half speed, and once more to return to regular speed.

Shuffling Songs Unlike the iPod , the iPhone integrates its Shuffle command into lists rather than putting it in the main menu. Whenever you access a list of tracks~ in an artist's or a playlist's screen , for exampleyou'll see a Shuffle entry at the top. Tap on it to shuffle the contents of that list. To shuffle all the tracks on your iPhone, tap on the Songs button at the bottom of the screen in the iPhone's iPod area, and tap on Shuffle. To turn the Shuffle feature on or off, tap on the Now Playing screen and then tap on the Shuffle icon on the right side. If you'd like to add a little randomness on the spur of the moment, turn on Shake To Shuffle

Watching Videos It would be a shame to let that wide-screen display go to waste. Put it to good use by viewing videos on it. The iPhone and iPod

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touch support the same two video formats as the regular iPodH.264 , the format used by the iTunes Store, and MPEG-4. (For instructions on converting video files into these formats, see "Converting Video for the iPhone" later in this chapter.) To view videos on your iPhone, tap on the Videos button at the bottom of the iPod screen . Video content is organized by Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, and Podcasts. Tap on a title under those categories and the video will begin to play, just as with a song . However, the playback controls-which you access by tapping once on the screen- are slightly different for video (see "Video in Your Pocket''). You still get the Previous, Play/Pause, and Forward icons and a Volume slider that appears below. But above you'll see a timeline with a silver ball showing where you are in the video. You can drag this ball to the left or right to move to a different part of the video. Time indicators to the left and right of the timeline show the video's current playback position and remaining time, respecti vely. Tapping on the double-arrow icon to the right of the timeline lets you toggle between full- and widescreen video views. (You can also toggle between these two views by double-tapping on the screen.) When you tap and hold on the Forward or Previous icons, the

iiIlI SeeWha's Playing To quickly return to your song controls from almost any other part of the iPod menu system, simply tap on the Now Playing button in the upper right corner of the scre€n. The Now Playing screen will immediately appear. Tap on the back arrow to return to where you were. This doesn't work in the Configure screen within the More screen.

video will fast -forward or rewind , respectively. The longer you hold, the faster the video skips ahead or back. A quick tap on the Forward icon lets you move to the video's next chapter (if it doesn't have chapters, nothing happens). Similarly, tap on and release the Previous icon to move back a chapter (or jump back to the beginning of the video, if there are no chapters). To return to the video screen, tap on the Done button in the upper left corner.

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Keep in mind, though, that a full -length motion picture takes up around 1GB of storage; even on the 16GB model, that's a significant chunk for just one piece of media . To help ease the storage crunch, the iPhone offers to delete videos after you've finished watching them; just tap on the Delete button and Pirates of the Caribbean will disappear from your iPhone, freeing up space. You can also delete a movie before you've finished viewing it. From the main video screen, simply drag your finger backward over the video's title from right to left. A Delete button will appear next to the movie's name. (If you've configured iTunes to sync every video in a particular playlist automatically with your iPhone, though, your deletion will be fruitless: the deleted file will resync when you connect your iPhone, unless you've removed that video from the playlist in the meantime.)

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Buy Content On-The-Go In the iTunes store application, you can load up on new paid or free content from within your iPhone or iPod touch . On the bottom of the iTunes screen are buttons for Music, Videos, Podcasts, and Search. There's also a More button which brings up Audiobooks, iTunes U, Downloads, and Redeem (for gift cards or other iTunes codes).

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downloads are subject to the same 10MB limit on the cell network that music and podcasts are, you' ll pretty much always be restricted to using the Wi-Fi network. Downloading isn't especially speedy over Wi-Fi, but it's a good option to have. If you purchase an HD movie, the iPhone will start downloading the standard definition file, and the HD version will start downloading to your computer the next time you sync your iPhone.

explicit material. Users can choose a rating system from one of nine different countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan.

Voice Control On the iPhone 3GS, you can also control iPod functions via Voice Control. To initiate Voice Control, hold down the Home button, or the center button on the iPod touch's or iPhone's headphones, for about two seconds, until you hear a double chime. You can choose from a small palette of spoken commands. Say "play artist Peter Gabriel" and your device will automatically play all songs by Peter Gabriel. If you say "shuffle," it'll shuffle whatever you're currently playing. You can also tell Voice Control to playa particular playlist ("play playlist 'Best of 2009"1 or album ("play album 'Life and Times"1, trigger a Genius playlist based on the current song ("Play more songs like this" or the less verbose "Genius!"), and find out the name of the song ("What song is this?"). However, you can't choose to playa particular song, nor does Voice Control appear to have any access to audiobooks or podcasts unless they're in a playlist.

Tum On Parental Controls Parental restrictions allow control over different types of cooterlt Apple has integrated fine-grained parental restrictions in the iPhone and iPod touch software, which are accessible at Settings: General: Restrictions. In addition to restrictions that disable several of the iPhone's features, there's a section that provides the ability to independently filter different kinds of content, such as music and pod casts, lV shows, videos, and iPhone apps. You can prevent children from downloading content at or above certain rating levels (such as movies rated for PG-13 or older audiences) or, in the case of music and podcasts, you can ban

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Using YouTube hen it comes to watching videos, you're not limited to the movies and TV shows synced from iTunes . There's a whole world of clips, home movies, and other homegrown video surprises-ranging in quality from stupid to sublime-waiting on YouTube. And it just so happens that the iPhone can stream the H.264-encoded versions of these videos right from the Internet. You can even log into your YouTube account from your iPhone or iPod touch to access more feat ures, including your saved playlists. When you click on the YouTube button on the iPhone's Home screen, you'll see a list of options for finding videos on YouTube. These are Featured, Most Viewed, Search, Favorites, and More. They shake out this way.

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Playlist, and Share Video. Tap on Add To Favorites to add the video to your list of YouTube favorites. Tap on Share, and a new e-mail message opens that includes the title of the video in the subject line and, in the message body, the words "Check out this video on YouTube," followed by the video's

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URl. Fill in the message's To field, tap on Send, and the message is on its way. To see a longer description of the video, tap again on the blue button to the right of the description (see "All about the Videos'1- Here you can view such information as the date when the video was added, its category (music or comedy, for example), and its tags. This screen also features YouTube comments and a Rate, Comment, or Flag button. You don't need to be logged into your account for any of these options. At the top of the screen there is a button that says More Videos. Tap on this to see videos related to the one you've chosen.

Most Viewed Tap on the Most Viewed button, and you'll see a list of the 25 most viewed YouTube videos. At the bottom of the list is a Load 25 More entry. At the top of the screen are Today, This Week, and All buttons. Tap on them for a list of the YouTube videos most viewed within that time period.

Instant Kitty Find the videos you want to watch immediately by using the YouTube search option on your iPhone. on the Edit button in the upper right corner of the screen, tap on the red minus sign H to the left of an entry, and tap on Delete. Tap on Done to return to the Favorites screen.

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When you tap on the Favorites button, you'll see a list of all the YouTube videos you've chosen as favorites. If you 're logged into your YouTube account, this will include videos saved from your computer's browser, not just from the iPhone. To remove entries from this list, tap

Tap on the Search button to produce a Search field. Tap wi thin this field and the iPhone's keyboard appears. Enter a search term and tap on Search (see "Instant Kitty"). Up to 25 videos w ill appear in the screen below. If more than 25 vid·

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Into the Stream YouTube video playback is similar to video playback on your iPod screen.

eos match your search, a Load 25 More entry appears at the bottom of the list. In the past, YouTube encoded its videos with Flash, which the iPhone doesn't support. YouTube has now converted most of its content to the H.264 format. However, if you upload a new video, it can take some time before it's converted to the H.264 format.

lists all show information from your YouTube account. You must be logged in to use them . Like YouTube favorite videos, these videos aren't stored on your iPhone. If you choose one, it will have to stream once again to your iPhone to play.

Playback Tap on the picture of the video, its description, or its entry in the main list, and the YouTube playback screen will appear in landscape mode. The streaming video will play when the iPhone believes it has enough data to play it without interruption (see " Into the Stream"). Tap on the Favorites icon to the left to add the currently playing video to your YouTube favorites. Tap on the Share icon to the right of the playback controls, and the iPhone will open an e-mail message that includes a link to the video. Once you send or cancel the message, you'll return to the video. When the video finishes playing, you're taken to the description screen for that video.

More The More button offers six additional choices. Most Recent displays a list of the 25 most recent videos that YouTube has added to its iPhone-compatible catalog, while Top Rated lists 25 top-rated videos. History lists all the videos you've accessed, regardless of whether you've actually watched them- all you need to do is attempt to stream them. To clear this list, tap on the Clear button at the upper right of the screen, then on the red Clear History button that appears. My Videos, Subscriptions, and Play-

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Smart Syncing Strategies Pick What to Sync

ven with capacities of 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB, people with large music and video libraries will find the iPhone's storage capacity limited, especially once you start loading up on thirdparty apps, TV shows, and movies. With that in mind, you'll need to devise strategies for what content will and won't make its way to your iPhone.

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of TV shows you want to catch up on during your bus commute. Click on the Sync pop-up menu and you'll see that you can limit the sync to a specific number of TV shows or podcasts. For example, you can sync the 1, 3, 5, or 10 most recent TV shows in your iTunes library, or the 1, 3, 5, or 10 most recent unwatched episodes of a particular TV show you've selected from the list that appears below (see "Now Playing"). In the case of movies, you can sync specific movies in the list that appears in the window.

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Shrinking"). From the Import Using pop-up menu, select MC Encoder. To produce 128-Kbps files, choose High Quality (128 Kbps) from the Setting pop-up menu. To encode at a different bit rate, choose Custom from the Setting pop-up menu , select a bit rate from the Stereo Bit Rate pop-up menu in the resulting MC Encoder window, and click on OK. When you're done, exit iTunes' preferences. Next, choose Music from iTunes' Source list, select the files you wish to reencode, and choose Advanced : Create MC Version. iTunes will create duplicates of the selected files with the settings you chose in the Advanced window. Next, create a smart playlist that includes the condition Kind Contains MC, and sync this playlist to your iPod. Note that you can't use this technique to reencode protected tracks you've purchased from the

a format that still sounds or looks good but consumes less space.

Converting Audio Many audiophiles, for example, encode music in the Apple Lossless format when ripping them from CDs. That's because Apple Lossless doesn't discard any audio information during the encoding process. However, it also produces relatively large files-an Apple Lossless file can be six or seven times larger than the same file encoded as an MC or MP3. To fit as much music as possible on your iPhone, consider creating versions of your Lossless tracks in the MC format, encoded at 128 or 160 Kbps. To do so, group the songs you wan t to convert into a playlist. (To quickly find these files, sort your iTunes library by Kind .) Open iTunes' preferences, select General, and click on the Import Settings button (see "Song

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help slim down these files as well. Select one from iTunes' Movies or TV Shows pane and choose Advanced: Create iPod Or iPhone Version (see Wi Phone- Friendly Files") , iTunes will create a video file that's compatible with the iPhone, If you wan t more control over the conversion, you can use a third-party utility such as HandBrake (see "Converting Video for the iPhone" for more details),

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Yo Lo e Looking for a quick way to apply ratings to your favorite songs and videos? Use iTunes' Play Count feature to gather the files you play over and over again into a smart playlist. Once you have them in a smart playlist, choose Edit: Select All to select everything in the playlist, and then choose File: Get Info to bring up the Multiple Item Information window, Then simply assign a star rating in the Rating field, You can also change the smart playlist to find the items you never spend time with and give them a lower rating,

Creating Playlists The best way to organize your iTunes library is with playlists, For example, you could create a playlist of music that works well for you during a long commute or peps you up during a workout (hey, why not show that schmo on the treadmill next to you that while he can outrun you, you can out-bling him?). iTunes actually offers two types of playlists: standard playlists that

iTunes Store unless you burn them to CD and then rerip them (wh ich can result in reduced quality), However, you can reencode the DRM -free iTunes Plus tracks from the iTunes Store.

