IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi! I'm Chris Breen and I'm here to
introduce you to iPad Tips and Tricks.
| | 00:08 | In this course, I'll offer setup and
productivity tips to make working with your
| | 00:12 | first and second generation
iPad easier and more efficient.
| | 00:16 | We'll start with the basics, like
understanding the iPad's touch-based interface
| | 00:20 | and configuring email accounts.
| | 00:22 | I'll show you options for opening a
variety of file types and managing files in
| | 00:27 | third-party iPad applications.
| | 00:29 | I'll show you how to put the new built-in
cameras to good use with the Photos
| | 00:33 | app, Photo Booth, and FaceTime.
| | 00:36 | Finally, we'll look at a variety of
ways to connect peripherals, such as
| | 00:39 | printers, microphones, and
musical instruments to your iPad.
| | 00:43 | Although this course isn't a complete
survey of the iPad, you need very little
| | 00:47 | experience with it to follow along.
| | 00:49 | Those of you who've spent quality time
with iOS devices such as the iPhone and
| | 00:53 | iPod Touch will find helpful
tips and techniques as well.
| | 00:57 | Now let's get started
with iPad Tips and Tricks.
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1. New in iOS 6Taking advantage of Siri| 00:00 | With iOS 6, Apple brings its intelligent
assistant Siri to the iPad 3, iPad 4, and iPad Mini.
| | 00:07 | In this video, we'll take a look at how
you can interact with Siri on your iPad.
| | 00:11 | Now I'm working on an iPad Mini.
| | 00:13 | In a few seconds, I'll press and hold on the
Home button and after a short while, Siri
| | 00:18 | appears with its characteristic beeping sound.
| | 00:21 | Let's see how this works.
| | 00:25 | "How do I get from Chicago
to Fort Dodge, Iowa?"
| | 00:30 | Female Speaker: Getting
directions from Chicago to Fort Dodge.
| | 00:38 | With that, Siri launches the
Maps App and gives me directions.
| | 00:42 | Now once I get to Fort Dodge,
I may want something to eat.
| | 00:47 | "Where can I find food in Fort Dodge, Iowa?"
| | 00:50 | Female Speaker: I found 15
places in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
| | 00:56 | The nearest is Buford's Steak House BBQ.
| | 00:59 | It's about 1511.5 miles south.
| | 01:03 | Would you like to get
directions or skip to the next one?
| | 01:09 | Now as it turns out, it's not actually over a
thousand miles from Fort Dodge to the steak
| | 01:13 | house, but rather that's the distance from
my current location to this restaurant.
| | 01:17 | Now while I'm here, I can tap on the Yelp
rating and when I do, I can see some information
| | 01:23 | from Yelp about this restaurant.
| | 01:24 | For now, I'll tap on Done.
| | 01:28 | Now before travelling to Fort Dodge, I may
want to find out how cold it is, so I tap
| | 01:32 | on the Siri button.
| | 01:35 | "What's the forecast for Fort Dodge, Iowa?"
| | 01:38 | Female Speaker: Some bad weather coming up for Fort
Dodge, IA through Wednesday, down to 9 degrees.
| | 01:46 | Hmm. I think maybe I'm going to delay my trip.
| | 01:48 | That sounds a little chilly to me.
| | 01:50 | You can also look up
information about contacts with Siri.
| | 01:53 | For example, "what's
Christian Fletcher's work address?"
| | 02:01 | Female Speaker: Here's the work
address for Christian Fletcher.
| | 02:04 | Speaking of contacts, I can
create events around contacts.
| | 02:10 | "Schedule lunch with
Christian Fletcher next Monday."
| | 02:16 | Female Speaker: What
time is your event?
| | 02:18 | Christopher Breen: Noon.
| | 02:21 | Female Speaker: Okay.
Here's your meeting.
| | 02:23 | Note that you already have an event at 12
p.m. Shall I schedule it anyway?
| | 02:30 | "No. Change the time to 1 p.m."
| | 02:33 | Female Speaker: Okay. I'll make
that change to your event.
| | 02:36 | Are you ready for me to schedule it?
| | 02:39 | Christopher Breen: Yes.
| | 02:42 | Female Speaker: Your event with
Christian Fletcher is scheduled for 1 p.m.
| | 02:46 | January 21, 2013.
| | 02:49 | The event is titled "Lunch."
| | 02:51 | So Siri is smart enough to know that I have
a conflict at that time and offers to help
| | 02:56 | me change it, which we just did.
| | 02:58 | Now if I'd like to see the details of that, I
can simply tap on the lunch entry and the
| | 03:04 | calendar's event opens
and it shows me my event.
| | 03:07 | I can also use Siri to launch apps.
| | 03:10 | "Launch clock."
| | 03:13 | Female Speaker: Which app would you like
to use, Clock or Clock Pro?
| | 03:18 | "Clock Pro."
| | 03:23 | Siri knows that I have two apps that begin
with the word "Clock" and so it asked me which
| | 03:27 | one I'd like to use.
| | 03:28 | In this case, I chose Clock
Pro and Siri launched it.
| | 03:32 | Siri is also smart about sports.
| | 03:34 | As in, "What's the score of 49ers game?
| | 03:39 | Female Speaker: The 49ers overcame the
Cardinals by a score of 27 to 13 on December 30, 2012.
| | 03:48 | I can also get some statistics.
| | 03:51 | "What's Buster Posey's batting average?"
| | 03:53 | Female Speaker: The season hasn't started
yet, but Buster Posey had a batting average
| | 03:59 | of .336 last season.
| | 04:02 | Siri can also help to entertain me.
| | 04:05 | "Show me movies in Santa Barbara, California."
| | 04:09 | Female Speaker: Okay. I found some movies
playing in Santa Barbara today.
| | 04:15 | If I want more information about a particular
movie I just tap on it, and there's the information.
| | 04:22 | Siri can also play music.
| | 04:26 | "Play Christopher Breen."
| | 04:27 | Female Speaker: Okay. Christopher
Breen coming up.
| | 04:33 | (music playing)
| | 04:52 | That's perfectly lovely! But
let's stop that playback for now.
| | 04:57 | If I need to make a bar bet,
"What's the distance to Saturn?"
| | 05:01 | Female Speaker: Checking
my sources. I found this.
| | 05:07 | Indeed that's more information than I need.
| | 05:10 | However, Siri is not perfect.
| | 05:14 | "What's the temperature of the sun?"
| | 05:16 | Female Speaker: The high for Sunday will be
52 degrees, and the low will be 32 degrees.
| | 05:23 | Now I have to think that that must be a local
forecast and not the actual temperature of the sun.
| | 05:28 | At least I hope not.
| | 05:29 | Siri is important enough to Apple that we're
sure to see it get smarter and offer more
| | 05:33 | capabilities over the coming months and years.
| | 05:37 | "Goodbye Siri!"
| | 05:38 | Female Speaker: Nice talking with you.
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| Syncing photos with Photo Stream| 00:00 | If you want to share photos between your iPad
and your computer, you can always sync them
| | 00:04 | through iTunes, or I suppose you could go to
the trouble of emailing them to yourself.
| | 00:09 | But why bother when there's a way to sync
images between all your iOS devices in your
| | 00:13 | computer without the need of a single cable?
| | 00:16 | You can do all this using Photo Stream, one of the
components of Apple's free online service called iCloud.
| | 00:24 | I'll tap on Settings, and then I'll tap on
iCloud, and then I'll tap on Photo Stream, and
| | 00:28 | you see two options: My Photo
Stream and Shared Photo Streams.
| | 00:33 | The first tells my iPad to share any photos
I take with its camera to iCloud and to any
| | 00:38 | other devices of mine that
have Photo Stream enabled.
| | 00:41 | The second option allows me to share my Photo
Stream with selected people as well as the
| | 00:45 | public at large, and I can subscribe to other people's
Photo Streams. So let's walk through the process.
| | 00:51 | Back to the Home screen, I will now tap on
the Camera app and I will take a picture of
| | 00:55 | this lovely pencil sharpener here
and I will return to the Home screen.
| | 01:01 | Now I'll go to the Photos app, I tap on my
Photo Stream, and now it has just the images
| | 01:06 | I've stored there.
| | 01:07 | However, look what happened.
| | 01:09 | Here's the picture of the pencil sharpener.
| | 01:11 | This indicates that the image has been set
up to iCloud and then the iCloud is syncing
| | 01:15 | the image with all my devices.
| | 01:17 | Go back to my Photo Stream.
| | 01:19 | Now I can make these images
available to other people.
| | 01:21 | To do that, I'll tap on Edit and I'll
tap a few images and then I tap Share.
| | 01:27 | Now I tap Photo Stream and
up pops this little sheet.
| | 01:31 | There are few things I can do here.
| | 01:33 | First of all, I could enter some names, so
let's see, I may send this one to Christian
| | 01:38 | Fletcher, and maybe I'll
send this to Bubba as well.
| | 01:42 | The reason this works is because Photo Stream
is aware of my contacts, so it will search
| | 01:46 | my contacts for any matching letters.
| | 01:49 | The other option is to simply tap on the plus
button and it will show you all your contacts
| | 01:53 | and then you just add them by tapping.
| | 01:55 | I can then name my Photo Stream
and then I can click on Next.
| | 02:00 | At this point I can add a comment if I like, and
then tap on Post, and here's my second Photo Stream.
| | 02:08 | The people you've added will be
notified by email about your shared stream.
| | 02:12 | That message will include a link so
that they can visit your stream.
| | 02:14 | In addition, an entry for your shared stream
will appear on their iOS device as long as
| | 02:19 | it's running iOS 6 or later, or their computer asking
them to accept your invitation to view their stream.
| | 02:25 | Once they do, they have access to
that stream until you revoke it.
| | 02:29 | Well, how do you do that?
| | 02:31 | Once again, tap on Edit, tap on the Photo Stream,
and you'll see this Edit Photo Steam window.
| | 02:36 | If you'd like to delete somebody, just tap on
their name and then tap Remove Subscriber.
| | 02:40 | Yes, I really want to do that,
and your other subscribers remain.
| | 02:44 | You can also add other people if you
like, just as we did in the past.
| | 02:47 | I'll cancel that.
| | 02:49 | Or if you like, you can delete the entire Photo Stream,
which means nobody has an access to it at all.
| | 02:54 | You can also share your Photo
Stream on a public website.
| | 02:57 | To do that, flip the switch on, and below,
you'll see a link to that stream that anybody
| | 03:02 | who has the link can visit, and if you'd like,
you can share the link and you have a number
| | 03:06 | of options for doing that.
| | 03:07 | You can email it, you can message it to somebody,
Twitter or Facebook, or you can copy it and
| | 03:12 | then paste that link into something else.
| | 03:14 | That's the basics of Photo
Stream on an iOS device.
| | 03:17 | Now let's turn to the Mac.
| | 03:19 | Here on the Mac, once again, we'll go to System
Preferences, click on iCloud, and we'll click
| | 03:25 | on the Options button next to Photo Stream.
| | 03:28 | Here you see the same two options that appear on an
iOS device, My Photo Stream and Shared Photo Stream.
| | 03:34 | We want both of those left on, so I'll click on
OK and we will quit out of System Preferences.
| | 03:40 | Given that there's no photos application on the Mac,
where do we go now? We go to iPhoto of course.
| | 03:45 | I will launch iPhoto, and when I do, you'll
notice that there is a Photo Stream entry
| | 03:50 | under the Web heading.
| | 03:52 | With it selected, I can see the images in my
Photo Stream including the pencil sharpener
| | 03:56 | image that I just captured on my iPad.
| | 03:59 | I can easily add images to this Photo Stream
just by choosing an image in my library or
| | 04:03 | in an album and dragging it to the Photo
Stream entry, so let's see, we'll go to Outdoors,
| | 04:07 | I'll grab this image here, and I
just drag it into Photo Stream.
| | 04:11 | It will ask me where I want to share it.
| | 04:13 | Put it in to my Photo Stream.
| | 04:15 | and any second now, we should see
that image appear, and here it is.
| | 04:19 | Again, indicating that Photo Stream now has
it and has now set it to my other devices.
| | 04:24 | If I want to remove that image, I'd just select it,
press the Delete key and press Delete Photo.
| | 04:30 | We'll go back to our Outdoors album.
| | 04:32 | Notice that the image
isn't gone from my album.
| | 04:34 | It's simply been taken out of my Photo Stream.
| | 04:37 | As you can probably guess, you can create
additional Photo Streams, so I'm in my Outdoors album.
| | 04:42 | I'll select a few images.
| | 04:45 | Click on Share and then click on Photo Stream.
| | 04:48 | Once again, I can add those images to my current
Photo Stream or I can create a new Photo Stream.
| | 04:54 | I'll choose that option, and very much like
on my iPad, I now have the opportunity to
| | 04:58 | add people as subscribers, rename the
Photo Stream, and make it a public website.
| | 05:04 | We've done that on the iPad.
| | 05:05 | I don't need to do it here,
but it's the same idea.
| | 05:08 | Once I'm finished with it, I
would simply click on Share.
| | 05:11 | Those people who I've added as subscribers
will receive an email message and then they
| | 05:14 | can accept or decline that
invitation, and we'll hit Cancel.
| | 05:18 | While we're in iPhoto, let's take a
look at the Photo Stream Preferences.
| | 05:23 | So I go to iPhoto, Preferences,
and then click on Photo Stream.
| | 05:26 | The first option allows you to switch
on or off Photo Stream for iPhoto.
| | 05:30 | You can choose to Automatically Import new
images, as well as add all new photos you
| | 05:34 | take to your Photo Stream.
| | 05:36 | You can also enable Shared Photo Streams just
as you could in the iCloud System preference.
| | 05:41 | Now let's move over to our Windows PC.
| | 05:44 | Windows doesn't have a version of iPhoto, but that
doesn't mean that it can't use Photo Streams.
| | 05:49 | So we'll begin as we have before.
| | 05:51 | We'll go to the iCloud Control Panel.
| | 05:53 | Here's Photo Stream, it is enabled, and I'll
click on Options, and sure enough, here are
| | 05:58 | the two options we've seen before: My
Photo Stream and Shared Photo Streams.
| | 06:02 | There's one addition with Windows and that
is that you're shown the path to where your
| | 06:06 | Photo Stream is going to be stored.
| | 06:08 | If you like, you can change that.
| | 06:09 | I don't care to, so I'll just
click OK. That looks good.
| | 06:14 | Now where exactly are these photos? Well,
let's go to the Start menu, click Pictures,
| | 06:20 | and here is the Photo Stream folder.
| | 06:22 | So it's within your User Account
and then in the Pictures folder.
| | 06:26 | I'll double-click on there and you see three
folders: My Photo Stream, Shared and Uploads.
| | 06:32 | My Photo Stream is of course the
photos that are in your Photo Stream.
| | 06:39 | Shared would include those Photo Streams
you've shared as well as those Photo Streams that
| | 06:42 | have been shared with you, and Uploads is where
you add images to add them to the Photo Stream.
| | 06:48 | Let's go back to My Photo Stream folder.
| | 06:50 | I'll select a few images, right-click
and then I'll choose Add to Photo Stream.
| | 06:55 | Now I choose New Photo Stream.
| | 06:57 | What this does is brings up the New Photo
Stream window where just as we've seen in
| | 07:01 | the past, I can add subscribers by their email
address to my Photo Stream, I can give that
| | 07:06 | Photo Stream a name and I can
choose to make it a public website.
| | 07:10 | We've done that before.
| | 07:11 | We don't need to do it again,
so I'll just click on Cancel.
| | 07:17 | Now if I had done that, a new Photo
Stream would appear in the Shared folder.
| | 07:21 | Let's take a look at the Uploads folder.
| | 07:23 | Double click on that and currently, there's
nothing in it, but I'd like to add images
| | 07:27 | to my Photo Stream from my PC.
| | 07:28 | To do that, I grab an image
and I drag it into this folder.
| | 07:32 | PC will think about it for a minute, move back
to the Photo Stream folder, and there it is.
| | 07:38 | So not only has it been moved into the Photo
Stream on my PC, but it's now being synced
| | 07:43 | with iCloud, meaning that all my devices
now have that image in their Photo Stream.
| | 07:48 | With that, we wrap up
our look at Photo Stream;
| | 07:50 | a cool and easy way to sync and share images.
| | 07:54 |
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| Finding the way with Apple Maps| 00:00 | New with iOS 6 is the Maps App.
| | 00:02 | Now wait a minute! There was already a Maps
App, right? Well yes, there was and there
| | 00:07 | is! But the old Maps App
used data supplied by Google.
| | 00:12 | The new Maps App is
largely homegrown by Apple.
| | 00:15 | Let's take a look.
| | 00:16 | As before, you find the Maps App on the Home screen,
and its icon looks similar to the Maps App of old.
| | 00:23 | So I'll tap on it to
launch it, and here's Maps.
| | 00:28 | By default, you're shown the
standard view of this map.
| | 00:33 | You zoom in on the map by spreading two fingers,
and then you zoom out again by pinching in
| | 00:38 | with two fingers.
| | 00:40 | To navigate to areas outside the
current map, you just drag your finger.
| | 00:44 | So I drag to the right, and the map moves to
left, and I drag to the left, and the map
| | 00:49 | moves to the right.
| | 00:51 | Tap on the Location button at the bottom-left
of the screen and your iPad will do its best
| | 00:56 | to pinpoint where it is.
| | 00:57 | So I'll tap Location now,
and here's my location.
| | 01:04 | Tap on the dog ear icon at the bottom-right of
the screen, and you'll see your View option.
| | 01:09 | So tap on dog ear, and you see I'm now in the
Standard View, but I can also choose Satellite View.
| | 01:18 | And here's an overview of my location taken
from outer space, tap on dog ear again, and
| | 01:25 | I can tap on Hybrid.
| | 01:27 | When I do that, you can
see the roads in the area.
| | 01:31 | So as I zoom in, you see
the road names appear.
| | 01:38 | Let's go back to Satellite View, and
let's take a trip to San Francisco.
| | 01:45 | I do that by tapping in the Search Field.
| | 01:48 | I type in San and my first result is San Francisco
because that's not terribly far from where I am.
| | 01:56 | Here's my overview of San Francisco.
| | 01:59 | Let's zoom in by stretching.
| | 02:04 | And you see that there is a Cities
icon down in the bottom-left corner.
| | 02:08 | I'll tap on that.
| | 02:09 | And now we get this 3D view
of downtown San Francisco.
| | 02:13 | So I can move around just as I
did before by dragging my finger.
| | 02:20 | But I can also rotate around the screen.
| | 02:22 | I take two fingers and I
move them in a rotor gesture.
| | 02:29 | If I want to change the angle, I take two
fingers, I'll drag up, and now I will drag down.
| | 02:39 | Now if I tap on that Cities icon
again, I get a strict overhead view.
| | 02:44 | In this view, again, if
I pinch in, I zoom out.
| | 02:51 | And to zoom in, I stretch two fingers.
| | 02:54 | You notice that there is a small
Compass icon in the top-right corner.
| | 02:57 | I will tap on that.
| | 02:59 | And when I do, my view changes, so
that north is straight up on my display.
| | 03:05 | Now what happens if you are not looking at a city?
In that case, you have something called 3D View.
| | 03:11 | So let's take a trip to Yosemite
Valley and see how that works.
| | 03:14 | And I can do that by
tapping in the Search field,
| | 03:16 | and this time I am going to
enter a zip code, and I tap Search.
| | 03:24 | And here I am at Yosemite National Park.
| | 03:27 | I will tap outside to make that window disappear,
and let's take a look inside Yosemite Valley.
| | 03:33 | I will tap on 3D in the bottom-left corner.
| | 03:39 | Again, use the rotor gesture, two fingers
swiped up, rotor around again, and I can see
| | 03:48 | that I'm looking at
Half Dome in Yosemite Valley.
| | 03:52 | So it's not City View, but
it works just the same way.
| | 03:55 | Again, if I tap on Compass, I
turn so that I'm facing north.
| | 04:00 | Now suppose that I want to drive
to Yosemite. Let's zoom out.
| | 04:05 | Here's my pin.
| | 04:06 | I will tap on the pin, and you see
that there's a little car icon.
| | 04:09 | I tap on that icon, and in short order, I
am given driving directions from my current
| | 04:17 | location to that location.
| | 04:20 | And not only am I given one set of directions,
but I am actually given in this case three.
| | 04:24 | So the suggested route is
marked as route 1 and it's dark.
| | 04:29 | I can tap on a different route, that becomes
darker, and route 2 is highlighted, or I
| | 04:35 | can tap on yet another route, and
I see that that's highlighted.
| | 04:39 | But Satellite View isn't good for directions.
| | 04:40 | So let's take a look at Standard View.
| | 04:42 | So again, I will tap on the
dog ear icon, tap on Standard.
| | 04:47 | And here's my route in a
much more readable format.
| | 04:51 | So let's zoom in on this and
see what's along that route.
| | 04:54 | As I zoom in, not only do you see more streets, but
you also see small icons representing businesses.
| | 05:01 | So I will tap on one of them, and that
tells me that I am looking at a restaurant.
| | 05:06 | I can find out more about that restaurant by
tapping on the 'I' which is the Info icon.
| | 05:15 | It shows me the name of the business, it shows
me contact information such as phone, a website,
| | 05:21 | the physical address, and it
gives me some information from Yelp.
| | 05:27 | So if I want to find out reviews
for this location, I tap on Reviews,
| | 05:31 | and I see Yelp reviews below.
| | 05:34 | If anyone has taken photos and uploaded them
to Yelp, I tap on photos, and I can see some
| | 05:40 | of those photos as well.
| | 05:42 | If I wanted to add a photo, I would just tap
on Add Photo, take a photo with my iPad, and
| | 05:47 | I could then upload it.
| | 05:50 | And we will tap on the
map to get out of there.
| | 05:53 | Now I've shown you one way to get directions,
but there's, well, more direct way,
| | 05:57 | and that's to tap on the
Directions button in the top-left corner.
| | 06:01 | So let's clear this, tap on Directions.
| | 06:05 | Now I can start with my current location.
| | 06:07 | In this case, I don't want to.
| | 06:08 | So I will type in instead San Francisco.
| | 06:11 | I start typing, tap on San Francisco.
| | 06:15 | Now I don't have to enter a city. I could
enter a zip code. I could enter a business
| | 06:19 | name. I could enter a contacts name who is
in my contacts database and their address
| | 06:24 | will appear here.
| | 06:25 | So I want to go to San Francisco, and let's
type in another zip code in the End field,
| | 06:32 | and tap on Route.
| | 06:36 | And here I have a route from San
Francisco to Arcata, California.
| | 06:40 | Again, I'm offered a
couple of different options.
| | 06:43 | Now if I want to see the steps of that route,
I go back down to the bottom-left corner,
| | 06:48 | and tap on the list icon.
| | 06:50 | And I can see all the directions that I
will take to get to where I need to go.
| | 06:55 | Tap outside of that to make that disappear.
| | 06:58 | If I want turn-by-turn directions, for example
if I am driving, I tap on the Start button.
| | 07:05 | When I do that, it will show me my starting
location, and it will give me some directions.
| | 07:10 | Now if I had the volume up on my iPad, I would
also hear Siri's voice, and she would direct
| | 07:14 | me through each step.
| | 07:16 | If I want to go back to my overview, I tap on
the Overview button in the top-right corner,
| | 07:20 | and there's my route overview.
| | 07:22 | Note that while you're driving, the turn-by-turn
feature works only if you have a cellular connection.
| | 07:27 | To end directions, I just tap on End.
| | 07:29 | There are a couple of other things that
you can do in the Directions window.
| | 07:32 | So I will tap on Directions, and I
am going to tap on the Walking icon.
| | 07:37 | I could go for my current location, but I
don't care to, instead, I am going to go from
| | 07:42 | Pt Reyes, California to let's
say Inverness, California.
| | 07:53 | It zooms in, and it gives
me the walking direction.
| | 07:56 | It tells me to traverse these 12.5 miles,
it will take me about 4 hours and 2 minutes
| | 08:01 | which is a good hearty walk, and it's
beautiful countryside, so I don't mind.
| | 08:06 | Now let's clear that and
look at one other option.
| | 08:08 | I will go back to Directions.
| | 08:10 | This time, I'm going to tap on the Public
Transportation, and let's return to San Francisco
| | 08:18 | as our departure, and back to
Arcata as the town we will arrive in.
| | 08:24 | Now notice that I am provided with no
public transportation information.
| | 08:28 | And the reason I am not is because this version
of Maps, unlike previous versions, doesn't include
| | 08:34 | this information.
| | 08:36 | Instead, Maps presents you with a list of
apps from the App Store that could possibly
| | 08:40 | provide you with transit information.
| | 08:42 | Just tap on one, you're taken to the
App Store, and then you can download it.
| | 08:46 | And we will tap the map to get out of there.
| | 08:48 | Now I want to show you one other feature.
| | 08:51 | In order to use that, we
will go back to San Francisco.
| | 08:54 | I will zoom in on the city, and
let's find a convenient intersection.
| | 09:00 | I am going to put that one right about there.
| | 09:04 | I will tap on the dog ear
icon, and I'll drop a pin.
| | 09:08 | Now when I drop this pin, it
will show me the nearest address.
| | 09:12 | Suppose I have parked my car there.
| | 09:14 | Great! I want to be able to find it later.
| | 09:16 | So I will tap on the Information icon,
turns around, it shows me the address.
| | 09:21 | I will now add this pin to my bookmarks.
| | 09:25 | I don't want to keep the address there, instead
I will tap on the X, and I will enter Parked
| | 09:30 | Car, and I will save it.
| | 09:34 | Now I can walk all over the city and when I
need to find my car again, all I have to
| | 09:39 | do is tap on the bookmarks icon at the top
of the window, and tap on Parked Car, and
| | 09:45 | it will show me exactly where that is.
| | 09:47 | Now of course, you can use drop pins for all
kinds of things, but I find this one of the
| | 09:51 | most convenient uses.
| | 09:53 | And that concludes our journey through Maps.
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2. Getting Started with the iPadTouching the iPad| 00:00 |
The iPad, like Apple's iPhone and
iPod touch, has a touch-based interface.
| | 00:06 |
You interact with the iPad by touching
it, rather than using a keyboard and mouse.
| | 00:10 |
These interactions are called
gestures, and in this video, I'll show you the
| | 00:15 |
iPad's common gestures
and how you put them to use.
| | 00:18 |
If you are new to the iPad, there may be
some things here that are unfamiliar to you.
| | 00:22 |
Don't worry about it;
| | 00:23 |
we will talk about them later.
| | 00:25 |
Right now, we're just concerned
about how the iPad's interface works.
| | 00:29 |
The first gesture is the tap.
| | 00:31 |
A tap is very much like a
mouse click on a computer;
| | 00:35 |
you tap things when you
want them to do something.
| | 00:37 |
For example, I tap the Photos app on the
iPad's home screen and the app launches.
| | 00:43 |
If I tap an event in the Photos app, it
reveals all the pictures within the event.
| | 00:48 |
If I then tap a thumbnail picture in an
event, the picture expands to fill the screen.
| | 00:52 |
There will be times when
you need to tap and hold.
| | 00:56 |
You routinely do this when
tapping text or choosing items to copy.
| | 00:59 |
For example, if I tap and hold on
this picture, a copy bubble appears.
| | 01:03 |
I can then copy the
picture just by tapping Copy.
| | 01:07 |
The iPad also pays attention to double-taps.
| | 01:09 |
How apps respond to the double-taps
differs depending on the app, but a fairly
| | 01:13 |
common reaction to a double-tap is a
portion of the screen will enlarge or contract.
| | 01:18 |
For example, if I double-tap
on this image, it zooms in.
| | 01:23 |
If I double-tap it again, it
returns to its original size.
| | 01:29 |
Now, we will click the Home button,
and I will open Safari by tapping on it.
| | 01:35 |
In Safari, if I double-tap on a
column of text, it will expand.
| | 01:41 |
Again, to contract it, double-tap.
| | 01:43 |
We will go back to the
homepage and launch the Photos app.
| | 01:50 |
Flicking is the act of quickly
moving your finger across the iPad screen.
| | 01:56 |
We will return to the Photos app.
| | 01:57 |
Now, I will select an image and then
flick to move back and forth through the
| | 02:03 |
images in the event.
| | 02:06 |
You also flick to quickly scroll
through a page. So once again, I press the
| | 02:10 |
Home button, tap Safari.
| | 02:14 |
Now, if I want to scroll quickly
through this Safari page, I just flick up and
| | 02:19 |
flick down, and I move through the page quickly.
| | 02:23 |
Dragging is a more deliberate motion where
you tap and drag your finger across the screen.
| | 02:27 |
So, on this Safari screen, for example,
I can more carefully move through the
| | 02:31 |
page by dragging my
finger, rather than flicking.
| | 02:37 |
Now, let's tap the Home button to
return to the home screen to show you another
| | 02:40 |
way to use dragging.
| | 02:41 |
You can also use the drag
motion to rearrange items.
| | 02:44 |
For instance, on the home screen,
tap and hold on an icon until all the
| | 02:49 |
icons start wiggling.
| | 02:51 |
You can then move the icon to a
different position on the screen, and you
| | 02:55 |
will notice that the icons get out of the
way to make room for the icon I am dragging.
| | 02:59 |
One thing you should note, however: if
you drag an icon on top of another icon,
| | 03:03 |
you're going to create a folder.
| | 03:06 |
And we will do that by
dragging Settings on top of App Store.
| | 03:10 |
And you will notice, it goes inside, and
suddenly I have the opportunity to name this.
| | 03:15 |
I don't want this to happen.
| | 03:16 |
If I did that, I would create a folder.
| | 03:18 |
It would be called Utilities. I can rename it.
| | 03:20 |
We are not going to do that now. We are
going to learn that elsewhere in the course.
| | 03:23 |
I will take it out of there, put it back on the
desktop, and things are back the way they were.
| | 03:29 |
To stop all this wiggling,
just click on the Home button.
| | 03:33 |
Pinching and stretching are two-finger gestures.
| | 03:35 |
Using your favorite two fingers,
which in my case is the thumb and the
| | 03:38 |
index finger, you make a pinching motion on
the iPad's screen to make something smaller.
| | 03:44 |
So, let's return to the Photos app.
| | 03:46 |
Here is this nice dog.
| | 03:47 |
Let's enlarge him by stretching.
And now I will bring him back to his regular
| | 03:53 |
size by pinching down.
| | 03:54 |
So, stretches zooms, and pinching shrinks.
| | 03:58 |
There are a few other
gestures that are more specialized.
| | 04:02 |
When you switch on the iPad's
accessibility features, for example, you encounter
| | 04:05 |
other two- and three-finger gestures.
| | 04:08 |
Within the Photos app, if you tap
on an open image or event with two
| | 04:12 |
fingers, that item closes.
| | 04:14 |
Now that you're familiar with the
iPad's gestures, let's look at its
| | 04:17 |
common interface elements.
| | 04:20 |
We return to the home screen by pressing
the Home button, and we will look at buttons.
| | 04:25 |
Tappable buttons are just about everywhere.
| | 04:27 |
The icons on the home screen are buttons
that launch the apps, photos for example.
| | 04:32 |
As you've seen, I tap on Photos, tap on
Events here, and I can change what I'm looking at.
| | 04:38 |
For example, I can go to my Albums by
tapping a button. I can tap Events, and I
| | 04:44 |
move to Events and we return to the home screen.
| | 04:48 |
You'll also find something called popover menus.
| | 04:50 |
These are the iPad's version of
menus that are embedded in apps.
| | 04:53 |
For example, I will launch Safari by
tapping its icon and I will then tap on its
| | 04:59 |
Bookmarks menu, and what you
see here is a popover menu.
| | 05:03 |
When there are too many items in a
popover menu, you can scroll through it
| | 05:05 |
just by dragging on it.
| | 05:07 |
In this case, ours doesn't have too many
items, but you can see if there were by
| | 05:11 |
dragging on it, we would
see the items that are hidden.
| | 05:15 |
And back to the homepage
by tapping the Home button.
| | 05:18 |
Selector wheels are another
good way to dial in settings.
| | 05:20 |
For example, let's open the
Calendar app by tapping on it.
| | 05:24 |
I will create a new event
by tapping the Plus button.
| | 05:29 |
Now, we will tap the Start and Ends
field, and here is a selector wheel.
| | 05:34 |
Using this selector wheel, I can then
change the date for my event and move the
| | 05:38 |
date in the future, and I
can also change the time.
| | 05:43 |
Tap down to close that, down
again, and back to the home screen.
| | 05:47 |
When editing lists of items, you will
often see delete buttons and drag handles.
| | 05:54 |
So, I am going to launch the iPad app.
| | 05:56 |
I am going to look at a playlist,
and we will talk about these later.
| | 06:04 |
This is my Jellybricks
playlist, and I tap on Edit.
| | 06:08 |
What this allows me to do is
rearrange items as well as delete items.
| | 06:12 |
Now, these little red circles here with
a white line through them offer me the
| | 06:16 |
opportunity to delete items.
| | 06:17 |
All I have to do is tap on that button,
and you see that a Delete button appears.
| | 06:22 |
I can then delete this button if I like
by tapping Delete. Goodbye; you are gone.
| | 06:26 |
And also if you tap something with the
idea that you are going to delete it, and
| | 06:29 |
decide, maybe I don't want to
| | 06:31 |
after all, all you have to do is tap that
button again and the Delete button disappears.
| | 06:36 |
You will also notice on the far right
side of the screen are these three lines.
| | 06:40 |
This indicates that you can change the
order of the items that are in this list.
| | 06:44 |
So, I just tap on a track and I can
move it up and down the list just by
| | 06:49 |
dragging on the drag handle.
| | 06:51 |
And now I've rearranged the order of
the playlist. And back to the home screen
| | 06:56 |
by tapping the Home button.
| | 06:59 |
The right-pointing bracket is a sign
that indicates that there are available
| | 07:02 |
submenus for that item.
| | 07:04 |
So, let's open Settings.
| | 07:05 |
We are in General. And we will look
at Sounds, and you will notice the
| | 07:09 |
right-pointing bracket.
| | 07:10 |
This indicates that there's a submenu.
| | 07:12 |
I tap on Sounds and sure
enough, here are some options.
| | 07:16 |
Now, while we are here, let's
observe the On/Off toggle switches.
| | 07:19 |
They do exactly what you expect.
| | 07:21 |
To turn off an option
that's on, just tap on the toggle.
| | 07:25 |
To turn it back on, again tap
on the toggle and there it is.
| | 07:30 |
To work your way out of a submenu, just
look for the left-pointing arrow icon at
| | 07:34 |
the top of the screen. Tap it and you
move back up the hierarchy. And we will
| | 07:39 |
return to the home screen.
| | 07:42 |
Now, let's talk about
searching the contents of your iPad.
| | 07:45 |
To search the contents of the iPad,
either swipe your finger across the home
| | 07:49 |
screen to the right, until you can
swipe no more, or move to the first page of
| | 07:55 |
the home screen and press the Home button once.
| | 07:58 |
Here, you'll find the Search
field and see the iPad's keyboard.
| | 08:01 |
We will cover the keyboard and text
entry in another movie, but in the meantime,
| | 08:05 |
a blinking cursor in the Search field
means that it's ready for your input.
| | 08:09 |
Type something that you would like
to search for, and a list appears
| | 08:12 |
with matching items.
| | 08:14 |
These items may include associated
applications, notes, email messages,
| | 08:18 |
contacts, or calendar events.
| | 08:21 |
To view an item in the list of results,
all you have to do is tap it. And back
| | 08:27 |
to the home screen.
| | 08:28 |
You now know how to get around on
your iPad and use its basic interface
| | 08:32 |
elements, but there's more to come.
