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1. Michael e cohen Dennis R cohen lisa spangenbe Rg The iPad 2 Project Book Stuff you can do with your iPad MICHAEL E COHEN DENNIS R COHEN LISA L SPANGENBERG PEACHPIT PRESS The iPad 2 Project Book Michael E Cohen Dennis R Cohen and Lisa L Spangenberg Peachpit Press 1249 Eighth Street Berkeley CA 94710 510 524 2178 510 524 2221 fax Find us on the Web at www peachpit com To report errors please send a note to errata peachpit com Peachpit Press is a division of Pearson Education Copyright 2011 by Michael E Cohen Dennis R Cohen and Lisa L Spangenberg Executive editor Clifford Colby Editor Kathy Simpson Production editor Danielle Foster Compositor Danielle Foster Indexer Rebecca Plunkett Cover design Peachpit Press Interior design Peachpit Press Notice of Rights All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher For information on getting permission for reprints and excerpts contact permissions peachpit com Notice of Liability The information in this book is distributed on an As Is basis without warranty While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book neither the author nor Peachpit shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage cause
2. Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 163 3 In the search field at the top of the pane begin typing Los Angeles As you type airport abbreviations begin to appear below the search field As soon as you see LAX you can stop typing Figure 2 110 Figure 2 110 KAYAK knows about a lot of LOS airports Include nearby airports X LOS Lagos Nigeria Murtala Muhammed LAX Los Angeles CA Los Angeles SJ0 San Jose Cabo BS Mexico Los Cabos LMM Los Mochis Sl Mexico Federal ABC Albacete Spain Los Llanos Alternatively you can tap Current Location in the Choose Origin Airport pane refer to Figure 2 109 to have KAYAK list the airports in your general area 4 Tap LAX in the list of airports that appears The origin airport you selected appears in the From field of the Flight Search pane 5 At the top of the Flight Search pane tap Round Trip if it isn t already selected 6 In the Flight Search pane tap the To location and in the Choose Destination Airport pane that appears begin to type Portland Oregon Figure 2 111 Figure 2 111 Picka aa Flight Search Close Choose Destination Airport destination airport Round trip One way Multi city POR LAX Los Angeles CA Los Angeles D daa ES LAX Los Angeles CA POR Pori Finland Pori Depart Thu Mar 31 2011 today PDX Portland OR Portland Return Fri Apr 01 2011 PWM Portland ME Portland A i POS Port Of Spain Tri
3. Googie Translate 4 emer Appie vy Newsy EnieriainmentyY cartoon sites Macaliclousy Funnyy MECY Siogsy Sing TPS TC EE Edit Archive in Yojimbo gt gt Web brnpges Vijos Mapt hows Shopping Gma more v P Google translate From Detect language w To English v Translate Translate over 50 languages Do more with Google Translate a 9 y Linguists robots or aliens Wake up to translation Build your global business Wish your Norwegian fans Leam about iha technology Translate text right irom your Advertise across languages could read your blog Install behind Google Transiate and iGoogle homenage using Google Global Market the Google Transiate Element how you can help us improve Finder for easy transiaton Google may show you the mobile version of the page The iPad is a mobile device after all and Google may detect that fact The classic version of the page works fine on the large iPad screen however and it s easy to switch from one version to the other 3 If the Google Translate page shown is the mobile version tap Classic at the bottom of the page 4 Tap the To button above the text entry field Figure 2 80 and choose English from the drop down list of languages then tap the From button and choose Italian from the drop down list Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 141 Figure 2 80 Use the From and To buttons to choose languages From Detect language To English Translate 5
4. In the Other section clear the check box titled Sync Safari Bookmarks Mac or the corresponding check box in Windows In Windows the name of this option depends on the browser with which you sync bookmarks Internet Explorer for example calls bookmarks favorites so if you use it to sync bookmarks this option would be called Sync Favorites Disconnect your iPad from the dock connector cable Go from cloud to iPad Now you re ready to set up your MobileMe account on your iPad and activate contact calendar and bookmark syncing If you previously synced these items with iTunes you also specify what to do with the information that remains on your iPad Creating a MobileMe account on the iPad 1 2 On the iPad tap the Settings app In the pane on the left side of the Settings screen tap Mail Contacts Calendars In the Accounts section of the resulting screen tap Add Account In the Add Account screen tap MobileMe An account entry form appears Figure 1 7 on the next page 18 The iPad 2 Project Book e e e e e o e J e e e e co Figure T MobileMe Ea The MobileMe account form Apple ID Password Use MobileMe with your Apple ID or MobileMe email address Create Free Apple ID gt 5 Tap and type to enter the requested information the email address assigned to your MobileMe account and the password for your MobileMe account 6 Tap the Next button in the top
5. 6 o o e E l a Michael Cohen s iPad 2 4 F i iPad 2 S Located a minute ago Display Message or Play Sound F Lock Wipe Ls pe e Ms i Fi b E pe fi 2 Ra Ch wil if gt If however your iPad is in some strange unanticipated place in the grasp of some foul iPad snatcher you can set a new passcode for your iPad to prevent the evildoer from accessing your information easily or even erase the information on your iPad Cif you suspect that the evildoer is particularly nefarious and dastardly See Fasten the passcode lock earlier in this project for details If you do choose to wipe your iPad s information and are fortunate enough to recover the device later you can use the Restore feature to put the most recent backup of your information back on your iPad See http support apple com kb HT1414 for more information about restoring your iPad This tip also works if you have to obtain a replace ment iPad instead Weave a Wiki Project Difficulty level Intermediate Software needed Trunk Notes 2 4 3 3 99 Optional software TextExpander touch app 4 99 Dropbox free iPad model Any Additional hardware None A wiki is a Web site that allows you to create and edit any number of inter linked Web pages or documents via a Web browser using a simplified markup language called Markdown to control formatting layout and linking Wikis were invented by programmer Ward Cun
6. If you manage to erase your data accidentally you can recover it from the automatic backup that iTunes creates each time you sync your iPad with iTunes another good reason to sync with iTunes periodically even if you normally sync your information wirelessly See the Apple article at http support apple com kb HT1414for details on restoring your iPad 52 The iPad 2 Project Book Think of the children and the adults As we mention earlier in this project the iPad is a wonderful child distraction device Even pudgy toddler fingers can manage to tap their way around it But your iPad may contain some items such as movies songs or TV shows that you really don t want your toddler to see Neither do you want your 9 year old daughter wandering into the iTunes Store and buying a few hundred dollars worth of tunes to die for For that matter if you share your iPad with anyone child or adult you may want to make sure that this person won t mess up your mail account settings or inadvertently add a few dozen friends to any multiplayer games you may enjoy You can set restrictions to guard against the accidental viewing of certain media or the semiaccidental use of certain apps Setting up restrictions 1 Tap Settings gt General gt Restrictions to open the Restrictions screen 2 Atthe top of the screen tap Enable Restrictions A passcode dialog appears similar to the one you use to set simple passcode
7. www instapaper com extras 112 The iPad 2 Project Book iPad Chef Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed Epicurious Recipes amp Shopping List 3 0 app free BigOven app free Apple s Pages for iPad 9 99 iPad model Any Additional hardware Kitchen and camera optional This project is about finding recipes with the Epicurious and BigOven apps favoriting the recipes you want to try emailing recipes that you want to share and creating your own recipe scrapbook in Pages for iPad Find recipes with Epicurious Long before the iPad there were cookbooks glossy cooking and food magazines many with equally glossy Web sites and large community sites for cooks and lovers of food of all sorts There still are With so many resources available searching for just the right recipe can be confusing Fortunately iPad apps are available to save you time and effort Epicurious com the Web home of Epicurious magazine recently released a version of its iPhone app for the iPad This free app available at the App Store makes it easy to browse or search thousands of recipes provided by Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines professional chefs popular cookbooks and famous restaurants Here s how Using Epicurious to browse recipes 1 Tap the Epicurious icon on your iPad to launch the app The Epicurious splash screen appears very briefly followed by the home screen with its Control Panel popover showing recipes in
8. playlist features Many other people however find playlists abstract and confusing and shy away from them as though they were a nest of snakes If you re comfortable with playlists simply skip to Selecting and syncing playlists later in this project The rest of you read on Playlists are actually quite simple They re lists of one or more songs That s it They don t contain any actual songs just references to songs That s the part that seems to confuse people because in iTunes the act of adding songs to a playlist looks very much like copying the actual songs It isn t When you add songs to a playlist you re simply adding references to those songs as Figure 3 23 illustrates a LA M s gt gt gt g a x EN E T Purchased on Michael Coren Niem by Anist J Aham by Aristi Name Time Ania is Os a Watr Yeu Oriy Cross My Miad ha 2 35 Sting j if Oe a Waer belem Ox Wonu Ti Sery gt Michael Cohen s iPad 2 ss a ae on een ree Songs fram the Labyrirth 1 v Sengs from the Walsingham 036 Edin Karamar Sang ee A ee tiy GID 296 Oing 4 Edin Ku Gesin e J Senge fromthe Reyat Hancrable As I Have 241 Sing ac Genius Mires 4 V Songi irom the Flow My Tears 4 42 Sing A Edin Kar The Abduction of Margaret 5 w Sengstremthe _ Have You Seen the fr GED 296 Sting amp Edin Kar 6 V Sengs from the Ther ia Time Passieg On gt 32 Sing c 7 Sengs trom the The Most Hagh and Mighty 2 01 Edin Karamazov
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10. By NH Maine 2001 87 7 Tap Saved Photos on an original iPad or Camera Roll on an iPad 2 swipe through the displayed photos until you see the Italian flag image which will be on your iPad if you completed the steps in Gathering images with Google Images earlier in this project and then tap it The Italian flag replaces the placeholder picture 8 Drag the picture until it s centered on the slide above the text Figure 2 91 Now that you have a title slide for the flash card deck you can use it to create the other slides Figure 2 91 The replacement picture is in place Sering Italian Words and Phrase 148 The iPad 2 Project Book As you drag the picture guidelines appear when the image approaches cS the center of the slide vertically or horizontally Keynote provides these guidelines to help you place objects on a slide more precisely When the guidelines appear you can lift your finger the picture snaps into place Duplicating and editing a slide 1 Inthe column on the left side of the screen tap the thumbnail of the Slide to display the image editing options Figure 2 92 Figure 2 92 Slide editing options in Bui Copy Delete Skip Keynote 1 s i The thumbnails in the left column show the order of slides in your presentation You can drag them around edit them and skip them If you have more than one slide you have to tap an unselected slide once to select it and then tap it again to see i
11. Done button 2 Do any of the following things e Tap the blue Done button to go back to the show s episode screen e Tap the Play Pause button to toggle between playing and pausing e Tap the Letterbox Full Screen button to control the video s aspect ratio e Drag the playhead in the timeline to move to a different point in the episode Be aware however that if you drag over one of the tick marks each of which denotes a limited commercial interruption the playhead lands on the commercial rather than on the particular point you chose 218 The iPad 2 Project Book Commercials More Annoying Than on Disc or on Demand When a commercial is playing the viewing controls are inaccessible You can t pause playback much less fast forward or rewind In fact you can t even end playback and return to the selection page This situation is particularly annoying when you accidentally tap one of the thumbnails because every video starts with one of these uninterruptible commercials Thus you have to sit through the commercial until the controls are available again or press the iPad s Home button then double press the Home button to display the process bar hold one of the app icons until all the icons wiggle tap the X in ABC Player s top left corner to terminate the process and then relaunch the ABC Player app Owners of this book s first edition may note that the advent of multitasking made this procedure a
12. still or video recording Tap the Done button when you finish shooting or filming and you return to the My Project screen with your freshly shot footage added to the timeline 5 Optional Tap the musical notes icon above the timeline refer to Figure 3 56 to add background audio to your project 6 Optional Tap the gear icon refer to Figure 3 56 to change various settings such as the theme The Project Settings popover opens Figure 3 58 Figure 3 57 You can turn still images into short Figure 3 58 Pick a theme and establish your project video segments settings here In the Project Settings popover shown in Figure 3 58 background audio has been added to the timeline the green background repre sents the duration of the audio 7 Optional Tap the waveform icon refer to Figure 3 56 to edit audio levels 8 Optional Tap the microphone icon refer to Figure 3 56 to record narration An overlay displaying your audio level volume and a Record button appears Figure 3 59 Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 227 Tap Record and after a 3 second countdown recording begins Tap the Stop button when you finish then tap Discard Retake Review or Accept in the resulting display Figure 3 60 Thome Music Faccording Finished ara ar Figure 3 59 Ready to start recording narration Figure 3 60 Decide what to do with your most recent narrative take 9 When you have the project the w
13. 157 158 searching for flight 164 165 default accounts choosing calendar 40 41 selecting contacts 39 40 deleting all iPad data 58 calendar subscription 42 43 email 31 35 songs from playlist 193 trashed emails 31 digital rights management DRM about 231 AirPlay unable to transmit material using 241 unable to stream copy protected content from iTunes 231 234 display order 39 documents See also PDF documents changing background color of 134 creating PDF e book 197 199 placing images in Pages 135 137 saving ePub 199 201 Don t Fall Asleep setting 75 137 downloading ABC Player 212 Air Video from iTunes App Store 232 BigOven 119 Dropbox 84 files to GoodReader 98 99 GarageBand app 170 171 TV software for streaming video 211 212 drafting email 27 DRM See digital rights management Dropbox 83 92 about 83 84 adding server to GoodReader 95 97 closing folders 100 downloading 84 favoriting file in 86 87 file sharing using 88 89 folder sharing using 89 92 logging in to 84 85 My Dropbox 85 86 on demand syncing with 87 88 syncing wiki with 62 drum track 182 183 duplicating Keynote slides 148 149 E e books See also Make Your Own E Books Project scrapbook creating PDF documents for 197499 file formats for 197 editing contacts 23 24 GarageBand recordings 181 184 iPad techniques for 149 Keynote slides 148 149 placeholder text in Keynote 146 147 song genres 189 trip dates 157
14. 226 227 selecting in Netflix 219 220 sharing 228 230 Starting your own 224 227 syncing selections and playlists 205 206 turning on off syncing for 203204 ways to sync 202 203 music 170 196 adding new instrument to song 178 181 choosing syncing categories in iTunes 188 189 compressing songs 187 defining chord strumming and finger picking 174 175 designing Smart Playlists for 194 editing song genres 189 exporting songs to iTunes 184 185 including songs on playlist 192 193 iPad s storage capacity for 186 managing iTunes syncing manually 196 presetting chords for 173 174 setting up song in GarageBand 171 173 sharing song files via email 185 syncing iTunes Music library with iPad 186488 tempo for 175 176 Music Syncing Project 186 196 See also music about 186 choosing syncing categories 188 189 creating iPad playlists 194 196 making and syncing iTunes playlists 190 194 manually managing music syncing 196 sharing iTunes Music library with iPad 186188 Smart Playlists 194 music videos 210 N naming movie project 227 228 playlist folders 192 narrating movies 226 227 NAT PMP Network Address Translation Port Mapping Protocol 236 navigating GoodReader 101 102 between Keynote and Safari 139 Trunk Notes 61 Netflix about 211 218 219 getting started with 219 playing queued media in 221 222 searching for titles 220 221 selecting genre and movie in 219 220 NetRatings 211 Netw
15. A Save As dialog appears letting you name your PDF and specify where it should be saved Now you have your PDF and if you want to you can drag it into iTunes for syncing to your iPad Microsoft doesn t provide built in PDF generation in its operating system but Windows users do have a free solution CutePDF Writer www cutepdf com products cutepdf writer asp You ll need to install the free Ghostscript package the Web page has links and instructions Make an e book with Scrivener Creating an ePub document is analogous to creating a PDF with the primary difference being the final step that renders the content in the desired form As Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet however Therein lies the rub Although tools for producing PDF output abound ePub compilers are less pervasive Apple provides one solution its Pages software desktop version only which lets you export your documents in ePub format which is suitable for use on your iPad iPhone or iPod touch Although Pages is a very fine word processor and a pretty nifty desktop publishing application too we prefer Scrivener www literatureandlatte com when it comes to producing e books Scrivener is a writing tool and environment that specifically targets book authors and script writers Whereas programs such as Word and Pages focus on creating and formatting documents Scrivener focuses on creating and organizing content Until very recently Scrivener was specific to Mac OS
16. Automatically include x movies option if it isn t already checked 2 From the pop up menu in the middle of the preceding option s name choose any option other than all or all unwatched Figure 3 36 all 1 most recent 3 most recent 5 most recent 10 most recent all unwatched 1 most recent unwatched 3 most recent unwatched 10 most recent unwatched 1 least recent unwatched 3 least recent unwatched 5 least recent unwatched 10 least recent unwatched When you make any choice other than all or all unwatched all the lists of movies and playlists in the Movies syncing pane become active iTunes uses the date when each movie was added to the iTunes Library not the movie s release date to figure out which movies are the most or least recent From the pop up menu you can choose to sync automatically one or more of the most recent watched movies you can choose one or more of the most recent unwatched movies or you can choose one or more of the least recent unwatched movies For some reason however you can t choose to sync the least recent watched movies those you have to select manually Syncing selected movies and movie playlists 1 Below the Sync Movies check box in the Movies tab do one of the following things e Clear the Automatically include x movies check box e From the pop up menu in the middle of the Automatically include option s name choose an item other than all The lists belo
17. Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 115 Navigating Epicurious Thousands of recipes are available via Epicurious and more are added all the time Navigating this sea of recipes can be tricky so here are a few hints e Tap a tab on the right side of a category screen to see the relevant view Rating recipe ratings by other cooks Photo recipes with images A Z recipes in the category listed alphabeti cally or Newest most recently added recipes in the category e The colored navigation tabs at the bottom of recipe screens provide more information Reviews displays comments by other cooks who have tried the recipe About describes the source of the recipe Some recipes offer other tabs that provide additional information such as nutrition data e The gray navigation triangles in the bottom right corner of every page go to the preceding and next recipe in the current category The text between them identifies the recipe s location in its category such as 5 of 86 for the 5th recipe of the 86 in that category e ach recipe screen has an orange bookmark refer to Figure 2 47 You can slide this bookmark up or down to mark your spot in the recipe which makes it easy to keep track while you work in the kitchen e Tapping the house icon on category screens always takes you to the home screen 5 For purposes of this project tap the red Back button in the top left corner of the recipe screen to return to the preceding category
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19. Set the date to November 26 and then tap Save You return to the New Dining screen 5 Tap the Restaurant field A blank Edit Name screen appears Figure 2 106 Figure 2 106 In TravelTracker the restaurant name includes phone address city and country as well Figure 2 107 Dinner at an exclusive restaurant ready to be added to your itinerary Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 161 a Edit Name 6 Tap each field and enter some appropriate information using a real restaurant or just making something up If you happen to have the restaurant in your iPad s Contacts app you can tap the blue plus sign at the right end of the Name field to add the restaurant s name address phone number and city to the Edit Name screen If you don t you can enter each item manually Tap Save to save your work and close the Edit Name screen The New Dining screen reappears with the restaurant information filled in Optional Tap each field in the New Dining screen and enter infor mation for each one A typical New Dining screen looks like Figure 2 107 when it s filled out New Dining Ea Restaurant Liciot T i212 26 5 14ih Hird Map Poriin Whon Cuisine French People a Cant 2 gt Status Reserved Pul a bind on il for disoount bul you cannot hawe the duck Delete Dining 162 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 108 At last your itinerary has something in it F
20. Tap Email Link You may briefly see a spinning gear busy screen followed by an email invitation containing the link Figure 2 10 Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 89 Figure 2 10 Email 6 15 PM invitation to share a iPad Projects has shared urban_fantasy doc with you using Dropbox file i To Subject iPad Projects has shared urban_fantasy doc with you using Dropbox Hi Here s a link to urban fantasy doc in my Dropbox Sent from my iPad 4 Add an address to the email and possibly a note then tap Send The recipient doesn t have to have a Dropbox account to access the linked file he just clicks the link in your email and downloads the file Sharing a folder via Dropbox 1 Open Safari on your iPad and go to www dropbox com 2 Log into your Dropbox account You see your home page Figure 2 11 Figure 2 11 Dropbox Dropbox Files Ondne bectup Me sync and sharing made easy home page onthe Web 4 D me Library o Blogs OM AW Apple Ge CLE JE Shar onTumhir Instapaper Mead Later 7 Dropbox A 90 The iPad 2 Project Book 3 Tap the Sharing tab at the top of the page A page like Figure 2 12 opens Figure 2 12 pipiens ls Sharing page lt r Dropbox E Got Started Files Events Sharing D Holp 3 Shared Folders 4 Tap the Share a Folder button in the top center of the page Y
21. The Passcode Lock screen appears Figure 1 30 Settings Passcode Lock vaca ka Airplane Mode ka Wi Fi Cohen Notifications On Turn Passcode On a Location Services On beg Brightness amp Wallpaper taj Picture Frame J Mail Contacts Calendars E7 Safari kan iPod Simple Passcode 50 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 31 Set either a simple four digit pass code left or a longer safer one right Optional Tap the Simple Passcode switch to turn it off if you want to use a longer safer passcode that combines letters numbers and punctuation Tap Turn Passcode On The Set Passcode dialog appears Figure 1 31 If you chose to turn off Simple Passcode in Step 4 the onscreen keyboard also appears so that you can type a complicated passcode Set Passcode Cancel Set Passcode Enter a passcode T Enter a passcode MNO 9 Enter the passcode of your choosing and then repeat it when you re asked to confirm the passcode As soon as you enter the passcode the passcode lock takes effect By default the next time you put your iPad to sleep and then wake it up you must enter the passcode in the Passcode Lock screen even if you put the device to sleep for only a few seconds You can change how long the iPad has to be asleep before the passcode lock takes effect however If you want to use your iPad s picture frame feature when you have a passcode en
22. Use Instapaper to read on the 20 nessssissssrnsrns 106 Getting started with Instapaper wc cece 106 Install the Read it Later bookmarklet ccccessseeeseteeeeees 108 Installing the bookmarklet in any Web browser N VOUT COMM OU a eeescartesesecieredeaiecesvetneee rig ate Rine 108 Installing the bookmarklet in Safari on your COMMDULE scacsievsssidcnaisduiyinsinadssnseiadsnievibiulese snasiteldatasiiviond tuncanetin 108 Installing the bookmarklet in Safari on your iPad 109 Contents Save and read content in Instapaper sesssssrererre 110 Saving and reading Web content vce 110 IPad Cne 4611 Cl Caer nek mee RE E DDE ee a 111 Find recipes with EpiCUTIOUS cinssvccsiszosnisussreienctsiansteenscniuntec 112 Using Epicurious to browse recipes wees 112 Searching for recipes in EPICULIOUS sessssssrereerrren 115 Favoriting EDICULIOUS recipeS eccecseessessesssesssecsresseeseeeees 116 Displaying your Epicurious favorites wc scene 116 Viewing and emailing a recipe s shopping list in I CUO Soc ecerccenstesesseteesetieneneeieomenctsunncccaenanmensneumnaiandendenecuetns 118 Get the BigOven app and create an account vues 119 Getting started with BigOven sesssssssrsrseren 120 Entering your BigOven account info in the app sess 120 Find recipes with B IS Oy C0 os siiecrscssoszcuteseatesceuvnca tereaeaecaniasouaneans 121 Searching for recipes in BigOven sesssssssererrrrre 121 Mark and find favorite recipes in Bi
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25. setting flight routes 162 164 key 175 176 Index 249 Keynote about 138 acquiring 139 creating flash card deck in 145 149 developing presentation in 145 148 duplicating and editing slides 148 149 image guidelines in 148 making slide and completing deck 149 151 navigating between Safari and 139 viewing presentation 151 L landscape orientation for Air Video 236 language flash cards See Flash Card Project links in Markdown 70 71 lists 68 69 logging in to Dropbox 84 85 looping recording region 181 182 M Mail checking for spam 30 31 deleting email with swipe 35 drafting email 27 previewing Word file in 82 83 selecting emails for deleting 32 34 sending wiki via 62 shortcuts for addresses and photos in 28 turning on Show To Cc Label 3031 viewing universal Inbox in 37 Mail Management Project 19 38 See also email Mail about 19 20 adding contacts 20 24 deleting single email 31 drafting email 27 managing mailboxes 28 29 moving email to different folder 35 37 removing multiple emails 32 35 mailboxes defined 20 managing 28 29 moving email to different 35 37 Make a Movie Project 223 230 See also movies about iMovie 223 naming movie project 227 228 narrating movies 226 227 sharing movies 228 230 starting your own movies 224 227 Make Music Project 170 185 See also music adding drum track 182 183 creating song in GarageBand 171 175 looping selected region of recording 181 182
26. these days What you have in urban fantasy aside from the urbar settings seems bo be interaction between the real or mortal world the contemporary urban world of today with denizens of a hidden or otherworld who have supernatural antecedents or abilities The story typically lies in the interaction between the bwa worlds via the characters Now there s a lot of medieval literature about just that we have it in the form of medieval romances like Sir Gateain and the Grew Knight as well as in the shorter works called dais for lays like Bisclayret Marie De France s twelfth century story about a werewolf or Sir Orfeo about a king whose wile is taken by the king of the fairies and how Orfeo wins ber back Figure 2 3 Open in popover Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 83 3 Read the document If the attached file is a multiple page document you can swipe up or down to page through the file You can copy and paste from the previewed document though you can t edit it 4 When you finish reading tap the blue Done button in the top left corner The preview screen disappears and the email you began with is revealed If you tap the curved arrow Action button in the top right corner of a Mail preview screen you see a popover like the one in Figure 2 3 ih PM 94 mm urban_fantasy doc Urban Fantasy and Medieval Literature My first acquaintance with urban fantasy as a s
27. very elaborate ways You can have lots of folders and even folders within folders if you want POP is designed to delete email from the server as soon as it has been downloaded to your computer This arrangement is awkward if you read mail on multiple devices because you won t see the same incoming emails on all of them The solution is to make your main computer the one that controls when email is deleted from the server A setting in Mail and other email clients tells the server how long to leave incoming mail on the server On your other devices that use that POP account set the time for deleting email to be never or at least longer than the time you set for your main computer You can find a useful explanation of the differences between and benefits of POP and IMAP here http docs info apple com article html path Mail 3 0 en 11920 html 30 The iPad 2 Project Book Turning on Show To Cc Label to check for spam 1 Launch the Settings app on your iPad to open the Settings screen 2 Tap Mail Contacts Calendars in the Settings column You see the pane shown in Figure 1 16 Figure 1 16 The Mail Pad F 4 43 PM 74 im Contacts Calendars Settings Mail Contacts Calendars pane Airplane Mode OFF hs Accounts ka Wi Fi Written In Stone Mac 5 wo Mail Contacts Fond Whe iPad Ke Notifications off Medievalist gt pr Location Services On os Gmail IMAP y KS Brightness amp Wallpaper Mai ipadprojects g
28. 3 13 A choice of Smart Guitars 8 Tap the Rock Roots guitar The Smart Guitar screen updates to reflect your choice Although the Roots Rock screen looks different from the Acoustic screen and has a couple of new features to be precise two stompbox effects that you can turn on to change the sound of the guitar the new guitar operates much like the acoustic one that you ve been playing 9 Switch the Autoplay dial to 3 Figure 3 14 Figure 3 14 A new look for a new guitar z ty Roots Hock Em Figure 3 15 Editing controls for a selected region Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 181 10 Tap the Go to Beginning Stop transport control refer to Figure 3 9 to set the playhead at the far left end of the timeline 11 Complete steps 3 8 of Doing a take earlier in this project to record the new song segment in the Roots Rock guitar track You ll notice that the Roots Rock Smart Guitar has a distinctly different sound and Autoplay pattern from the Acoustic Smart Guitar Also the count in includes the final bar of the first song section 12 If you muffed the take repeat steps 10 11 to redo it Arrange the recording The two recordings you ve made are a good start Now you get a chance to fill out the arrangement In the following sections you perform several tasks a Make one of your recordings loop e Adda drum track e Reset the tempo to give your song a livelier feel Looping a r
29. Choose Return Date pane and tap November 28 then tap the Close button Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 165 5 Back in the Flight Search pane find the Passengers indicator tap the button to increase the number of passengers to 2 tap the Prefer Nonstop switch to turn that setting on and tap the Class button if you want to choose a flight class other than Economy Figure 2 113 Figure 2 113 Set the Passengers Preter Nonstop Clas number of passengers j 2 D A ta and tell KAYAK wheth er you want to go non stop and what class 6 Tap the big orange Search button above the map refer to Figure 2 112 you want to travel in KAYAK displays the flight search results 7 Swipe up and down the search results to find a suitable flight and when you do tap it The Flight Details pane appears on the right side of the screen with a Booking pane below it Figure 2 114 Figure 2 114 Click a link or make a phone call to book the flight that you ve chosen At this point you can call one of the listed numbers or click a link in the Booking pane to book your flight Because this task is just an example however make a note of the airlines and the flight numbers so that you can use them in the next section If you like you can tap and hold the text in the Flight Details pane to see text selection controls You can use these controls to select all the flight detail information and copy it t
30. Figure 3 33 Revert Figure 3 33 These two buttons let you apply or ignore Apply syncing changes Some of these criteria aren t mutually exclusive You can sync five recent unwatched movies as well as additional selected movies and playlists of movies for example Also you can create iTunes playlists that contain movies especially useful for short movies such as the ones you make yourself with iMovie or some other movie creation application In this section of the project you get to experiment with various movie syncing settings to see how they work Turning on movie syncing 1 Connect your iPad to your computer 2 Launch iTunes 3 Select your iPad in the iTunes Source list below the Devices heading 4 Atthe top of the main pane of the iTunes window click the Movies button 204 The iPad 2 Project Book 5 Atthe top of the Movies pane select Sync Movies Figure 3 34 Movies TW Shows Podcasts iTunes l Baks Fhris Figure 3 34 This check box is the master key i Sync Movies T movies to iPad movie syncing When movie syncing is enabled you have access to the other controls and lists in the Sync Movies section First you see how to turn on syncing for all movies If Manually manage music and videos is selected in the Options cS section of the Summary pane turning on movie syncing deselects that option When that happens the syncing options in the Music pane and TV Shows
31. Prepare the dish which we ll let you do on your own 3 Take a picture of the finished dish 4 Import and position the image in the Pages recipe You can enter a recipe directly in Pages or email it to yourself as a Microsoft Word file a rich text Crtf file or a Pages file attachment and then import the file into Pages by using Mail s Open in option For step by step instructions see the Go to Meeting Project earlier in this chapter In the following tasks we show you how to start your recipe scrapbook by importing an emailed recipe into Pages for iPad and then formatting it adding artwork You ll be working with the recipe for Old Fashioned Raspberry Bars from BigOven which you can find in the BigOven app by searching for it by title see Searching for recipes in BigOven earlier in this project Importing an emailed recipe into Pages 1 Opena recipe that you received by email see Emailing a recipe from BigOven earlier in this project The recipe will have basic formatting even in email form Figure 2 64 on the next page 128 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 64 Recipe emailed from BigOven Figure 2 65 Selection buttons 4 47 PM From iPad Projects Book Hide To Pad Projects Book EOE SD this icip from BigOven April 5 113 51 PM Mark as Unread ae Old Fashioned Raspberry Bars A great Raspberry Bar recipe that s easy quick and absolutely delicious The recipe also lends itself t
32. TV shows consist of many episodes only some of which you may have seen the options for syncing new and old episodes are more flexible than they are for movies as you see in the following task 208 The iPad 2 Project Book Syncing new or old episodes 1 Below the Sync TV Shows check box in the TV Shows pane check the Automatically include x episodes of x option if it isn t already checked 2 From the first pop up menu in the Automatically include option choose any item other than all 3 From the second pop up menu in the Automatically include option choose all shows You deal with selected TV shows a little later in this project 4 Select a TV show in the Shows list The Episodes list to the right shows which if any of the show s episodes are set to sync automatically Figure 3 39 You can click the check boxes next to other episodes in a show s Episodes list to include those episodes in the sync Figure 3 39 You can Sync TV Shows 2 episodes choose other episodes in addition to those that sync automatically Shows Dr Horrible s Sing Along Blog Episodes Automatically include all unwatched episodes of all shows Ov Act Ve Doctor Who Act 2 ETE i Act 1 Dr Horrible s Sing Along Blog 1 new episode 3 total Glee ME a inwe In addition to the episodes that fall within the syncing criteria you set tip you can put TV episodes in playlists and select those playlists i
33. X but Literature amp Latte has released a public beta for Windows The public beta is free but is accompanied by the usual caveats concerning stability When the tool is released commercially it will cost 40 35 for an educational license The Mac version is currently priced at 45 but is available for a fully functional free 30 day trial 200 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 31 Set your output options in the Compile dialog Space prohibits us from giving you a Scrivener tutorial here but the included documentation a user manual available in the Help menu is both extensive and coherent and the video and interactive tutorials should get you up and running in short order Creating an e book with Scrivener 1 Launch Scrivener 2 Create a new project For this exercise you re going to create an ePub of Scrivener s inter active tutorial so choose Help gt Interactive Tutorial Follow the prompts and the Scrivener project opens fully loaded with the tuto rial s content 3 Choose File gt Compile The Compile dialog drops down Figure 3 31 4 Choose ePub eBook epub from the Compile For pop up menu at Load Save ees Nu 3 5f Snapshots 5a Comments amp Footnotes 7 Step 6 End of Part One 4 uf Part 2 Organisation Opt click to select or deselect all LJ Filter nclude Documents with Label Compile For Printing PDF Compile L A a P i Fxpar or print your draft
34. and TV shows from your iTunes libraries directly to your iPad s Source list but it stops iTunes from syncing any of these items automat ically If for example you ve set iTunes to sync movies you haven t finished watching see the Movie and TV Show Syncing Project later in this chapter that syncing capability is disabled when you choose the Manually manage option Manually really does mean manually Managing music manually 1 Connect your iPad to your computer Launch iTunes Select the iPad in the Source list Click the Summary button in the main iTunes pane nu BR WN In the Options section at the bottom of the pane select Manually manage music and videos 6 Click Apply in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window Make Your Own E Books Project Difficulty level Intermediate Software needed Mac OS X Scrivener Microsoft Word Pages or another word processor iPad model Any Additional hardware Mac or Windows PC Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 197 Although it s not the only e book reader for the iPad iBooks is the Marian Madam Librarian of your iPad s electronic book repository iBooks recognizes two document formats from the e book Tower of Babel ePub and PDF Adobe introduced PDF to the computer scene in 1993 and in the almost two decades since PDF documents have become ubiquitous ePub is newer but based on technology that s every bit as common XHTML CSS and Zip The
35. are so marked with a button you can tap to buy them Checking it all 1 Tap the All Shows button at the bottom of the ABC Player screen You see a grid of all available ABC shows Figure 3 45 2 Tap a show s thumbnail to see a pop up list of episodes Figure 3 46 3 Tap the desired episode to start viewing Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 215 AMT My Children BACHELOR sini 3 AT fy C hilirern u e r CUE bare wen Yo BROTHERS a Pos BROTHERS ET OOA RS 4 i TAALI E 7 Brothers and Sisters Waero tha For lt jad Amy ee g iros L eg BUN Fee br m GENERAL Pir alir pea Mind a ae T E HOSPITAL Efn HOSPITAL k iy tee eh jarma nasan Figure 3 45 Find the show you want in ABC s All Figure 3 46 Tap the show to see a list of available Shows grid episodes Reviewing your viewing history 1 Tap the Me button at the bottom of the ABC Player screen You see a thumbnail or grid of thumbnails representing the episode s you ve seen so far At the top of each thumbnail is a timeline with a down pointing arrow showing where you left off watching the episode Figure 3 47 Near the top right corner of each thumbnail is a small x that you can tap to remove the episode from your history Figure 3 47 Check Pod S here in case you don t remember what you ve already watched or if viewing history you like reruns abe me Body of Proof 2 Optional If you see an epis