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Sample These Smart Play ists Here are some ideas for creating your own smart playlists:

The Obvious Choices Playlist If you have limited storage space, this smart playlist will find songs encoded at an efficient bit rate that are neither too long nor too short: Match All Of The Following Rules: Kind Contains MC Bit Rate Is 128 Kbps Time Is In The Range 2:30 To 5:00 To make sure you save room for other stuff on your iPhone, you may

want to limit the size of this smart playlist-for example, to 2GB,

The Greatest Hits Playlist This is a great playlist if you rate your music (and you really should), It includes only those highest-rated tracks that aren't too big, Match All Of The Following Rules: Kind Contains AAC Bit Rate Is 128 Kbps Rating Is In The Range 4 To 5 Stars

The TV Season Playlist iTunes gives you the option of syncing the very latest episodes of TV shows, but what if you want to start at the beginning? To work around this problem, set up a smart playlist that reads: Match All Of The Following Rules Video Kind Is TV Show Show Contains Name of TV Show Play Count Is 0 Season Is Season Number Turn on the Limit option and set its menus to read: Umit To 3 Items Selected By Album, Then tum on the Live Updating option . When you finish watching an episode, iTunes replaces it with the next Least Recently Added show during your next sync. To enable this playlist. select the Videos tab in iTunes, enable the Selected option under TV Shows, choose Playlists from the pop-up menu, and enable the smart playlist you just created,

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• include the specific music, podcasts, audiobooks, and videos you place in them, and smart playlists, which are created dynamically and contain any items that match a set of user- defined criteria (all rock songs under four minutes from artists who recorded in the 'BOs, for example). Once you've set up a playlist in iTunes, you can use it to organize-or limit- the media you sync to your iPhone. To quickly create a new playlist, select the music or videos you'd like to appear in your play list and choose File: New Playlist From Selection. The selected media will appear in a new playlist. iTunes' browser is another often-overlooked means for moving massive amounts of media into a playlist. Just choose File: New Playlist, select Show Browser from the View menu (you'll have to be in List view to access this option), and, in the resulting browser pane, drag

one or more of the items into your playlist (see "Just Browsing"). For example, you can quickly place all your jazz recordings in a playlist by choosing Jazz from the Genre pane of the browser and dragging it to your new playlist. Any music with a Genre tag reading "Jazz" will appear in the playlist ~f you don't see a Genre pane, open iTunes' General preferences and enable the Show Genre When Browsing option).

Getting Smarter Dragging files one by one into a playlist can be a tedious affair. To speed up the work, switch to smart playlists. The power of smart playlists belies their ease of configuration. You simply piece together a variety of criteria- Genre, Artist, Last Played, Rating, and Playlist, for example-and ask iTunes to create playlists of items that meet those criteria. To get started, select New Smart

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list window. Choosing All lets you distill your search, whereas Any might pun some unexpected musical nuggets into a playlist. Now let's put theory into practice. let's say, for example, you want to create a smart playlist that includes jazz pieces you've never played, all purchased from the iTunes Store and all more than fi ve minutes long. To do this, you'd create a smart playlist with these four conditions: Genre Is Jazz Play Count Is 0 Kind Contains Protected MC Time Is Greater Than 5:00 For this playlist to work, all of the conditions must be met, so select Match All Of The Following Rules at the top of the window (see "Jazz It Up"). Before clicking on the OK button to save the playlist, take a gander at the lower portion of the window. Here are options for limiting the size of your playlist~you might want to create a music playlist no larger than 2GB, for exam-

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the hard-yet-still-civil stuff, and Heavy Metal for the head -banging , ultraloud, guitar-slamming stuff. If you try to use smart playlists to group the tracks, you'll reach the limits of iTunes' logic. Since you can't combine AND and OR logic in a smart playlist, there's no apparent way to create one for songs that are in either Rock or Heavy Metal and that were recorded between 1990 and 1999. But there is a way to work around this limitation (see "Smart and Smarter"). Create two smart playlists and make one a condition of the other. In this example, the first playlist would find Rock and Heavy Metal tunes. Set the Match pop-up menu to Any and then create two rules: Genre Is Rock and Genre Is Heavy Metal. Click on OK

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Superstars Assigning star ratings as you listen to your songs will help you down the road when you want to create smart playlists.

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iTunes lets you vent your critical spleen by applying stars (from one to five) to items in your library. After you rate your media, you can use those ratings as a playlist criterion. For example, you can create a smart playlist that only contains songs w ith a rating of four stars or more, thus guaranteeing that you hear only your personal favorites. To assign ratings to individual items, click on the Rating column in the main iTunes window (see "Superstars"). If you don't see it, go to View: View Options and select the Rating option . Next, drag the cursor to the right. This causes stars to appear in the column. Click on one of the stars to assign that rating. You can also control -click

Choose Better Tags You can use information such as artist, genre, album, podcast, and television season to set up smart playlists. But these items don't offer much assistance in separating the files you love from the ones you merely tolerate. To really give your playlists some smarts, you need to add some custom information and tap into information that iTunes keeps track of, including ratings, comments, and play and skip counts.

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(Mac) or right-click (Windows) on a track and choose a rating with the Rating command that appears in the contextual menu . You can assign the same rating to several items at once. To do this, select the items in the iTunes library (hold down the ~ [Mac] or control [Windows] key as you make selections), and then go to File: Get Info. In the resulting Multiple Item Information window, choose a rating in the Rating field _ The rating you choose is assigned to all selected items. You can also assign ratings while you're out and about with you r iPhone. Tap twice on the Now Playing screen to access the ratings featUre. When you next synchronize your iPod, the ratings you've entered on your iPod are transferred to iTunes.

Unless you're the kind of person for whom the party never ends, you're going to want to listen to a far different kind of music on Sunday morning than on Saturday night. Or perhaps you'd like to group your movies by leading ladies or best boys. A great way to do so is to use iTunes' Comments field to create smart playlists . Select multiple songs and choose Get Info from iTunes' File menu. In the resulting window, enter an appropriate word in the Comments field (Mellow, for example). Later, you can use this comment to build theme-specific playlists (see "In the Mood").

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hold a special place in your heart. iTunes keeps track of the number of times you've played something in the Play Count column of the main iTunes window (see "Keeping Track"). You could also use Play Count as a way to limit the songs you've played to death. For example, you could create a playlist of songs you never listen to and then play this group when you'd like to hear some fresh material. iTunes also keeps track of when and how often you skip a song (by clicking on the Next button). When you skip to the next track within the first 19 seconds of a song, iTunes increases that song's skip count by one. Create a smart

playlist that looks for songs wi th a large skip count, and you'll quickly find songs you simply don't like to listen to.

Recently Played iTunes, the iPhone, and the Apple lV also keep track of when you last played an audio file or video . The Last Played column of iTunes' main window reflects this information down to the day and time. How is this helpful? For example, you can create a smart playlist that includes only material you haven't listened to in a while. However, you must turn on the Live Updating option when creating smart playlists for this feature to work.

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Converting Video for the iPhone he iTunes Store may be a great place to stock up on video content for the iPhone. But why spend extra money when you've already got a vast collection of DVDs, home movies, and other video files at your fingertips? With the help of some free or low-cost software, you can convert these videos into compatible files that you can watch on the train or at the gym.

only (you can also download an earlier version that works with 10.4, although some features may not be the same as those mentioned here). The Windows version supports Windows 2000, XP, and Vista. And because HandBrake no longer includes the libraries necessary to decrypt commercial DVDs, you'll need to install the free VLC media player (www .videolan.org) on your computer as well (note that some newer DVDs include special copy protection that prevents HandBrake from being able to convert them~you may need to seek out other software in those cases). When you launch HandBrake, it will drop down a navigation sheet that will let you pick your DVD. HandBrake should automatically pick the movie--the longest title on the disc-but if not, select it. Then choose the iPhone & iPod Touch preset, which will set the encoding attributes properly for an iPhone (H.264 encoder, proper output size, chapter markers included, and so on). Since the bit rates HandBrake chooses for its defaults are often

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find all the titles that are similar in length (around 22 minutes for a half-hour show and 43 minutes for a one-hour show). Pick the first title you want, name the file, and add it to HandBrake's queue. Repeat this for other episodes, giving each a unique name, and then encode.

Convert Hard Drive Videos Of course, videos aren't limited to DVDs. Your hard drive is probably brimming with video files you might like to carry with you on your iPhone. If you can open a file in QuickTime, you can use the Movie To iPhone export command in the $30 QuickTime Pro to create a video that will play on those devices. But Apple's conversion doesn't support all file types, doesn't have a batch-encoding feature, and won't let you change its settings. Luckily, HandBrake can also handle most video files you can throw at it.

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Working with Photos and Videos Ot too long ago it was possible to bore your friends with your vacation photos only by luring them to your home. You can now do this on the run via your iPhone. Here's the lowdown on pictures and slide shows on the iPhone and iPod touch , and videos on the iPhone 3GS.

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Point and Shoot Taking photos with the iPhone is as easy as framing your subject and tapping on the Camera button at the bottom of the screen. iPhone 3G have a 2-megapixel camera. iPhone 3GS has a larger camera- 3 megapixels- and some cool extra features. Unlike older iPhone cameras, the iPhone 3GS camera has the ability to focus. By default the

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camera autofocuses on the scene you're shooting, though you can tap on the touchscreen to make it focus on a particular object. If that object is in a darker or lighter area of the frame, the camera will also adjust to make sure that location is properly exposed, even if that means other areas of the frame will be blown out or left in darkness. The focus isn't exactly quick, but it does work, and the resulting images are sharp (see "Sharp Focus") . The 3GS camera also allows you to take pictures of close-up objects. This is handy for people who want to e-mail a shot of a newspaper or magazine page or a close-up of one of their kids' toys. It also opens up the possibility for third-party apps. For example, there's the possibility that the iPhone 3GS can function as a

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recording video, and blinks red when the video is rolling . Tap on the red button to start recording video, and you'll also see a time code displayed on the screen, counting upward, to tell you how long you've been recording (see "And Action!"). If you're planning on displaying your video on a lV screen, be sure to hold your iPhone horizontally when you're tak ing video. Press the button again when you' re done to save your video into your Camera Roll.

Syncing Photos The iPhone can also sync photos from your computer. When you tether your activated iPhone to your Mac or PC, it appears in iTunes' Source list. Select it and, in the resulting iPhone window, click on the Photos tab. Select the Sync Photos From option, and then use the pop-up menu to choose the source for the photos. On a Mac, that would be iPhoto, Aperture (if you have a copy), a folder of your choosing, or your Pictures folder. On a Windows PC, it would be your My Pictures folder, a folder of your choosing, or albums created with Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop Album. Beneath this pop-up menu are options for syncing all photos (followed by the number of photos you're asking iTunes to sync) or selected albums (or subfolders, if you've chosen a specific folder

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Shooting Video To switch the camera into movie mode on the iPhone 3GS, tap on the slider in the lower right corner of the screen. You'll see the switch move from beneath the camera icon (photo mode) to ben eath the movie-camera icon (video mode). When you enter video mode, the still-camera icon on the shutter button is replaced with a video light. It's off when you're not

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with the iPhoto's pictures. One of the options is to import them. In Windows Vista Home Premium, the pictures are imported into Windows Photo Gallery. Unfortunately, you cannot use Apple's $29 Apple iPod Camera Connector to import pictures directly from your digital camera to the iPod.

Viewing Photos and Videos All of your photos-the ones you've taken and the ones you've synced-are available in the main screen of the Photos app (see "Mobile Photo Albums"). The first entry in this screen is Camera Roll. If you've taken no pictures or videos (or if you've deleted any you have taken), you'll see a generic camera icon to the left. If you've taken pictures with the built-in camera, the icon will change to a thumbnail image of the last picture or video you took. Tap on Camera Roll to see thumbnail images of the pictures and videos you've taken with the iPhone's camera. The iPhone lets you view photos in portrait or landscape mode. Simply rotate your phone to landscape orientation to view photos in wide-screen mode---the iPhone will flip your images automatically (see "Pretty as a Picture"). Below the Camera Roll entry you'll see Photo Library, which includes all synced photos. Below

Mobile Photo Albums Camera Roll includes any photos or videos taken with your iPhone, software on your computer that can pull images from a memory card (which is how these programs classify your iPhone). For example, when you sync your iPhone on a Mac and the iPhone contains new pictures taken with the camera, iPhoto or Image Capture will launch and offer to import those pictures (see "Set Your Photos Free"). On a Windows PC, when you plug in the iPhone and it contains new pictures, Autoplay will appear and ask what you'd like to do

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Pretty as a Picture To see landscape photos in their fu ll glory, simply rotate your iPhone onto its side.

this you'll find individual synced photo albums or folders. If you sync a folder that includes subfolders, those subfolders will appear as separate albums in the Photo Albums screen. Looking at the pictures on your iPhone is simple. Tap on Camera Roll, Photo Library, or an album entry to go to a page of thumbnail images for that group of pictures. You can view a full-size version of a particular image by tapping once on it. In full-screen mode, you can move to the next or previous image by simply swiping your finger to the left or right, respecti vely. To start a slide show of your images, tap on the play arrow in the thumbnail view. Videos also appear in your Camera Roll, and you can play them back by tapping on the play button in the middle of the video's preview image. To enlarge a photo, you have two options. The first is to doubletap on it. The second is to use the expanding "pinch" gesture-place

your thumb and index finger next to each other on the screen and move them apart to make the image grow. Once you've expanded the image, you can move it around by placing your finger on the screen and dragging. In this expanded view you can't move to the next picture using the swipe gesture. You must contract the image first by either double-tapping on it or pinching inward on it with your thumb and index finger. You can, however, move to the next image from an expanded view using the on-screen controls. These include Options, Previous, and Next buttons. These controls will disappear after a short time so that you can see your pictures without a lot of clutter. To make the controls reappear, simply tap on the iPhone's face one time. A single tap will also stop a slide show-as will swiping your finger to the left or right to view the next or previous image. Although you can view images in landscape

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view, these controls don't shift with the view-they're always displayed in portrait orientation . The only way to delete synced images from the iPhone is through iTunes-you can't delete these images through an on-screen control. This isn't the case with images you've captured with the iPhone's camera. To get rid of an iII-conceived picture, just tap on it to view the full-size image and then tap on the Trash button in the lower right corner of the screen . An overlay will appear, offering you the options to Delete Photo or Cancel.