Elsewhere in this chapter, we will look at
| | 08:35 |
the iPad's multitasking bar and text entry.
| | 08:39 |
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| Setting the rotation lock/mute toggle switch| 00:00 |
You probably noticed that when you move
your iPad around, its display rotates
| | 00:04 |
so that the object in front of you
is always facing the right way up.
| | 00:09 |
You may also notice that the iPad will
make noises when you don't want it to.
| | 00:13 |
There is a toggle switch on the side,
which you can see here, that can have
| | 00:16 |
an effect on either of these behaviors, because
it could can be configured as a rotation lock.
| | 00:21 |
Meaning that regardless of how you
move your iPad, the screen's display won't
| | 00:25 |
switch from one orientation to another.
| | 00:27 |
It can also be configured so that when
you switch it on, the iPad's volume is
| | 00:33 |
immediately muted--and you'll see
the iPad's volume buttons here.
| | 00:37 |
To choose the switches function,
launch settings by tapping Settings, look in
| | 00:43 |
the General setting, and finally
find the Use Side Switch to option.
| | 00:48 |
Here you have two choices: Lock
Rotation, which is on right now, or Mute.
| | 00:53 |
So I'll set it back to Lock
Rotation just to show you how that works.
| | 01:01 |
So, we return to the Home screen.
| | 01:03 |
Now let's see if it works.
| | 01:05 |
I rotate and sure enough, it rotates.
| | 01:07 |
I bring it back to landscape orientation.
| | 01:10 |
When I flip the switch, we see the Lock
icon. I will rotate again and it doesn't move.
| | 01:17 |
So it really does work.
| | 01:20 |
Now I'll flip it back, and you see it
tells us that it can be rotated.
| | 01:24 |
Now, personally I prefer lock rotation
as I can easily mute the iPad by pressing
| | 01:29 |
and holding the bottom
volume key as I'm doing here.
| | 01:32 |
Do that and the iPad quickly mutes,
but you may prefer to configure the
| | 01:36 |
switch the other way.
| | 01:37 |
The choice is yours.
| | 01:40 |
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| Multitasking| 00:00 |
Let's take a look at another
important function of the Home button.
| | 00:03 |
Press it twice in quick succession
to reveal the iPad's multitasking bar.
| | 00:09 |
Using this bar, you can switch to a
different app while the current one remains
| | 00:13 |
in memory in the background,
| | 00:14 |
meaning that it doesn't quit,
but rather enters a kind of suspended animation.
| | 00:18 |
We'll see how that works.
| | 00:20 |
So I select the Notes app.
| | 00:21 |
We move to that. Double-tap on the Home button.
| | 00:25 |
Let's move to the iPad app. It switches over.
| | 00:29 |
Go back to the Home screen,
double-tap, and there is our multitasking bar.
| | 00:35 |
One other nice thing that you can do
from here is as we tap and hold on an
| | 00:39 |
app, all the apps start wiggling and you see
that little red button with the Minus sign in it.
| | 00:44 |
That means that you can quit apps from
here simply by tapping on the Minus sign.
| | 00:49 |
So we'll quit the Contacts
app by tapping on that button.
| | 00:52 |
To return the icons to their normal
behavior, just click on the Home button.
| | 00:57 |
If you swipe this bar from left to right,
you'll eventually see a set of controls.
| | 01:02 |
The appearance of the first button
depends on how you've configured the side
| | 01:06 |
switch options in the general
setting screens, and we looked at that side
| | 01:09 |
switch in another movie.
| | 01:11 |
If you've configured it so that the
iPad mutes when you push the side switch
| | 01:15 |
down, you'll see a rotation lock icon.
| | 01:18 |
When this lock is engaged, the
orientation of the iPad's screen won't change,
| | 01:22 |
regardless of how you rotate the iPad.
| | 01:25 |
So currently, rotation is enabled.
| | 01:27 |
I tap that button and now rotation is
locked, just like using the side switch
| | 01:32 |
when that option is engaged.
| | 01:33 |
If you've configured the side switch to
lock rotation, the button which you
| | 01:37 |
use for muting and unmuting
your iPad will look like a speaker.
| | 01:41 |
And we can make that happen by going
to Settings, choosing Lock Rotation, and
| | 01:52 |
once again, here we are.
| | 01:53 |
And you can see that we have it unmuted.
Tap the button and now the sound is muted.
| | 01:59 |
After this button you'll see a slider
for adjusting the screen's brightness.
| | 02:02 |
To increase the brightest, just slide
the button to the right, and to decrease
| | 02:06 |
brightness, slide it to the left.
| | 02:08 |
Here you'll also find buttons for
controlling the iPad app's playback, and
| | 02:12 |
possibly a button for choosing wireless
devices to play the iPad's audio using a
| | 02:17 |
technology called AirPlay, which
we'll discuss elsewhere in the course.
| | 02:21 |
And finally, there is a slider
for adjusting the iPad's volume.
| | 02:27 |
This multitasking bar is an important way
to get around more quickly on your iPad.
| | 02:31 |
Throughout this course, I'll be using
it, rather than moving back to the Home
| | 02:34 |
screen, to move between apps.
| | 02:37 |
Get into the habit of using it and
you'll find your iPad easier to control.
| | 02:42 |
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| Using the virtual keyboard| 00:00 |
Now, let's take a look at
the iPad's virtual keyboard.
| | 00:03 |
As you're undoubtedly aware, the iPad
has a keyboard, a virtual keyboard, rather
| | 00:08 |
than a physical one.
| | 00:10 |
The look of the keyboard changes
depending on the iPad's orientation.
| | 00:13 |
I have launched the Notes app, and I am
going to invoke the keyboard simply by
| | 00:17 |
tapping in the note.
| | 00:19 |
In portrait orientation, when the iPad
is longways up, the keyboard takes up
| | 00:24 |
about a quarter of the screen,
and the keys are on the small side.
| | 00:27 |
Rotate the iPad 90 degrees and you
entered landscape orientation, where the
| | 00:31 |
keyboard takes up nearly half the
screen and the keys become much larger.
| | 00:36 |
The keyboard layouts are exactly the
same, regardless of the iPad's orientation.
| | 00:40 |
We have a note open that has some text in it,
and we will use that to see what the keys do.
| | 00:45 |
By default, you see the QWERTY
keyboard, the one with letters and
| | 00:48 |
little punctuation on it.
| | 00:50 |
Tap the .?123 key and you see a
keyboard that contains numbers as well
| | 00:55 |
as punctuation, and a couple of common
symbols, such as the Dollar sign and ampersand.
| | 01:01 |
Tap the #+= key and you see a
collection of less common symbols.
| | 01:07 |
To return to the QWERTY
keyboard, just tap the ABC key.
| | 01:11 |
Now, let's look at a couple of
features on the QWERTY keyboard.
| | 01:14 |
The upward-pointing key is the Shift key.
| | 01:18 |
At the beginning of a sentence, it's
active by default, and you can tell it is
| | 01:22 |
by its blue outline.
| | 01:24 |
When it's in this state, tap a key and
the first letter will be capitalized.
| | 01:29 |
If it's not active--you're in the middle
of a sentence, for example--just tap it
| | 01:33 |
to invoke it for one keystroke.
| | 01:35 |
So again, I will tap it.
| | 01:36 |
You see the blue symbol, and that
indicates that the Shift key is on.
| | 01:40 |
Once again, I tap that one time,
and then the Shift key turns off.
| | 01:44 |
When you double-tap it, you switch
on the iPad's Caps Lock feature, where
| | 01:49 |
everything you type will be in capital
letters until you tap the key again to
| | 01:54 |
switch off Caps Lock. And now we will
turn it off by tapping the Shift key once.
| | 01:59 |
The left-pointing black key with the x
in the middle of it is the Delete key.
| | 02:03 |
Tap it to delete the character to
the left of the cursor. Or if there's no
| | 02:07 |
character there, jump back a space or a line.
| | 02:10 |
So, I am going to tap the
Return key a couple of times.
| | 02:12 |
I jump back to the end of this line, and now I
will tap it again to remove single characters.
| | 02:19 |
If you tap and hold on it, it will
first delete individual characters, but as
| | 02:23 |
you continue to hold, it will delete words.
| | 02:25 |
So, I am tapping and holding,
and now we are jumping backwards.
| | 02:31 |
The Return key, as I've shown, does just
what it does on your computer keyboard;
| | 02:36 |
it moves the cursor down a line. And you
tap the Keyboard key at the very bottom
| | 02:40 |
of the keyboard to make the keyboard disappear.
| | 02:43 |
To make it reappear, simply tap in the document.
| | 02:47 |
If you need to create letters that
carry diacritical marks used in non-English
| | 02:51 |
languages--and that would be an
umlaut or an accent, for example--
| | 02:54 |
you can do so simply by tapping and
holding on a letter over which you wish
| | 02:58 |
the mark to appear.
| | 02:59 |
For example, tap and hold on the
letter O and you see a number of options you
| | 03:04 |
can choose. Just slide your
finger to the character you want.
| | 03:07 |
So, I am going to add an umlaut.
| | 03:09 |
I choose that symbol, let go, and there
we have an O with an umlaut over it.
| | 03:13 |
Here's another tip.
| | 03:14 |
It's a pain to dash between the QWERTY
and number keyboard to insert a single
| | 03:18 |
bit of punctuation. You don't have
to. Just tap and hold on the Number key
| | 03:22 |
and while holding it, select
the character that you're after.
| | 03:26 |
So, for example, let's say I want
to type the number 1. I tap on .?123.
| | 03:32 |
I slide to 1, I let go and we
return to the QWERTY keyboard.
| | 03:37 |
Here's one more tip.
| | 03:38 |
A key that a lot of people
miss is the Apostrophe key.
| | 03:41 |
You needn't move to the number
keyboard to get to it; just tap and hold on
| | 03:46 |
the Comma key and flick upwards,
and I will show you how that's done.
| | 03:48 |
So, I will type my name.
| | 03:53 |
I want to add an apostrophe, and I
simply flick up on the Comma and
| | 03:56 |
Exclamation Point key.
| | 03:58 |
You can also do this if you
want to add quotation marks.
| | 04:00 |
So, on the Period key, flick
up, and you have got a quote.
| | 04:05 |
We will close that quote by flicking again.
| | 04:11 |
There is one more option.
| | 04:13 |
I have already shown you that if you tap and
hold on certain keys, you get extra characters.
| | 04:17 |
You can do this with the
apostrophe and quotes as well.
| | 04:19 |
So, rather than flicking, if you tap
and hold on the Comma key, you'll see that
| | 04:23 |
you have the option to insert an apostrophe.
| | 04:26 |
Same idea with the Period key. Tap and hold.
| | 04:29 |
There are your quotes, and you
can add them that way as well.
| | 04:32 |
I think flicking is cooler, but what the heck.
| | 04:35 |
If you want to do it this way by
tapping and holding, more power to you.
| | 04:38 |
You won't see the same
keyboard layout in every application.
| | 04:42 |
For example, in those applications where
you will type an email and web address,
| | 04:45 |
the keyboard is modified to make
entering that information easier.
| | 04:49 |
So let's illustrate that
concept with the Contacts app.
| | 04:53 |
Launch Contacts and now I am going to
press the Plus button to create a new contact.
| | 04:58 |
When you tap in the First, Last, or
Company fields, you'll continue to see the
| | 05:03 |
normal QWERTY keyboard.
| | 05:04 |
But if you tap in the iPhone field,
you move to the number keyboard.
| | 05:09 |
Now, let's tap in the Email field.
| | 05:12 |
You see some changes at the bottom of
the keyboard. The @ and Period keys appear
| | 05:16 |
and below you see the Underscore and Dash keys.
| | 05:19 |
The @ symbol is helpful for creating
email addresses of course, but check
| | 05:23 |
out the Period key.
| | 05:24 |
If you tap and hold on it, you see
that you have the option to enter .edu,
| | 05:29 |
.us, .net, .com, or .org.
| | 05:35 |
Now, if you tap on the Dash key, you
see that you have a bullet, dash, or an em dash
| | 05:40 |
character, which is something that
you might use in an email address.
| | 05:44 |
Now, let's tap on the home page field.
| | 05:48 |
The keyboard changes yet again, including
colon, slash, underscore, dash, and .com--
| | 05:54 |
pretty much all the symbols you
need when entering a web address.
| | 05:58 |
Tap and hold on the Period key and
you find the option to add an ellipsis.
| | 06:03 |
Before we leave the iPad's text-entry
capabilities, here are a handful of tips,
| | 06:08 |
and to demonstrate them, we
will go back to the Notes app.
| | 06:12 |
To easily insert a period at the
end of a sentence, just double-tap the
| | 06:15 |
spacebar. The iPad has a feature
called Predictive Typing built in.
| | 06:24 |
What this means is that the iPad, like
the iPhone and the iPod touch, makes its
| | 06:28 |
best guess as to what you mean to
type rather than what you did type.
| | 06:32 |
This makes typing on a
virtual keyboard much more accurate.
| | 06:36 |
But in order for it to work, when typing, you
must keep going, even though you make mistakes.
| | 06:41 |
If you make quick corrections every
time you make a mistake on your iPad, you
| | 06:45 |
will find working with it frustrating.
| | 06:46 |
However, keep going, and there is a
very good chance that the iPad will correct
| | 06:50 |
your mistakes for you.
| | 06:52 |
Predictive Typing is particularly
helpful for typing contractions.
| | 06:55 |
Although 'Cant' is a real word, if you
type it on your iPad, as I will do now, the
| | 07:01 |
iPad will automatically add an
apostrophe between the N and the T. Just tap
| | 07:05 |
space and it fills in correctly.
| | 07:08 |
But what if the iPad makes a
suggestion that you don't want?
| | 07:11 |
For example, when you type 'its', the
iPad invariably suggests 'it's' by default.
| | 07:19 |
When it offers a suggestion, the
suggestion appears in a bubble near the cursor.
| | 07:23 |
To reject that suggestion, just tap it.
| | 07:26 |
If you don't and then tap the spacebar, the
iPad will automatically insert the suggestion.
| | 07:32 |
You can instruct the iPad to
not autocorrect your typing.
| | 07:35 |
To do that, launch Settings, select the
General setting, tap the Keyboard option,
| | 07:43 |
and switch off Auto-Correction.
| | 07:45 |
At the same time, it will
also turn off Check Spelling.
| | 07:49 |
For now, we will turn that back on,
we'll turn on Check Spelling, and we
| | 07:52 |
will return to Notes.
| | 07:56 |
Entering text with a keyboard is
most of the battle, but to get the full
| | 07:59 |
picture, you also need to know
how to select, cut, copy, and paste.
| | 08:04 |
The Notes app can help us with this too.
| | 08:06 |
We will create a new note by tapping
the Plus button, and I will type, "I love my
| | 08:12 |
dog Rover," because I do.
| | 08:14 |
When I tap, hold, and place the cursor
before dog and release, a bubble appears
| | 08:19 |
that contains the word 'Select, Select
All', and if there's something stored in
| | 08:23 |
the iPad's clipboard, which is an
invisible area that contains items you've
| | 08:27 |
copied or cut, you will
also see a Paste command.
| | 08:30 |
In this case, there's nothing in the
clipboard, so Paste doesn't appear.
| | 08:34 |
When I tap Select, the word 'dog' is
selected and three new commands appear:
| | 08:38 |
Cut, Copy, and Replace.
| | 08:41 |
Again, if there was something in the
clipboard, we would also see Paste.
| | 08:44 |
As you likely know from working with
your computer, Cut removes a selected item
| | 08:48 |
and places it in the clipboard, while
Copy leaves the item where it is but
| | 08:51 |
places a copy in the clipboard.
| | 08:53 |
We will tap Copy to copy
the dog into the clipboard.
| | 08:56 |
Now, let's tap Return twice to move
farther down the page and tap the cursor.
| | 09:01 |
Once again, we see Select, Select All,
and this time Paste. Tap Paste and the
| | 09:09 |
word 'dog' appears at the insertion point.
| | 09:11 |
Now, let's look at Select All.
| | 09:13 |
If I tap and hold on 'dog' and tap Select
All, everything on the page is selected.
| | 09:21 |
Those blue dots at the beginning and end
of the selection are handles that allow
| | 09:25 |
me to adjust the selection.
| | 09:26 |
I can tap and drag on the end handle
and bring it up to the end of the sentence
| | 09:31 |
to shorten the selection.
| | 09:33 |
I can also shorten the selection even more
by dragging the front handle so that just
| | 09:37 |
the words 'my dog Rover' are selected.
| | 09:40 |
Regardless of what I selected,
the Cut, Copy, and in this case, Paste
| | 09:44 |
options appear again.
| | 09:45 |
I can also replace a selected word
with a word that has a similar spelling.
| | 09:49 |
For example, if I tap and hold on 'love',
tap Select, I have the option to replace.
| | 09:56 |
I will tap Replace, and see that I
have three words that I could substitute:
| | 10:01 |
live, Love, and lobe.
| | 10:05 |
I really, really love my dog Rover, so I
am going to make that Love, so everyone
| | 10:10 |
knows how much I love my dog.
| | 10:12 |
Just as with your computer, any item
that you've cut or copied remains in the
| | 10:16 |
clipboard until you
replace it with a different item.
| | 10:18 |
This means that you can copy text or
graphics in one application and paste it
| | 10:23 |
into a different application.
| | 10:25 |
You can also copy graphics files.
| | 10:27 |
So let's launch Safari to see how this works.
| | 10:30 |
Tap on the Tours page on this
Safari page, and I have a graphic here
| | 10:34 |
of California's flag.
| | 10:36 |
I can copy that by tapping and
holding on it, and I have two options:
| | 10:40 |
one is Save Image and the other one is Copy.
| | 10:43 |
Right now, we are going to choose Copy.
| | 10:44 |
Now I am going to launch the Pages app,
which is Apple's $10 word processing
| | 10:49 |
application that you can purchase from the
App Store, and we will just search for it.
| | 10:53 |
There it is, tap Pages, and it opens.
| | 10:55 |
I am now going to create a new
document by tapping the Plus button.
| | 11:00 |
Don't worry about this if you haven't
seen this before. We are going to talk
| | 11:03 |
about pages in another movie.
| | 11:05 |
Now, we have a blank Pages document.
| | 11:07 |
I am going to paste that graphic into
it by tapping on the insertion point and
| | 11:11 |
tapping Paste, and there is our image.
| | 11:14 |
Now, let's return to Safari.
| | 11:16 |
I will tap and hold on that again, and
this time we're going to look at Save Image.
| | 11:21 |
I have selected it. Where did the image go?
| | 11:23 |
Come back to the home screen, go to
Photos, select Albums, and I will look at my
| | 11:30 |
Camera Roll, and there is my image.
| | 11:33 |
So when you choose Save Image, the
image will end up in your Camera Roll
| | 11:36 |
inside your Photos app.
| | 11:37 |
At this point, you can then copy it
again and put it into any document you like
| | 11:41 |
that supports graphics files.
| | 11:43 |
These are the basics of text entry
and select, cut, copy, and paste.
| | 11:48 |
You will find that these
techniques work throughout many Apple and
| | 11:50 |
third-party applications.
| | 11:53 |
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| Using gestures to work faster| 00:00 | With iOS 5, Apple added some useful
features to the iPad that are controlled
| | 00:04 | via specific gestures.
| | 00:06 | Let's take a look at them now.
| | 00:07 | To begin, tap Settings and then tap
General, and scroll down the screen to
| | 00:12 | Multitasking Gestures.
| | 00:14 | You'll see that that it's ON by default.
| | 00:17 | Let's return to the Home
screen and launch the Notes app.
| | 00:20 | We'll tap on New Note to start
typing, and we'll type a few characters.
| | 00:31 | Now, we're going to split the keyboard
by taking two fingers placing them in the
| | 00:35 | middle of the keyboard and
pulling the keyboard apart.
| | 00:38 | The keyboard continues to function in
this view, plus the Spacebar splits in
| | 00:42 | two, so that it's available on each half.
| | 00:48 | To return to the full keyboard,
just pinch the two halves together.
| | 00:52 | Now the point of this, other than it
looking incredibly cool, is that sometimes
| | 00:56 | you have a lot of text on screen and
you want to get the keyboard out of the
| | 00:58 | way, so you can see better what you're doing.
| | 01:00 | Split the keyboard and you can do exactly that.
| | 01:03 | While we're in Notes, let's
bring up the Multitasking bar.
| | 01:06 | Now, let's hide the keyboard by
pressing the Hide Keyboard switch, and bring up
| | 01:09 | the Multitasking bar.
| | 01:11 | To do that just swipe up with four
fingers, to hide it, swipe down with
| | 01:15 | those same four fingers.
| | 01:17 | If you like to switch to another app,
just swipe four fingers to the left.
| | 01:21 | The last most recent used app will appear.
| | 01:24 | Continue swiping to the left with
four fingers to march through other
| | 01:27 | recently used apps.
| | 01:31 | Finally, if you'd like to move to the
Home screen without pressing the Home
| | 01:34 | button, just pinch down on the display
with four or five fingers, and there you
| | 01:38 | have it. Four gestures that make
navigating your iPad a little bit easier.
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| Understanding iTunes and the iPad| 00:00 |
Although your iPad could obtain music,
movies, podcasts, and apps via wireless
| | 00:05 |
connection, when you need to do things
like sync the media from your computer's
| | 00:09 |
iTunes library, add books to the iBooks
application, or import photos from your
| | 00:14 |
computer, you must use a wired
USB connection to your computer.
| | 00:18 |
The application you use to manage
the whole thing is Apple's iTunes.
| | 00:22 |
In this movie, will take a look at
how the iPad is reflected in iTunes.
| | 00:26 |
We will start by plugging
the iPad into your computer.
| | 00:29 |
Now the iPad requires a
high-speed USB 2.0 connection.
| | 00:34 |
So, you connect the wide end of the
iPad's included data cable into the
| | 00:38 |
bottom of the iPad.
| | 00:39 |
And you attach the narrow end
into your computer's USB 2.0 port.
| | 00:50 |
This port may or may not
charge your iPad when it's awake.
| | 00:54 |
On older computers, the port doesn't have
enough power to charge an iPad when it's awake.
| | 00:58 |
But it will do so when it's asleep.
| | 01:01 |
By default, iTunes should
launch when you attach the iPad.
| | 01:05 |
If it doesn't, launch it.
| | 01:07 |
If you haven't plugged your iPad into your
computer for a day or so, iTunes will back it up.
| | 01:12 |
Normally, this doesn't take too long.
| | 01:14 |
But if you get tired of waiting, you
can click on the small x within the
| | 01:17 |
read-out pane at the top of the
iTunes window to stop the backup.
| | 01:22 |
In iTunes's source list, you should see
the iPad listed under the Devices heading.
| | 01:26 |
Select it and the iPad
Summary tab fills the window.
| | 01:31 |
The top of the Summary pane shows
your iPad's name, capacity, software
| | 01:36 |
version, and serial number.
| | 01:40 |
You don't rename your iPad in this pane,
but rather, you do so by clicking on
| | 01:43 |
the iPad's name in the source
list and then entering a new name.
| | 01:46 |
We won't do that here.
| | 01:48 |
In the middle of the pane is the
Version area, where you find the Check for
| | 01:52 |
Update and Restore buttons.
| | 01:54 |
iTunes checks for iPad's software
updates every couple days, but you're welcome
| | 01:58 |
to click the Check for Updates
button if you want to check manually.
| | 02:01 |
If you'd like to restore your iPad to
the condition it was in originally when
| | 02:06 |
you first unwrapped it,
click the Restore button.
| | 02:08 |
We will cover why you should do this when we
talk about troubleshooting in another movie.
| | 02:13 |
Before we look at the Options area,
let's move to the bottom of the window.
| | 02:17 |
Here you'll find a Capacity bar.
| | 02:20 |
This tells you how much
content is stored on your iPad.
| | 02:23 |
Each kind of media--audio, video, photos,
apps, and books--has a different color
| | 02:29 |
and a different entry below the bar.
| | 02:32 |
By default, these entries tell you how
much space is occupied by each kind of media.
| | 02:37 |
Click on an entry and it changes.
| | 02:39 |
For example, audio
changes to the number of songs.
| | 02:43 |
Click again, and it tells you how
long it would take to listen to all of
| | 02:47 |
it straight through.
| | 02:48 |
To the right of the bar is a button.
| | 02:50 |
If you haven't made any changes to
the way you'll sync your iPad, this
| | 02:54 |
button will read Sync.
| | 02:56 |
You just click on it to sync the iPad.
| | 02:58 |
When you sync the iPad, the information
and media you've asked iTunes to copy to
| | 03:02 |
your iPad is indeed copied.
| | 03:04 |
If there's not enough room on the
iPad to sync everything you've chosen,
| | 03:08 |
iTunes will tell you so.
| | 03:09 |
At that point, you'll need
to choose fewer items to sync.
| | 03:13 |
If you make a change, for example, we
won't sync TV Shows, the Sync button is
| | 03:18 |
replaced by Revert and Apply buttons.
| | 03:20 |
Click on Apply, and iTunes accepts your
changes, and the Sync button appears again.
| | 03:26 |
You then click on Sync
to actually sync the iPad.
| | 03:28 |
I'll put things are back the way
they were and Sync appears again.
| | 03:33 |
We'll look at the changes
you can make in other movies.
| | 03:36 |
For now, let's move on to the
Options area in the Summary tab.
| | 03:41 |
Open iTunes when this iPad
is connected is on by default.
| | 03:44 |
It means that when you plug in
your iPad, iTunes will launch if it's
| | 03:48 |
not currently running.
| | 03:49 |
I like this option on, but if you
normally charge your iPad by plugging it
| | 03:53 |
into your computer and get tired of iTunes
launching, you're welcome to switch this option off.
| | 03:59 |
Sync only checked song and videos is
useful for selecting just the media you
| | 04:03 |
want to sync to your iPad.
| | 04:04 |
For example, if there's one track in an
album that you absolutely hate, you can
| | 04:08 |
enable this option and then
uncheck the box next to the track.
| | 04:13 |
When iTunes syncs that album to the iPad,
it will leave out the unchecked track.
| | 04:17 |
The iPad can play both standard-
definition and high-definition videos, though
| | 04:21 |
it scales down HD videos so that they don't
actually play at a high-definition resolution.
| | 04:27 |
HD videos use considerably more data
than standard-definition videos, meaning
| | 04:31 |
they chew up quite a bit more storage space.
| | 04:34 |
If you want to put more videos on your
iPad, you'll enable the Prefer standard
| | 04:38 |
definition videos option.
| | 04:39 |
That way, when iTunes syncs the movies
and TV shows in your iTunes library, it
| | 04:44 |
will first sync standard-definition videos.
| | 04:46 |
If there's room left over after that,
it will sync high-definition videos.
| | 04:51 |
The Convert higher bit rate to 128
kbps AAC option is another way to save
| | 04:57 |
space on your iPad.
| | 04:59 |
The higher bit rate an audio
file has, the larger the file.
| | 05:03 |
This option will take AAC audio files,
which is the audio format used by the
| | 05:07 |
iTunes store, that have a higher
rate, 256 kbps second for example, and
| | 05:13 |
convert them to 128 kbps.
| | 05:16 |
Using this option, you can
pack more music on your iPad.
| | 05:20 |
Note, however, that when this option is
on, it takes iTunes much longer to sync
| | 05:23 |
your files, because it
first has to convert them.
| | 05:26 |
Don't worry, the converted copies aren't
also stored on your computer, taking up room.
| | 05:31 |
This is an on-the-fly process.
| | 05:34 |
As you will see, you can ask iTunes to sync
music and videos to your iPad in a variety of ways.
| | 05:39 |
If you'd rather do it yourself by
dragging music and videos directly to the iPad
| | 05:43 |
in iTunes's source list, enable the
Manually manage music and videos option.
| | 05:49 |
Then there's the Encrypt iPad backup option.
| | 05:51 |
When you restore an iPad with the
Restore button we spoke about, you're prompted
| | 05:55 |
to choose a backup file.
| | 05:56 |
If others have access to your computer,
you may not want them to restore their
| | 06:00 |
iPads with your backup file.
| | 06:02 |
To prevent them from doing this,
you could encrypt your iPad backups.
| | 06:05 |
Enable this option, click Change Password,
and enter and verify a password for your backup.
| | 06:11 |
Later when you want to restore your
iPad, you must enter this password.
| | 06:16 |
Finally, at the bottom of the pane, you
see the Configure Universal Access button.
| | 06:20 |
Universal Access contains settings that
help those with disabilities use the iPad.
| | 06:25 |
I'll discuss this feature in a separate movie.
| | 06:28 |
That takes us through the
syncing and the Summary tab.
| | 06:31 |
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| Syncing info to the iPad| 00:01 | It's time to look at syncing data,
such as Contacts, Calendar Events and
| | 00:05 | Bookmarks to your iPad.
| | 00:06 | This is all done within iTunes.
| | 00:09 | To start, you plug your iPad into your
computer, fire up iTunes and select your
| | 00:13 | iPad in iTunes source list.
| | 00:16 | The iPad is far more than a media player.
| | 00:18 | Among many other things, it can also
operate as a personal information manager,
| | 00:22 | a device for holding contacts,
calendar events, and browser bookmarks.
| | 00:27 | Although you can create all these
things on you iPad, you'll find it far easier
| | 00:30 | to sync them from your computer.
| | 00:32 | You do all this within the Info tab.
| | 00:35 | The options in this window vary
slightly, depending on whether you're using a
| | 00:38 | Mac or a Windows PC.
| | 00:40 | We're doing all of this on a Mac, but
I'll point out where the differences
| | 00:43 | lie on a Windows PC.
| | 00:45 | At the top of the window, Sync Address Book
Contacts is more useful for our purposes.
| | 00:50 | On a Mac, you can choose to sync All
contacts or Selected groups of contacts from
| | 00:55 | Apple's Address Book application.
| | 00:56 | In this case, we'll choose Selected groups,
and I'll sync my Family and Friends contacts.
| | 01:02 | If you're unsure how to create groups
in Address Book, please take a look at
| | 01:05 | my OS X Leopard Essential
Training title, here at lynda.com.
| | 01:11 | You can also add contacts that aren't
part of a group to a particular group that
| | 01:14 | you sync to your iPad, and you
do it using this option here.
| | 01:18 | And if you use Yahoo!
| | 01:20 | or Google to create contacts, you can
sync contacts from those services as well.
| | 01:24 | So, in this case, let's enable
the Sync Google Contacts, and you see that
| | 01:28 | I'm prompted to enter my
Google ID, as well as my Password.
| | 01:31 | We won't do that in this
case, so I'll click Cancel.
| | 01:34 | Similar to contact, you can
Sync Calendar events to your iPad.
| | 01:37 | On a Mac these are the
events created with Apple's iCal.
| | 01:40 | Enable the Sync iCal Calenders option,
and again, I can sync all my calendars or
| | 01:44 | just selected calendars.
| | 01:47 | Let's sync the Home calendars.
| | 01:48 | There's also the Do not sync
events older than 30 days option.
| | 01:51 | If you don't want to carry around a lot
of events with you, you can switch this
| | 01:54 | ON, and then you won't have
those old events with you.
| | 01:57 | I prefer to keep all of them with me,
because they take up very little room on my iPad.
| | 02:02 | The next option is Sync Mail Accounts.
| | 02:05 | We're going to be doing an entire
movie about syncing email to the iPad, so
| | 02:08 | we're going to skip this option for now.
| | 02:11 | In the Other area, you have the
option to Sync Bookmarks and Notes.
| | 02:14 | On a Mac, you can sync Safari
bookmarks, with a Windows PC,
| | 02:18 | you can choose Safari or Internet Explorer.
| | 02:21 | And finally, there is the Advanced area.
| | 02:23 | This is a special area where you
choose to sync Contacts, Calendars, Mail
| | 02:27 | Accounts, Bookmarks and/or
Notes on a one-time basis.
| | 02:32 | When you apply one of these options and
click the Apply button, the information
| | 02:36 | on the iPad will be overwritten with
the information from the computer that the
| | 02:40 | iPad is plugged into.
| | 02:41 | For example, if you normally sync your
iPad's calendars at home and now need
| | 02:46 | your work computer's calendars on it,
you plug it into that work computer,
| | 02:49 | select Calendars and click Apply.
| | 02:52 | So, let's say I was going to replace
these here, I would select Contacts, and
| | 02:55 | then I would click the Apply button down here.
| | 02:58 | I don't want that to happen right now,
so I'll disable the Contacts option.
| | 03:02 | Now, I told you how this
would differ on a Windows PC.
| | 03:08 | When you're choosing the Sync Address
Book Contacts, on a PC you'll have the
| | 03:11 | option to use Windows
Address Book as well as Outlook.
| | 03:15 | The same idea with Calendars, you can
choose to sync your Outlook Calendars, and
| | 03:19 | that covers syncing information
from your computer to your iPad.
| | 03:22 | When you're ready to apply these things,
simply click the Apply button, and those
| | 03:26 | changes will be made and this
information will be synced to your iPad.