36. away to be unstressed With them you can find the right flights and manage the trivia of planning your voyage away from it all or almost all because you re going to take your iPad with you right Don t forget the charger Pack your apps The first app you need is TravelTracker This app has existed in one form or another since back in the 20th century when Apple made the proto iPad that it called the Newton Through many incarnations it has helped travelers track their traveling trivia the itineraries the frequent flyer miles accrued the places to visit the stuff to pack the things to do and the places to stay No it won t magically handle all these things for you you still have to enter these bits of information into the app but it keeps them in one place easily available and nicely arranged The second app is KAYAK technically called KAYAK HD in the iTunes Store This app and the associated KAYAK Web site for which the app is a convenient front end links with most major airlines With it you can search for flight information and pick the flights that fit your budget and your traveling preferences Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 155 The icons for the apps are shown in Figure 2 97 Go and get them Figure 2 97 The two apps you need for this project TravTracker Getting the apps 1 Purchase the inexpensive Travellracker app from the App Store either directly on your iPad or via iTunes on y
37. bit longer Watch movies and TV on demand Netflix introduced flat rate DVD rental by mail letting subscribers create lists of what they wanted to see and get those DVDs in their mailboxes with prepaid return envelopes so that steady streams of discs were wending their way back and forth A few years ago the company tested the waters of streaming video letting subscribers watch their videos over the Internet for a flat monthly fee As more and more people have acquired broadband connections to the Internet the viable customer base for online service has increased to the point that most of Netflix s business now is online An online subscription costs 7 99 per month and lets you have unlimited rentals on your iPad iPhone iPod touch and or computer Be aware though that what s available for online viewing is only a subset of what s available on DVD Further at the time we re writing this chapter HD content isn t available via online subscription Finally the Netflix app doesn t yet support AirPlay so if you want to view what s streaming on a larger screen you need a composite compo nent or digital connector kit as appropriate for your TV set Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 219 Make sure that you have a good wireless signal and a fast Internet connection when you re viewing streaming video as a weak signal or erratic connection can easily result in poor picture and sound quality Getting sta
38. buttons Figure 1 44 These buttons insert Markdown codes that tell Trunk Notes how to format your text Bulleted Numbered Action Heading You can read more about Markdown in the Trunk Notes online manual at www appsonthemove com Docs_MarkdownSyntax html Figure 1 45 Action button popover Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 67 Here s how you use the formatting bar buttons Tapping the Heading button H creates a heading You can have up to five levels of subheads by tapping the Heading button up to five more times before entering the heading text The headings get smaller with each additional level Tapping the Bulleted List or Numbered List button once creates a list tapping either button a second time creates a nested list When you finish adding items to a list insert two returns Cusing the iPad s digital keyboard or a Bluetooth keyboard to indicate the end of one paragraph and the start of another Tapping the Action button displays a popover of options for the entry including Clear Text Insert Timestamp Insert Link To Insert Encrypt and Update Geotag Tapping the Tag button tags an entry with descriptive keywords called tags When you tap Tag you can enter a new tag or search for words you ve used before as tags Trunk Notes displays a list of all the entries that have those tags Tapping the Trash button deletes the current entry note If you delete an entry you can t recover it 4 Tap the Action
39. can click the other tabs to set various preferences that launch the application automatically at login require a password or set a custom port Settings tab You can also instruct Server to honor Internet access Remote tab but this functionality requires that your router support UPnP Universal Plug and Play or NAT PMP Network Address Translation Port Mapping Protocol When you select the Enable Access from Internet check box a server PIN is displayed Make certain that the Automatically Map Port check box is selected Now you can access Air Video Server from remote locations via Wi Fi or Cif Wi Fi isn t available and you have a 3G iPad via AT amp T s or Verizon s 3G network Caution 3G access is slower than Wi Fi so live conversion may be more problematic Also with AT amp T s and Verizon s pricing the amount of data video involved can burn through your monthly 3G allotment fast causing you to run up some hefty overage charges Play your content Playing your content is simple just as you d expect on the iPad Air Video s iPad user interface operates in landscape orientation even when the iPad is vertical We find this fact somewhat amusing because Air Video started as an iPhone app and the iPhone user interface is portrait even though playback is landscape At any rate if you re using your iPad in portrait orientation rotate it 90 degrees to landscape or tilt your head 90 degrees Cif you don t mind being uncomfortable
40. can t be hijacked and misused You don t need a MobileMe account to use the Find My iPad feature however All you need is a free Apple ID Getting an Apple ID is easy and when you have one or if you do have a MobileMe account acti vating Find My iPad takes just a few taps Getting a free Apple ID 1 Tap Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars 2 Atthe bottom of the Accounts list on the right side of the screen tap Add Account and then in the Add Accounts pane tap MobileMe The MobileMe dialog appears Figure 1 33 Apple ID Password Use MobileMe with your Apple ID or MobileMe email address Create Free Apple ID gt 3 Tap Create Free Apple ID A series of New Apple ID dialogs appears requesting information like the country where you re located your date of birth and most important an email account that will serve as your Apple ID 4 Supply the information requested in each of the New Apple ID dialogs tapping Next as you finish filling out each one After you supply the required information you re asked to agree to the MobileMe terms of service 5 Read the terms of service and then tap Agree Naturally if you don t agree you can t use the service 56 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 34 Find My iPad is linked to your MobileMe account whether that account is one you pay for or is associated with a free Apple ID After you agree Apple sends a verification email to the email
41. e To watch episodes of a series that s between seasons tap the button labeled Catch Up on Season n where n is the number of the just completed season 4 To view a specific episode of one of the shows displayed below the scrolling thumbnail tap that episode s thumbnail 5 To modify what s being displayed in the various thumbnails tap Most Popular Most Recent or Staff Picks 214 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 44 Pick an Seeing what s on the schedule ABC episode f th ne To check out the network schedule tap the Schedule button at the weekly calendar display bottom of the ABC Player screen You see a screen resembling the one shown in Figure 3 44 abe schedule y sun mon tue wed ww The Math Class Ms Rinsky Doris Roberts ask ank het beacting asks math 5 wo Que wg shis Sue and Axl consider helping thee suni find a lime cape de she buned Modern Family Strangers on a Treadmill Haley tees to toach Alea how bo be cool Watch Now modermnfam ily Mr Sunshine EA We ie The Assistant Jre When Roman becomes Alice 7 ca MR SUNSHINE watcn Now eee Off The Map Hold on Tight MSE BCA cml Thede 2 Tap the desired day of the week to find that day s shows in their ABC time slots As you can see in Figure 3 44 some shows aren t available for viewing on the iPad usually local broadcasts sporting events and the like Also shows that are available in the iTunes Store
42. eliminated a couple of projects and added a few more but mostly we ve worked hard to bring all the projects up to date with the current version 4 3 1 of iOS the operating system that drives the iPad We ve also designed this edition to cover the new thin and even more magical iPad 2 If you own the original iPad though don t worry With very few exceptions everything in this book applies to your iPad too A Note About Conventions Unlike most computer books this one is short on technical terminology and conventions Still there are a few things you need to know To begin even though the iPad works with both Windows PCs and with Macs all the authors are Mac users Therefore the screen shots we provide from computers are from Macs PCs and Macs are looking more alike all the time however so we don t think these screen shots will be a problem for our Windows using readers Also we tend to use Mac terminology referring to dialogs instead of dialog boxes and we ve introduced some iPad specific terminology such as popovers instead of drop down lists We re sure that you can figure things out We also note when Windows and Mac instructions differ fortunately fairly seldom or when instructions for the original iPad differ from those for the iPad 2 even more fortunately very rarely Sometimes we say things like Tap Settings gt General gt Network This is a shortcut way of saying Tap the Settings app When Sett
43. email addresses use the sign Consequently when you tap a phone number a URL or an email address Mail tries to predict what you re likely to want to do with it such as add it toa contact or create a new contact Here are a few things you can do with contact data in email e f you tap and hold a URL you see options to open that URL in Safari or copy it to almost anything on your iPad that accepts text such as a contact or a new email message If you simply tap a URL Safari launches and attempts to go to the Web page associated with the URL you tapped e If you tap and hold a street address the options are Open in Maps which displays a Google street map Create a New Contact Add to Contact which directs Mail to put the address infor mation in the correct fields of the contact form a task that Mail sometimes has difficulties with and Copy which allows you to use the copied address elsewhere If you simply tap the address Safari launches and attempts to locate the address in the Maps app e If you tap a phone number domestic or international you see the options Create New Contact and Add to Existing Contact The tap and hold part is important If you merely tap an email address Mail assumes that you want to send an email immediately so it creates a blank email form with the tapped address placed in the To field 3 Tap one of the following buttons to accomplish the associated task e New Message which creates a
44. far submission or final farmarting in a dedicated word processor Format As Original B a Compilation Options r a i Draft Contents Aloan Formatting ion a Pq Break Before As is Processing Options J Fart 2 Basics Separators v Step 1 Beginnings 2 2 Text Options M Step 2 Header View g 2 R Mv Step 3 Footer View O eplacements M Ga di eed iani Statistics a Footnotes Comments M Step 5 The Inspector ne s s pow M 5a The Synopsis Index Card J B age Settings M Sb Meta Data e g M Se Notes O O v Sd References k M 5e Keywords M M M a Compile Included documents 3 Contept 1 Compie Cancel the bottom of the dialog Figure 3 32 Here s the Scrivener interactive tutorial e book on the iPad Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 201 5 Click Contents in the Compilation Options list on the left side of the dialog 6 In the Pg Break Before column check the items that you want to include in the table of contents To select all items in the list Option click the first one 7 Optional In the Meta Data options fill in the fields you want the ePub to contain such as Subject Description Publisher and Publication Date 8 Click the Compile button 9 When Scrivener asks you to do so name the file and specify where you want to save it Now that you have your ePub file you can drag it to iTunes and sync it to
45. in various chord strips to hear how they sound when played individually Tap the chord label above a chord strip Tapping a chord label plays the complete chord Autoplaying your guitar 1 In the ring of numbers around the Autoplay dial refer to Figure 3 6 tap 1 The Autoplay dial indicator points to 1 and the strings vanish from the guitar fretboard Figure 3 7 Tap any chord strip with a single finger You hear the chord strummed in a rhythmic pattern Tap the same chord strip with two fingers The strum pattern changes Tap the same chord strip with three fingers The strum pattern changes slightly again Tap the 2 above the Autoplay dial and listen for a moment tap 3 and listen for a moment and then tap 4 You hear a finger picking rhythm Each time you tap a number the rhythm changes Tap the chord strip that s currently playing with a single finger The playing stops Figure 3 8 Use the Song Settings popover to set the metronome song tempo and song key Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 175 As you ve just seen and heard each number on the Autoplay dial provides three different strumming and finger picking patterns for each chord depending on the number of fingers with which you tap a chord strip All told you can choose among 12 Autoplay patterns for each Smart Guitar chord Prepare to record With GarageBand you can record songs with up to eight tracks By de
46. inside the Search field at the top of the screen and type exactly as printed here Docs GettingStarted As soon as you start typing the existing text in the Search field probably the name of the Trunk Notes page you were on when you started typing is replaced by the text you re entering because now you re now in search mode Before you finish typing Trunk Notes displays a list of options ona screen that resembles lined paper Figure 1 40 Figure 1 40 Search 1 04 PM results screen Does r Create page Docs Search for Docs w Docs MarkdownSyntax f Docs Manual f Docs GettingStarted w Docs Functions Ww Docs AdvancedFormatting vd Docs AboutTrunk The second line has a magnifying glass to its left Tap that icon to search for the text you entered in the body of all the Trunk Notes pages The remaining lines have a green check to their left which means that those lines represent Trunk Notes entries or pages that already exist One of the pages in the list should be Docs GettingStarted 64 The iPad 2 Project Book In later searches you may see a blue tag icon to the left of one or more words in this list Tap a tag result to see a list of pages that were tagged with that word 5 Tap Docs GettingStarted Trunk Notes displays the Getting Started page refer to Figure 1 37 earlier in this project Now you can find the Getting Started page any time you need help This page contains links
47. movies Whether you get your movies from the iTunes Store or somewhere else and we discuss some of the somewhere else options elsewhere in this chapter getting them from your iTunes Library to your iPad and back again isn t rocket science even though the technology underlying it may be You can sync movies in the following ways e All movies ae Unwatched movies unwatched movies being those that you haven t watched all the way through to the end e The most or least recently obtained unwatched movies e Selected movies e Selected playlists of movies Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 203 Try Before You Apply The Music Syncing Project earlier in this chapter describes a way for you to manage music and videos manually If you ve set the Manually manage music and videos option in iTunes Summary pane for your iPad you can t sync video between your iPad and computer automatically This project assumes that you don t have that option turned on When you make any changes in the iTunes syncing panes the changes don t take effect immedi ately so you can try out different settings When you click something else in the iTunes Source list iTunes asks whether you want to apply your changes You can also click Apply in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window to apply your changes immediately or you can click Revert to set all your unapplied syncing changes in all the syncing panes back to the way they were
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49. organizations create calendars in that format and put them on the Web If you like baseball for example you can find such calendars on the Major League Baseball site for your favorite teams You can view such calendars but you can t modify them Here we show you how to subscribe to a Web based calendar that presents daily history trivia as served up by a cartoon coffee bean Yes the Web is stranger than you can imagine Subscribing to a Web based calendar 1 Tap Safari and go tohttp homepage mac com lymond infobrew html This Web page contains the most current pieces of coffee flavored history trivia 2 Scroll down to the bottom left corner of the page and tap the link titled Subscribe to Infobrew Calendar 3 Inthe dialog that appears tap Subscribe 4 Inthe confirmation dialog tap View Events The Calendar app opens and you can see the Infobrew calendar entries If you don t want that calendar anymore Infobrew like coffee is an acquired taste getting rid of it is easy just follow the next set of steps Removing a Web based calendar subscription 1 Tap Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars 2 Inthe Accounts list tap Subscribed Calendars Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 43 3 On the Calendars screen tap the calendar you want to delete 4 At the bottom of the calendar information dialog that appears tap Delete Account 5 Inthe Delete Account dialog that appears tap Delete The calend
50. pane take effect so you need to look in those panes as well and adjust your syncing options Syncing all movies 1 Below the Sync Movies heading in the Movies pane click the Automatically include x movies check box 2 Choose the option titled all from the pop up menu in the middle of the preceding option s name Figure 3 35 Figure 3 35 When you Summary Info Apps Music se TV Shows Podcasts iTunes U Books Photos sync all movies the l l i M Sync Movies 91 movies other options in the Movies syncing pane Automatically include all movies vanish The rest of the options in the Movies pane vanish at this point with all movies set to be synced you don t need them In most cases you probably don t want to sync all your movies just as you wouldn t pack every piece of clothing you own when you go on a trip You usually want your iPad to have the newest movies in your collection or the ones that you haven t yet viewed In the following task we show you how to make it so Keep in mind that movies take up a lot of room If you sync all movies iTunes copies only as many as can fit on your iPad You may find that you don t have room for many apps books or songs if you fill your iPad with movies Figure 3 36 Your choices for syncing movies automatically Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 205 Syncing new or old movies 1 Below the Sync Movies check box in the Movies pane check the
51. playhead at the beginning of the song section start or stop playback and begin recording Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 177 J J J J J 8 J J e e J J J J Go to Beginning Stop View button Play Record Figure 3 9 The playhead and transport controls Red indicates the record ing s progress Song Sections button Playhead Timeline In the following task you record a take what you ll do and the chords you ll play You may even want to doa tp We recommend that you read the steps first to become familiar with run through or two before you begin recording Doing a take 1 Tap the Go to Beginning Stop transport control to set the playhead at the far left end of the timeline refer to Figure 3 9 Recording begins at the playhead position and you want to begin at the beginning 2 Set the Autoplay dial to 2 This setting gives you a nice folksy finger picking rhythm 3 Tap the red Record transport control GarageBand begins the count in which you set in Setting up the recording earlier in this project 4 Following the fourth count in beat tap the C C major chord strip refer to Figure 3 6 earlier in this project with a single finger 5 Assoon as the finger picking rhythm has played twice and the playhead is approaching the bar 3 mark in the timeline tap the Am A minor chord strip 6 At the end of two A minor repetitions when the playhead i
52. preceding two tasks When you re looking at that recipe s page you ll find a white star to the right of the recipe title refer to Figure 2 47 Tap the star to favorite the recipe The star turns blue to show that the recipe has been added to your favorites list If you want to remove a recipe from your favorites list tap its blue star tp The recipe is deleted from the list and its star reverts to white Displaying your Epicurious favorites 1 2 Launch Epicurious if it isn t already open If the control panel doesn t appear on the home page tap the gray Control Panel button in the top left corner Tap the Favorites button at the top of the control panel The My Favorites screen opens Figure 2 49 Yours will be different from ours of course Figure 2 49 My Favorites screen Figure 2 50 My Favorites screen recipe icons Figure 2 51 Action button popover Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 117 5 44 PM epicurious Lemon Curd Tart with Olive Oil t E a 7 100 would make it again a based on 39 user reviews 4 y Lemon Lemon Loa l a Rakar Naw Front aking December a TTT s3 would make it again 442 torke based on 52 user reviews F z o Each recipe in the list has three icons to the right of its title as shown in Figure 2 50 All these icons work the same way wherever they occur in Epicurious Shopping List button Favorites button
53. right corner A second account form appears in which you can turn MobileMe features on or off for your account 7 Tap the Contacts switch in the form to turn on contacts syncing If you have any contacts on your iPad and you probably do if you ve completed the Information Syncing Project earlier in this chapter a Merge Contacts dialog appears asking you what to do with any existing contacts on your iPad Figure 1 8 Figure 1 8 The Merge Contacts dialog asks The contacts you previously synced you to merge your iPad with your Mac will be merged with information with mRaD lenis MobileMe Merge Contacts Cancel 8 If you see the Merge Contacts dialog tap the Merge button If you ve worked through the preceding sections of this project the contacts on your iPad already are the same as the ones in MobileMe so merging should have no effect identical contacts are ignored 10 11 12 13 14 15 Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 19 Tap the Calendars switch and if the Merge Calendars dialog appears tap the Merge button Again if you followed the instructions earlier in this project the calendars on your iPad should already match those in MobileMe so merging them has no effect Tap the Bookmarks switch to open the Merge Bookmarks dialog Tap the Merge button Tap the Save button in the top right corner of the MobileMe account form The form closes and you return to the Mail Contacts Calenda
54. s clock is correct but because you turned on Time Zone Support the events in your calendars don t move The depar ture time for your connecting flight is still 2 p m on your calendar which is where you want it to be That s all there is to it For everything to work properly of course your iPad needs to have its Date amp Time setting properly set for Los Angeles when you start Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 45 Setting the Date amp Time time zone setting 1 Tap Settings gt General to open the General settings screen 2 Tap Date amp Time to open the Date amp Time screen 3 Tap Time Zone to open the Time Zone screen 4 Inthe search field at the top of the screen begin to type the name of the closest big city in your time zone A list of city names appears below the search field Figure 1 28 Figure 1 28 Pick a city Time Zone in your time zone Mh ss Los Gatos U S A Los Altos U S A Los Angeles U S A 5 Tap a city that s in the same time zone as yours 6 If necessary tap the Date amp Time arrow at the top of the screen to return to the Date amp Time page and set your iPad s clock to the current time Setting Time Zone Support 1 Tap Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars 2 Swipe down the resulting Mail Contacts Calendars screen until you see the Calendars section then tap Time Zone Support The Time Zone Support screen appears 3 If the T
55. screen A display bug in version 3 0 of Epicurious may prevent the Back button from appearing If you re viewing a single recipe screen and don t see this button rotate your iPad to change its orientation The button will appear Searching for recipes in Epicurious 1 Ifa category screen isn t already open on your iPad tap the Back button to reach a category screen 2 Tap the gray Control Panel button in the top left corner of the screen The Control Panel popover appears refer to Figure 2 44 earlier in this project Notice the row of buttons along the top Figure 2 48 Figure 2 48 Control Panel buttons 116 The iPad 2 Project Book 3 Tap the Search button at the top of the control panel to perform advanced searches You can search for a specific type of food or drink a meal or course the main ingredient in a recipe or a cuisine You can even search by dietary restriction or special occasion You can also search via the Search field in the top right corner of each recipe screen but that field limits you to a keyword search When you find a recipe you like by browsing or searching you can favorite the recipe much as you might bookmark a Web site so that you can find it easily later In the next task we show you how Favoriting Epicurious recipes 1 Tap the Epicurious icon to open the app if it isn t already open 2 Locate a recipe that you want to be able to find later see the 3
56. sounds Here s what you may see when you open a previously used GarageBand app The My Songs screen showing the songs you ve created so far e The My Songs screen telling you that no songs have been created yet a An incomplete song on which you ve been working Starting a new song 1 Open the GarageBand app 2 Do one of the following things e If you see the My Songs screen which shows one or more existing songs tap the New Song button at the bottom of the screen and then tap New Song in the popover Figure 3 3 on the next page 172 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 3 Making a new song when you have other songs available Figure 3 4 The My Songs screen when you haven t cre ated a song yet Figure 3 5 The My Songs button takes you to the My Songs screen from within a song Duplicate Song 2 amp Action button Trash button Import button New Song button e f you see an empty My Songs screen Figure 3 4 tap the center of the screen to start a new song No songs exist in the My Songs browser Tap here to start a new song e f you see a song screen of some sort tap the My Songs button in the top left left corner Figure 3 5 then tap the New Song icon at the bottom of the My Songs screen and tap New Song in the popover refer to Figure 3 3 iPad My Songs lnatruments Undo g 7 4 3 5 Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 173 e If you see
57. the Featured category Figure 2 44 The categories change based on season so your Control Panel will be different from the figure It may also display an advertisement for additional pay for features Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 113 Figure 2 44 Epicu rious Detia 5 27 PM Ei ge mm home screen Control Panel epicurious n Q Enter Keywords S Spring Des t erts 2 Tap one of the categories to browse recipes by type You see a screen that looks very much like a page in a printed cook book with navigational tabs along the right side Figure 2 45 on the next page 3 Tap a recipe to see that recipe in its own screen with the Ingredients popover open Figure 2 46 on the next page 114 The iPad 2 Project Book Salmon and Asparagus Frittata Frittata with Asparagus and Scallions Tt BFR oui make ii again Disaj ON 2 Un mA Rhubarb and Strawberry Breakfast Crostini Ti Ds ould mako H again i bisti on Z user Powis Dutch Baby with Lemon Sugar il Jir would make i again Prete i E6 Lid Pine Lemon Lemon Loal iii ayn would make i again ee F td Dap On SF Lia Bara Let s Make a Date Multins Figure 2 45 Category screen Figure 2 47 Recipe screen hordes AA Ingredients Pim aH FOR THE LEMON CAKE 1 1 2 cups cake flour 1 1 2 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 4 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 2 1 4 cups sugar 8 la
58. the Instruments screen refer to Figure 3 2 take a deep breath The new song has already been created and you re ready for the next step At this point no matter what you saw when you opened the app you should see the Instruments screen Now you re ready to choose an instrument to play Picking a guitar 1 On the Instruments screen scroll to the left until you see the Smart Guitar and then tap it The Smart Guitar instrument screen appears Figure 3 6 Here you can choose a different kind of guitar adjust the key and tempo and set other options Most important the Smart Guitar is preset with various chords that harmonize ready for you to play without hitting a wrong note Help button Song Settings button Smart Guitar selection button Autoplay dial Chords Notes switch Figure 3 6 An acoustic A al la as Smart Guitar ready for strumming g Acoustic Chord strips Chord labels Em Strings Fretboard Tap the Help button in the top right corner to see helpful tags that _ describe what various parts of the Smart Guitar screen do You can continue play when the help tags are visible 2 Make sure that the Chords Notes switch is set to Chords and then strum various chord strips to hear what they sound like 174 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 7 Setting Autoplay to 1 makes the strings vanish but that s a good thing 3 note To strum swipe up or down in a chord strip Tap a few strings
59. the free BigOven app from the App Store You also need a free BigOven account if you want to sync favorite recipes with the Web site and your iPad or smartphone The 15 99 paid BigOven app allows you to create grocery shopping lists that sync across devices email grocery lists and look up terms in a glossary It s also ad free 120 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 54 BigOven account settings In the following tasks you use the free version though the steps work for both versions Getting started with BigOven 1 Get the BigOven app from the App Store 2 Go to www bigoven com 3 Click the Join Us button to create a free account Entering your BigOven account info in the app 1 Tap the Settings icon on your iPad to open the Settings screen 2 Tap BigOven in the Apps section on the left side of the screen The app s account settings appear on the right side Figure 2 54 iPad 3 03 PM 76 Settings BigOven I Mail Contacts Calendars BigOven Account Safari Email example example com T iPod Password eeseeeseeece ea Video Preferences B Photos Share Location OFF 3 Notes Display in Metric OFF j Store Home Screen Recipes OFF ee es Beta Testing OFF Bento ey BigOven Borders C Aquarium f Facebook 2 GoodReader iy iBooks kobo Kobo Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 121 3 Enter your account email address and password in the BigO
60. to other help pages and to the Trunk Notes manual Create Trunk Notes pages Trunk Notes pages or entries both terms are accurate can be about anything you want They can contain images text links to other Trunk Notes pages or to the Web or even sound that you record with Trunk Notes You can create pages at any time without having to create their contents you can always go back later to edit pages Creating a wiki entry 1 To create a new page tap inside the Search field at the top of the Trunk Notes window refer to Figure 1 36 earlier in this project 2 Type exactly as printed here MyFirstEntry in the Search field As you begin to type the existing text in the field disappears and you see a new page that resembles lined paper Figure 1 41 The first line displays a green plus sign next to Create page MyFirstEntry and the second line displays a magnifying glass next to Search for My First Entry Figure 1 41 The Create g 24 PM 67 m Page screen My First Entry r Create page MyFirstEntry a Search for My First Entry Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 65 3 Tap the first line the one with the green plus sign You see a new page in edit mode Figure 1 42 You know that you re in edit mode because you see a Save button in the top right corner of the screen The title of the page is in the Search field Below that is a large blank body text area ready for you to type Figure 1 4
61. to pick which ones to sync with your iPad depending on your oper ating system Ona Mac you can sync from Address Book as well as from other contact sources such as Yahoo Address Book and Google Contacts In Windows you can sync from only one source of contacts at a time Your options include Yahoo Address Book Google Contacts Windows Address Book Microsoft Outlook Express Windows Vista Contacts and Microsoft Outlook 2003 2007 or 2010 On both a Mac and a Windows PC you can organize your contacts in groups iPad contact syncing lets you sync only specific groups of contacts if you like Setting contact sync options 1 Make sure that the iPad is connected to your computer that iTunes is open and that the iPad is selected in the iTunes Source list This will be the case if you just completed the steps in Connecting your iPad and viewing general options earlier in this project 6 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 3 The contact syncing options on the Mac allow you to sync from several con tact sources at the same time 2 3 Above the main iTunes display click the Info button Near the top of the Info pane a panel displays the contact syncing options The options in this panel differ depending on whether you have a Mac or a PC running Windows Do one of the following Ona Mac check Sync Address Book Contacts Figure 1 3 Sync Address Book Contacts All contacts
62. to save articles or blog posts in a Web browser to read later even on another computer a smartphone or an iPad After you link your Instapaper account to one of the supported social networking services you also have an option to share stories through Facebook Twitter Tumblr Pinboard Evernote and many other apps and services In this section we show you how to open your free Instapaper account and get the Instapaper app It s quite possible to use Instapaper only on your iPad but if you browse the Web on more than one device it s convenient to have access to your saved content everywhere Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 107 Getting started with Instapaper 1 On your computer go to www instapaper com and click the Create Account link 2 Follow the onscreen instructions to create your account You can create a free account in the Instapaper app on your iPad but creating an account on a computer where you may be marking things to read later will save you a step 3 On your iPad purchase and download the Instapaper app from the App Store 4 Launch the Instapaper app on your iPad You see the login screen Figure 2 39 Figure 2 39 Instapaper login screen Instapaper Email Password This wil creale a free Inslapaper corm accouni bo synchronize your sawed articles If you already have an Inchpopor account aniar ii hare Your amil wall maa br ahardi Fier dull pnliiy aime hilpolwenw mela
63. to tailor the way you interact with your information on your iPad Sort your contacts Our trivial example is actually not so trivial A business user may want her contacts to be arranged by surname just as in a phone book or a corporate directory but someone whose contacts list consists mostly of friends and relatives may well want to find his contacts by those names he knows best first names You can sort your contacts either way What s more no matter how you sort them the iPad offers a way to present those contacts with the first name shown either before or after the last name Changing the sort order and presentation of contact names 1 Tap Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars 2 Inthe Mail Contacts Calendars screen swipe down until you see the Contacts section Figure 1 24 Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 39 e e oO e J J e J e e J J Figure 1 24 The sort ij Picture Frame Contacts settings for contacts G General Sort Order Last First gt are near the bottom of the screen __ Mail Contacts Calendars Display Order Last First gt EA Safari Default Account ame com gt iPod New contacts created outside of a speciic account will be added lo thus a re bo 3 Tap Sort Order to open the Sort Order screen 4 Tap the sort order that you prefer 5 At the top of the Sort Order screen tap Mail Contacts Calendars and then tap Display Order 6 Inthe resulti
64. to use on more than one page You could create a note taking template for example that has areas for a summary important points or a to do list Wi Fi Sharing For details on this option see Share your wiki later in this project Mail Tapping Mail displays a second popover providing the options Mail Entry Mail Entry As Text and Mail Backup Mail Entry emails a formatted copy of the page to an address you supply Mail Entry As Text sends a copy of the page in Markdown syntax Mail Backup sends a zipped backup of your entire wiki the current version doesn t include images to an email address you supply Depending on the size of your wiki compiling the pages and zipping them could take a while Dropbox Sync This option allows you to sync your entire wiki via the free Dropbox app on other iOS devices or your computer this project note You see these options again in Sharing over Wi Fi at the end of Searching Trunk Notes 1 2 If Trunk Notes isn t open tap the Trunk Notes icon to launch the app If you aren t on the home page refer to Figure 1 36 earlier in this project tap the Home icon in the navigation bar at the bottom of the page Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 63 3 Do one of the following things e If you re in edit mode tap the Save button in the top right corner of the screen e If you re in search mode tap the Cancel button in the top right corner of the screen 4 Tap
65. you have to connect your iPad to your computer every so often to keep each device up to date and for best results you need do this regularly and frequently It s just like brushing your teeth We live however in an age of miracles and wonder and of wireless technology There s no reason why your iPad and your computer can t share their information over the air so you can avoid the daily chore of getting them all synced up You should still brush your teeth of course No matter whether you have a Wi Fi or 3G iPad you can make use of cloud services to sync your information between your computer and your iPad To find out what we mean by cloud services see the nearby sidebar What Is This Cloud of Which You Speak This project describes how to use a cloud service offered by Apple MobileMe In this project you sync your contacts calendars and bookmarks with MobileMe from both your computer and your iPad If you already have a MobileMe account and use it to sync your contacts calendars and bookmarks between your computer and MobileMe you can skip the next two sections and go right to Cut the cord Otherwise read on 12 The iPad 2 Project Book Get a MobileMe account To use a cloud based service you need to have an account with that service such as Apple s MobileMe A MobileMe account is free for the first 60 days so that you can try out the service it costs 99 a year after that If you have a Mac Apple m
66. you have time to get ready to play 3 Inthe Tempo section of the popover tap slowly and steadily in the Tap to set Tempo box so that the Tempo indicator which displays beats per minute displays 80 The faster you tap the higher the number in the Tempo indicator and the faster the song plays You want a slow tempo to make recording easier You can change the song s tempo later as in fact you will in Resetting the tempo later in this project Tap the arrows in the Tempo indicator to fine tune the setting so that it s exactly 80 Tapping the up arrow increases the tempo and tapping the down arrow decreases it You don t need to change the other settings in the Song Settings popover Sound which changes the sound of the metronome and Key which changes the key in which the chords are set by default C major Recording a track When you make a recording or play it back a playhead moves across the control bar at the top of the screen Figure 3 9 Pay attention to the playhead it shows you where you are in the recording You can drag the playhead around with your finger to move it to different parts of the recording While you re recording the duration appears in red on the timeline when you ve completed the recording the duration appears in green on the timeline Centered above the timeline and playhead are the transport controls Go to Beginning Stop Play and Record You tap the transport controls to position the
