To my knowledge there is no way to create/manage groups on the iPhone. I created groups on my PC using Outlook Express. Then when I sync those groups are also on my iPhone.

--- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, "Book_of_Hezekiah" <book_of_hezekiah_10_26@...> wrote:
>
> How do I group contacts, as someone in the "Contacts-Finding Them" thread mentioned. I do NOT draw from some unified contact list on my PC.
>
> Once I accidentally allowed a sync that copied all my Yahoo Contacts onto the iPhone. I wound up with scores of people I'd only corresponded with once or twice/years ago, in my phone list (along with many duplicate names with only email, while my manually entered contact record had only the phone number). My intended phone contacts were largely entered manually when I first got the phone, because they are mostly phone/text contacts, not email contacts.
>
> Thanks
>

There is an app called "Groups" that I have on my iPhone that works very
well. Once you set the groups, they will show up in your Contacts app.
---
Mark

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Donald <xlnt74@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>
>
> To my knowledge there is no way to create/manage groups on the iPhone. I
> created groups on my PC using Outlook Express. Then when I sync those groups
> are also on my iPhone.
>
> --- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com <apple-iphone%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Book_of_Hezekiah" <book_of_hezekiah_10_26@...> wrote:
> >
> > How do I group contacts, as someone in the "Contacts-Finding Them" thread
> mentioned. I do NOT draw from some unified contact list on my PC.
> >
> > Once I accidentally allowed a sync that copied all my Yahoo Contacts onto
> the iPhone. I wound up with scores of people I'd only corresponded with once
> or twice/years ago, in my phone list (along with many duplicate names with
> only email, while my manually entered contact record had only the phone
> number). My intended phone contacts were largely entered manually when I
> first got the phone, because they are mostly phone/text contacts, not email
> contacts.

ABCts lite in the app store is free and does a good job.

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 1, 2010, at 11:00 AM, "Donald" <xlnt74@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
> To my knowledge there is no way to create/manage groups on the iPhone. I created groups on my PC using Outlook Express. Then when I sync those groups are also on my iPhone.
>
> --- In apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com, "Book_of_Hezekiah" <book_of_hezekiah_10_26@...> wrote:
>>
>> How do I group contacts, as someone in the "Contacts-Finding Them" thread mentioned. I do NOT draw from some unified contact list on my PC.
>>
>> Once I accidentally allowed a sync that copied all my Yahoo Contacts onto the iPhone. I wound up with scores of people I'd only corresponded with once or twice/years ago, in my phone list (along with many duplicate names with only email, while my manually entered contact record had only the phone number). My intended phone contacts were largely entered manually when I first got the phone, because they are mostly phone/text contacts, not email contacts.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

I suspect the answer is going to be it has to be the first page of the
PDF, but I'll ask anyway.

Most PDFs I save into iBooks, like programming cheat sheets, my
daughter's school crisis plan etc. Don't have a first page that lends
itself to a nice iBook cover to display while on the shelf. That means
I've got 30 some odd PDF books with covers I cant really make out what
it is and there's no 'title' like apps on the home screen has. So it's
usually pecking through a couple to find the right one.

Now, while I could get a PDF editor and make nice front cover pages, I
really don't want that hassle.

So here's what I'm wondering. Books in iBooks, which I realize are a
different file format that don't have a cover art page get a plain
brown cover with title and author. I would love this fir my PDFs.

Now before anyone jumps the gun and says, well, that's just the way it
is, I can assure you it's not. Perform this simple test. Take a nice
big PDF file and give it a meaningful name. Stock Trading Tips.PDF for
example. Now load it in iBooks. You'll notice that while it's parsing
through the PDF fir the first time, it creates the same plain brown
cover with an easily readable title reflecting the filename. Once it
finishes parsing, you get a thumb of whatever the first page looks
like.

So, finally, here's the question. Is there a setting somewhere which
will use the plain brown cover with filename as the title for PDFs? If
so, where may I find this beast?

Thanks.

--
Leif Gregory

It's as you suspected. If the first page isn't a cover image the only way
to have a cover displayed would be to edit the pdf and add the cover art to
the first page.

- Chris

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Leif Gregory <lgitouch@gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect the answer is going to be it has to be the first page of the
> PDF, but I'll ask anyway.
>
> Most PDFs I save into iBooks, like programming cheat sheets, my
> daughter's school crisis plan etc. Don't have a first page that lends
> itself to a nice iBook cover to display while on the shelf. That means
> I've got 30 some odd PDF books with covers I cant really make out what
> it is and there's no 'title' like apps on the home screen has. So it's
> usually pecking through a couple to find the right one.
>
> Now, while I could get a PDF editor and make nice front cover pages, I
> really don't want that hassle.
>
> So here's what I'm wondering. Books in iBooks, which I realize are a
> different file format that don't have a cover art page get a plain
> brown cover with title and author. I would love this fir my PDFs.
>
> Now before anyone jumps the gun and says, well, that's just the way it
> is, I can assure you it's not. Perform this simple test. Take a nice
> big PDF file and give it a meaningful name. Stock Trading Tips.PDF for
> example. Now load it in iBooks. You'll notice that while it's parsing
> through the PDF fir the first time, it creates the same plain brown
> cover with an easily readable title reflecting the filename. Once it
> finishes parsing, you get a thumb of whatever the first page looks
> like.
>
> So, finally, here's the question. Is there a setting somewhere which
> will use the plain brown cover with filename as the title for PDFs? If
> so, where may I find this beast?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Leif Gregory
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

This isn't the most elegant solution but it works for me on the Mac. I create a Word document (it could be created in any text program) that has one page. On that page I put the title of the pdf file, format the text nice and large and then File-->Print-->Save as PDF. I then open both my original pdf file and the newly created file in Preview. Drag the single page of the new pdf file onto the top of Preview's sidebar. This now adds the new file as "title" page for my pdf. When I bring this into IBooks it's easy to see the titles of my files rather than little micro-views of the first page.

