TidBITS Released eBook

Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music: iPod users who want to use their iPods as more than just music players can now find the latest information in Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music. In this 128-page electronic book, PDA expert Steve Sande provides real-world advice about tasks like using your iPod as a read-only PDA for calendar events and contacts, off-loading photos to it from a digital camera, backing up a computer to an iPod, setting an iPod to put you to sleep at night and wake you in the morning, and even keeping it ready as an emergency boot drive. Leaving no stone unturned, Steve also looks at other unusual iPod uses, such as giving presentations from an iPod, reading or listening to text-based ebooks, recording classes or meetings, and installing Linux on an iPod. As a bonus for readers wanting to buy a new or used iPod, a detailed appendix helps sort out the members of the current iPod family, and provides a complete timeline of iPod releases. Take Control of Your iPod: Beyond the Music is $10. [Bill Fox]