HiFi Blog: digital audio goodness

You can use your iPod to do more than just play music, store photos and watch videos. Your iPod comes with a large amount of storage that can also be used to store files of many types.

To do this, you will first need to setup the preferences in iTunes properly. To do this select the iPod options button in iTunes and then select “Enable Disk Use”. Sync your iPod, and now your iPod should show as an extra drive on your system.

You can now drag and drop files onto your iPod just as if you were using an external hard drive. If you find that your iPod provides more space than you would ever use for music files, images or video files then take advantage of the extra space by protecting your valuable documents.

It’s a fact that most people replace their computers frequently. When replacing your computer, there are some files that you may forget to save that would cause hardship if lost. From job resume to emails from loved ones, some files can never be replaced or they would take up valuable time and resources to recreate them.

Emails from loved one can never be replaced, but they can be stored safely on your iPod by simply pasting the messages into a text file and moving the file onto your iPod. Job resumes, on the other hand, can be replaced, but recreating your resume can be a very tedious task. When storing your resume on an iPod, you can retrieve it as it needs to be printed or updated, and resave the updated version for use in the future.

If you are an author, using an iPod to protect your writings is a perfect solution to help prevent your work form being stolen or plagiarized. Unless you live alone and keep your computer under lock and key, your writings are not safe. A loved one using your computer could read your work and like it so much that they decide to share it with a friend or two. Before you know it, your work is no longer private but has been shared by hundreds of people all over the Internet.

By saving your work in a doc file, and moving it over to your iPod for storing when you’re away form your computer, you can guarantee that your work will not be seen by anyone else, nor shared in any manner. Your loved ones would never think to look on your iPod, and would have no reason to do so. And even if they wanted to, they would probably have a very difficult time trying to figure out how to view the document on the iPod, and would never think to move it back to the computer for viewing. Most doc files cannot be viewed on an iPod, but they can be safely stored in the extra storage space.

Everyone has files that are important and that need to be backed up. By using your iPod for file storage, you can save those important files from prying eyes and they can be grabbed on the go in case of fire or flooding. You can’t grab your computer if your home is on fire, but if you keep your iPod in a location where you can grab it quickly without jeopardizing your safety, then you can save those files that are most important to you.