2 Unpublished Macinstruct FAQs

What you're doing is selecting less and less songs from the first song and selecting all the songs to the last one, then making playlists of each one. This way you won't have to skip numerous of songs after recharging your iPod, but enable you to only skip a smaller number instead. You can split it as many times as you want, but you won't be able to flip back to songs that aren't in the playlist without going to another playlist.

	Q: I see most keyboard as only being PC-compatible, but use USB. Can I use these keyboards with my Mac?
	A: Yes. After connecting it to an open USB port, go to System Preferences, the row for hardware, and find the control panel for the keyboard and mouse. At the bottom left of the window is button labeled "Modifier Keys...". After clicking that, you can reconfigure the keyboard so that the key labeled "Alt" on the PC keyboard acts as the Macintosh Command key (also known as the open-Apple key), and the Start key as indicated by the Windows logo acts as the Macintosh Alt / Option key. Other keys above the function keys on newer PC keyboards and multi-function keyboards may not do the same functions on a Mac as they would on a PC, but this may or may not be able to be configured. Some keyboards, such as the Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000, have drivers available for both platforms that let you configure those extra function keys to your liking. Now you can use those cool backlit desktop keyboards on your ultra-cool Mac that are advertised to only run on PCs.
	Q: I love my iPod, but the original battery doesn't last as long. When I'm using it in my car I'm able to get through half the songs on it. Yet when I'm finished recharging it, it starts playing the songs from the beginning and not the song where I left off before it needed charged. I hate to have to keep scrolling through all the songs in alphabetical order by artist or band when I put it back in my car. The same thing happens even when the iPod doesn't need charged, but I add or remove songs from the iPod. Is there a way to overcome this?
	A: You'll need to keep the iPod charged to prevent having to restart the playlist from the beginning. This can do this the cheap way or free way. The cheap way is to simply get a car charger for your iPod. This way it's charging up as long as the car is on, (the light on the charger indicated power). The cheapest charger I found was from Big Lots for $6 and it fits most iPods, except for the shuffle.
	The free way involves making multiple playlists and save them to the iPod. Let's say you want to split your iPod list of songs into 6ths. When you connect your iPod to your Mac and load iTunes, the name of your iPod should appear under "DEVICES" in the sidebar. Click on the label "Music" of the iPod and add a new playlist. For this example name the playlist "1/6", highlight all of the songs on your ipod and drag them to the playlist named 1/6. Now create other playlists down the line, "2/6", "3/6" "4/6", "5/6", and "6/6". With the entire list of songs, scroll down a bit and highlight one of the songs 2/6th of the way down, then scroll to the bottom, hold the shift button (as you'll be selecting a range), then click the last song on the iPod. Now drag that whole list of highlighted songs over to the playlist 2/6. Repeat this process for the other playlists, scrolling down a bit each more to the start of the playlist.
	What you're doing is selecting less and less songs from the first song and selecting all the songs to the last one, then making playlists of each one. This way you won't have to skip numerous of songs after recharging your iPod, but enable you to only skip a smaller number instead. You can split it as many times as you want, but you won't be able to flip back to songs that aren't in the playlist without going to another playlist.