Iphone 4s Tips For Apple Page

With these simple tips and tricks, you’ll learn all the things your intelligent assistant, your remarkable camera, and your amazing iPhone 4S can do.

See how to use Siri.

Press and hold the Home button, then tap “i.” You’ll see a detailed list of all the ways Siri can help you get things done.

Tell Siri who’s who.

Tell Siri about your relationships, such as “Erin is my wife” or “Rick is my dad.” Then you can say, “Text my wife” or “Call dad” and Siri knows who you mean.

Set your locations.

Tell Siri the address of where you live and where you work. That way, Siri can remind you to do things when you leave or arrive at either place.

Siri writes emails.

You can dictate a quick response to an email. Just say "Reply", then tell Siri your message.

iPhone 4S takes dictation.

Instead of typing an email, tap the microphone icon on the keyboard and start talking. Tap done, and your words will appear as text. Use dictation to write messages, take notes, and more. Dictation also works with third-party apps, so you can update your Facebook status, tweet, or write and send Instagrams.

Quick, take a photo.

The camera icon is always there on your lock screen. Just swipe up to open the Camera app.

See what’s up.

Notification Center lets you know about missed messages, calendar invitations, friend requests, and more. New notifications appear on top of the screen. Swipe down to see a summary of recent notifications.

Set Reminders.

Assign due dates to items on your to-do list and Reminders will send you alerts. Add locations, and you’ll get alerts when you leave or when you arrive. You can also choose priority levels and write notes.

Tweet it up.

Sign in once under Settings and tweet directly from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, and Maps. Start typing a friend’s Twitter name and iPhone will autocomplete the rest.

Broadcast live with Airplay.

With AirPlay Mirroring, you can share exactly what’s on your iPhone 4S with your HDTV connected to an Apple TV. Just double-click the Home button, swipe all the way to the right, and select AirPlay Mirroring.

Customize your keyboard.

Create your own personal dictionary, including shortcuts for each word. So your keyboard not only autocorrects, but knows exactly what you want to say as you type. In Settings, tap General, Keyboard, and Add New Shortcut. From here, you can add new phrases and assign optional shortcuts to them.

Create an event fast.

Touch anywhere on the calendar to create an event. To change your schedule, just drag events around on the calendar. Tap for day, month, or list view. And rotate to landscape to see an entire week.

Everything has a tone.

Assign a specific tone for new mail, Calendar alerts, tweets, and Reminders. In Settings, tap Sounds to assign each tone. Tap Edit in a contact to assign a ringtone to that contact.

Locate your lost iPhone.

If you’ve lost your iPhone, Find My iPhone can help you locate it on a map and protect its data. Display a message on its screen, remotely set a passcode lock, or initiate a remote wipe to delete your data. Learn more about Find My iPhone

Save images
from the web.

In Safari, touch and hold an image to save it to your Camera Roll or copy it to paste into an MMS or email.

Choose your wallpaper.

In Settings, choose Wallpaper, tap the image of the Lock and Home screens, then tap one of your photo albums or tap Wallpaper for the Apple-designed images. Find the image you want, tap Set, and then choose whether to use it as wallpaper for your Lock screen, Home screen, or both.

Scroll to the top fast.

In Safari, Mail, Contacts, and many other apps, tap the status bar at the top of the screen — which displays the network information, time, and battery level — to scroll quickly to the top.

Lock the screen orientation.

Double-click the Home button to bring up the multitasking interface, then swipe from left to right. Now tap the portrait orientation lock once to turn it on and again to turn it off.

Drop a pin.

In Maps, touch and hold anywhere on a map to drop a pin so you can find an address, get directions, or see street view for that location.

Pinch to zoom.

In the camera app, pinch to zoom in and out of a scene up to 5x. You can also use the zoom slider.

Add PDFs to iBooks

From a Mail message or a web page, touch and hold the PDF icon or link, then select “Open in iBooks.”

