ipodt & itunes FOR DUMHIE&* 10th edition by Tony Bove WILEY John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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1 ipodt & itunes FOR DUMHIE&* 10th edition by Tony Bove WILEY John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

2 Table of Contents Introduction / About This Book 1 Conventions Used in This Book 2 A Quick Peek Ahead 3 Part I: Touching All the Basics 3 Part II: Managing Your Library 3 Part III: Playing It Back with Interest 4 Part IV: Touching the Online World 4 Part V: Staying in Touch and Up-to-Date 4 Part VI: The Part of Tens 4 Bonus Chapters and Tips 4 Icons Used in This Book 5 Part 1: Touching All the Basics 7 Chapter 1: Powering Your ipod 9 Comparing ipod Models 10 Getting in touch with ipod touch 11 Going mano a mano with ipod nano 12 Doing the ipod shuffle 13 Twirling the ipod classic 14 Thinking Outside the Box 14 Applying Power to an ipod 16 Connecting to a computer or power adapter 16 Turning it on and off 17 Facing Charges of Battery 18 Recharging your battery 18 Saving power 21 Chapter 2: Setting Up itunes and Your ipod 23 Installing itunes 24 Installing on a Windows PC 24 Installing on a Mac 26 Setting Up an Pod touch 27 Setting Up Any ipod Using itunes 31

3 ipod & itunes For Dummies, 10th Edition Chapter 3: Putting Your Finger on It 35 Going on a Quick Tour of the ipod touch 36 Sliding to the Home screen 37 Tapping the apps from Apple 39 Searching for anything 40 Checking the status bar 41 Dragging down notifications 42 Multitasking your apps 42 Switching orientation 44 Cleaning Up Your ipod touch Home Screens 44 Rearranging icons on your Home screens 44 Organizing apps into folders 45 Tickling the ipod touch Keyboard 46 Typing text, numbers, and symbols (using Notes) 47 Editing text and handling word suggestions 48 Copying (or cutting) and pasting 49 Take a letter, Siri 50 Setting keyboard options 52 Tapping Your ipad nano 54 Thumbing Your ipod Classic or ipod Shuffle 56 Chapter 4: Clocking, Locking, Connecting, and Personalizing 59 There's No Time Like the Right Time 60 On an ipod touch 60 On an ipod nano 62 On an ipod classic 63 Rock Around the Clocks 64 Checking the time in Paris and Bangkok 64 Getting alarmed 66 Timing your steps 69 Using the stopwatch 70 Setting the sleep timer 72 Working Out with Your ipod nano 73 Setting your personal info 73 Walking to new wellness 74 Running for your life (and health) 74 Setting the Passcode for Your Lock 76 Getting Personal 78 Adjusting the backlight of your ipod classic 79 Brightening and wallpapering 79 Sound effects and ringtones 81 Location, location, location 82 Setting restrictions 83 Setting and changing notifications 84 Going Online with Your ipod touch 85 Turning Wi-Fi on or off 85 Choosing a Wi-Fi network 86

4 Table of Contents IX Part 11: Managing \[our Library 87 Chapter 5: Getting Started with itunes 89 Welcome to the itunes Machine 90 Adding Audio Files 92 Adding Videos 93 Browsing Your Library Content 93 Browsing albums 95 Browsing songs 96 Browsing other content 98 Browsing apps and ipod games 100 Playing Audio CD Tracks 101 Importing Audio CDs 103 Changing import preferences and settings 103 Editing the CD info and joining tracks 107 Let it rip 107 Chapter 6: Exploring the itunes Store 109 Setting Up an Account 110 Shopping with itunes 113 Cruising in the multimedia mall 113 Browsing other content 116 Browsing and subscribing to podcasts 116 Updating podcasts 118 Buying and downloading items 119 Resuming interrupted downloads 120 Appearing at the App Store 121 Shopping with Your ipod touch 122 Browsing and downloading content 123 Browsing and downloading apps 124 Updating Apps 125 Chapter 7: Getting in Sync with Your itunes Library 127 Syncing Differently 128 Syncing everything 129 Sizing up your syncing 132 Syncing wirelessly or not at all 133 Enabling other sync options 134 Making the itunes Match 135 Choosing What to Sync 135 The "everything but the kitchen sync" method 135 Getting picky about playlists, artists, and genres 136 Picking podcast episodes and books 138 Choosing movies and TV shows for an ipod touch 140 Syncing and arranging apps for an ipod touch 142 Syncing tones for an ipod touch 144

5 ipod & itunes For Dummies, 10th Edition Manually Managing Music and Videos 145 Autofilling it up.., 145 Copying items manually to your ipod 147 Chapter 8: Syncing Your Day in the Life 149 Organizing Your Personal Info 149 Syncing Your Personal Info Using itunes 151 When You Sync Upon icloud 154 Setting up on a Mac 154 Setting up on Windows 155 Syncing your ipod touch with icloud 155 Finding a lost ipod touch 157 Setting Up Mail.Accounts on Your ipod touch 157 Changing and Deleting Mail Accounts 160 Chapter 9: Putting itunes to Work 161 Retrieving Song Information from the Internet 162 Editing Content Information 162 Editing fields for a single item 163 Adding a rating 166 Changing the media type 167 Editing multiple items at once 167 Displaying and Sorting Content 169 Searching for Content 171 Deleting Content 172 Adding Cover Art 173 Chapter 10: Playing Content in itunes 175 Playing Songs 176 Using the MiniPlayer and AirPlay 179 Cross-fading song playback 180 Creating your own playlists 181 Adding a touch of Genius 185 Playing Podcasts and Audio Books 187 Playing Videos 188 Chapter 11: Gimme Shelter for My Media 191 Burning Your Own Discs 192 Using recordable CDs and DVDs 193 Creating a disc burn playlist 193 Burning a disc 196 Choosing your burn settings 197 Subscribing to itunes Match 198 Studying Files in an itunes Library 201 Finding the itunes library 201 Locating a media file 202 Copying media files 202 Backing Up an itunes Library to Another Hard Drive 203

