Steps to automatically Sync the iPad

Automatically Sync the iPad

 
As with every iPod model that's come before it, the iPad offers the simple and effective Autosync feature. Autosyncing automatically puts a copy of every song, podcast, and video in your iTunes library right onto your player. In fact, the first time you connect your iPad to your computer, the Setup Assistant offers to copy all the music in your iTunes library over to your new tablet. If you choose to do that, your iPad has already been set for autosync.

If you added more music to iTunes since that first encounter, the steps for loading the new goods onto your iPad couldn't be easier: Plug the little end of the USB cable into your Windows PC or Macintosh. Plug the cable's flat Dock Connector end into the bottom of the iPad. Sit back and let iTunes leap into action, syncing away and doing all that heavy lifting for you personally.

You can tell the sync magic is working because iTunes gives you a progress report towards the top of its window that says "Syncing iPad…". When iTunes tells you the iPad's update is complete, you're free to unplug the cable and take off. Autosync is a beautiful thing, but it is not for everyone - especially if you have more than 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes price of stuff in your iTunes library. In that case, iTunes fits what it really can on the iPad.
 

Sync Music

 
Once your iPad's connected and turning up in iTunes, you can modify all of the settings that control how are you affected your tablet. Thanks to iTunes 9's long, scrollable screen filled with checkboxes and lists in most categories, it's easier than ever to get precisely what you want on your 'Pad. If you want to sync up all or just some of your music, click the background music tab.

In addition to synchronizing all your songs and playlists by title, you can sync them by artist and genre as well. Just turn on the checkboxes next to the items you want to transfer to the iPad, click the Apply button, and then the Sync button to move your music.
 

Sync Video

 
In iTunes, videos fall into two main classifications: Movies and Television shows. Each type has its own tab in iTunes. Full-length movies are huge space hogs and can take up a gigabyte or more of precious drive space - which is a significant chunk of the 16-gigabyte iPad. Serious movie-watchers tend to move films off and on portable devices. So iTunes provides you with the option to load all, selected, or even just unwatched films. To change up what's playing at your portable cineplex, click the Movies tab when your iPad's attached to your computer and turn on the checkboxes next to your selections.

Since the iTunes Store sells Television shows by season or individual episode, iTunes enables you to sync TV shows in several ways: by show, by selected episodes, through the number of unwatched episodes, and so on. Click the TV Shows tab with your iPad connected and make your choices. Once you decide what movies and Television shows you want to port to the tablet, click the Apply button and then Sync.
 

Sync Photos

 
The iPad, in case you have not noticed yet, constitutes a handsome electronic picture frame. To get your pictures on the website, you can sync photos from your computer's existing photo-management programs, like Adobe Photoshop Elements - or perhaps a folder of photos.

To inform iTunes which pictures you want to capture along on the iPad, click the Photos tab. Here, you can choose the photo program or folder you need to pull the pictures from, and then switch on checkboxes next to the photo albums you would like on the iPad. If you use iPhoto '09 on the Mac, you might also need the options to pull over specific iPhoto events, as well as Faces and Places. When you've picked your pictures, click the Apply tab and then Sync.