12 iPod Soundtracks for Travel Experiences
Half the fun of listening to your iPod comes from being able to do it on the road. While everyone has differing musical tastes, you might consider some of the following list while enjoying the wide open [more…]
18 iTunes Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts are great ways to get your computer to do what you want to do fast. The following table gives you both Mac and Windows keyboard shortcuts for making your way through iTunes at blazing [more…]
Five Easy Pieces for iPod touch Commands
Using your iPod touch should be easy, but if you don't know what you're doing, it won't. To become an iPod touch power user, master the following tricks and techniques for viewing, listening, and searching [more…]
Six Tips for iPod Mastery
Make sure that using your iPod remains just this side of divine by mastering the following tricks and techniques for the iPod classic, iPod nano, iPod touch, and iPod Shuffle: [more…]
iPod & iTunes For Dummies Cheat Sheet
Users love their iPods, iPhones, and iPads because Apple's digital devices do what they do so well, whether that involves playing music, surfing the web, sending and receiving e-mail, watching YouTube [more…]
How to Maintain the Life of Your iPod Battery
There are ways to keep your iPod battery healthy. Most important is a lean diet of topping off your battery whenever it is convenient. Using and recharging 100 percent of battery capacity is called a [more…]
Tips to Save Power with Your iPod
The iPod classic and older models include a hard drive — and whatever causes the hard drive to spin causes a drain on power. iPod nano, iPod shuffle, and iPod touch models use a flash drive, which uses [more…]
How to Set Up an iPod Touch
After adding power, a new iPod touch comes alive and displays “iPod” and a slider with the word “Configure” or “Set Up.” Follow these steps to set up your device: [more…]
How to Use iTunes to Set Up Any iPod
You can set up any iPod model using iTunes, whether or not you are connected to a Wi-Fi network. With iTunes, you can set up your iPod touch from an iTunes backup and also customize the name of your iPod [more…]
The iPod Touch Status Bar
The iPod touch shows its current state in the status bar at the top of the screen. The icons on the screen mean the following: [more…]
How to Use Multiple iPod Apps Simultaneously
Multitasking on an iPod touch is roughly the same: doing multiple things at once. In this case, you are running multiple apps at once — or at least it seems that way. [more…]
How to Organize iPod Touch Apps into Folders
With the current version of iOS, you can organize your app icons into folders on your Home screens so that you can find them more easily.
The iPod touch comes with three apps already organized into a folder [more…]
How to Edit Text and Handle Word Suggestions on the iPod Touch
Yes, you can edit your mistakes. To edit text in an entry field on your iPod touch, touch and hold to see the magnifier, which magnifies portions of the text view. [more…]
How to Copy, Cut, and Paste on the iPod Touch
You can copy or cut a chunk of text on your iPod touch and paste it into another app — for example, you can copy a paragraph from a note in Notes and paste it into an e-mail message in Mail, or vice versa [more…]
How to Use Apple’s Siri on Your iPod Touch
Like the perfect genie, the Siri intelligent personal assistant, included with the newest iPod touch, responds to your command and tries to understand your requests. You can ask for directions, look up [more…]
How to Set Keyboard Options on Your iPod Touch
To set keyboard options on your iPod Touch, choose Settings→General→Keyboard from the Home screen. The Keyboard settings screen appears, with options for Auto-Capitalization, Auto-Correction, Check Spelling [more…]
How to Set the Time and Date on Your iPod Touch
The iPod touch sets the time and date automatically after you connect it to your computer or the Internet. Other iPod models set the time and date when you set them up on your computer. [more…]
How to Set the Time and Date on Your iPod Nano
If you need to change the time zone, time, or date, you can do that yourself at any time (sorry for the pun). You can even set how the time appears in the status bar at the top of the screen. [more…]
How to Set the Time and Date on Your iPod Classic
Your iPod may already be set to the correct time, date, and time zone, depending on where you bought it (except, of course, the iPod shuffle, which doesn’t offer these features). If not, you can set them [more…]
How to Determine the Time in Another Time Zone Using Your iPod
With the Clock app on an iPod touch the Clock icon on an iPod nano, or the Clocks option in the Extras menu of an iPod classic, you can display clocks with different time zones, which is useful for traveling [more…]
How to Set Multiple Alarms on Your iPod Touch
Time is on your side with your iPod. On an iPod touch, you can set multiple alarms to go off on different days and set a variety of tones and sounds for your alarms that play through its speaker. On an [more…]
How to Set Up Mail Accounts on Your iPod Touch
To set up a Mail account on your iPod touch — including an iCloud e-mail account (with contacts, calendars, and bookmarks) or a Microsoft Exchange account — follow these steps: [more…]
How to Use the Stopwatch on Your iPod
You can use a stopwatch with a lap timer for timing exercises, jogging, racing laps, seeing how long it takes the bus to travel across town, or finding out how long your friend takes to recognize the song [more…]
How to Use FaceTime on Your iPod Touch
Making and receiving video calls with Apple’s truly innovative FaceTime technology is truly simple. No matter how you communicate, it helps sometimes to have a little face time. Apple has engineered a [more…]
How to Stay Fit by Working Out with Your iPod Nano
The Fitness icon on the iPod nano works in the background, so that you can continue to play music or watch videos while walking, running, or working out. [more…]
