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iPod and iTunes: The Missing Manual, Third Edition
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iPod and iTunes: The Missing Manual, Third Edition

by J.D. Biersdorfer
March 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
432 pages
12h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Calendars from Microsoft Outlook

If you rely on Outlook for Windows, you an get your appointments out of your calendar and onto your iPod—but here again, there’s a manual way and a faster way.

Solution 1: Drag Individual Appointments

If you have just a few appointments to move, the manual method will do fine; see Figure 9-9.

Top: Open your Outlook calendar, select the appointment you want to transfer to the iPod, and then choose File → Save As. Bottom: You’re prompted to name and save the selected appointments as an .ics file, which you can save directly into the iPod’s Calendars folder (or drag in later if the iPod doesn’t happen to be attached at the time).

Figure 9-9. Top: Open your Outlook calendar, select the appointment you want to transfer to the iPod, and then choose File Save As. Bottom: You’re prompted to name and save the selected appointments as an .ics file, which you can save directly into the iPod’s Calendars folder (or drag in later if the iPod doesn’t happen to be attached at the time).

Solution 2: iPodSync & Co.

The $14 iPodSync program, described on page 196 and shown in Figure 9-10, can synchronize Outlook appointments, as well as contacts and to-do items, from PC to iPod.

Just as it can shuttle your Outlook contacts over to the iPod, iPodSync can likewise get those important appointments and other information out of your PC and onto your iPod with just a few clicks–and with no nasty format messes to clean up afterward.

Figure 9-10. Just as it can shuttle your Outlook contacts over to the iPod, iPodSync can likewise get those important appointments and other information out of your PC and onto your iPod with just a few clicks–and with no nasty format messes to clean up afterward.

Two other outlets for Outlook users are out there. There’s iAppoint, a freeware creation. Instead of herding individual appointment files to the iPod, you can use iAppoint, ...

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