Use the compass
with maps.

Tap the Location button in Maps twice to use the built-in compass to orient the map based on the direction you are facing.

Create web clips.

To add a website to your Home screen, visit the page in Safari and tap the Go To icon at the bottom of the Safari window. Tap Add to Home Screen.

Learn some keyboard
tricks.

• Tap the space bar twice, and iPhone adds a period and capitalizes the next word.
• To enter a number or symbol quickly, touch and hold
  , then select the key you want. Lifting your finger returns you to the alphabet keyboard.
• Touch and hold a letter to reveal a list of special characters.

Scrub through audio and video.

When you’re watching a video or listening to music or a podcast, the scrubber bar lets you skip to any point along the timeline. You can adjust the scrub rate from high-speed to fine scrubbing by sliding your finger down as you drag the playhead along the scrubber bar.

Keep your inbox clean.

In Mail, you can delete or move messages in batches. From your inbox, tap Edit, select the messages you want to organize, then tap Delete or Move.

Take a picture of your screen.

Press and hold the Home button, then press the Sleep/Wake button. Your screen flashes and the picture appears in your Camera Roll.

Create a playlist.

In the Music app, tap Playlists, then tap Add Playlist and give it a name. Now tap any song or video to add it to the playlist. You can add individual songs, entire albums, or all songs by an artist.

Tap to focus the camera.

While shooting video or photos, tap the screen where you want to focus. iPhone will also adjust the exposure and white balance automatically.

Swipe to delete.

Delete email and text messages without opening them. Delete voicemail without listening to them. And delete recent calls from your list. Just swipe across the message or number and tap the red delete button.

Print wirelessly from iPhone.

AirPrint makes it easy to print email and web pages right from your iPhone to your AirPrint-enabled printer. To print an email, just tap the Reply icon and select Print. To print a web page, tap the Action icon and select Print. You can also print photos, documents, and more.

Cut, copy, and paste.

Find the text you want to edit in a note, email, web page, or other app. You can select a word by double-tapping it, and select more or less text by dragging the grab points. Then tap to cut, copy, or paste. To undo an edit, shake iPhone, then tap the Undo button.

Display character count in text messages.

In Settings, tap Messages, then tap the Character Count switch. The count appears as you type when your message exceeds two lines. You may want to do this when carrier fees apply.

Place a call on hold.

On iPhone 4, touch and hold the Mute button to put a call on hold (GSM model only).

Get back to your draft.

In Mail, touch and hold the Compose button to switch to your last saved message draft.

Read the iPhone User Guide.

For more tips, tricks, and instructions, tap the Bookmarks icon in Safari, then select iPhone User Guide.

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What is the Best Office App for my iPhone or iPod Touch?

What is the Best Office App for my iPhone or iPod Touch?

Want to see what all of the major Office apps for iPhone and iPod Touch offer without wasting money purchasing them all?  Here’s our definitive guide to the best iOS Office apps, so you can learn before you buy.
iOS devices work great for viewing a variety of documents without any extra software, but if you want to create new documents or edit and share existing ones, you’ll need an Office app.  There’s a number of popular Office apps in the App Store, and today we’re going to look at the features each app offers, compare how they each render documents, and help you see which one is the best fit for your needs and budget.

First, Do You Need an Office App?

First, though, you’ll need to decide if you actually need an office app.  If you mainly use your iPhone or iPod Touch for personal use, then you may not need to view or edit documents and spreadsheets.  If you sometimes need to view documents and give feedback without editing the files, iOS’ built in document viewer works great for looking at documents in email attachments and online.  Just tap on a document or file in an email, and you’ll see a preview that renders documents almost perfectly.  Rich documents may not display fully, but it should be close enough to work.

You can also easily view your online documents in Safari, as both Office Web Apps and Google Docs let you view your files with a mobile browser.  Unfortunately, though, you cannot edit documents in either on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

So viewing documents isn’t a problem, but if you want more than this, you’re going to need an Office app.  Let’s dig in and see what’s available.

