Create collections on-the-go on your iPhone and iPod touch. Or sync your DVDpedia, Bookpedia, CDpedia and Gamepedia data from your Mac.

Pocketpedia lets you create regular collections (marked with a blue collection icon), wish lists (marked with a yellow star) and borrowed collections (marked with a red cross). To create a new collection, tap the plus button on the collection screen.

Search all the Amazon sites - US, Canada, UK, Germany, France and Japan - for information about DVDs, CDs, books and video games.

Enter a search keyword or UPC into the search field and choose the media and site you want to search. Amazon will automatically return the results in batches of 10. Tap 'Ten more results' to get the next batch.

See your Amazon search results, even after your wireless connection is gone. The results are stored locally so you can access them again at a later point. Tap an entry to see the details or to add it to your Pocketpedia collection.

To sync information from your Mac to Pocketpedia,

• Run your Pedia program(s) and Pocketpedia.
• Make sure both your Mac and your iPhone/iPod touch are connected to the same wireless network.
• Tap the 'Sync' button on the collection screen.
• If you have more than one Pedia program, choose which one you'd like to sync with.
• Authorize the process on your Mac (first time sync only).

Troubleshooting:
Be sure to connect the Wi-Fi option on your iPhone/iPod touch. You can do this in Settings > Wi-Fi.

If you do not have a wireless network, you can create a temporary one with your Mac. Turn on the Airport and choose "Create Network" from the Airport menu at the top of your screen. Then connect your iPhone to that new network.

If the sync button doesn't appear in Pocketpedia, make sure you have your Firewall turned off or set to allow connections with the Pedias. (That option is available in the System Preferences/Sharing/Firewall if you're on Tiger 10.4 or System Preferences/Security/Firewall if you're on Leopard 10.5.)

The menu bar lets you see additional information about an entry.

• tap the speech bubble to see reviews (those voted most helpful on Amazon)
• tap the horizontal lines to see the summary for the entry
• tap the rectangle to see the large cover image

Tip: if you'd like to see the summary and reviews full screen, tap the rectangle for the cover first and then the review or summary.

Tap the green organizing button to add an entry to your collections. If you don't have a collection yet, Pocketpedia will prompt you to create one. Or if you have more than one collection already, choose which collection you'd like to add the entry to.

In the results, after an entry has been added to Pocketpedia, the organizing button changes to a collection button. Tapping it takes you to the entry in the collection. To add more than one copy of an entry, use the action button (see below).

In the collections, the organizing button changes to an action button. The action button lets you move, copy, borrow or delete an entry. To delete a collection, use the swipe movement (see below).

To delete an entry or a collection, swipe your finger across it and tap the Delete button. Alternatively, use the action button on the details view of an entry.

The stars represent the Amazon rating for the entry. If the entry is in one of your Pocketpedia collections, assign your own star rating by dragging your finger across the stars. (This is not yet possible with entries synched from the Pedias because there is no backwards synching at the moment.)

Tap the 'Go to Amazon' button to be taken directly to the entry's page on Amazon.

When you sync your database from the Mac, Pocketpedia automatically takes over the sort order you have set in the Pedias. So if your Library is sorted by 'Title' and your Wish List is sorted by 'Release', these sort orders will be kept in Pocketpedia. At the bottom of each collection in Pocketpedia you will see what the collection is sorted by and how many entries it contains.

To sort a collection in Pocketpedia, tap the action button at the top of the collection and choose which field you'd like to sort by.