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| Wireless updating and syncing| 00:00 | Since the birth of iOS devices, that
would be the iPhone, iPod Touch and
| | 00:04 | original iPad, these portable devices
were portable in nearly all respects, save
| | 00:09 | one, syncing and updating.
| | 00:12 | When you wanted to put new content on
the things, or update their software, by
| | 00:15 | gum, you did it by stringing a cable
between the devices in your computer,
| | 00:19 | firing up iTunes and starting the process.
| | 00:22 | No longer, with iOS 5 and later, you
can update and sync iOS devices without
| | 00:28 | the benefit of wires. Here's how.
| | 00:30 | Updating an iPad wirelessly is dead simple.
| | 00:33 | With your iPad connected to a WiFi
network, launch Settings, tap General, and
| | 00:39 | then tap Software Update.
| | 00:40 | If an update is available, just tap
Update, and the update will download to your
| | 00:45 | device and be installed.
| | 00:46 | It's a good idea to do this with the
iPad connected to a power source, as some
| | 00:50 | updates are pretty big and they can
drain your battery. And that's it.
| | 00:53 | Of course, if no update is available
and that's most of the time, this is the
| | 00:57 | kind of screen you'll see, telling
you that your software is up to date.
| | 01:00 | Now, let's move back to the Home
screen and then over to the Mac.
| | 01:04 | Wireless syncing is nearly as easy.
| | 01:06 | To set it up, you must connect your
iPad to your computer and launch iTunes.
| | 01:10 | Now, select the iPad in iTunes source
list, and make sure that you're viewing
| | 01:15 | the Summary tab, as we are here.
| | 01:17 | Scroll down the page and under Options,
enable the Sync with this iPad over
| | 01:23 | Wi-Fi option and click Apply.
| | 01:26 | You can now unplug your iPad.
| | 01:27 | You notice that the iPad still remains
in the source list, that's because you've
| | 01:32 | turned on wireless syncing.
| | 01:33 | One thing you don't want to do is click
the Eject icon next to the iPad's icon,
| | 01:37 | as this will sever the
connection between the two.
| | 01:40 | We'll return to the iPad and launch
Settings, and then General, and then tap
| | 01:46 | on iTunes Wi-Fi Sync.
| | 01:48 | In the screen that appears, you'll see
the name of the computer you've chosen to
| | 01:52 | sync to it, along with the Sync Now button.
| | 01:55 | Tap this button and the iPad will
indeed sync with your computer, provided that
| | 01:59 | it's running its copy of iTunes.
| | 02:01 | By default, your iPad will sync with
iTunes whenever it's plugged into power and
| | 02:05 | connected to the same Wi-Fi network as
the computer it's synced with, and
| | 02:08 | again, that computer has
a copy of iTunes running.
| | 02:12 | And recall that this is a two-way street,
if you've added apps or media to your
| | 02:15 | iPad, those items will be synced back
to your computer. And that's it, the
| | 02:20 | secret of wireless
updates and syncing on the iPad.
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| Syncing media files to the iPad| 00:01 |
Now let's look at syncing
media files to your iPad.
| | 00:03 |
This includes music, music videos,
voice memos, movies, TV shows,
| | 00:08 |
podcast, books, and photos.
| | 00:10 |
The nice thing is that syncing works
much the same among all these media types.
| | 00:15 |
Let's start with music and the Music tab.
| | 00:18 |
If your music library is of modest size
and you want all of it on your iPad, all
| | 00:21 |
you have to do is enable Sync Music
and also Entire music library. That means that
| | 00:27 |
anything that's in your iTunes library,
anything musical that is, will be copied
| | 00:32 |
over to your iPad and will be ready to play.
| | 00:34 |
However, if you have more music than
that, you may wish to be more particular.
| | 00:38 |
In order to do that, enable Selected
playlists, artists, albums, and genres,
| | 00:44 |
and when you do that, you will see
that you have the option to select from
| | 00:46 |
exactly those options.
| | 00:48 |
So I can choose a particular playlist.
| | 00:50 |
I can choose an artist,
let's say Counting Crows.
| | 00:53 |
I can also choose a genre.
| | 00:55 |
I am going to sync all my Pop music there, and
I will also sync a couple of Beatles albums.
| | 01:00 |
At this point, all I have to do is
click the Apply button at the bottom of the
| | 01:03 |
window and that music will be synced to my iPad.
| | 01:07 |
A couple of other options up here.
| | 01:09 |
I can choose to include music videos.
| | 01:11 |
If some of these artists have music
videos that are in my iTunes library, I can
| | 01:15 |
enable an option and those
music videos will be synced as well.
| | 01:18 |
It's also possible that you have some
voice memos that are in your iTunes library.
| | 01:22 |
If you enable the Include voice
memos, those too will be synced.
| | 01:26 |
And finally, the last option is
Automatically fill free space with songs.
| | 01:31 |
Let's say that you filled your iPad
about half way with stuff and you decide
| | 01:34 |
that you want to carry
more of your music with you.
| | 01:36 |
You can easily do that by enabling
Automatically fill free space with songs.
| | 01:41 |
When the iPad is finished syncing the
stuff that you want on it, it will then
| | 01:44 |
top it off with music.
| | 01:46 |
This is a nice way to carry
more of your music with you.
| | 01:49 |
Let's move to the Movies tab.
| | 01:51 |
Once again, you can choose to sync all
your movies, or you can be more particular.
| | 01:56 |
If I disable Automatically include all,
a Movies area appears below, and then I
| | 02:00 |
can select just the movies that I want to sync.
| | 02:02 |
In this case, we only have one movie,
but if there were multiple movies here, I
| | 02:06 |
could choose just the ones
that I want to sync to my iPad.
| | 02:08 |
Let's move to TV Shows.
| | 02:11 |
Same idea. Switch off Automatically
include. I can select a particular show, and
| | 02:16 |
then I can choose the
episodes that I want to include.
| | 02:18 |
If I want to get a little trickier
about it, I can choose a specific show by
| | 02:24 |
choosing selected shows,
and then I have a number of options.
| | 02:27 |
So, for example, newest, newest
unwatched, and oldest unwatched.
| | 02:33 |
Let's move to Podcasts.
| | 02:34 |
Again, we've seen this before. Turn this off.
| | 02:38 |
I can choose a particular show.
| | 02:39 |
I can choose episodes.
| | 02:41 |
If I want to get trickier, enable
Automatically include all, selected podcast,
| | 02:47 |
and again, most recent, recent unplayed,
least recent unplayed, and on and on.
| | 02:56 |
The Books tab is very similar
to what we have seen before.
| | 02:59 |
You can choose to sync all the
books that are in your iTunes library or
| | 03:02 |
just selected books.
| | 03:03 |
We'll choose Selected books.
| | 03:06 |
Huckleberry Finn, Sherlock Holmes,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and we will do
| | 03:11 |
an Agatha Christie title was well.
| | 03:13 |
So where do you get these books?
| | 03:14 |
Well, if you take your iPad, go to the
App Store, and download the iBooks app,
| | 03:19 |
you will find that you can get a lot
of free books from the iBooks store.
| | 03:23 |
You can also purchase
books through the iBooks store.
| | 03:26 |
These files are in ePub format.
| | 03:27 |
You can also get books like this
from project Gutenberg. They are free.
| | 03:30 |
These are titles that are out of copyright.
| | 03:33 |
iBooks also supports PDF files.
| | 03:36 |
So if you have a PDF file that you have
downloaded or created on your Mac, you
| | 03:39 |
can sync that to iBooks as well.
| | 03:41 |
It will show up here in the Books area.
Select the one you want and sync it over.
| | 03:45 |
As you see, I have got a PDF
file right here. I'll select that.
| | 03:48 |
When I click Apply, it will
be copied over to my iPad.
| | 03:51 |
And now let's look at Photos.
| | 03:53 |
The iPad makes a great digital photo
frame, but little good this capability does
| | 03:57 |
you if you don't have pictures on it.
| | 03:59 |
The main way for moving pictures to
the iPad is through iTunes Photos tab.
| | 04:04 |
How this tab behaves differ slightly
depending on the computer platform that you're using.
| | 04:08 |
On a Mac, once you enable the Sync
Photos option, you have the choice to sync
| | 04:13 |
photos from Apple's iPhoto or
Aperture, as well as a folder of your
| | 04:17 |
choosing, or the pictures folder
within your user's folder, and you choose
| | 04:21 |
those options here.
| | 04:23 |
On a Mac, you can choose all your
photos, albums, events, and faces.
| | 04:27 |
You could also choose selected
albums, events, and faces, and you can
| | 04:30 |
automatically include events or not
include events. And here are the options.
| | 04:34 |
So I can choose the last import album.
| | 04:37 |
For example, I can choose an
event, and I can choose some faces.
| | 04:43 |
There is no version of iPhoto or
Aperture for Windows, but on the Windows PC,
| | 04:47 |
these options will be a little bit different.
| | 04:49 |
Here you'll find the option to sync
from your computer's pictures folder or
| | 04:53 |
a folder of your choosing, as well as from
Adobe Photoshop Elements version 3 or later.
| | 04:59 |
Windows syncing of photos to the iPad is
a little more limited because you don't
| | 05:02 |
have the option to sort events or
faces, because Windows doesn't support these
| | 05:07 |
things, but you can choose
albums from within Photoshop Elements.
| | 05:12 |
When you sync photos, they appear in
the iPad's Photos app where you can then
| | 05:16 |
select them by photos and albums.
| | 05:18 |
If you sync from a Mac, you can also
select by events, faces, and places.
| | 05:23 |
And with that, you should have a
good idea of how to sync your media to the iPad.
| | 05:28 |
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| Syncing data with iCloud| 00:00 | The days when all our data was stored
on our computer's hard drive is over.
| | 00:05 | While you'll still find data on your
computer, it can additionally be on
| | 00:08 | your iPad, as well as in the cloud,
meaning, large servers that you access
| | 00:13 | through the Internet.
| | 00:14 | It's great to have access to data like
your contacts, calendars, and email, but
| | 00:18 | it's also a challenge to keep them all in sync.
| | 00:21 | Thankfully, Apple provides a solution
in the form of iCloud, the company's
| | 00:25 | free online service that makes it possible to
keep computer, iPad and cloud storage synced up.
| | 00:32 | In this movie, we'll see how this is done.
| | 00:34 | To start, you must sign
up for an iCloud account.
| | 00:38 | If you've installed iOS 5 on your iPad,
there is a good chance that you have
| | 00:41 | done this and you are offered the
opportunity to do this when you first setup
| | 00:44 | the iPad, in fact, it's kind of hard to avoid.
| | 00:47 | If you have avoided it, just go to the
Settings screen, and tap the iCloud entry.
| | 00:53 | Now if you have used your iPad to get
content from the iTune store, your Apple
| | 00:57 | ID username will be filled in.
| | 00:59 | All you have to do at this
point is enter your password.
| | 01:02 | The username and password you use to
obtain content from the iTune store is your
| | 01:06 | Apple ID, so you are set.
| | 01:08 | If your iPad is untouched in regard to
the iTunes store, and you don't have an
| | 01:12 | Apple ID, just tap the Get a Free Apple
ID entry at the bottom of the screen.
| | 01:17 | At this point, just follow the instructions
and you will soon have your iCloud account.
| | 01:22 | We have already created an
Apple ID, so I can click Cancel.
| | 01:27 | Since I do have an Apple ID, all I have
to do is enter my Password, which I will
| | 01:31 | do now, and tap Sign In.
| | 01:33 | I have used this Apple ID for the
iTunes store, but I haven't used it yet for
| | 01:39 | iCloud, and so I have to agree to its Terms
of Service, and I do that by tapping on Agree.
| | 01:49 | If you have Contacts and Calendar
Events on your iPad, you will be asked if
| | 01:53 | you'd like to merge those with the iCloud,
indeed I want to do that, so I tap on Merge.
| | 01:58 | At this point, you'll be asked if you
would like to allow iCloud to use the
| | 02:01 | iPads location services. This is so
you can use to find my iPad feature.
| | 02:06 | This is a feature where the iPad can
broadcast its location, so that you can
| | 02:10 | find it if it's been misplaced or stolen.
| | 02:13 | This is a valuable feature,
so I recommend using it.
| | 02:16 | To do that, just go ahead and tap on the
OK button to switch on Location for iCloud.
| | 02:22 | Alternatively, if you have a Mac
running Mac OS X, 10.7.2 or later, you can
| | 02:28 | create an iCloud account by launching
System Preferences on your Mac, selecting
| | 02:33 | iCloud, and clicking the create an Apple
ID link, if you don't have an Apple ID.
| | 02:39 | In this case, we do, we can simply
enter the Apple ID in the appropriate field
| | 02:43 | and the Password, and then click on Sign In.
| | 02:46 | You see a couple of options, the first
is Use iCloud for contacts, calendars and
| | 02:50 | bookmarks, and indeed we want that to
happen, because we want to sync the data
| | 02:54 | between the Mac and the iPad,
so we will leave that on.
| | 02:58 | The other option is called Use Find my Mac.
| | 03:00 | This is for locating your Mac, if it
happens to get lost or stolen. That
| | 03:04 | doesn't apply to the iPad, but it's a good
idea, anyway, so leave it on and click on Next.
| | 03:10 | And here we see a screen that includes
the options for synching data with iCloud.
| | 03:14 | Now let's go back to the iPad.
| | 03:16 | On the iPad, the iCloud screen will appear.
| | 03:18 | It's on this screen that you can choose
what to sync with the iCloud service.
| | 03:22 | Options include Mail, Contact,
Calendars, Reminders, Bookmarks, Notes, Photo
| | 03:28 | Stream, and Documents and Data.
| | 03:30 | The Find My iPad option I mentioned
is found at the bottom of the list.
| | 03:34 | So what happens with these
options when they are turned on?
| | 03:37 | Essentially, it's iClouds job to
share copies of any data you create on an
| | 03:41 | iCloud enabled device with other
iCloud enabled devices, and this includes
| | 03:46 | the iCloud web site.
| | 03:47 | So let's see how this works.
| | 03:49 | I will return to the Home screen, I
will tap on the Calendar App and create a
| | 03:53 | new event by tapping the plus
button in the bottom right corner.
| | 03:58 | Since this is a lunch meeting, I am
going to configure this to happen at Noon,
| | 04:05 | and this is going to be tomorrow, so we
flip the date up once, and we tap on Done.
| | 04:09 | I am also going to assign
this to particular calendar;
| | 04:12 | I am going to assign it to my Work
calendar, and tap Done, and Done again.
| | 04:18 | And there is our lunch meeting.
| | 04:19 | As long as my iPad is connected to the
Internet, either via Wi-Fi or 3G, if it's
| | 04:24 | a 3G compatible model, that event is
then sent to Apple's iCloud service, added
| | 04:29 | to that calendar on the iCloud web site,
as well as synched to any other devices
| | 04:34 | that use my Apple ID, and that includes
my Mac running iCal, as we can see here,
| | 04:39 | and there is our lunch meeting.
| | 04:41 | This works the same way for
contacts, reminders, bookmarks and notes.
| | 04:45 | If I create one on any device that
uses iCloud, all other devices that have
| | 04:49 | iCloud enabled, and use my Apple ID,
will have that data synced to them.
| | 04:54 | Now let's return to the iPad.
| | 04:56 | Let's move back to Settings, and here is iCloud.
| | 05:00 | Now Photo Stream does this
synching dance a little differently.
| | 05:04 | When you switch this option ON, any
pictures you take with your iPads camera are
| | 05:09 | sent up to iCloud when the iPad
is connected to a Wi-Fi network.
| | 05:13 | This doesn't work over a 3G network. Then
images are sent to other devices and computer.
| | 05:19 | On other iOS devices, they will appear in
the Photo's App in the Photo Stream album.
| | 05:24 | If you have a Mac running Mac OS X
Lion and the latest version of iPhoto, you
| | 05:28 | can view your Photo Stream there as well,
and let's move to the Mac and look at iPhoto.
| | 05:33 | Just open iPhoto's Preferences,
click the Photo Stream entry, and Enable
| | 05:39 | Photo Stream.
| | 05:40 | If you additionally enable the
Automatic Upload option, any images you add to
| | 05:44 | iPhoto will be sent to the iCloud web
site, as well as those iOS devices that
| | 05:48 | have Photo Stream enabled.
| | 05:50 | Now I am going to go out and take some
pictures with my iPad, which will then be
| | 05:54 | synched via Photo Stream.
| | 05:56 | Time has passed and indeed I have
taken a few pictures with the iPad.
| | 06:00 | We can see them on the Mac now,
simply by clicking on Photo Stream in
| | 06:03 | iPhoto's Library pane.
| | 06:05 | You can use Photo Stream on Window's PC as well.
| | 06:09 | Go to www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc
.html and download and install the
| | 06:19 | iCloud Control panel.
| | 06:20 | On the PC turn on iCloud and
then switch on Photo Stream.
| | 06:24 | Click the Options button next to the
Photo Stream entry and choose where you
| | 06:28 | would like your iCloud images to be
downloaded to, as well as choose a folder to
| | 06:32 | add images to, so that
Photo Stream can upload them.
| | 06:35 | Now let's go back to the iPad, and once
again, we will go to Settings and iCloud.
| | 06:41 | Before we leave iCloud,
let's look at one more option,
| | 06:44 | iCloud Backup. Tap Storage and Backup.
| | 06:49 | At the bottom of the screen,
you will see the Backup entry.
| | 06:51 | When you switch this ON, your camera
roll, accounts, documents, and settings
| | 06:57 | will be automatically backed up, but
only when the iPad is plugged into power,
| | 07:01 | locked and connected to Wi-Fi. We are
asked to confirm that we want to start
| | 07:05 | iCloud Backup and we will do that by
tapping on OK, and backup is now ON.
| | 07:10 | Now the reason that you must be
plugged into power is that it's possible that
| | 07:14 | you have an awful lot of data on your
iPad and you don't want to completely
| | 07:18 | drain your battery when
backing up your iPad's data.
| | 07:21 | However, you can manually override
this plugging into power stuff by simply
| | 07:25 | tapping Back Up Now.
| | 07:27 | We are not going to do that in this case,
just know that that option is there.
| | 07:31 | Note that when you switch on this option,
the data on your iPad won't be backed
| | 07:35 | up to your computer
automatically when you sync it with iTunes.
| | 07:38 | Instead, it will be backed up to iCloud.
| | 07:41 | One other thing to note is the
Storage area at the top of the screen.
| | 07:45 | Here you can not only see the total
amount of storage you have, as well as the
| | 07:49 | available storage, but also how the
storage is divided on your iOS device.
| | 07:54 | Just tap Manage Storage and you will see all
the devices that are backed up to this account.
| | 07:59 | In this case, we have just the iPad.
| | 08:02 | Tap on the device, and you will see that you can
choose specifically the kind of data to backup.
| | 08:07 | If you don't want to backup WeatherBug
information, for example, all you have to
| | 08:11 | do is flip that switch OFF.
| | 08:13 | When you choose this option, you will
be asked to turn it off as well as delete
| | 08:17 | that data and that will happen.
| | 08:19 | This will remove the data from Apple's service,
as well as turn off backup for that device.
| | 08:23 | As I mentioned, this synching works not
only between the iPad and your computer,
| | 08:28 | but also other iOS devices.
| | 08:30 | For example, on my iPhone, you can see
the Calendar Event that I created by tapping
| | 08:35 | the Calendar app, tap on the date
and there it is, my lunch meeting.
| | 08:39 | And if I launch the Photos app, I
just tap Photo Stream, and there are the
| | 08:47 | pictures that I took with my iPad.
| | 08:49 | It's not just Apple apps that
can take advantage of iCloud,
| | 08:51 | iCloud synching is open to
third party apps as well.
| | 08:55 | This is a great way to synch
important data, your contacts, calendars and
| | 08:59 | mail for instance, as well as even more
important data, you favorite games high scores.
| | 09:03 | Spend some time with iCloud;
| | 09:04 | I think you will find it a very handy feature.
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| Using iTunes Match to keep music updated on multiple devices| 00:00 | Not terribly long ago, if you
purchased music from the iTunes store and then
| | 00:04 | lost that music for one reason or
another, Apple was within its rights to say,
| | 00:09 | sorry dude, you should've
backed it up, and left it at that.
| | 00:12 | That's no longer the case
| | 00:14 | thanks to a new service called
iTunes in the Cloud that allows you to
| | 00:17 | re-download any music or TV shows
you've purchased from the iTunes store.
| | 00:21 | Of course, this requires that you have
an Apple ID and that you have purchased
| | 00:25 | music or TV episodes from the iTunes store.
| | 00:27 | Let's see how this works.
| | 00:29 | Tap on the iTunes Store app, and in the
screen that appears tap Purchased at the
| | 00:34 | bottom of the screen.
| | 00:35 | By default, you see a list of artists
representing artists whose work you've
| | 00:38 | purchased at the left side of the screen.
| | 00:40 | Tap on an artist's name, and on the right
side of the screen you will see all the
| | 00:44 | tracks by that artist that you've
purchased from the iTunes store.
| | 00:47 | Now these are not currently on the iPad.
| | 00:49 | I've purchased them, but
now I need to download them.
| | 00:52 | In order to do so, I can simply tap on
Download All The, and in this case this
| | 00:57 | would be the Jellybrick's
song, button to the right.
| | 01:01 | Now let's choose the Christopher Breen album.
| | 01:03 | And I will show you that you can
individually download songs too, just by
| | 01:06 | tapping on a title next to the track.
| | 01:09 | When you do this, the songs swoop down
to the Downloads icon indicating that
| | 01:14 | they're being downloaded. Tap the
Downloads icon, and you can observe the
| | 01:18 | progress of the download.
| | 01:21 | And now hit Purchased at
the bottom of the screen.
| | 01:24 | Let's tap on Jellybricks, and tap on Albums.
| | 01:27 | Here you can see the two albums that
I've purchased from the Jellybricks.
| | 01:31 | Now I will tap on the album cover.
| | 01:33 | At this point, we are actually
already downloading these tracks, but if we
| | 01:36 | weren't, we could download just that
album simply by tapping on the Download
| | 01:41 | button that would appear
right next to the album cover.
| | 01:43 | We will dismiss that
window by tapping outside it.
| | 01:46 | You can also re-download TV
shows that you have purchased.
| | 01:49 | To do that, tap the View button in
the top left corner, and tap TV Shows.
| | 01:55 | A list of TV Shows appears.
| | 01:57 | So, for example, let's tap on the Game of
Thrones entry, and then we will tap on its artwork.
| | 02:03 | This works much the same way.
| | 02:04 | If there were multiple episodes here,
we can download them all simply by
| | 02:07 | tapping on Download All.
| | 02:09 | Also in this window, we can
see a preview of an episode.
| | 02:12 | We are not going to show that, but if
you wanted to see one, you just tap on
| | 02:15 | that Play icon and you'd be able to
preview the episode, to make sure you are
| | 02:18 | downloading the right one.
| | 02:19 | And then to download individual episodes,
simply tap on the Download button to
| | 02:23 | the right of the title, and we will do that now.
| | 02:26 | You have the option to download either
in standard definition, or if the show is
| | 02:29 | available in HD, in high definition.
| | 02:32 | In this case, we will tap on Download HD.
| | 02:35 | Note that this is going to take up more
space on your iPad, but it looks better
| | 02:39 | and we will tap outside that
window to make it disappear.
| | 02:41 | Now we are going to move over to the Mac.
| | 02:44 | iTunes in the Cloud is a very nice
feature but Apple support for media stored
| | 02:48 | and retrievable from the
cloud, doesn't stop there.
| | 02:52 | For $25 a year, you can not only access
music you've purchased from the iTunes
| | 02:56 | store, but additionally, up to 25,000
tracks in your iTunes library that you
| | 03:01 | haven't purchased from the iTunes store.
| | 03:03 | This service is called iTunes
Match, and it works like this.
| | 03:07 | On your Mac or Windows PC, fire up the
latest version of iTunes, that's version
| | 03:11 | 10.5.1 or later, and from the
Store menu, choose Turn on iTunes Match.
| | 03:19 | In order to belong the iTunes Match,
you must subscribe, so click on the
| | 03:22 | Subscribe for $24.99 Per Year.
| | 03:26 | You will be prompted for your Apple ID
and password, enter it, and click Subscribe.
| | 03:33 | iTunes will then scan through
your music library and send a list of
| | 03:36 | it's contents to Apple.
| | 03:37 | Any tracks that match tunes
available from the iTunes store will be made
| | 03:41 | available to up to 10 devices, including your
iPad that are associated with your Apple ID.
| | 03:46 | There's no need for you to upload your copies.
| | 03:48 | If tracks in your library aren't available
for the iTunes store, they will be uploaded.
| | 03:54 | Note that if you have a large music
library and a lot of tunes that need to be
| | 03:57 | uploaded, this can take many hours.
| | 03:59 | You can continue using
iTunes as you normally would.
| | 04:02 | When iTunes Match finishes,
you'll see this completion screen.
| | 04:06 | Now let's move back to the iPad.
| | 04:08 | Go to Settings and then tap Music.
| | 04:12 | And here we'll switch on iTunes Match.
| | 04:14 | We will enter our password, and tap OK.
| | 04:20 | Note the warning that iTunes Match is going
to replace the music library on this device.
| | 04:24 | In order to make iTunes
Match work, you must tap Enable.
| | 04:27 | If you also switch on Show All Music,
which is on by default, music available
| | 04:31 | via iTunes Match, as well as music you've downloaded
to your iPad, will appear in the Music app.
| | 04:37 | Now launch the Music app, and wait
for its contents to be updated with
| | 04:42 | iTunes Match content.
| | 04:44 | It's not unusual to see these empty
album covers, eventually, they all
| | 04:47 | populate with album art.
| | 04:49 | Now let's tap on an album.
| | 04:52 | And you see a couple of options.
| | 04:53 | One is to download all of the
contents of the album, or you can
| | 04:57 | download individual tracks.
| | 04:58 | So let's download the first track of this
album by tapping on the Download button.
| | 05:03 | You see the progress gauge to the right
indicating the progress of the download.
| | 05:07 | Once the track is downloaded, you no
longer see that download icon, because the
| | 05:11 | track is now on your iPad.
| | 05:13 | If you wanted to play that track,
all you'd have to do is tap on it.
| | 05:16 | We will exit this window
by tapping outside of it.
| | 05:19 | You can also download all of the
tracks by a particular artist by tapping
| | 05:23 | Artists at the bottom of the screen.
| | 05:25 | Then tap on an artist name, and
flicking down on the left side and
| | 05:30 | tapping Download All.
| | 05:32 | When you do that, you will see the
progress gauge is on the right side
| | 05:35 | indicating each tracks download progress.
| | 05:39 | And that's the idea of iTunes Match.
| | 05:41 | This content exists in the cloud.
| | 05:42 | When you want access to it, simply
download it to your device over a Wi-Fi
| | 05:46 | network and you have the content on your iPad.
| | 05:48 | A few notes about iTunes Match content,
tracks you download from iTunes Match
| | 05:53 | are encoded at 256 kilobits per
second in the AAC format.
| | 05:58 | This encoding may be at a higher
resolution than the files that were originally
| | 06:02 | in your iTunes library, meaning,
that they may sound better.
| | 06:05 | So, for example, if you ripped a CD
in an MP3 format at 128 kilobits per second,
| | 06:11 | you're actually getting a better
quality file, which is very cool!
| | 06:14 | So what happens when at the end of the
year your iTunes Match subscription ends
| | 06:18 | and you decide you no longer want to subscribe?
| | 06:21 | We can keep any tracks you've
downloaded. You own them now.
| | 06:24 | You won't have access to your Match
music until you pay Apple again for another
| | 06:28 | year subscription however.
| | 06:29 | Again, iTunes Match will work with up to
10 devices, including computers and iOS
| | 06:34 | devices like your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
| | 06:37 | If you are looking for an easy way to
have access to your iTunes library, it's
| | 06:40 | an option worth exploring.
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| Troubleshooting| 00:00 |
Wonderful as the iPad is, it can
occasionally behave in confounding ways,
| | 00:05 |
refusing to charge, failing to show
the onscreen keyboard, becoming suddenly
| | 00:09 |
mute, becoming unresponsive, or
just generally acting in a funky way.
| | 00:13 |
In this movie, we'll look at
common cures for a misbehaving iPad.
| | 00:17 |
Your iPad needs power to work,
and that power often comes from the batteries
| | 00:21 |
found inside the device.
| | 00:22 |
You have plugged it into your computer's USB
port, yet it tells you that it's not charging.
| | 00:27 |
So what's going on?
| | 00:29 |
The iPad, unlike the iPhone and iPod,
requires 10 watts of charging goodness
| | 00:33 |
while the iPad is awake.
| | 00:36 |
On older computers, the USB 2.0 port
doesn't provide that much power, and so the
| | 00:40 |
iPad won't charge while it's awake.
| | 00:43 |
Fortunately, the iPad tells you so,
with its not charging message in the top-
| | 00:47 |
right corner of the display.
| | 00:48 |
Now I keep emphasizing this 'while
it's awake' business, because these ports
| | 00:53 |
will charge an iPad when it's asleep,
though more slowly than a port that
| | 00:56 |
provides the full 10 watts. The solution:
| | 00:59 |
if your computer doesn't provide
enough power, use the power adapter that's
| | 01:04 |
included with the iPad to charge it.
| | 01:06 |
And then there's the keyboard.
| | 01:07 |
You've picked up your iPad, launched
Notes, and tap on a note to start typing,
| | 01:13 |
and nothing happens.
| | 01:15 |
That Bluetooth symbol at the top
of the iPad's display is the hint.
| | 01:19 |
If you've paired your iPad with a
Bluetooth keyboard or jammed it into the
| | 01:23 |
iPad's keyboard dock, the onscreen
keyboard won't work because the iPad believes
| | 01:28 |
you're using a hardware keyboard.
| | 01:30 |
And now sound, you've
downloaded a cool new game.
| | 01:32 |
You've fired it up and start
blasting intergalactic cooties.
| | 01:36 |
The problem is, the iPad makes no sound.
| | 01:40 |
The first thing to check is the
Volume toggle switch on the iPad's side.
| | 01:44 |
Press it up to make sure
you haven't muted the volume.
| | 01:47 |
Next, if you've configured the side
switch above the Volume buttons to mute the
| | 01:50 |
iPad, make sure that it's
pushed up and thus unmuted.
| | 01:54 |
If that still doesn't work, find
your iPad's headset or another pair of
| | 01:58 |
headphones with a 3 mm plug,
and plug and unplug it a few times.
| | 02:03 |
Sometimes the iPad's headphone port
can get gunked up, thus muting the iPad.
| | 02:08 |
This can clear it up. Another situation.
| | 02:11 |
You're working in an app, let's
say it's Safari, and it suddenly
| | 02:14 |
becomes unresponsive.
| | 02:15 |
You tap and tap and nothing happens.
| | 02:19 |
That app is locked up.
| | 02:20 |
There are couple of ways to force-quit it.
| | 02:22 |
First, press the Home button to return
to the home screen and then double-tap
| | 02:26 |
on the Home button.
| | 02:28 |
Locate the problem app in the row of
running apps, tap and hold on it, and tap
| | 02:33 |
the Minus icon to quit the app.
| | 02:36 |
Or press and hold on the Sleep/Wake button,
until the Slide the power off slider appears.
| | 02:41 |
Now press and hold on the Home
button until the app quits, and you've
| | 02:45 |
returned to the Home screen.
| | 02:47 |
When you next launch the app,
it will hopefully behave itself.
| | 02:52 |
If it doesn't, try restarting the iPad
by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake
| | 02:56 |
button and swiping the
Slide to power off switch.
| | 02:59 |
When the iPad shuts off, turn it
on again by pressing and releasing
| | 03:03 |
the Sleep/Wake button.
| | 03:09 |
Worse yet, your entire
iPad becomes unresponsive.
| | 03:12 |
Now this is a rare occasion, but it can happen.
| | 03:15 |
When it does, press and hold on the Sleep/
Wake button, as well as the Home button.
| | 03:19 |
In a few seconds the iPad's screen will go dark.
| | 03:22 |
This indicates that you forced it to shutdown.
| | 03:25 |
To restart it, just press the Sleep/Wake button.
| | 03:28 |
If your iPad continues to behave in odd
ways after this treatment, you may need
| | 03:32 |
to reset some settings.
| | 03:34 |
To do that, launch Settings, tap the
General Setting, and tap Reset at the
| | 03:39 |
bottom of the list of General settings.
| | 03:42 |
Start by tapping Reset All Settings.
| | 03:45 |
This resets the iPad's preferences
and settings, but it doesn't affect any
| | 03:49 |
of your data or media.
| | 03:51 |
If you're having problems making
connections to the outside world through Wi-Fi
| | 03:54 |
or 3G, try tapping Reset Network Settings.
| | 03:58 |
This will wipe out previously used network
settings and flip Wi-Fi off and then back on.
| | 04:04 |
If nothing seems to be going well and
you're not near your computer, you could
| | 04:07 |
try tapping Erase All Contents and Settings.
| | 04:11 |
This essentially returns the iPad to its
condition when you first pulled it from the box.
| | 04:15 |
Everything you've added to
it is wiped out, so beware.
| | 04:19 |
It's a desperate action and one
that you shouldn't take lightly.
| | 04:22 |
It's so desperate in fact that I'm not
going to demonstrate it now, as I don't
| | 04:26 |
really want to take the time to restore it.
| | 04:28 |
If you must have an iPad that works but don't
care about what's on it, this is the way to go.
| | 04:33 |
If you're within reach of your computer,
attach your iPad to it, select it in
| | 04:39 |
iTunes, and take a gander at the Restore button.
| | 04:43 |
If you press this button, iTunes will
download the latest version of the iPad
| | 04:47 |
software, if there's a newer version
than what you currently have, and then it
| | 04:50 |
will install it on your iPad,
overriding the software that's on it.
| | 04:54 |
I'm not going to do that right now, because
I'm going to keep my software just as it is.
| | 04:58 |
This gives your iPad a completely fresh start.
| | 05:00 |
Once that operation is done, you have the
option to restore your iPad from a backup.
| | 05:05 |
But what about an iPad that
doesn't appear in iTunes at all?
| | 05:08 |
You can try putting it into DFU mode.
| | 05:11 |
This is a recovery mode that
forces iTunes to recognize it.
| | 05:15 |
To enter DFU mode, connect your iPad to
your computer with a USB cable, shut down
| | 05:20 |
the iPad, press and hold Sleep/
Wake for 10 seconds, and let go of the
| | 05:29 |
Sleep/Wake button while continuing to
hold the Home button for 10 seconds.
| | 05:34 |
iTunes should throw up an error indicating
that it's found an iPad in recovery mode.
| | 05:39 |
At this point, you'll see just a
single Summary tab in iTunes with the
| | 05:43 |
Restore button showing.
| | 05:44 |
Click Restore and the iPad will be restored.
| | 05:47 |
Once it is, you can then restore
your data and apps from a backup.
| | 05:51 |
And finally, a solution that seems
like voodoo, but sometimes works as
| | 05:55 |
a last-ditch effort.
| | 05:57 |
If your iPad seems totally confused and
your computer can't update it because it
| | 06:01 |
won't appear in iTunes,
attach it to a different computer.
| | 06:05 |
Sometimes iTunes on your
computer plays a part of the problem.
| | 06:09 |
Connected to a different computer, even
a Mac if you have a PC, or vice versa,
| | 06:12 |
restore it on that computer and then
bring it back to your original computer to
| | 06:17 |
restore it from an update.
| | 06:18 |
It sounds crazy, I know,
but it's worked more often than not.
| | 06:22 |
My hope is that you'll never need any of
these troubleshooting tips, but in case
| | 06:26 |
you do, they should set your iPad straight.
| | 06:29 |
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| Using Notification Center| 00:00 | In versions of iOS before iOS 5, notifications,
the little alert messages you'd
| | 00:06 | see every so often were pretty limited.
| | 00:08 | They're much more powerful now.
| | 00:10 | Like most things on the iPad, you
configure notifications within the
| | 00:14 | Settings screen, so let's go to Settings, tap
Notifications and you see three main sections.
| | 00:20 | The first, Sort Apps, offers two options,
Manually and By Time. These control how
| | 00:27 | items are displayed in Notification Center.
