Creating Notes for an iPod

You can also store and display text files on your iPod. For example, you might want to store instructions to perform a task that you have trouble remembering how to do or the directions to a location on your iPod for easy reference.
To create a note on an iPod, use any word processor or other application that can create a text file (filename extension should be .txt). Create the text you want to store on the iPod and save it as a TXT file.

How to View Your Contacts in iPod?

To view your contacts, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Main menu, Extras, Contacts. You’ll see the list of contacts sorted by your sort preference.
2. To view a contact’s detailed information, highlight the contact in which you are interested and press the Select button. You’ll see a screen showing all the information for that contact.
3. Scroll down the screen to see all the information for the contact.

Configuring How Contacts Appear

When it comes to displaying contact information on an iPod, you have two options. To select an option, choose Main menu, Settings, Contacts. You’ll see the Contacts preferences screen. This screen has two options. Use the Sort option to choose how contacts are sorted on the screen. Use the Display option to display how contacts are displayed on the screen. In both cases, your choices are First Last, which lists the first name followed by the last name, and Last First, which places the last name first and the first name last.
To select an option, choose the setting and press the Select button to toggle the option.

How to Move Contact Information from Outlook to an iPod (Windows)?

Exporting contacts from Outlook is done with the same steps you use to export calendar information. The one difference is that you choose the vCard file format for contacts. The vCard file format is a standard format used for virtual cards that can be exported from or imported into most contact managers, including Outlook and Address Book.
After you have exported contact information from Outlook, the steps to import those contacts onto your iPod are very similar as well. Instead of using the Calendars folder on the iPod, you place contacts in the Contacts folder.

How to View Your iPod Calendar?

To view your iPod calendar, do the following steps:

1. Choose Main menu, Extras, Calendars. You’ll see the Calendars menu.
2. Highlight the calendar you want to view and press the Select button. If you want to see all the calendar events, choose All. You’ll see the Calendar display . The current date is highlighted. Dates with one or more events scheduled are marked with a black box.
3. To get details for an event, use the Scroll pad or Click Wheel to move to the date in which you are interested. As you move away from the current date, its box will take on a lighter shade and the currently selected date will be highlighted in the darker shade.
4. When the date in which you are interested is highlighted, press the Select button. The events for that date will be listed.
5. To see the detailed information for an event, highlight it and press the Select button. You’ll see the detailed information for that event.
6. Use the Menu button to move back to the list of events or back to the calendar. The iPod calendar also picks up event alarms for the events you place on it. To configure the event alarm, open the Calendars menu and scroll until you see the Alarms option. Set this to Beep to hear the beep sound for an event alarm, Silent to see a silent alarm, or Off to turn the event alarm off.

To delete an event from your iPod, remove the event file from the Calendars folder on the iPod if you are using a file-based method (such as with Outlook). If you are using iCal, just remove the event from the iCal calendar and synchronize.

Moving Calendar Information to an iPod Using iSync and iCal (Mac)

Synchronizing your iCal calendar on your iPod is very straightforward, and you can even configure this to happen each time you connect your iPod to your Mac. Follow these steps:

1. Connect your iPod to your Mac and open the iSync application.
2. If you have never used iSync to synchronize your iPod before, choose Devices, Add Device.
3. Click the Scan button. You will see the iPod in the window.
4. Double-click the iPod’s icon, and the iSync options dialog box will appear
5. Check the Turn on ipodname synchronization check box, where ipodname is the name of your iPod.
6. Check the Automatically synchronize when iPod is connected check box.
7. Check the Contacts check box and choose the specific contacts you want to move to your iPod on the Synchronize menu. For example, to have all your contacts synchronized, choose All contacts. If you want only a specific group of contacts to be moved, select that group instead.
8. Check the Calendars check box and choose the calendars you want to be moved to your iPod. Choose all your calendars by clicking the All radio button or choose specific calendars by clicking the Selected radio button and then checking the check box next to each calendar you want to place on your iPod.
9. Click the Sync Now button. The information you selected will be moved onto your iPod.

You only need to do these steps the first time you synch your iPod with iCal and your Address Book. If you configure automatic synchronization, this information will be updated each time you connect your iPod to your Mac.

How to Move Calendar Information from Outlook to an iPod (Windows)?

