: Make the Use of Your

Listening to music and surfing on the web are two of the main cool features of the . Here are a few you can put to use in getting more out of, and personalizing your preferences to have your work for you. Let’s get going.


1. Recreate some of the iPod’s audio controls


If you listen to an audio book on an iPod, you probably know that, ever since the fourth-generation iPod’s release, you can alter the playback speed to make it go faster or slower as your preferences dictate. This feature is also available on the . Just tap Settings and then the iPod option; tap the Audiobook Speed entry and in the resulting screen, tap to choose among Slower, Normal, or Faster.


In fact, that’s just one iPod feature that also appears on the . You can also use the Settings screen to turn on Sound Check (the feature that makes volume more consistent from one track to another) and change the EQ with 22 included equalization presets. Basically, what ever you can do with your iPod you can do with your .


2. Change your iPod icons


By default, the icons on the bottom of the iPod screen are Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos, and More. You can change those first four, just as you would the commands that appear on an iPod’s main screen. Simply tap the More icon and, in the More screen, tap the Edit button at the top-left of the screen. A Configure screen will wipe up from the bottom and display icons for Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos. To substitute one of these icons for one that appears at the bottom of the screen, just tap and hold on an icon and drag it over the icon you want to replace. Tap Done when you’re done.


3. Syncing notes with the


One of the major limitations to the ’s Notes app is that you can’t sync it with data from any application on your Mac. There’s a work-around, however-each contact has a notes field. So create a fake contact and paste any info you’d like to keep with you in the notes field for that contact in Address Book. One sync later, and all that info will be at your fingertips. Just remember that the notes are located in the fake contact. A good idea is to name a contact in a way that it reminds you the subject matter of the notes.


4. Get a bigger keyboard for Web browsing


Like any other function requiring data entry, tapping Safari’s address bar summons an on-screen keyboard. However, if you rotate the horizontally before tapping the address bar, the Safari window will switch to horizontal mode; then, when you then tap the address bar, the onscreen keyboard also appears horizontally. More important, it will also be much larger than the standard vertical keyboard, making data entry a little easier. By the way, Safari is currently the only application in which this horizontal keyboard appears. (Also worth noting: If you summon the keyboard before rotating your , then Safari won’t rotate.)


Rotating your horizontally before summoning the onscreen keyboard produces this horizontal-and much easier to use-keyboard.


5. Find out where those links go


When in Safari, holding your fingertip down on a link instead of tapping it produces an information balloon that displays the underlying URL. The same thing happens in Mail when you hold a link, which makes this tip much more useful. Now when those “account update” e-mails appear, you can press and hold on the link to find out if you’re really going to be taken to the site the e-mail claims. The feature is very similar to some of the text Link ads on the Internet. Have you ever had the situation where you hovered your pointer over the anchored text link and an image popped up to show you a snapshot of the site on the other side of that link? Basically that’s the same thing.


So what are you waiting for? Get started now and squeeze every bit out of your .

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