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iPhone Training Guide : Training your digits

Training your digits

Rice Krisples has Snap! Crackle! Pop! Apple’s response for the IPhone is Tap! Flick! and Pinch! Yikes. another ad comparison.
Fortunately, tapping, flicking, and pinching are not challenging gestures, so you’ll be mastering many of the IPhone’s features in no time:

Tap: Tapping serves multiple purposes, as will become evident through¬out this book. You can tap an Icon to open an application from the Home screen. Tap to start playing a song or to choose the photo album you want to look through. Sometimes you will double-tap (tapping twice in rapid succession), which has the effect of zooming in (or out) of Web pages, maps, and e-mails.

Flick: Just what it sounds like. A flick of the finger on the screen itself lets you quickly scroll through lists of songs, e-mails, and picture thumbnails. Tap on the screen to stop scrolling or merely wait for the scrolling list to stop.

Pinch: Place two fingers on the edges of a Web page or picture to enlarge the images or make them smaller. Pinching is a cool gesture that is easy to master and sure to wow an audience.

Finger-typing

Apple’s multitouch Interface just might be considered a stroke of genius. And it just might as equally drive you nuts, at least initially
If you’re patient and trusting, you’ll get the hang of finger-typing in a week or so. You have to rely on the virtual keyboard (which appears when you tap a text field) to enter notes, compose text messages, type the names of new con¬tacts, and so forth.
Apple’s own recommendation — which we concur with — is to start typing with just your index finger before graduating to two thumbs.

The good news Is that Apple has built a lot of Intelligence into its virtual keyboard, so it can correct typing mistakes on-the-fly and take a stab at predicting what you are about to type next. The keyboard isn’t exactly Nostradamus, but it does a pretty good job in coming up with the words you have in mind.
As you press your finger against a letter or number on the screen, the individual key you press gets bigger and practically jumps off the screen. That way. you know that you struck the correct letter or number.

Alas, mistakes are common at first. Say you meant to type a sentence in the Notes appli¬cation that reads. “I am typing a bunch of notes.” But because of the way your fingers struck the virtual keys, you actually entered “1 am typing a bunch otnpyrs. Fortunately. Apple knows that the о you meant to press is next to the p that showed up on the keyboard, just as rand у and the e and the r are side-by-side. So the software determines that notes was indeed the word you had in mind and places it in red under the suspect word. To accept the suggested word, merely tap the Space key And If for some reason you actually did mean to type npyrs instead, tap on the suggested word {notes in this example) to decline it.

Moreover, because Apple knows what you are up to. the virtual keyboard is fine-tuned for the task at hand. If you’re entering a Web address, for example, the keyboard inside the Safari Web browser includes dedicated period, forward slash, and com keys but no Space key. If you’re using the Notes application. the keyboard does have a Space key And if you’re composing an e-mail message, a dedicated @key pops up on the keyboard.
When you’re typing notes or sending e-mail and want to type a number, symbol, or punctuation mark, you have to tap the . ?I23 key to bring up an alternative virtual keyboard. Tap the ABC key to return to the first keyboard. It’s not hard to get used to. but some may find this extra step irritating.

Editing mistakes

It’s a good Idea to type with reckless aban¬don and not get hung up over the characters you mistype. Again, the self-correcting keyboard will indeed fix many errors. That said, plenty of typos will likely turn up. especially in the beginning, and you’ll have to make corrections manually.
A neat trick for doing so is to hold your finger against the screen to bring up the magnifying glass. Use it to position the pointer to the spot where you need to make the correction.

There, you’ve survived basic training. Now the real fun is about to begin.