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Tony's Tips for iPhone Users Manual

Learn quickly and easily with a continually refreshed manual in your iPhone.

  • Keeps pace with Apple software -- covers iPhone 4 (iOS 4) software and iPhone 4!
  • New tips appear automatically
  • Queue up and save pages for offline reading
  • Occupies very little space in your iPhone

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Tony's Tips is a complete and continually refreshed manual for the iPhone -- by bestselling Dummies-series book author Tony Bove -- that provides helpful personal tips for using your iPhone with iTunes and MobileMe.

Tony’s Tips is a comprehensive service; it is not just a collection of tips or an e-book. Unlike a printed book or e-book that falls out of date, you buy Tony's Tips once, and it lasts forever -- it never goes out of date. New tips and information appear automatically every week, and you can save pages on your iPhone (or iPod touch) for offline reading.

Tony’s Tips are bite-sized nuggets written in a way iPhone beginners can understand and experts can find quickly. You can locate any topic by browsing, searching, or following links. It also offers hundreds of tips, including:

  • Saving battery power and travel costs
  • Sharing photos, and sharing iPhone video clips
  • Using the copy/cut/paste functions across apps
  • Synchronizing email, calendars, contacts, and bookmarks
  • Creating playlists and tweaking the sound
  • Changing email settings on an iPhone or iPod touch
  • Making conference calls, forwarding, and setting caller ID
  • Using Maps to get directions and traffic patterns
  • Everything you need to know to access the Internet

In addition to all the topics one would find in a complete manual, Tony's Tips is also like a service: it includes frequently updated iPhone news for users, the best of Tony’s blog reports and tweets, and his opinions and personal iPhone, iPod, iTunes, and MobileMe usage patterns -- including the apps he uses every day. Readers can respond with comments, feedback, criticisms, and more tips using the Tony’s Tips support wiki.

For a critical overview, see "Does the iPhone Need Help?" by David Needle in InternetNews.

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Technical Details

Tony's Tips for iPhone Users Manual offers a complete and continually refreshed manual for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Based on the powerful, critically-acclaimed Wikipanion Core, Tony's Tips lets you change the font size, view the pages horizontally or vertically, and quickly follow links to related content. You can also queue up topics to read in any order, save them on your iPhone or iPod touch to read later, and search with automatic results while you type.

Always up-to-date

Rather than providing a fixed e-book, we store the content online, so that the application occupies very little space in your iPhone or iPod touch. We can update all the topics regularly to add new tips, make corrections, and keep it up-to-date with Apple's software.

The application presents the content in a form that's easy to search and conveniently organized for quick reference. You can also save as many pages as you want on your iPhone to read when offline.

Queue up and save pages

Save the current page, selected pages from your queue, or simply mark all pages in your queue for a batch download.

Queue mode helps you organize your browsing activities so that you can:

  • Queue pages to read later without leaving the current topic
  • Queue pages to read in a certain order
  • Save pages for reading when not connected to the Internet.

The Bookmarks screen also lets you save the page you are reading, and view and manage your saved pages. You can save pages and then read them when your iPhone is not connected to the Internet.

Easy to Search

Type a search term, and you get automatic results while you type. Touch any topic to go directly to it, or see related topics.

The Wikipanion engine is the basis for Tony's Tips and provides these features:

  • Fast: It uses a direct connection to the content servers.
  • Convenient: You can save Tony's Tips pages for offline reading, even while you read.
  • Smart: Tony's Tips reveals sections and categories related to the page you're reading. It also keeps a history of pages you visited. And you get automatic search results while you type a search term.
  • Readable: Tony's Tips is easy to read and quick to load. You can set your own font size and apply it to every page. A custom image viewer lets you save the full-sized image directly to your photo library.

Tony's Tips Wiki and Support

Learn all you should know. Free tips on using iTunes, iPods, iPhones, media and personal apps, and Microsoft alternatives. Register for Tony's Tips for iPhone Users support, and to join the Tony's Tips communnity wiki to add your comments and your own tips!

