5. Mail, Contacts, and Calendar

Can’t figure out how to copy your notes and screen shots from your iPod to a computer that’s not synced with your iPod or how to receive documents that you can view on your iPod? Or is your life so tied to email that you can’t stand to be away from your computer for more than a couple of hours? If so, you and the iPod’s Mail application are about to become best friends.

Speaking of friends, little good it is to have the desire to email your friends from your iPod only to discover that you can’t recall their addresses. Fortunately, you needn’t possess an infallible memory for this kind of information when you can store it all in the Contacts application.

It’s unlikely that you’ll keep those friends if you routinely ...

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