Most people rely on email to stay in touch with friends and business associates. Since staying in touch through email can be crucial for many people, you may want to synchronize your email accounts between your computer and your iPad.
Synchronizing email affects only your account settings, not the actual messages. Synchronized settings let you access your email from either your computer or your iPad without having to retype all those cryptic mail account settings.
After you've synchronized email account settings on your computer and iPad, you'll be able to read and access the same messages on either device. This lets you read a message on your iPad while you're on the road, then return back to your computer to read and respond to that message on your computer.
On the iPad, you can synchronize email account settings from the Mail app and the Mail program (Macintosh) or Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express (Windows).
If you often get good ideas and need to jot them down, you could scribble them on the nearest scrap of paper. However, it might be better to store them in the Notes app on your iPad and then synchronize those notes to the Mail program on a Macintosh or Microsoft Outlook on Windows. Notes act like miniature word processor documents for storing text.
Finally, you may have a group of favorite bookmarks that you'd like to transfer between your iPad's Safari browser and your computer web browser. By keeping your favorite bookmarks synchronized, you'll be able to visit your favorite websites whenever you need them.
To synchronize email, notes, and browser bookmarks, follow these steps:
Connect your iPad to your computer using the USB cable.
Run iTunes on your computer.
Click the name of your iPad in the Devices category.
Click the Info tab. The Info screen appears.
Scroll down the Info screen.
Check (or uncheck) the Sync Mail Accounts checkbox, as shown in Figure 20-3.
(Optional) Check (or uncheck) the checkboxes of the email accounts whose settings you want to synchronize with your iPad.
(Optional) Check (or uncheck) the Sync Safari bookmarks checkbox.
(Optional) Check (or uncheck) the Sync Notes checkbox.
(Optional) Check (or uncheck) the checkboxes in the Advanced category to define whether you want to erase information stored on your iPad and replace it with information on your computer.
Click Apply.
