Information Technology Reference
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Although it's possible to create new events, contacts, and notes on the iPad
(detailed in this chapter), most of that information probably already exists
on your computer. There are two ways of transferring it to the iPad and
keeping it updated: syncing through iTunes over the dock connector cable,
or wirelessly using MobileMe, Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft Exchange.
iTunes is the gateway between your data and the iPad, whether the
data happens to be your music library or your schedule. With the iPad
connected, do the following:
1.
Select the iPad in the sidebar and click the Info button (
Figure 10.1
).
You'll find categories for contacts, calendars, “other” (notes and book-
marks), and mail accounts. (For details on mail accounts, see Chapter 4.)
Figure 10.1
Syncing info
in iTunes
2.
Click the category checkboxes to enable syncing those items.
Under Mac OS X, contacts and calendars are synced with Address
Book and iCal (or, more specifically, the underlying databases that
those applications access). Under Windows, choose the data source
from the pop-up menu in the category name; contacts, for example,
