The iPod & iTunes Pocket Guide, Second Edition

Chapter 5: The Informational iPod 149

Make a Date

As I explained earlier in the chapter, contacts and

the iPod carry on their cozy relationship thanks to

the vCard standard. Another couple of standards,

called the vCal and iCalendar standards, help the

iPod understand calendar events. These are universal

formats for exchanging calendar and scheduling

information between vCal- and iCalendar-aware

applications and devices.

When you add a calendar event to your iPod, the

following information will appear in the Event screen:

• The date of the appointment. The date is

displayed in day/month/year format—11 Jan 2007,

for example.

• The time and duration of the appointment. This

info is displayed as 4:00–5:30 PM, for example.

• The name of the appointment. If you’ve named

it My Appointment in your computer’s calendar

application, so shall it be named on your iPod.

• The attendees. If you’ve added attendees to the

appointment in your computer’s calendar appli-

cation, those names will appear next in the

Event screen.

• Notes. Any notes you’ve entered on your

computer will appear last in the Event screen.

note

Visible and audible alarms are also transferred to your

iPod. But you’ll see no indication in the Event screen—

or anywhere else, for that matter—that such alarms

exist (though you’ll have a pretty good idea when the

alarm goes off).