Secrets of the iPod is the perfect companion for Apple's wildly popular iPod. More than an elegant music player, the iPod is also an external hard drive, contact keeper, and digital-lifestyle accessory. Christopher Breen, Macworld magazine's Mac 911 colunnist, helps you make the most of the iPod's many talents by revealing how to smoothly navigate the iPod's interface, how to manage your music, and how to store more than names and addresses in the iPod's contact manager. Additionally, Secrets of the iPod takes an in-depth look at the intimate relationship between the iSiblings-the iPod and Apple's iTunes 2-and includes hints for accessorizing and protecting your iPod, tips for making the most of its storage capabilities, strategies for making the iPod work with Microsoft Windows, and practical troubleshooting advice for those moments when the diminutive device is uncooperative.
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Everyone loves the iPod (though for a lot of us it's a fairly abstract love, given the gizmo's sticker price). In Secrets of the iPod, Christopher Breen--you may know him from TechTV--does a brain-dump on the latest version of the iPod. His coverage is complete, easy to read, and clearly reflects the personal experience of a man who likes to be able to listen to Monkees tunes wherever he goes. You're sure to learn a lot about your iPod--or deepen your wish to have one--by reading this book.
It's possible to criticize this book for explaining the obvious: No one really needs a tutorial on how to download music from the iTunes store, which was carefully set up to be easy to figure out. On the other hand, such documentation--which may be needed for the sake of completeness--takes up little space next to the many pages devoted to relatively obscure features. Readers get the complete run-down on using their portable music players as spare hard disks, and as contact-management utilities. There's also lots of coverage of third-party hardware and software that's sprung up to unlock additional iPod capabilities. --David Wall
Topics covered: How to use the Apple iPod, iTunes, the iTunes Music Store, and the various hacks that have grown up around the iPod. There's good coverage on hooking the iPod to a Microsoft Windows machine, and some troubleshooting tricks. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Secrets of the iPod is the perfect companion for Apple's wildly popular iPod. More than an elegant music player, the iPod is also an external hard drive, contact keeper, and digital-lifestyle accessory. Christopher Breen, Macworld magazine's Mac 911 columnist, helps you make the most of the iPod's many talents by revealing how to smoothly navigate the iPod's interface, how to manage your music, and how to store more than names and addresses in the iPod's contact manager. Additionally, Secrets of the iPod takes an in-depth look at the intimate relationship between the iSiblings--the iPod and Apple's iTunes 2--and includes hints for accessorizing and protecting your iPod, tips for making the most of its storage capabilities, strategies for making the iPod work with Microsoft Windows, and practical troubleshooting advice for those moments when the diminutive device is uncooperative.
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Christopher Breen has been writing about Apple and technology since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. Contributor to such publications as Macworld and PC World, as a Macworld Senior Editor he pens Macworld's popular Mac 911 and Playlists columns and blogs. He hosts the Macworld Podcast and owns dozens of iPods. In his non-writing life he's a professional musician playing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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77 of 90 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Doesn't discuss iPod's biggest issue,
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This review is from: Secrets of the iPod, Third Edition (Paperback)
This book completely ducked the most controversial aspect of owning an iPod: the limited number of recharges (and ultimate battery replacement) that each and every iPod owner faces. Instead, Mr. Breen choses to talk about how to prolong a single battery charge (turn off backlighting), and not how to extend the limited life of the Apple-provided battery. For example, is it good or bad for an iPod to be left plugged into its dock, after it has fully recharged? Also missing was advice on replacing the battery with internet available kits, use of non-Apple replacement battery services, the value of Apple's own AppleCare warranty, etc. Overall, the book had a few useful tips (available for free on many web sites), seemed very out of date for Windows versions and on any 2003 iPod releases, and generally felt like a poor value. I also felt that Amazon.com's advertising made it sound current, when in fact it is not. I am sorry that I purchased it from Amazon.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Very simple,
By Javier Gonzalez (Madrid, Spain) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Secrets of the iPod, Third Edition (Paperback)
The book does not reveal many real secrets. The few interesting curiosities in it can be found also in any users forum into the Internet.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good but not great,
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This review is from: Secrets of the iPod, Third Edition (Paperback)
I recently purchased a 40GB iPod and am using it with iTunes on a PC. This book is helpful but it was published before the 40GB unit (not a big deal) but also before iTunes was ported to the PC. Most the information in here is easily learned through the basic user manual, some experimentation and a visit to some of the iPod sites that exist. In reading this you need to make that adjustment. All that said it was not a waste of money, I learned quite a few useful things but it took a lot of reading through things I already knew. Technology moves quickly and it is not unusual for books on breaking technology like the iPod to be out of date nearly as soon as they hit the stores.
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