| | 00:29 | Notification what? We'll do this.
| | 00:32 | Tap on the time in the
iPad's taskbar and swipe down.
| | 00:35 | The pane that sweeps down is the
Notification Center, an area where you can see
| | 00:40 | notifications that you've received.
| | 00:42 | Not only can you see notifications, but
you can also act on them, just tap one and
| | 00:47 | the app associated with the notification
will launch, taking you to the item that
| | 00:50 | triggered the notification; a
calendar event or a reminder, for example.
| | 00:54 | So in this case, let's tap on Team
meeting, we do that, calendars open and it
| | 01:00 | shows us that event.
| | 01:02 | We'll click Done to move it out of the
way, go back to the Home screen and we'll
| | 01:06 | swipe down once more to
see Notifications Center.
| | 01:09 | To remove a group of notifications,
just tap the small X to the side of the
| | 01:13 | category header, and we'll tap Clear.
| | 01:17 | In regard to calendars, if you tap
that X then you'll lose the icon that
| | 01:21 | indicates an alarm for each one of the items.
| | 01:24 | However, let's tap on Game Center and
see what happens, and tap Clear, and that
| | 01:29 | entire entry disappears.
| | 01:31 | To make the entire Notification Center
disappear just tap on the Home screen or
| | 01:35 | swipe up from the bottom of the pane.
| | 01:39 | Now let's go back to the Notification
settings. As I was saying, you can choose to
| | 01:43 | sort the order notifications appear
and notification manually, or by the time
| | 01:47 | that they were received.
| | 01:49 | To change the order that apps appear
in Notification Center when sorting
| | 01:52 | manually, just tap Edit in the top
right corner, and then drag the drag
| | 01:57 | handle next to the app.
| | 01:59 | When you choose to Sort By Time, the
most recent notifications appear at the top
| | 02:03 | of Notification Center, and
let's go back to By Time.
| | 02:06 | You can configure how notifications
are offered by tapping on each app within
| | 02:10 | the In Notification Center area. So
tap an app and you find options for
| | 02:15 | switching on and off
notifications altogether with that app.
| | 02:17 | So, for example, let's tap on
Reminders. So I can switch it on and off
| | 02:22 | altogether, I can also choose the
number of items that I'm going to show.
| | 02:26 | By default, you'll see five items, but
you also have the option to see just one
| | 02:31 | item, 10 items or 20 items.
| | 02:35 | In the Alert Style area you can choose
what alerts look like when they are received.
| | 02:39 | If you don't want alerts to
appear at all when received, select None.
| | 02:43 | If you'd like to see a banner which
appears for a short time at the top of the
| | 02:47 | iPad screen, tap Banners, and if you'd
like to view an alert that you must
| | 02:51 | confirm, choose Alerts.
| | 02:54 | Below this area, you find some
options depending on the app.
| | 02:57 | Now let's move back to Notifications.
| | 03:00 | In this case let's choose Messages.
| | 03:03 | Here we have four options. Badge App
Icon is for causing a round red icon with a
| | 03:07 | number inside to appear in the top
right corner of an apps icon, indicating the
| | 03:11 | number of notifications received by
that app. You routinely see this kind of
| | 03:15 | badge in the mail and App Store icons
on the homepage as well as in messages.
| | 03:19 | You may see a sound option appear for some apps.
| | 03:22 | For example, a game might make a sound
when it's your move, or a Twitter client
| | 03:26 | might chirp, if you receive a tweet
that's addressed to your username.
| | 03:29 | Most of the time, I turn this option
off, as there's nothing more distracting
| | 03:33 | than an audio alert going off in the
middle of the night when you have fallen
| | 03:35 | asleep with your iPad next to you.
| | 03:38 | In some cases, such as in messages,
you have the option to Show Preview.
| | 03:42 | So in this case, if I receive an
iMessage, it will pop-up and show me a little
| | 03:46 | snippet of that message, and at that
point I can choose to answer or not.
| | 03:50 | Messages also has a Repeat Alert
option. This is set by default at once, but
| | 03:55 | let's tap that option, and it shows you
that you can have never, twice, three times,
| | 03:59 | five times, or ten times.
| | 04:01 | This is particularly useful for messages,
because sometimes we miss a message
| | 04:04 | when it comes in, and having it repeat
every so often is a good idea so that we
| | 04:08 | notice that it's happened. Let's move
back one screen and View In Lock Screen
| | 04:13 | is for exactly that.
| | 04:15 | This instructs that app's alerts to
appear on the iPad screen when you awaken it,
| | 04:19 | but before you've unlocked it by
swiping the slide to unlock switch.
| | 04:22 | Now people routinely leave this option
on for all apps, but it's not such a hot
| | 04:27 | idea when you have a few dozen apps that
are capable of receiving notifications.
| | 04:31 | In such cases, it's easy for an important
notification to get lost because of all the clutter.
| | 04:35 | Now let's go back into the Notification screen.
| | 04:38 | Finally, at the bottom of the screen
is a list of all the apps capable of
| | 04:42 | receiving notifications that don't
currently have notifications switched on.
| | 04:46 | To enable notifications for one of
these apps, just tap the app, and configure
| | 04:50 | the options we just examined. And that's the
dope on notifications, consider yourself notified.
| | 04:55 | Now let's go to the Home screen and
see what a notification looks like.
| | 04:58 | My friend Nick is going to send me an iMessage.
| | 05:03 | There it is, we see the banner alert and
we see a badge up in the right corner of
| | 05:07 | messages. I respond to it just by tapping
on Messages, I view it, and now I can go
| | 05:12 | back to the Home screen and you'll see
that the badge disappears, because I've
| | 05:16 | looked at the message.
| | 05:17 | Now let's take a look at it in Notification
Center. Here comes another message.
| | 05:23 | Now let's take a look at it in Notification
Center by swiping down, there it is,
| | 05:27 | and to reply to it I can simply tap on
it in Notification Center, and it turns
| | 05:32 | out that I did indeed eat all
the chocolate so I should tell him.
| | 05:38 | Now we're going to go back to the Home
screen, and now I'm going to lock the iPad
| | 05:42 | to show you how it looks on the locked screen.
| | 05:43 | Hopefully, Nick's not too disappointed,
but I guess we're going to find out.
| | 05:47 | Oops! Apparently he is not happy about
losing all that chocolate, but here we
| | 05:51 | are on the lock screen.
| | 05:52 | Now let's suppose that we want to reply
to it, we don't have to slide to unlock
| | 05:56 | the screen, all we have to do is slide on
the notification itself, and here it is.
| | 06:02 | And that's the dope on notifications,
consider yourself notified.
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|
3. Working with AppsUsing the App Store to download apps| 00:00 |
You know your iPad can run apps,
but it's not limited to those apps that
| | 00:04 |
originally shipped with it.
| | 00:06 |
Apple's App Store has countless apps, and
a hefty hunk of them are worth your time.
| | 00:11 |
But how do you find the good ones?
| | 00:12 |
That's what this movie is about,
making the most of the App Store.
| | 00:16 |
Now there are two ways to browse the App Store:
| | 00:18 |
on your computer within iTunes and on the iPad
itself. And we're going to start with iTunes.
| | 00:23 |
Launch iTunes and choose the
iTunes Store in iTunes Source pane.
| | 00:29 |
Now the iTunes Store's homepage is
devoted to music, movies, and TV shows.
| | 00:35 |
We're only after apps, so we're
going to click on the App Store link.
| | 00:40 |
This takes us to the App Store homepage.
| | 00:43 |
Let's check out the top of that page.
| | 00:45 |
Apple has a team that seeks out the
coolest new apps, and when they find them,
| | 00:49 |
they promote them in
banners at the top of the page.
| | 00:52 |
You'll also find some collections
that are based on a particular theme.
| | 00:56 |
For example, if it's around the holiday, you
may see some kind of holiday theme or a
| | 01:00 |
particular kind of gaming that's
popular at that time, and they also point out
| | 01:04 |
that kind of collection as well.
| | 01:06 |
Move down to New and Noteworthy,
and you're going to find apps that Apple also
| | 01:12 |
thinks are worth your attention.
| | 01:14 |
But if you want to see what's hot with
other iOS users, check out a few other areas.
| | 01:19 |
Scroll down to What's Hot,
| | 01:21 |
for example. These are apps
that had been recently released
| | 01:25 |
that have been selling pretty well.
| | 01:26 |
Now 'recently released' is the key phrase here.
| | 01:29 |
These aren't long-time performers,
but rather, apps that have been popular for short time.
| | 01:34 |
They are worth checking out, but as
they haven't been here for a long time,
| | 01:37 |
they're not always a sure bet.
| | 01:39 |
One place I do look for better
apps are the Top Charts list.
| | 01:44 |
There are a couple of them.
The first is Paid Apps.
| | 01:47 |
These are apps that are selling really
well, and of course, they are selling.
| | 01:50 |
You have to pay to get these apps.
| | 01:53 |
Scroll down and you'll
also see the top Free Apps.
| | 01:56 |
Again, these are free applications,
but are very popular, and this is what
| | 01:59 |
people are downloading.
| | 02:02 |
If you want to see long-term
performers that are doing well, keep going until
| | 02:05 |
you get to the Top Grossing area.
| | 02:08 |
These are apps that are not only
popular, but they've made a lot of money for
| | 02:11 |
the people who have developed them.
| | 02:13 |
More often than not, you're going to
see a lot of games on here, because, well,
| | 02:16 |
games are very popular for the iPad.
| | 02:18 |
But also when Apple has released a new
application or updated one, you'll often
| | 02:22 |
see Apple's apps in here.
| | 02:24 |
Now Apple has put together a couple
of other lists that you should look at.
| | 02:27 |
So we'll click and hold on the App
Store link and choose Apps Starter Kit.
| | 02:35 |
This is an App Store Essentials
collection, and it contains applications that
| | 02:38 |
are quite popular and very useful.
| | 02:40 |
For example, here Flipboard is a way
of looking at stories from the Internet.
| | 02:44 |
iBooks is incredibly popular.
| | 02:46 |
It's the way that you look at books
on the iPad and other iOS devices, and
| | 02:50 |
here's GarageBand, which is one
of my favorite music-making apps.
| | 02:53 |
If you're just starting out, I
strongly suggest that you look at the Starter
| | 02:56 |
Kit. And if you're for the creme de la
creme, at least as I record this, check
| | 03:01 |
out the Hall of Fame.
| | 03:03 |
These are apps that are not only
popular, but Apple likes them too.
| | 03:07 |
Now you can dig down even farther by
clicking on the App Store link and looking
| | 03:12 |
at one of the category's list.
| | 03:15 |
So let's say, for example, we'll look at Music.
| | 03:19 |
This is similar to the regular Apps homepage;
| | 03:21 |
however, it's devoted to a specific category.
| | 03:24 |
In this case I've chosen Music.
| | 03:27 |
So again, you see New and Noteworthy,
What's Hot, and then you see a listing
| | 03:32 |
of all the apps that are available in this
category, also top Free Apps and top Paid Apps.
| | 03:40 |
Okay. So let's select an app and
look at it in greater depth.
| | 03:44 |
So let's choose a free app.
| | 03:48 |
Oh, why not Blaster Tank?
| | 03:51 |
I've no idea about this
app, but we'll give it try anyway.
| | 03:54 |
So here we're on the page for this app,
and what you can see, of course, is the title.
| | 03:59 |
You see the description.
| | 04:00 |
You can learn more about the application by
clicking on a More link, right here on the page.
| | 04:07 |
You'll see new version information.
| | 04:10 |
There are also some
screenshots for the iPhone version.
| | 04:17 |
When you want to buy the app, you
just simply click on the Price area.
| | 04:21 |
In this case, this is a free app.
| | 04:23 |
We'll go ahead and buy it, because what
the heck, it's not costing us a cent.
| | 04:27 |
I click on Free App, and it'll
ask my Apple ID and password.
| | 04:34 |
Click get, and you can see by this
downloads entry that appears, that it is now
| | 04:41 |
downloading this app.
| | 04:43 |
Let's move farther down the page, because
there is some of the important stuff in here.
| | 04:46 |
You want to look at Customer Ratings.
| | 04:48 |
This is one way to tell if
the app is worth it or not.
| | 04:51 |
First of all, you're going to get Star Ratings.
| | 04:54 |
Now these are people
that have purchased the app.
| | 04:56 |
You can't rate without purchasing.
And once people have done this, they can come
| | 04:59 |
in and say, yeah, I think this is worth
five or four or three or whatever, and
| | 05:02 |
then the average out these ratings.
| | 05:04 |
Another thing to be careful about is
look at the number of ratings that are here.
| | 05:08 |
If an app has 3, 4, 5, 6 ratings,
it doesn't tell you very much.
| | 05:13 |
But if it has lots and lots of ratings,
you have an idea that many people have
| | 05:17 |
rated the thing, and you're going to
get a better and a more accurate idea of
| | 05:21 |
how good this thing is.
| | 05:23 |
Also go to the Sort By menu,
and choose Most Recent.
| | 05:27 |
Then take a look at the ratings.
| | 05:29 |
The reason you do this is because
it's possible that an update has come out
| | 05:32 |
and maybe it's introduced some bugs, or there
were bugs before and the update fixes those bugs.
| | 05:37 |
By looking at the Recent Reviews, you can see
how the very most current version is doing.
| | 05:42 |
One other thing to be careful about,
particularly with free apps, is read a few of the reviews.
| | 05:46 |
Sometimes people get pretty cranky when
they rate applications, particularly if
| | 05:50 |
they are free ones, because it
takes nothing to download the thing.
| | 05:53 |
And then if they're in a bad mood or
there's just one little thing they don't
| | 05:56 |
like, they may write a scathing
review that isn't all that helpful.
| | 05:59 |
Read five, six, maybe ten reviews and get
an idea of how people really feel about
| | 06:04 |
it, instead of just picking one review
and saying, oh, well, that guy didn't like it,
| | 06:07 |
so clearly it's no good.
| | 06:09 |
So now we've seen how the
App Store looks on your Mac.
| | 06:13 |
One more thing that I'd like to point
out is the Apps entry under Library.
| | 06:17 |
Select this and you'll see a list of all the
apps that are stored in your iTunes Library.
| | 06:22 |
What we're specifically looking at here is
the Updates entry at the bottom of the window.
| | 06:27 |
Click on that and you'll see how
many updated apps are available to you.
| | 06:31 |
Now you can choose these things individually.
| | 06:33 |
So if you want to just download one of
these, simply click on Get Update, and
| | 06:37 |
that single app will update. Or you can
go to the top of the window and select
| | 06:43 |
Download All Updates.
| | 06:45 |
Once you purchase an app, the updates
are free; however, if they come out with a
| | 06:48 |
brand-new version, then yes,
you've to pay for it again.
| | 06:51 |
We're not going to update the apps on the
computer; rather, I'm going to do that on my iPad.
| | 06:55 |
And speaking of which, let's
now take a look at the iPad.
| | 06:59 |
The App Store as seen from the
iPad isn't terribly different.
| | 07:02 |
Of course, all the music, movies, and
TV shows have been shunted off to a
| | 07:05 |
separate iTunes app.
| | 07:07 |
So within the App Store app,
you'll see nothing but apps.
| | 07:10 |
In this case, you navigate
through a series of buttons.
| | 07:13 |
So by default, you'll see the featured
button and you see the featured screen.
| | 07:17 |
So, banner at the top, New and Noteworthy,
categories below, Staff Favorites, and
| | 07:24 |
some Quick Links at the bottom.
| | 07:25 |
If you want to see What's Hot,
there's a button at the top for that.
| | 07:31 |
And you can check apps by
release date by tapping that.
| | 07:35 |
We're going to skip Genius for now,
but I'll be back to that in a second.
| | 07:39 |
Tap Top charts, and again, you
can see top paid and free apps.
| | 07:46 |
By default, you see ten.
| | 07:48 |
If you tap on Show More, you get another ten.
| | 07:59 |
Below that are the Top Grossing iPad apps,
and again, you can show more of those
| | 08:03 |
by tapping Show More.
| | 08:04 |
And I'll tap Categories. Just like
on your computer, you can go through
| | 08:10 |
categories, so we'll look at
Entertainment, and here we have a page that has all
| | 08:16 |
our entertainment apps on it, and so on.
| | 08:18 |
Now the last button is Updates.
| | 08:21 |
On the computer, we saw we had a few
updates, and here we have a few updates.
| | 08:26 |
To update them all, I will
just simply tap Update All.
| | 08:30 |
I enter my password, and what happens
then is the App Store disappears, and you
| | 08:39 |
move to your home screen
where you see the apps update.
| | 08:45 |
But we're going to return to the app
Store, and let's take a look at Genius.
| | 08:50 |
Now this is how Genius works.
| | 08:53 |
The App Store knows who you are by your
account, and it also knows all the apps
| | 08:58 |
that you've downloaded.
| | 08:59 |
So what it will do is it will make
recommendations based on the apps that
| | 09:03 |
you have purchased.
| | 09:04 |
That includes free and
apps that you've paid for.
| | 09:07 |
So this doesn't include just the
apps that are on your iPad, but rather
| | 09:10 |
everything that you've ever
acquired with that account.
| | 09:14 |
So it will say, based on app A, we
think that you'd like app B. It includes the
| | 09:20 |
name of the app and the price.
| | 09:22 |
You can also tap a Not Interested
link, and this means, no, please don't
| | 09:26 |
recommend something like this to me again.
| | 09:27 |
I either have it, or I don't want it.
| | 09:30 |
And there are some for iPad apps, and
there is also a button for iPad upgrades,
| | 09:35 |
and that's how Genius works.
| | 09:36 |
It works very much the way that
the Genius feature works for music in
| | 09:39 |
iTunes, and of course, we cover that
kind of information in iTunes Essential
| | 09:44 |
Training elsewhere.
| | 09:46 |
And that's pretty much it.
| | 09:47 |
Familiar territory if you've used the
App Store in iTunes, and now you know
| | 09:51 |
that you can use it on your iPad and
you could obtain these applications over a
| | 09:54 |
Wi-Fi network, or over 3G.
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| Managing apps| 00:01 |
Now, let's take a look at iTunes Apps tab.
| | 00:04 |
This is where you not only choose
which apps to sync your iPad, but also the
| | 00:08 |
main means for syncing documents with a device.
| | 00:11 |
When you choose the Apps tab, you'll see
syncing options at the top of the window.
| | 00:15 |
You can choose to sync all apps by
enabling the Sync Apps option--and yes,
| | 00:20 |
indeed, we want to sync apps--
and then select the apps you want to sync.
| | 00:25 |
You can tell which ones will be synced by
the check mark that appears next to them.
| | 00:29 |
To more easily find the apps you're
after, click on the Sort pop-up menu and
| | 00:33 |
choose one of the sorting options, as
well as all apps or only iPad apps.
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So, for example, I can Sort by
Category and I can sort only those that were
| | 00:44 |
created for the iPad.
| | 00:45 |
In the list below, you see the apps
you've installed on your computer.
| | 00:49 |
To the right is an image of the
layout of your iPad, along with the various
| | 00:53 |
screens that you have on the iPad.
| | 00:55 |
You have a couple of ways to sync apps.
| | 00:57 |
One is to simply select the apps you
want to sync and click the Apply button
| | 01:01 |
that appears here at the bottom of the window.
| | 01:04 |
Another is to select apps and just drag
them to where you want them on the iPad screen.
| | 01:08 |
This provides the benefit of being able
to place apps exactly where you want them.
| | 01:12 |
So, for example, if I'd like the place
Fandango Movies on the first screen, I
| | 01:17 |
can just drag it right here onto
the main screen, and there it is.
| | 01:22 |
I can also drag it to a different screen.
| | 01:24 |
So, for example, if I want to put it
on the fourth screen, I can drag it down
| | 01:28 |
to that fourth screen.
| | 01:29 |
I see that image there.
| | 01:30 |
I drop it on the fourth
screen and it appears here.
| | 01:34 |
To remove apps, all you have to do is click
them once and click the X, and they disappear.
| | 01:39 |
Let's return to the first screen.
| | 01:41 |
It's possible on the iPad to create
collections of apps in virtual folders
| | 01:45 |
by tapping and holding an app on the iPad's
screen until all the icons start wiggling.
| | 01:50 |
Then you just drag an app on top of
another to place them in a folder.
| | 01:54 |
You can do the same kind of thing within iTunes.
| | 01:56 |
So you just select an app
and drag it onto another one.
| | 01:59 |
Let's go to our third page. I'll drag books
into Pandora, and now I've got a folder.
| | 02:07 |
I can call this Entertainment,
because in a way they are, and press Return
| | 02:13 |
and click the screen.
| | 02:16 |
Now I have my Entertainment folder.
| | 02:17 |
Let's drag Netflix in there, because
it too is entertainment. Hulu Plus is as
| | 02:22 |
well, and that takes care
of our entertainment folder.
| | 02:26 |
If you look down at the bottom of this
list, you will find a helpful option, and
| | 02:29 |
that's Automatically sync new apps.
| | 02:32 |
This is pretty convenient.
| | 02:33 |
The idea is that if you've gone to
the trouble to download a new app, you
| | 02:36 |
probably want to use it as soon as possible.
| | 02:38 |
With this option enabled, newly added
apps will be automatically copied to your
| | 02:42 |
iPad when you next sync it.
| | 02:43 |
Of course, you can always uncheck an app
if you don't want it to be synced, or of
| | 02:46 |
course you can uncheck this option.
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Let's scroll all the way to the bottom.
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This unassuming File Sharing area of
the Apps Window is the means for moving
| | 02:56 |
documents on and off the
iPad, and it works this way.
| | 03:00 |
Select the app that you'd like to use
to open a particular kind of document.
| | 03:03 |
So in this case let's select GoodReader.
| | 03:05 |
Now I am going to go to the Desktop,
| | 03:08 |
so I will shrink down my iTunes Window.
And I'd like this PDF file to be open in GoodReader.
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So all I have to do is drag it from the
Desktop into the GoodReader documents area.
| | 03:18 |
You notice at the top of the
window it says iPad sync is complete.
| | 03:22 |
What happened here is as soon as I dragged
this into this window, it synced to my iPad.
| | 03:27 |
So I didn't have to click Apply.
It just simply copied over.
| | 03:30 |
This is very useful when you
take your iPad and plug it into a
| | 03:33 |
different computer.
| | 03:34 |
You will see a warning that says I'm sorry,
I can't sync other data with this computer.
| | 03:38 |
Would you like to erase the iPad?
| | 03:39 |
No, you don't. Just cancel that.
| | 03:41 |
At that point you can take documents
and drag them into one of these document
| | 03:45 |
areas and they will be copied over.
| | 03:47 |
So it's one way to share an iPad
with a bunch of different computers.
| | 03:50 |
But this isn't a one-way street.
| | 03:52 |
You can use the File Sharing
area to copy documents off the iPad.
| | 03:56 |
So in this case I'll scroll down to
Pages and I have a few documents that
| | 04:01 |
have been copied there.
| | 04:02 |
I can copy those to my Mac simply by
selecting the ones I want to copy, and I
| | 04:06 |
drag them off, and here they are.
| | 04:11 |
Before we leave app syncing behind
click the Apps entry in iTunes source list.
| | 04:16 |
We are not going to apply that.
| | 04:19 |
In the resulting pane, you'll see a
list of all the apps that you've added to
| | 04:22 |
the iTunes Library.
| | 04:24 |
At the bottom of the window, take a
gander at the Check for Updates link.
| | 04:28 |
Click this and a window appears,
telling you that updates are available.
| | 04:31 |
In our case, there aren't any, because
we just loaded this iPad, and it tells
| | 04:36 |
us right now there are no updates available
for any of the apps in your iTunes Library.
| | 04:40 |
You're not going to see this very often.
| | 04:42 |
Most of the time when you look at Check
for Updates, you'll click that, a pane
| | 04:46 |
will open, and you will see a bunch
of updates, at which point you have the
| | 04:49 |
option to update all. Do that and all
the apps are then downloaded to your
| | 04:53 |
iTunes Library, at which point you can
sync your iPad with them and have all
| | 04:57 |
the updated copies.
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The advantage of doing this here is
that it's faster than doing it on your iPad
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over something like a 3G connection,
or even some slower Wi-Fi connections.
| | 05:06 |
So if you want update and you want to
do it quickly and get everything, do it
| | 05:10 |
through iTunes. That covers
syncing and managing apps in iTunes.
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|
4. Configuring the iPadConfiguring peripherals| 00:00 |
While the iPad operates quite well as a
solitary device, there are benefits to
| | 00:05 |
using external devices with it as well,
| | 00:07 |
keyboards, wireless headphones,
microphones, even musical instruments.
| | 00:11 |
In this movie, we'll look at a couple of
different ways to use such devices with your iPad.
| | 00:16 |
We'll start with a look at Bluetooth.
| | 00:19 |
Bluetooth is a technology that lets
you use wireless devices from up to
| | 00:23 |
around 30 feet away.
| | 00:24 |
For instance, I can connect this Apple
Wireless Keyboard to my iPad and use it
| | 00:29 |
to enter text rather than
using the iPad's virtual keyboard.
| | 00:33 |
This is done through a process called pairing.
| | 00:36 |
Let's give it a try.
| | 00:38 |
On the iPad, I tap Settings, I go to
General, and then I tap the Bluetooth setting.
| | 00:45 |
I'll switch it on. And it shows me
that it's searching for Bluetooth devices.
| | 00:51 |
Now I press and hold on the Power
button on the side of the keyboard until the
| | 00:55 |
LED starts blinking, and it
finds my keyboard. I tap that entry.
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It asks me to enter a code,
which I do, and then I press Return.
| | 01:12 |
It tells me it's connected,
so let's see how that works.
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I go to the Notes app, tap to show the cursor,
and sure enough I can type with the keyboard.
| | 01:29 |
You can also use keyboard shortcuts with it.
| | 01:30 |
So I will select Command+A.
That's for selecting all.
| | 01:34 |
I will copy that text, Return to move
down a few lines, Command+V to paste,
| | 01:41 |
paste again, and paste again.
| | 01:44 |
Also, at the top of the
keyboard, there are some controls.
| | 01:47 |
So there is a Brightness control.
| | 01:48 |
I can press Brightness down
and that dims the iPad's display.
| | 01:54 |
I can also mute the iPad
by pressing the Mute button.
| | 01:58 |
I can decrease volume, and I can increase volume.
| | 02:04 |
If I press the Eject key,
that shows the virtual keyboard.
| | 02:06 |
I can make that disappear by pressing it again.
| | 02:11 |
So let's go back to the Home
screen, and we'll talk about headphones.
| | 02:16 |
The iPad also supports a variety of
wireless headphones and speakers that use
| | 02:20 |
something called the A2DP protocol.
| | 02:22 |
For example, using a set of headphones
like this, you can listen to all kinds
| | 02:27 |
of audio on your iPad, including music in the
iPod app and video soundtracks in the Videos app.
| | 02:33 |
The procedures used to pair headphones
depends on the manufacture and model.
| | 02:38 |
The instructions that come with your
headphones will tell you how to pair them,
| | 02:41 |
just know that you pair them
using the Bluetooth setting.
| | 02:44 |
So again, back to Settings > General >
Bluetooth, and you'll find your headphones there.
| | 02:50 |
There are also ways to connect
peripherals to the iPad via physical means.
| | 02:53 |
Apple's $69 iPad keyboard dock is one.
Just plunk your iPad into the dock
| | 02:59 |
connector and start typing.
| | 03:02 |
The back of the dock carries a dock
connector port for charging and syncing your
| | 03:07 |
iPad, as well as an audio out port for
connecting your iPad to an audio device,
| | 03:12 |
speakers, for example.
| | 03:13 |
Note that this dock was created
for the first generation iPad.
| | 03:17 |
I have used it with the iPad 2 and
it seems to work, but this isn't a
| | 03:21 |
configuration supported by Apple.
| | 03:23 |
And then there is Apple's
$29 iPad Camera Connection Kit.
| | 03:28 |
As the name implies, it's primarily
designed so you can connect a camera, or
| | 03:33 |
camera storage card to
your iPad and import pictures.
| | 03:35 |
I will show you how to do that in another movie.
| | 03:38 |
Now here's the cool part.
| | 03:40 |
This kit contains two adapters:
| | 03:42 |
one that contains a standard USB port
and another that accepts SD storage cards.
| | 03:49 |
The one with a USB port is the
secret weapon for those who want to attach
| | 03:53 |
peripherals to their iPad, because in
essence, it adds a USB port to the iPad.
| | 03:58 |
Let's look at some ways that you can use it.
| | 04:02 |
The first obvious thing people want to do
is plug a USB keyboard into their iPads.
| | 04:07 |
Now this works with some low-powered keyboards.
| | 04:09 |
You just attach the USB adapter to the iPad
and then plug the keyboard into the adapter.
| | 04:15 |
If the keyboard or another USB
peripheral doesn't work because it needs more
| | 04:19 |
power, there is a workaround.
| | 04:21 |
Just plug your keyboard into a powered
USB Hub and then jack the hub into the
| | 04:26 |
iPad's Camera Connector Kit. It should work.
| | 04:29 |
You can also plug mini USB microphones
and headsets into the iPad and use them
| | 04:33 |
with voiceover IP apps like Skype,
as well as recording apps such as
| | 04:38 |
GarageBand for iPad.
| | 04:39 |
I will show you how that works.
We will launch GarageBand. Here we are.
| | 04:43 |
I have got a USB mic right here, and
you can see when I tap on it, that the VU
| | 04:49 |
Meter reacts, so that's working.
| | 04:54 |
Again, if they require too much power,
use a powered hub. Or you can do things
| | 05:00 |
the old-fashioned way.
| | 05:02 |
If you have a pair of Apple's
earbuds that also include a microphone, the
| | 05:05 |
earbuds that ship with an iPhone, for
example, you can plug them into the iPad's
| | 05:09 |
headphone port and record audio that way.
| | 05:14 |
Also, there are some instrument
interfaces that plug into the iPad's headphone
| | 05:18 |
port for recording a guitar.
| | 05:20 |
Let's check that out.
| | 05:22 |
And now we'll look at making music on
your iPad, and in order to do that, I've
| | 05:26 |
invited my friend Josh here to play a
little guitar for us. Here's your cable.
| | 05:32 |
So what's going to happen here is
Josh is going to play through the iPad's
| | 05:36 |
version of GarageBand.
| | 05:37 |
This is a $5 app from Apple.
| | 05:40 |
What we've got hooked up
here is IK Multimedia's iRig.
| | 05:43 |
This is a $40 adapter.
| | 05:46 |
The guitar is plugged into the bottom of
the adapter, has an output that's going
| | 05:50 |
to the iPad's headphone port that also
acts as an input, and then out of the iRig
| | 05:55 |
we are going to the speakers so
we can hear what he is playing.
| | 05:59 |
This also works with IK Multimedia's AmpliTube.
| | 06:01 |
There is a free version you can get,
but there is also a $20 version as well.
| | 06:06 |
And now I am going to switch over to the
keyboard, and to do that, we've got the
| | 06:10 |
Camera Connector Kit.
| | 06:11 |
This is the USB version and I've got
this M-Audio keyboard plugged into it.
| | 06:16 |
So I need to go to the
keyboard module within GarageBand.
| | 06:19 |
I tap that to open it.
| | 06:21 |
I've got a grand piano
sound, and now I can rock out.
| | 06:24 |
(piano playing)
| | 06:31 |
And with that you know everything
you need to know about peripherals on
| | 06:36 |
your iPad. Yeah.
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| Printing with an iPad| 00:01 |
In the iPad's early days, one of the
features users missed most was the ability to print.
| | 00:06 |
Here you had all these great documents
you created on your iPad, but the only
| | 00:10 |
way to print them was to transfer them
to your computer and then print them
| | 00:13 |
from there, which is really clunky.
| | 00:16 |
Printing has gotten easier, thanks to an
iOS update that includes the ability to
| | 00:20 |
print wirelessly to a supported printer.
| | 00:23 |
This feature is called AirPrint.
| | 00:25 |
The difficulty is finding a
printer that supports AirPrint.
| | 00:28 |
As we record this, only a handful of
Hewlett-Packard printers support AirPrint.
| | 00:33 |
Let's look at configuring
one of these HP printers.
| | 00:36 |
I wish that I could say that there was a
lot to do, but quite honestly, there isn't.
| | 00:40 |
The printer must be on the same
wireless network that the iPad is connected to.
| | 00:45 |
AirPrint works only over Wi-Fi.
| | 00:47 |
Printing over Bluetooth or 3G isn't supported.
| | 00:50 |
Once you have Wi-Fi set up, all you need to do
is be sure that the printer is switched on.
| | 00:55 |
So we'll give this a try.
| | 00:56 |
I'm going to launch Pages. Open a document.
| | 01:02 |
To print it, I tap on the
Tools menu and I tap Print.
| | 01:08 |
I tap on Printer, and it
automatically finds my printer.
| | 01:13 |
I didn't have to do a thing.
| | 01:15 |
I tap on the printer and now
I have some printing options.
| | 01:18 |
I can choose to print all
pages or a range of pages.
| | 01:23 |
I can also choose multiple copies,
| | 01:24 |
if I choose. So, click plus, more copies;
minus, fewer. And so now I just tap Print.
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In a few seconds, the
printer will start printing.
| | 01:35 |
Now, printing from the iPad is still in
its infancy and is likely to get easier as
| | 01:39 |
printer manufacturers support AirPrint
and Apple and others find ways to bring
| | 01:43 |
printing to unsupported printers.
| | 01:45 |
In the meantime, this is how it's done.
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| Understanding accessibility on the iPad| 00:01 |
Strange as it may seem for a device
that lacks a physical keyboard and pointing
| | 00:05 |
device, the iPad is quite
accessible to those with disabilities.
| | 00:08 |
And it is because Apple is on the forefront
of making devices that can be used by everyone.
| | 00:14 |
But the iPad's accessibility features
aren't useful only to those with
| | 00:17 |
vision and hearing problems.
| | 00:19 |
Those without such issues can use some of
these features as well. Let's take a look.
| | 00:25 |
The first obvious question is, if you
can't see well, how can you possibly
| | 00:28 |
navigate the iPad in order to get
to its accessibility features?
| | 00:32 |
And the answer is through
iTunes on your computer.
| | 00:36 |
If you have vision issues and are
using a computer, it's likely you have it
| | 00:40 |
configured so that you can navigate
around it, by using Apple's VoiceOver
| | 00:43 |
technology on your Mac, for example.
| | 00:45 |
So launch iTunes, select the iPad in
iTunes's source list, and in the Summary pane,
| | 00:52 |
scroll down to the bottom
and click Configure Universal Access.
| | 00:58 |
A window appears where you can switch
on the Seeing and Hearing features, which
| | 01:02 |
I'll discuss shortly.
| | 01:03 |
For now, know that VoiceOver offers
audible feedback when you touch your iPad,
| | 01:07 |
telling you what's happening on the interface.
| | 01:10 |
Zoom does just that and zooms the interface.
| | 01:14 |
The Use white-on-black display, Speak
Auto-text, Use mono audio, and Show closed
| | 01:20 |
captions when available are self-explanatory.
| | 01:23 |
Now let's switch on VoiceOver, click OK,
and Continue, and move to the iPad.
| | 01:28 |
(VoiceOver: VoiceOver on. Landscape.