What Office Apps are Available?

The Business and Productivity sections of the App Store list numerous apps to help you edit Office documents, spreadsheets, and more.  Just from the descriptions, it’d be hard to know how each one works.  To solve this problem, we’ve tested 3 of the most popular Office apps recently: Documents to Go, Quickoffice, and Office2.  We’ll take a quick look at each one’s features here, but you can click their links to see the whole review.

Office2

Be sure to Read our full review of Office2 for iOS
Office2 fared the worst in our test.  This app is popular because it only costs $5.99, but it struggled to render documents and spreadsheets in our tests.  Worse still, it lost any formatting that it couldn’t support after saving edited documents.  On the bright side, it supports a wide variety of online documents storage services and runs faster than competing apps.

Quickoffice

Be sure and read our full review of Quickoffice for iOS
Quickoffice Mobile Connect suite is priced in the middle at $9.99, and it offers a lot of bang for your buck.  It can edit advanced documents fairly good, and then saves formatting that it doesn’t support so your document will still look the same back on your PC.  You can easily access all of your files from Dropbox, Google Docs, and more, then edit and save them online.  Quickoffice spreadsheets struggled with .XLSX formatted spreadsheets, though, but otherwise handled modern rich Office files with ease.

We especially liked the innovative web interface that lets you browse and add documents to your iOS device from any nearby networked computer.  And if you don’t need to access your documents from online storage services directly, you could get Quickoffice Mobile Suite for just $4.99.  With the advanced document support and cheaper price, Quickoffice is a great option.

Documents To Go

Be sure and read our full review of Documents To Go for iOS
Documents To Go is the most expensive Office app we reviewed at $16.99, but it’s also constantly one of the most popular in the App Store.  This app includes the best interface for editing documents, and even includes support for viewing advanced document components such as sidebars and images in documents.  It lets you edit formatting more than any of the other apps and required fewer taps to accomplish the same tasks.

Documents To Go also includes some unique features such as searching among all of your online document sources and basic PowerPoint editing.  The PowerPoint editing and creation options were very limited, though, so this one feature isn’t worth purchasing the app.  If you don’t need PowerPoint editing and online document support, you can get Documents To Go Standard for just $9.99, which isn’t a bad choice if you need to edit rich documents directly on your device.

Which Office App is the Best?

The hardest part is deciding which app is the best for your needs.  Documents To Go did support the most advanced Word document features, and was the most stable overall.  Unfortunately, though, it’s also the most expensive.  Quickoffice is a close second, and we actually liked the web interface for accessing your iPhone documents from your computer.  Office2 was poor enough that we cannot recommend it for normal Office document usage, but both Documents To Go and Quickoffice were both good enough to easily recommend for normal usage.
Here’s a comparison of each app’s features:

So, in the end it comes down to what features you need.  Need PowerPoint and online document support?  Get Documents To Go Premium.  Only need to edit documents locally on your device?  Quickoffice Mobile Suite is a great option for you that’s not very expensive.  You can’t go wrong with either of these apps, so pick the one that suites your budget and feature need best.  In our opinion, Quickoffice Mobile Suite will be the best choice for most consumers.

Filling in the Office App Gaps

Microsoft Office today isn’t just for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, though.  Outlook and OneNote are also popular Office apps that many don’t want to give up, so let’s look at some options for these.
OneNote isn’t available on iOS, but there is a great alternative app, MobileNoter that brings almost all of OneNote’s features to OneNote.  You can sync your existing OneNote notebooks from your PC and edit them on the go, or add new notes and sync them online wherever you are.  Check out our review of MobileNoter for more info.

The default Mail app works quite good for email on the go.  It includes full Exchange ActiveSync support, so you should be able to access all of your personal and business email accounts from anywhere.  The only problem is, the iPhone Mail app only lets you create plain text messages.  If you need to send full HTML emails, you can try out MarkdownMail.  This app lets you create richly formatted HTML emails on your iPhone using Markdown syntax.
Markdown syntax.

