iPhone Fully Loaded (Iphone Fully Loaded: If You've Got It, You Can Iphone It) [Paperback]

Andy Ihnatko (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470173688 | ISBN-13: 978-0470173688 | Publication Date: December 10, 2007 | Edition: 1

iPhone Fully Loaded is a one-of-a-kind reference that teaches you how to fully exploit the power of your Phone or iPod touch. Clear step-by-step instructions teach you how to convert any form of home, office, or online media -- dusty LPs, movies on DVD, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, downloadable books, comic books, as well as music and video to an iPhone or iPod Touch compatible format. Written by wildly popular technology expert and Chicago Sun Times columnist Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded is a full-color guide designed to work for both Mac OS X and Windows users. From uploading Web pages to downloading television shows and a variety of documents, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, the iPhone does much more than make phone calls, play music, and send e-mail.

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From the Back Cover

Listen up. This stuff isn't in the other books

Face it — you're secretly wishing you'd invented the iPhone, because it's the most exquisite high-tech toy in the cosmos. Andy Ihnatko certainly thinks so. He'll show you how to put just about everything you need to survive, except possibly a change of underwear, in your pocket by putting it on your iPhone. Load up your favorite movies, TV shows, podcasts, Web pages, photos, e-mails, even spreadsheets and presentations for your working life. Then call your friends and brag. Perfect!

• Turn your commercial DVDs into movie files
• Make 8 gigs seem like 80
• Upload and work with Microsoft® Office docs
• Find and upload the latest 3rd party applications
• Synch YouTube videos on your iPhone
• See how to use these techniques on your iPod Touch

About the Author

Andy Ihnatko is one of the best-known Mac experts and author of the critically acclaimed The Mac OS X Tiger Book as well as iPod Fully Loaded. He has written for nearly every publication with "Mac" in its name and is currently technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Product Details

• Paperback: 246 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (December 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470173688
• ISBN-13: 978-0470173688
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.5 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #860,479 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and loaded with fun projects to maximize your iPhone, December 3, 2007

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I didn't expect to learn anything new from this book but I'm a fan of the Apple Phoneshow (Scott Bourne - Podango) and Andy is a regular on the show. I enjoy his commentary so the book purchase seemed like a "no brainer". I'm not disappointed. The writing style is fun and entertaining -- as if you're talking tech with one of your funnier friends. The book is also visually pleasing with nice layout, screen prints and quality paper. What really impressed me though is the content. Andy didn't slap together yet another gadget book but created a thoughtful and compelling tutorial for a huge number of things you can do with your iPhone (without bricking it) that are both useful and entertaining. Both Mac and PC users will find plenty of opportunities to extend their iPhones.

It is difficult for me to say which tip I liked the best since so many are genuinely useful and most of them give me another good reason to stop lugging my laptop everywhere I go. Buy this book if you want to get the absolute most from your iPhone. It's also the perfect holiday gift for your iPhone fanatic friends - it will keep them busy for the rest of the year.

48 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One star--This book is not worth it, December 29, 2007

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Ken (Granite Bay, California) - See all my reviews

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I posted a one star review of this product a few days ago. Amazon initially published it, and then pulled it entirely after the author wrote a comment arguing against the claim that I made that this book looks like a cut and paste job with chapters that apply to anyone with an ipod or anyone who has a computer with an internet connection. If you doubt me, compare the table of contents of this book with the author's other book "Ipod fully loaded." I defy anyone to conclude this the contents of this book differ in any significant way from "Ipod fully loaded" published in 2006 on issues related to ripping cd's, ripping dvd's, or getting radio programs, television programs, podcasts, or other content onto your iphone. Incredibly, "ipod fully loaded" has a chapter on email--which this book doesn't have. This book does not discuss the iphone's settings, or any of the great iphone specific features such as google maps, you-tube, stocks, weather, email, etc. Amazingly, if you look at the index of the book for the word "phone", it isn't there. Why? Because it doesn't even mention the iphone's phone features, getting contacts into the iphone, customing the phone settings or anything even closely related. I have no hidden agenda here. I am not pushing someone else's book, and I am not writing a book. I am just a guy with a lot of Amazon purchases over many years who honestly says that this book is a huge disappointment if you want to learn about iphone specific information. I hope Amazon will leave this post up this time.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and funny, December 9, 2007

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Joseph C. Dickerson "Joe D!" (Dacula, GA) - See all my reviews
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This book by Andy Ihnatko is one of the most entertaining tech books I've ever read. Not only is Andy's writing style quite personal and irreverent, but the tips he includes can help even power users (like me)! Again, a must buy for those who want to get more than the base functionality out of the iPhone. Recommended!