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Over 1300 Products Rated 130 Ways to Max Out iPod 140 iTunes Tips & Tricks Fall in Love With Apple TV All Things iPhone & 20+ Exclusive Add-Ons Copyright 2007 The Media LLC THE FREE IPOD BOOK 3.0 Foreword, iSnapshots: iPod and iLounge | 4 What’s new in the Book, iPod dominance, and iLounge. Sneak Peeks: Now with iPhone Accessories | 8 Over 20 exclusive iPod and iPhone add-ons, debuted. The iPhone Index | 18 26 things you need to know about Apple’s new iPhone. Love Your Apple TV | 26 Make more of the 40 or 160GB at-home media player. The All Things iPod Guide | 36 Prepare to be amazed by your iPod all over again. 1. Installing The Right iPod Software 38 2. Connecting Your iPod To Your PC/Mac 39 3. Filling Your iPod 40 4. Enjoying Your iPod Everywhere 62 5. Customizing Your iPod 82 6. Expanding Your iPod: Electronics 88 7. Playing With Your iPod: Toys 93 8. Protecting Your iPod: Cases & Film 94 9. Wearing Your iPod: Clothes 98 10. Maintaining and Repairing Your iPod 100 11. Selling Your iPod 104 12. Buying a New iPod 106 13. Goodbye, iTunes Phones, Hello, iPhone 110 Top to Bottom: 14. Gifting to iPod Fans 112 The iPod Fashion Contests 15. Joining The iPod Community 114 124 iPods Around the World The iLounge Report Card: Over 1,300 Ratings | 116 128 From the original iPod through today’s models and Apple TV, reviews of top hardware, accessories, and software. iPod + iPhone Sneak Peeks 8 iLounge iPod Fashion Photo Contests | 124 Which 4 readers won Apple iPhones in our contests? iPods Around the World Galleries | 128 Some of our favorite global iPod snapshots from readers. iTunes Tips & Tricks | 134 Learn how to enjoy Apple’s media manager with 140 tips. The iPod Directory | 210 Index to Advertisers | 222 Note: All ads in this Book are clickable. Apple’s Semi-Secret Store | 223 Some Apple logo items are found in only one place: here. Backstage | 224 iLounge editors’ favorite gadgets, and Making the Book. Closing the Curtain: Zune | 228 3 INTRODUction The Free iPod Book 3.0 Foreword: Third Edition, Three Products. In recent months, Apple’s grown its hardware family to include Apple TV and iPhone. So we’ve grown, too. A long-time fan of Apple products, Dennis Our goal with each edition of The Free iPod Lloyd ([email protected]) was a graphic Book has been the same: unlike our annual designer and DJ before creating iLounge, Buyers’ Guides, our Books are tutorials, which remains the world’s most popular designed to help you learn how to quickly resource for iPod and iTunes users. Owner of the customized iLounge Element shown in make the most of whatever iPod you own. But this edition, Dennis is happily married with since last year’s second edition was published, Dennis Lloyd a dog, cat, many iPods, and two turntables. Apple has expanded the iPod family with Publisher He lives in and loves Irvine, California. two new products, Apple TV and iPhone, which offer different twists on the established Jeremy Horwitz ([email protected]) theme. Apple TV lets you enjoy iPod or iTunes- has written about iPods, gadgets, games, formatted media on any high-definition and the companies that make them for television, while iPhone lets you do the same everyone from Electronic Gaming Monthly through a next-generation mobile phone. to The New York Times, in addition to practicing law. Today, Jeremy focuses his In fact, both products improve upon the iPod days on iLounge, its Books, and Buyers’ Jeremy Horwitz in one key way: video. Apple TV blows right Guides. He lives with his fiancée, dogs, cat, Editor-in-Chief and lots of accessories in Mission Viejo, CA. past the iPod’s 320x240 screen, with support for high-definition 1280x720 video playback. And iPhone has a 3.5”, 480x320 widescreen Larry Angell is iLounge’s Senior Editor, specializing in news. Based in Ohio, where he lives with his that puts the 5G iPod’s 2.5” display to shame. fiancee and cat, Larry is also responsible for But creating great-looking videos for these shopping websites Uncrate and Outblush. new devices - and future iPods - has become more of a challenge. Since both devices lack the storage capacity to store tons of high- Bob Levens is iLounge’s Chief Forum Administrator. Living in Cambridge, U.K. with his wife and dog, Bob resolution video, users are wrestling with has been a TV and radio engineer, and has served in tough questions: buy Apple’s latest gadgets both the Royal Air Force and the Ministry of Defense. and try to manage their limited storage, or wait for newer models with greater capacity? Jesse David Hollington is an iLounge Contributing Editor, responsible for our Ask iLounge columns, For our third edition of The Free iPod Book, as well as updates to All Things iTunes in the Book. we’ve decided to expand our tutorials to Based in Toronto, he lives with his wife and two cats. include making the