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Sams Teach Yourself iTunes 10 in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself -- Minutes) Review

Sams Teach Yourself iTunes 10 in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself -- Minutes)
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Apple has now for almost a decade dominated the portable digital music market with iPod and all of its descendants. iPods are great and intuitive music devices, and a major reason for their success lays in their elegant design and the ease of use. However, that is only part of the story. The less visible source of iPod's success can be attributed to iTunes, Apple's music, media, and nowadays apps management desktop application. iTunes greatly streamlines the transfer of your content between the desktop and the portable device. It also organizes, categorizes, and makes accessible your media files in an increasingly versatile ways. Nonetheless, iTunes is a very complex program. It is arguable Apple's most complex application, and over the years it has only become more so. This is sort of puzzling considering how clean and streamlined experience with most other Apple software tends to be.
This short book aims to take out some mystery from iTunes 10, the latest iteration of iTunes. The book is very well written and remarkably comprehensive for a book of this size. It contains almost all the information that any average user would ever need to know about iTunes. It even covers items and topics that I didn't even know were part of iTunes, or that iTunes could be used for those purposes. The topics covered include "Getting Started with iTunes," "Working with the iTunes Store," "Tagging iTunes Content," "Moving iTunes Content onto iPods, iPhones, and iPads," "Streaming Music with AirPlay," "Solving Problems," and many others. This is a truly useful and handy book to have if you use iTunes frequently.


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A clear, super quick, easy-to-understand guide to the brand-new iTunes 10Fast access to instructions for every common task, plus reliable, concise answers to the most widely asked questions Organized into lessons that distill the most crucial information on each iTunes topic - fully up to date for the brand new iTunes 10 Tips and cautions point out shortcuts, solutions, and help you avoid common pitfalls Apple's iPods, iPhones, and iPads are among the best-selling devices ever, with iPod touch sales continuing to grow significantly. All three devices rely on Apple's iTunes software, and iTunes has just undergone a major new release. Sams Teach Yourself iTunes 10 in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers for fast results. By working through the 10-minute lessons, you learn everything you'll need to know to quickly and easily get up to speed with the iTunes, whether they are using an iPod, iPhone, or iPad. Step-by-step instructions walk you through the most common questions, issues, and tasks... Tips and notes offer insider advice and shortcuts... Cautions help you avoid common iPod and iTunes pitfalls.

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My iPhone (covers 3G, 3Gs and 4 running iOS4) (4th Edition) Review

My iPhone (covers 3G, 3Gs and 4 running iOS4) (4th Edition)
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I had been using the basic features on my iPhone intuitively... flipping once in a while through the thin booklet and the PDF file that Apple provides as a user manual. After a month, I decided that to make the most out of my purchase I had to more proactively learn about all the features.
The presentation in this book is clean and stylish. It's also very clear -- THE INSTRUCTIONS are detailed and ACCOMPANIED BY SCREENSHOTS, which are LABELED WITH NUMBERS that correspond to each step. There's no way to get lost.
It's comprehensive. For instance, there's a section on iTunes and iPod, which is especially useful for the complete novice who need step-by-step instructions about building playlists, finding podcasts, etc. (The Dummies book is limited in this area; there's a separate "iPod & iTunes for Dummies" book.)
If you're already familiar with certain features or there are some you're not interested in learning about, the book is arranged in such a way that you can skip ahead or hop from one section to another. There's an index, of course, but the Table of Contents is as helpful because the headings and subheadings are straightforward, instead of cutesy titles.
The only thing that the Dummies book has extra is a list of ten web resources at the end. They probably have more informational nuggets spread around, but I personally found it unencouraging to wade through all the text. In this book (My iPhone), every page has screenshots and you can see every step illustrated -- it's very visual.
I found a typo on page 94 ("Inlcude" for "Include"), and the iPhone seems to have added a few modifications to the map functions since it first came out. You can find out about those on page 81 of Apple's PDF guide. No biggies. The traffic icon is no longer a car, and there's an icon for finding your approximate location on the map you're looking at.
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Step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPhone images that show you exactly what to do.Help when you run into iPhone problems or limitations.Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your iPhone.Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keepingyour iPhone working just the way you want. The tasks include how to:• Connect to the Internet, Bluetooth devices, Wi-Fi networks, other iPhones, iPods, and iPads• Manage your apps with the iPhone's new multitasking capabilities• Customize your iPhone with folders, wallpaper, ringtones, and much more• Configure and sync your information, and efficiently manage contacts and calendars• Communicate via FaceTime videoconferences, conference calls, text, email, and more• Make the most of Safari to browse the Web and Mail to manage all of your email from one inbox• Listen to music, subscribe to podcasts, and watch video–including movies and TV shows• Capture photos and HD video• Use your photos in slideshows, for wallpaper, and your contacts or share them via email, MobileMe, and texts• Find, download, install, and use iPhone apps, including the amazing iBooks to read ebooksBONUS MATERIAL: Find additional tasks and other helpful information on this book's website at quepublishing.com/title/9780789747143CATEGORY: Apple Digital MediaCOVERS: Apple iPhoneUSER LEVEL: Beginning-Intermediate

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