67. 158 email about IMAP and POP accounts 29 checking for spam 30 31 contact data available from 25 27 creating contact entry from address of 21 23 deleting 31 35 drafting 27 files via Dropbox 88 89 importing recipes into Pages via 127 130 invitation alerts via 43 mailing files to self 80 81 moving to different folder 35 37 recovering from Trash 31 sending recipe shopping list via 118 119 sending wiki via 62 sharing recipes from BigOven via 126 song sharing via 185 syncing account settings for 8 viewing in Mail s universal Inbox 37 enabling disabling See turning on off Epicurious browsing recipes in 112 115 favorite recipes in 116 117 navigating in 115 recipe searches in 114 115 viewing and emailing recipe shopping list 118 119 episodes See TV show episodes ePub format 197 199 201 events for calendars 41 exporting documents in ePub format 199 flash cards 153 songs to iTunes 184 185 F favorites BigOven recipe 124 125 featured on ABC Player 212 213 marking Dropbox files 86 87 marking Epicurious 116 117 file formats choosing song 184 185 187 compatible with iPad 80 81 e book 197 video 230 Index 247 files See also file formats PDF documents annotating PDF 102 106 compressing song 187 downloading to GoodReader 98 99 emailing to yourself 80 81 favoriting in Dropbox 86 87 first time modifying PDF 104 sharing via Dropbox 88 89 transferring from computer to GoodReader 92 95 Find M
68. 2 101 on the next page 158 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 101 Select your trip dates with the date dialing widget Cancel Edit Trip Dates End Tuesday November 22 2011 October 20 2010 December ea 8 Tap the End field and use the widget to dial the end date for this project November 28 2011 The selected end date appears in the End field 9 Tap Save in the top right corner to save your work and close the form The New Trip Form returns 10 Tap Save The trip is saved and you see a blank itinerary screen for the Holiday In Portland trip or whatever you called the trip you just created as shown in Figure 2 102 Figure 2 102 ga Holiday In Portland Sa The Holiday In Portland trip has a blank itiner ary for now Men amaii i Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 159 If you re using TravelTracker for the first time a help tip explains the itinerary screen that you just created This itinerary screen holds various items for your trip such as flights planned meals and lodging or will hold these items when you create them Right now it s stunningly empty It s time to put something in your itinerary Something tasty You can buy add ons that expand TravelTracker s capabilities One such add on which currently costs 99 cents provides checklists for items to pack and pretrip tasks to perform such as stopping mail delivery If you find yourself worrying about whether yo
69. 2 A blank 8 33 PM MyFirstEntry page MyFirstEntry Save ready for your text 4 Enter some text For now it doesn t matter what you type because you re going to delete it later 5 When you ve entered a line or two tap the Save button You ll see something like Figure 1 43 on the next page though your text will probably be different 66 Figure 1 43 MyFirstEntry with text in the body of the page Figure 1 44 Formatting bar buttons The iPad 2 Project Book B41 PM MyFirstEntry Updated Mon Mar 28 2011 20 41 This is a Trunk Noles wiki page You can t create or edit notes containing wikiwords that start with Docs Special or New Format wiki text Trunk Notes uses Markdown syntax for formatting see the sidebar Markdown Syntax later in this section because it s an easy way to format text by using simple codes But you ll usually use the formatting buttons at the bottom of edit screens for most of your formatting If you know HTML you can also use most HTML tags in Trunk Notes pages Formatting text in Trunk Notes 1 If Trunk Notes isn t open open it by tapping the Trunk Notes icon 2 Ifthe app doesn t open to the MyFirstEntry page search for MyFirstEntry see Searching Trunk Notes earlier in this project 3 Tap the Edit button in the top left corner of the MyFirstEntry page You re in edit mode At the bottom of the screen is a row of formatting
70. 20 2010 7 15 PM Public My Documents Cancel 2014 3 08 Ml Council sil of Elrond pdf tna re Apr 2 2011 G28 6 Tap the Download File Here button in the bottom right corner of the My Documents popover If you re very observant or if the file is quite large you may see a downloading progress bar Then the downloaded PDF file is listed in the My Documents screen Figure 2 27 Figure 2 27 B 12 PM My Documents screen My Documents gt Preview showing the newly downloaded file ji Chris Johnson How Your Child Heals pdf gt Find Files Apr 2 2011 6 04 PM 1 2 MB gt Manage Files vw Web Downloads eet Browse the Web 100 The iPad 2 Project Book If you opened a folder in Dropbox tap the Close button in the top right corner of the folder s popover Reading a PDF in GoodReader 1 Launch GoodReader and tap a file in the My Documents screen For this task select a PDF file but the procedure is the same for any type of file You see a screen that s similar to Figure 2 28 showing the first page of the PDF file The navigation bar at the bottom of the screen disap pears fairly quickly to let you concentrate on reading Figure 2 28 First page i Wy Documents Chris Johnson How Your Child Heals pdf Help of a PDF How Your Child Heals If you haven t used GoodReader much on your iPad you may see pop up tips or animated arrows and question marks These elements are part of GoodReader s interactiv
71. 230 Index 253 viewing Epicurious recipe shopping list 118 119 favorite recipes in BigOven 125 Keynote presentation 151 Mail s universal Inbox 37 sync settings in iTunes 3 5 W Weave a Wiki Project 58 78 See also Trunk Notes about 58 59 adding image to wiki page 71 73 creating wiki page 64 66 emailing wiki 62 formatting wiki text 66 69 sharing wiki 74 77 using Markdown syntax 69 73 working with Trunk Notes 59 64 78 Web browsers See browsers Web content See also browsers Internet wikis invitations for Dropbox Web sharing 91 linking to new pages with wikiwords 70 71 saving images in Photos 144 setting restrictions for sites and 53 54 sharing Instapaper 111 subscribing to Web based calendars 42 43 Wi Fi connections See also Wireless Syncing Project about cloud services 12 13 maintaining live computer and iPad 75 options for syncing 12 sharing wiki via 75 77 wikis defined 58 59 sending via email 62 sharing 74 77 wikiwords defined 60 linking to new pages with 70 71 unable to create or edit notes for some 66 Wireless Syncing Project 11 19 creating MobileMe account on iPad 17 19 options for wireless syncing 12 signing up for MobileMe 12 syncing contacts wirelessly 13 14 syncing iCal with MobileMe 15 16 turning off wired syncing 16 17 word processing apps Microsoft Word 197 199 Pages for iPad 127 138 Y yellow note marker 105
72. 95 tonal ine 22 2 Me amp Think of a room full of people You can make a list of everyone in the room and you can make another list of say just the left handed people in the room The people themselves aren t cloned and embedded magi cally in your lists the lists contain only references to the people The people themselves stay in the room where they were all along Similarly when you add a song from your iTunes Music library to a play list the song itself isn t copied to the playlist it stays where it is in your Music library You can add the same song to as many playlists as you like just as you can add the same person to as many lists as you like but no matter how many times a person is added to a list or a song is added toa playlist only one physical person or only one actual song is involved Figure 3 24 The Music library lives near the top of the Source list Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 191 When you sync a playlist from iTunes to your iPad iTunes checks the songs that are already on your iPad If a song in the playlist is already there iTunes doesn t copy it to your iPad if it isn t iTunes copies the song to your device That way you can sync as many playlists to your iPad as you want and even if the same song appears in all those playlists only one copy of that song goes from your Music library to your iPad Playlists appear in the Source list on the left side of the iTunes w
73. Action button Lemon Curd Tart with Olive Oi ttt k a paa i aA i The Action button for example displays a popover when you tap it Figure 2 51 The More option in this popover makes it easy for you to share recipes via email Twitter Facebook and many other services including Instapaper discussed in the Go to Meeting Project earlier in this chapter 118 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 52 My Combined Shopping List screen Viewing and emailing a recipe s shopping list in Epicurious 1 Display your My Favorites screen see the preceding task 2 Tap the Shopping List button to the right of a recipe s name refer to Figure 2 50 to generate a shopping list for that recipe If you tap the Shopping List button for other recipes in your My Favorites screens those recipes shopping lists are combined with the first 3 Display the shopping list by tapping the Control Panel button in the top left corner to open the Control Panel popover and then tapping My Shopping List at the bottom of that screen You see a nicely laid out My Combined Shopping List screen Figure 2 52 gt 6 48 PM oo eee oe epicurious My Combined Shopping List FRESH PRODUCE 3 large lemons BARKING NUTS AND SPICES 0 2 tablespoons almonds with skins J 3 4 cup all purpose flour J 1 4 cup confectioners sugar J 1 pinch fine sea salt J 3 4 cup granulated sugar J 2 teaspoons cornstarch OILS AND VINE
74. After all you don t need these lists if you re syncing everything 4 Inthe bottom right corner of the iTunes window click Revert In this project you ve been playing around with a lot of settings to see what they do Unless you want them to take effect and chances are excellent that you don t it s best to revert to your orig inal settings and then plan how you really want to sync your TV shows and movies After all now you know how to do it that s what this project has been about Happy viewing But first stay tuned for these important messages 210 The iPad 2 Project Book What About Music Videos In addition to TV shows and movies you may have music videos in your iTunes Library videos that were included with albums you purchased or that you purchased individually Music videos sync according to the same criteria you set for the songs in your Music library if you set the right music syncing option In the Music syncing pane in the first group of options select the Include music videos option That s it Now when you sync your music your music videos come along for the ride You ll find them on your iPad in the Video app s Music Videos category Moving Movie Rentals You can t sync movies that you ve rented from the iTunes Store on your computer You can move rentals from your computer to your iPad and back but the rental is always on only one device at a time In addition if you rent a movie from the iTu
75. Figure 3 77 Select the library from which you want to retrieve video in the Shared pane Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 243 4 Do one of the following things a Open your iPad s iPod app tap the Library entry to open a Home Sharing popover and choose the library from which you intend to share audio Figure 3 76 V My iPad We All Love Blla Celet Dennis Cohen s Library The Harold Arian Song Podcasts Ace in The Hole Ella Fitzgerald The Cole Porter Songb 2 00 Audiobooks gt Across the Alley Fr he Mills Brothers Best of the Decca Years 2 29 Barry Manilow Gre Addio Mi Amore Sonnie Francis Souvenirs Disc 4 J Barry Manilow Gre Adeste Fideles Mills Brothers Merry Christmas Barry Manilow Sin After The Gold Rush Linda Ronstadt The Very Best Of Linda BetteMidlerSongbo After Twenty Years Bill Engval cheap drunk An Autob 3 47 I Bobby Darin Wild Ain t Nobody Here Ph Harris His Original amp Greatest 2 40 emmede Eh wen end mee Now Playing Ain t That Better Ba Connie Francis Kissin Twistin Goin 2 39 Air Heads Bob amp Tom Airheads Air Heads Dean amp Jerry Air Heads Airmail SPecial Nikki Yanofsky We All Love Ella Ceiet 4 18 Across the Alley From te Ale Al Di La Connie Francis Souvenirs 3 of 4 3 19 g songs Artists Altus Genres Composers a Open your iPad s Video app tap the Shared tab and choose the library from which you intend to
76. GARS 3 1 2 tablespoons fruity olive oil preferably French J 2 tablespoons fruity olive oil preferably French DAIRY J 1 2 stick unsalted butter 1 large egg yolk whole large eggs J 4 tablespoons unsalted butter OTHER 1 9 inch round tart pan with removable side Figure 2 53 Epicurious recipe in a ready to address email Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 119 4 To email yourself a copy of a recipe tap the red Back button in the top left corner of the My Combined Shopping List screen to return to your My Favorites screen then tap the Action button to the right of the recipe you want to send You see the Action button popover refer to Figure 2 51 5 Tap E mail Epicurious creates a blank email ready for you to add addresses with the Subject line listing the recipe s title and the body containing the recipe Figure 2 53 i sUDject Recipe for Lemon Lemon Loaf from Epicurious com This Epicurious com recipe Lemon Lemon Loaf has been sent to you by a friend You can view the complete recipe online at http www epicurious com recipes food views Lemon Lemon Loaf 350989 mbid ipapp 6 Add the recipient s email address and a brief message For this task address the email to yourself 7 Tap the Send button In a minute or two if you check your email you should see a nicely formatted recipe in your inbox Get the BigOven app and create an account You need to download
77. In the text entry field type a phrase to translate in this case Hello My name is As you type Google displays the translated text as shown in Figure 2 81 Figure 2 81 Google translates your words as you type them Google translate From Engkeh i To Malian Translate English te Italian translation Hello My name is Ciao Il mio nome Naw 6 Tap Return and then type the second phrase in our list of phrases Where is the restroom The translation of the second phrase appears below the translation of the first one 7 Once again tap Return and then type the third phrase in our list Excuse me Would you take a picture of us Now all three translated phrases appear on the page Figure 2 82 Figure 2 82 All three translations are on the From Engish v E To Malan v Transiate English to Italian transiation Hello My name is _ Ciao II mio nome ___ same page Where is the restroom Dov il bagno Excuse me Would you take a picture of us Mi scusi Vuoi scattare una foto di nol Naw Collect some illustrations All you really need for your flash cards in this project are Italian phrases and their translations but flash cards are far more fun and attractive if you can spice them up with some illustrations In this section you use Safari to find and collect appropriate illustrations via Google s image search 142 The iPad 2 Project Book a Figure 2 83 You can see w
78. It took only 42 years interesting number 42 for the iPad to make it from Hollywood to the Apple Store Even more entertaining than the movie were the consternation and confusion among technology pundits when the iPad was announced in 2010 Very few of them could figure out what the device was for and all too many of them were convinced that it wouldn t be popular Now we re a year into the iPad era The iPad has turned out to be even more popular than even the most optimistic pundits expected and the public has had no problem figuring out what the device is for In fact iPad owners have come up with ways to use it that no one expected While we were writing this book for example a new album recorded and mixed entirely on the iPad went on sale in the iTunes Store xvi Introduction What the iPad Is For What is the iPad for It s for fun It s for work It s for convenience It s for doing whatever a legion of app developers can make a sleek bright big screen handheld touch driven device do reading books playing games looking at photos looking up at the stars doing budgets sending and receiving email browsing the Web reserving plane tickets watching movies or TV editing video listening to music writing music writing novels or sonnets drawing pictures and countless other things What This Book Is For A better question is What is this book you re reading for It s for showing you how to take advantage
79. J Purchaved ba 9 TJ Purchated on Lita s iPad Borders DEVICES lt gt tia at BB rvcsT0ce SHARED CoodReader PLAYLISTS a boto Kobo mo 3 Stanza TF 7 Click the Add button in the bottom right corner of the pane You see a familiar Open dialog for Windows or for Mac 8 Navigate to and select the files you want to transfer to your iPad For this task select Word PDF and ePub files 9 Click the Choose button Your selected files appear in the GoodReader Documents list Figure 2 18 When the file is in GoodReader for iPad you can read and annotate it as we show you in the following section o a h A gt RP l i f Y maa S EO Tamm o Jeme amA Search Apps LIBRARY Summary info l Anes Must Movies TVShows Podravts fTeunes 3 Books 8 Photes J Mone a a 74MB o fel ee i w B Mowes P S ek stari Mal Twitiewific Books Pod Orepbas 1 TV Shows g3 pa v Automatically sync new apps Select apes to be installed on yvur iPad or drag to a specific bome screen F Podcasts GD Drag to rearrange app icons oF hame sereemt 7 Muns U A Boots myren 33 File Sharing K Ratio The apps listed below can transfer documents between your iPad and this computer STORI iTunes Sore Apps GoodReader Documents oe BlogPress a urban _fantasy doc Yesterday S42 PM 45 KU EJ Purchaved baoit that i glasshouses epub 1122 10 Dar PM Ss KE TJ Purchaved on Lita s iPad Borders Take Control of POFpen_5_1 0_ pdf 23 10 12 47 PM va Device
80. MOVIE ssieaicoatseui ded nouc petesnipnre loncome seinen 224 GIVE your project A NAME vacccccccccscsscsssseessesssesessesessessteasensenees 227 Naming your MOVIE ssciircsarasncietiernvidsaierreintiaanttiaantecciatinsnneiis 227 Fill your distribution Channels v cccscceeececs secs 228 Sharing your MOV E sesssssssssssrssisririnnnn 228 Streaming Your Own Video Project sesssssssrserreerr 230 TF VIJEO semin aee e E 231 Obtaining the Air Video software vce 232 xiii Xiv Contents Introduce your iPad to Air Video Server sassssssscssss 232 Setting Up Air Video Server wiccccccsccsescsssssetesseeserseteesees 232 Play your Contern pestia eea EEA 236 Pae a VIE O e E E 236 Home Sharing ProjeCt x sisisiiniiiioissosisinin 239 Stream from one iOS device to another sesser 240 Streaming from iPad to iPad snssmsieccccvercncrbnaransteeance 241 Share your iTunes Library sessidibicetsctasiestactorestetssearsaiedssieladnnd 242 Accessing a shared iTunes Library on an iPad esn 242 Index 245 Introduction We saw our first iPad in a theater in Hollywood California in the summer of 1968 It appeared in the movie 2007 A Space Odyssey and the iPad called a Newspad in the Arthur C Clarke novel on which the movie is based made its debut when astronaut Dave Bowman used it to view the news while having a horrific looking meal of pur ed space food We didn t want any of that food but boy did that Newspad look appetizing
81. PDF format s downside is that it presents static pages a concept of fixed dimensions Therefore PDFs are less well suited to dynamic presentations the target audience for which may be using iPads iPhones or computer screens with resizable windows no less The upside of the format is that you see the same content in the same type faces with the same organization and relative scaling regardless of the device on which you view it ePub is designed for reflowable content in which readers get the same detail in the same order fitted to the presentation device To summarize if you receive a PDF book of 300 pages on your Mac or Dell PC it will also be 300 pages on your iPad or iPhone or iPod touch and you ll probably need to do the scrolling or deal with the scaling issues yourself That same 300 page book in ePub format may be 700 pages on your iPad at the default font size and 1 600 pages on your iPhone but iBooks takes care of the details for you so that you get a seamless rendition irrespective of the viewing platform PDF support greatly simplifies the process of putting your own content on the iPad Using a third party PDF creation tool or Mac OS X s built in printer support for writing PDF files converting your documents to PDFs is a simple matter of opening them and choosing the right printer or print option Drag the resulting PDF into iTunes and sync your iPad to make the PDF accessible on the go Create a PDF fr
82. Pad Depending on the size of the library and the speed of your computer this process can take several minutes so be patient you have to do this only once When you add more songs to your iTunes Library only the additional songs will be copied to your iPad the next time you sync Sync artists and genres If your iTunes Music library is too large for your iPad or if you just don t want to copy the whole thing you can narrow down which songs get synced in several ways One of the easiest ways is to choose your favorite musical artists musical genres and albums and then sync only the music that matches your choices iTunes presents the artists genres and albums associated with your songs in the music syncing pane for your iPad right below the main music syncing options Figure 3 22 You use the check boxes in these lists to select your favorites Sarmeary Are legtenes QOD Movies TV then F re Socks Wheres Automatically ft ace with songs Playlists Artists J Purchased Aaron Copland M op Purchased on Michael Cohen s Pad Alan Sbve J Purchased on Michael Cohen s Phone Adee Peacock gt E 73 Genius Mixes Aan MV Q The Abduction of Margaret X lt Albums bought free iPad songs gt Misc Playlists P j Singularities Smart Playlists KA Beaties Caronrotogical J From iPad P George Gaest City Of London Sinfonia 4 S Crateful Dead miscellany J Kate Rusby J Made an My iPhone Genres Acousti
83. Playing a video 1 Select the video you want to play tunneling down through your folder hierarchy if necessary The beginning of your video appears in the preview pane on the right side of the iPad screen Figure 3 70 You can tap the Play with Live Conversion button if you re into immediate gratification tap the Convert button if you re a disciple of Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 237 Job or if the content is available in a compatible form tap the Play button to stream it without having to do any conversion Figure 3 70 The pre vine view pane includes aa aiaa r controls that start your M E video convert your video and manage the conversion queue TV Shows 2007EmmyMusicalNumbers E a 4 t t MI Pilot Brave amp BoidS1Open Ron White The Widow s Son In the Windshield Kenny Rogers Pilot InPlainSight301 42 21 226 MB InPlainSight302 q InPlainSigmM303 d InPlainSign304 4 o MA Play Convert joPtainSiamM305 ca ca ommend ee Pisy with Live Conversion 2 For the purposes of this task choose to be impatient and tap Play with Live Conversion After a quick spin of the wait cursor your video starts to play in the preview pane If you do elect to perform a conversion before you play the video you can check the queued conversions and their status by tapping the Queue button in the top right corner of the preview pane 3 Tap
84. Selected groups Add contacts created outside of groups on this iPad to Sync Yahoo Address Book contacts Sync Google Contacts Configure 4 7 In Windows check Sync contacts from and then choose the source of the contacts that you want to sync from the menu Depending on the source you choose you may have to enter login credentials so that iTunes and your iPad can access the contacts If you want to sync only specific contact groups click Selected groups and then check the contact groups that you want to appear on your iPad otherwise click All contacts If you want the new contacts you create on your iPad to belong to a specific contact group check the box titled Add contacts created outside of groups on this iPad to then choose a group from the pop up menu Optional On a Mac check Sync Yahoo Address Book contacts and then enter your Yahoo login information Optional Also on a Mac check Sync Google Contacts and then enter your Google login information When you apply these changes described later in this project iTunes syncs your iPad with the new settings Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 7 Sync calendars When your contact sync settings are squared away the next step is setting up the calendars that you want to sync Depending on your oper ating system do this Ona Mac you can sync your iCal calendars which can include calendars from any application that syncs with iCal e In Window
85. TV shows At least ABC hopes that you ll enjoy them Tap the ABC Player icon to enter the world of ABC prime time Cand more television Use ABC Player When you have ABC Player running you find five buttons along the bottom of the screen Featured Schedule All Shows Me and Info refer to Figure 3 42 earlier in this project Viewing ABC s featured favorites 1 If it isn t already selected as it is by default tap the Featured button at the bottom of the ABC Player screen You see a large thumbnail at the top of the screen displaying a show that ABC is wait for it featuring Figure 3 43 This display slides to the left about every 5 seconds to bring a new show s thumbnail into view 2 To speed the movement of the large thumbnail display or to make it go in the opposite direction touch the thumbnail and then flick your finger in the desired direction Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 213 Figure 3 43 ABC s featured shows and episodes ona spring day in 2011 Your mileage may vary abc BODY OF PROOF Watch The Series Premiere Most Popular 3 To watch a recent episode do one of the following things e To watch the most recent episode of a series during its regular season tap the Watch Latest Episode button to yes watch the latest episode of that show e To watch the first episode of a new series like Body of Proof in Figure 3 43 tap the Watch the Series Premiere button
86. a Time Zone setting in its Date amp Time settings pane When you set your device for a different time zone all the events in your calendars shift their times to accommodate that change Your iPad also has a Time Zone Support setting in its Calendar settings pane When you turn that setting on and set a time zone all the events in your calendars shift their times to match that time zone regardless of what your iPad s Date amp Time time zone setting happens to be We imagine that you re still confused enough so that you may have started drinking a little too early in the day Put down that bottle Here s a simple example that shows how you might use this confusing feature Suppose that you re traveling from Los Angeles to Boston via a connecting flight in Chicago Your flight from Los Angeles leaves at 8 a m Pacific time According to your flight itinerary your connecting flight to Boston from Chicago leaves at 2 p m Central time Here s what you do 1 On your calendar enter two events your takeoff at 8 a m and your connecting flight at 2 p m Yes even though the second flight takes off at noon Los Angeles time you don t need to do the math to figure that out 2 Turn on Time Zone Support and set the time zone for Los Angeles 3 Go catch your 8 a m flight out of LA 4 When you land in Chicago your iPad s clock is 2 hours off so set your iPad s Date amp Time time zone setting to Chicago time Now your iPad
87. a little odd OK more than a little odd to use iTunes to move them back and forth between your computer and your iPad Don t question That s just the way it is Embrace it Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 3 So how do you sync your iPad and your computer Simple Connect them with the dock connector and stand back Unless you ve fiddled around with the default settings iTunes opens and automatically syncs the two devices It does this each and every time you connect your iPad to your computer Any time you don t want iTunes to sync your iPad and your computer automatically you can hold down the Option and Command keys Mac or the Shift and Ctrl keys Windows when you connect your iPad Keep holding those keys down until your iPad appears in the iTunes Source list View your sync settings Your iPad can sync with a lot of sources in a lot of ways directly over the air with MobileMe for example or with Google You can mix and match syncing methods but the number of combinations can become complex In this project we re going to go with the simplest case syncing by way of direct connection between your iPad and your computer First you connect your iPad to your computer and confirm a general option that controls how your iPad and iTunes interact Connecting your iPad and viewing general options 1 Connect your iPad to your computer with the dock connector If you haven t changed any of the default settings for the iPad
88. abled tap the Picture Frame switch on the Passcode Lock screen to turn it on Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 51 Choose a Good Passcode Choose a passcode that you can remember easily but that s hard for other people to guess Try these tips If you use a simple passcode avoid making that code something like your birthday Instead choose something less obvious that you can remember such as the third through sixth digits of your phone number when you were in high school and no that s not the simple passcode we use but thanks for playing For longer passcodes a two word phrase with numbers and punctuation between the words such as land 32 shark can be easy to remember but hard to guess and no we don t use that one either Changing the passcode lock interval 1 In the Passcode Lock screen see the preceding section tap Require Passcode In the Require Passcode screen tap the length of time you want to elapse before the lock kicks in As the screen points out shorter intervals are safer Optional At the top of the Require Passcode screen tap Passcode Lock then in the Passcode Lock screen tap the Erase Data switch to turn it on This feature guards your iPad against those who might abscond with it and then try passcode after passcode to unlock it After ten attempts your iPad is erased so the thief has only your valuable iPad not the possibly even more valuable data that it contains
89. address you specified in Step 4 If you ve already set up a mail account on your iPad for that email address you can open the verifi cation email on your iPad otherwise you should be at a computer that can receive email for that address 6 Inthe verification email that Apple sends you click the link to verify the account If you received the email on a computer your Web browser opens to a page where you can sign in to MobileMe with your Apple ID and password On your iPad you see a sign in screen 7 Signin with your Apple ID and password to complete the account creation process Enabling Find My iPad 1 Tap Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars 2 Inthe list of accounts on the right side of the Mail Contacts Calendars screen tap your MobileMe account An account settings dialog appears Figure 1 34 me com Done MobileMe Account C Mail Contacts lesa Calendars 424 Bookmarks B5 Notes E ai o 3 w Find My iPad Allow this iPad to be shown on a map or remotely wiped Delete Account Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 57 3 Tap the Find My iPad to switch to set it to On 4 Tap the blue Done button in the top right corner Now that Find My iPad is activated you can ask Apple to locate your device for you which it can do as long as a your iPad is awake b your iPad is sleeping within range of a Wi Fi network connected to the Internet or c your 3G iPad is within r
90. ahler Symphony 9 Op Misc Playlists gt amp Singularities e 6 Smart Playlists Beatles Chronological IM From iPad T Click Apply in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window iTunes syncs your new playlist along with any other items selected in the four lists in the music syncing pane refer to Figure 3 22 earlier in this project 194 The iPad 2 Project Book Get Smart Aside from playlists and playlist folders iTunes provides Smart Playlists When you make a Smart Playlist by choosing File gt Smart Playlist you specify the conditions that a song must satisfy to be in that playlist You could specify all songs with the word Love in their titles that have been added to your iTunes Music library in the past year for example Whatever songs match those conditions end up listed in the playlist If you add a new song to your Music library that satisfies the Smart Playlist s conditions it ends up listed in that playlist too You can sync Smart Playlists with your iPad which is why we re bringing the whole topic up Consult iTunes help for more information about Smart Playlists Create a playlist on your iPad While we re on the subject of playlists we should point out that you can make a playlist on your iPad using any of the songs artists albums and genres there Any playlist that you make on your iPad syncs back to iTunes where you can modify it and then sync it back to your iPad Ma
91. akes it very easy to get a MobileMe account if you don t already have one you ve probably been asked by your Mac to set one up on more than one occasion Sync Outside the Box MobileMe isn t your only wireless syncing option for your iPad of course You can use one of these services instead Google Google supports wireless syncing with its services You can find out more at the Google Sync page www google com support mobile bin topic py hl en amp topic 14252 Microsoft Exchange Readers who use a Microsoft Exchange server for school or business aren t left out of the party either because the iPad can sync with an Exchange account Although the setup process usually is simple you should consult the Exchange server s admin istrator to see whether it s configured to support iPad users Signing up for MobileMe Ona Mac open System Preferences click the MobileMe icon and follow the onscreen instructions In Windows go to www apple com mobileme and click the promi nently displayed Sign up for MobileMe Free Trial button When you create a MobileMe account in Windows Apple provides a MobileMe control panel for your Windows system so that you can control the service s various features MobileMe s features both on the Mac and in Windows include email contacts calendars gigabytes of file storage on Apple s servers and quite a bit more including a valuable Find My iPhone iPad service that you can use to locate y
92. an make the iTunes Store inaccessible so that guest users can t buy music or video you can block the installation or deletion of apps and you can hide the built in YouTube and Safari apps to keep young inquisitive eyes from gazing on some of the Internet s seamier sights If you have an iPad 2 you can also disable the cameras and block the use of FaceTime useful if you share your iPad with hormonally overloaded adolescents Disabling Safari doesn t guarantee that iPad users can t get onto the Web many apps contain built in browsers that continue to work even when Safari is disabled 54 The iPad 2 Project Book Location and accounts If you re worried that your iPad might violate your privacy by reporting your current location to a third party you can tap Location in the Allow Changes section to specify which apps can and can t use the iPad s Location Services feature and after you ve chosen a set of apps that can use Location Services you can lock down those settings To protect your current Mail Calendar and Contact account settings you can tap Accounts in the Allow Changes section In app purchases You can further protect your pocketbook by turning off In App Purchases in the Allowed Content section Movies and TV shows In the same Allowed Content section you can tap Ratings For to specify the national ratings system that the iPad uses when you restrict access to movies and TV shows You can restri
93. anders off with it Figure 1 30 Use the Passcode Lock screen to set a passcode and decide what kind of passcode to use Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 49 Fasten the passcode lock The iPad has a built in passcode lock that you can use to halt snoopers dead in their tracks when they wake it up As soon as a snooper slides the Slide to Unlock slider or opens the Smart Cover he s greeted by a dialog demanding a passcode Without that passcode all the snooper can see is your Lock Screen wallpaper You can choose a simple pass code that consists of a four digit number easy to remember time consuming to crack or a longer passcode that combines letters numbers and punctuation even safer but harder to remember and to type Which kind of passcode you choose depends on just how much trouble you want to give a snooper When you set a passcode all versions of iOS 4 encrypt the data on your iPad making your information much harder to steal even for sophisti cated data thieves If you ve upgraded an original iPad from iOS 3 however the encryption may not be complete Apple has provided instruc tions for encrypting all the data on such iPads see iOS 4 Understanding data protection at http support apple com kb HT4175 Setting a passcode 1 On the home screen tap the Settings app s icon 2 On the left side of the Settings screen tap General 3 On the right side of the resulting General screen tap Passcode Lock
94. ange of the mobile phone network You can also ask Apple to find your iPad with its Find My iPhone service which works with iPhones iPod touches and iPads You can use this service in a Web browser or you can download and use the free Find My iPhone app from the App Store Finding your iPad with a Web browser 1 Goto www me com and sign in with your MobileMe ID or Apple ID and its associated password If you have a free Apple ID a map appears after a few moments pinpointing your iPad s current whereabouts You can skip to step 4 If you have a paid MobileMe account however you need to complete the next two steps The Find My iPhone app works very much like the Web service You enter your MobileMe information and then use a map interface almost identical to the one in the Web version 2 Click the cloud symbol in the top left corner of the browser window and then click Find My iPhone 3 Enter your MobileMe password again The map appears with your iPad pinpointed on it 4 Decide what to do about your iPad When you click your iPad s location on the map Figure 1 35 on the next page you can choose to have your iPad display a message and play a sound for 2 minutes useful if you ve misplaced your iPad around the house just listen for the sound to track the wandering iPad down 58 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 35 Choose what to do with the iPad that MobileMe found o e 6 o o e o
95. any files you ve favorited in Dropbox lists 87 When you favorite a file it s downloaded to your iPad so that you can read it even offline Syncing on demand 1 Tap the Home button in the top left corner of the My Dropbox popover refer to Figure 2 6 earlier in this project The Home popover opens 88 The iPad 2 Project Book 2 Tap Favorites You see a Favorites popover Any files that need to be synced and updated to a later version on another device have a green circle and white arrow badge on their icons 3 Tap asingle file to update and sync it or tap the Update All button in the bottom right corner The icon badges change to a small green circle with a white check to reflect that the files have been updated Figure 2 8 Figure 2 8 Dropbox iri icon badge showing updated status for a synced file Sharing a file via Dropbox 1 Open the file in Dropbox 2 Tap the Link button in the top right corner of the screen refer to Figure 2 7 The resulting popover displays two options Email Link and Copy Link to Clipboard Figure 2 9 Figure 2 9 Popover 6 14 PM 60 showing linking urban_fantasy doc F Pf options Email Link Urban Fantasy and Medieval Literature z Copy Link to Clipboard My first meeting with urban fantasy as a subgenre of fantasy was via the Borderlands books a shared universe series created by Terri Windling The hanke and otari 3
96. ar account is removed from your iPad and its entries no longer appear in the Calendar app Hear calendar alerts The calendar alert settings are relatively minor unless you miss an appointment or invitation because your iPad happened to be asleep at the critical time The iPad has two sound related settings that are asso ciated with calendars Calendar Alerts and New Invitation Alerts When these settings are turned on your iPad makes a sound when a calendar event is set and when one of your calendars receives a new invitation Invitations go directly to one of your calendars in certain types of mail accounts such as accounts on Microsoft Exchange servers Turning on alert sounds 1 Tap Settings gt General gt Sounds to open the Sounds screen 2 Ifthe Calendar Alerts switch is off tap it to turn it on 3 In the Settings pane on the left side of the screen tap Mail Contacts Calendars 4 Swipe down the resulting Mail Contacts Calendars screen until you see the Calendars section at the bottom 5 If the New Invitation Alerts switch is off tap it to turn it on From now on whenever one of your calendars needs to alert you about an event or an invitation your iPad makes a sound 44 The iPad 2 Project Book Use Time Zone Support The Time Zone Support feature on your iPad seems to cause no end of confusion if the number of posts on the Internet about it means anything We ll try to clarify Your iPad has
