iPad™ For Dummies®

Chapter 3. The Kitchen Sync: Getting Stuff to and from Your iPad

In This Chapter

• Starting your first sync

• Disconnecting during a sync

• Synchronizing contacts, calendars, e-mail accounts, and bookmarks

• Synchronizing music, podcasts, video, photos, books, and applications

We have good news and ... more good news. The good news is that you can easily copy any or all of your contacts, appointments, events, mail settings, bookmarks, books, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts, photos, and applications from your computer to your iPad. And the more good news is that after you do that, you can choose to synchronize your contacts, appointments, and events so that they're kept up to date automatically in both places — on your computer and your iPad — whenever you make a change in one place or the other. So when you add or change an appointment, an event, or a contact on your iPad, that information automatically appears on your computer the next time your iPad and computer communicate.

This communication between your iPad and computer is called syncing (short for synchronizing). Don't worry: It's easy, and we're going to walk you through the entire process in this chapter.

But wait. There's even more good news. Items you manage on your computer, such as movies, TV shows, podcasts, and e-mail account settings, are synchronized only one way: from your computer to your iPad, which is the way it should be. ...