Conclusion

After some initial disappointments with Office2, we were excited to see that both Quickoffice and Documents To Go offer great Office support on iOS.  Editing rich documents is never perfectly easy on a small screen, but with an Office app, you’ll find you can do more business on the go than you ever found possible.  Plus, in many cases, viewing a document and making changes later is a great option.  What’s your favorite Office app, and how do you use Office tools on the go?  Share your thoughts in the comments.
Did we miss an Office app for iOS that you love, or overlook a feature you need?  Let us know in the comments, and if it’s something we can test, we’ll let you know!  There’s no reason to spend $50 on apps just to find the perfect Office app for your needs, so we hope this info helps you make your choice and get the most bang for your app bucks.

 

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The iPhone turns 5

The iPhone turns 5

Five years ago today, on June 29, 2007, the original iPhone first went on sale.  Steve Jobs had previewed the iPhone back on January 9, 2007, in what I think was the best presentation that Steve Jobs ever made (which is saying something).  As we got closer to June 29, 2007, anticipation was high because people wanted to try for themselves the device that seemed so different than everything that came before it.  Around the country, people lined up to be among the first to get an iPhone.
As you would expect after five years, there are tons of differences between the original iPhone and the current iPhone 4S.  Obviously, iPhones are now cheaper.  The cheapest original iPhone was the $499 model with the 4GB, or for an extra $100 you could get 8GB.  Today, you can get the iPhone 3GS for free, while the 4S starts at $199 for 16GB and the high-end 64GB model is $399.
With over 650,000 apps currently in the App Store, it seems strange that the original iPhone did not allow for any third party apps.  Developers were instead encouraged to create web pages formatted for the iPhone screen (a severe limitation, although thousands were created, many of which were surprisingly good).  As for Apple's built-in apps, because they took advantage of the iPhone's beautiful and unprecedented screen, they seemed great at the time, but many suffered from severe limitations.  For example, the original Mail app did not work with Microsoft Exchange, and that shortcoming alone was a key reason that few lawyers bought the original iPhone.  You could not select multiple e-mails at once so you had to delete e-mails one at a time.  And as was the case in all apps on the original iPhone, there was no cut/copy-and-paste.
There are important hardware differences between the original iPhone and the current iPhone 4S.  The original iPhone did not even work with 3G, and instead only used the slow Edge network.  The original iPhone's camera was only 2 megapixels and did not support video recording, let alone FaceTime videochat.  There was a headphone jack on the original iPhone, but it was deeply inset so many headphones would not fit without an adapter.  And due to less memory and a much slower CPU, the original iPhone was a fraction of the speed of the current iPhone 4S.  On the other hand, you did get a free dock with the original iPhone, something that you now have to purchase for $30.
And of course, technologies like Siri, AirPlay, Bluetooth keyboards, etc. were nowhere to be seen on the original iPhone.  Nor were carriers other than AT&T.  (The first international iPhone launch was November 9, 2007, when the iPhone was released in the UK and Germany.)
But for all of the changes over the past five years, I'm actually amazed how much the iPhone hasn't changed.  Although thinner and lighter, it is still essentially the same height and width.  We still have just the one button on the front, the sleep/wake button at the top, and the volume buttons and mute switch on the side.  The basic interface remains a grid of icons, although with the Retina display those icons look much nicer.  The basic navigation remains the same: scroll through lists, pinch to zoom, tap on the screen without to push down like on earlier touchscreens.  And the iPhone remains dominated by its large, beautiful screen, uncluttered by an always-present keyboard that had been so popular with BlackBerries and Palm Treos.  Here is the ad that Apple was running when the iPhone came out in June of 2007, and it still captures much of what makes the iPhone so special today (not to mention it still makes me hungry for calamari):