97. as contact lists browser bookmarks calendars and notes This information would be really useful to have on your iPad not just have on your iPad but also have there in such a way that you can get any changes you make on the iPad back on your computer Doing this information shuffle with your iPad is easy but first you have to make it possible Setting things up so that your computer and iPad can exchange your information is what this simple project is for The act of getting your information from your computer to your iPad and back is called syncing short for synchronizing and it s more than just a simple matter of copying your stuff from your computer to your iPad or from your iPad to your computer Syncing involves looking at two similar sets of information such as the contacts in your address book on your computer and the contacts on your iPad figuring out what s different between those two sets and sorting things so that the differences between those two sets of infor mation are resolved Contacts that you created on your iPad go to your computer for example contacts that you created on your computer go to your iPad and contacts that you changed on one device or the other are brought into alignment In Apple s world of handheld devices the key to getting your stuff from here to there and back again is iTunes Yes we know things like contact lists appointment books and browser bookmarks aren t songs so it does seem
98. aspberry Bars http www bigoven cor 163740 Old Fashioned Aaspbenmy Bars recips him A Aaroa rcp apenit or recipe that a easy quick and absolutely delicious The recipe variations just by changing the flavor of the jam Select Select All Paste Copy Style H 2 cup packed brown sugar light or dark 1 cup Unbleached all purpose flour 4 Tap Select and drag the selection rectangle around the entire list of ingredients Figure 2 71 Figure 2 71 Selecting the ingredients list ST capy eae eer eee Ingredients n hiji shinai 1 2 cup packed brown sugar light or dark 1 cup Unbleached all purpose flour 1 4 teaspoon Baking soda 1 8 teaspoon Salt 1 cup rolled old fashioned or quick oats 1 2 cup unsalted butter cut into 1 2 inch pleces softened to cool room temperature 3 4 to 1 cup seedless raspberry jam or preserves or conserve it As soon as you lift your finger off the screen the Copy button appears Figure 2 72 Selecting placeholder text ON DO y Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 133 Tap Copy to copy the selected text to your iPad s clipboard Tap the My Documents button to open the My Documents screen Tap the Recipe document see the preceding task to open it Tap and hold to the left of the italic placeholder text that begins Etiam sit amet est to display selection buttons Tap Select Pages selects the entire block of placeholder text and displays the Paste bu
99. ating a new presentation 1 Launch Keynote and tap New Presentation in the top left corner of the screen The Choose a Theme screen appears Figure 2 87 Choose a Theme Gradient 146 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 88 The new presentation with placeholder image and fields Figure 2 89 Tapa selected field to cut copy or delete it 2 Tap the Renaissance theme A new presentation using the theme appears displaying a placeholder image provided by that theme and two text fields Figure 2 88 Tap a field to cut copy or delete it double tap a field to edit its contents Presentation 2 EA ewe ES A Double tap the large text field below the picture and type Italian Words and Phrases Tap the small text field at the bottom of the slide once to select it then tap it again to produce a set of options Figure 2 89 wit oF Delete an Phrase T 5 You don t need the field at the bottom of the first slide so tap Delete to get rid of it Inthe bottom right corner of the placeholder picture in the center of the slide tap the camera icon A Photo Albums popover appears Figure 2 90 Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 147 Figure 2 90 Pick a picture from a photo Photo Albums album to put on the i Camera Roll 114 slide a O Photo Library 774 559 Last Import 19 All imported 72 4f Compositions 17 Cartoons 59 Maine Oct 2003 340
100. ay you want it return to the orig inal My Projects screen by tapping the My Projects button at the top center of the My Project screen Your project is front and center in the My Projects screen below a Now Playing marquee that lists the project s name Give your project a name Although My Project could be a functional movie title it isn t as compel ling as The High and the Mighty or even as descriptive as Marcus s Little League Opener You really want to add an evocative title so that you can find the movie easily later Naming your movie 1 Tap the project title in the marquee to select it The project s title is highlighted and the virtual keyboard appears Figure 3 61 on the next page 228 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 61 ee Selected project s M V F iWin EF art 5 thet ES EFFEEF EFEFEF 2 Tap the little x at the right end of the highlighted area The current title disappears 3 Type your new project title Fill your distribution channels Sometimes people create videos for their own use but most movies are created for a wider audience friends family members or the world at large Now that the project has a name it s time to determine where you want it to be distributed iMovie makes it easy for you to send the project to several video sharing sites Sharing your movie 1 Tap the curved arrow Action button at the bottom of the My Project screen A popover appears
101. aying content from one of your libraries 192 The iPad 2 Project Book 2 Choose File gt New Playlist Folder A folder appears in the Playlists section of the Source list with its title selected ready for you to edit it Figure 3 25 Figure 3 25 A new D Singularities playlist folder awaiting 1 Smart Playlists its new name untitled folder Beatles Chronological 3 Type a folder name and press Return Mac or Enter Windows For this task type iPad songs When you press Return or Enter the folder is renamed If your Playlist section contains other folders they appear in alphabetical order and the newly named folder moves to its correct alphabetical position among them 4 Click the new folder to select it and then choose File gt New Playlist An untitled playlist appears inside the folder ready for you to rename it 5 Type anew name for the playlist whatever name you like and press Return or Enter 6 Add songs to your new playlist You can add songs to a playlist whether that playlist is in a folder or not of course but putting playlists inside folders makes it more convenient to sync them with your iPad In this project you re using only one playlist but you can use the folder you just created to contain all the playlists destined for your iPad You can drag any playlist in the Source list onto a folder to put it in the folder and you can take a playlist out of a folder by dragging
102. ble speakers are available from manufacturers such as Denon Marantz and iHome Bloomberg reports that AirPlay capable devices such as TVs are coming in 2011 but no announcements were made while we were writing this book In the following section we demonstrate streaming video from one iPad to another You can also stream from an iPad to an iPhone an iPod touch or AppleTV but because you re reading The iPad 2 Project Book the following task is all iPad Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 241 Streaming from iPad to iPad 1 If you don t have AirView installed go to the App Store and down load it 2 On the iPad that will receive the stream tap the AirView app s icon to get it running You should see the screen shown in Figure 3 73 Figure 3 73 AirView is waiting to be served some content Waiting for AirPlay connection 3 On the iPad that contains the content you want to stream start playing that content 4 Inthe control strip at the bottom of the screen tap the AirPlay button Figure 3 74 Figure 3 74 The AirPlay button lets dd bee bbl fal AirPlay button you select a destina tion device A pop up menu appears listing all the devices that are AirPlay clients 5 Tap the destination iPad Your video or audio stops playing on the originating iPad and starts playing on the destination iPad material as we discuss in the Streaming Your Own Video Project earlier note Yo
103. button at the bottom of the screen You see a popover like the one shown in Figure 1 45 Clear Text Insert Timestamp Insert Link To Encrypt Update Geotag 68 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 46 A bulleted list 10 11 Tap the red Clear Text button to clear all your text from MyFirstPage Tap the Heading button at the bottom of the screen This button inserts a pound sign followed by a space and tells Trunk Notes to format the following text as a heading when you save Type Shopping List after the and the space and tap the Return key on your iPad keyboard to start a new line Tap the Bulleted List button at the bottom of the screen Trunk Notes inserts the Markdown code for a bulleted list item an asterisk followed by a space Type Milk and tap the Return key Type Bread and tap the Return key Tap the Save button Your screen should look something like Figure 1 46 5 16 PM MyFirstPage Updated Sun Mar 27 2011 17 08 Shopping List e Milk Bread 12 13 Tap the Edit button in the top right corner of the screen Your cursor should be right after the d in Bread Tap Return on the iPad s digital keyboard and then tap the Bulleted List button at the bottom of the screen 14 Type Whole wheat and then tap the Save button You ve made an indented list a list with a sublist that should look something like Figure 1 47 Chapter 1 Living in the
104. c Rock Alternative Alrernative amp Punk Blues Books A Spoken Celtic Classica American Bang And You Wil now Us by the Trail of Dead Andrea Zonn Andy M Stewart Andy M Stewart Phil Cunningham Manus Lenny Andy M Stewart Manus lurrry Anna Nalick Annie Lennox Anni The Apples in Stereo Athlete Avgustana The faltimore Consort and The Merry Companions Barenakec Ladies Albums Cab Calloway Are You Hep to the Jive 22 Sensa The Camerata of London Shakespeare s Musicke Ding Dong Merrily On High Single Cherish The Ladies Cherish The Ladies New Day Oawning Chanticleer The Civils Won t Leave the Boy Cherish the Ladies Threads of Time Chicago Symphony Orchestra amp Perre Boulez Ma Chicago Symphony Orchestra Daniel Barenboim amp Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 189 Syncing selected artists and genres to your iPad 1 Follow steps 1 3 of Syncing your entire Music library to your iPad earlier in this project 2 Select the Sync Music check box and the radio button titled Selected playlists artists albums and genres The Playlists Artists Genres and Albums lists become accessible so that you can check or clear the check boxes in them We ll ignore the Playlists list for now because we cover it in the next section of this project If some of the items in the Playlists list happen to be checked you can easily clear all of them so that they don t inte
105. can preview only certain file formats see the nearby sidebar Mail Attachments That the iPad Can Preview You can view these files in Mail or see them or hear them but you can t edit them in Mail If you want to modify or edit these files you need another app We describe some of the ways to edit files later in this project If you do have an app that can edit a file type Mail may know about it and ask whether you want to open the attached file in that app another task that we cover later in this project If Mail or the iPad doesn t support the format of an attached file you see the name of the attached file in the body of the email but you can t open it on your iPad You may be able to open it on a computer however Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 81 Emailing yourself a file to preview on the iPad 1 Using a computer instead of your iPad address an email to yourself Be sure to use an address in an email account that you ve set up on your iPad see the Mail Management Project in Chapter 1 Fill out the Subject line too so that your Internet service provider won t think it s spam 2 Attach a file that you want to read on your iPad For the purposes of this task and the next one attach a Microsoft Word doc file The process for previewing other kinds of files on your iPad is very similar The Mail Attachments That the iPad Can Preview sidebar lists files that the iPad and Mail can read nat
106. ced songs on your iPad But unless you have very high quality speakers or headphones attached to your iPad and very good ears you won t be able to tell the differ ence in the converted songs sound quality Figure 3 21 The main music syncing options for your iPad Syncing your entire Music library to your iPad 1 Connect your iPad to your computer 2 Launch iTunes if it doesn t launch automatically 3 Inthe Source list on the left side of the iTunes window select your iPad 4 Click the Music button at the top of the main pane of the iTunes window The contents of the music syncing pane for your iPad appear with the main syncing options laid out at the top Figure 3 21 Summary inf Apps Ringtones Movies TW Shows Podcasts iTunes U Books Piotos Sync Music 3401 songs Entire music library Selected playlists artists albums and genres W Include music videos JJ Include voice mentos 5 Select the Sync Music check box and the Entire music library radio button 188 Figure 3 22 The music syncing pane lists art ists genres and albums The iPad 2 Project Book 6 Optional Select Include music videos Keep in mind that each music video takes up considerably more space than a typical song But if you have the space see the nearby sidebar why not 7 Click the Apply button in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window iTunes begins copying your entire Music library to your i
107. cel E 4 Tap a format to export the song to your iPad You can access the song via iTunes File Sharing when your iPad is connected to your computer Mailing your music 1 In the My Songs screen tap the Action button to open the popover refer to Figure 3 19 and then tap Email Song A mail message appears with your song file in AAC format attached to it 2 Address your message add any other information you want and then send it All you have to do now is wait for your fans to line up for your next concert 186 The iPad 2 Project Book Music Syncing Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed iTunes Mac or Windows iPad model Any Additional hardware Mac or PC More than a year into the iPad era most technology pundits have finally moved on from the blithe critique stated so often at the device s intro duction It s nothing but a giant iPod touch In fact though this facile critique has some basis Setting aside the iPad s unique capabilities it does have much in common with the iPod touch In particular your iPad has a built in iPod that you can use to play the thousands of songs your iPad can hold To act in its secret identity as a giant iPod touch however your iPad needs songs to play If you re among the ever shrinking number of souls who ve never had an iPod or even if you have one but find the whole music syncing thing to be mystifying this project shows you how to get the son
108. connecting iPad to 3 contact syncing on 5 6 emailing files to iPad 81 installing Read it Later bookmarklet in browser 108 keeping Wi Fi connection to iPad alive 75 MobileMe syncing from 14 16 moving rented movies to and from iPad on 210 preventing iPad syncing with 3 10 sharing iPad file with 95 sharing iTunes Library using Home Sharing 244 signing up for MobileMe on 12 syncing files in Dropbox on 84 transferring files to computer from 92 95 wireless iPad syncing with 13 Contact and Calendar Management Project 38 47 about 38 adjusting Time Zone Support settings 44 46 choosing default calendar 40 41 getting directions 46 47 setting default contacts account 39 40 sorting contacts 38 39 subscribing to calendars 42 43 turning on off calendar alert sounds 43 Contacts adding contacts in 20 24 creating contacts from email address 21 23 data not shared on vCards 27 default account for 39 40 editing 23 24 getting directions in 46 47 New Contact form in 22 other email data to add for contacts 25 27 Sender window for 21 setting Time Zone Support for 45 sharing contacts 26 27 sorting contacts 38 39 syncing contacts 5 6 transferring email info into 24 cooking See iPad Chef Project copy protection 231 copying recipe ingredients into scrapbook 132 134 URLs to contacts from email 25 26 CutePDF Writer 199 D data found in contact emails 25 27 recovering iPad 51 wiping iPad 58 dates editing trip
109. cs your iPad 10 The iPad 2 Project Book 2 When the sync is complete disconnect your iPad The iPad disappears from the iTunes Source list and you re ready to go enjoy your newly synced iPad In the future whenever you connect your iPad to your computer the sync settings you made in this project are in effect syncing just the information you want to sync between your iPad and your computer If you never want your iPad to sync with your computer when you tp connect it open iTunes Preferences choose iTunes gt Preferences on a Mac or Edit gt Preferences in Windows click Devices and select Prevent iPods iPhones and iPads from syncing automatically Why iTunes for Syncing If you really want to know why you use iTunes to sync so much nonmusic stuff the answer has to do with history and evolution In the beginning there was iTunes which stored and played your music for you Next came the iPod a music playing device and it seemed only natural for Apple to use iTunes as the software that moved music from your computer to that device Also because the iPod had a screen that could display text Apple provided just as an extra special bonus the ability to copy contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod so that you could have them with you as you walked around listening to your music But the iPod soon developed more capabilities such as the ability to show video so Apple added video playback to iTune
110. ct movie viewing to G and PG movies when the ratings are set for the United States for example Switch the Ratings For setting to France instead and you can restrict movies by the age level ratings used in that country Explicit songs and apps You can ban music with explicit lyrics as listed in the iTunes Store and you can hide apps that have age restrictions as listed in the App Store Games The iPad s Game Center allows you to participate in multiplayer games and add friends to your gaming environment You can disable either action in the Game Center section of the Restrictions screen cS This system isn t perfect Determined children and childlike adults can find their way around seemingly impervious obstacles so you still need to exercise some oversight But the available restriction options do goa long way toward making your iPad more child friendly and sharable Search and recover with Find My iPad Lost may have been great TV entertainment but it s not so entertaining when it s your precious iPad that s lost By using MobileMe s Find My iPad feature however you may be able to find your lost device and rescue it from the island Even if you can t rescue it you can still use the Find My Figure 1 33 Create a free Apple ID via MobileMe cancel MobileMe Next Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 55 iPad feature to lock your iPad with a new passcode or even wipe out its contents so that your information
111. cts you can do just that Read on Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 231 Get Air Video You need two pieces of InMethod software e Air Video or Air Video Free You can get Air Video at www inmethod com or from the App Store If Air Video s 2 99 price tag puts you off or if you just feel compelled to try before you buy you can obtain Air Video Free available from the same sources which limits the number of videos accessible in each folder Air Video Server You also need the free server software available at www inmethod com Air Video Server requires Mac OS X 10 5 Leopard or later or Windows XP Service Pack 3 or later the same Windows software required for iPad support Air Video streams virtually any video on your computer s hard drive transcoding it as necessary The lone exception is copy protected video which you usually purchase or rent from the iTunes Store see the nearby Copy Protection and DRM sidebar if you re curious Although Air Video transcodes on the fly which is the way that most tip users employ it you can perform the conversions before streaming the content If you have a slower network or a computer slower than a Core 2 Duo you may want to perform the up front conversion Copy Protection and DRM Rather than call it copy protected a term that has serious negative connotations in the public mind the music and movie industries refer to this type of content as digital rig
112. d bookmarks The iPad has a built in browser Mobile Safari and a note taking app Notes and you can sync bookmarks and notes from these apps between your iPad and your computer based on your operating system Ona Mac you can sync your bookmarks between Mobile Safari on the iPad and Safari Sorry Mozilla Firefox fans no soup for you In Windows you can sync bookmarks between your iPad and either Safari or Internet Explorer Still no soup for you Firefox fans The notes you create on your iPad can sync to the Mail application on the Mac or to Microsoft Outlook in Windows and vice versa Syncing notes and bookmarks 1 Inthe Other section of the Info pane check the bookmark syncing option you prefer e na Mac your only choice is Safari e In Windows you can choose Internet Explorer or Cif it s installed Safari 2 Check the notes syncing option From now on whenever you make or change a note on your iPad or add a bookmark the info gets synced to your computer Similarly any notes or bookmarks that you add or change on your computer Cif you re using one of the iTunes supported programs appear on your iPad the next time you sync Apply your sync settings Finally it s time to apply the settings that you specified and get your iPad resynced the way you want it Applying sync settings changes 1 Inthe bottom right corner of the Info pane click Apply iTunes applies the changes you made and syn
113. d or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described in it Trademarks AirPlay AirPort AirTunes Apple Apple TV Bonjour FaceTime GarageBand iBooks iMovie iPad iPhoto iTunes Keynote Multi Touch Keynote Numbers Pages Photo Booth Retina and Safari are trademarks of Apple Inc Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks Where those designations appear in this book and Peachpit was aware of a trademark claim the designations appear as requested by the owner of the trademark All other product names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for the benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark No such use or the use of any trade name is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book ISBN 13 978 O 321 7 5 0 2 ISBN 10 0 321 77570 8 987654321 Printed and bound in the United States of America Michael and Lisa For the late Vinton Dearing who would be astonished to see what computers can do with text today Dennis To my wonderful wife Kathy who might love her iPad even more than I love mine hard to believe but possible Also to our kids grandkids great grandkids and four legged family members especially Spenser and Maggie About the Authors Michae
114. ders Settings Read Later l vajej TidBITS Business Apps Bartleby For When You Prefer TIDBITS COM Almost everyone has heard of writer s block that debilitating condition gt nearly every writer suffers at one time or another when the words just won t come Gene Fowler may have expressed the condition best when he said that Writing is easy All you TidBITS iPhone iPad iPod GarageBand for iPad and TIDBITS COM Last Thursday while I was still dreaming about getting a new iPad 2 I gt discovered that Apple had already released the GarageBand app for iPad which is also compatible with the original iPad With 4 99 burning a hole in my credit card I scurried Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 111 4 Tap an article in the list to read it You see the article reformatted for the screen Figure 2 43 Figure 2 43 An article screen in Instapaper y T P Articles WF tin TidBITS Business Apps Bartleby For When You Pre AA TidBITS Business Apps Bartleby For When You Prefer Not To i View original Bartleby For When You Prefer Not To Almost everyone has heard of writer s block that debilitating condition nearly every writer suffers at one time or another when the words just won t come Gene Fowler may have expressed the condition best when he said that Writing is easy All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead Few pe
115. e Bar ON Displays the Friends Editors Web buttons in the Read Later section Add Articles Install Read Later in Safari Add Read Later by Email gt Add articles more quickly and easily from your computer by visiting Instapaper com Your Account 3 Tap Install Read Later in Safari 4 Follow the instructions on your iPad s screen 110 Figure 2 42 Read Later The iPad 2 Project Book screen with content Save and read content in Instapaper Now that you have Instapaper and the Read it Later bookmarklet installed you can save Web pages for reading later in Instapaper Saving and reading Web content 1 Find a page on the Web that you want to read later 2 Select the Read it Later bookmarklet in your browser s toolbar A graphic flashes in the top left corner of the browser page saying first Instapaper Saving and then Instapaper Saved 3 Launch and log in to the Instapaper app on your iPad The Read Later screen lists your saved content Figure 2 42 and offers several options e The Folders button lets you see a list of folders as well as create new folders e The Edit button lets you select articles to be deleted permanently e The Friends and Editors buttons display article lists saved by your friends and by specially selected Instapaper editors e The Web button lets you browse for more content directly in Instapaper IPad 3 16 PM Fol
116. e enabled for each of your email accounts This feature is a shortcut really It helps you skip the sometimes confusing task of specifying settings for each email account manually on your iPad by copying those settings directly from your computer Apple calls this process syncing but the syncing goes only one way from your computer to your iPad If you change email settings on your iPad they don t sync back to your computer Although a plethora of email programs is available for both Mac and Windows iTunes can sync settings from only a few of those programs specifically Mail on a Mac and Microsoft Outlook 2003 2007 or 2010 or Outlook Express on a PC If you have and use any of the iTunes blessed mail programs you can quickly get your mail settings onto your iPad Syncing mail settings 1 On the Info pane check Sync Mail Accounts Figure 1 5 Sync Mail Accounts Selected Mail accounts VY AOL IMAP imap aol com V Digital Medievalist POP digitalme M Earthlink POP earthlink net V Gmail IMAP IMAP ieee imap g Gmail Pop POP gmail com mac com MobileMe ma Syncing Mail accounts syncs your account settings but not your messages To add accounts or make other changes tap Settings then Mail Contacts Calendars on this iPad 2 Inthe list of mail accounts check each account that contains settings you want to sync to your iPad Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 9 Sync notes an
117. e fields Cif your correspondent doesn t use them as part of his or her email address 5 Tap the blue Done button in the top right corner to save the new contact information and close the New Contact form You ll see a contact form similar to Figure 1 11 You can edit the infor mation in this form as we show you in the following task Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 23 e e e e Oo e e Figure 1 11 Contact form 1 of 3 bof 4 g Hide Sender Mark as Unread Lisa Spangenberg other ipadprojects gmail com Share Contact Editing a contact created from an email address 1 Tap the Edit button in the contact form refer to Figure 1 11 to edit or add to the existing information The form expands as shown in Figure 1 12 Figure 1 12 Expanding Pad 5 23 PM 92 MD a contact form ee Oe ae 1 of 3 E amp G Lisa Spangenberg Hide Cancel Sender Lisa Mark as Unread Spangenberg WwW ipadorojectsbook com and hope you continue Buct reviews other lisaspangenberg homer home page QD add now address Gp add field 24 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 13 Contact options for an address in an email body 2 Edit or enter new information in any of the fields 3 If you want to add an image to the contact tap the Add Photo rectangle in the top left corner and insert an image from the iPad s Photos app For
118. e from computer to GoodReader 92 95 GoodReader adding Dropbox server to 95 97 annotating PDF text in 102 106 navigation bar 101 102 personalizing settings for 102 103 reading PDF in 100 102 transferring files from computer to 92 95 Google deleting archived Gmail 35 Google Images 141 143 Google Translate 139 141 149 wireless syncing with 12 guitar autoplaying Smart 174 175 selecting style of Smart 180 181 setting up chords for 173 174 H Home Sharing Project 239 244 Home Sharing vs AirPlay 240 sharing iTunes Library 242244 streaming between iOS devices 240 242 streaming media with AirView 240 241 iBooks 197 iCal 15 16 images adding to contact 24 converting to iMovie video 226 gathering for flash cards 141 143 importing into Pages 135 Keynote guidelines for 148 Keynote placeholder 146 placing in Pages 135 137 shortcuts for sending via Mail 28 IMAP Internet Messages Access Protocol 20 29 iMovie about 223 adding clips to 225 226 naming movie project 227 228 sharing movies 228 230 using My Projects screen in 224 225 importing image into Pages 135 recipes into Pages via email 127 130 Information Syncing Project 2 10 Instapaper 108 111 installing Read it Later bookmarklet 108 109 opening account on iPad 106 107 saving content to read later 107 110411 sharing Web content saved in 111 instruments adding new 178 181 guitar 173 175 180 181 looping GarageBand tracks
119. e had your say tap the Send Feedback button View the video stream After you tap an episode in the Featured Schedule All Shows or Me screen well some people like to watch shows multiple times so if you re not one of them you don t need to tap an episode in your history ABC Player starts loading the episode During the loading process the player displays a placard stating that the following episode is being presented with limited commercials That may be true especially if you re defining limited by counting the distinct Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 217 advertising spots because you generally get the same two or three commercials repeated ad nauseam through the show It also may be true if your tolerance for interruptions is greater than ours We count four interruptions per hourlong episode in addition to the lead in commercials with two commercials per interruption Actually an hourlong episode viewed in ABC Player is typically 42 to 43 minutes long not counting commercials but that s the norm for network televi sion these days When the introductory commercial break is over the episode starts to play Controlling video playback 1 While you re viewing an episode in ABC Player tap a video to display viewing controls at the bottom of the screen Figure 3 49 Playhead Figure 3 49 Tap an episode to control its playback Play Pause button Timeline Letterbox Full Screen button
120. e help system attempting to be helpful Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 101 2 Tap the center of the screen to make the navigation bar reappear along with the scroll bar on the left side of the screen Figure 2 29 Figure 2 29 GoodReader s scroll bar and navigation bar The buttons in the navigation bar Figure 2 30 perform the following functions Double Page Day Night PDF Reflow Layout Locations Search Action Figure 2 30 PDF navigation bar Go Back Rotate Crop Margins Go To Page Horizontal Lock Scroll Lock Screen e Day Night toggles the screen between black text on a white background for reading by day to white text on a black back ground for reading at night e Go Back is similar to the Back button in a Web browser Tapping this button takes you back one page in your GoodReader history 102 The iPad 2 Project Book PDF Reflow extracts text from a PDF page so that you can read it comfortably without left right scrolling and in the font size of your choice Tap the button again to return to the PDF file Rotate rotates a file which is useful for files that contain scanned images e Double Page Layout lets you view two pages at a time a Crop Margins temporarily reduces margins to save screen space e Locations displays your own bookmarks the table of contents and your annotations for the current PDF covered later in this project e Go To Page lets you enter a page numbe
121. e quatrains and a couplet with a rhyme scheme of abab bebe eagca en The chyaee to b other reintforcicg thea sense of the Lines The linkisg of rhymes is as typical of Spenser ae the fisel couplet n qg is of Shakespeare A soanet cycle or sequence is a group of sonnets vhich are seant to be read together that have a single subject or controlling idoa Shakespeare s sossete are sequence an is Gir Philip Sideey s Astrophii anc Stelia et o marty pcena frequent 4 y o a 78 The iPad 2 Project Book Now What You can do a lot more with Trunk Notes which has many other features we haven t even mentioned such as these e You can insert a date and time stamp and record audio for example which makes Trunk Notes ideal for taking notes in class or at a meeting e You can use Dropbox to sync share and edit Trunk Notes pages from your iPhone and other iOS devices e You can make sure that private notes stay private by encrypting them with Trunk Notes built in AES 256 encryption For more information take a look at the online Trunk Notes manual atwww appsonthemove com manual html When the iPad made its debut in 2010 the conventional wisdom branded it as just a media consumption device and the conven tional wisdom was right except for that four letter word just In this chapter we show you how to do more with your iPad Turn the page and follow along as we demonstrate how to get real work done wit
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123. e to save it temporarily on your Mac In iCal choose File gt New Calendar and then choose your MobileMe account from the New Calendar submenu A new untitled calendar appears in the MobileMe collection in iCal s sidebar Rename the untitled calendar You can use the name you used for the On My Mac calendar that you exported Choose File gt Import gt Import select the calendar that you exported and then click Import In the Add Events window that appears choose the new MobileMe calendar from the pop up menu and click OK When you complete that last step iCal imports the calendar into your new MobileMe calendar In the future any events you add to this calendar automatically sync with MobileMe If you like you can delete the calendar that you exported from your Mac and deselect the old On My Mac version of the calendar in iCal s sidebar Syncing from a Windows PC with MobileMe 1 Choose Start gt Control Panel to open Control Panel 2 Inthe Network and Internet section choose the MobileMe control panel 16 The iPad 2 Project Book 3 Signin with the MobileMe member name and password that you created when you set up your MobileMe account 4 Click the Sync tab 5 Select Sync with MobileMe and choose Automatically from the drop down menu 6 Select Contacts and choose the application that manages your contacts from the drop down menu 7 Select Calendars and choose the calendar applicat
124. eeding them Instead you ll make your flash cards on the iPad using one for pay app and your iPad s Safari Web browser The object of this particular project is to create a set of flash cards to teach words and phrases in another language but the project really is open ended You can use the techniques you develop here to create flash cards on a variety of subjects Get your app in gear Let s start by getting the app you need Apple s Keynote for the iPad Its icon is shown in Figure 2 78 Keynote for the iPad is a scaled down version of the Keynote application that Apple sells in the Mac App Store In its Macintosh incarnation Keynote is a powerful alternative to the widely used Microsoft PowerPoint presentation application Although the iPad incarnation of the software is somewhat less powerful and less expensive you can still make surprisingly sophisticated presentations with it In this project you use Keynote to create a small deck of simple flash cards a task well within its capabilities Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 139 Acquiring Keynote e Purchase Keynote from the App Store either directly on your iPad or via iTunes on your computer Just in case you have trouble finding it although you probably won t you can open the following URL in a Web browser on your computer which opens iTunes and takes you right to the app http itunes apple com us app keynote id361285480 mt 8 As soon as you
125. een as directed to create a new project A new My Project screen opens Figure 3 56 The top left pane shows content that s available to be added to your project in Figure 3 56 a short video clip shot with the iPad s camera that resides in the Camera Roll album Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 225 Figure 3 56 A new Tap to change settings project waiting for you to start creating and editing your movie Available content Camcorder icon Camera icon My Project Tap _ or O to insert media Tap to record from camera Tap to edit Timeline Tap to record narration audio levels Tap to add background audio 4 To add some footage to your project do one or more of the following e Tap a video clip to select it An orange outline appears around the selected clip and a curved arrow appears in the center of the clip Tap the arrow and iMovie moves the clip into the timeline at the bottom of the screen e Tap the camera icon to select a still image Navigate through your photos to find a still image that you want to add to the timeline a handy way to create a slideshow Figure 3 57 on the next page shows the project with both a video clip and a still image in the timeline 226 The iPad 2 Project Book e Tap the camcorder icon to record video for direct insertion into the timeline You re using the Camera app from within iMovie with access to all the expected features front or back camera
126. egion 1 Switch back to the track view screen refer to Figure 3 10 earlier in this project 2 Tap the Song Sections button at the left end of the timeline to open the Song Sections popover 3 Tap the All Sections button 4 Tap anywhere in the track view screen to dismiss the Song Sections popover 5 Tap the Acoustic Smart Guitar region to select it then tap that region again to display the editing controls Figure 3 15 Loop Split 182 The iPad 2 Project Book 6 In the editing controls bar tap Loop The Acoustic Smart Guitar region expands to fill the entire track Figure 3 16 Figure 3 16 A looped region You can loop any of GarageBand s built in instruments to create repetitions of a recording In this case the eight bars you recorded with the Acoustic Smart Guitar are repeated again for bars 9 16 Adding a drum track 1 Tap the Loop button near the top right corner of the track view screen to open the Apple Loops popover Figure 3 17 Loop button Figure 3 17 Apple Loops contains hundreds of tasty recorded loops Instrument Genre Descriptors Reset Keywords wW 60s Shuffle Drumset 07 WS 60s Shuffle Drumset 03 W 60s Shuffle Drumset 06 EV 60s Shuffle Fill 07 wie TOs Electric Piano 06 Wa 70s Electric Piano 06 70s Electric Piano 11 Figure 3 18 A prerecorded drum loop has been added to the song Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 183 Y
127. elected email becomes a red circle with a white check in it Figure 1 22 Figure 1 22 Selecting multiple emails in alist Select messages to archive or move to be moved to a new folder pair Michael Cohen 11 36AM Another nomenclatural change Hi Last year we used the term floating window to describe those lt interlace elemenls thal appear above i Mark as Unread i Lisa L Spangenberg Yesterday OverDrive Media Gonsole hihipan ovweninivwe com sothwareionc Michael Cohen Saturday Apple iPad Guided Tours ippb Usotul stuil here tor background on come Of our projecte blip owen ape cormnipadiguided bour Michael Cohen Saturday Photo basics How to Gompose a Thoiaght you mighl be interested hitpy Awanw macworld comiartide SAO Tefen 1itefcompositionbasics himi lsr 4 Tap the blue Move button in the bottom right corner of the popover not visible in Figure 1 22 You see a list of mail folders similar to the one shown in Figure 1 21 earlier in this project Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 37 5 Tap the destination mailbox or folder in the popover You see the emails shrink into that folder via the genie effect and the iPad returns you to your open email All Inboxes Mail now has an universal Inbox called All Inboxes that lists the mail in all the account Inboxes Here s how you use it 1 Tap the Mailbox button in the top left corner of the All Inboxes window to display a
128. es popover Settings PDF files Turning PDF Pages by Swipe Horizontal swipe ON Regardless of this setting horizontal swiping will be forced when page layout mode is set to double page Also Honzontal Scroll Lock feature is automatically disabled when horizontal swiping is on Pre Cache Adjacent Pages Pre cache adjacent pages ON This setting has a serious impact on memory usage and performance If you re experiencing occasional app crashes and performace lags when scrolling a page try tuming this setting off Author for PDF annotations Author All annotations created by you will be lagged with this string 4 Tap the Author field 104 The iPad 2 Project Book 5 Enter your name or initials in the pop up Author dialog Figure 2 33 and tap OK Figure 2 33 Author dialog Author Cancel Annotating a PDF file 1 Open a PDF file in GoodReader 2 Tap and hold anywhere on the PDF page where you want to add a note When you tap and hold GoodReader attempts to select the nearest word in preparation for an annotation Use the drag handles to increase or decrease the selection The annotation bar appears Figure 2 34 Figure 2 34 en a Annotation bar Copy Select All Note Highlight Markup Draw to be small enough to Gt ime de cheater You will underge a virtual transtormation that will shrink boul to the same size as the actors Properly miniaturized vou can then watch drama unto
