Taking Your iPhone to the Max

Unleash your iPhone and take it to the limit using secret tips and techniques from gadget hacker Erica Sadun. Fast and fun to read, Taking Your iPhone to the Max will show you how get the most out of Apple’s iPhone. You’ll find all the best, and undocumented, tricks as well as the most efficient and enjoyable introduction to the iPhone you’ll ever find.

Starting with a guide to iPhone basics, you’ll quickly move on to discover the iPhone’s hidden potential, like how to connect to a TV, get contract-free VoIP, and hack OS X so it will run apps on your iPhone. From e-mail and surfing the Web, to using iTunes, iBooks, games, photos, ripping DVDs and getting free VoIP with Skype or Jajah, you’ll find it here. You’ll even find tips on where to get the best and cheapest iPhone accessories. Get ready to take iPhone to the max!

What you’ll learn

• iPhone basics
• E-mail, voicemail, and using iCal
• Surfing the Web with iPhone using Safari
• Expanding the main menu using third-party software
• Using iTunes, games, and iBooks
• Connecting to the TV and ripping DVDs
• Hacking OS X to run apps on the iPhone
• Getting contract-free VOIP
• Saving on accessories and what you really need

Anyone who has an iPhone and wants to get more out of it, learn how to connect to other devices, or tinker with it.

Table of Contents

1. Selecting, Buying, and Activating Your iPhone
2. Interacting with Your New iPhone
3. Placing Calls with iPhone
4. iPhone Messaging
5. iPhone E-mail
6. Browsing with Safari
7. Preparing Your Media in iTunes
8. It’s Also an iPod
9. iPhone Photos
10. Google Maps and Other Apps

Fast and fun to read, this book gives you all the tips, tricks and hidden techniques that you would love to try out on your iPhone. It starts by getting everyone up to speed on the basics. Then quickly moves into the fun stuff, like connecting to a TV, contract free VOIP and even how to hack so that you can run applications over the iPhone and a whole lot more. If you can do it on the iPhone, you will find it here. So whether you just want to be able to use the phone and maybe do emails or web surfing, or you want to take it to the Max, this is the book do show you how.

Erica Sadun holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written, cowritten, and contributed to almost two dozen books about technology, particularly in the areas of programming, digital video, and digital photography. An unrepentant geek, Sadun has never met a gadget she didn’t need. Her checkered past includes run–ins with NeXT, Newton, and a vast myriad of both successful and unsuccessful technologies. When not writing, she and her geek husband parent three adorable geeks–in–training, who regard their parents with restrained bemusement. Eight Ways to Get the Most out of Your Zune, the O’Reilly short cut, and Modding Mac OS X, also with O’Reilly, are her latest books. She also wrote Taking Your iPhone to the Max.