Home button to the right. Calendar. Double-tap to open.)
| | 01:35 |
With VoiceOver engaged, you can now move
about the iPad by touching the iPad and
| | 01:40 |
listening to spoken
navigation commands like these.
| | 01:43 |
(VoiceOver: Contacts. Double-tap
Notes. Double-tap to open.)
| | 01:49 |
You can here that when I drag my
finger across the iPad's display,
| | 01:53 |
it tells me what I've
highlighted and how to open it.
| | 01:56 |
So let's now use VoiceOver to
navigate to the Accessibility feature.
| | 02:00 |
What I'm going to do is drag my
finger until I locate and highlight the
| | 02:03 |
Settings app, and then I'll launch Settings
just by double-tapping somewhere on the screen.
| | 02:07 |
(VoiceOver: Notes, App Store,
Settings. Double-tap to open.)
| | 02:16 |
So now I'm in the Settings window,
and the General setting is highlighted.
| | 02:20 |
Now, maybe I can't see that,
| | 02:21 |
so I will take my finger and move
it around until I locate General.
| | 02:25 |
(VoiceOver: Location, Cellular Data, Brightness
and Wall--, Picture Frame button selected, General)
| | 02:30 |
I'll double-tap.
| | 02:30 |
(VoiceOver: Selected. General.)
| | 02:33 |
And now I'm sure that I've
selected the General setting.
| | 02:35 |
What I do now is tap somewhere in the General
setting, so I've highlighted an item in there.
| | 02:40 |
(VoiceOver: Usage. Button.)
| | 02:42 |
Now I'll tap and drag with three
fingers to scroll down the window.
| | 02:45 |
(VoiceOver: Row 7 to 18 of 18. General heading.)
| | 02:49 |
Now using my finger, I'll
search out the Accessibility option.
| | 02:51 |
(VoiceOver: Keyboard, International button.
Accessibility. Accessibility button.)
| | 02:57 |
I found it, so all I'll have to do is
double-tap on that to open it.
| | 03:00 |
(VoiceOver: Settings. VoiceOver on button.)
| | 03:03 |
And now I'm in the Accessibility area.
| | 03:05 |
What I'd like to do next is turn on
Zoom, but before I do that, I want to
| | 03:09 |
turn off VoiceOver.
| | 03:11 |
So let's select it.
| | 03:12 |
(VoiceOver: VoiceOver on button.)
Double-tap.
| | 03:16 |
(VoiceOver: Settings. VoiceOver on.
Double-tap to toggle setting.)
| | 03:20 |
And I'll double-tap to turn off the toggle.
| | 03:23 |
(VoiceOver: Alert. Important. Are you sure
you want to disable VoiceOver? Okay button. VoiceOver off.)
| | 03:31 |
Using regular taps now, I can go
back up the hierarchy by tapping the
| | 03:35 |
Accessibility button, and now I can
go to Zoom, and I'll tap once on that.
| | 03:39 |
And to turn on Zoom, I just have to toggle.
| | 03:43 |
To zoom the screen, all I have to do
now is double-tap with three fingers and
| | 03:48 |
then move around the screen, just
take your three fingers and drag around.
| | 03:53 |
To zoom back, double-tap again with three
fingers, and there you have normal view.
| | 03:58 |
So let's go to the Home screen.
| | 04:00 |
I'll double-tap to zoom,
drag three fingers to move.
| | 04:06 |
Now I can change the zoom level by
double-tapping and then dragging down to make
| | 04:12 |
it smaller and then drag up to make it larger.
| | 04:16 |
So let's return to Settings,
and let's take a look at some of the other
| | 04:20 |
Accessibility features.
| | 04:21 |
I'm going to switch off Zoom, tap
Accessibility, and look at the other options.
| | 04:27 |
Let's look at Large Text.
| | 04:29 |
Select that and you see that you can make
text larger in Contacts, Mail, and Notes.
| | 04:34 |
So let's make 40-point text, for example.
| | 04:38 |
I'll go over to Notes. We'll take a look
there, and you can see that the text is
| | 04:43 |
much larger than it is normally.
| | 04:45 |
Move back to Settings, and we'll turn
that off so we have a regular-sized text.
| | 04:51 |
Back to Accessibility.
| | 04:53 |
White on Black is an option that you
can turn on via the toggle switch, and you
| | 04:57 |
see that you get this very
dark background with white text.
| | 05:01 |
Now how is this useful?
| | 05:02 |
Well, people who have vision problems
find this easier to read in some cases,
| | 05:06 |
but it can also be used by
people who don't have vision problems.
| | 05:09 |
For example, if you like to read in bed
at night and the person you're sleeping
| | 05:13 |
with really resents the fact that
there's this really bright light in the
| | 05:17 |
background when you're reading a book,
even though you can adjust the brightness
| | 05:20 |
on the thing, you may want to turn this on.
| | 05:22 |
The text is still very legible, but you
don't have that bright shine coming out
| | 05:25 |
of the iPad as you would if you had
the iPad set to its normal setting.
| | 05:29 |
So, switch on White on Black, and you
may have a more compatible relationship.
| | 05:33 |
Let's switch that off.
| | 05:36 |
Mono Audio takes a stereo audio signal
and mixes it so both sides of the stereo
| | 05:40 |
mix can be heard from each
side of an attached headphone.
| | 05:43 |
If you happened to have an old-
fashioned mono earpiece, the kind that you're
| | 05:46 |
used to wear with maybe your transistor
radio when you're listening to baseball
| | 05:49 |
games, you can use this option
there, and we'll switch it off.
| | 05:54 |
And finally, there's Speak Auto-text.
| | 05:57 |
Personally, I find this really
helpful because sometimes the iPad's
| | 05:59 |
Auto-correction is a little over-aggressive,
and it will substitute words that I don't want.
| | 06:05 |
The problem is that I don't always
notice that it's doing that, and with this
| | 06:08 |
option on, however, the iPad will speak
any auto-correction it makes, making it
| | 06:12 |
easier to notice, and if necessary, to correct.
| | 06:15 |
So we'll switch this on, we'll go to
Notes, and I'll type something and hope it
| | 06:22 |
comes up with a correction.
| | 06:23 |
(VoiceOver: Artichoke.)
There!
| | 06:28 |
And it finally offered the one I want,
so I can just tap the spacebar and it
| | 06:32 |
will insert Artichoke, and back to Settings.
| | 06:37 |
And last, there is the
Triple-click Home button option.
| | 06:40 |
Tap it and you'll find that you can
configure a triple-click of the Home button
| | 06:43 |
to perform one of the
iPad's accessibility tricks.
| | 06:47 |
For my purposes, I found
that Ask is the most helpful.
| | 06:50 |
Sometimes I want to use White
on Black and other times Zoom.
| | 06:54 |
Choosing Ask allows me to
choose on the fly which one to use.
| | 06:58 |
And that's our overview of
accessibility and how everyone can find some use for it.
| | 07:03 |
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| Childproofing the iPad| 00:00 |
Those of you who have an iPad as well
as a passel of kids already know this.
| | 00:05 |
For those of you who don't, let me tell you,
| | 00:07 |
the iPad is a kid magnet;
| | 00:09 |
they love the thing.
| | 00:11 |
But it's the unwise parent who lets
them lay hands on the iPad without first
| | 00:15 |
doing a little work to ensure the
safety of your child's sensibilities, as
| | 00:19 |
well as your wallet.
| | 00:21 |
Here are some tips for childproofing your iPad.
| | 00:24 |
Launch Settings, tap General,
and then tap Restrictions.
| | 00:30 |
Tap Enable Restrictions and then
enter and verify a passcode that's far more
| | 00:34 |
difficult to guess than this one, and the
Restrictions options become available to you.
| | 00:39 |
Anytime you or someone else attempts to
modify Restriction settings, they'll be
| | 00:43 |
prompted for this Passcode.
| | 00:45 |
In the app area near the top of the
screen, you can switch on or off Safari,
| | 00:50 |
YouTube, Camera, FaceTime, iTunes,
and iTunes's Ping social networking service.
| | 00:56 |
You can also disallow
installing and deleting apps.
| | 00:59 |
To disallow any of these options, you
just flick the Toggle switches to off.
| | 01:05 |
And we'll flick them back on for now.
| | 01:06 |
For example, if you don't want your
kid accessing the Internet, switch
| | 01:10 |
off Safari and YouTube.
| | 01:13 |
You might also want to turn off FaceTime so
that they can't communicate with each other.
| | 01:17 |
If you don't have an Apple ID, you
don't have to worry about disabling app
| | 01:21 |
installation, but you might want to keep
your moody teenager from deleting apps,
| | 01:26 |
particularly if you have had them
performing some onerous chores lately.
| | 01:30 |
Now let's look at Locations.
| | 01:32 |
You can also disallow any apps from using
Location services or just the apps you choose.
| | 01:37 |
Tap Location and you see a list of all
the apps on your iPad that use Location.
| | 01:41 |
I am wary about any app that
broadcasts to the world where a child might be,
| | 01:46 |
so I lock down the Camera app.
| | 01:48 |
I also lock down any social
networking apps, such as Twitter and Facebook.
| | 01:52 |
If you don't want to be choosy, you
can flick the Location services switch to
| | 01:56 |
OFF, and then the iPad can't use
Location until you later turn it back ON.
| | 02:01 |
Move back to Restrictions and tap Accounts.
| | 02:05 |
If I've turned my iPad over to a child,
I also disallow the ability to make
| | 02:09 |
changes to my Mail,
Contacts, and Calendars accounts.
| | 02:13 |
I'd rather not have my email account
vaporized, or a new one added, and you'd do
| | 02:17 |
this by tapping Accounts,
and then Don't Allow Changes.
| | 02:20 |
The Allowed Content area exists so
that you can control your iPad's media.
| | 02:24 |
For example, you can disallow In-app
Purchases, which can be a good thing, as many
| | 02:29 |
of these things are
tempting and they can add up.
| | 02:33 |
You can then filter what your
child can see by choosing Ratings.
| | 02:36 |
For instance, tap Music & Podcasts
and you can keep kids from listening to
| | 02:40 |
content that's marked EXPLICIT.
| | 02:44 |
Likewise, you can allow your kid to
watch G- and PG-rated movies, but not
| | 02:47 |
PG-13, R, and NC-17 films.
| | 02:52 |
So all I have to do is tap PG and the
other ratings are disabled. Or you can go
| | 02:56 |
whole hog and tap Don't Allow Movies.
| | 02:59 |
This Don't Allow at all setting is
particularly helpful if the TV shows and
| | 03:03 |
movies you have on your iPad
weren't obtained from the iTunes Store.
| | 03:07 |
Movies you've obtained elsewhere don't
have a rating code embedded in them, and
| | 03:11 |
so the iPad can't tell
whether they're rated G or NC-17.
| | 03:15 |
If you turn off the ability to watch
any movies and TV shows, you needn't be
| | 03:19 |
concerned about this.
| | 03:21 |
You can do the same kind of thing with TV Shows.
| | 03:24 |
So, for example, I only want things
rated TV-G and below. I simply tap that
| | 03:29 |
rating and the higher-
rated shows are now disabled.
| | 03:32 |
Apps are rated as well.
by age rather than rating.
| | 03:35 |
Apple's ratings air on the side of safety,
so you can trust that when you choose
| | 03:40 |
4+, your child will be able to
use only the most tame apps.
| | 03:45 |
And finally, there are Game Center Restrictions.
| | 03:47 |
In this regard, you only need
to know that it's Apple's social
| | 03:50 |
networking service that allows
registered players to compare scores and
| | 03:54 |
mark game achievements.
| | 03:56 |
If you prefer that your child not
participate in multiplayer games which
| | 03:59 |
sometimes allow players to chat with each
other, turn off the Multiplayer Games option.
| | 04:04 |
You can also switch off the option to
Add Friends to Game Center, which is a good
| | 04:08 |
idea if it's your iPad and you don't
want a bunch of 12-year-olds telling you
| | 04:12 |
what a lame Angry Birds player you are.
| | 04:14 |
Now these are the restrictions built
into the iPad, but there are some other
| | 04:18 |
things that you can do to
help protect your child.
| | 04:21 |
If you don't want your kid to switch on
an R-rated movie when she's using the
| | 04:24 |
iPad on a long car trip,
don't put that movie on the iPad.
| | 04:28 |
Likewise, in that long-car-trip
scenario, sync the iPad only with
| | 04:32 |
age-appropriate apps.
| | 04:34 |
Secondly, do not give a child
the password for your Apple ID.
| | 04:38 |
If you want an app, look at it first,
and then you buy it without your child
| | 04:43 |
looking on, as you type your password.
| | 04:45 |
Check games that include social
networking options where a stranger could chat
| | 04:49 |
with your younger child.
| | 04:50 |
Some very innocent-looking games have
such options, and it takes only one creep
| | 04:55 |
to ruin your and your child's day.
| | 04:57 |
If such options exist, look for a way
to switch them off and talk to your child
| | 05:01 |
about why you need to do this.
| | 05:04 |
Unlike with your computer, there are
no ways to fine-tune where your child
| | 05:07 |
can go on the Internet.
| | 05:08 |
If you're not ready to have your
child exposed to the big bad Internet, be
| | 05:12 |
sure to browse with them. Or as we've done
here, switch off Safari using Restrictions.
| | 05:18 |
And finally, talk to your child about what
is and isn't appropriate to do with your iPad.
| | 05:24 |
This includes not only the kinds of
apps and content they're allowed to view,
| | 05:27 |
but also the amount of
time that they spend on it.
| | 05:30 |
The iPad may be one of the coolest
toys on earth, but it's no replacement for
| | 05:34 |
being with real, live people and
spending time engaged in healthy pursuits.
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| Managing Location Services| 00:00 | The iPad, like the iPhone and iPod
Touch can tell where it is, thanks to
| | 00:04 | its Location features.
| | 00:06 | If you have a Wi-Fi only iPad, it uses
nearby Wi-Fi hotspots to determine where it is.
| | 00:11 | If you have a 3G iPad, it uses GPS
cellular data and Wi-Fi to pinpoint its location.
| | 00:17 | As you might imagine, in an area where
there isn't a lot Wi-Fi signal around,
| | 00:21 | the 3G iPad will be able to find its
location far better than a Wi-Fi iPad.
| | 00:26 | In this movie, we'll look at a few
ways to use location to your benefit.
| | 00:30 | Maps is the obvious first choice,
let's launch Maps, and then we'll tap the
| | 00:35 | Location icon in the Menu bar, and Maps
will do its best to tell us where we are.
| | 00:40 | And sure enough there we are
indicated by that blue dot.
| | 00:44 | Now let's use the Search
field to locate a nearby service.
| | 00:47 | We'll enter Market.
| | 00:51 | In the jiffy, red pins drop on the map
indicating where you can find markets in the area.
| | 00:56 | If I then tap on the Menu icon in the
Search field, I can see the names and
| | 01:00 | addresses for all those drop pins.
| | 01:02 | Tap one, and the name of the
establishment appears on the map.
| | 01:06 | I can then tap its Info icon
and see more information about it.
| | 01:10 | Better yet, the information in these
panes are live links, so if I want to visit
| | 01:14 | a market's web site, I just have to
tap the URL in the Information pane.
| | 01:19 | That launches Safari, and it takes
me to the web site for that business.
| | 01:25 | Weather apps make good use of location as
well to provide you with local weather reports.
| | 01:29 | This case, we'll tap on WeatherBug, it
asks if it can use our location if we
| | 01:34 | want it too, so we'll tap OK.
| | 01:37 | And it pinpoints our location because
our Location service is turned on, at which
| | 01:41 | point we can check out
forecasts for where we are.
| | 01:45 | Let's look at another app.
| | 01:47 | With Fandango, the movie ticket service,
you can use your location to tell you
| | 01:51 | what's playing at your local theater.
| | 01:52 | Again, it asks for permission,
we say OK to use location.
| | 01:57 | I don't need Push Notification, so I'll
turn that off, and I'll tap on Theaters.
| | 02:03 | And this shows me theaters in my area.
| | 02:05 | Let's look at one more example. If
you'd like to check out local services, the
| | 02:10 | Yelp app provide you with a
list along with user reviews.
| | 02:13 | Again ask for location, OK.
| | 02:16 | It zeroes in on our location, it's
found us on the map but we want a closer
| | 02:20 | look so we'll tap on Refresh.
| | 02:22 | Here we are. Now I'm a little bit hungry
now so let's find burritos, so we tap in
| | 02:27 | the Find field, and enter
burrito, and click Search.
| | 02:37 | And sure enough, here are restaurants
in the area that serve burritos.
| | 02:41 | Now let's go back to the Home screen.
| | 02:44 | There are times when you don't always
want an app to reveal your location.
| | 02:48 | For example, you might not want to broadcast
the location of your home or place of work.
| | 02:52 | Thankfully, the iPad allows you to manage
which apps can and can't use location. Here's how.
| | 02:57 | We'll launch Settings and
then choose Location Services.
| | 03:01 | At the top of the screen, you'll see an
on/off switch that allows you to switch
| | 03:05 | off location completely.
| | 03:06 | If you don't want any apps to know where you are,
flip this to off, we do want to keep this on.
| | 03:12 | Some people do this because they
don't want apps broadcasting their
| | 03:15 | location without asking.
| | 03:16 | They needn't worry, the first time an
app wants to use your location, as we've
| | 03:20 | seen, it has to ask you via a pop-up menu.
| | 03:24 | If you don't want the app to use
location, just tell it no and it won't.
| | 03:27 | Now beneath the switch is a list of all
the apps installed on your iPad that use
| | 03:32 | Location Services that have been launched.
| | 03:34 | Next to each one is an on/off switch.
| | 03:37 | As you can probability guess, to turn
off Location for particular app, just flip
| | 03:41 | the switch next to it to off.
| | 03:42 | So, for example, let's turn off Twitter.
Twitter now can no longer use my location.
| | 03:47 | When an app is currently using
Location, a purple icon will appear next to
| | 03:52 | its name in this list.
| | 03:53 | If it's used Location in the past 24
hours, but isn't currently using the
| | 03:57 | location, the icon will be gray.
| | 04:00 | At the bottom of the screen is a
System Services entry, tap it, and you'll
| | 04:04 | find that the iPad uses Location to
perform some of its background chores.
| | 04:08 | This includes things like locating
cell networks, compass calibration, and
| | 04:12 | location-based advertising.
| | 04:14 | One reason to switch off some of
these is to save your battery charge.
| | 04:18 | When your iPad uses Location it
taxes the battery a bit, and switching off
| | 04:22 | services you don't want can give
you slightly more operating time.
| | 04:26 | At the very bottom of the
screen is a Status Bar icon switch.
| | 04:29 | When you switch this on, the Location
Service icon will appear in the iPad
| | 04:33 | status bar when using one of these services.
| | 04:36 | Now let's return to the main Location
screen and take a look at Find My iPad.
| | 04:41 | Tap this entry and you see the option to
switch Find My iPad on. We have it on now.
| | 04:46 | You'll also find a Status Bar Icon switch.
| | 04:49 | This second switch is off by
default and I'll leave it off.
| | 04:52 | When you switch it on, the Location
Services icon will appear when you track your
| | 04:57 | iPad from your computer or another iOS device.
| | 05:00 | Now if some bad guy made off with your iPad,
I'm not sure it's a good idea to let
| | 05:04 | him know that he is being
tracked by switching on this option.
| | 05:07 | Generally I find Location a real help
with some applications, Weather apps, for
| | 05:11 | example. But some apps request location
information when they don't really need it.
| | 05:16 | Some games and social
networking apps, for example.
| | 05:18 | My rule of thumb is that if I can
immediately see why Location would be helpful
| | 05:23 | I'll allow it to be switched on,
otherwise I keep it off to help protect my
| | 05:26 | battery charge as well as my privacy.
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5. The iPad and EmailConfiguring email accounts| 00:00 |
If you are typical iPad user, you will
spend a lot of your time with the device
| | 00:04 |
reading, creating, and sending email.
| | 00:06 |
In order to do that, you need to
set up an email account on your iPad.
| | 00:10 |
In this movie, we will learn how to do that.
| | 00:13 |
From the Home screen, tap the Settings icon.
| | 00:15 |
Now tap the Mail, Contacts, Calendar
entry in the Settings screen. And in the
| | 00:21 |
Accounts section, tap Add Account.
| | 00:23 |
Note that you are not creating a
new account on your iPad with a
| | 00:26 |
particular service. Rather, you are
entering information for an account
| | 00:29 |
that you've previously created.
| | 00:31 |
In the Add Account area, you will
find that you have a number of options,
| | 00:34 |
including Microsoft
Exchange, MobileMe, Gmail, Yahoo!
| | 00:38 |
Mail, AOL, and Other.
| | 00:40 |
The one you choose depends on
the kind of email account you have.
| | 00:43 |
If you have a MobileMe, Gmail, Yahoo!
| | 00:46 |
Mail, or AOL account, setting up
that account is very easy. Just tap the
| | 00:51 |
appropriate entry and in the sheet that
appears, enter your name, email address,
| | 00:55 |
password for that email
account and a description.
| | 00:58 |
For example, I have created a Gmail
account with the address that is
| | 01:05 |
chrisatlynda@gmail.com.
| | 01:08 |
So I tap Gmail, enter my name in the
Name field, enter my email address, enter a
| | 01:30 |
password, and a description, and tap Next.
| | 01:44 |
The iPad will then set about
verifying my address and once it does that, it
| | 01:48 |
moves to a pane where I can see options
for setting Mail, Calendars, and Notes.
| | 01:52 |
We'll leave Mail on and the others
off and tap Save. MobileMe, Yahoo!
| | 01:57 |
Mail, and AOL all work the same way.
| | 02:00 |
You'll see that my Gmail account is
now listed under the Accounts heading.
| | 02:05 |
If I tap that entry, I see the basics
of my account in the window that appears.
| | 02:11 |
If I then tap the Account entry, I see
more advanced options, including SMTP,
| | 02:16 |
which is the outgoing mail server.
| | 02:19 |
When I tap SMTP, I can see information
about the primary server as well as any
| | 02:24 |
Other SMTP servers that I've
configured for other accounts.
| | 02:26 |
In this case, I haven't added
any other, so we don't see them.
| | 02:30 |
If I go back and then tap Advanced, I
see more arcane settings, for things like
| | 02:36 |
SSL, Authentication, IMAP
Path Prefix, and the Server Port.
| | 02:41 |
Most of these are something
you don't need to worry about.
| | 02:44 |
If you are setting this up for work, your
IT professional could help you with that.
| | 02:49 |
Let's leave here by tapping Done and Done again.
| | 02:54 |
Let's launch Mail and look at its accounts.
| | 03:00 |
Sure enough, the Gmail account I
set up is in the list of accounts.
| | 03:03 |
All I have to do now is tap it
and the messages appear in my Inbox.
| | 03:07 |
If I want to see all the messages for
all my accounts, I return to the Mailboxes
| | 03:13 |
pane and I tap All Inboxes.
| | 03:16 |
Here all inbound messages appear,
regardless of which account they were sent to.
| | 03:20 |
This unified inbox, as it's called
makes, it easier to read all your mail.
| | 03:24 |
Let's go back to Settings
and see how to configure other accounts.
| | 03:29 |
Again, tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars if it's
not already selected and then tap Add Account.
| | 03:35 |
Tap the other entry.
| | 03:37 |
In the pane that appears, tap Add Mail Account.
| | 03:39 |
It's in this area that you configure
an account that doesn't fit one of the
| | 03:44 |
entries we've already seen--your
email account at work, for example.
| | 03:47 |
In the sheet that appears, you start
just as you have before, with your name,
| | 03:52 |
email address, password, and description, and
when I've filled everything in, I tap Next.
| | 03:59 |
Because the iPad can't automatically
configure the account, as could be the case
| | 04:03 |
with your work email account, it
has to ask for more information.
| | 04:07 |
It starts by doing so by
displaying the IMAP and POP tabs.
| | 04:11 |
You don't need to understand what
IMAP and POP email accounts are.
| | 04:15 |
The gist is that IMAP accounts store
email on an Internet server that's
| | 04:19 |
accessible from any computer and POP
account store email on your computer after
| | 04:24 |
you've downloaded it from the server.
But you do need to know whether you have
| | 04:28 |
an IMAP account or a POP account.
Given that you've probably set up an email
| | 04:32 |
account on your computer, you
likely have a good idea which you have.
| | 04:36 |
Regardless of the kind of account you
have, you'll need to know the host name of
| | 04:40 |
the incoming and outgoing mail servers.
| | 04:42 |
This is often something like
mail.example.com for the incoming mail server and
| | 04:47 |
smtp.example.com for the outgoing
mail server, but sometimes it can be more
| | 04:52 |
complicated, as is the case here.
| | 04:55 |
In this case, we're going
to set up a POP account.
| | 04:57 |
So I tap POP, and then I need to
enter information for the host name.
| | 05:04 |
Again, I need my username,
but fortunately I can copy and paste it.
| | 05:07 |
So I will go up to the Address
field here, tap Select All, Copy,
| | 05:14 |
move down to the User Name field in the
Incoming Mail Server area and tap Paste.
| | 05:18 |
I also need the name of my outgoing
mail server, and in this case it's the same
| | 05:23 |
as the incoming mail server.
| | 05:25 |
So I will tap and hold on it, select all,
copy, tap in the Host Name, paste and
| | 05:36 |
I should be set to go.
| | 05:37 |
To find out for sure, I will now tap Save.
| | 05:40 |
Once again, the iPad verifies the
account, and once it's verified, you switch
| | 05:44 |
back to the Mail, Contacts,
Calendars area, and you'll see that your email
| | 05:48 |
account has been added.
| | 05:50 |
Now, suppose that your account
requires some special settings, an out-of-the-
| | 05:54 |
ordinary server port, for
example, and that's no problem.
| | 05:57 |
If you have a POP account, just tap your
account, flick down the sheet, and tap Advanced.
| | 06:03 |
In the area that appears, you can make
choices about the incoming mail server,
| | 06:07 |
determine if and when deleted mail is
completely removed from your account,
| | 06:12 |
you can switch SSL, which is a security
setting on or off, change the way your
| | 06:16 |
account is authenticated--your ISP
or IT person can tell you that--and
| | 06:20 |
determine if and when email is removed from
the server. You can also choose a server port.
| | 06:25 |
In this case, we are going to leave
the setting as Delete from server Never.
| | 06:28 |
What this means is that I can use
multiple computers or iOS devices and I can
| | 06:33 |
check for my email on there and any one
of those devices, that mail will seem new
| | 06:38 |
to that device and then download to it.
| | 06:41 |
If instead I were to check When
removed from Inbox or Seven days, when one of
| | 06:47 |
those events occurs, the email will be
deleted from the server, and it will only
| | 06:50 |
exist on my computer.
| | 06:53 |
Those are the options for a POP account.
| | 06:56 |
If you need to configure the SMTP
server settings, return to the Account
| | 07:00 |
Information sheet and tap SMTP.
| | 07:04 |
Under the Primary Server
Setting, tap the Outgoing Mail Server.
| | 07:11 |
In this sheet, you can
make changes that you like.
| | 07:13 |
For example, you can change the server port.
| | 07:18 |
We don't want to do that, so we tap Cancel.
| | 07:20 |
Now let's return to the SMTP sheet
because there's something good here.
| | 07:26 |
If you have more than one email account,
you will see all your accounts' SMTP
| | 07:30 |
servers listed in the Other SMTP Servers area.
| | 07:35 |
If you can't send email from the
primary SMTP server, it's a good idea to
| | 07:39 |
tap on those other servers and turn them on.
| | 07:42 |
So, for example, let's turn on
our Gmail server and tap done.
| | 07:50 |
This instructs the iPad to use those
outgoing mail servers if the primary server fails.
| | 07:56 |
That failure can happen if you're
trying to send email from an Internet cafe or
| | 07:59 |
hotel if that cafe or hotel
blocks certain outgoing mail ports.
| | 08:04 |
Note that when possible, it's best to
use the primary server. But if you can't,
| | 08:09 |
this is worth a try.
| | 08:10 |
Also note that it can take a little
longer for your mail to be sent as the iPad
| | 08:15 |
runs down the list of available servers.
| | 08:19 |
Let's look at our Gmail server once again.
| | 08:22 |
You'll notice that the
outgoing server port is 587.
| | 08:25 |
This is the commonly used public SMTP
server, port one that many places don't block.
| | 08:30 |
This ability to send mail from just
about any location is one good reason to
| | 08:35 |
have a Gmail account.
| | 08:37 |
Now, back to the Add Account area.
| | 08:41 |
One entry we haven't
looked at is Microsoft Exchange.
| | 08:44 |
When we talked about syncing
contacts and calendars with the Google and
| | 08:47 |
MobileMe, I set up an Exchange account,
but that's just one example of an Exchange account.
| | 08:52 |
If you have an Exchange account
through your business, talk to an IT
| | 08:56 |
representative about the settings you
need to configure Exchange properly on
| | 08:59 |
your iPad. And with that, you have
everything you need to know to configure email
| | 09:04 |
accounts on your iPad.
| | 09:05 |
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| Organizing email| 00:00 |
The days when many of us had just a
single email address and received only a
| | 00:04 |
couple of dozen messages a day are long over.
| | 00:07 |
Now it's common to have multiple
addresses as well as find your inbox packed
| | 00:11 |
with dozens of messages a day and
because it is, we need to find ways to
| | 00:16 |
organize that email.
| | 00:17 |
That's what we look at in this movie.
| | 00:20 |
So we will start by launching the
Mail app, making sure that the iPad is in
| | 00:23 |
landscape orientation.
| | 00:25 |
I suggest landscape orientation
because in portrait orientation, you have to
| | 00:29 |
depend on a popover menu to see your
mailboxes, and I find it's much easier to
| | 00:34 |
navigate mail when you are in landscape.
| | 00:38 |
The Inboxes area holds exactly that.
| | 00:40 |
All the accounts you have set up
on the iPad appear in this list.
| | 00:43 |
If you tap one of these accounts,
you'll see all the incoming mail for that
| | 00:47 |
account on your iPad.
| | 00:48 |
So in this case let me select my Gmail
account, for example, and go back to Mailboxes.
| | 00:54 |
The upside of this system is that
you can easily check just your work or
| | 00:58 |
personal messages if that's
the way you organize email.
| | 01:01 |
The downside is that if you don't and
messages get mixed among accounts, it's
| | 01:06 |
possible that you will miss a message
because it was sent to an account that
| | 01:09 |
you failed to check.
| | 01:10 |
That's no longer a problem.
| | 01:12 |
The iPad now has something called a
unified inbox, which is represented by the
| | 01:17 |
All Inboxes entry at the
top of the Inboxes area.
| | 01:21 |
Tap this and you can see all your
email sorted by the most recently received,
| | 01:27 |
but what if you want to see
more than just your incoming mail?
| | 01:30 |
That's where the Accounts area comes in.
| | 01:33 |
Tap an account here and you can access
not only your inbox, but Drafts, Sent
| | 01:38 |
Mail, Trash and if you're using an
IMAP account, those additional folders
| | 01:42 |
associated with that account.
| | 01:44 |
So let's tap my Gmail account, for
example. So you see Inbox, Draft, Sent Mail,
| | 01:49 |
Trash, plus some of the folders
that I've created for this account.
| | 01:53 |
These folders are useful because you
could file items directly onto your iPad.
| | 01:57 |
So I am in my Gmail account and I tap its Inbox.
| | 02:00 |
I will tap Edit and select a few messages,
and these are from my pals here at lynda.com.
| | 02:11 |
To move the selected messages, all I
need to do is tap the mailbox I want to add
| | 02:15 |
them to, so I tap Move, and then
I choose where I want to put them.
| | 02:18 |
In this case, I want to put them in
with Work Messages, and there they go.
| | 02:24 |
So here is back to my email, tap Work
Messages, and I see now that I've filed
| | 02:28 |
those messages into that folder.
| | 02:30 |
There is one more way to organize your
email and that's by viewing messages as
| | 02:35 |
threads, the idea being that any
messages that appear as a reply to a
| | 02:39 |
particular message are ganged together,
so you can more easily follow the thread
| | 02:44 |
of the conversation.
| | 02:45 |
It's easy to turn on threading.
| | 02:48 |
You just go to Settings, tap Mail,
Contacts, Calendars, and in the Mail area, be
| | 02:55 |
sure that Organize By Thread is
switched on, and here is the option off and on.
| | 03:03 |
We'll return to Mail and into All Inboxes.
| | 03:09 |
Now when you have a back-and-forth
exchange with someone or a group of
| | 03:12 |
someones, you should see
a number next to a message.
| | 03:15 |
So in this case we've got a highlighted
message MobileMe and then number three
| | 03:19 |
after it, indicating that there
are three messages connected to this.
| | 03:23 |
Tap the message and you'll see all
the messages within the thread, with the
| | 03:27 |
latest message on top.
| | 03:29 |
Tap a message to read it.
| | 03:31 |
Sure, your computer's full-blown
email client is more flexible, but for
| | 03:35 |
something that's unlikely your main
avenue for sending and receiving email, the
| | 03:39 |
iPad's mail client isn't bad,
particularly now that you know how it's organized.
| | 03:44 |
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| Dealing with spam| 00:01 |
It's likely that when comparing the
email experience on the iPad to your
| | 00:04 |
computer, you've noticed
one thing in particular:
| | 00:07 |
sheesh, there's a lot of spam on your iPad.
| | 00:10 |
And there is because unlike with nearly
all of today's computer email clients,
| | 00:15 |
the iPad offers no spam filtering.
| | 00:17 |
In this movie, we are going
to do something about that.
| | 00:21 |
I wish I could say that there's a cool
app that filters email for you directly
| | 00:24 |
on your iPad, but there just isn't,
at least not while I record this.
| | 00:28 |
Instead, we have to go to sneakier
means to do the job, and that sneakier means
| | 00:33 |
is Gmail, Google's free email service.
| | 00:36 |
In addition to being cool because it's
free, Gmail is cool because it does a
| | 00:40 |
great job of filtering spam from
accounts before it gets to your inbox.
| | 00:44 |
So what I am going to do is take my existing
Gmail account and route other email through it.
| | 00:49 |
In the process, Gmail will filter out the
spam, so that it doesn't clutter up my inbox.
| | 00:55 |
I have already created a Gmail account as
well as a POP account that we'll use here.
| | 01:00 |
I expect that you will do the
same thing before you follow along.
| | 01:03 |
Now move to your computer, go to
www.gmail.com, log in to your account, and
| | 01:09 |
choose Mail Settings from the top of the window.
| | 01:17 |
In the Settings area, click Accounts and Import.
| | 01:21 |
In the Check mail using POP3 area,
click the Add POP3 email account button.
| | 01:29 |
In the Email address field of the
resulting window, enter the email address for
| | 01:33 |
the POP account you want to filter
spam from and then click Next Step.
| | 01:40 |
Now, in the next window, Gmail will
do its best to make guesses about your
| | 01:47 |
server settings, but they may not be correct.
| | 01:50 |
So make sure that you have your server
settings in front of you so that you can
| | 01:53 |
enter them correctly.
| | 01:55 |
So, for example, I need to enter not
just the username's short name, but the
| | 02:00 |
entire address, and the password.
| | 02:05 |
I also want to look at the POP server.
| | 02:08 |
Gmail has guessed that the POP server is
mail.twotreesoliveoil.com, and that's not
| | 02:13 |
correct, so I need to
enter the correct POP server.
| | 02:19 |
It also hasn't chosen the correct port.
| | 02:21 |
110 is the normal port,
but in our case we are using 995.
| | 02:26 |
Also, this account requires
that I use a secure SSL connection.
| | 02:30 |
I'll switch that on.
| | 02:33 |
I also like the option to Leave a
copy of retrieved messages on the server.
| | 02:37 |
That way I can easily retrieve
these messages from another device.
| | 02:41 |
I also choose to enable the
Label incoming messages option.
| | 02:44 |
When I do that, Gmail creates a
separate directory, and all the messages that
| | 02:48 |
come from this account
get put in that directory.
| | 02:51 |
And now to make the whole thing work,
I click Add Account, and it works.
| | 03:00 |
If you're successful, a window
will appear telling you that your mail
| | 03:02 |
account has been added.
| | 03:04 |
If you want to send mail from that
account, helpful when you want to ensure that
| | 03:08 |
any replies go to that address,
leave that option enabled.
| | 03:11 |
If not, click No and click Next Step.
| | 03:17 |
In the next window, you'll see your name.
| | 03:19 |
At this point, we click Next Step.
| | 03:24 |
Then you have the option to choose which
SMTP server you are going to send from.
| | 03:28 |
Because it's easier to go through
Gmail, I am going to leave that option
| | 03:30 |
selected and click Next Step.
| | 03:34 |
And finally, Send Verification, this
will send an email message to my POP
| | 03:38 |
account, at which point I then verify in the
POP account, and that should set up the service.
| | 03:44 |
As it says, I can click on a link in
the confirmation email, or I can enter and
| | 03:48 |
verify the confirmation code that
was included in that email message.
| | 03:53 |
So that email message has been sent to me.
| | 03:55 |
I am going to pick it up on my iPad.
| | 03:57 |
I will check the Twotreesoliveoil
account and sure enough, there is a message
| | 04:01 |
from the Gmail team saying I have
requested to add judith@twotreesoliveoil.com
| | 04:07 |
to my Gmail account, and my
confirmation code is seen here on the iPad.
| | 04:12 |
All I have to do is click the link
below, as it asked me to do, and this
| | 04:16 |
confirms that I want to use that account.
| | 04:20 |
And now we'll go back to my computer
and as we do, you'll see that the message
| | 04:24 |
that asked me to verify has been
cleared because now the account is set up.
| | 04:29 |
So what happened again?
| | 04:30 |
We rooted one email account through Gmail.
| | 04:33 |
Now Gmail's spam filters are applied to
that mail, so that you don't have to see it.
| | 04:38 |
Before we leave, check this out.
| | 04:39 |
We are back in Gmail, and now we
are going to click the Filters link.
| | 04:42 |
We are going to do this so that we can more
easily filter our email into other directories.
| | 04:49 |
To do that, I click Create a new filter.
| | 04:53 |
In the Create a Filter area, you have
the option to take messages you received
| | 04:56 |
and move them into different folders.
| | 04:58 |
For example, I am going to look at
messages that came for my buddies at lynda.com.
| | 05:03 |
So all I have to do is in the From
field, enter @lynda.com, and then I can
| | 05:09 |
preview how this is going to look,
and I will click Test Search.
| | 05:15 |
Here are all the messages that
came from people at lynda.com.
| | 05:21 |
So it's successful.
| | 05:22 |
I will now click Next Step.
| | 05:24 |
Now I can apply a label to these messages,
which I will do by enabling the Apply
| | 05:30 |
a label option, and I am going to
have that selected as Work Messages.
| | 05:37 |
To finish creating the filter,
just click Create Filter.
| | 05:43 |
Now I've set up this filter so that any
messages coming in from lynda.com will
| | 05:48 |
be filed in Work Messages, and I
will see that on my iPad as well.
| | 05:53 |
And speaking of the iPad,
let's take a look at it now.
| | 05:57 |
We'll go back to Mail, and we are going
to check my Gmail account and see if it
| | 06:01 |
actually shows that I've
added my Judith account.
| | 06:03 |
So I check my account and I look at
the directory and sure enough, we see
| | 06:08 |
judith@twotreesoliveoil.com.
| | 06:12 |
I select that mailbox and any messages
that have been sent to that account now
| | 06:17 |
appear here, and any spam that might
have been there has been filtered out.
| | 06:22 |
So, is this convoluted?
| | 06:24 |
Yeah, it is a little bit.
| | 06:25 |
It will be far better if Apple provided
spam filtering with the iPad, but until
| | 06:30 |
it does, this is one
solution for dealing with junk mail.
