Here you are driving a new series of “First Steps”, for those who with his iDevice are beginners and need advice, starting from zero. Today we will explain how to sync your iTunes with iDevice and what you can synchronize. To start you connect your device to the computer where you installed the latest version of iTunes (download).
When you connect your device to your computer, items are automatically synchronized according to the preferences set in iTunes. For example, you can enter your computer’s email addresses of friends or family members, connect the device to sync, then unplug it and tap on the touch screen e-mail to a friend to send an e-mail.
If you want to sync only certain items, after you select your device in iTunes (left side) click on the respective panels in iTunes to specify which media and what information you want to sync from your computer to the device and then select “apply” in ‘ in the lower right corner of the window and your device will be synchronized. . Here’s what you could go to synchronize:
- Contact: names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and so on
- Calendars: appointments and events
- Notes: (* Sync with Mail for Mac OS X or Microsoft Outlook)
- Bookmarks to Web pages
- Music and audiobooks
- Images
- Podcast
- Movies and TV shows
- Applications
- Ringtones (for iPhone)
- Books
- Content on iTunes U
- Documents
Just set up a one-time items such as synchronize iTunes on your computer, and after this operation, connect the device to start synchronization.
Contacts, calendars, notes and bookmarks are synced from your computer or towards it, so if you add them, edit them or delete them from the device, the same operations are performed also on the computer and vice versa. You can also sync contacts with Address Book, Yahoo or Google.
The settings of your e-mail, music, movies, TV shows, podcasts and photos are synced only from your computer to the device (although you can import photos taken with iPhone to your computer and transfer the purchases from the device to iTunes). Using an iPad can also send photos to your computer (normally taken by sull’iPad Camera Connection Kit).
If you wish, you can set your device to synchronize it with only a part of the content on your computer. For example, if you want to sync only a group of contacts from address book or just some songs to specific playlists, to not overfill your device with all your music.