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Multimedia on the iPhone
Explore the iPod Hiding inside Your iPhone
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Navigating Music and Videos: Finding Your Tunes
If you've owned a display-bear- ing iPod for more than a month, your thumb will want to spring into its normal twirl-and-click position when you first unpack your iPhone or iPod touch.
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Working with Photos and Videos: More Photo and Video Options
When you tap on the Options icon (it's a box with an arrow and appears farthest to the left), an overlay appears that includes four options—Email Photo, Assign To Contact, Use As Wallpaper, and Cancel.
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Working with Photos and Videos: Viewing Photos and Videos
All of your photos—the ones you've taken and the ones you've synced—are available in the main screen of the Photos app.
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Working with Photos and Videos: Syncing Photos
The iPhone can also sync photos from your computer. When you tether your activated iPhone to your Mac or PC, it appears in iTunes' Source list. Select it and, in the resulting iPhone window, click on the Photos tab. Select the Sync Photos From option, and then use the pop-up menu to choose the source for the photos.
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Working with Photos and Videos: Taking Photos and Shooting Video
Not too long ago it was possible to bore your friends with your vacation photos only by luring them to your home. You can now do this on the run via your iPhone. Here's the lowdown on pictures and slide shows on the iPhone and iPod touch, and videos on the iPhone 3GS.
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Smart Syncing Strategies: Assigning Ratings
You can use information such as artist, genre, album, podcast, and television season to set up smart playlists. But these items don't offer much assistance in separating the files you love from the ones you merely tolerate.
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Smart Syncing Strategies: Getting Smarter
Dragging files one by one into a playlist can be a tedious affair. To speed up the work, switch to smart playlists.
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Smart Syncing Strategies: Creating Playlists
The best way to organize your iTunes library is with playlists. For example, you could create a playlist of music that works well for you during a long commute or peps you up during a workout.
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Smart Syncing Strategies: Slimming Down Your Files
Given the iPhone's limited storage space, you may want to slim down those files you intend to put on it. One way to do this is to convert the most obvious storage hogs to a format that still sounds or looks good but consumes less space.
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Smart Syncing Strategies: Pick and Find
Even with capacities of 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB, people with large music and video libraries will find the iPhone's storage capacity limited, especially once you start loading up on third- party apps, TV shows, and movies.
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Using YouTube: Favorites, Search, Playback
When you tap on the Favorites button, you'll see a list of all the YouTube videos you've chosen as favorites. If you're logged into your YouTube account, this will include videos saved from your computer's browser, not just from the iPhone.
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Using YouTube: Featured, Most Viewed
When it comes to watching videos, you're not limited to the movies and TV shows synced from iTunes. There's a whole world of clips, home movies, and other homegrown video surprises—ranging in quality from stupid to sublime—waiting on YouTube.
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Navigating Music and Videos: Buy On-The-Go, Parental Controls, Voice Control
In the iTunes store application, you can load up on new paid or free content from within your iPhone or iPod touch.
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Navigating Music and Videos: Watching Videos
It would be a shame to let that wide-screen display go to waste. Put it to good use by viewing videos on it. The iPhone and iPod touch support the same two video formats as the regular iPod— H.264, the format used by the iTunes Store, and MPEG-4.
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Navigating Music and Videos: Music Playback Settings, Shuffling, Podcasts
The iPhone and iPod touch provide a few global settings for audio playback—from playing all tracks at a consistent volume to a setting that helps you keep the lid on volume so your kids don't blow their ears out before they reach voting age.
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Navigating Music and Videos: Create On-The-Go Playlists
Much like the iPod, the iPhone provides a limited way to create playlists directly on the device. This is called an On-The-Go playlist. if you're used to creating such playlists on your iPod, you'll find the iPhone process familiar.
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Navigating Music and Videos: Customize Your Menu, Scrubbing, Remote
You can change which commands appear at the bottom of the iPod area—for example, to get quicker access to your podcasts. Simply tap on the More button and, in the More screen, tap on the Edit button at the upper left of the screen.
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Navigating Music and Videos: Playing Music
The Now Playing screen is where you control the iPhone's music playback. (You must hold your iPhone in portrait mode to access these controls.) This screen offers three views, each of which has different controls.
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Smart Syncing Strategies: Choose Better Tags
Unless you're the kind of person for whom the party never ends, you're going to want to listen to a far different kind of music on Sunday morning than on Saturday night. Or perhaps you'd like to group your movies by leading ladies or best boys.
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Never miss a photo opportunity. The 5-megapixel camera built into iPhone 4 — with optional HDR setting — captures amazingly detailed images. A built-in LED flash illuminates low-light scenes. And the 5x digital zoom gets you closer to the action. You can even shoot self-portraits with the front camera.
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Converting Video for the iPhone
The iTunes Store may be a great place to stock up on video content for the iPhone. But why spend extra money when you've already got a vast collection of DVDs, home movies, and other video files at your fingertips?
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