Understanding iPhone 3.0 - #6 - iPhone 3.0 the Complete Series

Butterscotch Tutorial Special iPhone 3.0 New Features Overview Part one of five: Cut, copy and paste Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to the first in a five part series on the new iPhone 3.0 update. This software is available not only the newest hardware version of the iPhone, but is actually applicable to the previous generation on the iPhone. I've actually got it running on an iPhone 3G here. You can do that with an update, it'll cost you a little bit of money, but you can do it. And one of the things that it's added and people have parleying for, from the very first generation of the iPhone was cut, copy and paste and that has now been added. It's fairly easy to do, although it's not necessarily as obvious as you would like. Once you how it is actually pretty quick and easy. So we've -- I've got an email here that I've sent to myself earlier with some notes for this episode and to cut and copy and paste it's fairly simple. So you simply go to the place where you want to start doing these cutting and copying and pasting and you actually hold down you finger. So I'm going to hold at the beginning here, a magnification comes up there, like it does when you're trying to potion your cursor and before hand, but now when you let go it gives you the option to select or select all. Selecting all will copy absolutely everything here. It'll select all the text from the beginning of the email to the end. I just want to select a little bit here. So I'm going to hit select and now you'll notice that there's these two little bars with dots on them, that indicates the in and out point for what I want to copy here. So to change this I'm actually going to grab the last one and keep moving until I get to the end of the section that I want to copy. So you'll notice it pops up a little but here that says copy, it doesn't allow me to cut here because this is an email that I have received and I can't actually cut from that because it's non-editable. So I'm going to hit copy and now I'm kind of past this somewhere else on my iPhone so I can send another email to someone else with this in there. But I can also go into another application, for example notes and I'm going to create a new note and now I'll put my finger down on here again and hold it down, the magnification glass pops up and now I see I have the paste option here, so by clicking on paste it actually pasts everything that I just did. Now we can see how cut works by doing this again. I'm going to go to the beginning of this little section here, realize that I don't want this one. So I'm going to select again and put down. And now when I let go it actually has cut, copy and past, because this is editable I can actually cut and that takes a little bit more than one to two because I had selected a little bit more than that. I thought I was selecting, you know if I wanted to put that back I can actually just hold down again. Press past and there it comes back, because it still in the buffer. So another thing you can do here that is actually kind of interesting, if I create a new note here and do that again, press paste, put in there and realize oh you know what I didn't want to do that. What I can do now is I can actually pick the whole thing up and shake it and it'll actually come up with this little screen that says undo paste, so I can do that and I click that and away it goes. That's not just necessarily for pasting, if I type a bunch of stuff too and I realize that's completely wrong then I can just pick it up and shake it and shake it hard enough, it's a little hard to do, to actually activate it, but then you can hit undo typing, when you don't have your phone on a little stand that's glued into the desk, it's a bit easier to do that. Now you can past to a number of different places around, you can type in to the notepad, you can do it into browser input window, URL, you can actually cut phone number from one of your emails and then paste it in a new contact in your phone book. Various places where this works, still learning all of the places that it works and it doesn't work. So try it out, see what you can do and happy pasting. iPhone 3.0 New Features Overview Part two of five: Spotlight Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to the second in a five part series on the new iPhone 3.0 software. This time we're going to talk about Spotlight, a feature that's new in this version of the software and something again that people have wondered why it wasn't on the phone right from the start. Now from the main screen of the iPhone you can actually flip back and forth looking for the applications you've installed, but if you're at your main first screen here, you can actually flip back one and that'll open up the Spotlight, now you can start searching the iPhone. So you can start typing in things, this will search throughout the iPhone including your contact list and your email and all of the things that are in your iPod as well. So I've started searching here for Matt Harris my co-producer here at Butterscotch and he's showing up as a contact and as one of the emails that's been sent, but also one thing that is showing up is when the iPod listing, if I actually type his full name that will disappear and it will only be nothing, so it would actually say Matt. So the more you type the more it will narrow it down the search in this case. So it's not necessarily just something that you can do within the main screen itself like this, but you can actually go into the application. So if I type contacts and I start looking for people, I have a whole list of people in here and maybe I want to search without having to scroll through 1,000 names. I don't have quite that many, people many people do. So what you do is, then you can start searching. Now by default it'll show up like this, without the search window. I've been using it so it's appeared now. But if you are in the situation where you see the A at the very the top in your search window, just flip it down and it'll appear. So then again I will search for Matt here and there we go he appears. So through a long list, the more you type the more it will narrow down to the one that you're looking for. So we will go to there and actually move into the email list. So we have the search window again at the top appear, this is actually under another email account I have. So let's actually go back, go into Butterscotch and you can see this right here, so I've got the inbox and I'll click on that and you see no search window here, but I can flip it up right here. So I see Matt has already sent me email just recently, but I can search for previous emails that he sent and I will it narrow it down and that's all that will now appear in this or email that has him in it somehow. And last but not least you can actually search in your calendar as well. So I don't have too many appointments in here right now, but if I wanted to look for an appointment that I have in here and click on my calendars and I click on search and I'll start typing, in this case I was looking for Mr. Mobile, I don't have any appointments with Matt, but I have something coming up with Jay and so there we go and the more you type again, if you a whole pile of appointments you can narrow it down into exactly the one you're looking for. Anyways that's Spotlight for the iPhone 3.0 software. Don't forget to check out the other episodes in our series on the iPhone 3.0 iPhone 3.0 New Features Overview Part three of five: Landscape mode Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to the third in a five part series on the new iPhone 3.0 software update. Now one of the nice things about the nice about the iPhone as well as the iPod Touch is they have motion sensors inside, which not only allows the iPhone to know that it's being shaken back and forth, but it also knows which orientation it's in and it has a couple of applications that we've seen before hand in the previous generation of the product, for example with the