To move calendar events from Outlook to your iPod, perform the following steps:

1. Open your Outlook calendar.
2. Select an event you want to move to your iPod calendar.
3. Choose File, Save As.
4. In the resulting Save As dialog box, move to the folder in which you want to store the events, choose iCalendar Format or vCalendar Format on the Save as type drop-down list, and click Save. The event will be exported from Outlook in the format you selected.
5. Repeat steps 2 through 4 until you have saved all the events you want to move onto your iPod. Unfortunately, repeating events are not moved. You have to move each event individually.
6. Connect your iPod to your computer. For this process to work, your iPod must be configured so it can be used as a hard disk.
7. Open the folder in which you saved the events you exported in step 4.
8. Open the My Computer folder in another window and then open the iPod so that you see the folders it contains
9. Drag the calendar events from the folder you opened in step 7 and place them in the Calendars folder on the iPod. When you do this, the events will be added to your iPod’s calendar.

Setting and Controlling Alarm in iPod

You can also use the iPod’s alarm clock to wake you up or remind you of an important time. To set an alarm, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Main menu, Extras, Clock, Alarm Clock. You’ll see the Alarm Clock screen. By default, the alarm is turned off, which is indicated by the Off setting.
2. Highlight Alarm and press the Select button. The Alarm setting will become On, and the alarm will be active. The time at which the alarm is currently set to go off is shown next to the Time option on the Alarm Clock menu.
3. Highlight Time and press the Select button. You’ll see the set alarm time screen.
4. Use the Scroll pad or Click Wheel to choose the time you want the alarm to sound. Drag clockwise to increase the time or counterclockwise to decrease it.
5. When the correct alarm time is set, press the Select button. You’ll return to the Alarm Clock menu.
6. Highlight Sound. By default, the alarm sound setting will be Beep, which you can hear even if you don’t have earphones or speakers connected to the iPod. If you choose a different sound, you have to have speakers or headphones attached to the iPod to hear the alarm.
7. If you want to have a playlist start playing instead, press the Select button. You’ll see a list of playlists on your iPod.
8. Highlight the playlist you want to use as the alarm sound and press the Select button. You’ll return to the Alarm Clock menu, and the name of the selected list will be shown as the Sound setting.
9. Press the Menu button. You’ll return to the Clock display. A bell icon will appear on the right side of the time to indicate that the alarm is set. When the appointed time comes along, your iPod will turn on and play the beep sound or the selected playlist. Unless you are an incredibly light sleeper, don’t expect the Beep sound to wake you up. It isn’t very loud, and it doesn’t play very long. You’ll have better luck if you connect your iPod to speakers and use a playlist instead.

Displaying the Time on an iPod

There are a couple of ways to display the time and date on an iPod:

• Choose Main menu, Extras, Clock. You’ll see the Clock display In the title area you’ll see the current date. Just below the title, you’ll see the current time.
• If you turn the Time in Title setting to On (as described in step 15 in the previous list of steps), the time will be displayed in the title area of every screen a second or two after you move to a new screen. When you first move to a screen, you will see the title, but after that small amount of time passes, the title will be replace by the current time.

How to Configure the Time on an iPod?

Before you use the iPod as a clock, you need to configure its time and date. Use the following steps to do this:

1. Choose Main menu, Extras, Clock, Date & Time. You’ll see the Date & Time menu.
2. Choose Set Time Zone. You’ll see the Time Zone menu.
3. Scroll on the list of time zones until you see the time zone you are in.
4. Highlight your time zone and press the Select button. The iPod’s time zone will be set to the one you selected, and you will return to the Date & Time menu.
5. Choose Set Date & Time. You’ll see the Date & Time menu again, except that this time it will be in the set date and time mode. The hour will be highlighted.
6. Use the Scroll pad or Click Wheel to increase or decrease the hour until the correct hour is displayed.
7. Press the Fast-forward button so that the minute display is highlighted.
8. Use the Scroll pad or Click Wheel to increase or decrease the hour until the correct minute is displayed.
9. Press the Fast-forward button so that the AM/PM indicator display is highlighted.
10. Use the Scroll pad or Click Wheel to change the AM/PM to the correct value.
11. Continue using the Fast-forward button and Scroll pad or Click Wheel to set the correct date, month, and year.
12. Press the Select button. The date and time you selected will be set, and you will return to the Date & Time menu.
13. Highlight the Time setting. The default value is to use a 12-hour clock.
14. To use a 24-hour clock, press the Select button. The Time setting will become 24-hour, and a 24-hour clock will be used.
15. To display the time in the menu title area, highlight Time in Title and press the Select button. The Time in Title setting will become On, and the time will be displayed in the title bar—instead of the menu title