iPhone The Missing Manul- P9

iPhone The Missing Manul- P9:Apple’s iPhone is a breakthrough in design, miniaturization, and elegantsoftware. This stunning, sleek, black-and-chrome touchscreen machinecomes with cellphone, iPod, Internet, and organizer features—justabout everything you need except a printed manual. Fortunately,David Pogue arrives just in time with iPhone: The Missing Manual: a witty,authoritative, full-color guide to unlocking the iPhone’s potential.
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iPhone The Missing Manul- P9thephone:Contacts,Calendars,MailAccounts,orBookmarks.ClicktheApplybuttontostartfresh. Syncing the iPhone 229230 Chapter 11 Add-Ons: Accessories12 and Web AppsW hen  Steve  Jobs  announced,  shortly  before  the  iPhone  went  on  sale,  that  programmers  wouldn’t  be  able  to  write  new  programs  for  it,  there  was  much  muttering. “it’s  a  computer,for the love of Mike,” went the refrain. “it runs Mac oS X! Let us write new programs!”apple says it’s only trying to preserve the stability of the phone and of the aT&T network. But the company decided to allow programmers one little bit of freedom: They could write special Web-based programs tailored for the iPhone. These programs will never show up as icons on your Home screen, and you can get to them only when you’re online, but still, the creativity and use-fulness out there is amazing. Hundreds of Web-based programs—most of them free—let you pull down movie listings, the nearest place to get cheap gas, the latest headlines, and so on. You can even connect to rudimentary instant-messenger programs to enhance your iPhone experience.Those are just the software add-ons. There’s also a world of accessories for the  outside  of  the  iPhone:  cases,  headsets,  chargers,  and  other  goodies. This chapter gives you a sampling of both kinds of add-ons and suggests where you can go to find out what’s new in iPhone Web apps and gear.Web ApplicationsThankstotheeffortsofcreativeprogrammerswhogotstartedevenbeforethephonehitthestores,theiPhonehasthepotentialtorunthousandsofprogramsinitsweeWebbrowser. add-ons: accessories and Web apps 231 Some iPhoneWeb applications look like Mac OS X orYahoo desktop wid- gets that do one thing really well—like showing you a Doppler radar map for your local weather. Some are mini-pages that tap directly into popular socialnetworkingsiteslikeFlickrandTwitter.SomeevenletyoutapintoWeb- basedwordprocessingsitesifyouneedtocreateadocument right this very instant. YougettoanyWebappthesameway:PunchupSafariontheiPhoneand tapintheWebaddressfortheapplication’ssite.Ifyoulikeit,findituseful,and wanttogobackagain,justbookmarkit. YoucanfindiPhoneappsinjustabouteverycategory.Someexamples: Word Processors Needtodashoffadocumentontherun?Wordprocessingandofficepro- gramsthatworkrightofftheWebcandoinapinch—noharddriverequired. TheygowaybeyondtheiPhone’ssimpleNotesprogram. • iZoho iPhone Office. ThefolksbehindZohoWriter,apopularWeb- basedcollaborationsite,haveaniPhone-readyversionoftheironline wordprocessing,spreadsheet,andpresentationprograms.Youneedto signupforafreeaccount,butafterthatyoucancreatedocumentsand storethemonthesiteforlaterretrieval.(http://mini.zoho.com)232 Chapter 12 • gOffice for iPhone. Believeitornot,thissiteletsyoucreateMicrosoft Worddocumentsrightonyourphone.gOfficeevenstocksseveraltime- savingtexttemplates.YourdocumentsareplasteredwithagOfficelogo andiPhoneimage—buthey,it’sfree.Youcanemailthedocumentsright fromyouriPhone,orfor$3,thegOfficeofficewillprintoutyourmissive (uptofivepages)andsenditbygoodold-fashionedsnailmailtoan addressyouprovide.(http://goffice.com) The most famous online office suite, google Docs (word processor) and google  Spreadsheets, weren’t iPhone-compatible on iPhone Day one. But google says  that it intends to remedy that situation. once it does, these google apps will offer  yet another tool for on-the-go writing and number crunching.News ReadersKeepupwiththeworldfromallyourfavoritesources,frommainstreammediasitesliketheBBCandNew York Timestoyourfavoriteblogaboutfire-breathing.PipedinbyRSS feeds(page133),theseshortnuggetsofnewsgiveyoutheheadlinesandaquickoverview,alongwithlinkstothefullstory. • iActu. AgorgeouslittlevirtualnewsstandappearsonyouriPhonescreen whenyouvisitiActu,completewithtinyimagesofpopularnewspapers. add-ons: accessories and Web apps 233 Tapapaper(USA Today,Wall Street Journal,andLos AngelesTimesare amongthechoices)toreadtheheadlinesandsummariesfromeach one’stopstories.(www.widgetinfo.net/iphone/) • Google Reader.ThebigG’spopularne ...