8. Photos, Camera, and YouTube

iOS devices are audio wonders, playing music when called upon to do so. But they’re also visual delights—and no, I’m not referring to their lustrous design. I’m talking pictures (both those you take and those you view), the moving pictures you can record with a 4G iPod touch, iPhone 4, or iPhone 4S; and those streamed from the free Web-based video-sharing service YouTube.

In this chapter, I turn to the visual: the iPhone’s and iPod touch’s photo, camera, and YouTube capabilities.

You Ought to Be in Pictures

Tapping Photos in the iPhone’s or iPod touch’s Home screen is the digital equivalent of flipping open your wallet to reveal a seemingly endless stream of pictures of the kids, the dog, and that recent trip to ...

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