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| iMessage| 00:00 | Once upon a time, people sent text
messages between cell phones using a
| | 00:04 | technology called SMS.
| | 00:06 | And the cellular carriers rejoiced,
because they charge by the message or
| | 00:10 | the message bundle. And then Apple
came along and spoiled the carriers party
| | 00:15 | by creating iMessages.
| | 00:17 | These are text messages that you send
between iOS devices over an Internet
| | 00:21 | connection rather than a cellular network.
| | 00:23 | Because these messages weren't
sent over a cell network, the carriers
| | 00:27 | can't charge for them.
| | 00:29 | The means for sending and receiving these
messages is the Messages app. This is how it works.
| | 00:34 | To begin, go to Settings and
then tap the Messages setting.
| | 00:38 | Now log in with your Apple ID, if you have one.
| | 00:42 | If you don't have one, you can simply
tap Create New Account, and you'll be
| | 00:45 | walked through the process for doing that.
| | 00:46 | In this case we have one, we tap Sign In.
| | 00:50 | The email address associated with our
account is filled in so all we have to
| | 00:53 | do now is tap Next.
| | 00:56 | If you'd like to receive iMessages with
more than one account, tap the Receive
| | 01:00 | At item in the Messages screen
and then tap Add Another Email.
| | 01:05 | In the field that appears, you can
enter another one of your email addresses
| | 01:08 | and then tap Return.
| | 01:10 | The address will be verified
and a caller ID item will appear.
| | 01:14 | You can tap on this to choose which
address your iMessages will be identified with.
| | 01:18 | When you're done, you tap the
message's back arrow to return to the
| | 01:22 | Messages Setting screen.
| | 01:23 | Of course if you'd like to turn
iMessages off, all you have to do is tap the
| | 01:27 | on/off switch. We're going to leave it on.
| | 01:29 | Now in this screen, you're
going to see two additional options.
| | 01:32 | The first, Send Read Receipts will
notify people you've messaged when
| | 01:36 | you've read their message.
| | 01:37 | The other, Show Subject Field does exactly that
in the Messages app, which we'll look at now.
| | 01:44 | Return to the Home screen and tap Messages.
| | 01:47 | The Messages app looks a bit like the Mail app.
| | 01:50 | Along the left side of the screen is
a list of conversation threads with
| | 01:54 | people you've texted.
| | 01:55 | To create a new thread just tap on the
New Thread icon at the top of the window.
| | 02:00 | On the right side you see the
contents of the selected thread.
| | 02:03 | You can address messages by either
typing in an email address within the
| | 02:07 | Address field, or tapping on the plus button and
choosing addresses within the pane that appears.
| | 02:15 | And I'm going to text my friend Nick.
| | 02:23 | Note that for messages to be sent
successfully, those you send messages to must
| | 02:27 | have message compatible email
addresses that are registered with Apple.
| | 02:30 | If you enter an address that isn't
registered, the address will turn pink and
| | 02:34 | display an exclamation mark indicating that
the address can't be used with Messages.
| | 02:38 | And yes, you can send a
message to multiple recipients.
| | 02:41 | Our message is ready, we haven't
filled in the subject and that's okay.
| | 02:45 | To send the message just tap
Send, and we wait for a response.
| | 02:53 | You can also send pictures and movies.
| | 02:55 | Tap the Camera icon, and you can choose
to take a photo or video if you have an
| | 03:00 | iPad that has a camera on it and that's
currently the iPad 2, or you can choose
| | 03:04 | an existing picture which is what we'll do now.
| | 03:06 | Go in to your Photos, let's look at
our Photo Library, and let's look at our
| | 03:10 | Photo Library, and let's grab a dog
picture because dogs are wonderful.
| | 03:11 | And I'll tap Use, and here you see the image.
| | 03:15 | Along with the image, you can send a
message, and so we'll type in a little
| | 03:18 | message and send that along.
| | 03:29 | You have the option to delete
entire threads as well as individual
| | 03:32 | messages within a thread.
| | 03:33 | To do the first, you just tap on the
Edit button in the top-left corner of the
| | 03:37 | screen, tap on the red minus
button, and then you tap Delete.
| | 03:41 | We're going to keep this one, so we won't
tap that button, and we'll tap Done to get out.
| | 03:46 | To remove a portion of a thread, select
that thread and tap the Action button in
| | 03:51 | the top-right corner of the screen,
and that's the curved arrow button.
| | 03:55 | Select a message and then tap the
Delete button at the bottom of the screen.
| | 04:00 | Optionally, you can forward that bit of
message by tapping the Forward button.
| | 04:04 | At this point, address the message and send it.
| | 04:07 | We won't do that so we'll tap Cancel.
| | 04:09 | If you'd like to see information about
the messages sender, tap the Info button
| | 04:13 | in the top-right corner. That takes
care of the workings of the Messages app.
| | 04:18 | Before we go, we should talk about iMessages as
they're reflected in other areas of the iPad.
| | 04:23 | Messages is more than just an app, it's
also a service that's available to other apps.
| | 04:28 | For example, let's go back to the Home
screen, launch the Photos app, and we'll
| | 04:33 | select a photo from an album.
| | 04:35 | When you tap the Action menu you see
that Message is one of the options.
| | 04:39 | Tap Message and that image
is enclosed in the message.
| | 04:43 | Just address the message, add a subject
heading if you like, and some text and tap Send.
| | 04:48 | We won't do that and we'll tap Cancel.
| | 04:50 | Well, let's go back to the Home
screen and launch the Maps app.
| | 04:55 | Let's find our location by tapping
the Location button, and here we are.
| | 05:01 | So tap on that blue dot, and then tap on
the Info button, now tap Share Location,
| | 05:10 | and you see you have the option to
share that location through Message.
| | 05:14 | So let's tap that option, once again a
message appears, and we can then address
| | 05:18 | that message and send it along to
somebody we want to share our location with.
| | 05:22 | You can also share contacts via
messages in the same kind of way.
| | 05:25 | And that's Messages. An affordable and
flexible way to dash off a quick message
| | 05:30 | to other iOS device owners.
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| Configuring Twitter and sending Twitter updates from multiple apps| 00:00 | Among other things, iOS 5 brings built-
in support for Twitter, the 140 character
| | 00:05 | social networking service. Let's take a look.
| | 00:08 | Go to Settings and tap on Twitter.
| | 00:11 | If you don't have a copy of the official
Twitter app, you'll see the option to install it.
| | 00:16 | We'll go ahead and do that
now, and enter our password.
| | 00:23 | Note that you don't have
to install the Twitter app;
| | 00:25 | you can use any Twitter client you want on
your iPad, this is just offered as a convenience.
| | 00:29 | Now let's go back to the Twitter
setting, and in the appropriate fields,
| | 00:35 | enter your username and that's what follows the
at symbol, and then add your Twitter password.
| | 00:42 | Check marks indicate that you're good to go.
| | 00:45 | If you have more than one Twitter
account you can add another one by tapping on
| | 00:49 | the Add Account button and entering
that accounts handle and password.
| | 00:53 | In this case we don't have
another one so we'll go back.
| | 00:55 | Now let's tap on our account.
| | 00:58 | Within the account screen you have two options:
| | 01:00 | Find Me by Email and Tweet Location.
| | 01:03 | Enable the first one, and others
will be able to find you on Twitter by
| | 01:06 | searching for you based on the email
address, you used to register with Twitter.
| | 01:11 | The second option is a general
permission that lets you tweet your location if
| | 01:14 | you want to, and if you want to is important.
| | 01:17 | With this option switched off, you
can't choose to tweet your location in
| | 01:21 | your Twitter client.
| | 01:23 | And with it on, all your tweets won't
be tagged with location information, just
| | 01:27 | those you specifically choose to add
location data to within the Twitter client.
| | 01:32 | For example, let's launch the Twitter
client, because this is the first time
| | 01:35 | we've launched this app, it's going to
ask for permission to use the information
| | 01:38 | we entered in the Twitter setting,
that's good, so let's tap on OK.
| | 01:43 | Then it will ask for permission to use
push notifications. That's up to you.
| | 01:47 | If you receive new tweets that are
addressed to your account, a notification
| | 01:51 | will appear, we'll go ahead and say OK.
| | 01:52 | You also have the option to
follow your friends if you like.
| | 01:55 | This will be people in your address book.
| | 01:58 | In this case, we're not going to
do that, and we'll click on Skip.
| | 02:01 | And finally, you need to verify
that you're going to use Location with
| | 02:04 | Twitter, we'll say OK.
| | 02:06 | Now let's create a new tweet by tapping on
the right button at the bottom of the screen.
| | 02:11 | We'll enter in an innocuous tweet, and
we'll tap on the location icon, which is
| | 02:17 | that little arrow pointing up.
| | 02:19 | When that's on, your location will be
appended to the tweet, so people can find
| | 02:23 | where you tweeted from on a map.
| | 02:25 | If I have the Global Tweet Location
option turned off in the Twitter settings
| | 02:29 | screen, then tapping this button within
the Twitter client does nothing at all.
| | 02:33 | It just doesn't work.
| | 02:34 | We're not going to send this tweet, so
we'll click on Close, and Don't Save.
| | 02:38 | Now let's go back to the Home screen.
| | 02:41 | Now that you have configured Twitter
exactly what good does this do you?
| | 02:45 | For the most part it's all about
tweeting bits of information from other apps.
| | 02:49 | For example, let's go to the Maps app,
and we'll tap on the Location button to
| | 02:54 | get our current location.
| | 02:59 | Now tap on the blue dot, tap on the
Info button, and tap on Share Location.
| | 03:05 | Here you see options to message or
tweet your location, tap on Tweet.
| | 03:11 | At this point a Tweet window will
appear, just enter your message and your
| | 03:16 | location will be appended to that message.
| | 03:18 | At that point all you have to do is tap
Send to send it, we're not going to do
| | 03:22 | that so we'll Cancel.
| | 03:25 | Or you can select an image within the
Photos app, so let's quit this, tap on
| | 03:30 | Photos and select an image.
| | 03:34 | To add that image to a tweet, tap on
the Action button, and then tap Tweet.
| | 03:42 | Same idea here, you got a new Tweet
window, enter some text, send it, and not
| | 03:46 | only will your tweet be sent but also
the image that you've appended to it.
| | 03:50 | And we'll go back to the Home screen.
| | 03:53 | Twitter capabilities are
built into other apps as well.
| | 03:56 | For example, you can tweet your high
score in a favorite game or share a
| | 03:59 | favorite story you found on The Onion.
| | 04:01 | And that's Twitter as it relates to the iPad.
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6. The iPad at WorkConnecting an iPad to an external display| 00:00 |
When Apple demonstrates a new iOS device,
| | 00:02 |
an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, someone
from the company waltzes out on stage and
| | 00:07 |
projects the iPad's
entire interface to the crowd.
| | 00:10 |
You see the Home screen, the Settings
screen, apps launching, apps quitting,
| | 00:14 |
presentations presented, and so on.
| | 00:17 |
For the first year of the iPad's life,
mere mortals weren't allowed to do this.
| | 00:22 |
You can use an expensive cable to
connect the iPad to a TV and watch videos from
| | 00:26 |
Apple's YouTube and videos
apps, but that was about it.
| | 00:30 |
Thanks to the iPad 2, that's all changed.
| | 00:33 |
Now with the correct adapter, you can
display every bit of video offered by the iPad.
| | 00:38 |
This is an invaluable feature for
people who want to use their iPads for
| | 00:42 |
teaching, demos, and presentations,
where they need to show iPad features
| | 00:47 |
outside of Keynote.
| | 00:49 |
And if you like playing
iPad games on the big screen,
| | 00:51 |
this is the way to do it.
| | 00:53 |
Two adapters support full
video output of the iPad 2:
| | 00:56 |
Apple's $29 AV adapter and its
digital AV adapter, which costs $39.
| | 01:04 |
As you'd expect, the VGA adapter supports
VGA video connection, the kind found on
| | 01:10 |
all projectors and most computer monitors.
| | 01:13 |
The digital AV adapter includes an HDMI
port, which you find on all of today's HD
| | 01:18 |
TVs and many new projectors.
| | 01:21 |
The VGA adapter doesn't support audio output.
| | 01:25 |
If you want to broadcast the iPad's
audio signal, you can either use AirPlay or
| | 01:29 |
a wired connection from
the iPad's headphone port.
| | 01:33 |
The AV adapter supports video as well as audio.
| | 01:36 |
There is no setup involved; simply
attach one end of the compatible cable, HDMI
| | 01:42 |
or VGA, to a TV or projector and the
other end to the adapter, and then plug the
| | 01:48 |
adapter into your iPad.
| | 01:50 |
And we'll do that now.
| | 01:50 |
I'll take my iPad. I have an HDMI cable right
here, and I'll plug that into the adapter.
| | 02:01 |
I then plug the adapter into the
bottom of the iPad, and in short order the
| | 02:06 |
video will appear on the monitor behind me.
| | 02:08 |
Now you can also plug the adapter into
the back of the dock and leave the iPad
| | 02:13 |
in the dock as well.
| | 02:15 |
If you don't see video on the attached
TV or projector, press the Home button
| | 02:18 |
and video should appear. And there's our video.
| | 02:22 |
You can go right through your
iPad just as you do normally.
| | 02:24 |
At this point, I'll show you what a
terrible Angry Birds player I am.
| | 02:28 |
Yep, I am terrible.
| | 02:40 |
In addition to there being no audio
output from the VGA adapter, there is one
| | 02:43 |
additional difference.
| | 02:45 |
You can't project protected
videos using the VGA adapter.
| | 02:49 |
This means that if you rent or purchase
a TV show, movie, or music video from the
| | 02:54 |
iTunes store, you'll be told you
can't play it over the VGA adapter.
| | 02:58 |
This is a copy-protection measure.
| | 03:00 |
You can, however, play this content
perfectly well with the HDMI adapter, and you
| | 03:06 |
can because a copy protection scheme
called HDCP that prevents copying is
| | 03:10 |
already part of the hardware connection.
| | 03:13 |
I should also stress that full
projection of the iPad's interface is supported
| | 03:18 |
only by the iPad 2. While you can
project selected content from an iPad 1, the
| | 03:23 |
videos, YouTube apps, as well as some
third-party players such as Netflix, and
| | 03:27 |
Hulu, you can't project the entire
interface on a first-generation iPad.
| | 03:32 |
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| Creating iPad presentations with Keynote| 00:00 |
The iPad is a great presentation tool,
not only because its screen is large
| | 00:04 |
enough to share with a small group of
people, but also because you can jack it
| | 00:08 |
into a TV monitor or a projector to
show your work to a larger audience.
| | 00:12 |
In this movie, we'll look at
using Apple's Keynote on the iPad.
| | 00:16 |
First things first. Keynote
doesn't come bundled with your iPad.
| | 00:20 |
You must purchase it from the Apps Store.
| | 00:22 |
It costs $10 and is completely worth it.
| | 00:25 |
Second things second.
| | 00:26 |
You can create presentations on your
computer using either Apple's Keynote or
| | 00:31 |
Microsoft PowerPoint and import
them into the Keynote app on your iPad.
| | 00:36 |
Doing so works just as it does
importing other documents to your iPad.
| | 00:40 |
So you jack in your iPad as I've done
here, you select the iPad in iTunes Source
| | 00:46 |
list, select the Apps tab, scroll down
the page, and you'll find the Keynote
| | 00:53 |
entry and select it.
| | 00:55 |
Then you drag your presentation into
the Keynote Documents area, and now it's
| | 01:01 |
been imported onto my iPad.
| | 01:02 |
So let's take a look at it there.
| | 01:06 |
On my iPad then, I simply tap the
Import button and choose Copy from iTunes.
| | 01:13 |
And here's my presentation.
| | 01:15 |
To bring it into Keynote, I
simply tap on my presentation.
| | 01:19 |
Your presentation should support
the effects you applied as well.
| | 01:22 |
And let's look at my presentation.
| | 01:23 |
I'll tap Play, and there's
the presentation on the screen.
| | 01:31 |
I just tap to advance through the presentation.
| | 01:34 |
But what about creating a
presentation on the iPad itself?
| | 01:38 |
Let's run through the process.
| | 01:40 |
You start a new presentation by
moving to the New Presentation screen and
| | 01:44 |
tapping the Plus button at
the bottom of the screen.
| | 01:47 |
Tap New Presentation and you're
offered a collection of Themes, and for ours
| | 01:51 |
let's choose Chalkboard.
| | 01:55 |
Just like in the desktop version of Keynote or
PowerPoint, you tap on fields and enter text.
| | 02:01 |
As the template suggests, I'll
double-tap on this field at the bottom of the
| | 02:04 |
screen and enter my text.
| | 02:08 |
Notice as I add more text that the letters
decrease in size so that they can fit on one line.
| | 02:14 |
If I continue typing, it would
spill over onto a second line.
| | 02:17 |
I'll now make the keyboard disappear.
| | 02:20 |
I'll now tap the image to add an image
of my own from the iPad's photo album.
| | 02:23 |
In this case, I'll scroll
down and choose landscape photos.
| | 02:29 |
And we'll start with a picture of San
Francisco's famous Golden Gate Bridge.
| | 02:34 |
Now we'll add another slide by tapping
the Plus button at the bottom of the screen.
| | 02:38 |
Again, like Keynote on the Mac or
PowerPoint, I can choose a slide style.
| | 02:43 |
In this case, I will choose a slide
that has some text at the top, an image on
| | 02:47 |
the right, and some bullet points on the left.
| | 02:50 |
Let's choose another image.
| | 02:53 |
Once again, landscape photos. Here's a nice
sunny image, and now I will edit some text.
| | 03:04 |
So that takes care of the title text.
| | 03:06 |
Now how about the bullet
text? And one more bullet.
| | 03:17 |
But wait, I want to indent that second
point, and there's no Tab key for doing that.
| | 03:22 |
That's not a problem.
| | 03:23 |
First tap on some text to expose the
keyboard, then drag on that second bullet
| | 03:29 |
point, and when you do that, a tab bar appears.
| | 03:32 |
Just drag it to the tab you want, let
go, and now you've intended the line.
| | 03:37 |
Now, let's add a chart.
| | 03:39 |
I'll tap the Media button, tap
Charts, and I will select a pie chart.
| | 03:48 |
I tap it and the pie
chart appears on the screen.
| | 03:51 |
I can then edit the data in the pie
chart just by double-tapping on it
| | 03:54 |
and on the spreadsheet that
appears, enter some numbers.
| | 04:02 |
When I'm done, I tap Done.
| | 04:04 |
And here's our pie chart.
| | 04:06 |
Now it's taking up too much of the screen,
so I'm going to resize it by dragging
| | 04:09 |
one of the corner handles.
| | 04:11 |
And now I'll shift it over
by tapping and dragging on it.
| | 04:14 |
But wait, it's obscuring the text. No problem.
| | 04:18 |
I tap the Info button while the chart
is selected, and tap the Arrange button.
| | 04:24 |
You see that you now have a
Move to Back/Front slider.
| | 04:29 |
I'll take that slider and I will move
it to the left, and it goes farther back.
| | 04:34 |
I'll layer it down so that now I
can see the text in front of it.
| | 04:37 |
I'll tap the screen to remove that.
| | 04:40 |
In most cases, you can simply tap on that
chart and drag it to where you want it.
| | 04:48 |
But suppose you can't because you have text
fields that are getting in the way. No problem.
| | 04:52 |
Tap Info, select Arrange, bring it to
the front, then move it where you like,
| | 05:02 |
return to Info, return to Arrange,
and then move it to the back again.
| | 05:08 |
Now let's add one more slide.
| | 05:10 |
So again, tap the Plus button.
| | 05:12 |
Since this is going to be the world's
shortest presentation, I will add a blank
| | 05:16 |
slide, and at this point, I'm
just going to write 'The End'.
| | 05:22 |
So I tap the Media button, tap Shapes,
tap the Text tool, select the text,
| | 05:29 |
double-tap the text, enter 'The End'.
| | 05:38 |
Then I'll tap the Info button,
and I can change the size of my text.
| | 05:43 |
I want this to be larger, so I will tap
the Title style, which makes larger text.
| | 05:50 |
Now, let's play the
slideshow and see how it looks.
| | 05:52 |
I select the first slide
and I tap the Play button.
| | 06:01 |
Tap to advance, tap to advance
one more time, and that's the end.
| | 06:06 |
Tap the X to close play.
| | 06:09 |
I have to say that this slideshow is a
little more than just a little boring.
| | 06:13 |
Adding some transitions will help.
| | 06:16 |
To do that, I tap the Transition
button at the top of the screen.
| | 06:20 |
An Arrow icon appears to the currently
selected slide, so we'll tap the first
| | 06:24 |
slide to move the transition arrow there.
| | 06:27 |
I then tap that arrow and a Transitions
popover menu appears, and here are the
| | 06:33 |
transitions I can use.
| | 06:35 |
I can give them a try simply by tapping on them.
| | 06:44 |
Let's scroll down and
choose Flop for the first slide.
| | 06:48 |
I'll move to my second slide, tap the
arrow, and I'll choose a different effect,
| | 06:57 |
in this case Drop.
| | 07:01 |
And again, I see a preview of the transition.
| | 07:04 |
If you want to adjust the timing of your
transition, tap the Options button, and
| | 07:10 |
you can change the length of the transition.
| | 07:11 |
In this case, the default is 1 second.
| | 07:13 |
I can drag it to the right and make
that two and a half seconds if I like.
| | 07:18 |
Before we leave Keynote, we
should talk about Presenter Notes.
| | 07:21 |
To create notes, just tap the
Tools menu and tap Presenter Notes.
| | 07:26 |
Here you find Notes field very much
like the Notes app where you can enter
| | 07:30 |
your presenter notes.
| | 07:36 |
And you can do that for each individual slide.
| | 07:39 |
When you're finished, tap Done.
| | 07:41 |
When you're viewing a presentation
on your iPad, you can't look at a
| | 07:44 |
presentation and notes at the same time.
| | 07:46 |
However, if you plug your iPad into a
projector, monitor, or TV, you can view
| | 07:51 |
both your presentation and
the notes on the iPad's screen.
| | 07:56 |
Just choose the slides and notes view,
and there are thumbnails of your slides. Just tap Play.
| | 08:05 |
You see a Presenters menu--
| | 08:07 |
we'll tap that--and then a number of layouts,
and the one we want is Current and Notes.
| | 08:12 |
I tap that.
| | 08:14 |
So at the top of the screen, we now
see the slide that the audience can see.
| | 08:19 |
Below that are the notes.
| | 08:21 |
However, on a TV or
projector you see just the slide.
| | 08:24 |
We'll get out of that by tapping X.
| | 08:27 |
There's more you can do with Keynote,
but what I've shown you will give you a
| | 08:33 |
solid start to creating
some great presentations.
| | 08:37 |
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| Creating iPad presentations with third-party apps| 00:00 |
Apple's Keynote isn't
your only presentation tool.
| | 00:02 |
If you don't have time or the
inclination to work with a traditional
| | 00:05 |
presentation app on your iPad, you have
some other choices. Let's take a look.
| | 00:10 |
One quick-and-dirty way to do this
is with the Photos app that comes with
| | 00:14 |
each and every iPad.
| | 00:15 |
Now we're accustomed to using the
Photos app for looking at our vacation
| | 00:18 |
pictures, but there's nothing
stopping you from using it to view your
| | 00:21 |
presentation slides.
| | 00:22 |
In order for that to work, you'll
have to convert your slides into an image
| | 00:26 |
format that your iPad will accept.
| | 00:28 |
Fortunately, both Keynote and
PowerPoint have export options for saving each of
| | 00:33 |
your slides as a separate graphics file.
| | 00:35 |
I'm going to open this Keynote
presentation on my Mac and then go to the File
| | 00:41 |
menu and choose Export.
| | 00:44 |
Now I select Images, and I see that I
can select all my slides and choose the
| | 00:50 |
format they're going to. And I want
these in JPEG because my iPad will see them.
| | 00:54 |
Click on Next, and I'll choose a Destination.
| | 00:57 |
I'm going to create a new folder, put it on
the Desktop, click Create, and click Export.
| | 01:09 |
Here's the slides folder, and sure enough,
here are all the slides as separate images.
| | 01:16 |
Move that over.
| | 01:18 |
I'll switch to iPhoto, reposition it.
| | 01:22 |
I select my slides, and I drag them into iPhoto.
| | 01:30 |
I'm doing this on a Mac, and so I have iPhoto.
| | 01:32 |
If you have a Windows machine, you can
do this from a folder, or you can use a
| | 01:35 |
Photoshop Elements album.
| | 01:37 |
In iPhoto, here are my slides as an event.
| | 01:40 |
Now we'll go over to iTunes. So here's my iPad.
| | 01:44 |
I will go to the Photos tab.
| | 01:45 |
Now I can sync everything, but I
want to show you where this is.
| | 01:49 |
So Selected albums, we'll go to
Events. Go down here to this date.
| | 01:54 |
These are the slides that
I've just imported into iPhoto.
| | 01:58 |
But again, we're going to sync all my
photos, so go back to the top, choose
| | 02:02 |
All photos, albums, events,
and faces, and now I'll click Apply.
| | 02:09 |
And my photos are converted
and they're synced to the iPad.
| | 02:12 |
Now that you're on your iPad, you tap
Photos, select Albums, and choose your slides.
| | 02:21 |
And here they are.
| | 02:22 |
If you like, you can tap Slideshow > Start
Slideshow, and your slides start displaying.
| | 02:29 |
Apple's free iBooks app is another option if
you've saved your presentation as a PDF file.
| | 02:44 |
So let's go back to our
computer and convert that file.
| | 02:48 |
So I'll open my presentation again.
| | 02:50 |
Once again, I go back to
the File menu, choose Export.
| | 02:54 |
This time I choose PDF.
| | 02:57 |
I can export all my slides.
| | 02:59 |
I can print each stage of the build.
| | 03:00 |
I can include the date and borders
and other options, and I'll click Next.
| | 03:05 |
I'll save this to the Desktop.
| | 03:12 |
I look on the Desktop and sure enough,
I now have my slides as a PDF file.
| | 03:18 |
To sync that to my iPad, I go to iTunes, I
take the PDF, I drag it into my iTunes Library.
| | 03:24 |
Now having selected the iPad, I go to Books.
| | 03:28 |
I enable Sync Books--
| | 03:30 |
yes, indeed I do want to do that--and I can
sync all the books, or I'll show you again.
| | 03:35 |
Selected books,
| | 03:36 |
and here is my presentation as a PDF file.
| | 03:40 |
Let's sync All the books and click Apply.
| | 03:47 |
So let's take a look at iBooks.
| | 03:49 |
Here is my iBooks shelf.
| | 03:51 |
Wait, where's my PDF file?
| | 03:53 |
Well, I have to tap the Collections button.
| | 03:55 |
Then I tap PDFs, and here it is.
| | 04:01 |
So I can page through my PDF simply by
swiping to the side, and I can swipe back again.
| | 04:10 |
So what good is it to put it in
iBooks if you could leave in Keynote or you
| | 04:14 |
can have it in Photos?
| | 04:15 |
One of the advantages of bringing PDF
files into iBooks is that you can use
| | 04:19 |
the search feature.
| | 04:20 |
So if I'm looking for a particular
piece of text within that presentation,
| | 04:24 |
iBooks's search feature to find that text.
| | 04:28 |
Before we leave the iPad, I have
one more app I want to show you.
| | 04:31 |
And this is Zuhanden's three-dollar Picture Link app.
| | 04:34 |
The idea behind Picture Link is
that you can add images from your photo
| | 04:38 |
library to a project.
| | 04:39 |
You then link these images
together using Picture Link's tools.
| | 04:43 |
So let's make a very short project, and I'll
tap the Plus button to create a new project.
| | 04:48 |
When I do that, the Photos Album
popover menu appears, from which I can pick my
| | 04:53 |
images by tapping on them.
| | 04:54 |
Let's choose Family, and I'll pick a
few images from this Family album.
| | 05:07 |
So I'll tap on the first image that I'd like
to use, and this we'll call our master image.
| | 05:11 |
Now at the very top, there's a
little downward-pointing triangle.
| | 05:15 |
I tap on that to reveal the Edit Picture screen.
| | 05:19 |
I then tap the Link button to add a
transparent link to another slide.
| | 05:23 |
So here's our link, and we will
adjust that link so that it focuses on
| | 05:28 |
this gentleman's head.
| | 05:30 |
Then tap the bottom-left corner,
and I can choose another image to link to.
| | 05:37 |
That gentleman also appears in this
picture, and now he's linked to that picture.
| | 05:41 |
To see how this works,
tap the Full Screen button.
| | 05:44 |
I'll tap on his face, and I
navigate to that other picture.
| | 05:49 |
If I want to add another link, I just
tap on the image, tap the triangle again,
| | 05:54 |
tap the Link button, resize the link,
tap the Photos button, and we'll choose
| | 06:04 |
this image to go to. And again, Full Screen,
tap the baby's face, and we'll say that the baby's face
| | 06:11 |
is now this child grown up,
and what a beautiful child he is!
| | 06:14 |
So you keep adding these links to other images.
| | 06:17 |
The advantage of Picture Link is that
your presentations don't have to be linear.
| | 06:21 |
You can implant multiple buttons on a
single image and thus move to different
| | 06:24 |
places in the presentation
depending on where you tap.
| | 06:28 |
So, for example, I could take a family
portrait and place a link on the image
| | 06:31 |
of each person's face that's then linked to
another picture that features just that person.
| | 06:37 |
As you can see, with some planning
and preparation and the help of some
| | 06:40 |
third-party tools, the iPad can
be a splendid presentation tool.
| | 06:45 |
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| Controlling a computer remotely with an iPad| 00:01 |
One of the great things about the
iPad is that you can use it just about
| | 00:04 |
anywhere, steps or miles
away from your computer.