129. esessessssessssecsssreasneaseresenees 28 Turning on Show To Cc Label to check for spam 30 Deleting a single eMail scesiscidicecccasessvessvsatacusinatencmdntunteidnce 31 Deleting multiple emailS sesser 32 Moving a single email to a different folder wwe 35 Moving multiple emails to a single folder wwe 36 Contact and Calendar Management Project wc 38 Sort your COM AG Ss erene an aR 38 Changing the sort order and presentation OF contact NAMES cenccacusticnvesastntvacccarssavetocatunwecesdeehaneccoevecostnaebe 38 Set a default contacts aCCOuUnt vce 39 Setting a default account for new contacts wwe 40 Set a calendar aeuessteerneesnensctadcieautartaceansttnesasvenesasatesueinotactansternuas 40 Setting a default calendar vicicsiscascassesastwscsssversescencaiecusowsssass 40 Subscribe to a calendar weccceccssssssssesesecsesescscsetssseseeesseeessseseeess 42 Subscribing to a Web based calendar sessssssscssns 42 Removing a Web based calendar subscription nesses 42 vii viii Contents Hear calendar alertS svvsesissusssintssannntyotunssecesdtandsinseesaicsinnentestouoedl 43 Turning on alert soundsS ssssssssrsisisisirirrrererersrersrrrrrrernrerereren 43 Use Time Zone Support cccccccccscsscsccssesscseessesssseeeestsasseeeteaseas 44 Setting the Date amp Time time zone Setting 0 eee 45 Setting Time Zone Support sssssssssssseisrersriinrereririnrererenreren 45 Gerdie IONE serrin ine ROA 46 Seeing a contact
130. etting up Air Video Server 232 235 236 streaming content to HD TV 239 updating display 239 using with AppleTV 242 Air Video Server about 231 enabling access for 236 installing 232 setting up 232 235 236 AirPlay converting content to AppleTV with 242 Home Sharing vs 240 speakers compatible with 240 streaming audio and video with AirView 240 241 AirView 240 241 annotating PDF files 102 106 Apple ID 55 56 Index AppleTV 239 242 artist syncing options 188 189 audio See also music narrating movies 226 227 turning on off alert sounds 43 Auto Lock setting 137 automatic backup of iTunes 51 B BigOven 119 126 downloading and creating account 119 121 finding recipes in 121 124 importing recipes into Pages from 127 130 marking and finding favorites in 124 125 sharing recipes from 126 bookmarks Epicurious recipe 115 syncing 9 browsers See also Safari finding iPad from 57 58 installing Read it Later bookmarklet in 108 109 C calendars assigning events to 41 checking ABC Player network 214 choosing default 40 41 subscribing to 40 42 43 syncing 7 camcorder movies 226 Camera Roll album 229 chords adding to music tracks 177 178 presetting 173 174 strumming and finger picking patterns for 174 475 cloud services See also Wireless Syncing Project defined 13 getting MobileMe account for 12 color of text 134 246 Index commercials 216 217 218 computer calendar syncing from 7
131. f selecting the text Tapping beside the text selects the entire translated text area so that you can adjust your selection and then copy it 5 Drag the blue control handles on the selected text until just the first sentence is selected then tap Copy 6 Double click the Home button on your iPad then tap the Keynote icon in the Recent apps panel at the bottom of the screen The slide that you just duplicated is displayed 7 Double tap the text field to edit the text select all the text and then paste the Italian translation that s on the clipboard The English text on the duplicated slide is replaced by the Italian translation Now you have an Italian slide to match the English one Next you ll duplicate this slide and make it into the next English slide in the presentation 8 Repeat all the steps in Duplicating and editing a slide earlier in this project but with the following changes In step 3 enter the second English phrase Where is the restroom In step 5 select the bathroom image 9 Make an Italian slide by repeating steps 1 7 of this list Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 151 10 Repeat steps 8 9 of this list substituting the appropriate pictures and text when you get to the step where you enter the English text enter Excuse me Would you take a picture of us to make the third set of slides Voila You have a short flash card presentation of Italian words and phrases If you like
132. fault you record each track in eight bar sections If you don t know what a bar is don t worry you don t have to know By some strange coincidence each strumming and picking pattern refer to Autoplaying your guitar earlier in this project lasts for one bar before it repeats In this part of the project you use those patterns to your advantage You record an eight bar selection of chords using four chords and playing each chord pattern twice When you finish you ll end up with a portion of a song that probably sounds familiar to you because it s been used in several songs over the years First though you need to set up the tempo how fast the patterns play in number of beats per minute You also set up a metronome count in so that you can become familiar with the tempo before you start playing Setting up the recording 1 Inthe top right corner of the Smart Guitar screen tap the Song Settings button to open the Song Settings popover Figure 3 8 Song Settings Metronome Gount in Sound Tempo Tap to set Tempo 176 The iPad 2 Project Book 2 Make sure that the Metronome and Count In switches are both set to On The metronome plays a click or tap for each beat Because each bar lasts four beats by default you can change this setting but won t for this project it plays four clicks per bar for this task When Count In is on the metronome plays one bar of beats before the recording begins so that
133. files via iTunes or email 184 185 videos from iMovie 223 Web content saved in Instapaper 111 wiki 74 77 showing hiding Instapaper bookmarks 109 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SMTP 29 Slides duplicating and editing Keynote 148 149 making flash card 149 151 using as flash cards 145 Smart Guitar autoplaying in GarageBand 173 175 selecting style for 180 181 Smart Playlists 194 SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol 29 songs See music sorting contacts 38 39 Source list iTunes 4 spam 30 31 speakers compatible with AirPlay 240 stand for iPad 137 storage space iPad s capacity for music storage 186 video requirements for 230 Streaming Internet Video Project 210 222 about streaming media 210 211 checking network schedule 214 commercials shown on ABC Player 216 217 218 controlling ABC Player video playback 217 downloading TV software for 211 212 keeping up with series episodes 215 searching for Netflix movie titles 220 221 selecting Netflix movies 219 220 3G connections and streaming video 222 236 viewing episodes available 214 215 watching movies and TV on demand 218 222 Streaming Your Own Video Project 230239 about streaming media 210 211 about video formats 230 digital rights management and 231 241 getting Air Video software 231 232 setting up Air Video Server 232 235 236 unable to stream copy protected content from iTunes 231 234 using Air Video user interface 236 239 subscribing to cale
134. fix Snippet i Pages Execute text xx j Photobucket Wi Fi Sharing aa Reeder LSJ Skype J Syncing Data Trunk Notes Authentication Username trunk Password s ees8e086 Port 10000 ie Twitterrific Don t Fall Asleep AW WordPress Figure 1 55 The navi gation bar s Action button popover Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 75 3 In the Wi Fi Sharing section at the bottom of the screen make sure that the Authentication switch is set to On 4 Change the Username entry from the default setting trunk 5 Change the password from the default password to something that you ll remember easily 6 Unless you have a good reason to change the Port setting leave it at its default setting 10000 which is part of the address Trunk Notes will use for sharing your wiki The Don t Fall Asleep setting means that the Wi Fi connection between your iPad and computer will be kept live Instead of running down the iPad s battery you may want to leave Don t Fall Asleep turned off If your iPad falls asleep you need to wake it again by touching the screen Sharing over Wi Fi 1 Open Trunk Notes to its home page 2 Tap the Action button at the bottom of the screen A popover appears Figure 1 55 76 The iPad 2 Project Book 3 From the popover choose Wi Fi Sharing You see a Wi Fi Sharing window similar to the one shown in Figure 1 56 This window displays a URL for you to enter in a Web bro
135. for 182 using drum track 182 183 Internet See also Streaming Internet Video Project Wi Fi connections enabling access for Air Video Server 236 keeping Wi Fi connection to iPad alive 75 137 setting restrictions for Web sites 53 54 streaming video over 3G connections 222 236 viewing featured favorites on ABC Player 212213 Web based calendar subscriptions 42 43 Internet Messages Access Protocol IMAP 20 29 invitations Dropbox Web sharing 91 sending via email 43 iPad background video streaming on 234 235 connecting to computer 3 creating playlists on 194 196 Don t Fall Asleep setting for 75 editing techniques in 149 effect of e book formats on 197 finding lost 54 58 installing Read it Later bookmarklet on 109 iPod touch vs 186 keeping it awake 75 137 kitchen uses for 137 manually managing music syncing 196 modifying documentation for 201 moving rented movies to and from computer on 210 opening Instapaper account on 106 107 operating Air Video in landscape orientation 236 passcode for 49 51 preventing syncing with computer 3 10 printing PDF documents to 198 199 protecting with plastic food storage bag 137 restricting app access on 52 54 saving movie to Camera Roll album 229 sharing file with computer from 95 storage capacity of 186 streaming audio and video from iPad to 240 242 syncing files in Dropbox on 84 Time Zone Support feature 44 46 transferring file
136. for the new note e g Example Page Tap Greate page ExamplePage Write the note When finished tap Save You can also create anew note by tapping the action button selecting New and then Text Note To create a link to anolher mete e When editing a note type in ihe name of the note Assuming the name of the note la a WikiWord a link will be automatically created To find a nole Start typing in the search har Select the name of a matching mote or Search for search text Rotate your iPhone or iPod Touch if you wish to view or edil your moles in landscape mode When the device is in landscape mode the edil toolbar rs hidden lo give you more space Images Trunk Motes can store images taken with your camera and from your photo library To create a new image entry In view mode tap the action bulton bollom nghi hand corner of the screen Select New Choose either image From Library or image From Camera if a camera is available on your device Select the mage from your library or lake a picture Trunk Mates will create a mew wiki entry with your pleture You can edit the entry to associate text and add ft 4 oA p Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 61 At the bottom of the Getting Started page is the navigation bar Figure 1 38 a row of small icons used for wiki navigation Home Back Forward Bookmark Export a a ea a b Figure 1 38 Trunk Notes navigation bar Here s h
137. from time to time when they get tired of reading router logs Like a real world cloud a virtual cloud is a shapeless object one into which you can t easily see In this project cloud refers to the Apple servers on which your iPad information is stored so that you can get to it from anywhere on the Internet 14 The iPad 2 Project Book Syncing from a Mac with MobileMe 1 Open System Preferences and click MobileMe 2 Inthe MobileMe window click the Sync tab 3 Select the Synchronize with MobileMe check box and choose Automatically from the adjacent pop up menu When you choose Automatically your Mac and MobileMe will sync information as soon as you change it 4 Inthe list of items that you can sync select Bookmarks Calendars and Contacts Figure 1 6 Figure 1 6 The Sync ear MobileMe l tab of the MobileMe Lale show ait C System Preferences Fi 3 Fe MobileMe is the simple way to keep everything in sync on your Mac PC iPhone and window in Mac OS X Wig iPod touch Account Syng iDisk i Back to My Mac il Synchronize with MobileMe Automatically Sync Now mi E3 Bookmarks m ft Calendars w Le Contacts dashboard widgets FM Dock items Keychains ay e E Mall Accounts Mail Rules Signatures and Smart Mailboxes a p Mates Last Sync 3 21 11 7 19 PM l Show Sync status in menu bar Advanced 7 5 Click the Sync Now button 6 Close System Prefere
138. gOven ween 124 Marking favorite recipes in BigOven wo 124 Viewing favorite recipes in BigOven western 125 Share BigOven recipeS w ececccccscsscsssecsessssessssecessteetsneessneneteenenn 126 Emailing a recipe from BigOven sassssssssssererern 126 Create a recipe scrapbook in Pages w ccccssccssecseseeeeseeeees 127 Importing an emailed recipe into Pages ween 127 Creating a recipe file for your scrapbook sessen 131 Copying recipe ingredients to the scrapbook nsss 132 Importing an image INTO PAGES sesser 135 Inserting an image into the scrapbook wv 135 Fash Card Project cer pecasteaceunan iatene naett aranea aAA Eaa 138 Get your app IN SEAM ececccsscssssssessessrssrsseserssesseseseeserseesesereeess 138 PRCQUINIIVS Keynote seciincasnvicie seveeinwcaspevsnwiecssicanindestedantedevecteneees 139 Translate some words and Phrases ccccccssessssecsseseeseerees 139 Translating with Google Translate essees 140 Collect Some illustrations o ccccsesssesssessseseseessessteseessesees 141 Gathering images with Google MageS oo 142 Contents Create your flash card deck 0 ccc ee 145 Creating a NEW presentation ccccccsccsesecesseeseeeees 145 Duplicating and editing a Slide ween 148 Making an Italian slide and completing the deck 149 Viewing the presentation acsissisisinecsiaveniatvvrinvadianecdarnadonn 151 Printing the flash cardS accoemnciiacecivisresstanvetmnsieecenrceeienets 152 Exporting the flash cardS
139. gs you want by the artists you want in the styles you want from your iTunes Library to your plus size iPod touch Sync everything If you have a relatively small iTunes Library that is one that can fit easily into your particular iPad s storage space deciding what music to put on your iPad is simple Just put your whole Music library on the device and don t worry about it Even the smallest capacity iPad has ample room to hold several thousand songs Apple provides a ballpark estimate of about 250 songs per gigabyte Going by that estimate a 16 GB iPad can store 4 000 songs and still have a third of its storage space left for documents pictures apps and other stuff Assuming that your Music library fits on your iPad getting it there is just a few clicks and a sync away Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 187 Making Smaller Songs to Save Space Songs can be stored in various formats some of which take up more space than others do To conserve iPad storage space do the following 1 With your iPad selected in iTunes Source list click the Summary button at the top of the main pane 2 Near the bottom of the pane select the option titled Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC This option increases the time that it takes to sync your music because iTunes must convert every song that isn t in 128 Kbps AAC format as it syncs Also the process slightly reduces the sound quality of the syn
140. h it in the kitchen in the classroom in the office on the Web In case you get exhausted by all that work we also show you how to plan a vacation with the iPad Why do we do all this We do it because the iPad is more than just a media consumption device That s our unconventional wisdom 80 The iPad 2 Project Book Go to Meeting Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed iTunes 10 2 or later Dropbox 1 3 1 free GoodReader 3 5 4 99 Instapaper 3 0 1 4 99 iPad model Any Additional hardware None Your iPad is fabulous and you take it just about everywhere you go Why not use it for work in or out of the office This project talks about moving files back and forth among your iPad your computer your colleagues and the net We show you how to download and read files via email iTunes and Dropbox how to read and mark up a PDF in GoodReader and how to use Instapaper to mark Web content for later reading Email files to yourself Probably the easiest way to move a file between your computer and your iPad or smartphone is to send the file as an email attachment You create the email on your computer and attach the file you want to be able to use on your iPad Then you send the file to yourself using an address in a mail account that you can access on your iPad Mail on the iPad can preview PDFs iWork files and Microsoft Word Excel and PowerPoint files There s a catch however The iPad
141. have this app installed on your iPad you re ready to begin This project requires you to move back and forth between Keynote and Safari several times To make all this navigation easier you can use the Recent apps list Double click the Home button to reveal a panel that shows the currently running apps at the bottom of the screen then tap the icon for the app you want to open Translate some words and phrases The flash card deck you build can be as thick as you like or as the storage of your iPad can accommodate We re going to limit ourselves to three common and useful phrases here but if you feel ambitious feel free to add as many as you like The language we ll use is Italian Here are the phrases Hello My name is a Where is the restroom e Excuse me Would you take a picture of us To perform the translation we ll use Google Translate which we ll access with the Safari Web browser This translation engine can trans late dozens of languages and even though it s not perfect it s more than adequate for our purposes 140 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 79 The Google Translate page in mobile Safari Translating with Google Translate 1 Open Safari 2 Enter http translate google com in the location bar and then tap Go on the onscreen keyboard The appearance of this page can vary because Google always likes to tinker with things Figure 2 79 shows the classic version of the page at this writing
142. he top right corner 2 Tap the Directions button in the top left corner of the map The contact s address appears in the rightmost field at the top of the map which is the Destination field In most cases your current loca tion appears in the Start field 3 If your current location doesn t appear in the Start field tap the Start field and then choose Current Location from the Recents list Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 47 A blue line highlights the route on the map from your current loca tion to the destination At the bottom of the screen is a blue panel that offers you detailed instructions for getting there by walking driving or taking public transportation Figure 1 29 Figure 1 29 You can Pad gt get there from here search just tap Start and fol Re ae Cae low the directions ta sp We Oe gar o F rme Salo e E e F Fad 7 1 a x x 1 i g 5 x i a oy r _ JAS F F E a l r a k F g F A i Fa ce E a Ki a i F k Y ta Qi i m7 3 E 4 a r p a 4 In the blue panel tap the icon for the method of transportation you prefer and then tap Start A step by step list of instructions for getting to the destination appears 48 The iPad 2 Project Book iPad Protection Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed MobileMe account optional iPad model Any Additional hardware None In the 1976 film Marathon Man the malevolent Dr Christian Szell asks the protago
143. hich pages are open in Safari and tap one to work with or you can tap New Page to open a different one If you ve completed the preceding steps Safari is still open on your iPad Fortunately you don t have to discard the Google Translate page to search for images because Safari allows you to have more than one page open at a time You can move among the open Safari pages by tapping the Pages button in Safari s toolbar If more than one page is open in Safari the Pages button displays a number showing how many pages you currently have open You can have as many as nine pages open at the same time if you want Gathering images with Google Images 1 In Safari s toolbar tap the Pages button A black screen appears containing small versions of the pages that are currently open in Safari Figure 2 83 11 11 AM translate google com New Page 2 In Safari go to www google com images 3 On the Google Images page type il bagno in the search field and then tap Search Images Google displays a page of image results Figure 2 84 In case you haven t guessed il bagno is Italian for bathroom and in fact most of the images shown are of Italian bathrooms You could have searched for bathroom of course but why not be authentic Figure 2 84 Google claims to have millions of Italian bathroom images one of which is probably right for your needs Figure 2 85 Google shows the image in context along with informatio
144. ho gave him the freedom to work on this project while he had so many other things on his plate Dennis would like to thank Apple for creating hardware like the iPad that is such a joy to use Also thanks to the purveyors of the third party software that so wonderfully enhances Apple s prod ucts in particular the iPad Thanks too to Michael and Lisa for providing excellent collaboration on a really enjoyable title Special thanks to Steven Mowry at the Spokane Apple Store who finally placed an iPad 2 in my anxious hands after my sixth morning waiting in line for a unit Lisa would like to thank Mac for food and fresh air Michael for spiffy introductions and practical advice and Kathy for making me look much better than deserve CHAPTER 1 Contents Introduction XV Wale Pah SF Ole Genestutnncemtos tetris icndeae anes nies xii What This Book S FOr cccccccccssscsesessssscsscsssscrsssersseerseersieessieeasiess xii Whats New in This Editon sassnsssainsinsiciantevssiactsomannsisasuetieampeaitians xiii A Note About Conventions cccccccssccccssescssssssseseesssssssessessesees xiii Living in the iPad Information Syncing Projeti soedissunsspeisisisosseinnin aiai 2 View your SYNC SETTING Ss siisii 3 Connecting your iPad and viewing general options 3 NS COME E a TA T AA 5 Setting contact SYNC OPTIONS w ccccccsssssccssesssssscssersersesseseeess 5 DIVING SCG aS arris Tn NEEE E ETE 7 Setting calendar SYNC OPtiONS sss
145. hone or iPod touch retrieve that content on your iPad and edit the project there to take advantage of the iPad s larger screen In this project you use Apple s iMovie app to assemble your video clips and photos into a movie with optional background music and narration and then share it with friends and family post it to the Internet or just keep it for your own reference or enjoyment Get your project started All right you have some video segments you ve shot with your iPad s cameras and you want to turn them into a movie The following task shows you how To access iMovie s integrated help system tap the question mark icon in the bottom left corner of an iMovie screen Just about anything you may want to know about the various controls and features are well covered in this help system but it doesn t provide a Getting Started tutorial so that s what we re providing in this first section 224 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 55 iMovie s My Projects screen waiting for you to cre ate your first project Starting the movie 1 If you don t have the iMovie app installed on your iPad go to the App Store and purchase it 4 99 at this writing Tap the iMovie icon on your iPad s home screen You see the My Projects screen shown in Figure 3 55 This screen is your project gallery MOVIE COMING SOON _ de ee eee Tap to start a new project Tap the plus sign in the center of the scr
146. hours 1 menudes Depert 1130 AM PST Arrive 143 PM PST Ovtails Emal A 11 Press the iPad s Home button to exit TravelTracker The beginnings of your vacation plan are stored in TravelTracker with an assist from KAYAK Have a great trip Remember to drop us a postcard In the preceding chapter we take issue with the conventional notion that the iPad is just a media consumption device We think that we prove our point Nonetheless the iPad really is a delightful media consumption device if you want to use it as one The trick is getting the media you want on it when you want it and in the form that you want it This chapter shows you those tricks Our philosophy is this If you re a consumer you owe it to yourself to be the best consumer that you can be 170 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 1 The icon for GarageBand Make Music Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed GarageBand for iPad 4 99 iPad model Any Additional hardware None Whether or not you think that calling the iPad magical is an egregious example of marketing exaggeration the first time you start to play with Apple s GarageBand app you may find that the adjective gains credibility Think of it a home recording studio that fits into a wafer thin slab of glass and metal and that s priced lower than a burger and fries Not only that but also it s a recording studio equipped with musical instruments
147. hts management DRM content Copy protection and DRM are the same thing when you re dealing with digital material Because the DRM content you obtain from the iTunes Store is already in an iPad compatible format and you can sync it to your iPad why can t Air Video stream it Well the DRM license that the lawyers impose on Apple precludes streaming of DRM content except in controlled and negotiated situa tions such as AppleTV and AirPlay through iTunes Therefore if you want to watch video from the iTunes Store on your iPad using Air Video that s about the only video that Air Video won t handle and that you ll have to sync to view AirPlay will stream the video from iTunes on your local network but the content isn t available over the Internet as in the case of Air Video 232 The iPad 2 Project Book Obtaining the Air Video software 1 Point your Web browser towww inmethod com 2 Click the button labeled Get Air Video from the iTunes App Store or click the link for the free version 3 Inthe App Store follow the familiar steps to complete your acquisi tion and download the app to your iTunes Library 4 Sync your iPad so that the software is installed on your iPad You can combine steps 2 4 by connecting to the App Store on your iPad and making the purchase there Remember that Air Video won t be backed up to your computer until your next sync 5 Back on the InMethod Web site click the graphic for your opera
148. iPad 69 Figure 1 47 A bulleted dc aa list with a sublist MyFirstPage ean Updated Mon Mar 28 2044 11 32 Shopping List Milk Bread o Whole wheat The TextExpander touch app from Smile software allows you to create tip snippets of reusable text and use them in any app that allows you to paste In apps like Trunk Notes that support TextExpander touch you can invoke TextExpander touch from within the app and save yourself a considerable amount of typing Markdown Syntax Markdown is a method of inserting simple codes for formatting documents You can also use most HTML codes if you know HTML but Markdown is much faster in terms of typing on an iPad The codes for Markdown are very simple e Paragraphs Insert a blank line by tapping the Return key on the iPad s digital keyboard Make sure that there isn t a leading space at the beginning of the blank line e Headings Type at the beginning of a line to create a first level heading at the beginning of a line for a second level heading and so on up to six levels of headings e Bold text Type before the text you want to be bold and at the end of that text to turn off the bold formatting e Italic text Type before the text you want to italicize and at the end of that text to turn off the italics e Bulleted lists Begin each list item with a space followed by an asterisk e Numbered lists Begin each list item with a space fol
149. iPod touches If you want your movie to go to multiple destinations you need to choose them one at a time because each destination requires its own settings or sign in process Streaming Your Own Video Project Difficulty level Intermediate Software needed Air Video 2 99 or Air Video Free free Air Video Server free iPad model Any Additional hardware Mac or Windows computer We love TV and movies and the iPad is a fantastic platform on which to watch our video Unfortunately the iPad s Videos and iPod apps don t support most of the formats in which video is commonly distributed The iPad likes only MPEG 4 MP4 or M4YV It doesn t like several common formats that you d need to transcode to play on your iPad including MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 used for VCDs video compact discs and DVDs QuickTime AVI DivX and Xvid the last two are also MPEG 4 but not the preferred variant Matroska MKV and Adobe Flash Transcoding every one of these formats involves a diminution of quality resulting from recompression to the new format Add to that fact this consideration Video takes a lot of space and your iPad s storage space is fairly limited Your desktop or laptop computer on the other hand usually has a pretty large hard drive and you can extend that space with additional drives Wouldn t it be nice to use your iPad to view the video stored on your computer without having to sync it Thanks to InMethod s Air Video produ
150. iTunes or MobileMe you may not even have to add any accounts to your iPad by hand but you may want to stop right now and check out the Information Syncing Project earlier in this chapter to make sure that your account data is the same on your iPad as it is on your other devices In the following pages we use the word folder to refer to what is some times called a mailbox or directory simply because the iPad icon for mailboxes and mail directories is a folder one of which is named Inbox The terms are really equivalents in practical terms Add contacts The easiest way to add contacts to the Contacts app on your iPad initially is to sync with your contacts on your computer via iTunes or MobileMe But Mail has a couple of smart ways to make adding contacts much easier than filling out the Contact screen by hand though that s always an option too Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 21 The second easiest way is to add contacts from emails you receive You can add information to any extant contact or create a new contact based on information in an email as we show you in the following tasks Adding contacts from email address fields 1 Find an email in your Inbox or any other mail folder on your iPad containing an address that you want to add to your Contacts app You re going to create a new contact entry for that address 2 Tap the person s name or email address in the From To or CC field of the email You see a popover si
151. igure 2 109 Use the Choose Origin Airport pane to search for the airport from which you want to depart 9 Tap Save Your itinerary now has a dining item scheduled Figure 2 108 Dll Trips Holiday In Portiand New em SpA X f we 7 L EE 6 00 Pu L idiot Fronc h Reserved 10 Press your iPad s Home button to exit Travel Tracker It s time to move to KAYAK and schedule a flight Find flights with KAYAK As you may have noticed in TravelTracker you can add flights to your itinerary Before you can do that though you have to have some flights to add You use KAYAK to find those flights and even book them The flight information shown in this section is subject to change and is shown only for example purposes No endorsement of particular airlines is intended Setting flight routes with KAYAK 1 Launch the KAYAK app on your iPad KAYAK opens showing you its main screen 2 Inthe Flight Search pane on the left side of the screen tap the From field A Choose Origin Airport pane appears next to the Flight Search pane Figure 2 109 Flight Search Close Choose Origin Airport LAX Hotels Roundtrip One way Multi city BOS Boston MA LAX Los Angeles CA Wilshire Plaza Hote Los Angeles 904 t Depart Thu Mar 31 2011 today Current location eum Fri Ape 01 2011 Sheraton Gateway Los Angeles Hote 101 wrt OFF Passenger Gi
152. ile list including the My Dropbox popover My Dropbox is the heart of Dropbox on an iPad Almost everything you do with the app starts with My Dropbox 86 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 6 ka My Dropbox popover E Welcome to Dropbox Home My Dropbox ma fOPDOX Photos to access your Dropbox on the fi them to your friends and even offline CT Public you can view files from your Ppbox right on your iPad Need to few a slide deck but don t have Br computer with you Dropbox you covered Want to read a ort someone from work just shared with you No problem Want to open a file in another app Go for it Want to listen to music or watch videos stored in your Dropbox That works too Favoriting a file in Dropbox 1 Launch the Dropbox app on your iPad You should see the My Dropbox popover refer to Figure 2 6 If you don t see My Dropbox tap the My Dropbox icon 2 Tap a file in the list The file opens in Dropbox s preview screen Figure 2 7 Figure 2 7 Dropbox preview screen Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad Favorite button Link button a urban_fantasy doc P viasy and Medieval Literature s m Seats Action button 3 Tap the Favorite button at the right end of the screen s toolbar The star turns dark to indicate that you ve marked the file as a favorite You also see a small star in blue circle badge on the icons of
153. ileMe iDisk A Public iDisk FE Google Docs Dropbox SugarSync 5O box net F Any WebDAV Server F FTP Server E SFTP Server Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 97 4 Tap Dropbox A Dropbox login screen opens Figure 2 22 Figure 2 22 Dropbox login screen Cancel Dropbox Dropbox Readable Title User Password if you don t enter user name and password you will be asked to enter them every time when you connect 5 Enter a title in the Readable Title field The name that you give this server account such as iPad Projects DB will identify it for you when it appears in the list of servers in the My Documents screen You must enter something in this field 6 Optional Enter your Dropbox login information in the User and Password fields If you leave these fields empty GoodReader will ask you for the infor mation each time you access your Dropbox account from GoodReader 7 Tap the blue Add button in the top right corner Your new Dropbox server is added to the Connect to Servers bar in the My Documents screen Figure 2 23 Figure 2 23 Connect to Servers bar showing a m B ad the new server ee it Baten ha ie Uae at Be Be iPad Projects DB 98 The iPad 2 Project Book Downloading a file to GoodReader 1 Open GoodReader 2 Navigate to the My Documents screen tapping the My Documents button if that screen isn t open 3 Tap your Dropbox ser
154. ime Zone Support switch is off tap it to turn it on 4 Tap Time Zone to open the Time Zone screen 5 In the search field at the top of the screen begin to type the name of a city in the time zone that you want A list of cities appears below the search field 6 Tap the city that s in the time zone you want You re done 46 The iPad 2 Project Book Turn off Time Zone Support when you re not using it If it s on and set for a different time zone from the one you re in your calendar events may appear at the wrong times the next time you sync your iPad Get directions This feature is a fun one to use and a real time saver In your Contacts app every street address for each contact is linked to your iPad s Maps app Here s how to use it Seeing a contact s address with the Maps app 1 Open the Contacts app 2 Choose a contact who has a street address 3 Tap that street address The Maps app opens showing the location of the address you just tapped This feature is particularly helpful when you re traveling Suppose that you re in a hotel and you have a meeting with a client at her office It s a simple matter to get directions from your hotel to your client s office Read on Getting directions from your location to a contact s address 1 Inthe Contacts app tap a contact s address The Maps app opens with your contact s address pinpointed on the map and the address displayed in the search field in t
155. ime you see a list of emails in a floating Mail window you can swipe a finger across an individual email in the list and then tap the red Delete button to delete it Tap the blue Done button when you re ready to return to reading email Moving a single email to a different folder 1 Open an email that you want to move from one mailbox to another 2 Tap the folder icon in the top right section of the window You see a popover listing your mail folders similar to the one shown in Figure 1 21 though likely with very different folders Figure 1 21 List of mail folders for a single Tap on a mailbox to move this message email account teste tsa Accounts Mailboxes A inbox Hide Drafts Sent Mail i Trash PE Gmail All Mail Makas Unread PS our projects F Spam Starred _ Deleted Messages _ Drafts Personal 36 The iPad 2 Project Book 3 Tap the folder to which you want to move the open email The email shrinks into that folder via the genie effect Moving multiple emails to a single folder 1 Open a mail folder You see a popover listing the mail in that folder similar to the one shown in Figure 1 18 earlier in this project 2 Tap the Edit button in the top right corner of the popover You see a new popover similar to the one shown in Figure 1 19 earlier in this project 3 Select the messages you want to move by tapping them The gray circle to the immediate left of each s
156. indow Over time you may find that you ve made dozens of playlists You can shorten the Source list by creating folders where you can store various playlists When you sync playlists between iTunes and your iPad you can choose individual playlists folders full of playlists or individual playlists inside folders When you select a folder of playlists in iTunes and sync that playlist folder to your iPad all the playlists inside that folder are synced to your iPad The icons for the playlist folders on your iPad don t look much like folders however they look more like stacks of playlists In the following tasks you create a folder for the playlists that you want to have on your iPad create a playlist inside that folder add songs to that playlist and then sync everything When you have these steps down you can go through your iTunes Library at leisure and create play lists and folders for your iPad to suit your needs and desires Making a playlist and playlist folder in iTunes 1 Inthe iTunes Source list click Music All your music in iTunes appears in a list Figure 3 24 LIBRARY Track v Mame GotlZ Dum sigillum da Library Fobl2 Beata viscera oO Bofl2 Missa Lumen de Lumine 200 a Movies Sof 12 Missa Lumen de Lumine 200 LI TY Shows 10 of12 Missa Lumen de Lumine 200 Podcasts 1i of12 v Missa Lumen de Lumine 200 Before you can create a playlist or a playlist folder iTunes must be displ
157. ings opens tap General then in the General screen tap Network Again we re sure that you can figure this out Finally you need to know a few basic iPad action terms e Tap Touch your finger to the screen and then quickly lift it e Tap and hold Touch the screen and don t lift your finger e Swipe Touch the screen and quickly drag your finger up down left or right We tell you the direction in which to drag And now with that out of the way on to the projects This page intentionally left blank Living in the iPad Remember how Mary Poppins kept pulling stuff out of her magic little satchel when she first moved into the Banks household Your iPad is a lot like that satchel No you can t really live in your iPad but it can contain much of the stuff that you use in your daily life and that you ordinarily might keep elsewhere calendars address book mail notebooks and so on This stuff would be really useful to have on an iPad That s what this chapter is about projects that show you how to get your stuff into and out of your iPad as well as a few cool things you can do with that stuff after it takes up residence on the iPad 2 The iPad 2 Project Book Information Syncing Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed iTunes iPad model Any Additional hardware None If you ve been using a computer for any length of time it probably stores a lot of information that you use regularly such
158. intasy as a subgenre was via the Borderlands books a shared universe series created by Terri Windling The books and stories are set in Bordertown a liminal area on the border between the Elflands and the World There have been several anthologies containing short stories and novellas in the Borderlands universe and three novels Will Shenerly s Elsewhere 199 his Neaerneorr 1993 and Emma Bull s Frader 1994 The Borderlands books were targeted towards YA but were exceedingly popular with a wide range of ages including readers who wouldn t ordinarily describe themselves as fantasy fans Bull s Finder very quickly led me to Erma Bull s 1987 novel War fie the Cirks I began reading more and more fantasy that was described on the books themselves in the press and by other readers as urban fantasy 1 understood quite well what urban meant it meant the polis the city as the primary setting rather than for instance a rural setting Urban fantasy is generally associated willy ary arbare setting and some form of tire supernatural or kintastig of late this has been an emphasis on faines vampirs werewolves elves combies ard varius forms of magic workers and mythological life formes Ask a reader what urban fantasy is today or who writes it and they ll mention authors like Holly Black Emma Bull Jim Butcher Patricia Briggs Rachel Caine Laurel K Hamilton Stacia Kane Charles de Lint there s quite a lot