iPod we actually can go into the portrait mode here, see a list of songs. But if we take it and we tilt it sideways it'll actually go into cover flow mode, which will allow us to go through all the different things that are on here by the covers. Now that's not the only thing that was in the previous generation, there's also calculator where we actually have regular calculator when it's in this mode and we tilt it sideways and it goes into a scientific calculator mode. Now the nice thing about this new version of the iPhone software is this has been added in a number of other things that we didn't see before. So for example in mail, if we go into mail we've got our regular layout here where we can actually see a little bit of the screen plus the keyboard here. Now one thing you can do is just tilt it sideways and you've got a bigger version of the keyboard more of the screen, so when you're typing in there you can actually see this and actually get bigger fonts when you actually have it in the full screen mode. So when you tilt it this way it's actually much, much smaller. So it makes it a little bit easier to see. One other new place where you can actually see the landscape mode in action is here in stocks. So if you follow few of your favorite stocks, you can see at the bottom it's got a little chart, just as we are trading, that shows what the performance of the stock is. Now when you tilt it sideways it actually goes into a mode where you can actually see the graphic in greater detail and not only that, now that it is bigger it actually gives you finer control, so you can actually highlight two sections of this and see what the difference is in performance between these two different times and adjust it that way. Anyways there's a number of other different places in the iPhone where you can actually make use of in the landscape mode, not everywhere yet, so it'll depend on the application, but poke around inside and see what find out and thanks again for watching, don't forget to check out the other four parts in this series. iPhone 3.0 New Features Overview Part four of five: Link management in Safari Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to the fourth in a five part series on the new iPod 3.0 software update. Now the Safari web browser was on previous generations of the iPhone and it gave you some method of control over surfing the web including the ability to click on links and go to the next thing you want to do. So what you would do is you would actually just find your link and just click on it and it would take you to the next page. Now with the new version of the software we have a few more options here. Now you can just click through like you normally did before or if you prefer you can click on the link and just hold it and you see it highlights and then it brings up this screen that gives us the ability to open it, which is what we would do before, I would just continue through to the next page that you chose. You can open then a new page or you can copy. So by clicking open in a new page, what it will do is, is it'll actually keep that first one up in browser, but open the second page and start to load it there, so then you actually just flip back and forth between these pages like so and go back to the original page. Going to close that instead and we'll do that again and what we are going to do instead. If we don't want to open a new page. Say we want that link and we want to send it to a friend, then we can just click copy, then go into another application, let's say mail, we'll create a new email, hit compose and now we can go down into here, hold this down, click paste and there's the link that we just copied from over in the browser. Now we can send this along, you can add that into any other place where you want to put it like a note or into your Twitter application, anything that supports the copy and paste functionality. Anyways that's it for the browser functionality that has been added, the new link management in Safari. Thanks for watching and stay tuned for the last in our five part series. iPhone 3.0 New Features Overview Part five of five: Voice Memos Sean Carruthers: Hi I'm Sean Carruthers and welcome to the fifth in a five part series on the new iPhone 3.0 software update. Now we're going to look at a new application on this update called Voice Memos, which is a brand new feature. If you've ever been out in the field and wanted to record something, but not have a little portable recorder with you this is a handy little function. Now you can see right here it's a little microphone on the main screen and if you click it you'll actually get a much bigger microphone. Now this microphone is actually not recording on the screen itself, but it's recording through the microphone on the iPhone. Not much is happening down there on VU Meter until we start recording. So to do that we'll press on the record button down here. So now that we have a recording we can just speak into the microphone and away we go. Now I'm a little bit further away from here, so it isn't picking up much, we can tap on the desk here right near the microphone and you can see the VU Meter down below working indicating that there is levels. Now this isn't necessarily always the most convenient way to record something because you're not always recording yourself. Maybe you're recording someone that's with you, so one thing you can do is take the whole thing, flip it around like so and you'll notice the microphone flips around, so now the controls are the opposite end so that you can actually use the controls even when the microphone is now up here recording someone else that you're talking to. So we're going to actually flip her back around to the regular orientation and we're going to press stop, because we're done with our recording, so the button down below will stop the recording. Now you can start another recording at this point if you like or if you prefer you can click on these three bars here, which is the menu option, it'll take you into the things that we recorded previous and this one right here is now actually the one that I was already recording, right at the top you notice that there's a pause control here. You can click on that to stop it and if you want to get more information on this, you can press on the button, the arrow off to the side, which fly open this little menu, it'll tell you when it was recorded, it'll give you the option of sharing it or trimming it. Trimming it, well if you recorded something that you want to get rid of, say the first minute or so, because you were setting up or whatever, you can actually start trimming from either end here and then once you are satisfied with it you can click trim and cancel because you don't want to do that at this point. You can also share it, so by clicking on the share button it'll allow you to email it to someone else and you can cancel again. You also notice there is another arrow right here that we can click through and now we can label it. So if it's a podcast or interview lecture, idea, meeting or memo you can just click on one of these eight here and it will automatically label it for you. But if you want to call it something else, for example we're recording this for tutorial, so we're going to hit custom and we're going to enter in tutorial, like so and click done and now it's labeled as tutorial and when we go back over to the voice menus I see we've got tutorial right at the top there, that's the one we just recorded and you can also see one where I mistyped tutorial below. There you go, so you can transfer these things back and forth using your iTunes library, anything that you record in this will automatically be synched back to your iTunes library as a regular audio file. That's it for the voice memos function on iPhone 3.0. Thanks again for watching, don't forget to check out the other four parts in our series. Butterscotch; tasty tech, delicious downloads butterscotch.com a division of a division of Twcows Corp. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/