iPod touch (Pete's notes)

• iPhone Configuration Utility
• Wireless on an iPod Touch
• Making Recordings
• Reading PDFs with GoodReader

iPhone Configuration Utility

To look at the console messages on the iTouch, download the "iPhone Configuration Utility" from Apple. Connect the iTouch cable and run the utility. Select the iTouch, then highlight the "Console" tab.

It seems that the iPhone Configuration Utility is meant to help corporations manage large sets of employee iPhones. For me, it's only useful as a way to inspect the console log messages, mostly to see why the iPod Touch won't connect to the network.

Wireless on an iPod Touch

To get the MAC address of the iPod Touch

Do Settings -> General -> About -> and scroll down to see the MAC address, Bluetooth address, and serial number of the iPod Touch.

at work

To set up the iPod Touch for the "UCAR Testing" network,

1. On a Mac, web to https://netserver.ucar.edu
2. Click "Log In"
3. Click on Create a new nonce (login required)
4. Click "Submit". You'll see a page that has a new, unique nonce.

1. On the iPod Touch, connect to a network that doesn't require authentication, like "UCAR" or "Siemsen"
2. Open Safari
3. web to https://netserver.ucar.edu
4. Click "Redeem a nonce"
5. Fill in the "Nonce" field with the nonce that your Mac in displaying. Careful to explicitly lowercase the first letter.
6. Fill in the "Username" field with the "siemsen". Careful to explicitly lowercase the "s".
7. Click "Done"
8. Click "Submit"
9. Click Download Certificate. This will open the Install Profile app.
10. Click "Install"
11. If it displays a dialog that says "Unsigned Profile", click "Install Now"
12. When it prompts for a password, enter the nonce.
13. It'll display a "Profile Installed" screen that says the certificate is "Not Trusted". Good.
14. Click "Done"
15. Exit Safari
16. Open "Settings"
17. Open "Wi-Fi"
18. Touch the blue arrow next to "UCAR Internal"
19. Click "Forget this Network"
20. Click "Forget"
21. Go back to "Wi-Fi Networks"
22. Click "Other"
23. Type in "UCAR Internal"
24. For "Username", enter "siemsen"
25. Set the "Mode" to "EAP-TLS"
26. Click "Identity"
27. Click on an identity, probably the bottom one on the list
28. Set the "Mode" to "EAP-TLS"
29. Click "Join"
30. Click "Accept"
31. You should be connected to "UCAR Internal", and when you connect in the future, you won't have to type a password.

Connect to the internal "UCAR Internal" wireless network. See the 802.11i User Docs.

The iPod Touch has a Cisco VPN client under Settings -> General -> Network, then IPSEC, but you don't need the VPN. That's why I don't have it configured in the Touch.

Syncing

1Password

For information about how I sync 1Password among cisl-lorient, galway and the 2 Touches, see my 1Password notes.

OmniFocus

For information about how I sync OmniFocus among cisl-lorient, galway and my Touch, see my OmniFocus notes.

Address Book, iCal and Notes

IPod Touch calendar: when I travel, I have to set not only the timezone for the iPod Touch, but the timezone for the calendar application. Go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars -> Time Zone Support.

Notes that I take on my iPod Touch sync with my laptop when I connect the USB cable. There is apparently support for syncing via MobileMe, but I couldn't get it to work, so I sync Notes only to the laptop. To set up get Notes syncing, connect the USB cable, go to iTunes, select the iPod Touch, select "Info", go to "Other", turn on "Sync notes", and then CLICK "APPLY"!!! That last step is easy to miss and will cause you to wonder why it doesn't work. Then reconnect the iPod Touch. You should find the Notes in Mail in the REMINDERS/Notes folder.

Music and podcasts

iTunes music and podcasts sync whenever I connect the recharge cable to cisl-lorient. The iTouch can't hold all my music, so I sync only these playlists:

• Purchased
• My Top Rated Blues
• My Top Rated Rock
• Decembrists

Making Recordings

Use iTalk (not Voice Memos) to record audio. To transfer recordings to the Mac, connect the iTouch and cisl-lorient to the UCAR Internal wireless network and run iTalk Sync on cisl-lorient.

Reading PDFs with GoodReader

To copy a PDF file from the laptop to the iPod Touch:

1. Connect the Touch to the laptop
2. Go to iTunes
3. Apps
4. scroll down to File Share
5. Highlight GoodReader
6. drag files from Finder into the GoodReader Documents window
7. On the Touch, start GoodReader
8. Look in the library