159. ion from the drop down menu 8 Select Bookmarks and choose the Web browser that you use from the drop down menu 9 Click the Sync Now button 10 Close the MobileMe control panel Cut the cord Reading this section is necessary only if you ve completed the Information Syncing Project earlier in this chapter In this section you undo what you did in the earlier project You turn off wired syncing of contacts calendars and bookmarks between your iPad and your computer Most likely nothing will go wrong if you don t turn off wired syncing of your information When you sync the same information over a dock connector cable with iTunes and wirelessly with MobileMe however you may end up with duplicate information Turning off wired syncing of your information 1 Launch iTunes if it s not already running 2 Connect your iPad and let the sync take place After the sync your iPad and your computer have the same informa tion What s more your computer and MobileMe should also be in sync if you set up MobileMe to sync automatically as we show you how to do in Go from computer to cloud earlier in this project Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 17 In the iTunes Source list select your iPad At the top of the main iTunes pane click the Info button Clear the check box titled Sync Address Book Contacts Mac or Sync Contacts Windows Clear the check box titled Sync iCal Calendars Mac or Sync Calendars Windows
160. ion on the iWork com site so that other people can download a copy and you can share it as a Keynote file or a PDF When you choose this option Keynote creates an email with download information that you can send to your intended recipients You can export the presentation in either Keynote or PDF format to your iPad s file sharing area and then use iTunes to copy the file from your iPad to your computer We explain this process in the Go to Meeting Project earlier in this chapter You can copy the presentation to your MobileMe iDisk if you subscribe to MobileMe You can copy the presentation to a WebDAV server if you have access to such a server 5 Tap the option of your choice and follow the onscreen instructions 154 The iPad 2 Project Book Vacation Planning Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed KAYAK HD free TravelTracker 2 99 iPad models Any Additional hardware None The whole point of a vacation is to get away from the stress of daily life lronically most vacations begin with the stress of planning the vacation picking the dates planning the itinerary and then one of the biggest stressors of them all dancing the airline online tango which can involve stepping from one airline Web site to another searching for a flight that you can afford but that doesn t involve three intermediate stops and a 3 a m departure time In this project you use two apps that help ameliorate the stress of getting
161. it to the left edge of the iTunes window Adding songs to a playlist 1 Click Music in the iTunes Source list All the content in your Music library is displayed in the main pane of the iTunes window Figure 3 26 Selecting a playlist folder for syncing Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 2 Click a song to select it 193 You can select multiple songs by Shift clicking If your iTunes Library is displaying songs by album cover in iTunes grid layout you can select the album by clicking its cover To view your Music library in grid layout choose View gt as Grid 3 Drag the song to the playlist to which you want to add it You can delete a song from a playlist at any time First click the play list to see its contents then select the song and press the Delete key Don t worry the song is still in your Music library Selecting and syncing playlists 1 Follow steps 1 3 of Syncing your entire Music library to your iPad earlier in this project If they aren t already selected select the Sync Music check box and the radio button titled Selected playlists artists albums and genres 3 In the Playlists list select a folder The Playlists list displays folders before individual playlists so chances are that your iPad songs folder for this project is near the top as shown in Figure 3 26 Playlists l E bought e O i free vE D iPad songs f Labyrinth songs Eil M
162. ively 3 Send the email to yourself Mail Attachments That the iPad Can Preview By preview Apple means that you can view read or play the following file formats within Mail You can t edit previewed files though you may be able to use the Copy command Adobe Acrobat and Preview Mac files pdf ASCIl text files txt Audio files aac aiff mp3 and wav all of which you can play in the Mail app Image files gif jpg and tiff displayed as inline images in Mail iWork files key Keynote numbers Numbers and pages Pages Microsoft Office files doc and docx Word ppt and pptx PowerPoint and xls and xlsx Excel Rich text files rtf vCard files vcf which you can import into Contacts see the Mail Management Project in Chapter 1 Web pages htm and html 82 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 1 Icon for an attached Word file in Mail Figure 2 2 Mail show ing a preview of a Word document Previewing a Microsoft Word file in Mail 1 Open an email with an attached Word file see the preceding task You see an icon in the body of the email like the one shown in Figure 2 1 If you ve installed another app that can read Word files on the iPad you may see that app s icon instead W urban fantasy doc 41 0 KB 2 Tap the icon A preview screen opens Figure 2 2 urban_fantasy doc Urban Fantasy and Medieval Literature My first acquaintance with urban G
163. ize your error imme diately or very soon thereafter you can recover the email by opening the Trash folder associated with the account in question by tapping the trash can icon and moving the email from Trash to your Inbox Depending on your email account settings and the settings of your ISP s mail server mail that you delete on your iPad may remain ina Deleted Email or Trash folder for a while Deleting the email in that folder should get rid of it permanently You can also delete or move several emails from one mail folder to another at the same time as we show you in the next task 32 The iPad 2 Project Book Deleting multiple emails 1 Tap a mail folder on your iPad You see a popover similar to the one shown in Figure 1 18 Figure 1 18 A mail list iPad gt 8 01 PM 100 mm in Mail 2 of 3 E mo 5 Hide Michael Cohen ne drta shots bring the screen mes irori pe iPad uia IANI Mark as Unread Updated 22291 8 100 PM Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 33 2 Tap the Edit button in the top right corner of the popover You see a new popover listing the email in that folder with a circle to the left of each message Figure 1 19 Figure 1 19 A mail list ready to be edited Inbox Cancel Michael Cohen Yesterday Re Screen shots via Dropbox int Lisa L Spangenberg Saturday iPad Project Book contacts Circles Hi The email address to use is lpadprojects gmail com The Web site is here
164. king a playlist on the iPad 1 2 Tap the iPod app s icon on your iPad to open it Tap Music at the top of the Library column Your Music library appears in a list Figure 3 27 At the bottom of the screen tap the Songs button then in the bottom left corner tap the plus icon A New Playlist dialog appears Enter a name for your playlist and tap Save Your iPad displays the songs that it contains in alphabetical order and instructs you to add songs to the playlist Swipe through the list of songs tapping the ones you want to add to your new playlist As you tap a song s title it turns gray indicating that it s been added Figure 3 27 All your songs in the iPod on the iPad Figure 3 28 A new iPad playlist awaiting final approval Genius Mixes Albums Audiobooks l Beatles Chronolog bought b Come Nad Now Playing Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad After the Bombs After The Dolphin After What Again Today Air Pour Faire Pl u Albatross Alcohol Alexander All Arise All Around the World All By Myself Albu All Want All I m Thinkin About All I ve Got to Do The De Cc embe nsis Crosby Stills amp Nash Blues Traveler Brandi Carlie Kormog Judy Collins Barenaked Ladies Niamh Parsons The Decemberists Orba Squara Green Day Joni Mitchell Bruce Springsteen The Beatles 195 The Crane Wite Crosby Stills amp Nash Bastardos The S
165. l E Cohen has been Cin no particular order a teacher a programmer an editor a short order cook a postal clerk a Web designer a digital media producer an instructional technology consultant a certified usability analyst and an assembly line worker A three time contributing editor of The Macintosh Bible and a regular contributor to TidBITS he co wrote the Apple Training Series iLife 09 and is the author or co author of several other books He lives in Santa Monica California with about a half dozen working Macs and the memory board from his Apple Lisa Dennis R Cohen has been developing software since his days with the Jet Propulsion Lab s Deep Space Network and has been writing and editing books and magazine articles since the late 1970s He s author co author or contributing author of almost 30 titles and the editor of more than 300 technology titles Lisa L Spangenberg an expert in medieval English and Celtic languages writes about technology food and books when she isn t administering Web servers and creating Web sites She has wanted an iPad since 2000 For more information about the authors and about all things iPad see their Web site at www ipadprojectsbook com Acknowledgments Michael would like to express his thanks to Cliff Colby who got this book going in a remarkably short time to Kathy Simpson who edited his discursive ramblings into something resembling coherent prose and to the Engsts w
166. lboxes may mean navigating multiple email accounts The iPad Mail app has a separate Inbox for each account as well as a unified All Inboxes folder that displays the Inbox contents for all email accounts For more information on the latter folder see the All Inboxes sidebar at the end of this project Another challenge associated with email is spam People we don t know send us email we don t want When you scan your Inbox one way to isolate the real mail from spam some legitimate bulk mail sent to mailing lists isn t spam is to see whether a particular piece of mail was sent to you alone or to you and a bunch of other people In the following task we show you how IMAP and POP Mail Accounts When you send mail your email client and Internet service provider ISP use a protocol called SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol But when you set up your iPad to receive mail you usually have the option of telling Mail to use IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol or POP Post Office Protocol for each email account you set up In some cases though you don t have a choice your IT department at work or your ISP will tell you which protocol to use for incoming mail Here are some things to keep in mind about how POP and IMAP work IMAP is designed to leave mail on the server and to make sure that every device that logs on to the server has exactly the same mail in the same folders IMAP accounts let your organize your email in
167. ld Think of this book as 3 Tap Note If you re making your first annotation or modification in a PDF a dialog like the one shown in Figure 2 35 appears This dialog appears only the first time it doesn t appear again Figure 2 35 You can annotate a copy or the original PDF file First Time Modifying a File Would you like to save changes to this file or do you want to create a separate copy of a tile and save changes there to leave the original file unchanged Save to this file Create an annotated copy Cancel Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 105 4 Tap Save to this file The yellow window shown in Figure 2 36 appears ready for you to type a note Figure 2 36 Anote troeformation that will shrink you to the same sive as the actors Properly R mmialurised you can then wateta the drana untold Think of this book as annotation a a eee coe tcl 5 Type something in the window and then tap the Save button A yellow note marker appears on the PDF page Figure 2 37 Figure 2 37 Thies book will make you a front row spectator in the audience for a Note marker series of dramatic productions To accomplish that though vou will need to be small enough to fit inside the theater You will undergo a virtual transformation that will shris to the same size as the actors Properly miniaturized you can then D drama unfold Think of this book as a festival of cutertaining aml inst
168. listing six common destinations Figure 3 62 Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 229 Figure 3 62 Pick a place to send your video Camera Roll Share Movie To Yolh vimeo CNN iReport vend Project To iTunes 2 Tap one of the destinations e Camera Roll saves your movie in your iPad s Camera Roll album in your choice of three sizes Figure 3 63 Then you can view it in the Photos app share it via email or MobileMe or sync it back to your Mac or PC Figure 3 63 Choose a size for the video you re saving to the Camera Roll album e YouTube is the 800 pound gorilla of modern video sharing You need a free account to post your movies on YouTube e Facebook is the preeminent social networking site of the day If you have a free Facebook membership you can host your movies on your personal page for your friends and acquaintances to view and comment on e Vimeo is another popular video sharing site best known for leading the way in hosting high definition video White House broadcasts and famous performers work The basic and limited membership is free the Plus membership currently costs 60 per year 230 The iPad 2 Project Book e CNN iReport lets everyday folk submit videos about breaking news It s a sort of news wiki without any fact checking or peer review e iTunes lets you save your project via iTunes File Sharing so that it s accessible to other iPads iPhones and
169. llotment in a 3G contract whether that amount is 250 MB 1 GB or 2 GB A single 2 hour movie could easily consume your monthly allotment and have you paying a hefty overage penalty to boot If you re going to watch streaming video and we think that streaming video falls into the good things in life category make sure that you re viewing it over a Wi Fi connection Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 223 Make a Movie Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed iMovie app 4 99 iPad model iPad 2 Additional hardware None Apple led the way in personal computer video creation when it released the iMac DV and iMovie in 1999 iMovie has gone through multiple iter ations but has consistently been reviewed as a compelling combination of power and ease of use The latest version of iMovie for the iPad 2 iPhone 4 and iPod touch fourth generation is adapted to the iOS touchscreen interface for the low low price of just 4 99 This version has some drawbacks You can t edit any video other than what you ve taken with an iOS device for example nothing that you ve downloaded from the Internet received in email or acquired from anything other than another iOS device One nice touch though is that you don t have to have a wired connection to your Mac or PC running iTunes to transfer an iMovie project If you have a wireless connection you can use iTunes File Sharing to save a project to iTunes from an iP
170. long flight number The New Flight screen returns briefly but is quickly replaced by the Departure Date screen which contains a date selection widget 8 If the departure date for this project November 21 2011 isn t already selected use the widget to dial it in and then tap Save TravelTracker looks up the flight and fills out the rest of the form as shown in Figure 2 118 Figure 2 118 TravelTracker fills out oe the rest of the New aen Flight form as soon as rasin it has an airline a flight Depart number and a date Mane 9 Tap Save The departure flight appears in your itinerary screen 168 The iPad 2 Project Book 10 Repeat steps 2 9 using the return flight number the airline and the return date that you got from your KAYAK search assuming that you completed both tasks in Find flights with KAYAK earlier in this project Your itinerary now contains your departure flight your return flight and your dinner information Figure 2 119 Figure 2 119 fil Tipe Holiday In Portland Your itinerary is start November 21 2011 00 AM Delta 9261 ing to look useful 718 AM Los Angeles LAX Portland PDX o A Duretor 2 hours 16 center Depart 600 AM PST Aree 10 15 AM PST _Saturday November 26 2011 m _ 7 n acora L idiot K S French Reserved Monday November 28 2011 11 90 AM Delta 9100 49 Bortland PDX Los Angeles LAX A Duraton 2
171. lowed by a number and then a period 1 The number doesn t matter Trunk Notes automatically numbers list items based on their order Markdown codes don t appear onscreen in Trunk Notes when you aren t in edit mode Trunk Notes converts the codes to formatted text when you save an entry 70 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 48 A page showing the Markdown code for an internal link Adding internal links to Trunk Notes pages 1 Open Trunk Notes to its home page 2 Tap inside the Search field and type EntryWithLinks 3 On the search results screen tap Create page EntryWithLinks 4 Tap the Action button at the bottom of the screen A popover appears refer to Figure 1 45 earlier in this project 5 Tap Insert Link To in the popover A list of Trunk Notes entries appears 6 Tap MyFirstPage Trunk Notes inserts MyFirstPage as shown in Figure 1 48 The double brackets around a wikiword are Markdown code for a Trunk Notes page IPad 6 59 PM Cala m Entry WithLinks Save MyFirstPage Typing a wikiword in the body of a Trunk Notes page automatically creates a link that goes to a new blank entry or page if no such page exists and if the page exists typing the wikiword name for that page creates a link to the page 7 Tap the Save button Your page should look similar to Figure 1 49 The phrase MyFirstPage is now a hyperlink tap it to go to that entry Figure 1 49 A page showing a hype
172. mail com la Picture Frame ite nah 4 iga General Add Account A Mail Contacts Calendars Fetch New Data Push a Safari Mail 5 iPod Show 50 Recent Messages gt is z i Video Preview 3 Lines gt hed Photos Minimum Font Size Medium gt S Notes Show To Cc Label ON a Store P O Ask Before Deleting OFF P Bento Load Remote Images On BigOven Organize By Thread ON Borders i Always Bcc Myself OFF Ka C Aquarium Signature Sent from my iPad A Facebook Default Account Gmail IMAP GoodReader Messages created outside of Mail will be sent from i iBooks lhe defaull account Contacts L Figure 1 17 Set the Show To Cc Label switch to On Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 31 3 Tap the switch to the right of Show To Cc Label to set it to On Figure 1 17 Mail Show 50 Recent Messages gt Preview 3 Lines Minimum Font Size Medium Show To Ce Label Wii Ask Before Deleting Load Remote Images ON Organize By Thread From now on popovers listing mail in your Inbox and other mail folders display a small gray To icon next to messages addressed only to you Deleting a single email 1 Open an email that you want to delete 2 Tap the trash can icon in the top right corner of the message The email shrinks and disappears into the trash can in what Apple calls the genie effect If you happen to delete an email by mistake and real
173. ments between your iPad and this computer STORI iTunes Sore Apps Documents 2 Ping SD pase ia BlogPress TJ Purchaved on Lita s iPad Borders DEVICES P Usa s Ped mo w DocsToGo SHARED a as Sucephates ovary eee Select apps from the list on the left to view the PLAYLISTS ie documents that are on your iPad a knit Kobo ag Pages Stanza This section may look different if you have different apps installed on your iPad or if you use Windows instead of Mac OS X 6 Select GoodReader in the Apps list on the left side of the pane A GoodReader Documents list appears Figure 2 17 on the next page 93 94 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 17 GoodReader Documents list Figure 2 18 The Documents list with new files J e J J J J J J o a a SE i 7 7 y Wa D gt gt gt er s a Jem er am CA Search Anos LISRARY Summary info l apos Muwic Movies TV Shows Podcasts Munts U Book Photes J Maie w U cane TAMD H i z 5 Movees aw Manamin Eniiesira faor feet astari Maii Tottionrifis Books iPod Orepbes LL TV Shows gJ a v Automatically sync new apps Select apes to be installed on yvur iPad or drag to a specific bome screen P Podeass GD Drag to rearrange app icons or hame screent F iTunesU Books Gl Ans sa File Sharing K Rado The apps isted below can transfer documents between your iPad and this computer STORI iTunes Sore Apps GoodReader Documents 2 Ping z BlogPress E
174. milar to the one shown in Figure 1 9 If you tapped the From field this window is titled Sender if you tapped the To field it s Recipient and if you tapped the CC field it s CC Your contact form may have more or less information than the one shown in the figure Figure 1 9 Using the 4 08 PM From line in an email to Tika iofG j Z create a new contact From MacAllister Stone Hide Sender MacAllister Stone Mark as Unread ee eel Ative Fiction and Poetry Create New Contact Add to Existing Contact The email address used in the email is already filled in for you Below the address are two buttons Create New Contact and Add to Existing Contact 22 The iPad 2 Project Book 3 Tap Create New Contact The popover Sender Recipient or CC is replaced by the New Contact form Figure 1 10 Figure 1 10 New Contact form Cancel New Contact home page UAL add new address ee add field The Contacts app works in part by matching email addresses so if you have a contact who has more than one email address you may acci dentally create a second contact for that person When in doubt tap the Add to Existing Contact button instead of Create New Contact You ll see a list of all your contacts in a popover If the contact doesn t already exist just tap Cancel and you ll return to the popover shown in Figure 1 9 where you can tap Create New Contact 4 Fill out the First and Last nam
175. more projects that use the Photos app see Chapter 3 4 Tap the blue Done button in the top right corner to save your changes and close the form Adding contact data from an email body 1 Find an email with an email address in its body that you want to add to a contact You can also add a street address phone number or URL see the nearby sidebar Adding Other Kinds of Data to Contacts from Mail but in this task we re going to show you how to add an email address The basic procedure for adding all the other types of contact data is the same though the contact form will look slightly different for each type 2 Tap and hold the address until you see a popover similar to the one shown in Figure 1 13 ace ene From Lisa Spangenberg To ipadprojects gmail com New blog and email A010 4 59 PM Hi cr ated a new email address to use for the book ipadprojects qmail com And there s a Web site here bttoy www ipadprojiectsbook com Lisa Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 25 Adding Other Kinds of Data to Contacts from Mail Quite often the body of an email someone sends you contains information that you want to incorporate into a contact such as a name and address a phone number or a URL In most cases Mail recognizes that the http and www prefixes identify a Web site that phone numbers and street addresses have particular combinations of characters and formatting and that
176. movies All episodes a Unwatched episodes e The most or least recently obtained unwatched episodes Figure 3 38 Now showing in the TV Shows pane 207 Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad e Selected episodes e Selected playlists that contain TV show episodes Because episodes belong to TV shows you can specify whether the unwatched and recent criteria apply to all TV shows or only to selected TV shows If you re an avid fan of William Daniels for example you can choose to sync only the five oldest unwatched episodes of Captain Nice and no others As with movies in this part of the project you get to experiment with various syncing settings to see how they work Also as with movies any changes you make in TV show syncing don t take effect without your approval Turning on TV show syncing 1 Connect your iPad to your computer 2 Launch iTunes 3 Select your iPad in the iTunes Source list below the Devices heading 4 Atthe top of the main pane of the iTunes window click the TV Shows button 5 At the top of the TV Shows pane select Sync TV Shows Figure 3 38 Sync TV Shows Automatically include episodes of Shows Dr Horrible s Sing Along Blog Episodes i Oetro 1 4 7 d Act 3 gt x e Act l Doctor Who 2 Or Horrible s Sing Along Blog 1 mew episode C tota Glee a ka a Include Episodes from Playlists Purchased Purchased on MEC TY Because
177. n about the image and some addi tional options Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 143 we Entertainment ar ee seal er eens ers WA ene A Web image Videos Maps Mowe Shopping Gmail more gt Google vago Aboot PS00000 enuke 127 cesaria i Everything Videos E News 3 Shopping More 4 Tap an image that you think would make a good illustration The image pops out of the page so that you can see it more clearly 5 Tap the image again Google displays a split screen with the Web page on which the image appears on the left side and a set of display choices on the right side Figure 2 85 Googie image Result tor mip Marm2 state Mckr COM 286 S698 100080 clet ccste pg B m ee Waw google comimgres imgutietitip ar C Thee mp ma be at copyrgtt 144 The iPad 2 Project Book 6 Tap the Full size image link on the right side of the screen The image appears by itself in Safari 7 Tap and hold the image Two option buttons appear Figure 2 86 Figure 2 86 You can save any image from the Web in your iPad s Photos app 8 Tap Save Image The image is saved in your iPad s Photos app On an original iPad you can find it in the Saved Photos album on an iPad 2 it s in the Camera Roll album 9 Inthe top left corner of the Safari screen tap the Back navigation button twice The Google Images search results reappear Notice the search field at the top of the
178. n easy to read form Figure 2 60 on the next page Tap the Prepare button to view the recipe without ads or extraneous data so you can follow the instructions easily when you re preparing the dish 124 The iPad 2 Project Book Prepare button Action button Figure 2 60 Recipe screen B46 calories per serving Recos Dy stevemur 13 Reveews View Rewews Preparation Ingredients jipoon oliy tamesscen Butter N If you want to return to the search results from a recipe screen tap the BigOven button in the top left corner Mark and find favorite recipes in BigOven When you ve found a recipe you like it s useful to mark it as a favorite so that you can find it again easily as we show you in the following tasks Marking favorite recipes in BigOven 1 Tap BigOven s icon to open the app if it isn t already open 2 Find a recipe you like see the preceding task 3 Tap the Action button at the far right end of the toolbar refer to Figure 2 60 You see the options shown in Figure 2 61 Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 125 e e oO Oo e e e J e e J Figure 2 61 TEA Action button popover re ee options Add to Try Soon Email it share on Twitter Share on Facebook Review it View Ingredients as Metric 4 Tap Add to Favorites BigOven adds the recipe to your favorites list After you favorite a recipe Add to Favorites is replaced by Rem
179. n stream your content to an AppleT V equipped HD television set More Convenience Features Here are a few tips for added enjoyment and functionality If the controls aren t visible just tap within the video to make them appear Double tap the video in full screen mode and the video expands to fill the screen even if that expansion results in cropping the sides of a widescreen show You can do the same thing by tapping the Full Screen button refer to Figure 3 71 switching between letterbox and full screen view If you ve added videos to or removed videos from the folder currently displayed in the list on the left side of the preview pane tap the Refresh button in the top right corner of the list refer to Figure 3 70 to update the display Home Sharing Project Difficulty level Easy to intermediate Software needed iTunes free AirView free iPad model Any Additional hardware Another iOS 4 3 device iPhone iPod touch iPad AppleTV Mac or PC Long before the iPhone or iPad came to be Apple introduced AirTunes which supported streaming the music from a Mac or Windows PC running iTunes to remote speakers on a wireless network This feature sold a fair number of AirPort Express wireless units Later came AppleTV which supported streaming video and audio content from computers to high definition TV sets as well as direct access to the iTunes Store for content In iTunes 10 Apple upped the ante The resulting feature H
180. n the Include Episodes from Playlists list at the bottom of the TV Shows syncing pane Syncing episodes of selected TV shows 1 Below the Sync TV Shows check box in the TV Shows pane click the Automatically include option if it isn t already checked Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 209 2 From the second pop up menu in the preceding option the choice in the first pop up menu doesn t matter choose selected shows Check boxes appear beside each show s name in the Shows list 3 Inthe Shows list click a show s check box to select it Only the episodes from the selected TV shows that match the criteria in the first pop up menu sync automatically As shown in Figure 3 40 however you can select other shows in the Shows list and sync individual episodes of them as well Figure 3 40 You can Sync TV Shows episod SYNC episodes from Automatically include all episodes of selected shows shows other than the Ones you ve chosen to Shows Glee Episodes SYNC automatically ES pr Horrible Sing Along Blog s ne Sno Syncing all TV shows 1 Below the Sync TV Shows check box in the TV Shows pane click the Automatically include option if it isn t already checked 2 From the first pop up menu in the Automatically include option choose all 3 From the second pop up menu in the Automatically include option choose all shows All the lists in the TV Shows syncing pane vanish
181. n the cursor e Double tap a word to select it and then drag the selection handles to adjust the selection e Tap a selection or a location in the text to open the text editing controls shown in Figure 2 93 Figure 2 93 Editing options for a Keynote text field ies ede antes iia ee imma select select All Paste Copy Style ia Words and Phrases Making an Italian slide and completing the deck 1 Follow steps 1 2 of the preceding task Duplicating and editing a Slide to make a duplicate of the English slide you just completed 2 Double click the iPad s Home button to display the apps panel at the bottom of the screen 3 Tap the Safari icon to open Safari tap the Pages button in Safari s toolbar and then tap the thumbnail for the page of translated text that you created earlier in this project You want to copy the Italian translation of the English text that currently appears on the duplicate slide 150 The iPad 2 Project Book 4 Just to the right of the translated text tap and hold the screen until a blue selection rectangle appears Figure 2 94 Figure 2 94 Selecting the text to copy ge English to italian translation z g lao Il mio nome gt a Dov il bagno Mi scusi vuoi scatiare una foto di noir o You tap and hold to the right of the translation because when you tap the text itself Google helpfully supplies alternative translations for the text you tapped instead o
182. nces Your Mac sends your information to the cloud ready to be synced with your iPad or with any other computers and devices that you sync with the same MobileMe account If you use iCal and have never synced with MobileMe read the nearby sidebar Using iCal with the New MobileMe Calendar to see how to get your On My Mac iCal events into MobileMe Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 15 Using iCal with the New MobileMe Calendar In the olden days when you bought a MobileMe subscription and told iCal to sync with MobileMe the events in your calendars located in iCal s On My Mac collection would syne with MobileMe In 2010 however Apple changed how MobileMe calendars worked and provided an upgrade process to move those synced On My Mac calendars to a new MobileMe collection in iCal You ve prob ably already received email from Apple explaining how to upgrade your iCal calendars That upgrade process however works only for those who have previously synced their On My Mac calendars with MobileMe If you use iCal and have never synced your On My Mac calen dars with MobileMe you have to export each On My Mac calendar and then import it into a new MobileMe calendar if you want to sync it with MobileMe Here s how you do that 1 In iCal select a calendar in the On My Mac collection of calendars and then choose File gt Export gt Export In the window that appears give the exported calendar a name and choose wher
183. ndars 40 42 43 Summary pane iTunes 4 swipe gesture deleting email with 35 syncing See also specific syncing projects about 2 applying settings for 9 10 calendars 7 clearing all iTunes playlists before 189 contacts 5 6 files on demand with Dropbox 87 88 iTunes Music library with iPad 186 188 iTunes playlists 189 191 193 from Mac with MobileMe 13 14 mail settings 8 to MobileMe from Windows computer 15 16 movie selections and playlists 205 206 movies 203 204 205 notes and bookmarks 9 reverting to automatic 203 TV shows 207 208 209 using wireless 12 16 17 viewing settings in iTunes 3 5 why use iTunes for 10 wiki with Dropbox 62 T templates choosing Pages document 129 wiki pages 62 tempo 176 183 184 text adding bulleted lists 68 adding to wiki entry 64 66 changing font or color of 134 editing Keynote placeholder 146 147 formatting wiki 66 69 highlighting PDF 105 pasting from email into Pages 128 130 selecting Pages placeholder 133 translating words and phrases 139 141 149 TextExpander touch app 69 3G connections See also Wireless Syncing Project about cloud services 12 13 streaming video from 222 236 Time Zone Support feature 44 46 track view GarageBand 178 179 transport controls GarageBand 176 177 Trash folder 31 Travel Tracker about 154 155 add ons for 159 entering flight info into itinerary 166 168 itineraries in 158 159 scheduling dinner in 159 162 setting
184. nes Store on your iPad it stays on your iPad you can t move it to your computer or any other device Similarly if you rent a movie via AppleTV you can t move it from AppleTV to any other device Streaming Internet Video Project Difficulty level Intermediate Software needed ABC Player free Netflix app free iPad model Any Additional hardware None Everywhere we turn we find people catching TV shows at times other than the scheduled broadcast times and frequently on devices other than a TV set Battling viewership loss to cable and in an attempt to recoup ad revenue lost to cable and other competition network televi sion has begun to embrace alternative delivery systems in particular the Internet and iTunes Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 211 Time and venue shifting have become so pervasive that Nielsen Media Research in an attempt to stay relevant purchased NetRatings to measure the demographics of the rapidly growing Internet viewing popu lation Nielsen also factors iTunes and YouTube viewing into its ratings Also Netflix the Big Kahuna of video rental is deemphasizing sending DVD and Blu ray discs by mail in favor of streaming rentals to customers Web browsers or mobile devices As we all know the best mobile device for receiving these rentals is the iPad For 7 99 per month you can watch an awful lot of video without making a single trip to rental sites or the mailbox Get the TV s
185. new email for you already addressed to the email address you tapped e Create New Contact which opens a New Contact form with the email address already filled in refer to Figure 1 9 earlier in this project 26 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 14 Contact form with Share button visible e Add to Existing Contact which lets you select and modify an existing contact in the Contacts app e Copy which places the email address on the iPad s clipboard so that you can paste it into another application or a draft email At the bottom of every contact form just to the right of the Edit button is a Share button Tap this button to attach a vcf vCard file to an email The recipient can automatically add the information in the vCard to his Contacts app or another contact database that supports the vcf format We show you how to use this feature in the next task Sharing a contact entry 1 Open an entry in the Contacts app that you want to share via email Figure 1 14 All Contacts Lisa sp Lisa Spangenberg Lisa Spangenberg oiher ipadprojects gmail com notes Figure 1 15 Email draft options Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 27 2 Tap the Share button in the bottom right corner You may have to scroll down the form to see the Share button depending on how much information the contact contains You see a blank email form ready to be addressed that includes a vCard attachment The icon for the vCard look
186. ng Display Order screen tap the display order that you prefer In case you don t know what we and the iPad mean by display order see Figure 1 25 Figure 1 25 Two of this book s authors listed in the Contacts app in Michael Cohen Cohen Michael each of the available display orders Dennis Cohen Cohen Dennis 7 Press the Home button to close the Display Order screen and return to the home screen 8 Open the Contacts app Your contacts appear in the sort order that you specified with each contact appearing in the specified display order Set a default contacts account On your iPad you can have contact lists from a variety of sources MobileMe Google Microsoft Exchange and more So what happens when you create a new contact on your iPad Where does it go You can specify that by setting a default contacts account 40 The iPad 2 Project Book Setting a default account for new contacts 1 Tap Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars and then in the Mail Contacts Calendars screen swipe down until you see the Contacts section 2 Tap Default Account 3 On the Default Account screen tap the account into which you want your new contacts to go Set a calendar Your iPad s Calendar app can display events from a lot of calendars You can have a Home calendar a Work calendar a Holidays calendar a Bills Due calendar and more Adding to the fun the Calendar app can display calendar
187. nidad Trinidad and Tobago Piarco Passengers Prefer Nonstop E OFF PAP Port Au Prince Haiti Mais Gate 164 The iPad 2 Project Book 7 When PDX the airport in Portland Oregon appears in the pane tap that entry then tap Close at the top of the screen In the Flight Search pane PDX is listed as the destination Next you ll set the travel dates and search for a flight Setting travel dates and finding a flight 1 Inthe Flight Search pane refer to Figure 2 109 tap the Depart field to open the Choose Depart Date pane 2 Swipe down the Choose Depart Date form to November and tap 21 on the calendar Figure 2 112 Figure 2 112 KAYAK uses calendars instead of date dialing widgets Roundtrip One way Multi city 21 13 415 6 7 83 Flig t Search Choose Depart date Flexible From LAX Los Angeles CA Los Angeles 4 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 lo PDX Portland OR Portland 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Depart Mon Nov 21 2011 kd 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Rewrmn Tue Nov 22 2011 bee 30 31 Passengers Prefer Nonstop Class November 2011 Sun Morn Tue Wed Thu Fri Sal g m a 1j 2lalals 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 BJ 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 ND A ah FO we A L f Ke m l December 2011 Sun Man Tue Wood Thu Fri Sat OW AR 7 Tx 1 2 3 _ ifs 3 Inthe Flight Search pane tap the Return field to open the Choose Return Date pane to the right 4 Swipe down the
188. ningham who described a wiki as the simplest online database that could possibly work Figure 1 36 Trunk Notes Home page Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 59 The name wiki is derived from the Hawaiian word wikiwiki which means quick Wikis are often used to share information organize notes and create collaborative works such as the best known wiki Wikipedia Chttp en wikipedia org wiki Main_Page The Trunk Notes app which you use in this project gives you an effi cient simple way to organize documents and information such as shopping lists lists of books you want to read recipes and class notes in the form of wiki pages Work with Trunk Notes Before you start creating your own Trunk Notes wiki you need to know how to browse and search Trunk Notes Trunk Notes is modal which means that whenever you use it you re always in one of three modes browse edit or search mode If you re in browse mode you see an Edit button to the right of the Search field and a Home button in the bottom left corner of the screen If you re in edit mode you see a Save button to the right of the Search field Finally if you re in search mode you see a Cancel button to the right of the Search field Viewing Trunk Notes 1 Launch the Trunk Notes app by tapping its icon You see the default home page Figure 1 36 HomePage Edit Updated Sun Mar 6 2011 14 50 Welcome to Trunk Notes This is your home
189. nist Is it safe If he d been asking about your iPad the answer would have to be Probably not As configured right out of the box the iPad is open to anyone Pick it up press the Sleep Wake button and drag the onscreen slider to the right or even easier just flip open the Smart Cover on an iPad 2 and all your iPad s secrets are revealed Naturally this revelation isn t much of a problem if you live alone and your iPad stays at home with you Trust us your cat doesn t care what s on your iPad But the iPad is a very portable object and an attractive one too it cries out to be picked up tried out played with If you leave it lying around someone even someone you know trust and love can easily find it irresistible There isn t any way to make the iPad completely impervious to prying eyes A knowledgeable person with enough time and the right software can crack almost any security scheme Nonetheless you can protect your iPad s contents from the casual snooper and even give determined data thieves pause Also if you share your iPad with your children from time to time it s a great way to keep kids entertained on long car trips for example you can protect them from content that might be too mature for young eyes and ears Finally you can even have the iPad tell you where it is if you misplace it easy to do these things love to hide under magazines and pillows or if someone accidentally w