Like I said, it ain't elegant, it should be easier, but it does work. At least on the Mac.

DT

On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Leif Gregory wrote:

> I suspect the answer is going to be it has to be the first page of the
> PDF, but I'll ask anyway.
>
> Most PDFs I save into iBooks, like programming cheat sheets, my
> daughter's school crisis plan etc. Don't have a first page that lends
> itself to a nice iBook cover to display while on the shelf. That means
> I've got 30 some odd PDF books with covers I cant really make out what
> it is and there's no 'title' like apps on the home screen has. So it's
> usually pecking through a couple to find the right one.
>
> Now, while I could get a PDF editor and make nice front cover pages, I
> really don't want that hassle.
>
> So here's what I'm wondering. Books in iBooks, which I realize are a
> different file format that don't have a cover art page get a plain
> brown cover with title and author. I would love this fir my PDFs.
>
> Now before anyone jumps the gun and says, well, that's just the way it
> is, I can assure you it's not. Perform this simple test. Take a nice
> big PDF file and give it a meaningful name. Stock Trading Tips.PDF for
> example. Now load it in iBooks. You'll notice that while it's parsing
> through the PDF fir the first time, it creates the same plain brown
> cover with an easily readable title reflecting the filename. Once it
> finishes parsing, you get a thumb of whatever the first page looks
> like.
>
> So, finally, here's the question. Is there a setting somewhere which
> will use the plain brown cover with filename as the title for PDFs? If
> so, where may I find this beast?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Leif Gregory

Been my problem for a while now too.
So, we have to do trial and error in opening PDFs in iBooks for now.

I also hope a rename feature is available at least for the PDFs

Archie

On Dec 2, 2010, at 7:00, Leif Gregory <lgitouch@gmail.com> wrote:

> I suspect the answer is going to be it has to be the first page of the
> PDF, but I'll ask anyway.
>
> Most PDFs I save into iBooks, like programming cheat sheets, my
> daughter's school crisis plan etc. Don't have a first page that lends
> itself to a nice iBook cover to display while on the shelf. That means
> I've got 30 some odd PDF books with covers I cant really make out what
> it is and there's no 'title' like apps on the home screen has. So it's
> usually pecking through a couple to find the right one.
>
> Now, while I could get a PDF editor and make nice front cover pages, I
> really don't want that hassle.
>
> So here's what I'm wondering. Books in iBooks, which I realize are a
> different file format that don't have a cover art page get a plain
> brown cover with title and author. I would love this fir my PDFs.
>
> Now before anyone jumps the gun and says, well, that's just the way it
> is, I can assure you it's not. Perform this simple test. Take a nice
> big PDF file and give it a meaningful name. Stock Trading Tips.PDF for
> example. Now load it in iBooks. You'll notice that while it's parsing
> through the PDF fir the first time, it creates the same plain brown
> cover with an easily readable title reflecting the filename. Once it
> finishes parsing, you get a thumb of whatever the first page looks
> like.
>
> So, finally, here's the question. Is there a setting somewhere which
> will use the plain brown cover with filename as the title for PDFs? If
> so, where may I find this beast?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Leif Gregory
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

At least it's a free option. Thanks.

--
Leif Gregory

On Dec 1, 2010, at 6:23 PM, David Thofern <thofern@pressenter.com> wrote:

> This isn't the most elegant solution but it works for me on the Mac. I create a Word document (it could be created in any text program) that has one page. On that page I put the title of the pdf file, format the text nice and large and then File-->Print-->Save as PDF. I then open both my original pdf file and the newly created file in Preview. Drag the single page of the new pdf file onto the top of Preview's sidebar. This now adds the new file as "title" page for my pdf. When I bring this into IBooks it's easy to see the titles of my files rather than little micro-views of the first page.
>
> Like I said, it ain't elegant, it should be easier, but it does work. At least on the Mac.
>
> DT
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2010, at 5:00 PM, Leif Gregory wrote:
>
>> I suspect the answer is going to be it has to be the first page of the
>> PDF, but I'll ask anyway.
>>
>> Most PDFs I save into iBooks, like programming cheat sheets, my
>> daughter's school crisis plan etc. Don't have a first page that lends
>> itself to a nice iBook cover to display while on the shelf. That means
>> I've got 30 some odd PDF books with covers I cant really make out what
>> it is and there's no 'title' like apps on the home screen has. So it's
>> usually pecking through a couple to find the right one.
>>
>> Now, while I could get a PDF editor and make nice front cover pages, I
>> really don't want that hassle.
>>
>> So here's what I'm wondering. Books in iBooks, which I realize are a
>> different file format that don't have a cover art page get a plain
>> brown cover with title and author. I would love this fir my PDFs.
>>
>> Now before anyone jumps the gun and says, well, that's just the way it
>> is, I can assure you it's not. Perform this simple test. Take a nice
>> big PDF file and give it a meaningful name. Stock Trading Tips.PDF for
>> example. Now load it in iBooks. You'll notice that while it's parsing
>> through the PDF fir the first time, it creates the same plain brown
>> cover with an easily readable title reflecting the filename. Once it
>> finishes parsing, you get a thumb of whatever the first page looks
>> like.
>>
>> So, finally, here's the question. Is there a setting somewhere which
>> will use the plain brown cover with filename as the title for PDFs? If
>> so, where may I find this beast?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Leif Gregory
>
>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>