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Mac-cessibility Quick Tip #21

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Mac-cessibility Quick Tips is a feature of Lioncourt.com to provide brief tips and tricks to assist blind and visually impaired Mac users improve their Apple experience. Not all tips will be specific to VoiceOver, and most will work on either Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Now for this week’s tip!

So, you’ve got your fresh new iPod Nano 4G with speaking menus, but that’s just not enough. You’d like to personalize your iPod with a custom name that will be shown in the iTunes Sources table and in the Finder. Here’s how it’s done.


  1. Navigate to your iPod in the Sources table in iTunes 8.
  2. Press Command-Return. VoiceOver will announce "Unknown".
  3. Type the name you want. Note that VoiceOver does not give any feed back during this step, so type carefully. If you make a mistake, you can always try to rename your iPod again by following these same steps.
  4. Press Return.

That’s it! Enjoy your freshly renamed iPod. And, as always, listen without prejudice!

Thanks to Shane Jackson for the tip.