190. nt button in the opening screen 3 Tap the New Document button in the top left corner of the My Documents screen 4 Scroll down to tap the Recipe template A document based on that template opens in Pages Figure 2 69 Recipe NONA S HOLIDAY COOKIES Cooking Time 45 Minutes Makes 2 Dozen Ingredients Etiam sit amet est Sed et lacus quis enim mattis nonummy Nulla rutrum commode ligula Nunc ut lectus Cooking Instructions Pages names the new file Recipe by default and you can change that name but we ll refer to the document as Recipe in this project 5 To change the title text from Nona s Holiday Cookies rapidly triple tap that text to select the entire line A selection rectangle appears around the title 132 The iPad 2 Project Book 6 Type new title text 7 Ifyou want to tap and hold the text below the title to select and edit the cooking time and quantity of your recipe Copying recipe ingredients to the scrapbook 1 Tap the My Documents button in the top left corner of the recipe screen 2 Inthe My Documents screen tap to open the Blank document where you pasted the recipe see Importing an emailed recipe into Pages earlier in this project 3 Tap and hold to the left of where the ingredients list begins Selection buttons appear Figure 2 70 Figure 2 70 Displaying WJS 3 01 PM selection buttons My Documents Undo Blank Recipe Old Fashioned R
191. o almost infinite variations just by changing the flavor of the jam 2 Tap and hold anywhere in the body of the email except on a hyperlink You see Select and Select All buttons Figure 2 65 5 05 PM o ea 2 of 14 TEN From iPad Projects Book Hide T0 iPad Projects Book Enjoy this recipe from BigOven Ay 2011 3 51 PM Mark as Unread Recipe Old Fashioned Raspberry Bars hito Awww_biaqoven com recipe 163740 old fashioned raspberry bars Sa recipe that s easy quick and absolutely delicious The recipe also lends Select Select All ay i i variations just by changing the flavor of the jam Ingredients 1 2 cup brown sugar packed light or dark 1 cup Unbleached all purpose flour 3 Tap Select All to select the entire body of the email in this case the recipe 4 Tap the Copy button that appears The button briefly flashes blue to indicate that the selected text has been copied to your iPad s internal clipboard ready to paste At this point you could paste the selected text into the Notes app on your iPad Trunk Notes or one of the many simple note apps available for iPad For this project however you use Pages because you want to include images Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 129 5 Launch Pages on your iPad 6 If you don t see the My Documents screen when Pages opens tap the My Documents button in the top left corner 7 Tap the New Document button in the t
192. o the iPad s clipboard so that you can paste it into another document for reference 8 Press the iPad s Home button to exit the KAYAK app 166 The iPad 2 Project Book Add flight information to your itinerary Now that you have your flight information you can add your departure and return flights to your TravelTracker itinerary Entering flight information with Travel Tracker 1 Launch TravelTracker on your iPad again You see your itinerary screen just as you left it refer to Figure 2 108 2 Tap New Item in the top right corner to open the New Item form 3 Tap Flight The New Flight screen appears Figure 2 115 Figure 2 115 The New Flight screen holds a lot of information about your flight and Travel Tracker helps you fill it out 4 Tap the Airline field at the top of the screen The Select Airline screen appears Figure 2 116 Figure 2 116 Select an airline Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 167 5 Find the airline for your departure flight and tap it In the unlikely event that your airline isn t listed in the Select Airline screen tap the Add Other Airline button in the bottom left corner and then follow the onscreen instructions to add it The New Flight screen reappears 6 Tap the Flight field to open the Edit Flight screen 7 Type the flight number Figure 2 117 and tap Save Figure 2 117 The flight Ga Lain Fight Ss number field can hold a very
193. ode you want to watch again or want to pick up watching an episode where you left off tap its thumbnail This feature is great if you regularly watch a few TV series and have seen multiple episodes of each one It s very easy to lose track of which episodes you ve viewed and which you haven t Thanks to the Me button you don t have to remember multiple episode names in multiple series 216 The iPad 2 Project Book Giving ABC feedback 1 Tap the Info button at the bottom of the ABC Player screen A feedback form appears Figure 3 48 This form is a lot less colorful than the player s other pages but you hold sway here Figure 3 48 Tell ABC what you think or make suggestions abc info 1 3 0002 help feedback Whether you re having trouble Type of Issue have a suggestion or just want to Type of Insue say hello we want to hear from you Email Address Due to the amount of feedback we receive we can t respond to everyone individually but please provide your email address 0 we con contact you for more information should we need lo If you re experiencing a problem please provide as much detailed information as possible The more you can tell us about the problem any error message s you ve received and what you ve already tried the easter it wil be for us to look into a 2 Fill out the form to tell ABC what you consider to be good or bad or to suggest features you d like to see in future versions 3 When you v
194. of your sleek bright big screen handheld touch driven device We call it The iPad 2 Project Book because we present this information in the form of projects simple collections of tasks that you can complete in a few minutes each and that reveal much of your iPad s hidden splendor Some projects walk you through basic procedures like getting your music synced between your computer and your iPad Other projects help you do fun and useful things with your iPad like planning a vacation and getting flight reservations We ve divided the book into the following three chapters e Living in the iPad This chapter contains projects that help you perform basic tasks on the iPad such as syncing your contacts and calendars setting up security and handling your mail Working and Playing in the iPad This chapter shows you how to do stuff such as plan a vacation and how to make stuff such as a deck of flash cards that helps you learn another language e Music Books and Movies on the iPad This chapter contains projects for navigating the various e book applications you can put on an iPad putting music movies and videos on the iPad making music and videos with your iPad and creating e books to read on your iPad This book only scratches the surface of what you can do with your iPad After all it s a magical device and there s a lot you can do with magic Introduction xvii What s New in This Edition In this edition we ve
195. oftware Although all the networks stream their shows via their Web sites and though Safari on the iPad provides a competent content conduit ABC has taken things a step further providing a dedicated iPad app called ABC Player to stream its shows to handheld devices This app offers a viewing experience that s tailored to the iPad rather than the lowest common denominator Web browser interface as you see in Figure 3 41 and Figure 3 42 which were taken seconds apart on the same day A AB Ue ba Pe AS ees Loge HAET z E o HE EPISODEIEVERVONE TS TALKING ABOUT ENY el ATP Ae a Jaron ae a gbc home shows schedule watch episodes en usn mmn mm m i private practice CAIGHT 1 Figure 3 41 ABC s Web interface Figure 3 42 ABC Player s interface 212 The iPad 2 Project Book Obtaining ABC Player 1 Tap the App Store icon on your iPad s home screen 2 Inthe Search field in the top right corner of the App Store s home screen type ABC then tap ABC Player in the list that appears 3 Tap the ABC Player entry which should appear in the top left corner of the iPad Apps section The ABC Player product page appears 4 Tap the Free button below the icon in the top left corner Free flips over and becomes Install 5 Tap Install 6 When you re asked to enter your Apple ID and password do so You re back at the home screen and ABC Player is downloading You re ready to start enjoying ABC s network
196. ok Cc Bec From ipadprojects gmail com Subject Enjoy this recipe fram BigOven Recipe Old Fashioned Raspberry Bars http www bigoven com recipe 163740 old fashioned raspberry bars A great Raspberry Bar recipe that s easy quick and absolutely delicious The recipe also lends itself to almost infinite variations just by changing the flavor of the jam Ingredients 1 2 cup brown sugar packed light or dark 1 cup Unbleached all purpose flour 1 4 teaspoon Baking soda 1 8 teaspoon Salt 1 cup rolled old fashioned or quick oats 1 2 cup unsalted butter cut into 1 2 inch pieces softened to cool room temperature a 4 cup seedless raspberry jam up to 1 cup or preserves or conserve 5 Enter the recipient s address add a short message and tap Send to send the email Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 127 Create a recipe scrapbook in Pages Now that you know how to find favorite and email recipes the next step is creating a personal recipe collection on your iPad that you can add to at will In the following tasks you use Pages for iPad to create a recipe scrapbook Creating a recipe scrapbook is a great way not only to preserve your own recipes but also to keep recipes that you ve collected from the Internet or from friends who emailed their recipes to you You can create an attractive recipe scrapbook quite easily in Pages for iPad The process involves four steps 1 Get the recipe text into Pages 2
197. om a document The following task demonstrates just how simple it is for a Mac user to create a PDF using the Microsoft Word document for this project as the source 198 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 29 The Print dialog Figure 3 30 Use the Print dialog to create PDFs Creating a PDF 1 On your computer open the document in your application of choice For this example we re using this project file in Microsoft Word 2008 2 Choose File gt Print The Print dialog opens Ours appears in Figure 3 29 Although the basics will be the same the application and printer you re using could make the dialog sport more or fewer features Printer Canon MX300 series B a Presets Standard H Copies amp Pages le Copies ff Collated Pages All Current page Y Selection C From 1 to la C Page range Enter page numbers and or lafl page ranges separated by MI Show Quick Preview COMMAS 8 9 4 598 f Page Felup PDF C Preview Supplies Pi in j 3 Click and hold the PDF button in the bottom left corner to display the PDF menu Figure 3 30 O C Preview oin Save as PRE Save as PostScript Fax PDF Mail PDF Create Booklet Save as PDF X Save PDF to iPhoto Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder Send PDF with Mailsmith Edit Menu Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 199 4 Choose Save As PDF
198. ome Sharing let users share iTunes content with other wireless devices in a home network 240 The iPad 2 Project Book In iOS 4 3 Apple introduced AirPlay which once again raises the bar Now in addition to sharing what s in a computer s iTunes Library you can stream the content from one AirPlay capable device to another from your iPad to another iPad an iPhone or AppleTV for example Although Home Sharing and AirPlay may seem to be similar they re quite different technologies e Home Sharing emanates strictly from a computer running iTunes Other wireless devices on the home network request content from the computer Dennis s iMac for example frequently streams video to AppleTV while his wife accesses songs from the garden e AirPlay on the other hand is a broadcast model You start something playing on your computer or iPad iPhone or iPod touch and AirPlay capable devices pluck the stream from the air At this writing you can t receive an AirPlay broadcast on a computer Stream from one iOS device to another AirPlay with the assistance of the free AirView app lets you stream audio and video from a computer running iTunes or an iOS device to an iOS device running AirView or to any AirPlay compliant receiver such as AppleTV or remote speakers with AirPlay circuitry or an AirPort Express connection You might think of AirPlay as being a way to redirect the audio or video you re playing AirPlay capa
199. ook 132 134 creating scrapbook for 127434 defining template for scrapbook 131 132 finding in BigOven 121 124 finding with Epicurious 112 115 noting source of 34 tips for customizing 134 using iPad in the kitchen 137 recordings adding chords to 177 178 adding drum track to 182 183 adding new instrument to song 178 181 looping selected region of 181 182 music tracks 176 181 resetting tempo 183 184 saving and exporting to iTunes 184 185 setting tempo for GarageBand 175 176 recovering data from iTunes backup 51 renting movies See also Netflix from iTunes Store 210 reruns 215 restoring iPad data 51 S Safari disabling access to 53 gathering images for flash cards 141 143 installing Read it Later bookmarklet in 108 109 navigating between Keynote and 139 using Google Translate with 139 141 149 saving content to read later 107 110 111 draft email 27 ePub documents 199 201 movie to iPad Camera Roll album 229 Trunk Notes wiki 73 scrapbook copying recipe ingredients into 132 134 creating in Pages for iPad 127434 defining template for 131 132 Scrivener 199 201 searching BigOven for recipes 121 124 Epicurious for recipes 115 116 Netflix for movie titles 220 221 Trunk Notes 62 64 Sender window Contacts 21 servers connecting to GoodReader 95 97 setting up Air Video Server 232 235 236 252 Index sharing about Home Sharing 239 240 BigOven recipes 126 contacts 26 27 movies 228 230 song
200. op left corner of the My Documents screen The Choose a Template screen opens Figure 2 66 Figure 2 66 Choosea Template screen Choose a Template Modern Photo Lotter Classic Letter Formal Letter Personal Photo Letter Modern Photo Resume Classic Resume Project Proposal aa 5 8 Tap Blank A blank document opens The document is automatically named Blank You can change that title note if you want in the My Documents screen tap the word Blank below the file s icon and then type a new name but for convenience we ll refer to this document as Blank 130 The iPad 2 Project Book 9 Tap and hold in the body of the document until you see Paste and Copy Style buttons Figure 2 67 Figure 2 67 Paste and i Paste Copy Style Copy Style buttons 10 Tap Paste Figure 2 68 Text pasted from the iPad clipboard Pew Em ee a PD EN ES EN A EN EN EA E3 a ES SBR RROD ES a document Figure 2 68 14 PM Blank ingredients 1 2 cup packed brown sugar light or dark 1 cup Unbleached all purpose Mour 1 4 teaspoon Baking soda UA teaspoon Salt 1 cup rolled old fashioned or quick cats 1 2 cup unsalted butter cut into 12 inch pieces sofienad to cool room temp rature 3 4 to 1 cup seedless raspberry jam or preserves or conserve Preapicereaticor Preheat oven to 350 degrees F Line an inch square baking pan with two sheets of foil placed perpendicular to one another and long en
201. ople however are aware of the opposite but very real problem which can be just as debilitating writer s overdrive Take Control Editor in Chief Tonya Engst however knows the problem all too well At least one of her authors has had episodes of over productivity that have put her in the unenviable position of being in the middle of producing one of his books only to find out that he has submitted the manuscript for the next edition along with a detailed outline of the one to follow have a business to run a child to raise and a husband to keep in running shoes I don t have time to be this person s personal publishing lackey regardless of how good his books are That s why she was more than happy to buy her hyperactive wordsmith a copy of Literature amp Latte s newest writing aid Bartleby Built upon the well regarded and versatile foundation of Scrivener the company s flagship content generation tool Bartleby can best be deseribed as A content gencration FOVeCTNOF As zi Serivener arded on Bartleby monitors a writer s productivity moment by moment and provides helpful prompts and distractions when it looks like productivity has begun to edge into logorrhea word in front of me bor ALF is tall for a tall man maybe six foot ten or eleven ii L i ii a t i L ie ie i a i a You can also share Web content that you ve saved in Instapaper with colleagues via email or by using several apps listed at
202. or iTunes iTunes begins syncing with your iPad after a few seconds and the iPad appears in the iTunes Source list that s the sidebar on the left side of the iTunes window below the Devices heading Figure 1 1 on the next page Go ahead and let it sync that won t hurt anything In addition to syncing iTunes backs up the information on your iPad every time you connect it This backup takes place before any informa tion is synced 4 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 1 The iPad appears in the iTunes Source list when you connect it to your computer Source list Figure 1 2 The iTunes Summary pane for an iPad is more than just a summary it also has options you can set apra Your iPad software is up to date Tunes wil automatically check for an Check for Update update again on 3 15 11 If you are experiencing problems with your iPad you can restore its u Renove original settings by clicking Restore B Open iTunes when this Pad is connected if Sync only checked songs and videos LJ Prefer standard definition videos L Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC Ly Manually manage music and videos LJ Encrypt iPad backup Change Password 2 Select your iPad in the iTunes Source list In the main iTunes display on the right a Summary pane appears Figure 1 2 This pane gives you information about your iPad and offers you a variety of options info Apps Mingtoses Music Movie
203. ork TidBITS 4 Tap the calendar that you want to use as your default The next time you create an event in the Calendar app the event is placed in your default calendar that is unless you choose another calendar for the event when you create it For an example see the Calendar setting in the Add Event dialog shown in Figure 1 27 3 41 PM Gn Calendars Invitations 0 Week Month Lis March 2011 Destroy the One Ring Mt Doom Orodruin Inlobrew inlor Ral o s inst OILS nid pa Tobis 1005 Pay Storage Starts Fri Mar 25 11 00 AM Ends 12 00 PM Repeat Never Rash Chodes Infubrew Intobrew a GMA TidBITS 1068 AITE Dev Invitees None Ansh Chodas Alert None Calendar Work Daylight Savings Intotrew Availability Busy Lona Lotsiod Chock in call Dev Pal Peaject Norm Assent Keep eye out for Gollum he s not to be trusted Tip wear protective gloves 9 Punm 9 infutrew intotraw GMA 9 Evon Tech Cohen Ao s M Comer Denn O Lmun day Nuance Ends G TidBITS 1008 O Shushan Pum With iOS 4 or later you can move an event to a different calendar on your iPad even after you create it 42 The iPad 2 Project Book Subscribe to a calendar In the preceding section we discuss calendars to which you subscribe You may be wondering What s that all about Here s what Your iPad can display calendars that use the iCalendar format Many people and
204. ork Address Translation Port Mapping Protocol NAT PMP 236 New Contact form Contacts 22 notes syncing 9 yellow note marker 105 On My Mac calendars 15 p Pages for iPad 127 138 choosing document templates 129 creating recipe scrapbook in 127 134 customizing recipes with 134 137 exporting documents in ePub format 199 importing image into 135 placing image in document 135 137 selecting text in 132 133 passcode choosing 51 resetting 58 setting 49 50 Passcode Lock screen 49 51 pasting text into Pages 128 130 PDF documents See also GoodReader about PDF format 197 annotating in GoodReader 102 106 creating e book 197 199 downloading to GoodReader 98 99 reading in GoodReader 100 102 phone numbers 25 Photos app 144 playhead for GarageBand tracks 176 177 playlist folders 191 192 playlists about Smart Playlists 194 clearing all iTunes before syncing 189 creating on iPad 194 196 defined 190 deleting songs from 193 including movies on 203 making and syncing iTunes 190 194 selecting and syncing music 191 193 syncing movie 205 206 using TV show episode 208 POP Post Office Protocol accounts 29 printing flash cards 152 153 PDF documents to iPad 198 199 using AirPrint for iPad 151 R Read it Later bookmarklet 108 109 reading content with Instapaper 108 111 PDFs in GoodReader 100 102 recent unwatched movies 205 Index 251 recipes See also Epicurious copying ingredients into scrapb
205. ou can preview a loop simply by tapping it You can also narrow the selection of loops by tapping the Instrument Genre and Descriptors options near the top of the popover and then tapping the kinds of loops you want to see If you know the name of the loop that you want to use however you can search for it For this task you want to use a drum loop called Solid 70s Fill 23 Tap the search field at the top of the Apple Loops popover to display an onscreen keyboard then type solid and tap Search on the keyboard The popover now displays a much shorter list of loops all of which have solid in their names Find the Solid 70s Fill 23 loop in the popover and drag it to the left side of the track view screen below the Acoustic and Roots Rock Smart Guitar icons As you drag a new track appears filled with the loop Lift your finger off the screen The drum track spans the entire song Figure 3 18 Resetting the tempo 1 Tap the Song Settings button to open the Song Settings popover refer to Figure 3 8 earlier in this project 2 Inthe Tempo section use the Tempo controls to set the tempo to 110 For details on setting the tempo refer to Setting up the recording earlier in this project 3 Set the Metronome switch to Off 4 Tap outside the Song Settings popover to dismiss it 184 The iPad 2 Project Book 5 Tap the Play transport control to play your finished song The song plays faster with an added drum t
206. ou see a dialog like the one in Figure 2 13 Figure 2 13 H Share a folder Sharing options dialog Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 91 5 Select the radio button titled I d like to create and share a new folder and type Shared project files in the adjacent field then tap the blue Next button You see a form like the one shown in Figure 2 14 Figure 2 14 Web sharing invitation 4 D Share Shared project files with others imie cofisborabors io this folder Optional Send a personal message with your invitation 6 Enter email addresses in the top field and a short message in the bottom field then tap the blue Share folder button You can share a folder with someone who doesn t have Dropbox installed on her computer but who has a Dropbox account She can access the folder via www dropbox com After a second or so you see your new shared folder Figure 2 15 If you look in My Dropbox on your iPad you ll see the new folder there too Shared folders have a badge on their icon like the one shown in the margin Figure 2 15 A new 12 36 PM 100 i shared folder _ urban_fantasy doc k Pf Literature fy as a subgenre of fantasy was via the ree series created by Terri Windling The town a liminal area on the border between here have been several anthologies as in the Borderlands universe and three 1991 his Nevernever 1993 and Emma Bull s Public oks were
207. ough to overhang pan edges Spray foll ined pan with nonstick cooking spray or grease with butter or shortening Overhanging foil will sarve as handles to lift the cooked bar cookies from the pan In a large bowl combine brown sugar flour baking soda salt and rolled oats mixing wall Cul in buller using a pasiry blender to form a crumbly mixture or using a miner beat at low speed scraping bow often until mixture is crumbly 2 to 3 minutes Press V2 of crumb mixture into bottom of prepared pan Spread jam to within 1 4 inch of pan edge Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture over the top and lightly press it into jam Bake until lopping is deep golden brown and filling is bubbling 35 to 40 minutes Cool to room temperature in baking pan on wire rack Once cooled remove from baking pan by litting foil extensions cut into bars and serve Variation Use other types of jam such a6 apricot preserves or even a bitter orange marmalade 1700004 Recipes al Biqghiven com http bigoven com Sent from my iPad build the recipe scrapbook in the following task The text you copied from the email in step 4 appears in the Pages You ll use this Blank document as a staging document while you Figure 2 69 Recipe template Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 131 Creating a recipe file for your scrapbook 1 Tap the Pages icon to open the app 2 If Pages opens to a file instead of the My Documents window tap the My Docume
208. our computer You can enter the following URL in your computer s Web browser to have it open iTunes and take you right to the download page http itunes apple com us app traveltracker personal travel id284918921 mt 8 2 Download the free KAYAK app from the App Store either directly on your iPad or via iTunes on your computer Enter the following URL in your computer s Web browser to have it open iTunes to the app s page in the App Store http itunes apple com us app kayak explore flight search id363205965 mt 8 Set up a trip with TravelTracker To set up a trip in TravelTracker you need of course a trip to set up For the purposes of this project we re going to make up a trip just so we have something to illustrate when we walk you through the steps Feel free to use your own trip details if you prefer substituting your entries for what we show here Our imaginary trip is from Los Angeles to Portland Oregon for the week of Thanksgiving The visit starts on November 21 2011 and ends on November 28 2011 If you re reading this book after those dates you ll need to adjust the dates accordingly Near the end of the trip we ll plan a post Thanksgiving dinner at an exclusive restaurant to thank our hosts for putting us up In this part of the project you create a new trip and schedule the dinner 156 The iPad 2 Project Book Creating a new trip 1 Launch the TravelTracker app on your iPad The first time yo
209. our device should you lose it Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 13 Go from computer to cloud Now that you have a MobileMe account you need to sync your informa tion between it and your computer so that your iPad can get your infor mation from MobileMe as follows Ona Mac you can sync your contacts from Address Book your calendars from iCal and your bookmarks from Safari e In Windows you can sync your contacts from Microsoft Outlook 2003 2007 or 2010 32 bit from Vista Contacts or from Windows Address Book You sync your calendars from Outlook if you use another calendar program you need to move your calendar events to Outlook if you want to sync them with MobileMe You can sync your bookmarks from either Internet Explorer or Safari Yes Apple offers a Windows version of Safari If you currently have a MobileMe account and already sync your Mac or PC data with MobileMe skip to Cut the cord a few pages ahead After you sync your information between your computer and MobileMe you can access it from any computer with a modern Web browser Just go to www me com and log in What Is This Cloud of Which You Speak Cloud is one of those terms that has moved out of the cloistered halls of geekdom into the light of day It really means nothing more than somewhere on the Internet outside your local network The term comes from the cloud shaped symbol used in the network diagrams that networking professionals draw
210. ove from Favorites in the Action button popover Tap it to remove the recipe Viewing favorite recipes in BigOven 1 Tap the BigOven button in the top left corner of the screen You see the navigation popover refer to Figure 2 55 earlier in this project 2 Inthe My Kitchen section tap Favorite Recipes to see your favorites Figure 2 62 Figure 2 62 i BigOven Favorites Favorites list Close to McVitie s Digestive Biscuits Pare Tee wt j Ao Old Fashioned Raspberry Bars Desseria Fruit Cnap sku EE 1 Roast Lemon Chicken Main Dist rgultry Chick nn RR Spinach and Strawberry Salad with Pepper Vinaigrette se eS E 126 The iPad 2 Project Book Share BigOven recipes After you find and favorite recipes you can email them to yourself or to a friend as you see in the next task Emailing a recipe from BigOven 1 Launch BigOven if it isn t already running 2 Finda recipe by searching for it see Searching for recipes in BigOven earlier in this project or tap a recipe in your favorites list see the preceding task 3 Tap the Action button at the far right end of the toolbar You see a list of options in a popover refer to Figure 2 61 4 Tap Email it A formatted email message opens with your default email address displayed in the From field Figure 2 63 Figure 2 63 Recipe iPad F 4 46 PM ready to email Caneel Enjoy this recipe from BigOven lo iPad Projects Bo
211. ow you use the navigation bar icons e The Home icon which looks like a small house returns you to the home page from any page you re browsing e The Back and Forward icons allow you to navigate your wiki based on your navigation history Tapping the left triangle takes you to the preceding page in your Trunk Notes browsing history tapping the right triangle takes you to the next page in your history A triangle is grayed out if you don t yet have any entries for that direction in your Trunk Notes history e The Bookmark icon displays a popover listing all the existing pages in your wiki as shown in Figure 1 39 though you won t have the same pages The buttons at the bottom of the popover allow you to display wiki entries sorted alphabetically by name by age Today Yesterday This Month Earlier and by popularity Figure 1 39 Wiki pages f HomePage E Test UrbanFantasyAndMedievalLitera Conceit MyFirstPage Scones Sonnet Reta 62 The iPad 2 Project Book Tapping the curved arrow Action icon while you re in browse mode displays a popover that lists the following options New This option allows you to create an image only page by selecting an image from the Photos app or on an iPad 2 to photograph a new image and create a page for it Duplicate This option copies the current page and lets you give the copy a new name Choose Duplicate to create a template containing text and images that you want
212. p Save This code looks something like Figure 1 52 Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 73 Figure 1 52 A page iPad 3 50 PM T gny m showing Markdown MylmageEnty syntax for an image image File 28_03_2011_1 png 9 Tap the Save button in the top right corner of the screen Your entry will have a different image of course but should look similar to Figure 1 53 Figure 1 53 Trunk Pad Notes page with an MylmageEntry image Updated Mon Mar 28 2011 15 34 74 The iPad 2 Project Book Share your wiki If you share your Trunk Notes wiki on your iPad over a local Wi Fi connection you can browse edit and search for your wiki pages on your computer by using a Web browser First however you need to configure Trunk Notes settings on your iPad to allow sharing Configuring Trunk Notes for sharing 1 Tap the Settings icon on your iPad to open the Settings screen 2 Scroll down to tap Trunk Notes in the Apps category Figure 1 54 Figure 1 54 The Trunk Notes panel in iPad Settings Trunk Notes Settings ES Photos General Notes Capitalize Wiki Words k Store Easy Line Break EER Home page on start a Bento Home page HomePage BigOven Timestamp DDO MMIYY YY gt kg Borders Default Email J C Aquarium a Geotag Wiki Entries ON F Facebook Display GoodReader Custom stylesheet iBooks Allow landscape ON hobo Kobo Data Detectors on GBB nettiix Snippets l nook Pre
213. page Edit it and place links to your most Important notes To leam more aboul Trunk Noles see Docs GellingSlarled The default Wi Fi Share username and password are trunk and password These can be changed in the Settings app Discuss Trunk Notes with other users suggest features and provide feedback to the developers 60 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 37 Getting Started page The Search field at the top of the screen displays the name of the current entry as a wikiword A wikiword is two or more words joined together without spaces and with each word beginning with a capital letter like this WikiWord The second sentence from the top of the home page reads To learn more about Trunk Notes see Docs GettingStarted The words Docs GettingStarted are in blue and underlined to indicate that they link to a page or entry in Trunk Notes 2 Tap the Docs GettingStarted hyperlink You re taken to the Getting Started page Figure 1 37 Docs GeltingStarted eat NN OOOO Ljuieled Son Mar E 3001 14 50 Getting Started TRUNK Notes is your personal Wiki Use it to keep and organize notes thoughts snippets of information and much more For full detaile of all features see Docs Manual What is a WikiWord A WikiWord i6 two or mare words joined together each starting with a capital letter Basic operation To create a mew note Tap in the search bar al the top of the screen Type in a name
214. pan with two sheets of foil placed perpendcular to One anoMer and long enough to overhang pan edges Spray toll lined pan with nonstick cooking spray or grease with butter or shortening Overhanging foil wil serve as handles to Efi the cooked bar cookies from the pan in a large bowl combine brown sugar four baking soda salt and rolled oats mong wel Cut in butter using a pastry Diender to form a crumbly mixture or using a mixer boat at low speed scraping bow often until mixture is crurnbly 2 to 3 minutes Pross 1 2 of crumb mixture into bottom of prepared pan Spread jam to within 1 4 inch of pan edge Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture over the top and lightly press it into jam Bake until topping is deep golden brown and Miling is bubbling 35 to 40 minutes Cool to room temperature in baking pan on wire rack Once cooled remove trom baking pan by Sifting toil extensions Cul into bars and serve Variation Use other types of jam such as apricot preserves of even a Ditler orange marmalade Customizing Recipes in Pages You can extensively customize the documents that you make from Pages templates Here are some ways you may want to customize your recipes e To change the font or color of text select the text tap the I button on the Pages toolbar and then tap Style gt Text in the popover that appears You can set the size of text the color and the font e To change the background color of the title in a reci
215. papnr Gon pree 5 Enter your email address and Instapaper password then tap Done on your iPad s onscreen keyboard The Read Later screen opens Figure 2 40 This screen is where you ll find content that you ve saved to read later Figure 2 40 iPad o 2 14 PM Read Later screen Folders Settings Read Later Find anicies io Pead Later inom Trends cites oF your mAn web Browesiriy Furlickes algo appear hint whin you sivi wem with ihe Read Laler bookmark in Safari or email them io your Indtapaper Read Later email addresa Tap here for hiit 108 The iPad 2 Project Book Install the Read it Later bookmarklet To use Instapaper to mark Web content for later reading on both your computer and iPad you need to install the Instapaper bookmarklet on your computer s Web browser and in Safari on your iPad as we show you how to do in this section Installing the Read it Later bookmarklet on your iPad is laborious because of the way Safari works on the iPad If you use Safari on your computer it s much easier to install the Read it Later bookmarklet there and sync with your iPad We show you both methods in the following tasks Installing the bookmarklet in any Web browser on your computer 1 On your computer launch your preferred Web browser 2 Goto www instapaper com extras 3 Follow the instructions on the page to install the bookmarklet in your Web browser The Read it Later bookmarklet works beautif
216. pe file tap the colored background area to select it tap the button on the Pages toolbar tap Style in the form that appears and choose a new background color e It s a good idea to include a note about where a recipe originated or who created it You can simply copy the URL from the email and paste it into the recipe or you can type a short note about your source Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 135 Importing an image into Pages 1 Launch Safari on your iPad 2 Gotoa Web site that has suitable images For this task go to the Old Fashioned Raspberry Bars page at www bigoven com recipe 163740 old fashioned raspberry bars 3 Tap and hold the image you want to use Open Open in New Page Save Image and Copy buttons pop up Figure 2 74 Figure 2 74 Copying an image from a Web site 4 lap Save Image The image is downloaded to your iPad s Photos app Downloaded images are saved in the Saved Photos album on an orig inal iPad and in the Photos app s Camera Roll album on an iPad 2 Inserting an image into the scrapbook 1 In Pages open the Recipe document you created in Creating a recipe file for your scrapbook earlier in this project If the document isn t currently open in Pages tap the My Documents button then tap the Recipe document s icon in the My Documents screen 136 The iPad 2 Project Book 2 Tap the Image icon in the bottom right corner of the placeholde
217. play video Figure 3 77 We had only one shared library at the time we wrote this project so that s what you see in the figure 2 26 PM Shared 244 The iPad 2 Project Book 5 At the top of the resulting screen tap the tab that represents the type of content you want to share Movies TV Shows Podcasts Music Videos or iTunes U Figure 3 78 Figure 3 78 Select the category of the content you want to play POXWORTHY S ENG Threes f V2 jai wa iF i 6 Tap the thumbnail that represents the actual content you want to share then tap the Play button that appears The content starts to play on your iPad When you close iTunes on a computer that s serving Home Sharing content all connections are severed Therefore if you want to continue sharing the iTunes Library don t quit iTunes log out or shut down the serving computer A AAC format 184 185 187 ABC Player about 211 checking network schedule on 214 commercials on 216 217 218 controlling playback on 217 downloading 212 giving feedback to 216 keeping up with series episodes 215 viewing episodes available 214 215 watching featured favorites on 212 213 addresses adding to contacts from email 25 typing shortcuts for 28 Air Video See also Air Video Server controls for 238 239 converting video in 236 237 242 full screen mode for 239 obtaining 231 232 operating in landscape orientation 236 playing your video in 236 239 s
218. popover tap Print The Printer Options popover appears 3 Tap Printer to open the Printer popover which shows the AirPrint printers on your Wi Fi network 4 Tap a printer to select it and then tap Printer options to return to the Printer Options popover 5 Set the printing options if necessary Figure 2 96 Figure 2 96 Use the Printer Options pop over to specify what gets printed and on which printer 4a Printer Options Printer E Deskjet 6940 gt Range All Pages gt 1 Copy n Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 153 The printing options include the range of pages to print and the number of copies to print 6 Tap the Print button Exporting the flash cards 1 Inthe top left corner of the Keynote screen tap My Presentations Keynote displays the available presentations with a large thumbnail of the flash card presentation centered onscreen You need to rename the presentation because it currently has a generic name such as Presentation 1 2 Tap the presentation s name delete the existing name in the editable title field that appears and type a new name 3 Tap the thumbnail to complete the renaming 4 Tap the Action button the leftmost button at the bottom of the screen A dialog offers you several choices You can send the presentation via email If you choose this option you can send a Keynote file or a PDF version of that file You can share the presentat
219. popover list of Mail s Inboxes and below that a list of all the accounts Figure 1 23 Figure 1 23 List of iPad F 12 13 PM a4 mail inboxes and iilinboxes 2 4 of 18 Sb e FC yh as accounts Mailboxes Hide inboxes All inboxes Mark as Unread ye Gmail IMAP Mac ders giant wedding cake shaped shaped like Medievalist ipadprojects gmail Accounts M Gmail IMAP ga ry Mac ry Medievalist M ipadprojects gmail 2 Tap an Inbox to see just that account s Inbox 3 Tap an account to see a hierarchical list of all that account s mailboxes 4 Tap a mailbox to see its contents 38 The iPad 2 Project Book Contact and Calendar Management Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed None iPad model Any Additional hardware None Earlier projects in this chapter show you how to move your information from your computer to your iPad This simple project helps you arrange and view your information in different ways after it s on your iPad Suppose that you like to look up your contacts by first name and we like to look up ours by last name Although this scenario may seem like a case of You say po tay toe and say po tah toe wars have been fought over less No really Check out the War of Jenkins Ear Therefore in an attempt to foster universal harmony and peace among all people of goodwill follow along as we show you the simple settings you can control
