spine=.5” Hardware/Peripherals In Color ™ Touch up your life with Making Everything Easier! music, movies, e-mail, maps, the Web, and more! Open the book and find: You have the magic touch — at least, you will after you’ve • Steps for getting started with your ® read this book! From the basic stuff about setting up an iPod iPod touch iPod touch iPod touch and charging its battery to cool stuff like playing games, touch iPod • How to customize your iPod touch finding your way with Google Maps, connecting with Facebook, and sending tweets, this guide helps you grab all the excitement • Steps for browsing and your iPod touch makes possible. downloading content from the iTunes Store iPod touch • Power up — connect your iPod touch to your Mac or PC, sync up with • How to sync your data, calendar, iTunes, charge up the battery, and locate a Wi-Fi network e-mail, and media • Flick, pick, and click — navigate the multitouch screen, use the • Details about loading images on onscreen keyboard, and shop for content or apps your iPod touch and setting up a • Playback’s a breeze — create playlists, play videos and audio books, slide show ® set up slideshows, and e-mail photos ® • Tips for getting online with your • Finding yourself — enter locations, get directions from Google iPod touch Maps™, show traffic and satellite maps, and save bookmarks • Explanations for finding your • Keep in touch — maintain your calendar, connect to Facebook™ or location, checking the weather MySpace®, use Twitter™, and instant message forecast, or getting stock quotes Learn to: • Set up your iPod touch, check and send Go to Dummies.com® e-mail, and use the multitouch interface for videos, step-by-step examples, how-to articles, or to shop the store! • Surf the Web, listen to music, watch videos, and download apps • Turn your iPod touch into a portable game console $21.99 US / $25.99 CN / £16.99 UK ISBN 978-0-470-50530-4 IN FULL COLOR! Tony Bove has written more than two dozen computer books, including all editions of iPod & iTunes For Dummies. Tony is also a professional musician. He blogs and offers tips about iPods, iPhones, iTunes, and the iLife applications at www.tonybove.com. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2009929464 ISBN: 978-0-470-50530-4 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 About the Author Tony Bove is crazy about iPods, iPhones, and iTunes: He not only provides free tips on his Web site (www.tonybove.com), but also took the plunge to develop an iPhone application (Tony’s Tips for iPhone Users). Tony has writ- ten more than two dozen books on computing, desktop publishing, and mul- timedia, including iLife ’04 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley), The GarageBand Book (Wiley), The Art of Desktop Publishing (Bantam), and a series of books about Macromedia Director, Adobe Illustrator, and PageMaker. Tony also founded Desktop Publishing/Publish magazine and the Inside Report on New Media newsletter, and he wrote the weekly Macintosh column for Computer Currents for a decade. Tracing the personal computer revolution back to the 1960s counterculture, Tony produced a CD-ROM inter- active documentary in 1996, Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties (featuring music from the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane). He also devel- oped the Rockument music site, www.rockument.com, with commentary and podcasts focused on rock music history. As a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers (www.flyingotherbros.com), which toured profes- sionally and released three commercial CDs (52-Week High, San Francisco Sounds, and Estimated Charges), Tony performed with Hall of Fame rock musi- cians. Tony has also worked as a director of enterprise marketing for leading- edge software companies, and as a communications director and technical publications manager. Dedication This book is dedicated to my sons, nieces, nephews, their cousins, and all their children . the iPod generation. Author’s Acknowledgments I want to thank Jimi Eric Bove for providing technical expertise and per- forming valuable testing on his iPod touch, and John Paul Bove for iTunes, Windows, and iPhone expertise. I also want to thank Rich Tennant for his wonderful cartoons, and Dennis Cohen for technical expertise beyond the call of duty. And let me not forget my Wiley editors, Paul Levesque and Virginia Sanders, for ongoing assistance that made my job so much easier. A book this timely places a considerable burden on a publisher’s production team, and I thank the production crew at Wiley for diligence beyond the call of reason. I owe thanks and a happy hour or three to Carole McLendon at Waterside, my agent. And fi nally, I have executive editor Bob Woerner at Wiley to thank for coming up with the idea for this book and helping me to become a profes- sional dummy — that is, a Dummies author. 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Corder, Editorial Director Publishing for Consumer Dummies Diane Graves Steele, Vice President and Publisher Composition Services Debbie Stailey, Director of Composition Services Contents at a Glance Introduction ...............................................................