McGraw-Hill Education (Asia)

How to Do Everything iPad ©  2011

Authors: Ballew, Joli
ISBN-13: 9780071748698
ISBN 10: 0071748695
©2011 | 1st Edition | 336 pages , Softcover
Pub Date: July 2010
Price: US$ 25.00
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Tap into every feature of your iPad!

Get the most out of the revolutionary iPad with help from this easy-to-follow guide. Covering both the Wi-Fi only and Wi-Fi + 3G models, How to Do Everything: iPad shows you how to quickly master the basics, such as customizing your iPad, using the Multi-Touch screen, accessing the Internet through wireless and cellular connections, syncing, and backing up your data. Learn to use Mail, Safari, iBooks, iTunes, Maps, the App Store, and much more. View photos and video, create a slideshow, watch movies, use GPS, and play games. If you’re looking for a book as cutting-edge and streamlined as the iPad itself, you found it!

1. Configure, register, customize, sync, and back up your iPad
2. Select a data plan for your iPad 3G
3. Connect to Wi-Fi networks, access the web, and surf with Safari
4. Set up Mail and integrate with various email accounts
5. Install iBooks and download and read books
6. Download and run cool apps from the App Store
7. View, manage, and share photos and videos
8. Set up iTunes, sync music and media from your computer, download songs, and create playlists
9. Rent, purchase, download, and watch movies and TV shows
10. Manage your contacts and schedule and keep notes
11. Navigate with GPS and Maps
12. Discover, download, and play awesome games
13. Take advantage of the iPad’s built-in accessibility features, including VoiceOver and Zoom

Features

1. Personalize your iPad with applications, ringtones, themes, skins, and wallpapers and explore iPad accessories
2. Use iPad Desktop Software to synchronize the iPad with your computer
3. Download and access e-books, online newspapers, magazines, videos, movies, blogs, journals, and educational materials like college textbooks and lab books
4. Use the operating system to navigate file folders, applications, and perform computer-related tasks
5. Place and answer phone calls, use voice activation, add phone contacts, and incorporate a Bluetooth headset
6. Send and receive text, picture, and video SMS, MMS, and e-mail messages, and explore additional messaging options (Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, AOL, and others)
7. Find Wi-Fi hotspots, surf the Internet, research, and locate and read online publications, and explore GPS and Maps
8. Learn about networking options including Ethernet, ad-hoc, Bluetooth, wireless, and connect the iPad to your home entertainment center or game console
9. Readers quickly learn how to use basic features like making phone calls, sending text messages, and managing contacts, as well as listening to music, taking and viewing photos, working with e-mail, creating contacts and synching data with their computer
10. Readers learn about things they did not expect to see in the iPad, including using GPS and maps, working with an actual “Tablet computer”, and easily obtaining downloadable electronic publications in the nature of books, magazines, newsletters, journals, and blogs in the fields of entertainment, sports, science, history, culture, celebrities, news, current events, politics, technology, and education
11. Readers learn how to locate and connect to Wi-Fi hotspots, choose an Internet subscription plan, surf the Internet, and perform Internet-related tasks, like shopping, updating their device, signing into Web sites, and managing bookmarks and cookies.
12. Contents are arranged so readers can either work through the book chapter by chapter or use the book as reference, using the Table of Contents and Index as a guide
13. See what fun and games are available at the App Store, what can be acquired from iTunes, and download and install 3rd party applications created for the iPad
14. Learn how to take handwritten notes on the iPad and translate them into typed pages, how to navigate the mobility options, how to video conference with others, and how to use the computer functions

Author Profile

 
Joli Ballew (Garland, TX) Microsoft MVP, MCSE, MCDST, A+, and MCTS: Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2007 is the extremely popular, bestselling author of Degunking Windows (Paraglyph Press), voted IPPY’s Best Computer Book of the Year in 2005. Joli has written over 30 books overall, including but not limited to How to Do Everything with Windows Vista Media Center (McGraw-Hill), How to Do Everything with BlackBerry Storm 2 (McGraw-Hill), PC Magazine’s Office 2007 Solutions (Wiley), Breakthrough Windows Vista (Microsoft Press), and 5 books in Pearson’s Brilliant and In Simple Steps series including Brilliant Windows 7 for the Over 50′s and Computer Essentials with Windows 7. Beyond her book writing career, Joli has written articles and given live webcasts for Microsoft’s Windows XP Expert Zone, and is currently writing web pages for Microsoft’s new Malaysia web site for small- to medium-sized businesses. She was the managing editor for BrightHub.com’s Home Office channel and still currently writes for the site, teaches classes weekly at Eastfield and Collin community colleges in Dallas and Collin County, Texas, and has created training videos for Keystone Learning. She has also served as technical editor and/or contributor on myriad book titles.

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