iPhone All-in-One For Dummies. Hutsko Joe

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СКАЧАТЬ iPhone comes with some specific apps that gather information from the Internet. Weather leans on the Weather Channel to bring you the weather forecast for cities you want to know about. Stocks lets you follow international investment markets, as well as your personal investments. We take you through these apps in Book III, Chapters 3 and 4, respectively.

       Personal GPS navigator

      Between the Compass and Maps apps and the GPS, Wi-Fi, and cellular sensors, 99 percent of the time, your iPhone can tell you where you are and tell you how to get where you want to go. What’s more, in coordination with Yelp, Maps and Siri can give you suggestions for vendors and services, like bookstores, museums, and restaurants, based on your location. The links in Maps are active – as they are in most iPhone apps – so you just click on the suggested vendor and the website for that vendor opens in Safari. We explain how to use Maps and Compass in Book III, Chapter 3.

       E-book and document reader

      Your iPhone’s document-reading capabilities make reading on your iPhone easier than ever – instead of leafing through outdated tabloids in a waiting room, you have the latest news and novels at your fingertips. We talk about Newsstand, which organizes and updates your magazine and newspaper app subscriptions, in Book IV, Chapter 5. For your reading pleasure, you have iBooks, which we explain in Book IV, Chapter 2.

      You can read many types of documents on your iPhone. If a colleague sends you a PowerPoint presentation or a Pages document as an email attachment, just tap the attachment and your iPhone opens it so you can review it. With the iWork productivity apps, you can edit the document (without an additional app), and even without iWork, you can print the documents if there’s an AirPrint-enabled printer on your wireless network.

       Health maintenance organizer

      We dedicate Book III, Chapter 6 to staying healthy. We show you how to manage your health records and statistics with the new Health app (see Figure 1-2). We also talk about the Nike+ iPod app, which tracks the distances and times of your runs or walks by receiving information from a sensor in certain models of Nike running shoes. That’s not the only app that helps you stay fit. The App Store boasts dozens of apps that create workout routines or track your progress toward fitness goals and work in conjunction with Health. In Bonus Chapter 5, which you find online, we tell you about a few of our favorite fitness apps. For more on this book’s online content, see the Introduction.

      Figure 1-2: The Health app helps you stay, well, healthy.

       Pocket video game console

      With all the ruckus, you might think Candy Crush Saga is the only game in town. Actually, the App Store boasts more than 100,000 games, and many are free. Take that, Nintendo DS! With iPhone, you have a video game console with you at all times. The popular game Words With Friends is shown in Figure 1-3, and with Game Center, you can play against friends online and see who has the highest score. We tell you about Game Center in Book IV, Chapter 5.

      Figure 1-3: Your iPhone is also a tiny game console.

       Systemwide functions

      The keyboard, used in any app where typing is involved, supports 50 languages. Siri can initiate phone calls, control Music, tell you what time it is, and more. Accessibility settings like enlarged font sizes, grayscale, custom vibration signals for incoming calls, and spoken text make iPhone easier to use. Guided Access helps those with learning disabilities stay focused on one task.

      Notifications, such as text messages, Facebook status updates, reminders, and voicemails come in while you’re doing other things; you can respond by tapping the notification, regardless of what app you’re using. Just swipe down the screen and you see your upcoming appointments, stock activity, and the weather forecast along with a list of notifications. You choose to which and when you want to respond.

      Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and you open the Control Center, as shown in Figure 1-4. Turn Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on or off, activate Do Not Disturb, adjust brightness and volume, and shine a light on your path with the flashlight – all just a tap away.

      Figure 1-4: The Control Center gives you instant access to often-used system controls.

      iCloud syncs your contacts, calendars, notes, browser tabs, photos, and documents across Apple and third-party apps on all your devices, including Mac and Windows computers, and you can store your files in iCloud Drive. With iCloud Keychain, AutoFill information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card information for secure access to your favorite websites and shopping haunts is shared across all your iCloud-enabled devices.

      If you want to find something, Spotlight searches the contents of your phone from within many of the apps on your iPhone.

       And a thousand other things!

      Even if you never add another app to your iPhone, it can do a lot, but adding third-party apps moves the potential even higher. In the bonus chapters on this book’s companion website, we try to knock your socks off by introducing some of the newest and most innovative problem-solving apps available. The online minibook is divided into six chapters ranging from practical business solutions and creativity tools to apps for sports, cooking, and travel. (For more on how to access the companion website, see this book’s Introduction.) We certainly found apps we never imagined existed when we were researching them for this book, and we hope this nudges you to do some research on your own. Figure 1-5 shows one of Barbara’s favorites, StarWalk.

      We also include a chapter on hardware you can add to your iPhone, such as protective cases, supports and stands, speakers, and more.

      With that, dear reader, you should have some idea of where you want to go.

      Figure 1-5: StarWalk is a location-based astronomy guide.

Chapter 2

      Activating and Understanding Your iPhone

       In This Chapter

      ▶ Activating your iPhone

      ▶ Turning iPhone on and off

      ▶ Adjusting the volume

      ▶ Charging the battery

      ▶ Interpreting screen communications

      ▶ Making connections

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