More Photo Options When you tap on the Options icon (it's a box with an arrow and appears farthest to the left), an overlay appears that includes four options-Email Photo, Assign To Contact, Use As Wallpaper, and Cancel (see "Photo Options"). Tap on Email Photo to place the image in a blank e-mail message. Just fill in the To field, add a subject, and type in some text if you like. Tap on Send, and your image is on the way. If you tap on Assign To Contact, you can use the current picture as the thumbnail image for one of your iPhone contacts. When the Contacts screen appears, simply select a name. Once you've resized and oriented the picture as you like, tap on Set Photo. Tap on Use As Wallpaper, and

Photo Options When you tap on the Options button, you can share a photo with others, use it as your wallpaper, or assign it to a contact. you're offered the chance to move and scale the image. You do this with the usual swipe and pinch gestures. Once you have the image at the size and location you desire, tap on Set Wallpaper. The image win now appear on your phone's face when it's locked. Mac users with a MobileMe account may see a fourth button labeled Send To MobileMe. This button lets you upload the photo to a Web gallery you've set up. You

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can type in a title and description before tapping on Publish. To activate this feature on your iPhone, you must have the Mail program set to check your MobileMe e-mail account. You also have extra batch options in the Photo application's thumbnail view. Tap on the options icon and three buttons will appear at the bottom of your screen: Share, Copy, and Delete. Tap on as many photos as you like to select them (they'll display a red check mark to indicate they are selected) . You can share up to five photos, and copy or delete as many as you like.

More Video Options When you tap on a video, you can choose to play the video or, via a film strip that appears at the top of the screen, trim it by dragging the beginning and end points to different locations (see "CuttingRoom Floor"). Once you tap on the Trim button, the video is trimmed permanently-there's no going back via undo or any other means. When you tap on the Options icon for a video, an overlay appears that includes three options- Email Video, Send To MobileMe, and Send

Cutting-Room Floor You can trim your videos directly from your iPhone 3GS. To YouTube. You'll need accounts on MobileMe or YouTube in order to use those features, but YouTube accounts are free. And if you're not a connoisseur of YouTube, no worries- e-mailing videos to Flickr and Vimeo works like a charm, too.

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and the iPod touch is more than just a music player. They are both capable Web browsers and full-fledged PDAs. While many hand held devices can access the Internet, few do it well, and none comes close to the experience you get on a real computer. The iPhone and Pod touch get the closest, thanks to a customized version of Safari and a host of programs that work like their computer-based counterparts rather than limited mobile versions. Whether you're surfing the Web by the pool, searching for a restauran t from the road, or scheduling your day, your Phone or iPod louch can help you find information and stay on task. Here's how to get the most out of the

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Surf the Web f you've used Safari on your Mac or PC, you'll find the iPhone's version of Apple's Web browser both familiar and strange. Although it can't do everyth ing its desktop counterpart c an-for example, it doesn't currently include Flash support-Safari on the iPhone lets you view nearl y any site on the Web, fill out Web forms, save passwords, and perform searches. But because of the iPhone's simplified interface, some of Safari's features are less than obvious.

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Safari Basics When you tap on the Safari icon on the Home screen, a miniature version of Apple's Web browser appears . At the top of the Safari window you'll see a navigation bar with an address field on the left and a search field on the right. On the right side of the address field there's a circular arrow for reload-

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link or image before you open it. hold your fingertip down on the element instead of tapping on it. This produces a list of options: Open, Open In New Page, Copy, and, if it's an image, Save Image. The full URL appears at the top of the sheet.

ing the current page. At the bottom of the screen is a toolbar with fi ve buttons: back and forward arrows; a plus sign (+) for adding the current page to your bookmarks, adding it to your home screen as a Web clip, or e-mailing its URL; a book icon that brings up existing bookmarks and your surfing history; and a stacked pages icon Surfing Safari If you fi nd a Web page too narrow to read in Safari, turn your iPhone onto its side. The browser rotates to give you more horizontal space.

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for opening and navigating multiple pages (see "Surting Safari "). GO TO A SITE To visit a Web page, tap inside the address bar at the top of the window. The iPhone's keyboard will slide up from the bottom of the screen. As you begin to type a UAL, Safari displays a list of sites in your bookmarks and history that match; tap on one of the items in the list to open that page. Otherwise, type the entire URL and then tap on Go. When you're entering UALs, the Safari keyboard includes helpful buttons for inserting a period (.), slash (I), and .com suffix . If you tap and hold down on the .com button, additional suffix options will pop up including .arg, .edu, and country code domains that match any additionallanguages you' ve added to your keyboard (see "Hidden Suffixes"). Whoo a page is loading, the circular arrow turns into an X. Tap on this X to stop the loading process. This is a handy way to halt Safari in its tracks if you discover you've accidentally chosen the wrong site or if a site is taking a partiCUlarty long time to load. Whoo the page stops loading, the X turns into a reloading arrow. As you scroll down a page, the navigation bar disappears from the top of the screen. To quickly enter a new UAL, simply tap on the status bar at the top of the screen to bring back the address bar. You can edit the URL already in the ad-

Hidden Suffixes As with many of the letters on the iPhone's keyboard, tapping and holding down on the .com button will bring up additional options. dress field by tapping on it, or you can quickly clear the address field by tapping on the X button at the right edge of the address bar. If you'd rather search the Web, tap on the search field to the right of the address field. Type your search query and then tap on the Google button. By default, the iPhone uses Google for Web searches, but you can change this default to Yahoo. To do so, tap on the Settings icon on the Home

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screen, select Safari and then Search Engine, and tap on Yahoo. NAVIGATE PAGES Once you're viewi ng a Web page, Safari works like any standard Web browserthough you'll have to do quite a bit more scrolling and zooming due to the iPhone's smaller screen. You can scroll up, down, left, or right by dragging your finger across the page in the desired direction. Flick your finger quickly and the page w ill scroll on its own with virtual momentum ; tap on the screen to stop the motion or let the screen come to rest on its ow n. To zoom in on a particular part of the page, place two fingers together on the screen and then spread them apart- a sort of inverse pinch . To zoom back out, reverse the action. You can also zoom in on a particular part of a Web page by double-tapping on that area; double-tapping again zooms back out. This trick works best on pages with columns and table-style layouts. In most cases, Safari renders pages beautifully. Text is amazingly clear even at the smallest sizes. In fact, we've been able to make out text on the iPhone at sizes that would render the text little more than a blur on our laptop or desktop computers. On the downside, Safari on the iPhone currently doesn't support Flash or Java, so you w ill encounter pages w ith content you won't be able to view; instead, you'll usually see an error.

iiIll Share Sites If you want to send the URL of a Web page you're viewing to a friend, tap on the plus sign at the bottom of the page, then tap on Mail Unk To This Page. A new e-mail message containing the URL will open in Mail; just choose your recipient(s), add any comments you want to include, and tap on Send.

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you have an "old version of Macromedia's Flash Player" installed. While reading a Web page, tap on any Web link to jump immediately to that page. Tap and hold on the link to bring up more options before jumping to the new page. You can use the forward and back buttons to navigate between pages just as you would on any browser. Tapping on an e-mail link opens a new message in the iPhone's Mail program (if you have more than one e-mail account, the iPhone will use your default account as your return address, but you can choose a different account before sending) . Likewise, tapping on a map link opens the iPhone's Maps program with the destination already specified (see MMaps and GPS" later in this chapter for more about the iPhone's mapping features). If you tap on a link to a supported audio file (MC or MP3 up to 320 Kbps, Audible, Apple Lossless, WAV, or AIFF format) or video file (H.264 or MPEG-4), Safari wi ll play t he media in the browser. If you need to enter text into a field on a page, tap on the field; Safari will zoom in on the 1ext field and then bring up the on-screen keyboard. In this text-entry mode, Previous and Next buttons let you Quickly jump between tex1 fields without having to zoom back out. Some pages have interactive boxes for selecting dates and other form options (see "Multiple Choice")

If you encounter a scrolling box or list on a Web page-for example, if you're composing a comment on a blog-you'li find that scrolling with just one finger won't do the trick (that scrolls the entire page). Instead, zoom in on the box and then use two fingers to scroll through it. OPEN MULTIPLE SITES Safari lets you have as many as eight Web pages open simultaneously. To open a new Web page without closing the current page, tap on the pages icon in the lower right corner

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of the screen and then tap on New Page. A new Safari window will open and move to the front. If you have more than one page open at a time, the pages icon displays the number of open pages . To switch between your open pages, tap on the pages icon. You'll see miniature previews of each page (see "Pick Your Page"). Simply drag your finger left or right to flip through open pages . Tapping on the red X in the top left corner closes a page; tapping anywhere else on the page brings it forward .

Master Bookmarks iPhone's Safari, like all Web browsers, includes a bookmarks feature, which lets you save the URLs for frequently visited Web sites so you can quickly access them later. CREATE A BOOKMARK To bookmark a Web page, tap on the plus sign at the bottom of the screen , and then tap on Add Bookmark. An Add Bookmark screen w ill appear. From here you can edit the page's name-to better reflect the content or simplify a long name-and choose where the bookmark lives in your bookmarks folders. To place your new bookmark inside an existing folder, tap on the word Bookmarks, and then tap on the desired folder from the easy-to-browse hierarchical list that appears. When you're done, tap on Save.

Pick Your Page To open a new Web page without closing the previous page , tap on the pages icon in the lower right corner of your screen . From the resu lting window you can browse all the open pages, deiete pages, or start a new page. OPEN A BOOKMARK To open a page from your bookmarks list, tap on the bookmarks icon (the open book) in the bottom toolbar. Select a bookmark to open it, or tap on a folder to browse its bookmarks. A back-arrow button in the upper left corner takes you up one level in the bookmarks hierarchy. SEE YOUR HISTORY You can also browse your Safari history via

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the Bookmarks screen. After tapping on the bookmarks icon, move to the topmost level of the bookmarks list (you may have to press the back arrow button a couple of times to get there). At the top of the list, there is a History folder. Tap on this folder to see a list of all the Web pages you've recently visited (see "Backtracking"). Although you can't delete individual sites from the history list, you can empty it completely by tapping on the Clear button.

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KEEP BOOKMARKS ORGANIZED Since using bookmarks is much simpler than typing in the same URLs over and over again, you'll likely bookmark sites regularly. To keep some semblance of order-and to avoid creating an overwhelmingly long list of sitesyou'll need to put some work into organizing your bookmarks. While you're on the go, you can use the Bookmarks screen to edit, delete, reorganize, and rename your bookmarks. Tap on the Edit button at the bottom of the Bookmarks screen to enter editing mode. From here, you can delete any bookmark or folder-except for the History, Bookmarks Bar, and Bookmarks Menu folders- by tapping on the minus sign (-) by its name (see "Clean Up"). If you want to edit a URL (for example, if you bookmarked a specific page on a site, but you really wanted to bookmark its home page), tap on a bookmark's title in the edit screen. The resulting screen also lets you relocate the bookmark to a new folder. If you just want to move a bookmark to a higher or lower position within its current folder-for example, to put your most visited site at the very top of your list-simply drag the menu icon to the right of the bookmark's name in the new location . (Unfortunately, you can't drag a bookmark into a folder this way.) You can also create a new

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Clean Up When you tap on the Edit button in a Bookmarks screen, you'll get the option of deleting any of the listed bookmarks, editing the URL or name, or changing the order in which they appear. folder for future bookmarks by tapping on the New Folder button. Although the iPhone gives you most of the tools you need to manage your bookmarks on the fly, an even easier option is to use the Web browser on you r Mac or PC to edit and organize them; iTunes lets you sync bookmarks with the desktop version of Safari or Internet Explorer on Windows, or Safari on the Mac (Windows users can get

Safari at apple.com/safari). To set this up, plug your iPhone into your computer and open the iPhone settings screen in iTunes. Click on the Info tab and scroll down to the Web Browser section . Here you'll find an option to sync Safari bookmarks . When this is selected, changes you make in your desktop Web browser will be reflected in the bookmarks on your iPhone the next time you sync. (Similarly, changes you make on your iPhone will be synced to your computer's browser.) This means that if you see an interesting site when you're sitting at your computer, adding it to your browser's bookmarks is the easiest way to get the UAL onto your iPhone. In fact, we recommend creating a new bookmarks folder to wh ich you add just those sites you most frequently visit on your iPhone. Since tapping on the iPhone's Bookmarks button always displays the bookmarks folder you last viewed, you'll be able to access your favorite sites withou t moving to a different folder. And you can still access your less essential bookmarks by moving up a level to the main bookmarks list.

