Welcome - our tutorials website is dedicated to helping you make the best of Apple's "iEcosystem" of software and hardware, through richly illustrated and free tutorials on the iPod (the iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic, and iPod shuffle), the iPhone, and iTunes. All tutorials on this website are focused on both Windows and Mac operating system, especially when our iTunes tutorials, which represent the bulk of the activities you will perform at a computer when managing your iPod or iPhone content.
The first series of tutorials is devoted to iTunes, Apple's piece of software available for free to both Mac and Windows users. Our iTunes tutorial guides you through the steps of installing (Windows) and configuring iTunes, organizing your music, importing and exporting songs and playlists, using the iTunes online music store, syncing your iPods or iPhone, etc
Start learning about iTunes with our iTunes' main features tutorial: in these tutorials, you will discover main features like the iTunes Browser, the iTunes Mini Player, the iTunes Equalizer, how to customize these, and lesser known functionality to make the best of your iTunes experience. In our iTunes playlists tutorial, you will learn things like how to create a playlist, how to create a smart playlist, how to burn a CD with iTunes, and much more!
In addition to iPods and iPhone, we'll explain how to make the best of the newcomer in Apple's family of portable devices, namely the iPad: we'll start with iPad tutorials for beginners, and progressively move on to more technical and advanced tutorials to bring everyone up to speed. Here's the content of our iPad Tutorial, which covers Mac OS X and Windows 7 / Vista / XP as applicable:
Now the most popular MP3 / music / media players on the market, Apple's iPod lineup has at least one iPod to satisfy everyone: the amazing iPod touch, the iPod nano (the most functionality in the smallest package combo), the super storage iPod classic (ideal for iTunes backup and travels), and the ultra portable iPod shuffle.
We'll start our series of iPod tutorials with the iPod nano: from the combined point of view of portability and features, the nano is a truly amazing gadget; as you'll discover throughout our iPod nano tutorials, calling it an MP3 Player is inaccurate, if not downright insulting: the latest nano comes with a built-in microphone, camera, FM (radio) tuner, and an accelerometer (just like the iPhone and iPod touch). This type of hardware specs bring the iPod nano much closer to a full-fledged PDA! Let's start learning more about the nano in the following introductory tutorials for beginners, which gradually build up your knowledge to more advanced topics:
One of the oldest MP3 players in Apple's iPod lineup, the iPod shuffle is one of the clearest signs that Apple listens to its customers: when the 3rd generation iPod shuffle moved away from the click wheel and small square form factor of the gen 2 shuffle, a disappointed reception brought back as 4th generation iPod shuffle an even better version of the second generation player! In our iPod shuffle tutorial, you will get a thorough overview of everything that deceptively simple iPod has to offer.