Anyone who has read my blog for any length of time knows that I have become a Mac evangelist over the past year. I love my MacBook. I got a Mac desktop for my kids. And yes, I got the iPhone two days after it came out. Hey...some people like purses and shoes...I'm all about technology.
The other day I was talking to one of the wonderful Apple customer service people whom I have the privilege of talking to thanks to my purchase of AppleCare. The Apple store is great. I've enjoyed the training I've gotten there, but sometimes you need an answer right now and I love being able to call for technical support on anything I want.
This guy gave me a short-cut that I think is so cool that I wanted to share it with you. As of this moment, there is not a way to sync documents (like from Excel, Word, etc.) with your iPhone. I was telling the guy that I liked having my To Be Read list from my Excel book journal on my Palm Pilot...and would like to have it on my iPhone. The work-around he gave me was to bring what you want on your iPhone up on the screen. Then press:
Apple-Shift-4
The cursor turns into the thing that looks like something you aim through on a gun...I've never touched a gun, but I've seen them on TV. You simply click on the corner of what you want to see, drag it to the other corner so that what you want is selected. When you release the keys, if your sound is on, you will hear a little sound like a shutter and you will find a file on your desktop that is called Picture1.png (or subsequently Picture2, etc.).
You can then drag it and drop it into iPhoto, then drop it in whatever folder you have sync to your iPhone for photos and there it will be! So, in my case, when I am in the library, I can simply open that picture on the iPhone and then zoom in to see the books sorted by author's last name and browse the stacks.
Di
Comments