- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (24 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0321136454
- ISBN-13: 978-0321136459
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 19.1 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,973,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
About the Author
Christopher Breen has been writing about the Macintosh since the latter days of the Reagan Administration for such publications as MacUser, MacWEEK, and Macworld. He¿s the author of Mac 911 and Macworld¿s tips and troubleshooting column; Mac 911, the troubleshooting-tome-for-the-whole-family; and Mac 911, the decorative lunchbox.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Gripped by iPod fever on delivery of my lovley new toy, I made the mistake of shelling out for this expensive tome.
There is nothing here that you cannot work out yourself within a few weeks of owning an iPod, from the perfectly helpful material that comes free with it.
Should you make the same mistake as me and shell out for this book, you will be doubtless, like me furious with yourself for buying a book that contains ten pages describing what comes in the box with your pod.How illuminating is that? Like I needed a discription of the carrying case and the earbuds.
Save your money and buy some music for your pod instead.
16 of 146 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
THis book does not help you uncover every little secret about the ipod or teach you exeactly how to use it but instead it teached you how to uncover all the little hidden secrets buried inside this little bundle of joy. This book is a must buy for anyone who does not already own and ipod and wants to beome aware of its secrets or someone who has only just purched one and if wondering how he can get the most out of the ipod.
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78 of 91 people found the following review helpful
Doesn't discuss iPod's biggest issue
23 Feb 2004
Format: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
Very simple
15 Jan 2004
Format: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
Good but not great
24 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
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.
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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