Create a Web Clip Web Clips are custom icons on your home page that go directly to a bookmarked Web page. When you tap on a Web Clip icon, it w ill automatically launch Safari and take you to that site. To create a

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Web Clip, navigate to the page you want in Safari and tap on the plus-sign (+) button on the bottom toolbar. Tap on the Add To Home Screen button that pops up and give your new shortcut a name. Tap on Add and you'll be taken back to the Home screen where your new Web Clip will appear in the first available spot. By default the iPhone uses a thumbnail image of the clipped Web page as the icon.

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However, many Web sites generate a custom icon for iPhones to use.

RSSFeeds The iPhone version of Safari also includes a functional-though very basic-RSS reader. When you enter the URL or tap on the link for an RSS feed (for example, http://feeds .macworld .comimacworldlall), Safari automatically recognizes it as a feed and displays it as a list of headlines with a two-line summary of each article. Tap on any headline to see the full headline and summary; tap again on the headline to go directly to the full article (see "Just the Headlines''). You can also bookmark RSS feeds, so you can quickly view headlines from your favorite sites. ASS feeds are generally less cluttered and easier to read than standard news Web pages. However, unlike the RSS feature on the desktop version of Safari, the RSS feature on the iPhone doesn't automatically keep tabs on RSS feeds (you'll need to tap on the circular arrow to see new stories that have posted), nor does it alert you to unread articles in a feed. If you'd like more advanced RSS capabilities, consider downloading one of the third-party RSS apps available. Currently, our favorite candidate is NetNewsWire (free; macworld.com/S021 ). Whenever you have free time, you can quickly browse new RSS articles and "clip" the interesting ones for later reading. The next time you run Net-

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iiIlJ Use a Bigger Keyboard If you rotate the iPhone horizontally before tapping on the address bar or in a fonn field. the Safari window will switch to horizontal mode; when you then tap on the address bar. the on-screen keyboard also appears horizontally. More important. it will be much larger than the standard vertical keyboard. making data ....TU ... "'" ... entry a little easier. This horizontal keyboard is available in various programs. including Mail, Notes, and Messages . (Also worth noting: If you summon the keyboard before rotating your iPhone, then Safari won't rotate,)

NewsWire on your Mac, the read! unread status of each article, along with your clippings, is synced to your Mac, allowing you to pick up right where you left off.

your user name and password. If you want a fresh start, a Clear All button in Settings: Safari: AutoFili will delete all saved login information.

Third-Party Browsers AutoFiII Save typing time and brain space by taking advantage of Safari's AutoFili feature. To get started, go to Settings: Safari: AutoFil1. Turn on the Use Contact Info option and select which contact you'd like to use as your default. Next, turn on the Names & Passwords option. In Safari, enter your login information for a Web site. When you tap to submit this information, you'll be asked w hether it should be remem bered. Tap on Yes, and the next time you visit that site, you can simply tap on the AutoFili button to insert

Apple requires that third - party browsers for the iPhone be based on the same WebKit engine that underlies Safari itself, which limits the offerings (that means no Firefox). There are some standouts, though. Our current favorite is iCab Mobile ($2; macworld.com! 5014), w hich offers tabbed browsing and one of the richest feature sets of any iPhone browser, Safari includ ed. For more on third -party browsers, check out the Macw orld App Guide (appguide.com). For more on the App Store, see the Third-Party Apps chapter.

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Set Safari's Settings To access Safari's basic privacy and "sanity-preserving" features, tap on the Settings button on the iPhone's Home screen, and then tap Safari. JavaScript JavaScript is generally used to provide useful features on Web pages, but it can also compromise security, force pop-up windows to appear, and circumvent normal link and back- or forward-bullon behavior, among other things. You can choose to disable JavaScript here, Plug-ins If you want to prevent Safari from automatically displaying video on Web pages, set this to Off. Block Pop-ups Turn this option on and Safari will block annoying pop-up window s-typically ads . This setting won't block user-initiated pop-ups-those that appear when you click on a link. It blocks only those nasty ones that appear when you close a window or when a site first loads. Accept Cookies Cookies are small files stored on your computerin this case, on your iPhone or iPod touch-that hold information set by a Web site for future use; for example, the date and time of your last visit, your identity (so you don't have to log in the next time you visit), or your preferences for the site. This setting lets you decide if Safari should deny cookies altogether, accept cookies from any site or server, or accept cookies for just those sites you purposely navigate to. Clear History Select this option to clear out the list of sites you've recently visited. This does the same thing as the Clear button in the Bookmarks screen's hist ory list . Clear Cookies Although cookies are generally not harmful, if you're concerned about privacy, you can use this feature to delete all cookies periodically. Unfortunately, unlike Safari on your Mac or Windows PC, the iPhone's version of Safari doesn't allow you to delete individual cookies-it's all or nothing . Clear Cache If Safari is crashing a lot or loading pages particularly slowly, emptying the browser's cache may fix these problems.

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MapsandGPS hough the iPhone and iPod touch boast a class-leading Web browser and easyto-use e-mail features, the Maps program, which takes advantage of GPS (iPhone 3G and later) and WiFi hotspot technology, is perhaps the most impressive app of the lot. Maps gives your device all the place-finding and direction-giving functionality of Google's popular mapping Web site (see "All About Options"). Even better, the GPS feature seamlessly integrates with many of your device's other features and third -party apps, including your contacts, calendar, and notes, as well as the Mail program . So you can instantly view a map of a contact's location, call or e-mail a business you' ve located, or find a hardware store within blocks of your current location, for example.

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AboutGPS The iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS have Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. GPS is a technology that lets your iPhone figure out exactly where it is by triangulating radio signals from satellites in orbit. The iPhone uses Assisted GPS, which essentially means that the phone's search for GPS information is assisted by computers at cellphone towers, improving speed

program has numerous view options to choose from, just like its online Google Maps counterpart. and reliability. (First-generation iPhones, the iPod touch, and any iPhone 3G or 3GS that can't get a GPS fix use Wi-Fi and cell tower information to figure out their approximate position.) The built-in Maps application uses GPS to track your current location, represented by a blue dot within a larger blue circle at the

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center of the map (see "Blue Marks the Spot"). If you tap on the center dot, you can get an approximate add ress for your location . The iPhone 3G's camera uses GPS to embed the exact latitude and longitude of every picture you take (though you can turn this feature off), a process known as geotagging . (Apple's iPhoto '09 takes advantage of this metadata with its Places feature.) The included Maps application will show you where you are in the context of driving, walking, and public transportation directions, but it won't speak to you when you need to turn like a dedicated GPS device. (To find third -party apps that offer spoken turn-by-turn directions, visit appgu ide.com .) If you're driving though an area with no cellular service, the Maps application won't be able to download updated map data from Google.

Positioning sans GPS Although the iPod touch and older iPhones don't offer GPS integration, they can still approximate your position and offer directions in the Maps program via some clever software work. Google and Skyhook wireless use information from your network Signal to pin down your location. Google uses data collected by cell phone towers in your area to triangulate your location, while Skyhook uses a database of over 23 million Wi-Fi

Blue Marks the Spot A blue target marks your current location in Maps. hotspots. iPhones use both technologies; iPod touches can only use the Skyhook hotspot triangulation. Precision varies: Skyhook claims accuracy to within 20 meters; Google can only promise accuracy to within about 1,000 meters.

Get Acquainted with Maps When you tap on the Maps button on the iPhone's Home screen, you're presented with a miniature version of Google Maps (maps .google.com). DOUble-tap on the map to zoom in, repeatedly if necessary. Tap with two fingers

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at once to zoom out. To find your current location, tap on the target icon in the bottom left corner. To reposition the map, drag your finger around the screen. At the bottom of the screen are two options: Search and Directions. Tap on Search. iPhone 3GS users can see exactly which direction they are facing on the map, thanks to the built-in digital compass. To use this feature, tap on the target icon a second time. START A SEARCH Tap on the search field at the top of the screen and type an address or name to find a location-for instance, "Brickhouse Cafe." When you tap on Search, push pins will appear, mark-

ing the results (see "Instant Pub"). You can search for businesses, or even types of businesses, by entering a search term. By default, Maps will search based on your current location. If you'd like to specify a different location, enter a city and state or zip code after your search term. Maps supports all the same types of queries as Google Maps itself. For example, to find a doughnut shop near the Apple campus, you could type cupertino doughnuts (or just doughnuts if you're already on campus) and tap on Search. GET LOCATION DETAILS Tap on a red pin to bring up a location's name. Tap on the blue arrow

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to the right of the location name to see additional information, such as address, phone number, and a URL, if one is available. You'll also see options to get directions to or from that location, to add it to your Maps bookmarks, to share it in an e-mail, or to add the location to a new or existing contact. Tapping on a listed phone number or URL calls the number or opens the page in Safari, respectively. USE STREET VIEW An orange circle appears to the left of a location name if Google Street View is available for that address. Tap on the orange circle to see up-close photos of that location. Drag your finger around to explore the full 360-degree panoramic view. Tap on the white arrows to move up or down a street. Tap on the inset circle to exit Google Street View and return to the map. MORE VIEWING OPTIONS To customize your view, tap on the curled -up page icon in the bottom right corner of your screen. Here you will find options for viewing results on a photographic satellite map, a hybrid map, or as a list. Tapping on the Show Traffic button displays live, color-coded traffic information for major roads in major cities- red indicates severe congestion, yellow indicates slowmoving traffic, and green means smooth sailing (see "Avoid Jams"). The Ust feature is where the Maps feature really shines. After searching for a business or type of business,

Avoid Jams Before you get on the highway, check the traffic. Red lines are heavy congestion, yellow is moderate traffic, and green is light. This info is not available for all roads. you can tap on the List button to view a list of all matches, sorted by distance. Tap on a list entry once to center the map on that location. FIND SAVED LOCATIONS Are you heading to a friend's house? When you begin typing a search query, Maps displays any contact names that match; tap on one, and Maps goes directly to that contact's address. Tapping on the blue arrow will give you the full contact information. From there you can

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Bus Stop The public transportation option will give you step-by-step directions including times and cost tap on a button to get directions to or from that location_ As long as you keep your Mac's contacts up to date, you have instant access to maps of- and directions to-each contact's address. You can also access you r contacts and previously searched locations by tapping on the blue book icon next to the search field. This brings up Maps' quick-access lists. The first tab, Bookmarks, lists Current Location and any address or business you've bookmarkecl;

Tap on the Directions button at the bottom of your screen and the map search bar changes to show two fields-one for your starting location (set to Current Location by default), and another for your destination. Both fields offer a Bookmarks icon, so you can quickly use a bookmark, recent location, or contact as the starting or ending point. To quickly swap the contents of these fields----for example, to map your return trip-tap on the S-arrow icon. Once you've entered your locations, tap on Route. Maps will display the best driving, public transportation (see "Bus Stop"), or walking route between the two points, or at least its best guess. To choose a route type, select one of the three icons on top of the screen. The car represents driving directions, the bus is public transportation , and the human

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You can also view the directions as a textual list by tapping on the curled+up page icon in the bot+ tom right corner and then tapping on the List button (see "Driving Guide"). Tapping on any step in this list switches the view back to map mode and displays that step on the map. All in all, the directions mode is very effective. (Since you shouldn 't be looking at your iPhone's screen while driving, this feature is best used with a copilot.) You can edit the start or end points, or start a new search, by simply tapping on the Edit button at the top of the screen. To switch back to the standard map mode at any time, tap on the Search button at the bottom of your screen. Your directions will not be reset.

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Scheduling eed to know what's happening next in your life? The iPhone can sync with you r computer's calendar, and display the results in the Calendar program . Calendar lets you see recent and upcoming events, as well as enter new events (which will sync back to your computer the next time you connect your iPhone). You can even set alarms in the Calendar or Clock applications so you don't miss an important meeting.

