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As much as Apple has tried and succeeded at making the iOS environment extremely easy and intuitive to navigate, for someone coming over for the first time from, say, the Windows environment, it can take a little getting used to. For instance, people who have their first taste of Apple in an iPad often fret over how to transfer music from computer to iPad and not a race anything. It's actually quite easy, once you get a hang of how Apple sees these things.

On non-iDevice phones, MP3 players and so on, you basically just connect whatever it is to the computer, and you see it open up like it's just another folder on the computer, they can do whatever you want with the music files in there. You certainly could use Windows media player or any other music player to sync your MP3 player so that only those songs get added that weren't there the last time you connected to the computer.

But this isn't the primary way of going about it on the iPad. On all of Apple's portable devices, syncing the device to iTunes is the default way to go. You certainly could use your iPad or iPod like a mass storage device and simply move files back and forth. That isn't the the way they would prefer you to dis it though with. You have to do with through Apple’s media player software, iTunes for the best experience.

There was a report recently about how young people these days, while they do watch television shows like everyone else, like to watch those shows on their computers or their cell phones. More and more, television manufacturers are coming to understand that people don't just want to connect their TVs to their cable or satellite dish and watch stuff as it comes. They want to watch stuff that comes on their computers on demand., But they do want their TVs – to use as a monitor so that they can connect their laptops and iPads and cell phones to them and watch their on demand content on those big screens. If you want to do the same, but you're not quite as comfortable with all these new things the way young people are, here's how to connect a laptop to a TV.

Here's the thing – it doesn't take much to connect a laptop to a TV. The connections are easy. You just need the right kind of cable, and your three-quarters the way there. If your laptop is somewhat recent, you're sure to have an HDMI port on there. Chances are though, that your laptop isn't that recent, and you might not have one of these. What you might have instead is regular old-world VGA connection or, if you're lucky, a DVI connection.

If you have one of these, you're in luck. You get adapter wires that have an HDMI connection on the one side to plug into your TV, and a DVI or VGA connection – whichever you have on your laptop – on the other end. All you need to do is to plug each side into the right port, and you're practically there.