A Glossary of Terms in the jargon of iPod Touch
At the top are terms specific to the iPod Touch and to iPhones. Further down is a list of terms for iPods in general.- Specific iPod Touch and iPhone Terms
- Cover Flow
- Cover Flow is Apple's graphical user interface for navigating your music collection on your iPod Touch (or iPhone or Macintosh computer) by virtually "flipping" through pictures of album covers.
- Home Button
- That's the button on the face of the iPod Touch. If has several functions but the main one is that when you press the home button once it takes you back to the Touch's Home Screen.
- Home Screen
- The home screen is iPod Touch's and iPhone's equivlent of the "desktop" in Windows and OS-X. It is the home page of the Touch, from which you select and open Touch applications. Apple's term of choice is "home screen" but it is also called: "home page" or "springboard" (after the program called "SpringBoard" that builds and runs it.)
- Installer
- The "installer" application is the visible part of a "jailbreak'd" iPod Touch/iPhone. It appears as an icon on the Touch's Home Screen. As its name implies, it is used to install any of many useful and/or fun applications and tools in the jailbreak'd Touch.
- Jailbreak
- A method that lets Touch and iPhone owners install more useful and/or fun programs on their devices. Technically "jailbreaking" is a hack for getting around the restrictions and limits that are imposed on the standard-issue Touch and iPhone operating systems. Search the web for "jailbreak iPod Touch" for more info plus instructions and tools for jailbreaking.
(Note: For the most part when we say "Touch" or "iPod Touch" here read it as also referring to the iPhone. We'll avoid repeating "...and iPhone" over and over.)
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