March 2006
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
11h 17m
English
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Copying Calendars from Other Programs
Just as with the Contacts feature, you have to set up your iPod as an external disk before using any of the Calendar transfer techniques described in the following pages for manually moving your date-book data over to the iPod. If you have your iPod’s music preferences set up for manual update (Section 2.5.2.2), you don’t have to do a thing except double-click the iPod’s desktop icon and find the Calendars folder.
If you’ve opted for the labor-free auto-sync method of loading your music onto your iPod, you need to turn the iPod into an external disk when copying your calendars. To make it so, connect the iPod and go to the Preferences box (described back on Section 5.3). Click the Music tab, and then turn on the “Enable disk use” checkbox. The computer will now consider the iPod an external hard drive and you’ll need to properly eject it before you go running off. Luckily, there’s a convenient Eject button right next to the iPod’s icon in the iTunes Source list.
Palm Desktop 4
Palm Desktop is the free calendar/address book/to-do program that comes with every Palm organizer. But you don’t have to buy a Palm to get it; you can download it from http://www.palm.com/us/software/palm/ for free. It’s available in separate versions for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Mac OS 9, Mac OS X
If you want to copy your entire Date Book to the iPod as quickly and thoroughly as possible, follow these steps:
Make sure your iPod is connected to the Mac as a hard drive ...
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