13. Hot Hacks and Cool Tools

If you've read this book from the beginning, you know that you can do a lot more with your iPod than just play music on it. You can bestow it with palmtop powers to display your contacts and calendar information. You can make it do doubleduty as a music player and a portable hard drive, as well as wire it up to be your portable jukebox for the car and home stereo.

But the 2003-and-later iPods have even further secret powers, including an undocumented recording feature. And you can make your iPod even more useful with dozens of AppleScripts designed to automate and augment certain iPod- related tasks . This chapter takes your iPod skills ”and your iPod ”to the next level.