Taking Your iPod touch to the Max

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-1-59059-987-7
Verlag: Apress

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 235 mm

Fast and fun to read, this book gives you all the tips, tricks and hidden techniques that you would love to try out on your iPod Touch. It starts by getting everyone up to speed on the basics. Then quickly moves into the fun stuff, like connecting to a TV, and even how to hack so that you can run applications over the iPod Touch and a whole lot more. If you can do it on the iPod Touch, you will find it here. So whether you just want to be able to use it for music and do emails or web surfing, or you want to take it to the Max, this is the book to show you how.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadun, Erica

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Handheld, Smartphone, Tablet

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Basics.- Mastering gestures--from pinching to sliding on your iPod Touch.- Using the iPod Touch built-in QWERTY keyboard.- Navigating your iPod Touch media (with coverflow, etc).- Communications.- The iPod Touch email survival kit.- Taking charge of your calendar with iPod Touch and iCal.- Surfing with iPod Touch.- Browsing with iPod Touch's version of Safari.- Getting the most from Google, etc. Websites on your iPod Touch.- Expanding the iPod Touch.- Adding new items to your iPod Touch main menu.- Third-party software.- Media.- Everything you need to know in iTunes for your iPod Touch.- Syncing basics (you only have 4 or 8 GB available), esp with smart playlists.- Bringing along iBooks on your iPod Touch (Notes feature,possible/probable PDF reader).- iPod Touch games.- Buying content on the go.- iPod Touch photo slideshows.- Media Concerns.- Connecting iPod Touch to your TV for video out.- Homebrew iPod Touch content (e.g. Ripping DVDs for iPod Touch widescreen playback).- Hacking into iPod Touch's OS X and running real OS X programs there.-Power Users.- The limits and possibilities of the technology.- Accessorizing.- The 12 accessories you can't live without: from power cords to docks to speakers to headphones.

Über Autor(innen)

Erica Sadun holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She has written, co-written, and contributed to almost two dozen books about technology, particularly in the areas of programming, digital video, and digital photography. An unrepentant geek, Sadun has never met a gadget she didn't need. Her checkered past includes run-ins with NeXT, Newton, and a vast myriad of both successful and unsuccessful technologies. When not writing, she and her geek husband parent three adorable geeks-in-training, who regard their parents with restrained bemusement. Eight Ways to Get the Most out of Your Zune, the O’Reilly short cut, and Modding Mac OS X also with O’Reilly were her latest books. She also wrote Taking your iPhone to the Max.