Pepper Computer Wireless Pad User manual

Getting Started With Your
Pepper Wireless Pad

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
Troubleshooting 19
Pepper wireless pad specifications 20
Pepper Desktop program requirements 20
Index 21
FCC Information 22
Table of Contents

Introduction2
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
Microphone jack*
*Microphone/Microphone jack: not active;
functionality will be added in a future update.
Stereo speaker

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.
Power button
SD/MMC slot
Lighted right keypad
Scroll wheel
AC power jack
Stylus
Stereo speaker
Color LCD
with touch screen

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 addresses.
Instant Messaging
Stay in touch with your AOL®IM buddies.
Internet Radio
Listen to streaming radio while you’re doing other
things like writing and reading e-mail or writing in
your journal.
Journal
Explore your thoughts, plans, and ideas. Use the rich
text editor and add Web clippings to journal pages to
create a look that is uniquely your own.
TV Remote Control
Control your TV, DVD, VCR, and CD players, and
free yourself from a multitude of separate remote
control devices.
Music, Video, and Photo Libraries
Collect your digital media in the libraries, and let the
libraries organize them for you. Listen to MP3s, watch
MPEGs, and look at your digital photos (and slide
shows, too).
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Your pad includes the following applications:

Setting up your
Pepper wireless pad
Setting up your Pepper wireless pad 5
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 battery
Note: Before you can use the battery to run your pad, you need to charge it.
Although you can set up your pad and use it while the battery is charging,
charging takes more time if the pad is active.
To charge the battery:
1. Open the rubber flap on the lower right side of the pad.
2. Plug the power cord into the AC power jack and into a power outlet.
Charging takes less than two hours if the pad is in sleep mode or turned off.
It may take up to six hours if there is a great deal of activity. The small light next
to the jack is yellow while the battery is charging and green when the battery is
charged and the pad is plugged in. When the pad is using the battery for
power, this light is off.
Once the battery is charged, it holds the charge for approximately four hours of
use or up to a week if the pad is in sleep mode or turned off. If you are using your
pad for things that require little power, such as listening to music with the screen
dimmed, the charge will last longer than if you are using it for activities like
watching movies or browsing the Web that require more power.
You can plug your Pepper pad in at night and charge the battery while you sleep.
The pad will be ready to use wherever you go the next day. The battery cannot be
overcharged, so you don’t need to check on your pad while it is plugged in.

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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 power light pulses slowly.
When you turn your pad on after it has been sleeping, everything starts up
instantly exactly where it was when the pad went to sleep. After the pad
has been in sleep mode, it may take up to 15 seconds to establish a
connection to a wireless network.
If you know you won’t be using your pad for a half an hour or so, you may
want to put it to sleep manually. To put your pad to sleep manually, press
the power button briefly.

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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.
To turn your pad off, press the power button for at least three seconds.
When the pad is off, the power light is off as well.
Using the stylus and the touch screen
The Pepper pad has a touch screen, and the stylus provides an easy way to make
a selection or to choose a place to enter text.
Use the stylus with the touch screen as you would use a mouse. A tap is like
the click of the left mouse button. A tap does things like select an item, open
a Web page, move the cursor from one part of the screen to another, or put a
check in a box. When you press the function button and then touch the stylus to
the screen, the stylus acts like the right mouse button and displays a menu if one
is available.
There are several other ways to move around in your Pepper pad:
• use the arrow keys on the navigation pad to move in all four directions and to
highlight items; press the center of the navigation pad or the Enter key to play a
song in Music Library, open a message in Mail, display a photo in Photo Library
• use the scroll wheel on the right to move up and down on any page with a
scroll bar
• use a mouse (see “Using a keyboard and mouse” on page 18)
• use your finger instead of a stylus

Using the keypads
The Pepper pad uses the standard QWERTY arrangement
with the keys split between the left and right keypads.
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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 key makes it possible for
some alphabetical keys to provide three characters (for example,
r, R with the Shift key, and + with the Function key). Press and
release the Function key and then press the second key.
Control + key provides many control sequences (for example,
ctrl-c copies selected text, and ctrl-v pastes it). Press and release
the Control key and then press the second key.
Keys on the
left keypad
Shift key for capital letters. Press and release the Shift key; then,
press and release the second key.
Space bar
Key Symbols
Note: For the Shift, Enter, Tab, and Backspace keys, the Pepper keypads use the
symbols that are standard on computer keyboards.