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Video Settings

Select this command in the Videos screen and press

the Center button, and you’ll see three options: TV

Out, TV Signal, and Widescreen.

TV Out and TV Signal work just as they do in the

Slideshow Settings screen. TV Out determines

whether your iPod will play its videos on a connected

TV or projector, and TV Signal allows you to choose

between NTSC and PAL.

Widescreen offers On or Off. Select On to view

widescreen movies in their native letterbox format.

Choose Off, and the iPod will scale the picture (and

chop off either end) so that it fi lls the iPod’s screen or

the screen of the TV it’s attached to.

Extras

The Extras screen is the means to all the iPod’s

nonmusical functions—its contacts, calendars, clock,

and games. Here’s what you’ll fi nd for each entry.

Clock

Yes, the iPod can tell time. Clicking Clock displays the

current time and date on all iPods. On 3G iPods and all

click-wheel iPods except the 5G iPod and nano, clicking

Clock also displays commands for setting the iPod’s

alarm clock, the sleep timer, and the date and time.

The 5G iPod and nano offer a different Clock screen—

one that displays both an analog and digital clock in

the top part of the screen and a New Clock entry at

the bottom of the screen (Figure 2.30). Select New

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Clock and press the Center button to view the Region

screen, where you view such regions as Africa, Asia,

Europe, and North America. Select a region and press

the button again, and choose a city in the resulting

City screen.

12:32 PM Tuesday

California Sep 19 2006

Clock

New Clock

Figure 2.30

Clock screen.

When you select a clock on one of these iPods and

press the Center button, you’ll see these settings for

that clock: Alarm Clock, Change City, Daylight Saving

Time, Delete This Clock, and Sleep Timer.

Alarm Clock

The Alarm Clock screen provides options for turning

the alarm on and off, setting the time for the alarm

to go off, and specifying the sound the alarm will

play (a simple beep or the contents of one of the

playlists on your iPod). This function is not available

on 1G and 2G iPods.

tip

If the iPod’s alarm clock goes off while you’re listening

to music with headphones, you’re likely to miss the

alarm if it’s set to beep. Unlike alarms tied to calendar

events, the alarm clock issues no visual display; it

beeps or plays a playlist—that’s it. If you think you’ll

be listening to music when the alarm is confi gured

to perform its lowly job, choose a playlist as an alarm

rather than a beep. When the iPod suddenly changes

playlists, you’ll know that the alarm has gone off.

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Change City (5G iPod and nano only)

Click this entry to be taken to the Region screen,

where you can choose a new region and city for

the clock.

Daylight Saving Time

This is a simple on/off command.

Delete This Clock (5G iPod and nano only)

You know …

Sleep Timer

To save battery power, the iPod includes a sleep

function that powers down your iPod after a certain

amount of time has elapsed. The Sleep Timer settings

allow you to determine how long an interval of inac-

tivity has to pass before your iPod takes a snooze.

The available settings are Off, 15 Minutes, 30 Minutes,

60 Minutes, 90 Minutes, and 120 Minutes. On older

iPods, this command is in the Settings screen.

Games

Once upon a time, the iPod had a single hidden

game that you could access only if you held down

the Center button for several seconds in a particular

screen. Apple later decided to reveal this secret

game—a form of the classic Breakout game called

Brick (Figure 2.31)—by placing the Game command

in the Extras screen.