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View Your Calendar Tap on the Calendar button on the Home screen to bring up a list of all the calendars currently synced with your iPhone. You can view one calendar at a time or select All to see them all at once. Each calendar is color-coded, so even in the All view, you can tell what items belong to which calendar. After tapping on a calendar, you'll see three different view options on the bottom of the screen: List, Day, and Month. If you tap on List, you'll see a spare (but very useful) list of all your upcoming calendar events (see "Coming Up Next"). This view displays the largest number of events at once. This is also the only view from which you can

search all of your calendars . Tap on the search bar at the top of your screen and enter keywords to find specific events. Tap on an event to view and edit its details. There's also a Show In Calendar option, which w ill jump you directly to that day. If you tap on Day, you'll see Calendar's day view, which displays up to eight hours of events at a time. You can scroll up or down to see events that are happening earlier or later in the day. All-day events appear at the top of the window-even when you scroll. Above the list of events you'll see the day and date you're currently viewing (if you're viewing today's events, that text will appear in blue), as well as forward and back arrows. Tap on the arrows to move to the next or previous day. Tap on Month to see Calendar's month view. The bulk of the iPhone's screen w ill display a complete calendar for the current month, along with a pair of arrows that you can tap on to move forward or back a month at a time. If a day has any events attached to it, a small dot will appear beneath the day's number. The current day will appear with an embossed background. When you touch a date, it

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turns blue and its events appear in the small list view at the bottom of the screen . To quickly jump back to the current date in any of the Calendar views, simply tap on the Today button, located at the bottom left of the screen.

Add Events To add a new event, tap on the plus sign in the upper right corner of the Calendar screen . Each event can be assigned a title and a location (although there's currently no way to tie that location to a Google Maps address). Tap on the Starts/ Ends button to set a time and date for your event. Tap on the Repeat

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If you're a Mac user who uses Apple's iCal, your calendar should automatically sync to the iPhone; however, your to-do lists will remain stuck on your computer, unsynced. Thankfully, multiple to-do apps, available in the Apple App Store, can help (see "A Better To-do List").

Sync Calendars You can sync the iPhone with iCal and Entourage calendars on a Mac and with Outlook on a PC . You can also add subscribed calendars and CalDAV accounts. Unfortunately, meeting invitations are currently only supported for Microsoft Exchange users. (Meetings in Cal-

iiIlI A Better To-do List Your iPhone doesn't sync iCaI and Mail to-dos, but there are plenty of third-party apps to fill the void. These are two of our favorites:

Track Basic To-dos Even those of us who aren't to-do list freaks still need to keep track of what needs doing or risk becoming viewed as hopelessly disorganized and confused. Things ($10; macworld.com/4101 ), an app from Cultured Code, doesn't provide the overkill that many adherents of the Church of Getting Things Done will prefer. But it does offer an easy-to-use way to create tasks, set their due dates, and check them off when you're done. The auto-sync integration with Cultured Code's $49 version for desktop Macs is also immaculate.

Share To-dos Zenbe lists ($3; macworld.com/3832) is an easy-to-use app for ke€ping multiple to-do or shopping lists, each item with or without a due date. Those lists are synced with the Zenbe Web site, so you can update them on your iPhone or desktop . But the real beauty of Zenbe Lists is that you can share your lists with other Zenbe lists users or anyone with a Web browser. For example, someone at home can add items to the grocery list while you're walking the aisles of the supermarket.

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DAV calendars show up as events marked with gray dots, but you can't reply to invitations.) To sync your calendars. attach your iPhone to your computer, select it in iTunes' Source list, and then click on the Info tab. You can sync all the calendars in your chosen calendar program, or choose to sync only a select group. To save space on the iPhone, you can also limit how many old events to sync (that is, items that have already occurred) . Adding a CalDAV account or a subscribed calendar is somewhat trickier. On your iPhone, go to Settings: Mail, Contacts, Calendars: Add Account and choose Other.

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the contents of the Mac's Address Book and iCal-which might not be wise, especially since Address Book data is used for items such as Buddy names in iChat- it's safest to choose Merge. Once you' ve set up Entourage to sync with iCal, you should be able to sync those calendars with the iPhone. MobileMe users can sync calendars wirelessly using the push technology. Once syncing is set up, changes you make to contacts, calendars, mail, or bookmarks on your Mac appear almost instantaneously on your iPhone and vice versa- add an event in iCal , and it appears on your iPhone.

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hough not as showy as the Maps or Safari features, several other smaller programsfound on the Home screen-help make the iPhone and iPod touch a well-rounded smart phone. These include a scientific calcula10r, a notepad, a weather app, and a stock ticker. Here's a look at what each of these programs can do and how to get started with them .

Calculator The iPhone's Calculator program has two options. Holding your iPhone in portrait mode gives you the basic calculator, which has four math operators, the ability to store one number in memory, and a display limited to nine digits. New on the 3G iPhone is the ability to rotate the phone into landscape mode and turn the calcu-

lator into a scientific calculator. This advanced view allows you to sine, cosine, and tangent to your heart's content (see "Real Science"). Unfortunately, Calculator doesn't provide shortcuts to help with tip calculation, or a paper tape option to see what you've previously calculated . You can, however, copy the results of calculations for pasting into other iPhone programs. What Calculator does offer is simplicity: just press the on-screen numbers and mathematical operators to solve whatever problem you' re w restling with. If necessary, you can use the memory keys to store, add to, and subtract from the Calculator's one-number memory (if you need a more advanced calculator, see the "Add On" tip).

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iiIlI Add On H the iPhone's built-in calculator seems a bit low-powered for your needs, give TlA Systems' PCalc RPN Calculator ($10; macworld.com/3904) a try. Just like the built-in calculator, it's a basic calculator in portrait mode and a more full -featured version when you rotate the iPhone to landscape mode. Unlike with the built-in calcula tor, you can choose to use Reverse Polish Notation data entry mode, do conversions, and use a number of constants (such as the speed 01 light or pi) with a couple of screen taps. Uke Apple's calculator application, PCale's keyboard can appear in horizontal form, making it easier to type out your calculations.

When viewing a note, you can use the arrows at the bottom of the screen to move to the next or previous note. Tap on the envelope icon to insert the note into a new e-mail message. Tapping on the trash-can icon will give you the option of deleting the note, (You can also delete notes by swiping across the title list view and tapping on the delete button, as in Mail.) When you're typing a new note or editing

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Don't Forget The Notes feature is the closest thing the iPhone has to a native to-do list application. It syncs with Apple Mail.

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the note will become the title that appears on the main Notes screen. When you're finished, tap on the Done button to save your note. Notes can tell when text is a phone number or a street or e-mail address. If you click on an element in the view mode, Notes will call a number, map a location, or start an e-mail to a person. You can sync all of your Notes with Apple Mail. To turn on Notes syncing, attach your iPhone to your computer, select it in iTunes' Source list, and then click on the Info tab. Scroll down to Notes and select Sync Notes . The notes will show up on your computer under Reminders in Mail. You can also sync notes from Mail back to your iPhone.

Stocks As its name implies, the Stocks program on the iPhone lets you track changes in stock price throughout the day. The slock price information comes from Yahoo Finance. Using the Stocks app is easy. Tap on the Info icon (/) to flip the app over and access controls for adding and removing stocks. Tap on the plus sign to add a stock, and the keyboard will appear. You can search based on a company name (Apple Computer) or ticker symbol (AAPL). From this screen, you can also choose whether to view your stocks' performance

Smart Money The Stocks program lets you easily track a stock's performance over a specified period of time. as price change, percentage change, or market cap. When you're finished, tap on Done. The page will flip over again, showing your chosen stocks and a chart of the selected stock's price over time (see "Smart Money"). You can toggle between recent stock change (+ or -), recent percentage change, and market cap by tapping on the box next to the stock symbol. Swiping the bottom chart shows related financial news headlines or more details about a

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stock (Open, High, Low, Vol, PIE, Mkt Cap, 52w High, 52w Low, Avg Vol, and Yield). If you're interested in seeing different time spans for each stock, you can change the time period shown on the graph by tapping on the small numbers above it; 1d is one day, 1w is one week, and so forth . Flip Stocks into landscape mode, and you can tap and drag to get a stock price for a given day, and swipe to move to the next stock. Using two fingers in landscape mode gives you the change between two dates in both price and percentage.

Weather The iPhone's Weather program displays current weather conditions and a six-day forecast for any city in the world with colorfully descriptive illustrations (see "Pack Smart"). You can track weather in as many as 20 cities. To add a new location, tap on the Info icon to turn the Weather page over. Next, tap on the plus sign and enter the city, state, or zip code of your choice in the pop-up keyboard. As you type, a list of probable matches will pop up below. Select the proper match or tap on Search. In the list of matches that appears, tap on the one you'd like to add. Repeat until you've added all the locations you'd like, and then tap on Done. Swipe your finger left or right to view different locations' weather.

Pack Smart Get a five-day forecast with the Weather program.

Clock The iPhone always displays the current time in the status bar (or on the Unlock screen if your iPhone is locked). But if you'd like to track the time in multiple locations, or if you want to use the Stopwatch, Timer, and Alarm features, you can do so from the Clock program. Tap on the World Clock button at the bottom of the Clock screen to see what time it is in another part of the world. Use the plus sign to add a new location-you can monitor as many as 24 loca-

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the alarm will offer you a snooze option (to defer your wake-up for ten more minutes). To time yourself or an activity, tap on the Stopwatch button. If you 're running, use the small lap timer above the main timer. To quickly set an alarm for a specific interval of time-when you' re cooking , for example-tap on the Timer button .

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Take a Memo The built-in Voice Memos app records crisp audio files and lets you e-mail or text them. tions. To delete a clock or change the order of clocks, tap on the Edit button. The clock faces turn black during the night and early morning hours and white during daytime hours. You can use the clock to set up alarms without creating a new calendar. To turn your iPhone into an alarm clock, tap on the Alarm button. From here you can set the alarm's alert message, whether it plays only once or repeats on a schedule, what sound plays when the alarm goes off, and whether

The Voice Memos application lets users of the iPhone and secondgeneration iPod touch record, edit, and share audio clips (see "Take a Memo"). You can record using the iPhone's built-in microphone or the mic on the iPhone's headphones. Voice Memos can even record in the background while other programs run ; a red bar appears at the top of the screen to let you know that you're still recording, along with the elapsed time. You cannot, however, record phone callslaunching the Phone app ends your recording session. Once you've recorded an audio clip, you can use Voice Memos to play it back and label it, either with one of the handful of built-in labels (Interview, Class, and so on) or by adding your o wn. You can also trim a clip from inside the application , dragging endpOints on a timeline to select just the section you want (careful , though; there's no undo), and then share it via e-mail or MMS, if your

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carrier allows it. Voice Memos also syncs back to iTunes under a Voice Memos playlist, though you can prevent it from syncing by unchecking the Include Voice Memos option in iTunes' Music sync pane when the iPhone is connected to your computer. The memos are stored as 16-bit mono Apple Lossless files.

Compass The iPhone 3GS includes a built-in digital compass . Not only can you orient yourself using a realistic compass interface (which also provides longitude and latitude via GPS), but you can also use the compass in the Maps program to see exactly which way you're facing, and even orient the map correctly to make following directions easier. To detect your direction, tap on the location button twice. You can choose to navigate by true or magnetic north by tapping on the Info icon. The compass, although it's a cool tool, is not infal-

A New Direction The iPhone 3GS comes with this digital compass. lible. Nearby magnetic interference, including that from iPhone earbuds and speakers, can confuse it and make it lose its bearings.

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and crashes-that will need ironing out Unfortunately, you are limited in the number of ways you can troubleshoot your Phone. Your only view of the iPhone is the one you gel when you turn it on, and you can only interact with the system through the various settings screens on the iPhone itself. When you dock your iPhone, you can only work with it through iTunes (or iPhoto if photo syncing), This chapter will walk you through the most common troubleshooting techniques available to iPhone and iPod touch users, as well as look at some common problems and myster-

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Tools of the Trade hat should you do when you encounter troubles with your iPhone? Because the system is closed to end-user access, most traditional troubleshooting methods don't apply-there's no way to trash a program's preferences files, for instance. If one of the iPhone's standard programs is crashing, you can't reinstall it, because Apple doesn't provide installers for applications. A few remedies are available, however. And since the list of possibilities is very short, you don't need a lot of expertise to implement them. In increasing order of difficulty, here are the things you can do to try to recover from various iPhone maladies:

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Force-Quit When an iPhone application is unresponsive, press and hold down the Sleep/Wake button on the top of your iPhone until the red Slide To Power Off slider appears. Release the Sleep/Wake button but do not power off the iPhone. Instead, hold down the Home button for about six seconds. This should force your program to quit and return you to the Home screen.

