iPod: The Missing Manual, Sixth Edition by J.D. Biersdorfer and David Pogue This page lists changes made in the 3/08 printing. If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to booktech@oreilly.com. Please specify the printing date of your copy. This page was updated February 22, 2008. Here's a key to the markup: [page-number]: serious technical mistake {page-number}: minor technical mistake : important language/formatting problem (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification Confirmed errors: P. 4 Added text to second Paragraph: You're not just stuck with two choices when buying a Nano, either-you can get the 8 GB model in silver, green, pink, blue, black, or red. P.6 Last two sentences replaced with: Apple gives you three Touches to choose from: an 8-gigabyte model, one that can store 16 gigs of stuff, or a big 32-gigabyte baby. That's 1,750 songs or 10 hours of iPod-friendly video on the 8 GB Touch, and 3,500 songs or 20 hours of video on the 16 GB model. The 32 GB model holds 7.000 songs or 40 hours of video goodness. P.7 Added Paragraph: The latest version of the Touch adds even more online fun to the mix. You can check your email right on yourthe iPod with the Mail program, or get a six-day forecast from the Weather widget. The included Maps and Stocks widgets show you where you are and how well your portfolio is doingdid today, and you can even write to yourself reminders usingwith the Notes program. Added Note: NOTE: If you bought an iPod Touch before 2008, odds are you don't have Maps, Mail, Stocks, or any of the other wireless applications. That'sis is because Apple didn't start including them until 2008. But fear not, early adopter:, Yyou are n'ot shut out of the online Touch fun. Apple will gladly sell you all those programs bundled together for $20. You can find the upgrade for sale in the iTunes Store. P. 32 added bullet point between Movies and TV Shows: Rentals. If you opted to rent a movie instead of buying it outright, you'll find it waiting for youhere in this menu. P. 55 Added paragraph about customizing Home screen, right before the last paragraph: Want to rearrange the icons? Press down on an icon until it wiggles, and then drag it to a new location. Press the Home button to make the icons sit still again. P. 61 Added bullet point for Mail app at the bottom of the page: Mail. Tap here to set up an email account right on the Touch. You can adjust aAll other Mail-related preferences, here, too (like how often the Touch looks for new messages) can be adjusted here as well, and you can also delete unwanted accounts. P. 62 Added these bullet points after "Safari." Mail. Tap here to check your email-or send some messages yourself. Stocks. Check your portfolio and see how the the market's doing itself. Maps. Get directions to someplace or just fifigure out where you arend yourself by tapping the target icon in the lower corner of the screen. Weather. Temperatures and forecasts for all your favorite cities. Notes. Tap here andto take a memo to yourself usingon the Touch keyboard.] P. 91 Error in keyboard command, should be Shift and not Alt key listed. In Step 2, the bold text now reads: 2. Hold down the Shift [Option] key on your PC or Mac and start iTunes again. P. 101 In the last line of the first paragraph, last sentence now ends at: "which lacks the whole screen thing needed to view images and text." added line at the end of the second paragraph on the page: Got an iPod Touch? Just tap the album cover on your screen to see the lyrics appear. P. 105 Added Tip underneath figure: TIP: If you have an iPod Touch, you can also sync up browser bookmarks and all the settings from your email account. Click the Info tab in iTunes when the Touch is connected to yourthe computer to get to the goods. The Touch's Mail program can copy the account settings from Outlook Express, Outlook 2003 or 2007, orand the Mac's own Mail program. You can also use your Yahoo email account. p. 142 Cut entire bullet point for "iTunes Plus tracks cost more." B P. 143 Removed top figure and replaced with Tip: TIP: If you want to watch a movie, (but not own it,) check the flick's Store page to see if it's available for rental instead. Rentals cost less than $5 and download just like a regular iTunes Store- purchased movies that you can play on your iPod or computer. You have 30 days to start watching the rental and 24 hours to finish it, but it means never having to wait for Netflix-or slog to the video store in the rain again. P. 171 Error in the second bullet point on the page. Need two clicks of the Center button to get the scrubber these days. Text now reads: To fast-forward or rewind through part of a video, tap the Select Button twice. P. 199 Added sentence to the end of the second graf, after "forward or backward through the months.": To add an event Ton the Touch, tap the + button to add an event . P. 221 Apple moved the location of the Add Bookmark plus icon. In the second graf under the Adding New Bookmarks subhead, changed the directional info on the parentheses: When you find a Web page you might like to visit again, tap the + button (bottom center of the screen). Tap the Add Bookmark option. You have two tasks here: P. 229 Deleted first graf entirely and revised second graf as so: All-in-one sites to manage or launch widget-like Web applications are a great way to corral a bunch of them at once. Once you set up an account or customize an application manager site, you can bookmark it and easily bop around to your favorite programs from its main screen. Notable launchers include: Added a TIP box about the new Web Clips and multiple home-pages feature: TIP: Want to add your favorite Web site to your Home screen? Tap the + button at the bottom of yourthe browser and choose the "Add to Home Screen" option. The site's own icon is now right on the Touch's main screen. And don't worry about filling up your Home screen-you can have up to nine of `them and finger- flick between themeach one. P. 230 Added one sentence to end of first graf: Later versions of Safari have the icon right in the top- left corner.