My Palm Pre - Softcover

Craig James Johnston; Joe Hutsko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789742551 ISBN 13: 9780789742551

Publisher: Que Pub, 2010

Synopsis

 

My Palm® Pre™

Joe Hutsko
Craig James Johnston

 

COVERS

Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Pixi, and Pixi Plus

 

Step-by-step

instructions with callouts to Palm Pre images that show you exactly what to do.

 

Help

when you run into Palm Pre problems  or limitations.

 

Tips and Notes

to help you get the most from your Palm Pre.

 

Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping
your Palm Pre working just the way you want. The tasks include:

·   Getting started quickly and making the most of Palm Pre’s amazing interface

·   Moving your information to your new Palm Pre

·   Customizing your Palm Pre to your exact needs

·   Saving time with Palm Pre’s typing shortcuts and slide-out keyboard

·   Setting up and using speed dialing, voicemail, and conference calls

·   Sending and receiving text and picture messages

·   Making the most of Palm Pre’s contact, calendar, and To Do list software

·   Syncing your Palm Pre with Outlook, Facebook, and MySpace

·   Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth devices, and your company’s VPN

·   Browsing the Web from your Palm Pre

·   Shooting, storing, and viewing photos and video

·   Finding, choosing, installing, and working with new Palm Pre applications

·   Keeping your Palm Pre up-to-date, reliable, and running perfectly

·   Topics relevant for Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi, and Palm Pixi Plus.

About this title

About the Author:

Craig James Johnston has been involved with technology since his high

school days at Glenwood High in Durban, South Africa, when his school was

given some Apple 2 Euro Pluses. From that moment, technology captivated him,

and he has owned, supported, evangelized, and written about it ever since.

Craig has been involved in designing and supporting large-scale enterprise networks

with integrated email and directory services since 1989. Craig has held

many different IT-related positions in his career, ranging from sales support engineer

to mobile engineering a 35,000-smartphone infrastructure at a large bank.

In addition to designing and supporting mobile computing environments, Craig

writes about them for Smartphone Essentials and CrackBerry.com, a leading

BlackBerry blog. Craig also co-hosts the CrackBerry.com podcast and his own

Mobile Computing Authority podcast.You can also see Craig’s previous published

work in his books Professional BlackBerry and My BlackBerry Curve.

Craig enjoys high-horsepower, high-speed vehicles and tries very hard to keep

to the speed limits while driving them.

Originally from Durban, South Africa, Craig has lived in the United Kingdom,

the San Francisco Bay Area, and New Jersey, where he now lives with his wife

Karen and a couple of cats.

 

Joe Hutsko is the author of Green Gadgets for Dummies and Macs All-in-One for

Dummies, Second Edition. For more than two decades, Joe has written about

computers, gadgets, and video games for numerous publications and websites,

including The New York Times, Macworld, PC World, Fortune, Newsweek, Popular

Science, TV Guide, The Washington Post, Wired, Gamespot, MSNBC, and Salon.

Joe’s first novel, The Deal,was recently rereleased in trade paperback with a

new foreword by the author (tinyurl.com/hutskodeal), and you can find links to

Joe’s stories on his tech blog, JOEyGADGET.com.

As a kid, Joe built a shortwave radio, played with electronic project kits, and

learned the basics of the BASIC programming language on his first computer,

the Commodore Vic 20. In his teens, he picked strawberries to buy his first

Apple II computer. Four years after that purchase (in 1984), he wound up working

for Apple, where he became the personal technology guru for the company’s

chairman and CEO. Joe left Apple in 1988 to become a writer and worked

on and off for other high-tech companies, including Steve Jobs’ one-time NeXT.

He authored a number of video game strategy guides, including the bestsellers

Donkey Kong Country Game Secrets: The Unauthorized Edition and Rebel

Assault: The Official Insiders Guide.

All comments, suggestions, and feedback are welcome, including positive and

negative.

About this edition

• Publisher: Que Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0789742551
• ISBN 13: 9780789742551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249