It is amazing how much Apple got right with the first generation of the iPhone, resulting in so many key iPhone features remaining the same after five years.
Few lawyers bought that original model of the iPhone, but many of us could tell that Apple was about to change smartphones forever (although I doubt that many of us could have predicted how successful the iPhone would be).  As Steve Jobs said in 2007:  "Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. ... Apple is going to reinvent the phone."  I am constantly amazed at how much the iPhone and its sibling the iPad have allowed me to be a better lawyer, while at the same time providing countless hours of entertainment and learning (both for me and my kids).  As we celebrate the fifth anniversary of the iPhone, I lift my glass to toast Apple for all that it has accomplished and to thank the company for creating such an amazing device.
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iPhone tips track changes metadata in Word documents

iPhone tips 
A big part of my law practice is collaborating with other attorneys, whether they be co-counsel for the same client or counsel for co-defendants. Accordingly, one feature that I use heavily in Microsoft Word on my computer is the track changes feature to suggest improvements to documents. As you know, edits show up in redline in Word on your computer and look something like this:
 he iPhone generally does a good job of reading Word files.  If one is attached to an e-mail, you can just tap the attachment to read it.  But be warned that if the document has the track changes feature enabled to show edits, you don't see the edits on the iPhone.  You instead just see what the text would look like with the redline edits accepted.  Thus, if I e-mail a Word document containing the text in the above example to my iPhone and tap the attachment, here is what I see:
Note that if I hold down on the attachment and view it in another app, I might be able to see the redline edits.  For example, if I open the Word file in Documents to Go, I correctly see the redline edits:
  
Documents to Go cannot create redline edits on the iPhone or iPad — indeed, there is currently no app that does so, and I hope that this changes soon — but it is nice to be able to see the redline edits when someone asks you to review them.
If you try to view the file in Office², you see all of the text (both the deleted text and the new text) without any indication of what is old and what is new.  Rather confusing:
  





I wasn't able to try this redline file with the Quickoffice app.  A few days ago, that app was upgraded to version 4.0.0, and unfortunately on my iPhone it now crashes every time I try to start the app.  I've been in communication with Quickoffice about this bug and they are investigating it.  If you use Quickoffice and you have not yet upgraded, consider waiting to upgrade until this bug is fixed.
[UPDATE 5/24/11:  A new version of Quickoffice is now out.  Unfortunately, I confirmed that Quickoffice Pro handles track changes the same way as Office², i.e., not well at all.]
Accordingly, there are two things that you should be aware of.  First, if you want to view redline edits, purchase and use Documents to Go on your iPhone or iPad.
Second — and this is the really important one — be aware that when you are viewing a Word file using the iPhone or iPad's built-in viewer, you are not seeing redline edits even if they are there.  Thus, if you forward that file to opposing counsel, you may not realize that you are showing the opposing counsel not just the modified version of the document but also the original version of the document with the modifications noted in redline.  Depending upon the edits, this could be disastrous for you and your client.
Under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, there is nothing unethical about your opposing counsel reviewing those redline edits that you sent him, although if he knows or reasonably should know that the transmission of this metadata was inadvertent he does have a duty to notify you.  And apparently in some states, such as Maryland, there is not even a duty to disclose.  Take a look at this helpful page from the ABA for a comparison of the ethical duties of attorneys in various jurisdictions.
There are companies such as 3BView that offer a service to remove metadata from files on your iPhone.  That can be useful if you know that the metadata is there, but my main concern is for lawyers who view and forward Word files on their iPhone or iPad without realizing that the track changes features was in use. Of all of the metadata that exists in a Word file such as author and date of creation, it is redline edits that have the biggest potential to cause headaches when you share them without knowing it.
So my advice to you is to be aware of this possibility, and take a look at a file with Documents to Go if you want to check for the existence of tracked changes in redline.
Click here for Documents to Go ($9.99): 
Click here for Documents to Go Premium ($16.99): 

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