[Fredslist] Iphone Questions - Mostly Calendar

[Debra Adler]

Paul, 

Danny made some excellent suggestions.  As a matter of fact, I'm going to YouTube to learn some things now too.  But in answer to your question #2, Janet actually showed me this, at the top of your email that you are reading is a hyperlink that says Mark As Unread.  That will keep the dot next to it in your iphone and be in your inbox on your PC.  
As far as knowing you have new mail, you can set your push notifications to beep you when new mail comes in.  I also keep that on vibrate for when it's in my pocket, so if I am expecting something I will know it came in.  Also, you can make your emails come in faster by opening the mail box and scroll the emails downward.  This will force your iphone to update sooner.  Very important if you're expecting something!  

To further clarify Danny's #3 point, your finger should be over the text, you may get the boxes that say, select, select all, etc or you will get a magnifying glass.  That's the tool to scroll back letter for letter so you won't have to erase whole words or select.

Debra Adler
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-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Mizrahi <dm at contangoit.com>
To: Paul Napolitano <paul at twosonsenv.com>; Freds List <fredslist at gothamnetworking.com>
Sent: Wed, Feb 8, 2012 10:18 am
Subject: Re: [Fredslist] Iphone Questions - Mostly Calendar


(cc'ing fredlist because I think other people will want the answer).

Hi Paul,

That's was a tough decision but a good long-term one.  Blackberry is on the way out, in my humble opinion.  Change is usually much more difficult to deal with than Technology.

First and foremost...I highly recommend putting keywords like "using calendar on the iphone" in YouTube.  You'll get some great free training.  Same thing with "Push/Notifications."  Also I'd put in "iphone 4s training."  It'll help for sure, and it's free =)

I've had an iPhone for longer than I can remember and I still do this.  (For lots of things!  YouTube is a great resource for training).

For #3 below - you can hold your finger down, and it zooms in and you can scroll letter by letter.  

Hope that helps!

Danny


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On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Paul Napolitano <paul at twosonsenv.com> wrote:


Hello Gotham iphone experts,
 
I recently, reluctantly, switched from my Blackberry of 10 years to an iphone 4S. My biggest concern going into the switch was the calendar function … and now my fears have been realized! If anyone can shed some light on any of the following, please let me know. I use my calendar 20 or 30 times a day.
 
1.   When my iphone is dormant it will chime when a calendar event(s) occurs. Before I unlock the phone, I can see the event(s) listed. However, as I unlock it they disappear. Then I go to the calendar and they are not listed in a “properly reviewable” fashion, as with a Blackberry. If I’m in a meeting for a few hours, I often come out and have ten reminders for calendar events waiting for me. Some have 1 hour reminders, some 1 day, some 1 week. I have no clue which events they are after I unlock the phone, so they are basically lost. I can set the second reminder, but that is of little help to the way I do business. Please help!
2.   Email is really second rate on the iphone, correct? With my Blackberry I always knew when I had a new email because it had the red light indicator. And unless I physically opened the email, it remained new and obvious that it was unread. Also, importantly, I could save emails as new so I could review them when I had time. With the iphone, the emails are not “there” unless I click on the mail icon. I could get used to that, but what about keeping the emails as “new”? Also frustrating, only sometimes do I have the dot that indicates the emails are new, why is that? Why is the fastest email “push” setting 15 minutes? That’s slow in my business. 
3.   Is there a way to back scroll over text? That is, rather than highlighting an entire word or backspacing and erasing it.
 
Thanks,
 
Paul
 
Paul Napolitano
President, Two Sons Environmental
 
Office 516 922 3653
Cell 516 287 4159
www.TwoSonsEnv.com
 

 


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