most of not just the iPod and iTunes, but also Apple TV and the iPhone. Contributing Editors, Forum Administrators, and Moderators: Obviously, since iPhone’s not yet available, Jerrod Hofferth, Charles Starrett, Mike McKenney, Doug Adams, Alicia our coverage is limited - a point we’ll remedy Bankhofer, Albert Tan, Audrey McGirt, Brett, Jed, Ryan, Tom Levens, and in a near-future update to this Book - but Stuart VandeVenter. we now look at ways you can maximize the The Free iPod Book 3.0 from iLounge.com is published by The Media performance of an Apple TV, and expand our LLC and is Copyright © 2005-2007. All rights reserved. No part of this book past looks at iPods, iTunes, and certain great may be reproduced, sold, rented, or transmitted in any form, or by any accessories in the process. means whatsoever, without the prior written consent of the publisher. Unauthorized sale of this publication is prohibited, and by accessing this publication, you agree not to violate these restrictions. The Media LLC We hope you find The Free iPod Book 3.0 to and its publications have no affiliation with Apple, Inc. or any vendor of be as useful today as its predecessors were iPod accessories. iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and Apple TV are the registered in 2005 and 2006. And as always, we look trademarks of Apple Inc., without rights claimed thereto. All other names forward to improving it further with the next and marks herein are the property of their respective owners. Certain generation of Apple portable devices. portions of this book were prepared in accordance with Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996. 4 The Free iPod Book 3.0 INTRODUction iSnapshot: iPod. Our annual look at the ever-growing iPod + iTunes steamroller focuses on the numbers behind Apple’s continued dominance. June 2005 June 2006 June 2007 Growth iPods Sold 15.6 million 50.8 million 100 million Roughly doubled over 2006 iTunes Songs Sold 430 million 1 billion 2.5+ billion Nearly tripled over 2006. iTunes TV Shows Sold 0 (under 8m) Approx. 30m 50 million Nearly doubled over 2006. iTunes Movies Sold 0 0 (~ 1.3m) 2 million Up 70% over 4Q 2006. iTunes Music Catalog 1.5 million 3 million 5 million Nearly doubled since 2006. iTunes TV Catalog 0 (16) shows 90 shows 350 shows Almost quadrupled from 2006. iTunes Movie Catalog 0 0 (75) 500 Up over 6 times from 4Q 2006. After 100 Million iPods + 2.5 Billion Songs, What Next? In one year, Apple nearly doubled iPod sales and tripled iTunes song sales. Can this continue? There were some - well, many - who said that the iPod was Admittedly, the numbers aren’t all positive. Vendors have told poised for a dramatic sales slowdown in 2007. We saw the iLounge that accessory sales haven’t been as strong thus far in charts, heard the predictions, and braced for what we were 2007 as they were in 2006, a surprise given the larger base of told would be the first falling off of iPod sales in history. But iPod owners now out there, and reports have suggested that it didn’t happen. Instead, the year has seen massive gains for sales of Apple’s 40GB Apple TV device have been lukewarm; a both the iPod and the iTunes Store: as the chart here shows, new 160GB model may help. Similarly, though the Store’s sales Apple’s digital media player and content sales are up even numbers look high, they’ve failed to capitalize on the demand more sharply over 2006 than the prior year’s were over 2005. for downloadable video content in countries outside of the United States; Apple has promised a remedy by late 2007. In recent months, Apple has cited strong sales of lower-end iPods, including the second-generation iPod shuffle, as one Can the company’s iPhone possibly live up to iPod and iTunes’ of its growth drivers. Additional types of media, including TV success? We think the answer is “yes.” Despite surveys showing shows, movies, and games, have helped increase the iTunes user concern over pricing and other issues, Apple and AT&T Store’s catalog, and also its profits. Potential competitors, such will likely tailor the initial rollout terms to match whatever they as Amazon, Microsoft, and Sony, have gained zero traction. can supply. Curiosity alone will create sell-outs - and lines. Why Stop at Just One? Apple Publicly Pushes Multi-iPod Ownership to Boost 2007 Sales It’s a maxim of marketing: “it’s easier the not-so-subtle title, “Why stop to sell to your existing customer base at just one?” In some parts of the than to acquire new customers.” So it country - say nothing of the world - wasn’t a shock to see Apple embracing the very idea might be offensive, as that idea in a January press release: high iPod prices relative to wages “Music fans can now choose iPod have preserved Apple’s luxurious shuffle in one of five brilliant colors, image.

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