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Getting Started With Your
Pepper Wireless Pad
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Table of Contents Introduction 2 Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 5 Charging the battery 5 Using the power button 6 Using the stylus and the touch screen 7 Using the keypads 8 Pepper Setup Helper 10 Downloading a Pepper Desktop program 11 Using the Pepper pad software 12 Getting media onto your pad 15 Cool features of the Pepper pad 15 Keeping Web clippings 15 Sharing from your pad 16 Surfing the Web 16 Using e-mail 16 Using instant messaging 17 Using a keyboard and mouse 18 Getting Help 18 Tr
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2 Introduction Introduction The new Pepper wireless pad is a portable device that you can use to connect to the ® Internet anywhere a Wi-Fi network with broadband access is available. Infrared emitters Microphone* Lighted left keypad USB jack Navigation pad Composite video out (cable not included; see specifications on page 20) Headphone jack Stereo speaker Microphone jack* *Microphone/Microphone jack: not active; functionality will be added in a future update.
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Introduction 3 Because everything is stored on the Pepper pad, you can also use your pad offline to write e-mail to send later, to listen to music you have downloaded, and to view clippings from Web pages. SD/MMC slot Power button Lighted right keypad Color LCD with touch screen Scroll wheel Stereo speaker Stylus AC power jack
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4 Introduction Your pad includes the following applications: Web Browser Directly access the Web with the Mozilla™ based browser. Keep and organize your bookmarks and Web page clippings. Shop. Read newspapers. Do research. E-Mail Send and receive e-mail using the POP3- and IMAP4-compatible Mail application. Mail downloads all your messages to your pad from your broadband provider or corporate e-mail server, remembers every address you have sent mail to, and automatically completes known ad
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Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 5 Setting up your Pepper wireless pad The first time you turn on your Pepper pad, the Pepper Setup Helper guides you through the few steps necessary to get your pad ready to use. When you take your pad other places—to work, the airport, the library, a distant city—you’ll have to connect to new Wi-Fi networks, but this will be quick and easy. The following sections briefly describe the setting up process and some of the features of your pad. Charging the ba
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6 Setting up your Pepper wireless pad Using the power button The power button is on the top right of the Pepper pad. When your pad is on, this button is lit. You always use this button to turn the pad on. You can also use this button to put the pad to sleep or to turn it off completely. Putting your pad to sleep When you haven’t used your Pepper pad for a period of time (the default is 10 minutes), the pad goes to sleep in order to conserve the battery charge. When the pad is sleeping, the pow
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Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 7 Turning your pad off completely Note: The Pepper pad is designed to be left on or sleeping. We recommend that you turn your pad off only if you know you will not be using it for several days. If you do turn your Pepper pad off completely, the icons for the applications you were using are still displayed at the bottom of the screen when you turn the pad on again. You can display the last page you accessed in one of these applications by just tapping its icon.
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8 Setting up your Pepper wireless pad Using the keypads The Pepper pad uses the standard QWERTY arrangement with the keys split between the left and right keypads. Keys on the left keypad Key Symbols Note: For the Shift, Enter, Tab, and Backspace keys, the Pepper keypads use the symbols that are standard on computer keyboards. Volume control for media players Screen Brightness Tab Function (light blue key) + any key with a blue character on it inserts the blue character. The Function
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Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 9 Keys on the right keypad Power button for turning pad on, putting it to sleep, and turning it off. Media control keys for use with music, videos, and streaming radio broadcasts (from the top left, the keys are Rewind, Forward, Play/Pause, and Stop). Backspace key for deleting text. Enter for a new line of text or for choosing the primary action on a page (for example, if you select a song and press Enter, the song plays). Shift key for capital letters.
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10 Setting up your Pepper wireless pad Pepper Setup Helper Setting up your Pepper pad takes only a few minutes. The Pepper Setup Helper will present you with a series of simple screens in which you will enter information and perform setup tasks. The Setup Helper takes you through • Calibrating the touch screen To make sure that the screen is correctly adjusted, you need to calibrate the screen with the stylus before you use your pad. • Connecting to a wireless network The Pepper wireless pad com
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Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 11 Downloading the Pepper Desktop program The Pepper Desktop program runs on a Windows computer (with a Macintosh version in development) and contains the same applications as the Pepper pad. You can use the Pepper Desktop program the same way you use your pad, but its two primary functions are as a backup for your pad and as one source of music, videos, and photos for your pad. To download and set up a Pepper Desktop program: 1. In a Web browser on the comput
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12 Using the Pepper pad software Using the Pepper pad software The software on the Pepper pad is intuitive to use. You’ll be surfing the Web, reading your e-mail, watching videos, and downloading music in no time. This brief tour is designed to familiarize you with the interface. Global toolbar Tabs Page toolbar Web address Find Open application icons Page Status icons IM window
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Using the Pepper pad software 13 Applications and the Keeper application Note: Everything you put on your pad is saved automatically, so there is no Save button. When you no longer want to keep something on your pad, you simply delete it. The software on your Pepper pad is contained in a number of individual applications, such as the Web browser application, the Mail application, and the Video Library application. The Keeper is the application in which you keep track of all of the other appl
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14 Using the Pepper pad software Open application icons At the bottom of the Pepper pad screen is an area that displays icons for all of the applications that you currently have open. The left-most open application icon is always the icon for the Keeper. Tapping one of these icons displays the application. You can switch between open applications simply by tapping different application icons. Instant messaging window The IM window is the place where you send and receive AOL IM and local netw
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Using the Pepper pad software 15 Getting media onto your pad There are several ways to get your photos, music, and other content onto your pad: • from a Universal Serial Bus (USB) storage device or a Secure Digital (SD) card • via downloads from the Web • by syncing with the Pepper Desktop program on your PC To use a USB device or an SD card to put content on your pad: 1. Plug a storage drive or digital camera into the USB port on the left side of your pad, or insert a memory card in the SD/MM
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16 Using the Pepper pad software Sharing from your pad The Share button gives you a great way to share what you create on your Pepper pad with other Pepper pad and Pepper Desktop users. For example, you might create a journal about your vacation in a foreign country, add images from the Web, and share your journal with friends. When you are collaborating with someone with a Pepper pad or a Pepper Desktop, the other person can add pages and images and share your application back to you. Your t
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Using the Pepper pad software 17 1. Tap the Applications tab in the Keeper. 2. Tap the Mail icon on the Applications page. 3. Tap the Get Mail button in the page toolbar. Because the Mail application remains instantly available when its icon is displayed at the bottom of the screen, you can get new messages by tapping the Mail icon and then tapping the Get Mail button in the page toolbar in the Messages tab. Using instant messaging The Pepper pad provides two kinds of instant messaging; AOL
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18 Using the Pepper pad software Everyone on your network who is using a Pepper pad or a Pepper Desktop program is automatically a member of your local IM group. The members of this group who can receive local messages have an icon next to their names in the IM window on your pad. When you are logged onto Local Network IM, the Pepper icon is displayed on the lower right of the screen. Using a keyboard and mouse Note: A keyboard and a mouse are optional devices that may be used with a Pepper wi
