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Syncing the iPhone
When you get right down to it, the iPhone is pretty much the
same idea as a PalmPilot: it’s a pocket-sized data bucket that
lets you carry around the most useful subset of the information
on your Mac or PC. in the iPhone’s case, that’s music, photos, movies,
calendar, address book, email settings, and Web bookmarks.
Transferring data between the iPhone and the computer is called synchronization,
or syncing. Syncing is sometimes a one-way street, and sometimes
it’s bidirectional:
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Contacts, calendars, and Web bookmarks get copied in both directions.
After a sync, your computer and your phone contain exactly the
same information. So if you enter an appointment on the iPhone, it gets
copied to your computer—and vice versa. If you edit the same contact or
appointment on both machines at once, your computer asks you which
one “wins.”
Audio files, video files, photos on your computer, and email-account
information go only one way: ComputerÆiPhone.
Photos you take with the iPhone’s camera get copied the other way:
iPhoneÆcomputer.
This chapter covers the ins and outs—or, rather, backs and forths—of
iPhone syncing.
Automatic Syncing
So how do you sync? You put the iPhone into its cradle. That’s it. As long as the
cradle is plugged into your computer’s USB port, iTunes opens automatically
and the synchronization begins. iTunes controls all iPhone synchronization,
acing as a the software bridge between phone and computer.
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