6 Table of Contents *>/ Part 111: Playing It Back With Interest 205 Chapter 12: The Songs Remain the Same 207 Locating "A Song for You" 207 Going with the Cover Flow 207 Browsing music on an ipod touch 209 Browsing music on an ipod nano or ipod classic 210 Controlling Song Playback on an ipod touch 212 Downloading songs from itunes Match 214 Repeating songs 214 Shuffling song order 215 Controlling Song Playback on an ipod nano 216 Controlling Song Playback on an ipod classic 218 Repeating ipod classic songs 219 Shuffling the ipod classic 219 Playing an ipod shuffle 220 Starting playback 220 Controlling playback 221 Using VoiceOver 221 Consulting the itunes Genius 223 Giving Genius a lesson in your tastes 223 Creating a Genius playlist on an ipod touch 224 Creating a Genius playlist on an ipod nano 225 Creating a Genius playlist on an ipod classic 226 Selecting Genius Mixes 227 Chapter 13: Bring Videos, Books, and Podcasts 229 Everything's Coming Up Videos 229 Playback at your fingertips on an ipod touch 230 Scaling the picture on an ipod touch 231 Playback under your thumb on an ipod classic 232 One Chapter at a Time: Audio Books, itunes U, and Podcasts 233 Playing on an ipod touch 233 Playing on an ipod nano 235 Playing on an ipod classic 236 Playing the FM Radio in an ipod nano 236 Chapter 14: Pocketing Your Pictures 239 Syncing with Photo Albums and Folders 239 Transferring pictures to your ipod 240 Syncing ipod touch pictures with your computer 242 Using Photo Stream 243 Viewing Pictures and Slide Shows 245 Viewing pictures on an ipod touch 246 Editing photos on an ipod touch 248 Setting up a slide show on an ipod touch 249 Viewing pictures on an ipod nano or ipod classic 250

7 «4 m ipod & itunes For Dummies, 10th Edition Shooting Photos and Videos on an ipod touch 252 Sharing Photos and Videos 256 Sending a picture by 256 Sharing pictures over social networks and messages 257 Selecting and copying multiple pictures 258 Saving Pictures Attached to Messages on an ipod touch 258 Part IV: Touching the Online World 259 Chapter 15: Surfin' Safari 261 Take a Walk on the Web Side with Safari 262 Go URL own way 262 Reading and bookmarking as you go 264 Sharing a web link 267 Pearl diving with Google, Yahoo!, or Bing 268 Let Your Fingers Do the Surfing 269 Scrolling and zooming 269 It's all touch and go 270 Surfing multiple pages 270 Interacting with pages 271 Copying text 272 Bringing It All Back Home 273 Chapter 16: The Postman Always Rings Once 275 Checking 276 The message is the medium 277 Deleting a message 279 Setting up your VIPs 280 Sending 280 Message Settings and Sending Options 283 What you see is what you got 284 Return to sender, address unknown 284 If Not Push, Then Fetch 285 Chapter 17: Earth, Wind, and Finance 287 Tapping Your Maps 288 Where are you? 288 Searching locations 288 Pinpointing the spot 291 Bookmarking the spot 292 A bird's-eye view 293 Getting directions 294 Checking for Stormy Weather 298 Shaking Your Money-Maker 300 Opening Your Passbook 302

8 Table of Contents Jf/// Part V: Staying in Touch and Up-to-bate 305 Chapter 18: A Day in the Social Life 307 Checking Your Calendar 308 Viewing your ipod classic calendar 308 Using Calendar on an ipod touch 308 A change is gonna come 310 Yesterday's settings (and today's) 312 Using Your Contacts 313 Orders to sort and display 314 Soul searchin' on an ipod touch 315 Adding, editing, and deleting contacts on an ipod touch 316 Siri, Can You Hear Me? 319 Messaging with Your ipod touch 320 Socializing on Networks 324 You've got a Facebook friend 324 Dedicated follower of Twitter 327 Joining the Game Center 329 Communicating with FaceTime 330 Setting up your calling address 330 Making a video call 331 Chapter 19: Resetting, Updating, and Restoring 333 Hitting the Panic Button 334 Stopping a frozen ipod touch app 334 Resetting an ipod touch 334 Resetting your ipod touch settings 335 Resetting an ipod nano and ipod classic 335 Resetting an ipod shuffle 336 Updating Your ipod 336 Checking the software version 336 Updating with newer software 337 Restoring Your ipod 338 Restoring previous settings on an ipod touch 338 Restoring to factory conditions 339 Part Vh The Part of Tens 3k 1 Chapter 20: Eleven Tangible Tips 343 Saving the Life of Your Battery 343 Keeping Your Screen Clean 343 Getting Healthy with Nike+ 344 Rating Your Songs on Your ipod 344 Deleting Apps from Your ipod touch 345

9 ipod & itunes For Dummies, 10th Edition Deleting Videos from Your ipod touch 346 Checking the Traffic in Maps on Your ipod touch 346 Adding Keyboards on Your ipod touch 346 Keeping Your ipod touch Private 348 Saying No to a Pesky Wi-Fi Service 349 Capturing an ipod touch Screen Image 350 Chapter 21: Ten Apps That Shook the ipod World 351 Remote 352 Enigmo 352 Tap Tap Revenge 352 Angry Birds 352 Ocarina 353 Dropbox 353 Google Mobile 353 Shazam and SoundHound 353 Stanza and ibooks 354 imovie 354 Tony's Tips for iphone Users 354 Index 355