Overview
That would be like saying the iPhone is just another mobile device. Well, you know better. You're crazy in love with your iPhone. Now there's even more to love, plus 65,000 apps in the App Store. Andy Ihnatko explains the gems among them while he shows you how to control your Mac or PC from your iPhone, create and publish your blog or video, load your favorite comics, even have Office in your pocket. This thing just keeps getting better.
Publish your podcast, photos, or that video you just captured
Install maps and travel guides that work even when the Internet doesn't
Load up books from Amazon, public-domain archives, or stuff you scan
Get your daily dose of Doonesbury plus your favorite classic comic books
Stream audio and video from new, free sources
Synopsis
Trust Andy. This is not just another iPhone book
That would be like saying the iPhone is just another mobile device. Well, you know better. You're crazy in love with your iPhone. Now there's even more to love, plus 65,000 apps in the App Store. Andy Ihnatko explains the gems among them while he shows you how to control your Mac or PC from your iPhone, create and publish your blog or video, load your favorite comics, even have Office in your pocket. This thing just keeps getting better.
- Publish your podcast, photos, or that video you just captured
- Install maps and travel guides that work even when the Internet doesn't
- Load up books from Amazon, public-domain archives, or stuff you scan
- Get your daily dose of Doonesbury plus your favorite classic comic books
- Stream audio and video from new, free sources
ANDY IHNATKO is a world-renowned Mac pundit, blogger, author, and speaker. Author of the critically acclaimed The Mac OS X Tiger Book as well as iPod Fully Loaded, he has also written for nearly every publication with "Mac" in its name and is currently technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
Apple's iPhone just might be the holy grail: the single device that can really do everything. But only if you stretch it to its limits -- and then a little further. That's what you can do with Andy Ihnatko's iPhone Fully Loaded.Ihnatko starts with music -- and, since the iPhone doesn't have a hard drive, you'll really appreciate his techniques for making its 4 gigs seem like 40, and automatically freshening your music every time you dock it.
Of course, music's not all you can play through iTunes. Ihnatko covers it all: TV, radio, even (get this) your own DVDs. There's a full chapter on ripping your own DVD library to iPhone-compatible Quicktime files, using CloneDVD on the PC, and Instant HandBrake on the Mac.
Steve Jobs wants you to use his music store, his software, his formats. But, as you've already seen, Ihnatko is out to liberate you. So there's a full chapter on listening to streaming audio that doesn't work through iTunes; and another on finding podcasts that aren't listened in Apple's directory.
Of course, the iPhone's not all "play": this book offers extensive coverage of its productivity tools: calendars, contacts, email (did you know you could listen to all of your current messages as a podcast?). The iPhone doesn't offer spreadsheet or database support, but Ihnatko points you to some nifty web-accessible workarounds. Ihnatko also covers iPhone maps, guides, and translators: everything you need to keep from getting lost, dazed, or confused anywhere on Earth.
Ikhnato, currently a Chicago Sun-Times columnist, has been one of the world's top Apple, Macintosh, and iPod writers for, basically, all of recorded history. He really gets Apple. He clearly gets the iPhone. But most of all, he gets you. Bill Camarda, from the December 2007 Read Only