What You Can Play on iTunes on Your MacBook
Every installation of Mac OS X, including the one on your MacBook, comes with the finest stereophonic gadget in town: a great audio application called [more…]
Play an Audio CD with iTunes on Your MacBook
Playing an audio CD in iTunes on your MacBook is simple. Just insert the CD in your MacBook Pro’s disc slot, start iTunes by clicking its icon in the Dock, and click the Play button. [more…]
Play Digital Audio and Video with iTunes on Your MacBook
In addition to playing audio CDs, iTunes on your MacBook can play the digital audio files that you download from the Internet or obtain from other sources in the WAV, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, MP2 and [more…]
The iTunes Library on Your MacBook
After you add a few dozen songs to iTunes on your MacBook, viewing the Library can become a task. Although a master list is nice for some purposes, it becomes as cumbersome as an elephant in a subway tunnel [more…]
Organize iTunes Playlists on Your MacBook
The iTunes Music Library on your MacBook can quickly become huge. Each Library can contain thousands upon thousands of songs: If your Library grows anywhere near that large, finding all the songs in your [more…]
Track Songs in iTunes on Your MacBook
Besides organizing your music into Elvis and non-Elvis playlists, iTunes gives you the option to track your music at the song level. Each song that you add to the Music Library has a complete set of information [more…]
How to Set Song Information in iTunes on Your MacBook
Each song that you add to the iTunes Music Library might have song information included with it. If you add music from a commercial audio CD, iTunes connects to a server on the Internet and attempts to [more…]
Rip Audio Files with iTunes from Your MacBook
You don’t have to rely on Internet downloads to get audio files: You can create your own MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV files from your audio CDs with iTunes. The process of converting audio files [more…]
Use the Equalizer to Tweak Audio in iTunes
Besides the standard volume controls, iTunes offers a full equalizer. An equalizer permits you to alter the volume of various frequencies in your music, allowing you to boost low sounds, lower high sounds [more…]
iTunes Radio
Besides playing back your favorite audio files, iTunes can also tune in Internet radio stations from around the globe. You can listen to any of a large number of preset stations, seek out lesser-known [more…]
Radio Stations in Your iTunes Playlists
If you find yourself visiting an online radio station more than once, you’ll be glad to know that iTunes supports radio stations in its playlists. To add a radio station to a playlist from the Radio list [more…]
QuickTime Basics on Your MacBook
QuickTime on your MacBook is a set of exciting technologies that gives you access to the greatest multimedia experience around. Despite its power, don’t be surprised if you don’t even realize that you’re [more…]
How to Operate QuickTime Player on Your MacBook
QuickTime makes a world of movies, audio, graphics, and music instantly available to you. When you open a QuickTime file, QuickTime Player creates a new window to display it. All QuickTime Player windows [more…]
How to Play Media with QuickTime
Playback with QuickTime begins as you might suspect — by clicking the Play button. While a file is playing, the Play button toggles to a Pause button. Click that button to pause playback, which toggles [more…]
What You Can Do with iPad General Settings
Use iPad’s General settings to set up basic functionality for your everyday use. You access the General settings in the following table by tapping the Settings app icon on the Home screen and then tapping [more…]
iPad Mail, Contacts, Calendars Settings
For the social and organizational parts of your brain, iPad makes available Mail, Contacts, and Calendar apps; the settings for these apps are covered in the following table. You access the settings listed [more…]
iPad For Seniors For Dummies Cheat Sheet
The iPad is cool and perfect for many seniors because it provides a very simple, intuitive interface for doing things like checking e-mail and scheduling appointments. Get up to speed with various iPad [more…]
A Collection of Images from iCloud and iTunes Match In A Day For Dummies
You can use iCloud and iTunes Match from your computer or from your device. These screenshots from iCloud & iTunes Match In A Day For Dummies show you how. [more…]
Ten iCloud-Enabled Apps
Apple created apps are inherently iCloud-enabled. For example, documents that you create in Pages are synched across all devices on which you have Pages installed. [more…]
Choosing between Push and Fetch with iCloud
When you set up iCloud on your iOS device(s), any time you create or change data in an iCloud-enabled app, the new data is uploaded to iCloud and then pushed to all your devices. [more…]
Using Calendar and Reminders in iCloud
Now that the Calendar and Reminders apps are available on the Mac and iOS platforms — and remember that they integrate with Microsoft Outlook — you don’t have any excuse to forget an appointment or a birthday [more…]
Understanding Audio File Compression Formats with iTunes Match
When you purchase music from the iTunes Store or upgrade tracks with iTunes Match, you receive an iTunes Plus file, which plays at 256 Kbps in stereo (128 Kbps in mono). However, iTunes also gives you [more…]
Setting Mail Preferences in iCloud
Use Mail’s Preferences to customize how you see your messages and how your mailboxes behave. You can also create alias accounts, as well as automatic response messages to let people know when you’re unable [more…]
Upgrading Matched Songs with Smart Playlists
When you want to upgrade a lot of songs with iTunes Match, doing it manually is tedious at best. Follow these steps to upgrade a batch of songs, using a Smart Playlist. It makes upgrading a lot easier [more…]
A Collection of iCloud & iTunes Match In A Day Images
Whether you use iCloud and iTunes Match from your Mac or PC, from your iOS device (iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch), or a combination of both, you can do a lot. In this [more…]