| | 00:07 |
But there are those times when you
need access to that computer and you're
| | 00:10 |
either too lazy to make your way to
it or more likely, too far way to do so.
| | 00:15 |
But fear not. With the addition of
something called a VNC, which stands for
| | 00:19 |
Virtual Network Computing, client on
your iPad and a VNC server on your computer,
| | 00:24 |
you can not only access your computer
remotely, but you can control it as well.
| | 00:28 |
Now let's take a look.
| | 00:30 |
There are a variety of VNC apps with the iPad.
| | 00:32 |
I am going to show you one that's fairly
popular called LogMeIn Ignition. Priced
| | 00:37 |
as I record this at $30,
| | 00:39 |
this app will let you log in to and
control any computer on which you've
| | 00:43 |
installed the LogMeIn server.
| | 00:45 |
The way to get started,
| | 00:46 |
go to your web browser, go to
LogMeIn, which is logmein.com, and you
| | 00:54 |
simply create an account.
| | 00:55 |
I've already done that.
| | 00:57 |
So what happens at this point is
after I've created that, I will be sent
| | 01:00 |
an email verification.
| | 01:01 |
We will go over to mail,
and here's my verification email.
| | 01:05 |
I will click on the link to verify the account.
| | 01:10 |
That launches my default web browser.
| | 01:12 |
In this case, we've got Firefox
set up, and my account is verified.
| | 01:17 |
So I'm ready to go to.
| | 01:20 |
So I will go ahead and log in.
| | 01:21 |
Now I am logged in, and it shows me the
computers that I can control, and this is
| | 01:29 |
the Mac that we are
currently using in the studio.
| | 01:32 |
Now let's go to my iPad.
| | 01:34 |
On your iPad, the first thing you want to
do is of course launch the LogMeIn app.
| | 01:38 |
We will find it through search.
| | 01:40 |
There it is. And tap LogMeIn.
| | 01:51 |
In the next screen, there is the computer
that we are going to control. So I tap on that.
| | 01:58 |
You see two important options on the screen.
| | 02:01 |
The first one is for being able to see
the screen on the computer and the other
| | 02:05 |
one is access to the files.
| | 02:06 |
We will start with the first one
by tapping on the control icon.
| | 02:10 |
We will now be asked to log in to
that computer using the computer's
| | 02:14 |
administrator's password and
username. And I tap Log In.
| | 02:18 |
A few hints show up. Take a look at them
| | 02:22 |
so you know how to operate this
thing and then tap Continue to Computer.
| | 02:30 |
Now that I've tapped that button
I can see my computer's desktop.
| | 02:34 |
To zoom in, all I have to do is
stretch my fingers and I can move around then
| | 02:39 |
just by dragging. And to
shrink down, pinch, and you return.
| | 02:46 |
That blue object on the screen
represents the virtual mouse.
| | 02:50 |
To single-click on something, I
just tap once on the iPad's display.
| | 02:54 |
So, for example, if I want to look at
their About Us page and then Company,
| | 02:59 |
single-click and that opens my link.
| | 03:04 |
So let's quit out of the browser.
| | 03:06 |
I will just drag the mouse up
to the Firefox menu. Click once.
| | 03:10 |
Drag down, just like I am using a mouse and
choose Quit Firefox, and here I am on my desktop.
| | 03:19 |
I can also use that mouse
to double-click something.
| | 03:22 |
So I will drag the mouse
over here to this drive,
| | 03:24 |
double-tap on the screen, and
it's just like a double-click.
| | 03:29 |
Take the mouse, move it over here
and close the window just by clicking once.
| | 03:39 |
So now let's do something useful.
| | 03:41 |
Let's go to the Spotlight menu, tap
once to open it, tap the keyboard button,
| | 03:49 |
and I'll enter some text and tap Return.
| | 03:59 |
Make the keyboard disappear.
| | 04:01 |
What I've done is I've now opened text
edit and I've created a new document.
| | 04:05 |
Again, I can produce the
keyboard and type some text.
| | 04:15 |
Again, this is all happening
remotely on the other computer.
| | 04:20 |
Now if I want to save this, I can tap
Command+S, and here comes the Save dialog box.
| | 04:29 |
Use the keyboard again to
enter a name and tap on Save.
| | 04:38 |
Now I have a document on my desktop.
| | 04:42 |
Let's go back to Spotlight, click,
and I will search for Mail, and Return.
| | 04:59 |
Sure enough, the Mail app opens.
| | 05:02 |
At this point, I can create a new mail message.
| | 05:05 |
I will do a double-tap and hold, and then I
can drag the document into my new email message.
| | 05:17 |
At that point, I just have to address
the email message and I can set it.
| | 05:20 |
So what good is this?
| | 05:22 |
Let's suppose you're one side of the
country and you've left something on your
| | 05:24 |
computer on the other side of the country.
| | 05:27 |
One way to get it to you is to go and
remotely control your computer, find the
| | 05:32 |
document you want, put it into an email
message, and then mail it to yourself,
| | 05:36 |
and then on your iPad pick up that
message and its attachment, and you're set.
| | 05:40 |
Let me show you one more thing.
| | 05:42 |
Let's tap the X at the bottom of the
screen, and we will end this session.
| | 05:49 |
When you do, you return to
the My Computers window.
| | 05:53 |
Now tap the File Manager icon, and that's
one that looks like a couple of documents.
| | 05:58 |
Again, you're going to be asked for
your administrator's name and password.
| | 06:04 |
Enter that and tap Log In.
| | 06:07 |
What you see now is the file structure
of your computer. Just navigate to a file
| | 06:11 |
that you want to open, select it,
and tap open. As promised, the file, if it can
| | 06:15 |
be opened on your iPad, opens.
| | 06:18 |
Tap the file and you see the Share
menu, and then you can decide what you
| | 06:21 |
want to do with that.
So, for example, here we are in Users folder.
| | 06:25 |
I will open that by
tapping Open. Here's my name.
| | 06:34 |
Open that. Let's go the desktop.
| | 06:40 |
Tap Open and here is the file
that I just created on the desktop.
| | 06:48 |
I tap Open again and I can see my document.
| | 06:52 |
Now, I will tap on the screen,
| | 06:54 |
tap the Share menu, and then I
see the options I have in my iPad.
| | 06:59 |
For example, open in GoodReader, Open In--
| | 07:02 |
let's tap that to see what I can open it in.
| | 07:03 |
I can open it in GoodReader or DocsToGo.
| | 07:06 |
In this case, let's open
in GoodReader. I tap that.
| | 07:09 |
GoodReader switches around,
and sure enough, there is my document.
| | 07:17 |
We will go back to LogMeIn and tap Done.
| | 07:30 |
When you do that you see that you have
the option to save the file if you want.
| | 07:34 |
I will go ahead and save the file.
| | 07:36 |
Now it's saved to my iPad.
| | 07:38 |
So this is one other way, instead of
going through the rigmarole of emailing
| | 07:42 |
yourself a document, that you can
download it directly and then open it in the
| | 07:46 |
application of choice on your iPad.
| | 07:48 |
Of course, there are going to be some
files that you can't open, or they're too
| | 07:53 |
large to fit practically on your iPad,
but barring such circumstances, this gives
| | 07:57 |
you a pretty good idea of how
powerful a good VNC client can be.
| | 08:01 |
With such a thing, you need never
mistakenly leave a file at home again.
| | 08:07 |
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| Keeping to-do lists synchronized| 00:00 | The iPad's Calendar app is a great way
to make and keep track of events, but it
| | 00:04 | doesn't provide a way to create to-do
items like wash the car, or tune the piano,
| | 00:09 | that you don't necessarily have to
assign to a specific date and time.
| | 00:13 | That's a job for the Reminders
app, which I'll show you now.
| | 00:16 | Tap Reminders on the Home screen,
and you'll see the Reminder screen.
| | 00:21 | By default, on the left side of the
screen are the names of any Reminder lists,
| | 00:25 | as well as a completed entry. To select the
list just tap it, let's tap the Home list.
| | 00:31 | On the right side of the screen are
the reminders that are associated with
| | 00:34 | the selected list, so in this case, pickup
dry-cleaning is associated with a Home list.
| | 00:40 | To create a new reminder, just select a
list and tap on the plus button in the
| | 00:44 | top right corner of the display.
| | 00:46 | For example, I need to pick up some
dog food, so I'll type Buy dog food, and
| | 00:51 | press Return. Let's add one more, Buy cat food,
press Return, and then we'll hide the keyboard.
| | 00:58 | Creating reminders is all well and
good, provided that you bother to look at
| | 01:01 | them, but we often don't. For this reason,
it makes sense to have your iPad bug
| | 01:05 | you every so often. To do that, tap on
a Reminder and we'll use our dog food
| | 01:09 | reminder. In the Details window
that appears tap on Remind Me.
| | 01:14 | In the resulting window,
flip the On a Day switch to on.
| | 01:18 | The current date appears, along with the
time shortly in the future, tap on that
| | 01:22 | date, and choose a different day and
time for that reminder to go off. It will
| | 01:26 | appear as a notification on the iPad
screen when the time arrives. We're done
| | 01:31 | with that so we'll tap Done.
| | 01:32 | Now let's tap on that item again.
You'll see that you have the option to
| | 01:36 | repeat that reminder.
| | 01:37 | Now this is helpful if you need to
remind yourself to drag the trash bins out to
| | 01:41 | the curb every Wednesday night, so
let's tap on Repeat, and you can see that you
| | 01:45 | can have this repeat every so often. This
could be every day, every week, every 2
| | 01:48 | weeks, every month and every year.
| | 01:51 | My dog gets hungry once a week, so
we'll tap Every Week, and tap Done.
| | 01:56 | You can could also assign a priority to
the reminder, tap Show More, tap Priority
| | 02:01 | and choose None, Low, Medium or High.
| | 02:03 | In this case, my dog gets really hungry
and he gets a little nasty when he gets
| | 02:06 | hungry, so let's tap High, and tap Done.
| | 02:09 | You can tap on List to
choose a different calendar.
| | 02:12 | So, for example, if I decided that
this was a work task I could choose that
| | 02:16 | instead, and then that item would move
over to the work list. We're not going to
| | 02:20 | do that in this case, so we'll tap Done.
You can also add notes to this, so, for
| | 02:24 | example, I'll tap on Notes.
| | 02:26 | He likes a particular brand of dog food,
we call it puppy crunch, so I'm going to
| | 02:31 | add puppy crunch, press Return and press Done.
| | 02:34 | Now let's select the item one more time,
as you can probably guess tapping Delete
| | 02:39 | at the bottom of the window deletes
the reminder. We'll keep it and tap Done.
| | 02:44 | Now here on the main screen, you can
tick off any complete reminders by tapping
| | 02:48 | on the check box next to them. When you
do this, your reminder appears not only on
| | 02:52 | the associated list, but also within
the completed list, so will tap Completed,
| | 02:56 | and here is our Completed task
which is pick up dry cleaning.
| | 03:00 | Couple more things before we leave reminders.
| | 03:02 | Tap on the Edit button and you'll see
that you can delete reminder lists by
| | 03:06 | tapping on the minus button next
to them and then tapping Delete.
| | 03:10 | So, for example, I can get rid of that
by tapping Delete and sure enough it's
| | 03:14 | gone, and then I tap Done.
| | 03:16 | You can additionally create new
reminder lists by tapping on the Create New List
| | 03:20 | entry, so you do that by
tapping Edit, and then Create New List.
| | 03:24 | Name your list, we'll call that
Vacation, and tap Done, and tap Done once again
| | 03:30 | to leave the Edit screen.
| | 03:32 | Finally, perhaps one of the most
important Reminders features is that
| | 03:35 | it's iCloud friendly.
| | 03:36 | So we'll press the Home button, tap
Settings, tap iCloud, and take a look at the
| | 03:43 | Reminder switch, here it's set to on.
| | 03:46 | This means that when you go to the
iCloud Settings screen and switch on
| | 03:49 | Reminders, whenever you create a
reminder on a device that has iCloud reminder
| | 03:53 | syncing enabled, those reminders will
be synced with your devices; that your
| | 03:57 | iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and the copy of
iCal on your Macintosh computer. And that
| | 04:03 | covers reminders on the iPad.
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| Managing and editing files with third-party apps| 00:00 |
Wonderful as the iPad is, it's likely
that you're going to find yourself in the
| | 00:04 |
position where you can't open or edit
files that you've synced to the iPad or
| | 00:08 |
that you've received via email.
| | 00:10 |
In this movie, we'll look at a few
ways to get around these roadblocks.
| | 00:14 |
First of all, let's go back to the way
you traditionally move files to your iPad.
| | 00:18 |
We're now in iTunes.
| | 00:19 |
I'm going to move this file to Pages.
| | 00:24 |
I've got a Microsoft Word document here.
| | 00:26 |
I drag it into Pages, and it
immediately syncs to my iPad.
| | 00:34 |
Now to open it, all I have to do is
launch Pages, I tap the Import button and
| | 00:41 |
Copy from iTunes. And here's my document,
and it opens in Pages, and as expected,
| | 00:49 |
a lot of times you'll find a message
that says that certain fonts aren't
| | 00:53 |
available and it's
substituting a different font.
| | 00:55 |
That's perfectly okay, so tap Done.
| | 00:58 |
And there is your document,
ready for you to work on.
| | 01:01 |
Now, that's good, but suppose you have
a document that's already on your iPad,
| | 01:09 |
one that's attached to an
email message, for example.
| | 01:12 |
That's not a problem either.
| | 01:13 |
In this case, we'll launch Mail, and
we'll select a message that includes a
| | 01:17 |
Microsoft Word document.
| | 01:21 |
Now when you do that, you see a
Preview window of the document.
| | 01:26 |
Now from this window, you can then tap
the screen and then tap the Send icon, and
| | 01:32 |
you see you have a few options:
| | 01:33 |
Open in Pages, Open In, and Print.
| | 01:36 |
Let's tap Open in Pages and see what happens.
| | 01:43 |
Pages opens up, the document opens
up, and again, we see that warning.
| | 01:47 |
We tap Done, and here is the document,
once again, ready for us to work on.
| | 01:54 |
Let's look at some of those other options.
| | 01:58 |
Back in Mail, here is the preview, Done.
| | 02:01 |
Once again, I'll tap on a
document, and we'll look at the Send icon.
| | 02:09 |
Now, let's take a look at Open In.
| | 02:11 |
In this case, I see a list of any
app that will open this document.
| | 02:16 |
I have Pages, which I've already
done; DocsToGo, which we'll look at in
| | 02:19 |
a second; GoodReader,
| | 02:20 |
we'll also look at that; and then
LogMeIn, which is the remote application we
| | 02:24 |
looked at in a different movie.
| | 02:26 |
Let's take a look at GoodReader.
| | 02:27 |
GoodReader for iPad is a $5 app from Good.iWare.
| | 02:30 |
It's reason for being is to display a
wide variety of document types, including
| | 02:35 |
Microsoft Office documents, HTML, and
Safari Web archives, PDF and text files, and
| | 02:40 |
audio and video files.
| | 02:44 |
In this case, I've opened up my Word
document, but what about a document type
| | 02:48 |
that's a little more challenging?
| | 02:52 |
Let's look at a PDF file. Here is PDF.
| | 02:59 |
I tap on it and I can Open In, go to
GoodReader, and here it is in GoodReader.
| | 03:11 |
Now at this point, I can scroll through
the document, I can flip pages, and I can
| | 03:20 |
expand the text, or I can contract it.
| | 03:28 |
I'll go back to my documents within
GoodReader. If I tap Manage Files and then
| | 03:37 |
select a file or multiple files,
| | 03:40 |
I can then move them into folders I
create. I can email them, I can mark them as
| | 03:44 |
read or unread, and so on.
| | 03:45 |
I can even create a new blank
document, select it, and then type in it.
| | 03:50 |
In a way it provides some of the basic
file management capabilities that your
| | 03:53 |
Mac or Windows PC provides.
| | 03:56 |
There's also an intriguing Connect to Servers
command, but we'll save that for a little later.
| | 04:01 |
One thing that you'll notice about
GoodReader is that while you can create new
| | 04:04 |
text documents, you can't edit existing
documents of any kind, and that's where
| | 04:08 |
DataViz's $17 Documents To Go
Premium Office Suite comes in.
| | 04:13 |
Let's return to Mail and choose a
message with a Microsoft Word attachment.
| | 04:22 |
I'll select it, choose
Open In, and choose DocsToGo.
| | 04:31 |
Documents To Go launches and displays the file.
| | 04:33 |
Unlike with GoodReader, you find
editing controls at the bottom of the screen.
| | 04:38 |
All I have to do to edit the document is
tap the screen where I'd like to insert
| | 04:42 |
the cursor and I can start typing.
| | 04:49 |
If you look at some of the other things
at the bottom of the screen, you see you
| | 04:52 |
have options for formatting the text,
increasing the indent or decreasing it.
| | 04:57 |
You could add bullets or outline form,
and there's also Find and Replace, Word
| | 05:03 |
Count, and Full Screen.
| | 05:05 |
So what makes this any more special than
Pages or one of the other iWork documents?
| | 05:10 |
In large part, the answer is access,
| | 05:12 |
the ability to move documents on and
off your iPad without a USB connection
| | 05:16 |
or having to resort to email or one of the
more arcane export settings offered by pages.
| | 05:21 |
And that brings us to Dropbox.
| | 05:22 |
Dropbox, found at www.Dropbox.com, is
an Internet-based storage service that
| | 05:29 |
provides you with two gigabytes of free storage.
| | 05:32 |
The idea is that Dropbox appears on your
computer as a destination for storing files.
| | 05:37 |
When you place a file on a Dropbox
folder that file is then uploaded to
| | 05:41 |
Dropbox's web site, where it's also stored.
| | 05:43 |
You make a change to the file on
your computer and that change is made to
| | 05:47 |
the stored file too.
| | 05:49 |
Okay, that's good enough,
but how does this help us?
| | 05:51 |
Well, first of all, there's a free Dropbox app.
| | 05:54 |
Using this app, you can view documents
stored in your Dropbox folder on your iPad.
| | 05:59 |
So let's say that you're on a
business trip and you've forgotten a
| | 06:02 |
presentation file you need.
| | 06:03 |
If you've stored it in Dropbox before you
left, you could grab it via the Dropbox app.
| | 06:09 |
It works this way.
| | 06:09 |
I will launch Dropbox
here, and here is my Dropbox.
| | 06:16 |
So I can tap on a document to view it,
| | 06:18 |
and here is a PDF file that we'll open.
| | 06:23 |
At this point, I can not only view the
document, but also tap the Open In button
| | 06:28 |
at the top of the screen, and I can
then open it in GoodReader, DocsToGo.
| | 06:32 |
I could open it in iBooks because it's
a PDF file, or again, we have the option
| | 06:36 |
to look at in LogMeIn.
| | 06:37 |
Better yet, some applications will
let you access your Dropbox directly.
| | 06:41 |
GoodReader is one of them.
| | 06:43 |
Let's go back to GoodReader, and
here we'll look at Connect to Servers.
| | 06:50 |
You tap that option, tap Add, and you
see you have a variety of new connections
| | 06:55 |
you can add. One of them is Dropbox.
| | 06:58 |
So I'll enter my username and my
password and tap Add, and here is my Dropbox.
| | 07:09 |
I tap it within GoodReader, and then I can
see all the documents that I have on my Dropbox.
| | 07:15 |
I can choose one to open, choose
Download, choose where I'm going to download.
| | 07:22 |
I'll download it right here, as it asks.
| | 07:25 |
Download has started. Close that window.
| | 07:30 |
Now I see I have that file on my iPad.
| | 07:33 |
I can tap it and now I can view it.
| | 07:35 |
So it's stored directly on my iPad
because I was able to download it from Dropbox.
| | 07:40 |
Tap the document, go back to My Document.
| | 07:43 |
Before we leave, take one
last look at Connect to Servers.
| | 07:46 |
You see not only Dropbox there,
but you have lots of other options,
| | 07:49 |
for example, your MobileMe iDisk,
Public iDisk, Google Docs, SugarSync's,
| | 07:55 |
box.net or an FTP server if you like.
| | 07:58 |
So there are lots of ways that you can
add things to GoodReader, including Dropbox.
| | 08:02 |
Documents To Go is no
slouch in this regard either.
| | 08:08 |
Just launch it, launch to tap
online, and tap one of the services in the
| | 08:21 |
Select Account Type.
| | 08:23 |
Here we have Dropbox and once again, I
can enter my username and my password and
| | 08:28 |
then my Dropbox becomes
available to Documents To Go as well.
| | 08:32 |
Using these resources for transferring
files, along with the iWork, GoodReader
| | 08:36 |
and Documents To Go apps, makes your
iPad a far more productive partner.
| | 08:43 |
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|
7. The iPad's CameraTaking pictures and movies| 00:00 |
One of the iPad 2's marquee features
is the front- and rear-facing cameras.
| | 00:05 |
Like today's iPhone and iPod touch, the
iPad too can take still shots as well as
| | 00:10 |
movies, and do so from either side of the device.
| | 00:13 |
In this movie, we'll go with
the basics of using these cameras.
| | 00:17 |
The easiest way to explore the
iPad's cameras is through the Camera app.
| | 00:22 |
Just tap it to launch the app and an
image from one of the cameras will appear
| | 00:26 |
on the iPad's display.
| | 00:27 |
So I tap Camera to launch it, and here we are.
| | 00:31 |
We are looking at the rear-facing camera
and, by the way, this is Magic Nick who
| | 00:35 |
is going to perform a trick
for us a little bit later on.
| | 00:38 |
If I want to flip around to look at the
front-facing camera, I just tap the Flip
| | 00:42 |
Camera button and here I am. Hello!
| | 00:46 |
That's enough with me. Tap the
button again to flip back around.
| | 00:52 |
The front-facing camera shoots at a
standard definition and that's 640 x 480 pixels.
| | 00:58 |
The rear-facing camera shoots at
720p HD, which is 1280 x 720 pixels.
| | 01:04 |
Neither camera was meant to replace
even a mediocre point and shoot; the images
| | 01:08 |
just aren't all that great.
| | 01:10 |
FaceTime video chat, which we'll cover in
another movie, is their main reason for being.
| | 01:16 |
Now to focus the camera, as well as
adjust its exposure, tap on the object that
| | 01:20 |
you want to be the subject of your picture.
| | 01:22 |
So, for example, subject in this one
is going to be the King of Hearts and we
| | 01:26 |
see it dims down a little bit, so
that we can see the King of Hearts a little
| | 01:29 |
bit better. But if I tap on the
background, you see everything comes up because
| | 01:34 |
we want to see what's in the background.
| | 01:36 |
We'll go back to the King of Hearts.
| | 01:39 |
Now we are ready to take a shot,
| | 01:40 |
so all I have to do is tap
the Camera button at the bottom.
| | 01:44 |
Your hear a little click and then the
image goes down into a thumbnail image in
| | 01:49 |
the bottom-left corner.
| | 01:50 |
I tap that and there is my image.
| | 01:54 |
The other option is here as well which
we'll look at in another movie, but for
| | 01:57 |
now I will tap the screen,
tap Done, and we are back.
| | 02:04 |
Movies work much the same way. Just tap
the Camera Movie slider at the bottom of
| | 02:09 |
the window to switch from
still images to video capture.
| | 02:15 |
When you do, the Camera button turns
into a red record button. The Switch Camera
| | 02:20 |
button works just as it does for
still photos and you can choose focus and
| | 02:24 |
exposure just like you did with still shots.
| | 02:27 |
So let's start taking a movie.
| | 02:29 |
Tap the red record button and Magic
Nick will perform a trick for your
| | 02:34 |
amusement and entertainment.
| | 02:36 |
Now, Nick is a professional so
please don't try this at home because you
| | 02:42 |
could strain something.
| | 02:46 |
By the way, let's demonstrate.
| | 02:47 |
Again, I can change exposure and I can
change focus by tapping on the screen,
| | 02:53 |
just tap on that card right there.
Beautifully fanned and isn't that amazing?
| | 02:59 |
So when you tap Record one more time, it
stops recording, it makes the sound, it
| | 03:05 |
goes down into the thumbnail image.
| | 03:09 |
To play it, all I have to do is tap on the
Play button and sure enough, there is our movie.
| | 03:17 |
Tap the screen. Tap Done.
| | 03:21 |
Over here I am going to show you one
more feature, and that is if you'd like to
| | 03:23 |
see the movie in 16 x 9 as you are
previewing it, just double-tap on the screen,
| | 03:29 |
and here we are at 16 x 9. You can use
any of the images, videos, and apps that
| | 03:36 |
support them and the camera can be
used within other applications as well.
| | 03:40 |
In addition to Apple's Photo Booth and
FaceTime, which we will cover in other
| | 03:44 |
movies, the cameras are used in a
lot of social networking apps and video
| | 03:48 |
editors, like Apple's iMovie.
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| Editing and sharing movies| 00:00 |
We've looked at shooting
movies with the iPad's cameras.
| | 00:03 |
Now let's turn to editing those movies
with the iPad's built-in movie editor.
| | 00:07 |
To do that, we launch photos, tap on
Camera Roll, select the second movie, start
| | 00:15 |
it playing, and see what this is. Hey!
| | 00:17 |
There is Magic Nick again.
| | 00:19 |
Okay, he has got a new trick up his
sleeve, although his sleeves are rolled
| | 00:23 |
up. That makes it more interesting.
| | 00:25 |
Showing me some cards, three cards,
and I believe there is a gentleman
| | 00:28 |
named Monty involved.
| | 00:30 |
I think I know how he does
this, but I want to make sure.
| | 00:32 |
So I am going to tap on the timeline at
the top and I am going to drag the playhead.
| | 00:37 |
You notice as I tap and hold that I see
more thumbnails, and that's because this
| | 00:41 |
gives me a way to really
zero in on what I want to see.
| | 00:45 |
So he's putting on the cards.
| | 00:46 |
I think that's where it happens.
| | 00:52 |
I don't know. I think there is
something in that wiggly a bit there, so I am
| | 00:55 |
going to move back again and review the clip.
| | 00:58 |
No, I have no idea how he
does it. Okay, doesn't matter.
| | 01:06 |
Click on Pause and now I
am going to trim the clip.
| | 01:09 |
So in order to do that, I tap and
hold on the timeline, and it turns yellow.
| | 01:15 |
I am at the beginning of the timeline.
| | 01:17 |
I will drag to the right to
trim the front end of the video.
| | 01:26 |
Now, I'd like to trim the back end as well,
so I tap on that end and I drag to the left.
| | 01:31 |
Now I've trimmed both the front and back end.
| | 01:36 |
To trim the movie, I just tap Trim.
| | 01:39 |
Here you will see two options:
| | 01:40 |
one is Trim Original, and
the other is Save as New Clip.
| | 01:44 |
If you choose Trim Original, what
you're going to do is keep just the video
| | 01:48 |
that you've selected.
| | 01:49 |
This is stuff within the trim.
| | 01:51 |
Everything else gets thrown out.
| | 01:53 |
You're going to use this option when
you don't care about the raw footage--you
| | 01:57 |
only want the bit that you've selected.
| | 01:59 |
This will free up some space on the iPad.
| | 02:01 |
However, if you want to keep that raw
footage, as I do, you tap Save as New Clip.
| | 02:06 |
This creates a new movie and
leaves the raw footage as well.
| | 02:10 |
When you do that, you see at the
bottom of the screen it says Trimming Video.
| | 02:16 |
Unlike Nick, I am going to reveal the magic.
| | 02:17 |
I will tap on Camera Roll, and you will
see that indeed we have three clips now:
| | 02:22 |
the raw footage, another
movie, and the trimmed clip.
| | 02:26 |
So let's open that trimmed clip.
| | 02:27 |
Now I'd like to send it out to the
world somehow, so I tap on the Share menu
| | 02:32 |
and you see that I have four options:
Email Video, Send to MobileMe, Send to
| | 02:37 |
YouTube, and Copy Video.
| | 02:39 |
Now, when I tap on either Send to
MobileMe or Send to YouTube, you're going to
| | 02:43 |
notice something interesting.
| | 02:44 |
So I will tap Send to MobileMe, and
here in this window that appears, you see
| | 02:48 |
that I have two options:
| | 02:50 |
Standard Definition and HD. Here's the deal.
| | 02:54 |
The rear-facing camera
shoots in high definition.
| | 02:57 |
This means its files are larger than
those captured with the front-facing standard-
| | 03:01 |
definition camera, and that
difference is evidenced here in the Share area.
| | 03:06 |
So you have the option to choose to
send it out on MobileMe and post on
| | 03:10 |
your gallery as a standard
definition movie, which is smaller but doesn't
| | 03:13 |
look as good. Or you can send it out as HD,
and as you can see, that is a much larger video.
| | 03:19 |
In this particular window, you can then
decide where are you going to send it to
| | 03:23 |
on your MobileMe gallery, so you
just tap on that area and you'll see the
| | 03:26 |
albums that you have.
| | 03:27 |
We're going to cancel out of that, and that
works the same way if you send it out to YouTube.
| | 03:33 |
Again, if you've shot with the rear-facing
camera, you can send it out as HD or as
| | 03:38 |
standard definition.
| | 03:40 |
The last option, Copy Video, will do exactly that.
| | 03:43 |
It copies the video in its current
format and then allows you to paste it into
| | 03:47 |
another application if you like, and
then there's the first option, Email Video.
| | 03:51 |
Movies that you email are automatically
compressed and they're reduced in size
| | 03:55 |
because they can be so big that
they won't go through an email gateway.
| | 03:58 |
Standard-definition movies are set at
480 x 360 pixels, and HD movies appear at a
| | 04:04 |
resolution of 568 x 320. And just so you
know, still images taken with a rear-facing
| | 04:09 |
camera are sent at 960 x 720.
| | 04:10 |
Of course these aren't the only ways
to get movies you've taken with the
| | 04:15 |
cameras off the iPad.
| | 04:17 |
When you sync your iPad with your
computer, the appropriate application will
| | 04:21 |
offer to import them for you.
| | 04:22 |
In the case of the Mac, that's iPhoto.
| | 04:24 |
So you plug in your iPad, you launch iPhoto,
| | 04:26 |
if it doesn't automatically launch,
you select your iPad under the Devices.
| | 04:30 |
When you do, you will see the photos
and the movies that are on your iPad.
| | 04:35 |
In this case, if we want to import the
movie we just edited, we'd select that movie
| | 04:39 |
and I would click Import Selected.
| | 04:42 |
You can also choose Import All,
if you want to import everything.
| | 04:44 |
I just want that one clip, so
I will click Import Selected.
| | 04:48 |
Now I can choose to delete the
photos or keep the photos, or in this case
| | 04:51 |
movies. I am going to keep them on
there because I like watching Nick close up
| | 04:55 |
and when I am on the road.
| | 04:57 |
So under Last Import, here is
our movie. I'll double-click it.
| | 05:01 |
(Nick: So we've got our three cards. Now, the--)
| | 05:10 |
And now let's turn to Windows.
| | 05:12 |
On a Windows PC running Windows Vista or
Windows 7, when you plug your iPad into
| | 05:17 |
the computer, Windows AutoPlay will
appear and ask if you'd like to import the
| | 05:21 |
iPad's pictures and videos.
| | 05:23 |
Select that option.
| | 05:24 |
You can optionally tag these
pictures if you like. I won't.
| | 05:27 |
I will just click Import. And the
pictures and videos will, as promised, be imported.
| | 05:33 |
As you can see, the imported images
and movies will be imported into the
| | 05:36 |
My Pictures folder.
| | 05:38 |
If you happen to be using Windows XP,
the Scanner and Camera wizard takes care
| | 05:42 |
of this job. And now you can use any of
the images or videos in apps that support
| | 05:46 |
them, and the cameras can be used
within other applications as well, and that's
| | 05:51 |
all you need to know about importing
photos and videos into your computer.
| | 05:54 |
You also know about the
iPad's built-in video editor.
| | 05:56 |
If you'd like to do more extensive
video editing on your iPad, check out
| | 06:00 |
Apple's $5 iMovie for iPad.
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| Video conferencing with FaceTime| 00:00 |
Ever since science fiction and Saturday
morning cartoons collided, people have
| | 00:05 |
been intrigued by the idea of a
videophone, one where you could not only talk to
| | 00:08 |
your friends, but see them at the same time.
| | 00:11 |
With the advent of the iPhone 4 and
later, the fourth-generation iPod touch and
| | 00:16 |
iPad 2, whipping out a smallish device
to video chat with your friends, family,
| | 00:21 |
and business associates is no longer a dream.
| | 00:24 |
Apple calls that dream FaceTime,
a video-calling technology that works over Wi-Fi.
| | 00:30 |
It shakes out this way on the iPad 2.
| | 00:33 |
Launch FaceTime by tapping
it on the iPad's home screen.
| | 00:36 |
Now the first time you do this, you're
likely to be prodded to log in with your
| | 00:41 |
account, and I'll do that now.
| | 00:45 |
I'll sign in, and then a message will be
sent to Apple to confirm. I'm confirmed.
| | 00:50 |
I tap Next, and I'm ready to go.
| | 00:56 |
You're now ready to make
and receive FaceTime calls.
| | 00:59 |
To initiate a call, first be sure
that you're connected to Wi-Fi network.
| | 01:03 |
FaceTime doesn't work
over a 3G network connection.
| | 01:06 |
Then bring up a person's contact
information using one of the buttons at the
| | 01:10 |
bottom of the Contacts pane.
| | 01:12 |
So you have the option to
look at all your contacts.
| | 01:16 |
You can look at Recent Contacts or you
can tap Favorites and find your favorites.
| | 01:20 |
Here is Magic Nick, my producer.
| | 01:22 |
I'm going to tap Nick's name
to initiate the FaceTime call.
| | 01:27 |
So what's happening now is Nick's iPad
is ringing. Pretty soon he's going to
| | 01:32 |
pick up, and we'll be able to see
and talk to him at the same time.
| | 01:38 |
Looks like we're going.
Hey, Nick how you are doing?
| | 01:40 |
Nick: Hi Chris.
Chris: It's nice to see you.
| | 01:42 |
Nick: Great to see you Chris.
| | 01:43 |
Chris: Yeah, your lighting is fabulous, by the way.
Nick: All right.
| | 01:46 |
Chris: Okay, so while we're here, I'm
going to ask Nick to do something.
| | 01:49 |
When you're using the FaceTime technology,
you can your flip your camera around as well.
| | 01:54 |
Nick could you flip your camera?
| | 01:57 |
And this is what is behind Nick's iPad.
| | 02:00 |
Chris: Could you flip it back around please?