Restart If the problem returns, it's time to restart. Press and hold the Sleep!

Power Play When your iPhone or iPod touch starts acting up, treat it like you would any Mac and restart.

Wake button on the top of your iPhone until you see the Slide To Power Off option, then tap on the red arrow and drag it to the right (see "Power Play"). Let the phone sit for five seconds before powering it back on . The iPhone will take about a minute to reboot. Restarting your iPhone is the easiest and most effective fix for most freezing

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and crashing problems. Restarting is recommended as a first step for most iPhone issues, including excess battery consumption , persistent crashes, and a slow iPhone.

Forced Restart Your iPhone may be so gummed up that the Power Off slider never appears after you attempt a regular restart. That means it's time for some muscle. Hold down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo

Fresh Start Tap on your Settings icon and select General, then Reset, to bring up these six reset options.

pops up, signaling a forced restart of the iPhone.

Reset When problems persist after a restart, the culprit may be corrupted settings or data on your iPhone. If so, one fix is to delete the information and reenter or resync it. To do this, tap on the Settings icon from the Home screen, select General, and then tap on Reset . In the screen that appears, you'll see multiple reset options. Only the first two are of interest in this instance (see "Fresh Start"). RESET ALL SETTINGS Apple makes a distinction between settings and data. Data consists mainly of the information that gets synced with your computer, such as music, photos, and contacts. Settings consist of the choices you make in the iPhone's interface and its native applications~for example, the cities you choose in the Weather program-but they don't include your third-party applications. In theory, tapping on the Reset All Settings button reverts your settings to their original values, while leaving your data untouched. In practice, however, some settings~such as stock choices and wallpaper selection~ may not reset. ERASE ALL CONTENT AND SETTINGS As its name might imply, this option erases both your settings and your content (data),

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and returns your iPhone to its original condition when you first activated it. You can now re-create your settings . The content is automatically reloaded the next time you sync.

select the types of data you want to replace (Contacts, Calendars, Mail Accounts, and/or Bookmarks) . Confirm that these options are disabled once the sync is complete to resume normal syncing the next time. Note that once you take this step, you'll lose any new data you've entered on your iPhone since the last time you synced it. To be on the safe side, take a moment to sync your computer and iPhone before replacing the iPhone's data.

Replace Data If you suspect problems with data (contacts, calendars, Mail accounts, or bookmarks) on your iPhone, another useful option is to replace the data completely with fresh data from your computer, rather than merging the two data sets, as would normally occur. To do this, go to the Info tab of iTunes' iPhone screen, scroll down to the Advanced section, and

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backup, you'll still have the option to restore from an earlier backup,) After the iPhone's software is restored, iTunes will offer you the chance to restore from a backup. To start the restore process, connect the iPhone to your computer, open iTunes, and select iPhone from the Devices list. In the Summary screen that appears, click on Restore (see "Wipe the Slate Clean"). iTunes will download a software update for the iPhone. This software contains, among other things, the iPhone's OS. After

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Duck and Rec over When your iPhone flashes this warning , it's time to connect to iTunes and restore. the download is complete, the original factory settings for your iPhone are restored . At this point, a dialog box asks if you want to set up the iPhone as new or restore all the data and settings from a backup, Unless you believe your backup contains corrupted data, opt to restore. After the restore process is complete, sync your iPhone to get back your content (music, videos, photos, calendar items, contacts, and apps). With the sync finished,

your iPhone should be completely restored (although e-mail and Wi-Fi-network passwords, stock selections, and photos taken with the iPhone aren't restored) . RESTORE FROM SCRATCH If you try the restore method described above and find you still have the same issues as before, it may be that the settings or data currently on your iPhone became corrupted sometime before your last sync. Restore the phone as above, but do not restore your backup . Instead of restoring the backup, tell iTunes to treat your iPhone as new. Give it a name, reinstall all of you r programs from scratch, and then sync your music, videos, and other content. This is as close as you can come to starting with a factory -fresh iPhone, and represents your best chance at increased stability. When you do this, the iPhone will tell you that it needs to be activated. Th is should happen automatically within a couple of minutes if your iPhone can connect to its host cellular network.

Recovery Mode If your iPhone is unable to even start up successfully, you may get the most unwelcome of iPhone messages commanding you to connect to iTunes (see "Duck and Recover") . After you connect to iTunes, another message appears: "iTunes has detected an iPhone

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in recovery mode. You must restore this iPhone before it can be used with iTunes . ~ If this happens, proceed wi th the restore, as described earlier, and hope for the best. You can also force the iPhone into recovery mode. This can be useful, for example, if your iPhone has reached a state where it won't get past the Apple logo portion of the boot process or is stuck in an endless loop of restarts that prevents the iPhone from appearing in iTunes . To force a recovery, hold down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons-as you would do for a

forced restart-but continue holding them down after the restart begins. After about 25 to 30 seconds, the recovery mode message should appear. You can now connect to iTunes and restore. If you decide not to do a restore from recovery mode, you can exit by holding down the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for 6 to 10 seconds. No data will be erased during a forced recovery. If your iPhone still fails after you do this, it's time to take it to Apple for service. You can locate the nearest Apple Store or Apple Authorized Service Provider at support.apple.com .

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Fixing Common Problems Pple has put a lot of effort into making the iPhone as easy to use as possible. Still, there are plenty of challenges that can trip you up, from mystery attachments to confusing sync options. The good news is that most of these problems have solutions. Here are answers to some of the more common iPhone conundrums. If you're experiencing a problem not on this list, take a trip to Apple's troubleshooting assistant (apple.com/supporViphone).

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Connections Syncing your iPhone with iTunes is the only way to get you r media onto your pocket-sized player. It's also the most convenient way to add contact information, bookmarks, and calendar events. If you find yourself stumped by how your iPhone syncs, read on.

Sync with Multiple Computers While it's true that the iPhone is a sync-only device, it's a flexible syncer. If you have a computer at work that has all of your contacts and calendar information, and a computer at home that contains all

of your music, you can make the iPhone sync different content with each computer. Apple has conveniently broken iPhone data into discrete blocks, each of which you can sync with different computers: Info (contacts, calendars, bookmarks, notes, mail accounts), Ringtones, Music and Video (which must be synced together), Photos, Podcasts, and Applications. For this to work, you need to go through each tab in iTunes and uncheck any items you don't want to sync on the new computer. For example, to keep music and videos that you've synced with your home computer, uncheck the sync options in the Music and Video tabs on your work computer (see "Selective Syncing"). Although you can't plug an iPhone into another computer and have it merge media-music, videos, photos, and podcasts-from that other computer, it can merge data found in the Info tab, including contacts, calendars, e-mail accounts, and bookmarks. It works this way: deselect the sync options in the Music, Photos, Podcasts, and Video tabs. Then click on the Info tab and select any items you'd like to merge to the iPhone-Con-

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Sneak Audio onto the iPhone This is a neat workaround for you Mac users to get audio files on your iPhone from a different computer than you sync music with. To add audio to the iPhone without wiping out its music library, you'll first need to enable pod cast syncing on your secondary computer. Since the iPhone can sync pod-

casts separately from music and videos, you can fill your iPhone with audio at work so long as it's in the form of a podcast. Sounds great, but how the heck do you make a fake podcast that contains audio files from your own hard drive? Download Red Sweater Software's free Typecast (macworld .com/3037) and use it to create phony podcasts full of audio files from your Mac at work. Once you've dragged your audio files from the Mac's hard drive into the Typecast window, click on the Send To iTunes button. Now all you have to do is sit back and watch as the files appear magically within iTunes as a podcas1.

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Sync with Google Calendars Google does a decent job of making its calendars iPhone-friendly in Safari, but many users would prefer to keep Google calendars in sync with iCal or Outlook and the iPhone's calendar application. This is now easily done. Create a Google calendar if you don't already have one (calendar .google.com). Mac users should download Google's Calaboration (yes, it's spelled that way) tool (macworld .com/4354 ). Run the Calaboration tool and enter your Google username and password. When prompted, choose t he Google calendars that you'd like to add to iCal (see "Don't Give Up on Google"). Now when you enter events in either iCal or Google, those events will be synced . When

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iPhone Not Appearing in iTunes If your iPhone isn't showing up in iTunes' Devices list when you connect to your computer, it's time to run through the reliable fixes covered at the beginning of this chapter. But first check the connection and make sure that your iPhone is charged . If it's powered up, try re-

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Erasing Apps To permanently delete an app from your iPhone, you must remove it from both the iPhone (left) and iTunes (right). starting it, and then restarting your computer. If that doesn't work, try changing iPhone cables. If your computer still isn't recognizing the device, you should reinstall iTunes.

Addressing Apps With the App Store, the iPhone has taken a big step toward being a Mac "in your pocket," rather than just a smart phone. While the emphasis is on the benefits of being a Mac, there are a few downsides to consider. In particular, third~party apps can freeze, crash, and otherwise muck with your iPhone. Luckily, the remedies for these common problems are fairly straightforward. Here is the best of our app advice.

Delete Unwanted Apps If an application is giving you problems or has just lost its novelty,

you may choose to delete it. To do so, you need to remove it both from your iPhone and iTunes before your next sync. Although Apple states that it is only necessary to remove an app from iTunes (which in turn should result in it being deleted from your iPhone during the next sync), many users have found that such "deleted" apps are transferred back from the iPhone to iTunes after a sync without the warning message that is supposed to appear. To remove an application from your iPhone, tap and hold on any application icon in the Home screen until the icons begin to shake (see "Erasing Apps"). Tap the X symbol in the upper left corner of the application icon you wish to delete. You'll get a warning that deleting the app will also delete all of its data. After you tap the X, you' ll be asked to

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again. If it is an app you purchased , the Store will remember that you previously paid for it and offer to download it for free.

Update Your Apps The likelihood of application crash · es on your iPhone has increased significantly with the explosion of third-party software now available in the App Store. Most applica· tion crashes are the result of bugs in the application software. Most of these bugs w ill be squashed in updated versions of the software that are eventually released. That's why it pays to check for updates (see "Frequent Updates"). To check for and install updates in iTunes, select Applications in the iTunes Library and click on the

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update to finish. While the iPhone remains operational during an update, whatever you attempt to do will typically go at a slower pace, sometimes to the point that you may 1hink your iPhone has stopped working, leading you to restart the phone. Impressively, the install process appears to survive such a restart and picks up where it leU off. Still, matters will go more smoothly if you update from iTunes.

App Freezes and Crashes

No Fly Zone Toggling your iPhone's airplane mode can help it find EDGE and 3G connections. Check For Updates button. Here you can download updates one by one or all at once. For 1he best results, we recommend updating from iTunes over the iPhone when possible. However, if you're on the go, you can do a check from your iPhone by going to the App Store and tapping on More, then the Updates button. If any updates are listed, you are given the option to install them. You should ideally refrain from doing anything with your phone while waiting for the

If you have an updated app that's freezing or crashing, try these steps in order (described in de1ail in the previous section): If an app is frozen, force-quit until you are back at the Home screen. If the app continues acting up, restart your iPhone. Next, try reinstalling the applications. First delete one from your iPhone and download the program again in iTunes. Then sync your iPhone and install the new copy of the program. Warning: you will lose all data you saved w ith the program ~text you added, high scores, game progress, and so on.

Other Glitches Here are some other common problems you may encounter.

Find Lost Connections If you find that your iPhone won't connect to AT&T's EDGE or 3G networks, even though the phone

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says you have sufficient signal strength, try turning on Airplane Mode (located at the top of the Settings screen) and then turning it back off (see "No-Fly Zone"). If you're having trouble connecting to local Wi-Fi networks, go to Settings: General: Reset, and tap on Reset Network Settings. This clears out your list of known Wi-Fi networks and deletes VPN settings. Then reenter all the required network information.

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Caching Out You can speed up a slow iPhone by clearing out your Safari cache.

If your iPhone is experiencing trouble getting Web pages to load, try clearing Safari's cache files . To do this, go to Settings : Safari . From the screen that appears, tap on Clear Cache (see "Caching Out"). If that has no effect, select Clear His-

iiIiI The Dead Strip The dreaded iPhone "dead strip· is when a rectangular strip of the iPhone's screen, typically near the bottom, no longer responds to finger touches. This particular strip is a critical one. It includes the region where you Slide To Unlock-needed before you can do almost anything else with the phone after waking it up. Without it, the iPhone is pretty much useless. If the usual software-based fixes like restarting aren't solving it, you are dealing with a hardware problem. Repair or replacement of the iPhone are the only remedies. Make an appointment with an Apple retail store before giving up and buying a new phone, even if your iPhone is no longer under warranty. There's a good chance that they will fiX your iPhone free of charge, since the dead strip is a known glitch.

