Book Description | If you have a new iPhone 3GS, or just updated your 3G with iPhone 3.0, "IPhone: The Missing Manual", will bring you up to speed quickly. "New York Times" tech columnist David Pogue gives you a guided tour of every feature, with lots of tips, tricks, and surprises. You'll learn how to make calls and play songs by voice control, take great photos, keep track of your schedule, and more. This entertaining book offers complete step-by-step instructions for doing everything from setting up and accessorizing your iPhone to troubleshooting. If you want to learn how iPhone 3.0 lets you search your phone, cut, copy, and paste, and lots more, this full-color book is the best, most objective resource available. This helps you: use it as a phone - save time with things like Visual Voicemail, contact searching, and more; treat it as an iPod - listen to music, upload and view photos, and fill the iPhone with TV shows and movies; take the iPhone online - get online, browse the Web, read and compose email in landscape, send photos, contacts, audio files, and more; and, go beyond the iPhone - use iPhone with iTunes, sync it with your calendar, and learn about the App Store, where you can select from thousands of iPhone apps. Unlock the full potential of your iPhone with the book that should have been in the box. |
About the Author | David Pogue is the founder of YahooTech, having been groomed for the position by 13 years as the technology columnist for the New York Times. Hes also a monthly columnist for Scientific American, host of science shows on PBSs NOVA," frequent public speaker, and a science/tech correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning." With over 3 million books in print, David is one of the worlds bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the for Dummies series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 120 titles. Having discovered that so many people don't know some of the most fundamental tech techniques on their tech gadgets, he set out in 2014 to write "Pogue's Basics," a single book that attempts to be the driver's ed course for technology. David graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1985, with distinction in Music, and he spent ten years conducting and arranging Broadway musicals in New York. Hes won two Emmy awards, two Webby awards, a Loeb award for journalism, and an honorary doctorate in music. Hes been profiled on 48 Hours and 60 Minutes. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children. |