Nick: All right. Great!
| | 02:02 |
Thank you, also if I care to, I
can turn my iPad, and this changes the
| | 02:11 |
orientation, and it
changes what Nick sees as well.
| | 02:14 |
So I'll flip it back, and there you are.
| | 02:16 |
So you can use portrait
or you can use landscape.
| | 02:20 |
Couple other features.
| | 02:21 |
One worth noting is the Mute button.
| | 02:23 |
I tap Mute here and the great thing
about this is that he can't hear me;
| | 02:28 |
however, he can see me.
| | 02:30 |
So in this case if you are going to say
something rude about somebody, make sure
| | 02:34 |
that you keep a big smile on your face
while you're doing because they can't
| | 02:36 |
hear what you're saying. If they're a
lip reader, that's a bigger problem.
| | 02:40 |
But right now I can say the most
terrible things about Nick is that you know he
| | 02:44 |
is a magician, but he is
not very good at it, honestly.
| | 02:46 |
But I love this guy, and now I'm going to unmute.
| | 02:50 |
Nick, I was just telling everybody what
a fantastic magician you are, and I'm so
| | 02:55 |
honored that you're my producer.
| | 02:56 |
Nick: All right, thank you Chris.
Chris: You're very welcome.
| | 02:58 |
Now I'm going to end the call,
and then I'm going to have Nick call me.
| | 03:00 |
So I'll talk to you soon.
| | 03:02 |
So I tap End and we
should disappear. Goodbye Nick.
| | 03:08 |
Okay, now I'm going to go back to the
Home screen. Just so you can see what it
| | 03:12 |
looks like when somebody initiates a call.
| | 03:15 |
So we'll wait for Nick to call me.
| | 03:17 |
There he is.
| | 03:19 |
So I can decline the call if I
want, or I can tap Accept. Hey!
| | 03:25 |
There is he again. I just talked you.
| | 03:28 |
Did you have something else you
wanted to talk to me about?
| | 03:30 |
Nick: Oh, I just wanted to catch
up a bit. It's been a while.
| | 03:33 |
Chris: It really has. Okay, so I've enjoyed
the conversation very much, but I'm in the
| | 03:37 |
middle of teaching a course. So --
| | 03:38 |
Nick: Okay, yeah, go ahead and do that.
Chris: Okay, goodbye.
| | 03:44 |
Chris: Okay, so that's the basics of FaceTime.
| | 03:46 |
One other thing I wanted to show
you is we're going to go to Settings.
| | 03:48 |
We've selected FaceTime.
| | 03:52 |
You see there is an entry
here that says Add Another Email.
| | 03:56 |
This is an option if, let's say
you've changed your email address and you
| | 03:59 |
want to add another one that people
can use to contact you. You can have
| | 04:02 |
multiple email addresses.
| | 04:04 |
This is how add one. And back to Home screen.
| | 04:08 |
FaceTime is a great feature for
personal use, a way to have your kids talk to
| | 04:13 |
their relatives or keep in touch
when you're in a business trip.
| | 04:16 |
But it can also be used for more serious things.
| | 04:18 |
For example, you can use the
rear-facing camera to give a potential renter a
| | 04:22 |
virtual tour of your property.
| | 04:24 |
You can show off the floral designs
that you have in mind for an upcoming
| | 04:27 |
wedding, or you can document
the next great revolution.
| | 04:31 |
The future never looked so good.
| | 04:33 |
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| Taking fun pictures with Photo Booth| 00:00 |
And now we are going to
take a look at Photo Booth.
| | 00:02 |
This is the iPad's secret babysitter.
| | 00:05 |
Fire up Photo Booth, hand your iPad to
any restless child, and that child will be
| | 00:09 |
entertained for a good long time.
| | 00:12 |
It's a great babysitter, not only
because this is just a heck of a lot of fun,
| | 00:16 |
but it's also really easy
to operate. Let me show you.
| | 00:19 |
So we tap Photo Booth to launch
it, and here's the main window.
| | 00:23 |
If I wanted to, I could flip the
camera around by touching the Flip Camera
| | 00:28 |
button at the bottom right.
| | 00:29 |
I don't want to do that right now.
| | 00:30 |
If I wanted to take a picture, I'd tap
the Camera button and there is my face.
| | 00:35 |
To preview that, I just tap it.
| | 00:37 |
I can also delete it by tapping the X.
| | 00:40 |
Now let's take a look at the effects.
| | 00:42 |
There are variety of effects here.
| | 00:44 |
We'll start with Thermal Camera.
Very easy, very hot. Hotter behind me.
| | 00:50 |
Take a look at Mirror. Now I'm in Stereo.
| | 00:57 |
X-Ray just flips color scheme around,
a little spooky looking but nice.
| | 01:04 |
Then there's Kaleidoscope, and this
demonstrates how you can pinch and
| | 01:09 |
stretch these effects.
| | 01:11 |
So, if I stretch, I make very large
facets, and if I pinch down, they become smaller.
| | 01:21 |
Again, normal them in center.
| | 01:25 |
Here's the Light Tunnel. Again, you can
pinch and stretch, stretch, see most of
| | 01:29 |
me, pinch way down, and I become very nosy.
| | 01:36 |
Back to Effects. Squeeze. I live this thing.
| | 01:39 |
So I don't know if you know it, but I am kind
of known for my hair. Check out that bouffant.
| | 01:46 |
Is that something or is that something?
| | 01:51 |
Twirl, use your finger
and twirl around and okay.
| | 01:59 |
And finally, there is Stretch.
| | 02:01 |
Now this is a great look if
you're going to the Easter Islands.
| | 02:05 |
They'd build statues to you.
| | 02:06 |
Let's go back to Effects and finally,
back to Mirror, and I'm out of here.
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8. Media and the iPadPreparing audio and video files for the iPad| 00:00 |
The iPad is a great device for playing
audio and video files, but it can't play
| | 00:04 |
every audio and video file that you throw at it.
| | 00:07 |
In this movie, we'll look at how to
prepare media files for playback on your iPad.
| | 00:11 |
We'll start with audio files.
| | 00:14 |
The iPad can play all audio files
that are compatible with iTunes.
| | 00:18 |
So you can find out what those are by
going to iTunes > Preferences, clicking
| | 00:23 |
the Import Settings, and clicking the
Import Using menu. You see that it supports
| | 00:29 |
AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, and WAV Encoder.
| | 00:34 |
Now, the majority of audio files that
you will encounter are in one of these
| | 00:42 |
formats, but if you're using a Windows
PC, you might see some older WMA files.
| | 00:47 |
And on the Internet, it's possible to find
audio files in the Ogg and FLAC formats.
| | 00:53 |
Normally, when discussing Windows and the
Mac, you have to find different software
| | 00:56 |
solutions when you're talking
about converting audio and video.
| | 00:59 |
In this case, you don't need to for audio
because the free Switch Audio Converter
| | 01:04 |
from NCH software is available in
versions for both Mac and Windows.
| | 01:09 |
Here's the web site.
| | 01:10 |
It's an Australian site, and this
application switch is free for both platforms.
| | 01:16 |
So let's see how it works.
| | 01:18 |
Okay, so let's launch Switch.
| | 01:20 |
There it is, and here's our
window for converting files.
| | 01:26 |
So I have got some Ogg files and some
FLAC files here that I'd like to convert.
| | 01:30 |
I will grab an Ogg file and a FLAC file,
drag them into the window, and here they
| | 01:38 |
are, ready to be converted.
| | 01:40 |
You have a number of output options here.
| | 01:42 |
You notice that I've chosen .m4a.
| | 01:45 |
This is the AAC format that iTunes likes.
| | 01:48 |
If you choose AAC instead, these
files will not be compatible with iTunes.
| | 01:53 |
So instead, choose .m4a if you want an AAC
file, or you can always choose an MP3 file.
| | 02:00 |
Stick with that. Look at our Encoder options.
| | 02:03 |
Average Bitrate at 256
kilobits per second is good.
| | 02:06 |
This is the same format that they use
at the iTunes store. So I like that.
| | 02:10 |
I will click OK to confirm that.
| | 02:12 |
Right now, we have our output set for
the Desktop, which is a good place because
| | 02:15 |
we can actually see it happen, select
our files, and click Convert. All right!
| | 02:25 |
We will remove this window, so we can see
what's going on, expose iTunes, select
| | 02:31 |
our two files that are now AAC files,
bring them into iTunes, and sure enough,
| | 02:37 |
they're copied. And here they are,
ready to be synced to the iPad.
| | 02:43 |
Now before we leave converting audio
formats, I should also mention that the
| | 02:47 |
Windows version of iTunes will convert
unprotected WMA files, meaning those that
| | 02:51 |
don't have any kind of copy
protection applied to them.
| | 02:54 |
Just drag your WMA files into iTunes's
main window and the files will be encoded
| | 02:59 |
using iTunes currently selected
encoder, and again you find that setting up in
| | 03:05 |
Preferences and in Import Settings.
| | 03:12 |
Now, let's talk about video.
| | 03:14 |
Video both is and isn't trickier.
| | 03:16 |
It is because you could load movies
into iTunes that play perfectly well, but
| | 03:21 |
when you try to sync them to your iPad
you're told that they're not compatible,
| | 03:25 |
and the reason that some of them
aren't is not because of their file format--
| | 03:29 |
rather, it's because they're likely a
too high a resolution and/or a bitrate.
| | 03:33 |
Fortunately, iTunes can fix that for you.
| | 03:37 |
So let's find a movie, and we've got
this terrific movie here. Very high
| | 03:47 |
resolution, great-looking movie, but I
would not be able to sync this movie to
| | 03:52 |
my iPad because it's not in the right format.
| | 03:54 |
This is a QuickTime movie that
uses the .mov file extension.
| | 03:59 |
So what we're going to do
instead is we will select that movie.
| | 04:02 |
I will then go to the Advanced setting,
and I choose Create iPad or Apple TV Version.
| | 04:09 |
I select that and then iTunes
will go about converting the movie.
| | 04:14 |
You can see the Converting command
down here, and then you can watch the
| | 04:18 |
progress of this as it converts the movie.
| | 04:25 |
Okay, now our movie is converted.
| | 04:26 |
So we go back to Movies, and now we have
two versions of the movie, so which is which?
| | 04:33 |
Well, to find out, we select one, go to
the File menu, and choose Get Info, and
| | 04:41 |
we see this is the QuickTime movie
right here, QuickTime movie file.
| | 04:44 |
You see the same entry in the
Windows version of the program.
| | 04:48 |
Select the other one, File > Get Info,
and here we have the MPEG-4 video file
| | 04:56 |
format, and this is the version
that will sync with your iPad.
| | 04:59 |
Your face one additional problem here.
| | 05:04 |
If you select your iPad, go to
Movies, you'll see that both versions
| | 05:09 |
are available to you.
Well, which one do you sync?
| | 05:12 |
Unless you rename one of them,
you're going to end up with a problem.
| | 05:15 |
So, in this case let's rename
this one Travel Podcast iPad.
| | 05:25 |
Of course the other option you have is
if you don't want to look at the thing in
| | 05:30 |
iTunes, you can always take the
original QuickTime version and delete it, and
| | 05:34 |
then you're not going to have that problem.
| | 05:36 |
Okay, but what about those movies that
aren't compatible with iTunes at all?
| | 05:40 |
There is a solution for that as well,
and that solution is the free HandBrake,
| | 05:44 |
which you can get at handbrake.fr.
| | 05:48 |
Like Switch, HandBrake comes in
versions for both the Mac and Windows, and I'll
| | 05:52 |
show you how it works on the Mac.
| | 05:54 |
So I am going to launch HandBrake, and
it pops open, and it's going to ask me for
| | 06:03 |
the movie that I'd like to convert.
| | 06:04 |
I have a .AVI file on the
desktop, and there is my daughter.
| | 06:09 |
I will click Open and HandBrake loads the movie.
| | 06:15 |
Off to the right we see the presets.
| | 06:18 |
If you don't see them, just click the
Toggle Presets button and you'll see you
| | 06:23 |
have a number of presets here.
| | 06:24 |
In this case, we're going to choose iPad
because that's the device we'll encode for.
| | 06:28 |
And all you have to do at
this point is click Start.
| | 06:34 |
You can watch the progress bar at
the bottom of the window, and this isn't
| | 06:36 |
going to take very long. We will click OK.
| | 06:41 |
I'll minimize that window. And here
is our converted file on the Desktop.
| | 06:47 |
Move over to iTunes, grab the file,
drag it into iTunes, and here's my file.
| | 06:56 |
I can even play the movie
within iTunes if I like.
| | 06:58 |
(video playing)
| | 07:01 |
Isn't she looked cutest thing? Yes, she is.
| | 07:05 |
Okay, that's her proud father speaking.
| | 07:07 |
So we will close that, and now at
this point, I can go to my iPad, Movies.
| | 07:13 |
You see that I now have the option to
sync that movie to my iPad if I like to.
| | 07:18 |
So with these tools and the built-in
talents of iTunes, you should have very
| | 07:21 |
little difficulty getting just about
any audio or video file you want onto
| | 07:26 |
your iPad.
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| Using AirPlay to stream video and audio wirelessly to an external display| 00:00 |
In an earlier movie, I talked about
displaying the iPad's interface to an
| | 00:04 |
attached TV or a projector
using a wired HDMI or VGA connection.
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There's another way to project the
iPad for TV, and this one is wireless.
| | 00:13 |
It's called AirPlay. The idea is this:
| | 00:16 |
using AirPlay, you can play media
from the iPod and videos apps to a
| | 00:21 |
compatible receiving device.
| | 00:23 |
Now as we record this, the device most people are
likely to use is an Apple TV2. It works this way.
| | 00:30 |
Plug in Apple TV into your HDTV
and connect it to the Internet.
| | 00:35 |
Then on the Apple TV, navigate to the
Settings menu and select AirPlay. We'll take a look.
| | 00:42 |
Move over to settings, select AirPlay
and sure enough, AirPlay is switched on.
| | 00:52 |
Also, be sure that it's using the
same network that your iPad is on.
| | 00:57 |
Now, let's move to the iPad and launch Settings.
| | 01:01 |
Here I select iPod and in the Home
Sharing area, I want to make sure that my
| | 01:06 |
Apple ID and password are entered.
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Now let's see how it works in
the Videos app. I select Videos.
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Here's a movie. I tap the movie to launch it.
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I tap Play, and here's our movie.
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Now I tap the screen and I tap on
the AirPlay icon and I choose Apple TV.
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As you can see, the video appears
on the TV and not on the iPad's screen.
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Now let's quit Videos, and I am
going to show you something else.
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Now the Videos app isn't the
only app that supports AirPlay.
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You can use AirPlay with the iPad's Photos
app as well, and I'll show you how to this.
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Tap Photos. We're going to select an album.
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I'll select a photo and choose the AirPlay icon.
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I'll select the Apple TV as the
output, and now I have the option to flick
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through my photos to show my slideshow.
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Quit out of photos.
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Now this works in other apps as well.
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You can use it with Safari video.
You can also use it with YouTube video.
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One another thing I want to show
you is the iPod app. So we tap iPod.
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We'll select a tune.
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It starts playing on the iPad. Tap
the screen, select Apple TV, and it
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plays out of the TV.
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We'll stop that playing and
return to the home screen.
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One of the greatest things about
AirPlay is that it's portable, and it's
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reasonably affordable.
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For $99, you can have an Apple TV 2. It's small.
| | 03:08 |
It can be jacked at any modern HDTV, even the
ones you find in a hotel or a conference room.
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As long as you have a Wi-Fi connection,
you can take much of the media that's on
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your iPad and present it to a group of people.
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These can be business
associates, family, or friends.
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I love AirPlay and once you
give it a go, I think you will too.
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| Using Home Sharing| 00:00 |
Elsewhere in these videos, I have shown
you how you can stream the contents of
| | 00:04 |
your iPad to your Apple TV or
another AirPlay-compatible device.
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That's very cool, but perhaps just as
cool is that you can stream content in
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your iTunes library to your iPad as
long as your computer and iPad are on
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the same local network.
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This talent is called Home
Sharing, and it works like this.
| | 00:22 |
So go to iTunes on your computer and from
the Advanced menu, choose Turn On Home Sharing.
| | 00:28 |
You'll be prompted for your Apple ID
and password, and I'll enter mine now, and
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click Create Home Share. Then click Done.
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Your computer is now ready
to share its iTunes Library.
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Now move to the iPad, tap
Settings, and tap the iPod setting.
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Here in the Home Sharing area, you will
see Apple ID and Password fields. Again,
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fill them in, and you're set.
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Now, click the Home button,
and let's launch the iPod.
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When you do this, tap on Library.
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You see a little house next to it, and you'll
have the option to choose your Home Sharing.
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In this case, we're going
to go for the Studio Library.
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We see the spinning wheel and then from
that Studio Library, I can play what I like.
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(music playing)
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And once again, my favorite
band today, The Jellybricks.
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Okay, so I can stream music.
What else can I stream?
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Back to the Home screen, tap on
Videos, and you see a shared entry now.
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I'll tap on that, and here
is the name of my share.
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This one is called Studio's Library.
Tap there and here is a movie that I can
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watch from my iTunes library. I tap on it.
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It opens. Tap Play and here is my movie.
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Again, this is not housed on my iPad,
but rather it's streaming across my local
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network and playing from my computer.
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Honestly, that's all there is to it.
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Turn on Home Sharing on both
devices, pick some media, and play it.
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| Streaming media to an iPad| 00:01 |
There are many ways to enjoy media on your iPad.
| | 00:03 |
You can watch or listen to the content
you've placed on the iPad via iTunes,
| | 00:07 |
and using Home Sharing, you can also stream the
contents of your iTunes library to the device.
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Now let's add one more:
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media that streams over the Internet.
| | 00:16 |
The first one we are
going to look at is Pandora.
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Pandora is a free service that
streams music to you based on artist
| | 00:32 |
selections you make.
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For example, I can choose
the search for artist field.
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I will type in The Jellybricks,
because they just rock. There.
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Now I've got a Jellybricks station.
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(music playing)
(Singer:Longing to know you, to feel the things you feel. If I--)
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So what happens if Pandora
starts with a track by the band and then it
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plays related music?
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I can rate songs with a thumbs up or down
rating, which helps Pandora learn what I like.
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Your can also skip songs, though you're
limited to 6 skips per hour and 12 skips
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per day if you have a free account.
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Although you can't pick exactly the
music you want, Pandora is remarkably smart
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about playing music that you will like.
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It's a great way to discover new music.
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To stream exactly the music you want,
you'll need to look at a subscription
| | 01:26 |
service, one that you pay a monthly fee for.
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I've used a variety of these services,
including Rhapsody, Napster, Mog, and Rdio.
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These cost between $10 and $12 a month,
with support for IOS devices like the iPad.
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I want to look at Rhapsody, because it
has a great selection, and the interface
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is easy to navigate.
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Now as you can see, the Rhapsody window
comes up in that little tiny window that
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indicates this is an iPhone app.
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None of the subscription services that you
pay for for music includes an iPad-native app;
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instead, they're all iPhone apps.
| | 02:00 |
So all you do is press the XX button,
and now you can get to a much larger screen.
| | 02:06 |
So again, this is kind of like Pandora.
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The difference is that you get to
choose exactly the music you want.
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So I will tap Search and I'll enter
Jellybricks again, because they still rock.
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Here, there are, the Jellybricks Power Pop.
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So I will look in all albums, and here
are all the albums available on Rhapsody.
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I will then choose Goodnight to Everyone.
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It gives me a little tip.
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And if like, I can choose to play a song.
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I will just tap one right now.
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(music playing)
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Let's look at a couple of other options here.
You notice that there's a Download button here.
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Tap that Download button.
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You have the opportunity to
download the tracks on the album.
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These don't download at a high resolution.
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These are low-resolution MP3 tracks,
but they're plenty good for headphones that
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you would use with the iPad.
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There are other things
you can do with the service.
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You can go back to the Home page.
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You can check out playlists that you've created.
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You can look at your library of songs
and artists, and of course I can look at
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the tracks that I've downloaded.
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Now I know a lot of people aren't keen on
subscription music services, but I swear by them.
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Where else are you going to get access to
a music library of over 12 million tracks?
| | 03:38 |
If you're a music geek, it's worth
taking one of these services for a spin, and
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yes, they all offer free
trials. And now to video.
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If you're not a Netflix subscriber,
you really should be, if only for the
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ability to stream Netflix
movies and TV shows to your iPad.
| | 03:53 |
For just $8 a month, you can stream Netflix
content your iPad over a Wi-Fi connection.
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And we will give that a try.
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Search field, Netflix, and here's Netflix.
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I've already logged in.
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Normally, you have to log in first,
enter your password, and there you go.
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So, on your Home screen, you'll find
things like the top picks for you based on
| | 04:21 |
other things that you've watched on Netflix.
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I can also check other areas, so, Genres,
for example, if I want to see things
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for children and family.
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Here are some recommended movies here.
| | 04:31 |
Again, anything that's here is
available for streaming directly to your iPad.
| | 04:37 |
You could also search for things.
| | 04:39 |
So I could tap in the Search field.
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Let's do 'Sherlock Holmes'.
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Maybe Sherlock will do it.
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Yeah, and sure enough, here are some
Sherlock Holmes TV shows as well as movies.
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Then I can also look in my Instant Queue.
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These are things that I've added from
Netflix on the web and I can view on my iPad.
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You can't add to your
queue from within the iPad app.
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You used to be able to do
that, but can't anymore.
| | 05:04 |
So right now you have to load it from a
browser, and then you can view it on your iPad.
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Note that while Netflix's streaming
library isn't nearly as complete as its disk
| | 05:15 |
library, it's gotten far
better in the last couple of years.
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However, you're not going
to find recent blockbusters.
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For that you must stick
with a disk-based subscription.
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Finally, if you're a fan of network TV
and don't mind watching the occasional TV
| | 05:28 |
commercial and of course paying
$8 a month, there is Hulu Plus.
| | 05:32 |
Hulu streams TV shows from a variety
of networks, including ABC, FOX, PBS,
| | 05:38 |
and Comedy Central.
| | 05:39 |
If you have a Hulu Plus subscription,
you could often have access to full
| | 05:43 |
seasons of older programs, as well as
episodes of newly released episodes.
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Let's take a look at it. Hulu Plus.
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I've signed in, and here
are some of the options.
| | 05:54 |
So they have a Featured page.
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You can see what's hot in the
last few days or couple weeks.
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You can look at Most Popular,
and you can look at Recently Added shows.
| | 06:06 |
You can also choose the TV button and
suggest TV shows, again Featured, Most
| | 06:11 |
Popular, Recently Added, and Browse TV,
which allows you to search for TV shows.
| | 06:16 |
They also have a Movies section.
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It's not nearly as big as is Netflix's,
but they're starting to add some shows.
| | 06:23 |
You can also look at your queue.
| | 06:25 |
So as you browse through this application,
you can add shows to a queue and then
| | 06:30 |
later pull them up for viewing at another time.
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One other nice thing is that
you can also subscribe to shows.
| | 06:35 |
For example, I can choose The Daily Show,
I can go to its show page, and then I
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can tap a Subscribe button
and subscribe to that show.
| | 06:45 |
As with Netflix, Hulu's video looks
great over a reasonably fast connection.
| | 06:50 |
Can these apps replace your TV?
| | 06:52 |
It depends how fond you are
of sports and live events.
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If you can't live without live TV,
you're not ready to cut the cord.
| | 06:59 |
If you're thinking of cutting that cord
however, these apps in your iPad are a
| | 07:03 |
good place to start.
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| Copying media from an iPad to a computer| 00:00 |
Computer hard drives, like
everything mortal, eventually die.
| | 00:04 |
Your hope is that when
they do you have a backup.
| | 00:06 |
If you don't but you have an iPad
packed with media, you actually have some
| | 00:11 |
of your data backed up--it's on your iPad.
| | 00:13 |
All you have to do is find a way to get
it off the iPad and onto your computer,
| | 00:18 |
once you've replaced that bad hard
drive of course. Thankfully there are
| | 00:22 |
applications for Windows
and Mac that can do this.
| | 00:24 |
So let's take a look at a couple of them.
| | 00:26 |
For Windows, there's Wide
Angle Software's $25 TouchCopy.
| | 00:31 |
Now this works on both Mac and Windows,
and I am going to run it on the Mac, but
| | 00:34 |
it looks just the same as it does on Windows.
| | 00:38 |
So we will fire it up. We are using a demo copy,
so you won't see this yellow bar once you purchase it.
| | 00:46 |
Along the left side of the window,
you'll see entries to your media. That can be
| | 00:50 |
music, your videos, podcasts,
and your playlists, for example.
| | 00:54 |
Now if you want to retrieve all the
media that's on the iPad, just click
| | 00:59 |
Backup and everything will be copied over.
| | 01:02 |
If you want to be more selective, you
can just choose the media that you want,
| | 01:07 |
and then you can either copy to Mac, or
it will say copy to PC, for example.
| | 01:12 |
Or you can transfer it directly into iTunes.
| | 01:15 |
You can also use the search
field to look for specific media.
| | 01:18 |
What makes TouchCopy a little more
powerful than some other utilities is you can
| | 01:22 |
look for other kinds of files as well.
| | 01:24 |
So up here I will click on Photos and it will
locate any of the photos that are on my iPad.
| | 01:31 |
I can then recover those as well.
| | 01:33 |
Now note that these photos are going
to be the size of the photos that were
| | 01:37 |
synced to the iPad, so they're not
going to be the original photos that were on
| | 01:41 |
your computer, but rather those that
were converted and then put on the iPad.
| | 01:47 |
You can also go through the iPad's
file structure if you want to find something in there.
| | 01:50 |
So, for example, if you've lost
a book, you can find it in there.
| | 01:57 |
You can find your contacts and recover them.
| | 02:01 |
There's Magic Nick.
| | 02:04 |
Get your Calendar Events
if you like, your notes.
| | 02:07 |
We don't happen to have any on here, but you
could get them if you wanted. And now we
| | 02:10 |
will go back to music.
| | 02:12 |
So it's very complete program that will
allow you to get back a lot of the media
| | 02:16 |
that's on your iPad.
| | 02:18 |
If you're on a Mac and interested in
saving $5 and working with an application
| | 02:22 |
that's more Mac-like, take a look at
Ecamm Network's $20 PhoneView, and again we
| | 02:31 |
are running the demo copy.
| | 02:32 |
Like TouchCopy, it lets you choose different
kinds of media and copy it to your computer.
| | 02:37 |
So, for example, we'll look at Music.
| | 02:41 |
I can choose music files, and I can copy
from iPad and that will put them on my
| | 02:46 |
computer, or I can again
send them directly to iTunes.
| | 02:51 |
One thing that you can do with Phone
View that you can't do with TouchCopy is
| | 02:54 |
you can copy files to your iPad, so
you can use it as a virtual hard drive.
| | 02:59 |
So, for example, if I wanted to copy this
file to my iPad, I could just drag it in.
| | 03:03 |
You see the Plus sign and I can then add it.
| | 03:06 |
Now let me show something particularly
cool that you can't do with TouchCopy,
| | 03:10 |
and this is kind of for you gamers out there,
but other people may be able to use it as well.
| | 03:16 |
So we are looking at our
iPad. I will go to Apps.
| | 03:18 |
I will make sure that Show All Apps is showing.
| | 03:21 |
So here's the cool thing. You go to Angry Birds
and you go to Documents, and we are looking for this
| | 03:28 |
file, highscores.lua.
| | 03:31 |
This is where Angry Birds stores all
its golden eggs and level information.
| | 03:37 |
So, for example, you've been playing
this game on your iPhone and you've gotten
| | 03:42 |
all the levels done and all the golden
eggs and everything is happening and it's
| | 03:45 |
great, and then you get an iPad and you
want to play the game on your iPad and
| | 03:50 |
you start it up, and you've got nothing
and you have to start all over because
| | 03:55 |
Angry Birds, like other games,
doesn't sync your high scores.
| | 03:59 |
So how do you get around this?
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Okay, well let's suppose this was your iPhone.
| | 04:04 |
You grab this file, you drag it to the
desktop to make a copy of it. Then you
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plug in your iPad, you take that file
and say you know what I want the high
| | 04:15 |
scores now on my iPad, let go, you
replace, and now your highscore file from
| | 04:21 |
your iPhone is on your iPad.
| | 04:24 |
This is the same file. So if you then
fire up Angry Birds on your iPad you
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will find that you have all your high
scores, all your golden eggs, all the
| | 04:32 |
levels are complete, and you're a happy person.
| | 04:35 |
For those of you on the Mac, just so
you know, if you happen to have the Mac
| | 04:39 |
version of Angry Birds, you can look
inside it as well by looking inside the
| | 04:44 |
package, and you can replace the file
there too because again it's the same file.
| | 04:49 |
So sure, this may sound like a tip just
for Angry Birds players, but there are
| | 04:53 |
some applications that have these common
file types that don't sync between iOS devices.
| | 04:58 |
You can then copy these using a tool
like PhoneView, and then you can copy your
| | 05:02 |
settings from one iOS device to another.
| | 05:05 |
Now I know that not everyone is
interested in becoming an Angry Birds champion,
| | 05:09 |
but this does show you some of the
power in being able to copy files on and off
| | 05:13 |
your iPad.
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| Importing and editing photos| 00:01 |
You know that you can take pictures and
videos with an iPad 2's front- and rear-
| | 00:04 |
facing cameras, but it could also import
this kind of content from a real camera.
| | 00:09 |
The means for doing it is Apple's $29
iPad camera connection kit, a kit that
| | 00:14 |
includes these two adapters.
| | 00:17 |
One adapter includes a slot for an SD
card, the kind of storage found in today's
| | 00:21 |
cameras and camcorders.
| | 00:23 |
The other adapter has a USB port.
| | 00:26 |
To use either one, just plug it
into the iPad's dock connector port.
| | 00:30 |
What we do is we would just take a
camera, it's plugged into the USB slot, and
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you connect the adapter here.
| | 00:37 |
At this point, you just plug it into
the iPad's connector, but we are not going
| | 00:42 |
to use the camera right now. Instead,
we are going to use the SD adapter.
| | 00:47 |
So I put the card into the adapter, I
plug the adapter into the bottom of the
| | 00:53 |
iPad, and the Photos app will launch.
And here are my images, and you notice that
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it opens to the Camera tab.
| | 01:06 |
To import some images, I just tap on them.
| | 01:09 |
Now one option is to not have any of
them and simply tap Import All, and all the
| | 01:13 |
images will come in.
| | 01:14 |
I am just going to import a few
of them. Done that. I tap Import.
| | 01:18 |
You see I have the option to
Import All or Import Selected.
| | 01:21 |
I'll choose Selected.
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Little green check mark appears
indicating that they have been imported.
| | 01:27 |
Now they'll offer the option to either
delete images from the card or keep them.
| | 01:32 |
I'd prefer to keep them.
| | 01:33 |
I prefer instead to erase any images
using my camera because I think it's safer.
| | 01:38 |
That may be voodoo, but that's just
the way I do things, so I will keep them.
| | 01:42 |
So now if I tap Albums, I will see
last import and all imported entries plus
| | 01:47 |
anything I have already imported.
| | 01:49 |
Tap Last Import to see the last
imported images, and tap All Imported to see
| | 01:56 |
images you've imported via the camera connector.
| | 01:59 |
The images and movies behave just as do
other images and movies in the Photos app.
| | 02:04 |
You can tap to view them as well
as show them as part of a slideshow.
| | 02:09 |
If a movie is part of the album--and
in this case it isn't--you can play the
| | 02:13 |
album as a slideshow.
| | 02:14 |
The movie will play when slideshow gets
to it. And just as with movies you take
| | 02:18 |
with the iPad's camera, you can trim the
front and back of the videos you import
| | 02:22 |
and we look at trimming movies in another movie.
| | 02:25 |
The iPad doesn't ship with an app to
edit your photos, but there are a variety
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of third-party tools that can do this job.
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If you are looking for something that
handles the basics and costs absolutely
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nothing, there's Adobe's Photoshop Express.
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Just launch the app, tap the
Select Photo button, and a Photo Albums
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popover menu appears.
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Choose a photo you want to
edit and it appears on the screen.
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At the bottom of the screen,
you'll find tools for cropping,
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straightening, rotating, flipping
also for exposures, saturation, tint,
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black & white, and contrast.
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You can also sketch, soft focus,
sharpen, and reduce noise, and then there are a
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few effects as well.
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So I can tap Effects here, and I can
add a vignette or a rainbow effect, and I
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will tap Cancel because I don't
want to impose these effects on this.
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Now Photoshop Express has
an interesting interface.
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Instead of adjusting sliders, you
perform most of the actions by simply
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dragging your finger.
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For example, I can pull up the Exposure
control and I can change Exposure just
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by dragging my finger to the left or
to the right, and we'll cancel that.
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A more traditional
comprehensive photo-editing app is Omer Shoor's
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$3 Photogene for iPad.
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Like Photoshop Express, it also has
common tools, such as Crop, Rotate,
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Adjustment and some
enhancement for adding effects.
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So, tap on Adjustments and you'll
find a wealth of color-correction tools.
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So you find Exposure,
Saturation, Contrast, Color Temp.
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You can lighten shadows and
you can darken highlights.
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Scroll down a bit, and you will also
have an histogram and one of the cool
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things about it is it has a Curves tool,
much like more advanced photo-editing
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programs on your computer.
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So I can adjust by dragging on
Curves, and we'll reset that.
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If you tap on Enhance, you will
find some filtering. So I tap on Gray.
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I can adjust the Inner Radius and
Outer Radius, and as I do so, you see the
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parts of the image turn gray.
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You also have the option to add frames,
so I can make this look like a motion
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picture frame. Tap No Frame to leave that.
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You can make edges glow,
and you can add some filters.
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Let's make this a charcoal image.
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So it's not the real Photoshop,
but it's an easy way to adjust images on your
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iPad. And then there's Tai
Shimizu's $4 Filterstorm.
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This is another powerful
and inexpensive photo editor.
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So you open an image and select the canvas.
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Within here you find options
for cropping, and you can scale.
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You can rotate if you like, so I'll
rotate to right and then bring it back
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around so it's upright.
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You can straighten your image.
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You can flip it if you like,
upside down and right side up.
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Tap Filters and you'll find a
wealth of tools for editing your image.
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For example, I can take this image
and I will tap Luminance, and I'll adjust
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the Brightness slider.
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Now one of the very cool things
here is that it supports masks.
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So I will apply with Mask, then I will
tap the Brush tool, and now I can just
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paint on the image to apply brightness.
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What I am doing is pretty rough,
but I could actually just select a very
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small part of the image and brighten it up,
and I can do that because it does support masks.
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Similar to Adobe's Lightroom in
operation, Filterstorm allows me to do some
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remarkably powerful things for next to no money.
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While, the iPad may not be a complete
darkroom solution, it's a mighty capable
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tool for dealing with images on the road.
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Consider packing one of these when
you go on your next photo safari.
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Thanks for joining me for iPad Tips and Tricks.
I hope you found these movies helpful.
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Your training need not stop here.
There's plenty more to learn at lynda.com.
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We visited iTunes, but you could
learn more from iTunes Essential Training.
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And if you would like to know more
about the ins and outs of Apple's
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portable operating system iOS, be sure to tune
into iPhone and iPod Touch Essential Training.
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Again, all of these can be
found right here at lynda.com.
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And if you would like to read more from
me, visit Macworld at www.macworld.com.
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