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Find a Lost iPhone If you're a MobileMe subscriber and you misplace your iPhone, you 're in luck. The Find My iPhone service allows you to locate, send messages to, and remotely wipe (erase) your handset. For Find My iPhone to work, you need a MobileMe account activated on your phone, and the Find My iPhone option switched to On in its account settings (Settings : Mail, Contacts, Calendars: Your MobileMe Account). You also need to enable your phone's Location Services under Settings: General. To use Find My iPhone, log in to your MobileMe account at me.com , click on the Accounts icon, then click on Find My Phone. A map will show you the the latest location of your iPhone, using the unit's builtin location services. You can send a custom message to your iPhone, along with an alert sound that plays even if the phone's ringer is off, This can help if you've misplaced the iPhone somewhere in your house, It's also a smart way to let someone know how to contact you if they've found your phone. If the phone is lost for good, or contains sensitive information, you can opt to remotely wipe all data from your phone, Should you later locate your phone, all you need to do is plug your iPhone back into your computer, and you can restore from the latest backup. For Find My iPhone to be really effective, you should have a passcode lock turned on. Otherwise, someone who finds your phone can disable Find My iPhone and access all your data before you have a chance to wipe it.

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View More Files Although the iPhone will open PDF files, Microsoft Office files, and many other file types attached to your e-mail messages, it wi ll recognize those files only if they include the appropriate file extension (.pdf, .doc, .xls, and so on). Even plain text files, which should be easy to understand, aren't available for viewing unless followed by a . txt extension . The solution is to make sure you r friends and business contacts always name the files they send you wi th the correct extensions.

Forgotten Passcode Fix No Fly Zone Toggling your iPhone's airplane mode can help it f ind EDGE and 3G connections. tory and Clear Cookies. Be aware, however, that some Web features won't work with the iPhone no mat~ ter what you do. In particular, the iPhone's version of Safari does not include support for Flash, so any Flash videos will not play.

What should you do if you set a passcode for your iPhone or iPod touch but can't remember what it is? To get past this optional (highly recommended) security feature, you need to restore your device as described in the "Tools of the Trade" section earlier in this chapter (see "Forgotten Digits"). Then use the option to restore data and settings to get your device back up and running again.

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Accessing Apps Pple gives you two ways to browse for new third-party apps; you can use iTunes while you're at your computer, or the App Store program on your iPhone or iPod touch wh ile you're away from your computer. To access the App Store, you'll need to be running the latest version of iTunes . Make sure your iPhone or iPod touch has the latest software update.

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Getting New Apps From iTunes, switch to the iTunes Store and then click on App Store from the left iTunes Store column . Using the App Store interface is similar to searching for music or videos. You'll see featured applications, along with categories, browsing tools, a What's Hot list, and a Staff Favorites list. When you select an app in iTunes, you'll see a description of what it does, a screenshot, and user ratings. (You must own an app in order to review it.) You'll also find other useful info on the app's page. For example, you'll see the app's age rating and its file size listed under its name-useful if you're short on space. If you scroll down , you'll find the URL of the developer'S Web site, along with a list of compatible devices in the Description column (pay close attention to this

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apps or navigate directly to the App Store to look for more. While away from your computer, you can get new programs by tapping the App Store icon (iPod touch users will need to be on a Wi-Fi network). Tapping on any application in the store takes you to a description of it and screenshots, as well as a link to user reviews (see "Impulse Shopping"). To buy or download an application from your device, double-tap the price: if the button reads Free, it will change to Install when you first tap it; if there's a price, it will change to Buy. Once you enter your account information, the App Store will return you to the iPhone's Home screen, where it will add the icon for the app you've chosen

to download , along with a progress bar showing its installation process. (You can do other things while the application is installing.) And just as with music, if iTunes finds applications on your device that aren't on your Mac, it will ask you if you want to transfer those back to your iTunes library the next time you sync.

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Deleting Apps To remove a third-party application, you can tap and hold its icon. The icons w ill begin to dance on the screen, and a black X badge will appear in their top-lef t corners. If you tap that X, you'll be

asked if you wan t to delete the application. Because applications must store all their data in the app's package, deleting an application also deletes all its settings and stored information . If you delete an app that you wanted to keep, you can resync it from iTunes. However, that app's data is gone for good. If you deleted it from iTunes as well, you can redownload it for free (unlike media) from the iTunes Store; you can load applications onto as many iPod touches and iPhones as you want, provided they're synced to your iTunes Library.

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Log Time Professionals who bill by the hour understand the need for scrupulous timekeeping . Timelogger ($4; macworld.com/5018) is a practical, dynamic app that lets you keep close track of your time and ensures that you get paid for every minute you're owed. Besides basic tracking features, Costmo Soft's TimeLogger lets you schedule starts and stops and allows multiple timers to run at once with different time intervals for people who bill by the hour, half hour, tenth of an hour, or minute. You can also export your time sheets bye-mail as either a plain text or a spreadsheet file.

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Connect to Your Computer Leopard 's new screen-sharing feature is handy for remote troubleshooting, but what about checking on things when you 're not at your computer? No problem: wi th Mocha VNC 's Mocha VNC Lite (free; macworld .comlS020), you can view and interact with your Mac or PC anywhere you've got your iPhone. Mocha VNC Lite works in both portrait and landscape orientations, and you can pinch to zoom in and out of the remote screen. It also lets you store up to six computers as shortcuts so you don't have to key in server information every time.

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Access Your Entire Music Library Even with 16GB of storage, you might not be able to fit your entire music library on your iPhone, especially if you also store a lot of videos and applications. Simplify Media ($4; Simplify Media, macworld .com/ 5025) lakes advantage of the iPhone's network capabilities to let you stream music from your iTunes library on your home computer via Wi-Fi or the cell network. You'll also need to set up a free application on your Mac or PC and sign up for a free account, but once that's working, you can have your whole music library at hand, no matter where you go . .... ......T .

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Follow the Score Although there are many sports scoreboard apps for the iPhone, SportsTap (free; SportsTap, macworld.com/5028) stands out, thanks to its home screen. You'll find icons for ten different sports with a red Mail-like count badge on each, indicating the number of new scores within that category since you last ran the program.

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Edit Your Photos The iPhone's built-in camera makes for a convenient way to snap quick pictures, but CameraBag ($2; Nevercenter. macworld.coml5030) makes those pics a lot more interesting. CameraBag is a collection of photo filters that you can apply to images in your iPhone's photo library or to those you take from within the app. Some of the filters included are Helga (square format wi th vignette), 1974 (faded and tinted). Fisheye (warped lens). and Cinema (wide-screen and dramatic).

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Puzzle It Out If you ' re a fan of logic games but you've played one too many rounds of Sudoku, Marple ($2; Mikko Kankainen, macworld.com/S033) is sure to please. Marple has four different types of tiles (letters, numbers, dice, and shapes), with five different tiles of each type. The board starts with five columns, each containing one of every tile. Using the provided clues and a good amount of logic, you determine which member of each tile group belongs in each column . With a million puzzles, you won't run out anytime soon .

Take Aim Lazrhog Games has brought Kenta Cho's rRootage (free; Lazrhog Games, macworld.com/S034) to the iPhone. The game distills the essence of a top-down shooter-blasting a "boss" vehicle that's dumping tons of ammo straight at you. You have to dodge the bullets and do your best to blast the bad guy to smithereens. rAootage for the iPhone is a work in progress, but it's unforgettable for its wild , geometric graphics, spinning animations, and crazy game play.

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hen you purchase an iPhone, Apple gives you everything you need to get started-including a power adapter, a USB cable, and a pair of stereo headphones with a remote, a microphone for hands-free calls, a clicker, and volume controls, But there are plenty of other useful accessories that Apple doesn't offer. Whether you're looking for Bluetooth headphones, a protective case, high-quality headphones for beUer sound, or a set of speakers for listening to music out loud , there are scores of addons that let you do more with your phone. Here are our picks for some of the most useful accessories for the iPhone. For more reviews of the latest iPhone gear, go to iphone.macworld,com.

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Cases he sleek design of the iPod touch and iPhone make you want to show them off, but they're still vulnerable to scratches, scuffs, bumps, and drops . To minimize the risk of damage, consider using a protective case. Here's a rundown of the most common types of protectors, along with examples of some of our favorites. Whichever case you choose, make sure it doesn't block the iPhone's bottom-mounted speaker and microphone, the camera lens on the back, and the light and proximity sensors near the top edge on the front (unless, of course, the case is designed so that you take your iPhone out 10 use it).

Pouches and Sleeves Pouches and sleeves completel y encase your iPhone to protect it from scratches. Some even provide extra padding to help guard against bumps, drops, and shocks. These cases tend to be relatively inexpensive. On the downside, many also

limit access to the device's touch screen-you may have to pull out your iPhone or iPod touch to access most features. Recommendations: Marware C EO Sleeve ($25; marware.com), Sena iPho ne Elega Po uc h and UltraSlim Po uch ($40 and $30, respectively; senacases.com)

Holsters Holsters are popular among iPhone owners, as they let you store your iPhone on your belt for easy access. The downside to these cases is that, as with pouches and sleeves, you need to take the iPhone out of the case to use it. Recommendations: DLO HipCase ($30; dlo.com), Incase Leather Folio ($40; goincase.com), Seid io Spring -Clip Holster ($30; seidioonline.com)

Standard Cases If you don't need lots of protection-far example, if you keep your iPhone in your pocket, a purse, ar a laptop bag-a standard case is right up your alley. These cases

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enclose most of your device in leather, plastic, or fabric-offering protection against minor bumps, drops, and scratches-while leaving its screen and controls fully accessible. Some also include belt clips; we prefer clips that can be removed without leaving a bulky nub on the back.

Flip cases offer complete protection, thanks to a cover that flips open to provide access to your phone's screen. Although these cases tend to be a bit bulkier than most, and they don't protect against the elements, they offer a good compromise between protection and convenience. Some offer a pocket for cash, credit cards, or an 10, and a few even convert into a stand for watching videos .

Recommendations: Agen t 18 Eco iPhone Slider Shield ($35; agent18.com), Case-Mate Signature Leather Case ($35; case-mate .com), Incase Fitted Sleeve and Slider Case ($35 each; goincase .com), Sena Leatherskin Case ($34; senacases.com)

Skins Among the most popular types of cases, skins enclose your iPhone or iPod touch in a thin or thick layer of silicone rubber. Thinner skins prevent scratches without adding much bulk, whereas thicker skins provide added shock protection. Both give your device some much needed traction. The downside of a skin is that getting your device out can be a minor hassle, especially if you use dock-cradle accessories. Recommendations: iSkin rev02 ($40; iskin.com), MalWare Sport Grip ($20; marware.com), Speck ToughSkin ($35; speckproducts.com)

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in the other categories here, but if you're a fan of exercise armbands, there are a couple solid options out there.

basically invisible and don't affect the iPhone's touch screen interface. Some, such as ShieldZone's InvisibleShield, are also available in full body versions that protect the entire iPhone without adding bulk or obscuring its stylish appearance.

Recommendations: Belkin Sport Armband with Fast Fit ($40; belkin.com), Marware Sports uit Convertible ($35; marvvare.com)

Recommendations: Power Support Crystal Film Sets ($15 for two; powersupportusa.com), Body Guardz ($15 for two screen protectors, $25 for two whole phone protectors; bodyguardz.com)

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People who treat their iPhones roughly or venture into harsh environments will wan t a case that offers complete protection against shocks and the elements. These cases can add significant bulk and may make your device difficult to access, but you won't have to worry about getting water or sand in your precious iPhone.

Want to protect your iPhone from scratches but don't want to hide its shiny surfaces? There are a number of attractive cases on the market that enclose your phone in hard, transparent plastic. Most include belt clips; some add rugged rubber bumpers for shock protection. Recommendations: Griffin Technology iClear ($30; griffintechnology .com), Contour Design iSee and Showcase ($30 and $35, respectively; retail.contourdesign .com)

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Headphones pple's white earbuds are pretty good as far as earbuds go, and the iPhone version even features a microphone (for phone calls) that doubles as a remote for basic playback control. But if you're still using them, you're not enjoying your iPhone to its full sonic potential. A new set of headphones is probably the most rewarding upgrade you can perform on your iPhone. Here are the different types of headphones on the market, along with a few of our recommendations at various prices.

deep-in your ear canals. Like earplugs, they block most external noise, so they're great for travel and noisy environments. They' re also capable of producing stunning audio quality. On the other hand, some people find them uncomfortable, and the best ones come with a stunning price tag . (For more information on in-earcanal headphones, visit macworld .coml2709.)

