Chapter 5. Touching Your Photos and Videos

With the iPod's Photos application, you can free your photos from your home computer and pass them around the room like you used to do with photos of old. Hand your iPod to your friends, and they can swipe through your photos in their hands without the need to huddle around a computer screen. In this chapter, you'll discover how to navigate your photo collections and share them with friends and family. You'll also become familiarized with all the video capabilities of the iPod touch.

The iPod touch's wide-screen playback offers beautiful, clear images at higher resolutions than ever before. Its touchscreen provides intuitive interaction controls. Its wireless Internet capabilities allow you to access a huge range of content—from YouTube to the Internet Archive to your own personal computer. Video on your iPod isn't just about buying a TV show on iTunes and synchronizing it. With your iPod touch, video has entered the Internet age. This chapter introduces you to both the expected and unexpected ways you can use video on your iPod.