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Powering Your iPod touch
In This Chapter
Looking inside the box
Finding what your iPod touch is good for
Setting up your iPod touch wirelessly
Connecting to your computer and iTunes
Using and recharging your battery
Y
ou hold in your hands the greatest pocket-sized music player in the
world, which also happens to be a fantastic portable video and game
player and video camera. But that’s not all: With built-in wireless Internet
connectivity, the iPod touch defines an entire new class of . . . things.
I want to call it a device, but it’s so much more — the iPod
touch puts the entire world in your pocket. It’s your pass-
port to millions of songs as well as movies, TV shows,
and other content on the iTunes Store. It lets you com-
municate with your friends and family with FaceTime
video calls and instant messaging and participate
in social and gaming networks like Facebook and
the Game Center. It records stunning HD video as
well as photos and lets you edit them before shar-
ing them. And, of course, it offers a library of hun-
dreds of thousands of applications (known as apps)
that offer everything from soup to nuts, including
thousands of games — but I get into that later in this
chapter.
Less than one-third–inch thick and weighing less than
four ounces, the iPod touch is really a pocket computer — it
uses a flash memory drive and the iOS operating system. It shares
design characteristics and many of the features of its more famous cousin,
the iPhone, with built-in speaker and volume controls, an accelerometer for
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Summary of Contents

Page 1 - Powering Your iPod touch

1Powering Your iPod touchIn This Chapter▶ Looking inside the box▶ Finding what your iPod touch is good for▶ Setting up your iPod touch wirelessly▶ Con

Page 2 - Thinking Inside the Box

16Part I: Touching All the Basics iPod touch displays a screen for entering your birthday (which is used as a question for retrieving your password if

Page 3 - Outside the box

17 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touchConnecting to iTunesiTunes manages your library of content and apps on your computer, and enables you to sync ap

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18Part I: Touching All the Basics 1. Launch iTunes and connect your iPod touch to the computer with a USB cable. iTunes recognizes the iPod touc

Page 5 - Communicating with the world

19 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touch • If you purchased your iPod touch directly from Apple and you have an iTunes Store, App Store, Apple Store, M

Page 6 - Rolling the dice

20Part I: Touching All the Basics 7. Give your iPod touch a name, set the automatic sync options, and then click Done (on a Mac) or Finish (on Wind

Page 7 - Connecting to Power

21 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touchFigure 1-5: Name your iPod touch and automatically synchronize content in one step.You can leave your iPod touch

Page 8 - Setting Up Your iPod touch

22Part I: Touching All the Basics Facing Charges of BatteryYou can take a six-hour flight from New York City to California and watch videos on your iP

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23 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touchDon’t try to replace it yourself because opening your iPod touch invalidates the warranty. Keeping an iPod touc

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24Part I: Touching All the Basics Saving powerThe iPod touch uses power doing things like accessing the Internet, using Bluetooth devices, keeping up

Page 11 - Connecting to iTunes

25 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touch ✓ Turn it off completely. You can turn the iPod touch completely off by holding down the sleep/wake button for

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8Part I: Touching All the Basics motion detection (such as rotation and shaking), and Internet connectivity for surfing the Web and checking e-mail. L

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9 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touchOutside the boxYou may want to have around a few things that are not in the box. For exam-ple, even though you do

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10Part I: Touching All the Basics You need the following: ✓ A PC or Mac to run iTunes: On a PC, iTunes version 10 (version 10.5 as of this writing) re

Page 16 - Facing Charges of Battery

11 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touchis the Swiss Army Knife of media: It plays music, music videos, TV shows, movies, audio books, photo slideshows,

Page 17 - Maintaining battery mojo

12Part I: Touching All the Basics can set up your home or office with Wi-Fi using a Wi-Fi hub such as Apple’s AirPort Extreme.) After it finds one or

Page 18 - Saving power

13 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touchyou can find your iPod touch if it is lost, and even wipe its contents remotely (if it’s stolen); see Chapter 6.

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14Part I: Touching All the Basics your iPod touch and sync it with iTunes, as I show in “Connecting to iTunes,” later in this chapter. (Some older com

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15 Chapter 1: Powering Your iPod touch 3. Tap a password for the Wi-Fi network if needed, or log in to the net-work with your ID and password, and t

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