Topics Covered

Essential Settings:
Airplane and Travel Tips
Battery Tips
Checking the Status Bar
Ringtones, Vibrate, Alert and Click Sounds
Time Date and Clock Functions
Alarms, Timer, and Stopwatch
Brightness, Wallpaper, Auto-Lock
Passcode Lock, Parental Restrictions
The Onscreen Keyboard
Editing and Handling Suggestions
Keyboard Options
International Keyboards
Bluetooth Devices
Pairing a Headset
Location Services, Data Roaming
Find My iPhone using MobileMe
Choosing a Wi-Fi Network
Joining a Wi-Fi Network
Setting up a VPN
Setting the Home Button
Customizing the Home Screen
Organizing Apps into Folders
Multitasking and Switching Apps
Resetting iPhone Settings

Typing Tapping and Gesturing
Touching and Gesturing Scrolling Zooming and Navigating
Using the Onscreen Keyboard
Copying or Cutting and Pasting
Entering Information with Web Pages
Searching for Anything

Using the Phone:
Making and Receiving Calls
iPhone Emergency Dialing
International Assist
Putting a Call on Hold
iPhone Conference Calls
iPhone Mute and the Speaker Phone
Displaying Recent iPhone Calls
iPhone Voicemail and Visual Voicemail
Setting Favorites
Call Forwarding, Call Waiting, Caller ID
SMS Text Messaging

Playing Content:
Playing Songs, iPhone Playback Controls
iPhone Cover Browser
Repeating and Shuffling Songs
Volume, Sound Check, EQ, and Ratings
Playing Podcasts and Audio Books
Synchronizing and Playing Videos
Changing the iPhone Video Display
Playing YouTube Videos on iPhone
Bookmarking YouTube Videos
Searching YouTube Videos on iPhone
Viewing Photos and Slideshows
Viewing and Trimming Video Clips
Sending a Photo with an Email
Sharing Photos and Video Clips
Creating Playlists Directly on the iPhone
On-The-Go Playlist, Genius Playlist
Playing an iPhone through iTunes

Synchronizing Your iPhone:
Synchronizing with an iTunes Library
Making iTunes Smarter
Selectively Synchronizing Content
Ignoring Songs and Videos
Synchronizing Playlists
Audiobooks, Music Videos, Podcasts
Synchronizing Movies, Videos, and TV Shows
Synchronizing Photos
Synchronizing Apps
Synchronizing Ringtones
Purchasing on the iPhone
Preventing Automatic Sync with iTunes
Managing iPhone Manually
Copying Directly to iPhone
Deleting From iPhone

Using Mail, Contacts, and Calendars:
Synchronizing Email Accounts with iTunes
Synchronizing Contacts with iTunes
Synchronizing Calendars with iTunes
Using MobileMe
Setting up MobileMe
Synchronizing MobileMe from iPhone
Synchronizing a MobileMe Email Account
Push and Fetch
Viewing Email, Sending Email
Sending Email to a Cell Phone
Email Message Settings, Sending Options
Viewing Contacts, Sorting Contacts
Viewing Calendars, Calendar Settings
Setting Up Email Accounts Manually
Changing Email Account Settings Manually

Using the Web:
Browsing Web on iPhone, Entering URLs
Using Safari Bookmarks
Searching with Google or Yahoo!
Sending a Web page URL by Email
Scrolling Zooming and Navigating
Saving and Editing Bookmarks
Synchronizing Bookmarks with iTunes
Synchronizing Bookmarks with MobileMe

Using Applications and Accessories:
Taking Pictures with the Camera
Recording Video with iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4
Transfer Pictures from iPhone to PC
Deleting iPhone Photos and Videos
Saving iPhone Screen Shots
Checking Stocks and Weather
iPhone Maps, Getting Directions
Traffic and Satellite Maps
Finding your iPhone Location
Using the Calculator
Downloading Apps to the iPhone
Visiting the iTunes Store
Buying and Downloading Songs
Downloading Podcasts
Visiting the App Store
Downloading Applications
Add Applications to iPhone
Buying iPhone Apps

Reset Repair Restore and Update:
Troubleshooting iPhone
Resetting the iPhone
Updating and Restoring iPhone
Checking the iPhone Software Version
Updating iPhone software
Restoring iPhone settings
Restoring iPhone to Factory Conditions

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