Deep Thoughts From The Course

For those who don't know how to sync your IPod with your computer as well as add new music to ITunes and then add it to your IPod, here is how you do it...

First syncing your IPod to ITunes...

1. Connect your IPod to your computer using the USB cable (PC), firewire cable (MAC) then connect your IPod that cable.
   
2. Then open ITunes, when the IPod is recognized by your computer it will show up on the left hand side of the your ITunes window below the Library "tab" and the "Store" tab.
   
3. If you would like to choose what music you would like to put on your IPod, select your IPod and then along the top of the window there will be tabs that show up saying; Summary, Music, Podcasts, Photos, and Contacts.
4. On the Summary tab there is an area called Options with check boxes where you can select "Manually manage music." By selecting that it allows you to choose what music you want on your IPod.
   
5. Select the Music tab. You then need to click the "Sync Music" box, thus selecting that option, and then click the "Selected playlists" option.
   
6. From there the box below will not be grayed out and you can then select the playlist you want on your IPod.
   

Adding Music to ITunes...

1. First open ITunes and then put the CD you want in ITunes in your CD-Rom Drive of your computer.
   
2. When a prompt comes up to import the music you can either say "yes" or "no". By selecting "no" you can pick and choose which songs you want to import by either placing or removing the check marks in the the box next to the song you want to import. When you select which songs you want, select them and drag them into the playlists you want the songs to go into.
   
3. From there follow the instruction on adding the music onto your IPod.
   

Adding Playlists...

1. While importing the music you can select the "90's Music" link under the "Playlist" tab and then go to File, then select "New Playlist". You can also use hot keys, Control+N and then name the new playlist.
   
2. Then select the "music" link under the "Library" tab and select the music from that window into the newly named playlist.
   
3. Then follow the instructions on adding music onto your IPod. This allows that music to be put into the playlist so that you can select that "CD" or playlist on your IPod.
   

Man it's been almost a month since my last post! Here is a little update...

• School's out! Some of you may have read my earlier post saying that I was excited for school, well that changed about half way through the semester, last semester. That is when things started to get tough, because I ended up doing most of a 30 pages paper for one of my classes and most of the project that went along with it.
  
• Once school got out it was time for Christmas and New Years! They both were fun and very exciting. For Christmas Ann and I went to Arizona to be with my family for Christmas. We both got very exciting things for me it was a new golf club (driver) from Ann, which came in very useful the day after Christmas, because my Dad, Brooks, Nikki (who drove Brooks' golf cart and played a couple of wholes), Ann (who drove my golf cart) and I went a played the golf course near my parents house. We played scramble, you take the best shot and score of the group and that is the group score, and we shot 1 or 2 under par (I really don't remember). When we got home from Arizona; Ann and I went to her parents house where the biggest surprise of Christmas came (for me that is). When we started to open our presents from them they (Ann, her mom and her sister) gave me these gifts that were very cool (I think to through me off about the big gift we were going to give me). Then Lauren (Ann's sister) handed me a box and I opened it and freaked out! I freaked out for two, one because it was something that I really wasn't expecting because Ann's mom and dad gave me something similar the year before, and I totally thought that they got a new laptop (because I have been talking about getting a new one for months) or a Sector Nine long board (skateboard) for the same reason as the laptop. So when I saw that the box was a Nintendo Wii I was totally excited. So like I said, Christmas was awesome!

Well that is basically the update. Now the big thing that is coming up, is my biannual business trip to Dallas, TX. This is because the industry I work in has a show there to show off the new product and to allow my customers to buy new items for their display and get some discounts or dating terms, etc. So that is the next big thing for me.

I hope that everyone has a Happy and Prosperous New Year this coming year.