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Recommendations: Ultimate Ears Super-fi 3 Studio ($130; ultimateears.com), Etymotic hf5 ($150; etymotic.com), Shure SE210 ($180; shure.com), Ultimate Ears Triple.Fi 10 Pro ($400; ultimateears.com), Shure SE530 ($500; shure.com)

Earbuds, the type of headphones included with every iPod and iPhone, sit loosely in your outer ears . Although no earbuds produce outstanding sound, they're compact and relatively inexpensive. Recommendations: Sennheiser MX 460 and MX 560 ($25 and $30, respectively; sennheiserusa.com)

In-Ear-Canal Headphones These headphones, also known as canalphones, fit snugly- and fairly

Canalbuds Halfway between earbuds and in-ear-canal headphones, "canalbuds" don't block out as much external noise as the latter and can't match the performance of better in~ear- canal headphones. But canalbuds tend to be more comfortable than true in-ear-canal models-because they don't sit so deep and don't fit so tightly in your

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iPhone Headphone and Headset Adapters II you have a first-generation iPhone, you 'll need an adapter to make non-Apple headphones work with the phone's recessed jack , For just listening to music, a simple audio adapter will do. We're fans of small, flexible, and inexpensive ones: FastMac's iPhone Adapter ($4; lastmac .com) and iFrogz's Fitz ($4; ifrogz ,com) lit the bill. If you like the built-in microphone, clicker, and volume controls 01 the iPhone's stock earbuds, a number 01 adapters add these features to any headphones. Our current lavorite is also among the least expensive: Griffin Technology's SmartTalk ($20; griffintechnology.com).

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clip for each ear. For easier traveling, many of these models fold ....... up. Although most lightweight headphones produce mediocre sound, there are many standouts.

Recommendations: Sennheiser CX 300-11 ($70; sennheiserusa .com), Apple In-Ear Headphones w ith Remote and Mic ($79; store.apple.com), VModa BassFreq and Vibe ($30 and $60, respectively; v-moda.com), Ultimate Ears super.fi 4 ($130; ultimateears.com)

Lightweight Headphones These portable and mostly reasonably priced headphones generally use larger drivers (speakers) than earbuds and canal phones, and their earpieces rest against the outside of the ear. Some have a thin headband that goes over or behind the head; others use a small plastic or flexible

Recommendations: Koss KSC35, KSC75, Porta Pro, and SportaPro

($20-$50; koss.com), Sennheiser PX 100 and PMX 100 ($70 and $60, respectively); sennheiserusa .com), Grado iGrado (S50; gradolabs.com)

Full-Size Headphones If you don't mind some extra bulk, good full-size headphones, which often fully surround your ears,

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sound better than good lightweight models. Some are also much more comfortable. These headphones fall into two categories: closed models, which block out some external noise, and open models, which some people prefer sonically, but which also let more noise in and out. One caveat: to reach their potential, many full-size headphones require more juice than an iPod or iPhone's headphone jack provides. Recommendations: Sennheiser H0201 (closed; $35; sennheiserusa .com), Grado SR60i (open; $69; gradolabs .com), Beyerdynamic OT 235 (closed; [30; beyerdynamicusa.com), Sennheiser HO 555 (open; $180; sennheiserusa.com)

Noise-Canceling Headphones If you're not a fan of in-ear phones, but you want something that can filter out external noise su ch as airplane engines, train rumblings, or the hum of a crowd, invest in a good pair of noise-canceling headphones. These headphoneswh ich come in both lightweight and full-size rnodels, wi th the latter offering better noise isolationsample outside sound and then

pipe in an inverse audio signal to "cancel out" a good deal of monotonous sound. Although they don't usually sound as good as comparable in-ear phones, they are easier to put on and take off, and they still let you hear what's going on around you . Recommendations: Panasonic RP-HC500 ($200; panasonic.com), Bose Quiet Comfort 2 and 3 ($300 and $350, respectivel y; bose.com), Monster Beats By Dr. Ore ($300; beatsbydre.com)

iPhone Headphones Thanks to the popularity of the iPhone, a number of companies now sell iPhone-specific headphones with a microphone and basic remote-control features built in. Many offer improvements in both audio quality and microphone performance over Apple's iPhone headphones, and most use a canalbud design instead of Apple's earbud approach. Canal buds provide better noise isolation than earbuds, but because they partially seal off your ear canal, like earplugs, a phenomenon called the occlusion effect (macworld.com/3696) can make

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your own voice sound odd-to yourself-when talking.

Bluetooth Headsets and Headphones

of which offer impressive noisecancellation technology and high-tech microphones so others can hear your voice clearly. The iPhone 3GS, as well as the iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0, can stream stereo audio to Bluetooth headphones that support the A2DP protocol. Most Bluetooth headphones also double as headsets, seamlessly switching between music and incoming calls.

If you think being tethered to your iPhone is a drag, consider going wireless. All iPhones will work with standard Bluetooth headsets, many

Recommendations: Aliph Jawbone Prime ($130; aliph.com), Plantronics Discovery 925 ($150; plantronics.com)

Recommendations: Maxi mo iP-HS1 and iP-HS2 iMeta l (earbud and canalbud , $70 and $60 respectively; maximoproducts.com), V-Moda Vi be Duo 45 ($80; v-moda.com), Ultimate Ears super.fi 4vi (canalbud, $150; ultimateears .com), Griffin Technology's SmartTalk ($20; griffintechnology.com)

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Speakers ure, your iPhone is a great music player, but sometimes you need a break from direct-to-brain listening or wan t to share your music wi th others. A good set of speakers will help you cut the cord with your iPhone. Some speakers exhibit audio interference when used with an iPhone that's not in Airplane mode. Newer speakers with the "Made for iPhone" designation are immune.

Portable Speakers If you want to pack your iPod speakers in your carry-on luggage, laptop bag, or backpack, you need something small, light, rugged, and battery powered. You sacrifice some sound quality for such convenience. For the ultimate in portability, consider using w ireless speakers. The iPhone 3G S, and the iPhone 3G running 3.0, can stream to Bluetooth speakers that support the A2DP protocol.

Recommendations: Portable Sound Laboratories iM ainGo 2 ($40; imaingo.com), Digifocus Pocket Hi-Fi ($60; digifocusgroup .com), Vestalife Ladybug ($110; vesta-life.com), Logitech Pure-Fi An ywhere 2 ($150; logitech .com)

Transportable Speakers If you just want to be able to move your music from room to room, or to the backyard, beach, or park, you don't need ultimate portability. A transportable system will give you better sound and louder volume in a larger, slightly heavier package that can still run off batteries. Recommendations: Altec Lansing in Motion Max ($200 ; alteciansing.com), Harman Kardon

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Go+Play ($290; harmankardon .com), Tivoli Audio iSongBook ($400; tivoliaudio.com)

Computer Speakers If you don't need the integrated docking station commonly found on iPod-specific speakers, traditional computer speakers will work fine with your iPhone. You simply plug them into the iPhone's headphone jack or, even better, into the audio-output jack of the iPhone's dock cradle. Recommendations: Altec Lansing expressionist Bass ($130; alteclansing.com), Acoustic Energy Aego M Series ($200; www.acoustic-energy.co.uk), Altec Lansing PT6021 ($350 ; alteclansing.com)

offer surprisingly good sound but are light enough to fit on a bookshelf. Some desktop speakers even offer additional features, such as an alarm-clock radio. Recommendations: Klipsch iGroove SXT ($149 ; klipsch.com), Boston Acoustics Duo-i ($200; bostonacoustics.com), Bowers & Wilkins Zeppel in ($600; bowers-wilkins.com)

Full-Size Speakers

Desktop Speakers If you're looking for something compact to put on your desk , kitchen counter, or dresser, but you don't really need port ability, desktop speakers are the way to go. Thanks to their AC power and larger enclosures, these systems

If you're looking to replace your home stereo w ith an iPod-based system, you need something that sounds great, offers an iPod cradle, and can fill a large room with big sound. A full-size speaker system is the perfect solution. Recommendations: Audioengine A5 ($350-$450; audioengineusa .com), Jamo i300 ($400; jamo .com), Focal XS ($600; focal-fr.com)

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Power Accessories our iPhone works as a phone, a game console, a PDA, a portable entertainment center, and much more. Unfortunatel y, all those possibilities make it all too easy to run down its built-in battery. Here are some helpful battery accessories to keep your iPhone going longer.

Extra Juice Whether you've just finished a long conference call or forgot to plug in your iPhone last night, sometimes your iPhone needs a little pick-me-up. Try packing a backup battery for your iPhone or iPod touch to get it back into fighting trim. You can juice up most rechargeable lithium-ion batteries either via USB or, using the included wall charger, a standard AC outlet. Alternatively, 30-pin dock connectors make it easy to plug the batteries right into your iPhone. Our power picks both claim to provide up to twice the talk or surf time, which should be long enough to keep the iPhone working over a long plane ride.

Recommendations: Ric hardSolo Backup Battery ($50; richardsolo .com), Kensington Battery Pack and Charger ($70; us .kensington .com)

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Car Chargers

If you don't want to run your iPod or iPhone's battery down while listening to tunes in the car-or if you want your travel time to double as charging time-you need a car charger that plugs into your car's cigarette lighter. Dock-connector chargers for the iPod should also power and charge the iPhone correctly, although more slowly than an official "Made for iPhone" model. Recommendations: Griffin Technology PowerJolt SE($20; griffintechnology.com), XtremeMac InCharge Auto ($20; xtrememac .com) Gnffln Technology PowerDock

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Power Dock If you've got multiple iPods or iPhones, a power dock lets you charge multiple devices simultaneously, eliminating the frequent plugging and unplugging of dock-connector cables and the accompanying desktop clutter. Griffin Technology's PowerDock simultaneously charges

up to four iPods and iPhones-via four universal-style dock cradlesfrom a single power cable. Recommendation: Griffin Technology PowerDock ($50-$70; griffintechnology.com)

Other Favorite Gadgets Of course, all of this is just the beginning when it comes to outfitting your iPhone with cool accessories. We have a few more personal favorites. SendStation Dock Extender If you keep your iPod or iPhone in a protective case, this nifty gadget lets you use your player with dock-cradle accessories-such as speakers-without having to remove it from the case. ($29; sendstation.com) Griffin Technology Simplifi This peripheral combines an iPod dock, media card slots, and USB hub in one . Simplifi recharges the iPhone and all dock-rechargeable iPod models that charge through USB. A USB mini cable attaches it to a nearby computer, so the iPhone or iPod can sync. ($70; griffinlechnology.com) Ten One Design Pogo Stylus If you prefer navigating your iPhone's touch menu with a stylus instead of your fingers, Ten One Design's Pogo Stylus can assist you . Made of anodized aluminum with a soft touchscreen-compatible tip, the Pogo Stylus is ideal for tapping out your every command. ($15; tenonedesign.com/stylus.php) DLO VentMount The VentMount provides an inexpensive and functional-but removable-car mount for your iPhone or iPod touch. The device attaches 10 your car's AC vent, and your player easily attaches to the mount, leaving all controls and connections accessible. When you reach your destination, the mount pops off the clip and functions as a belt clip that also doub les as a hands-free stand for watching video. ($25; dlo.com)

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Nobody spends more time with Apple's revolutionary products than the editors at Macworld. In this book, Macworld's team of experts uses its knowledge to create an updated and straightforward guide to the iPhone and iPod touch, including details on the 3.0 update and the iPhone 3GS.

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Inside these pages you'll find detailed instructions for mastering the most important features on your iPhone or iPod touch, as well as a few hidden ones. You'll learn how to customize your settings, squeeze the most juice out of a battery charge, and connect to w ireless networks while keeping your data protected. Get insider tips for communicating using the phone, e-mail, and instant messages, including how to cut, copy, and paste text and images. Get oriented using built-in maps, location technolog y, and, if you have an iPhone 3GS, the digital compass. Fill your device with movies and music using our strategies for navigating media files and converting video files on your hard drive or DVDs into an iPhone-compatible format. We'll show you how to take advantage of iTunes' space-saving features, including smart playlists that sift through your massive library and find the fi les you want to carry with you. Expand your iPhone's capabilities with our picks for best thirdparty apps from Apple's App Store. And for those times when you run into problems, our experts offer vital troubleshooting advice and indispensable tips for solving common hiccups. Whether you're on a Mac or Windows PC, using a first-generation iPhone or an iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, or iPod touch, Macworld's award-winning team will show you how to get the most out of your device.