220. preparing to records in GarageBand 175 176 250 Index Make Music Project continued recording GarageBand tracks 176481 resetting tempo 183 184 saving and exporting recording to iTunes 1844185 using Smart Guitar 173 175 Make Your Own E Books Project 196 201 about e book file formats 197 creating e book PDF in Word 197 499 saving ePub documents in Scrivener 199 201 maps adding to contacts 25 getting directions with 46 47 Markdown about 58 codes for 69 linking to new pages in 70 71 syntax for image 72 73 Merge Contacts dialog MobileMe 18 metronome 1 5 176 178 Microsoft Exchange 12 Microsoft Word 197 199 MobileMe creating account for 12 17 19 Find My iPad feature 54 58 syncing from Mac to computer 13 14 System Preferences window for Mac OS X 14 using with iCal 15 16 wireless syncing with 12 Movie and TV Show Syncing Project 202 210 See also movies TV show episodes about 202 choosing TV show episodes for syncing 208 209 moving rentals to and from iPad 210 music videos 210 reverting to automatic syncing 203 selecting movies for syncing 205 206 syncing all movies 204 turning on off movie syncing 203 204 turning on off TV show syncing 207 ways to sync movies 202 203 movies See also specific video streaming projects about recent unwatched 205 adding clips to iMovie 225 226 choosing options for syncing 205 moving rentals to and from iPad 210 music videos 210 naming 227 228 narrating
221. r image The Photo Albums popover opens Figure 2 75 listing the albums in your Photos app 3 Tap Saved Photos or Camera Roll depending on which iPad model you re using You see the images that you ve saved to your iPad including the one you saved from a Web site in the preceding task Figure 2 76 Photo Albums Photo Albums Saved Photos Maine 965 Rockland 59 Ia Palm TX 24 Figure 2 75 List of albums in Figure 2 76 Saved Photos album Photos showing the newly saved image 4 Tap the image you saved from the Web site Your image replaces the placeholder image in the template Figure 2 77 Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 137 Figure 2 77 The template image replaced by the correct image RASPBERRY OAT BARS Cooking Time 40 Minutes Makes 2 Dozen Ingredients 1 2 cup packed brown sugar light or dark 1 cup Unbleached all purpose flour 1 4 teaspoon Baking soda 1 8 teaspoon Salt 1 cup rolled old fashioned or quick oats 12 cup unsalted butter cut into 12 inch places sottaned lo cool room temperature Jd to 1 cup seedless raspberry jam or preserves Of c nsemg Cooking Instructions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F Ling an B inch square baking pan with two sheets of foil placed perpendicular to one another and long enough to 5 Adjust the size of the image if you want by tapping it and then dragging the selection rectangle 6 Drag the image to a differen
222. r to find e Search lets you search for text within the document e Horizontal Scroll Lock toggles horizontal scroll lock When the lock is on you can move a page only vertically This button appears with other kinds of files e Action performs different tasks based on the kind of file being viewed It always includes options to email the file to open it in another app on the iPad and to delete it Screen Lock locks screen rotation temporarily 3 Read the file as you d read any other onscreen file Annotate PDFs in GoodReader Annotating PDFs making notes that contain your name or initials makes it easier for your colleagues who share files with you to keep track of who said what In this section we show you how to personalize GoodReader so that your initials or name will be associated with the annotations you make in the next task Personalizing GoodReader s PDF settings 1 Open GoodReader s My Documents screen 2 Tap the gear icon at the bottom of the screen to display GoodReader s Settings popover Figure 2 31 Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 103 Figure 2 31 Settings popover Choose Settings section General Settings Viewing PDF files Viewing TXT files Viewing pictures Audio Playback Viewing other files Other Settings Goodneader v3 5 0 D 2009 2011 Good iwWarnre www goodreader net 3 Tap Viewing PDF files The PDF files popover opens Figure 2 32 Figure 2 32 PDF fil
223. rack and the acoustic guitar plays along with the rock guitar in the last eight bars Congratulations you re an iPad recording artist Share your performance A recording artist needs an audience and GarageBand makes it easy for you to reach yours You can save your song to iTunes or email it to your fans The iTunes option makes a copy of your song that you can access via iTunes File Sharing when you connect your iPad to your computer In the following sections we show you how to use both distribution methods Saving to iTunes 1 Inthe top left corner of the track view screen tap the My Songs button The My Songs screen appears displaying the song you just finished 2 Tap the Action button at the bottom of the screen to see your distri bution choices Figure 3 19 Figure 3 19 Choose an export method for your song send to iTunes Email Song p L B T Action button 3 Tap Send to iTunes The Choose Format window opens Figure 3 20 You have two choices in this window iTunes This option creates an AAC file that you can play in iTunes on a computer or on an iPad iPod or any other device that can play AAC recordings Most modern music players can play them e GarageBand This option creates a GarageBand file that you can open in the Mac version of GarageBand Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 185 Figure 3 20 You can export your song to iTunes in either of two flavors Can
224. reated in the preceding section All recordings you make are stored in regions which you can edit and move around as you will in Looping a region later in this project 2 At the left end of the control bar tap the Song Sections button refer to Figure 3 9 to bring up the Song Sections popover Figure 3 11 Figure 3 11 Use the Song Sections popover to add or remove sec tions and to choose which sections are displayed Duplicate Song Sections Section A amp bars 3 Inthe popover tap the Add button A new section appears in the popover Figure 3 12 You may notice that the track view now shows more bars for the moment Figure 3 12 A new section has been added to the song Song Sections All Sections Section A 8 bars Section B 8 bars Duplicate 4 Tap anywhere outside the popover The popover goes away and the track view shows bars 9 16 The Smart Guitar track is empty because you haven t yet recorded those bars 5 In the bottom left corner of the track view screen tap the plus sign to add a new instrument track You see the same Instruments screen that you saw early in this project refer to Figure 3 2 180 The iPad 2 Project Book 6 As you did earlier scroll left and choose Smart Guitar You see the same Smart Guitar screen shown in Figure 3 6 earlier in this project 7 Tap the Smart Guitar selection button to see the available guitars Figure 3 13 Figure
225. results page You can see it in Figure 2 84 earlier in this project You ll use this field to perform additional image searches 10 Delete the current keyword in the search field search for name tag and save a suitable image from the search results 11 Search for photography and choose and save a suitable image 12 Search for choose and save an image of the Italian flag 13 Press the iPad s Home button to close Safari Even when you close Safari it keeps the pages you ve been viewing in memory so the translations you made earlier won t be lost In fact you ll use them again later in this project Figure 2 87 Keynote offers you many pre sentation themes to choose among Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 145 Create your flash card deck Now that you ve gathered all the text and images you need you re ready to create your flash card deck with Keynote Keep in mind as you work through this section that Keynote automatically saves all your additions and changes so you can leave and come back to Keynote without worrying about saving your work or losing your place Keynote works only in landscape orientation If you turn your iPad to portrait orientation Keynote remains in landscape orientation A terminology note Keynote creates and displays what it calls slides _ Although we ve been talking about flash cards we ll use the term slides when we discuss flash cards in the context of Keynote Cre
226. rfere with this part of the project To do so hold down the Command Mac or Ctrl Windows key and click one selected check box item to deselect everything in the list Similarly clicking an unselected check box with the key held down selects every item in the list This technique by the way works with almost every list in iTunes that has check boxes 3 Inthe Artists list select the artists whose songs you want to sync with your iPad 4 Inthe Genres list select the genres that you prefer iTunes uses the genre assigned to the song by the vendor from which you obtained the song such as the iTunes Store It also uses informa tion from an online database when you rip a CD to add its songs to your Music library You can modify this information if you like see the iTunes help topic Edit Song and CD Information to find out how 5 Inthe Albums list select the albums you want on your iPad 6 Click Apply in the bottom right corner of the iTunes window iTunes syncs the songs that match your artist album and genre selections to your iPad and removes any songs from your iPad that don t match your selections 190 Figure 3 23 It may look like we re copying four songs into a playlist but we re really copy ing references to those songs The iPad 2 Project Book Make and sync playlists for your iPad Some people who spend a lot of time with iTunes delight in arranging their songs in all sorts of ways by using iTunes
227. rge eggs at room temperature 1 4 cup grated lemon zest from about 4 lemons 1 4 cup fresh lemon juice 2 cups 4 sticks unsalted butter melted and cooled 1 2 cup sour cream at room temperature 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract to 350 degrees F Spray the sides 9 by 5 by 3 inch loaf pans with spray Line the bottom with and spray the paper king powder baking soda and salt um bowl gs lemon zest and lemon juice in a d pulse until combined With the zzle the butter in through the feed f cream and vanilla and pulse until Br the mixture to a large bowl ixture one third at a time folding addition until just combined Do not Figure 2 46 Recipe screen with Ingredients popover 4 Tap the recipe to make the Ingredients window disappear and see information about preparing the dish Figure 2 47 Back button Bookmark ma MAKE THE LEMON CAKES Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F Spray the sides and bottom of two 9 by 5 by 3 inch loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray Line the bottom with parchment paper and spray the paper Sift both flours baking powder baking soda and salt together in a medium bowl Put the sugar eggs lemon zest and lemon juice ina food processor and pulse until combined With the motor running drizzle the butter in through the feed tube Add the sour cream and vanilla and pulse until combined Transfer the mixture to a large bowl Favorites button
228. rlink Figure 1 50 The Insert popover Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 71 EntryWithLinks Updated Mon Mar 28 2011 11 41 MyFirstPage You can create a link to a Web page that will open in Safari by formatting the link this way Put the link text in square brackets and the actual URL in parentheses like this Example link http www example com Adding an image to a Trunk Notes page 1 Open Trunk Notes to its home page 2 Tap inside the Search field and type MylmageEntry 3 Inthe resulting edit page tap Create page MylmageEntry 4 Tap the Action button at the bottom of the screen to display a popover 5 Choose Insert from the popover A new popover appears Figure 1 50 Sound Recording Image From Library 72 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 51 The Photo Albums popover a 32 mm Mylmagqe Entry 6 Tap Image From Library Another new popover opens listing the albums in your Photos app Your albums will be different but the list will look something like Figure 1 51 Photo Albums saved Photos 50 Photo Library 624 re a Wam Last 12 Months 449 LAS Archival 25 Palm TX 24 gt Saver 40 Written In Stone 29 Se iPad 46 Tap an album to select it Tap the thumbnail of the image you want to use in your MylmageEntry page Trunk Notes inserts Markdown syntax that will display your image when you ta
229. rs page Tap Fetch New Data In the screen that appears tap the Push switch to turn it on When Push is turned on MobileMe gets in touch with your iPad whenever mail is sent to your MobileMe address no matter whether your iPad is awake or asleep as long as your iPad is connected to the Internet that is Press the Home button on your iPad Now your iPad and MobileMe are set to communicate Whenever you make a change in your calendars contacts or bookmarks on your computer the change is sent to your iPad over the Internet Similarly any changes you make in your contacts calendars or bookmarks on your iPad are sent over the Internet to your computer It s magical 20 The iPad 2 Project Book Mail Management Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed Working email account free or paid MobileMe account optional 99 per year iPad model Any Additional hardware None The iPad aside from its many other virtues is a useful device for reading responding to and managing your email at those times when you aren t shackled to your computer and how sweet those times can be Managing your email on your iPad is much easier however if you use the IMAP email protocol Most Web mail applications use IMAP see the sidebar IMAP and POP Mail Accounts later in this project for details which means that your email is synchronized across devices automati cally If you sync your email accounts and contacts via
230. rted with Netflix 1 Purchase the Netflix app from the App Store if you haven t already 2 Tap the Netflix app s icon to launch it on your iPad The login page opens Figure 3 50 Figure 3 50 Log into aonb mida NETFLIX your Netflix account or create one Not a membor Visit netflix com to sign up Forgot your password 3 Do one of the following e If you already have a Netflix account enter your email address and password and tap the Sign In button e If you don t have an account tap the Netflix com link Safari ferries you to the Netflix site where you can sign up Picking a genre and movie to watch 1 Log into Netflix and select the Genres tab Figure 3 51 on the next page and tap the genre that interests you A selection of titles in the selected genre appears 220 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 51 Specify the i nab kind of movie you want Sere to view Television Action amp Adventure Anime amp Animation Children amp Family Comedy Documentary Drama Foreign Horror Independent Romance If you select the Home tab instead you see a New Releases screen listing new movies and TV shows 2 Tap a movie s title The movie s Info screen appears presenting a brief description and buttons you can tap to add the movie to your queue or play it 3 Do one of the following e Tap the Play button Netflix spins the wait cursor for a few seconds and then start
231. ructive plays many of them mtercelated To take wall in you will make a sucecssion of expeditions cach of which reveals some aspect of how healing works Tap the marker to see your note tap and hold the marker to see a menu of editing options or tap and hold and drag the note after a delay to move it to a new location 6 Tap and hold somewhere else on the page to display the annotation bar and use the drag handles to select several words of text 106 Figure 2 38 Highlighting in GoodReader The iPad 2 Project Book 7 Tap Highlight in the annotation bar refer to Figure 2 34 The passage of text you selected is highlighted in the PDF file Figure 2 38 Imagine this scenario Using his father s mols your energene twelve year old an has Reon huey C NSEMICHNZ 2 fart in the backward with SEL af lumber and leftover nail After a few dawa of this he complains tek woul ne hea Lett index tinge ris throb mig and sore If you tap the highlighted area you can modify the highlight by adding a note changing the color or deleting it 8 Tap Markup or Draw in the annotation bar A new button bar appears 9 Experiment with the options in the new button bar to annotate the PDF further All of GoodReader s annotation tools work with either a quick tap or a tap and hold If one technique doesn t do what you expect try the other Use Instapaper to read on the go Instapaper allows you
232. s J mare a Ay vecstece SHARED CoodReader E Sucephatus Livery i gt PLAYLISTS FR Kindle into Kobo on g Ada S2rt te i Figure 2 19 My Documents screen Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 95 On a Mac instead of completing steps 8 and 9 you can drag a file from a Finder window to the Pages Documents list If you want to transfer a file from your iPad to your computer via iTunes the process is almost exactly the same until step 7 to transfer a file from your iPad to your computer click the Save button Download and read files from Dropbox in GoodReader In the following tasks we show you how to connect GoodReader with your Dropbox account and download files Adding a Dropbox server to GoodReader 1 Launch GoodReader You see the My Documents screen Figure 2 19 My Documents Eag Preview OFI 96 The iPad 2 Project Book The switch in the top right corner toggles document previews Tap the switch to turn it on if you want to see previews of documents and images 2 Below the Preview list tap the Connect to Servers bar You see the buttons shown in Figure 2 20 Figure 2 20 Connect to Servers bar 3 Tap the Add button The Create New Connection popover opens Figure 2 21 listing the servers GoodReader can connect to Figure 2 21 Create or Create Mew Connection New Connection pORONGr F Popular Mail Servers Mail Server IMAP POP3 E Mob
233. s approaching the bar 5 mark in the timeline tap the Dm D minor chord strip 178 The iPad 2 Project Book 7 At the end of two D minor repetitions when the playhead is coming up on the bar 7 mark in the timeline tap the G G major chord strip When the playhead reaches the end of the song segment GarageBand automatically stops recording and immediately begins to play back what it just recorded 8 Listen to your recording If you don t like your recording don t worry Just repeat these steps to erase the recording and redo it You won t be charged for extra studio time You hear the metronome during playback but it s not part of the recording If the sound bothers you tap the Song Settings button to open the Song Settings popover refer to Figure 3 8 and then tap the Metronome switch to turn it off Adding a new instrument in a new section 1 Inthe control bar to the left of the transport controls tap the View button The screen changes to show GarageBand s track view Figure 3 10 You use this view to add or remove song sections add or remove instrument tracks and arrange your recordings Figure 3 10 Track view shows the instrument tracks and the record ings in your song Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 179 Currently your song has one instrument track and one eight bar section The big green area below the control bar is the Acoustic Smart Guitar recording region that you c
234. s refer to Figure 1 31 earlier in this project 3 Tap out a four digit passcode of your choosing and then repeat it to confirm the passcode This passcode can be the same as your simple passcode refer to Setting a passcode earlier in this project but for better security you should choose a different one After you establish the passcode the rest of the choices in this screen become available With them you can disallow access to certain apps and features as well as restrict access to certain types of media based on parental ratings Figure 1 32 Figure 1 32 Restrict access to various apps actions and types of content here e e e J iPad gt Settings ud Airplane Mode OFF ka Wi Fi Cohen hed Notifications On Ine Location Services On kg Brightness amp Wallpaper Picture Frame General Mail Contacts Calendars Safari iPod Video Photos FaceTime Notes Store Tr E OE p AOL Radio 4 Set your restrictions Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 53 12 12 PM Disable Restrictions Allow A Safari ws YouTube Camera FaceTime loj iTunes loj Ping l Installing Apps k Deleting Apps Allow Changes laa Location a Accounts Allowed Content In App Purchases Ratings For Music amp Podcasts Restrictions 100 mm United States gt Explicit gt e Purchases privacy and Web surfing In the Allow section for example you c
235. s you can choose to sync calendars with Microsoft Outlook 2003 2007 or 2010 Setting calendar sync options 1 On the Info pane do one of the following Ona Mac check Sync iCal Calendars Figure 1 4 Figure 1 4 The calen Z Sync iCal Calendars dar syncing options allow you to choose specific calendars All calendars Selected calendars M Do not sync events older than 30 days e In Windows check Sync calendars with then from the drop down menu choose the application that manages the calendars you want to sync 2 If you want to sync only specific calendars click Selected calendars and then check the calendars that you want to appear on your iPad otherwise click All calendars 3 Optional Click Do not sync events older than x days and then enter a number in the text box Unless you think you ll need to refer to past events on your iPad choosing not to sync events older than 30 days the default helps keep your iPad calendar uncluttered 8 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 1 5 Choose the mail account settings you want to copy to your iPad Sync mail settings First let s be clear iTunes does not sync mail between your iPad and your computer Instead both your computer and your iPad obtain and display your email directly from your email provider or providers Michael currently has email accounts with four providers for example What iTunes does sync are the settings you v
236. s Remote Subtitles Logs Folder Name Path Movies Users dre Movies My Book Volumes My Book rk Add Folder Add iTunes Playlist Remove Selected 3 Repeat step 2 for any additional folders you want to make available Note that selecting a folder makes all subordinate folders accessible 234 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 66 Select any iTunes playlists you want to access 4 To add iTunes playlists to the list of streamable locations click the Add iTunes Playlist button The iTunes Playlists dialog opens Figure 3 66 Available Playlists PAOA iTunes Playlists Movies TV Shows 0 Podcasts Books Purchased Purchased on drePad iTunes DJ ADC on iTunes BigBand Bryce amp Marcus Carpenters Chesterfield Broadcasts Comedy G Close Add As we mention earlier in this project copy protected content from the iTunes Store won t stream iTunes playlists are handy for your home videos iTunes U courseware video podcasts and other content that lacks DRM 5 Select the iTunes playlists or categories you want to add and click Add You return to the Air Video Server Preferences dialog Make sure that the Server Running switch at the top of the window is set to Yes as shown in Figure 3 67 Air Video Server runs as a background process No icon for it appears in either the Mac OS X Dock or the Windows taskbar If you close the window the application contin
237. s TVShows Podcasts TusesU Books Photos iPad Name Michael Cohen s iPad 2 Capacity 59 15 GB Software Version 4 3 Serial Number HS Version Your iPad software is up to date ITunes will autornatically check for an Check for Update update again on 3 15 11 ern if you are experiencing problems with your iPad you can restore its Restore original settings by clicking Restore Options Open Tunes when this iPad Is connected amp Sync only checked songs and videos O Prefer standard definition videos G Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC LJ Manually manage music and videos ld Encrypt iPad backup Change Password Configure Universal Access Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 5 3 Make sure that the check box titled Open iTunes when this iPad is connected is checked This setting is the best one to use if you want to sync your iPad with iTunes regularly The other options aren t relevant for syncing your general information with your iPad You can ignore them for now but not forever The real fun stuff is on the pane associated with the Info button which is located in the header area at the top of the main iTunes display That pane is where you set up syncing for your contacts calendars book marks mail settings and notes Sync contacts First you need to set up contact syncing iTunes knows about various contact sources on your computer and on the Internet and it allows you
238. s and enabled iTunes to share that video with the iPod Then came the iPhone which was like an iPod from the future It could not only play music and video and display text but also handle email create appointments and contacts browse the Web and run applications So Apple gave iTunes the ability to sync contacts and calendars and apps and bookmarks between the iPhone and the computer After that came the iPad which can handle even more kinds of information and Apple grafted the ability to sync those kinds of information onto iTunes as well That s where we are today with the distant descendant of the original music playing application managing all sorts of information on the distant descendant of the original handheld music playing device evolution and intelligent design joining hands wearing white earbuds and dancing together We get all misty just thinking about it Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 11 Wireless Syncing Project Difficulty level Intermediate Software needed MobileMe account iPad model Any Additional hardware None When you begin living with your iPad you soon discover that it s really convenient to put a lot of the personal information that you keep on your desktop or laptop computer on your iPad as well The preceding Information Syncing Project shows how to bring all that stuff into align ment every time you connect your iPad to your computer But using that method of syncing your information means that
239. s from iTunes to 93 95 unable to create new calendars on 40 wiping data on 58 iPad Chef Project 111 137 See also BigOven Epicurious recipes about 111 112 creating BigOven app account 119 121 favorites in BigOven 124 125 finding BigOven recipes 121 124 finding Epicurious recipes 112 115 making recipe scrapbook 127 137 marking and displaying favorite recipes 116 117 searching for recipes 115 116 sharing BigOven recipes 126 using iPad in the kitchen 137 viewing and emailing recipe shopping list 118 119 iPad Protection Project 48 58 about 48 finding lost iPad 54 58 passcodes 49 51 setting restrictions 52 54 iPod touch 186 itinerary creating TravelTracker 158459 entering flight info in 166 168 iTunes about Smart Playlists 194 choosing syncing categories in 188 189 clearing all playlists before syncing 189 exporting songs to 184 185 making and syncing playlists on 190 194 managing music syncing manually 196 preventing iPad syncing with computer 3 10 recovering data from backup of 51 reverting to automatic syncing 203 Source list for 4 syncing iPad items in 3 4 turning on off movie syncing 203204 unable to stream copy protected content from 231 234 using Home Sharing with 242 244 viewing sync settings in 3 5 why sync using 10 iTunes Store downloading Air Video from App Store 232 renting movies from 210 restricting access to 53 K KAYAK 162465 entering travel dates to find flight 164 165
240. s from several sources those that come from your computer those that you sync with MobileMe those to which you subscribe and so on But on what calendar do the events that you create on your iPad go That s where the default calendar comes in You can and should specify a default calendar so that when you create an event you don t have to worry about what calendar will receive it Unless you specify otherwise newly created events end up in your default calendar Although you can subscribe to and sync with a plethora of calendars from various sources the iPad doesn t give you a way to create new calendars directly on it Setting a default calendar 1 Tap Settings gt Mail Contacts Calendars 2 Swipe down the resulting Mail Contacts Calendars screen until you see the Calendars section way down at the bottom 3 Tap Default Calendar The Default Calendar screen appears listing some or all of the calendars displayed by your iPad s Calendar app Figure 1 26 We say some or all because the iPad shows only the calendars to which you can add events Subscribed calendars for example can t be altered so they don t show up in the Default Calendar screen Figure 1 26 You can pick a default calendar from those on your iPad Figure 1 27 You can assign an event to a nondefault calendar when you create it Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 41 Google Syne info D a gmaim me com O Infobrew D Home W
241. s like a small card with a blue human figure 3 Complete the email form by adding a recipient and a message then send it Your recipient probably can simply tap on an iPad or double click the icon to add that information to her own contacts list Information in the contact s Notes field on the iPad isn t included in the shared vCard Draft an email Sometimes when you re writing an email you need to set it aside and return to it later Mail will save a copy of an unfinished email for you as a draft You can find it in the special Drafts folder in the account that would have sent the mail had you finished writing and tapped Send Saving a draft email 1 Tap the gray Cancel button in the top left corner of the email form You see a popover with a red Delete Draft button and a gray Save Draft button Figure 1 15 5 38 PM News lam happy to tell you that Sent from my iPad 28 The iPad 2 Project Book Mail Shortcuts for Addresses and Photos We re assuming that you ve already set up Mail on your iPad to send and receive email You ve got the basics down you know how to reply to an email you ve received initiate a new email by tapping the Compose icon and send your finished email by tapping Send But the iPad can make emailing easier for you in a couple of ways e When you start typing an address in the To field of an email for example the iPad working with the Contacts app tries to guess
242. s playing your selection e Tap the Add to Instant button Netflix adds the movie to a list of movies you want to watch when you get a chance Searching for video 1 Log in to Netflix and select the Search tab 2 Type key words in the Search box Netflix presents a list of matches Figure 3 52 Some matches are marked as being unavailable however and others are marked as being available only via disc subscription for an additional 2 per month and a lack of instant gratification Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 221 Figure 3 52 Sometimes Netflix tells you about titles that you can t stream along with the ones you can The Dawn Rider nv TV PG SIm John Wayne American Legend 2004 NA kkk John Wayne The Later John Wayne Lone Years Cowboy 2001 NA 32 NR EEES Eidi John Wayne King of the West John Wayne s Tribute to America 1 NR HRS ok ak NR The John Wayne Story The John Wayne The Early Years 1903 NA Ak Cliffhanger Collection kiki 3 Tap the title of something that is available That movie s Info screen appears 4 Do one of the following e Tap the Play button Netflix spins the wait cursor for a few seconds and then starts playing your selection Tap the Add to Instant button Netflix adds the movie to a list of movies you want to watch when you get a chance Playing what s queued 1 Log into Netflix and select the Instant Queue
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244. search window similar to the one shown in Figure 2 57 5 Select up to three leftover ingredients in the spin wheels Figure 2 58 and tap the large red Search BigOven button A list of search results appears Figure 2 59 search 170 000 Recipes search 170 000 Recipes ove oyen cause BEC os Simpy chodis Up fo 3 ingredients 0r Mavors Aand Bigtiwen wall bell you whai you can make Simpy chdis Lp fo 3 ingredients 0r avons Ard iii JWen will bell you what y u can maka Aptal Search BigOven Search BigOven Figure 2 57 Leftovers search form Figure 2 58 Leftovers search form showing search terms Figure 2 59 Leftovers recipe search results BigOven 6 Tap a recipe in the list of search results Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad Search Roast Lemon Chicken Main Dish Poultry Ct c AAR RA 3 Pa a Easy Roast Lemon Pepper Chicken amp Potatoes Main Dis Poultry G rae Se 1 Rowowe Oven Fried Chicken and Potatoes Main Disk Paullry Cheche KW He 2 Pav Sopa De Pollo Cuban Style Chicken Soup ie A re k 5 ae pire Cod and Shrimp Stoup with Mashed Potatoes xh Ww x TD T Sow Jeanine s Potato Leek Soup souy bows J L Aw eww 5 Rove Skillet Roasted Lemon Chicken with Potatoes Main Disk Poultry Chicka Ke wee 1 Revo Tilapia Corn Chowder Side Dish Potatoos eee eR 2 Revine Honey Chicken Main Olat Pruiry neck HAARAA 3 Aevow 123 The app displays the recipe i
245. sonthemove com gocaic Click the All Pages button at the top of the home page to see a list of all your Trunk Notes pages Any changes you make will be saved to your iPad when you click the Save button in your Web browser Figure 1 58 Sonnet Edit Save Cancel Delete Tags Blossoms Cherry Flowers B7 Guns s51 s inet There are three principal sonnet atyles or forma thoogh there ere 4 niaeber of miner variations The Italian or Petrarch sonnet ia divided in parts the octave the first eight lines and the postet the following six The octave has the chyme chene obb While a at h the Syse echese of c ecde or variation like cdcdod or ogecce The etructure of the Petrarchan sonnet reinforces the senses and meaning the sonnet particularly ina ores o OF wolta which almost always takes place in the ninth line The tura refers to the change in tone or subject presented in the ninth line often indicated by beginning with a word like then o but The English or Shakespearean sonnet divides the fourteen lines into three quatrains and a rhyming couplet The rhyme echeme is almost invariably abab odcd efet gg The couplet usually fumctices much like the volta in the Petrarchan sonnet in that it presents an alternative or commentary or resolution to A concepts presented in the previcun twelve linen The Spenserian stanet created by Easund Spenser for hia sequence Amoretti uses thre
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247. t place on the page if you want Using an iPad in the Kitchen Using an iPad in the kitchen can be truly labor saving but it can also be very risky Electronic devices really aren t designed to spend time around bubbling liquids for example Here are a few tips to make cooking with an iPad easier and safer Stand it up Think about getting a stand for your iPad An awful lot of people have found that a cookbook stand works perfectly for an iPad though you may want to position it in a place that s somewhat sheltered e Bag it up A gallon size plastic food storage bag the kind with a zipper closure makes a great protective cover for an iPad Slip the iPad inside a clean dry bag and seal it The iPad will be a little less vulnerable to spills and splashes and you can still use the touchscreen through the bag e Keep it awake Consider changing the Auto Lock setting tap Settings gt General to keep your iPad from going to sleep and locking the screen at a crucial moment 138 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 78 The Keynote app s icon Flash Card Project Difficulty level Intermediate Software needed Keynote for iPad 10 iPad model Any Additional hardware Optional AirPrint compatible printer Remember flash cards Those old school handheld teaching devices Well in this project you re going to make some But put down the posterboard the scissors the glue stick and the colored markers because you won t be n
248. tab Netflix displays the items in your queue Figure 3 53 Figure 3 53 id 3 17 PM This screen displays Instant Queue the movies and TV NAE THOT Het Covelend shows you ve put in edri 010 VPA 90 apaadi kitt your waiting list 222 The iPad 2 Project Book 2 Tap the title you want to view If you select a movie it starts playing If you select a TV series you see a list of episodes tap the Play button for the one you want to view Figure 3 54 Figure 3 54 Select an Pad 16 PM episode of a queued Dexter TV series Pes g re 2006 TV MA 24 episodes ad sg anes bat DEXTER Mild mannered Dexter Morgan works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood spiatter analyst and moonlights as a murderer who only targets other hollers a moral code instilled in him by his adoptive tather Harry Episodes 1 SE Dexter 2 S1 E2 Crocodile 3 1 E3 Popping Cherry 4 S1 E4 Let s Give the Boy a Hand 5 81 65 Love American Style 6 S1 56 Return to Sender Play 7 S1 E7 Circle of Friends 8 SLES Shrink Wrap Y p v a X x 9 S1 E9 Father Knows Best 3G Users Beware Unless you re rich as Croesus or consider AT amp T or Verizon to be your favorite charity you should be very careful about streaming video other than an occasional short clip over a 3G connec tion Video comprises a lot of data especially HD video and you can rapidly exceed your monthly data a
249. targeted towards YA but were ange of ages including readers who wouldn t L Shared project files antasy fans 92 The iPad 2 Project Book Your collaborators receive your email invitation with a link inviting them to join the shared folder It s a good idea to email them first to let them know to watch for the invitation from Dropbox After they do you receive a confirmation email You can place files or other folders in a shared folder and share the contents with anyone whom you invite Your collaborators can also add and remove folders and files Get started with GoodReader GoodReader is a reader designed for the iPad It can read many kinds of files and even share them but it is most useful for reading and annotating PDF files In this project we show you how to transfer files to GoodReader personalize your annotations and annotate a PDF file We can t possibly cover all the things you can do with GoodReader To find out more tap the question mark icon in any screen in GoodReader or visit the helpful manual at www goodreader net gr man html Getting the app e Purchase for 4 99 and download the GoodReader app from the App Store Transfer a file from a computer to GoodReader Email isn t the only way to transfer files to your iPad You can use iTunes to copy files to your computer from your iPad and from your iPad to your computer When your iPad is connected to your computer via a USB port and
250. that know how to play themselves GarageBand may not be magical but it ll do until Merlin drops by with his psaltery for a jam session In this project you use GarageBand s Smart Instruments to compose and record a simple song Obtain the GarageBand app If you re a Mac owner chances are that you ve already seen the Mac version of GarageBand which has shipped with every new Mac for years as part of Apple s iLife software suite Recently Apple has made it avail able for separate purchase from the Mac App Store You don t need a Mac or the Mac version of GarageBand to use the GarageBand app on your iPad however All you need are an iPad and 4 99 Getting the app e Purchase the GarageBand app from the App Store either directly on your iPad or via iTunes on your computer Figure 3 1 shows its icon Figure 3 2 The Instruments screen where you pick an instrument to play and record Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 171 You can enter the following URL in your computer s Web browser to have it open iTunes and take you right to the download page http itunes apple com us app garageband id408709785 mt 8 Set up a song When you open a newly installed copy of GarageBand it creates a new song for you and shows you the Instruments screen Figure 3 2 If you see anything else you need to create a new song yourself Instruments bhdbbi Keyboard Play an onscreen keyboard with piano organ and synth
251. the dock connector the iTunes Apps tab contains a File Sharing section In the following task we show how to transfer files from your computer to GoodReader but the process is the same for any app that supports iTunes file transfer Figure 2 16 iTunes File Sharing pane Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad GoodReader uses the iPad s built in viewing engine see the Mail Attachments That the iPad Can Preview sidebar earlier in this project as well as its own to read the following file types pdf txt jpg jpeg gif tif tiff bmp bmpf png ico cur and xbm Transferring files to your iPad via iTunes 1 Connect your iPad to your computer 2 Launch iTunes if it doesn t open automatically 3 Select your iPad in the iTunes Source list 4 In the main iTunes window click the iPad s Apps tab 5 Scroll down until you see the File Sharing pane Figure 2 16 r NEN vd 2 i on Nila P Aie uC 4 m em ms IQ Search Ans ji ra n A E A y bii Tii f 2 r ond 2 _ LIBRARY Summary info GL sust movies TVShows Podrasts Tunes Books Photos J Mew w u cane Jani s wae n J G Mowe Pe PT ens Sater ee Pod Orepbes C TV Stow x ee K Automatically sype new apps Select ap u be imtalled on yvur iPad or drag to 2 specific borme screen T Podcast Drag to rearrange app icons or home creem E iTunes U P Books taj Aves n File Sharing A Reto The apps isted below can transfer docu
252. the double arrow button in the bottom right corner of the preview pane Figure 3 71 to have your video appear full screen if it doesn t transition to full screen automatically Figure 3 71 When video is playing controls are available at the bottom of the preview pane Full Screen button 238 The iPad 2 Project Book 4 Inthe controller overlay Figure 3 72 do any of the following Elapsed time Scrubber Timeline Remaining time Figure 3 72 Video displayed in full screen mode and the controls available in that mode 30 Second Rewind Advance Full Screen Play Pause Volume e Tap the 30 Second Rewind button to go backward in 30 second increments e Tap the Play Pause button to switch from playing to pausing and vice versa e Tap the Advance button to move to the next chapter marker or the end of the video if the video has no remaining chapter markers e Tap the Full Screen button again if you want to go back to the screen with the preview pane refer to Figure 3 71 e Drag the scrubber in the timeline to move to any point in the video you want The current time code Chow far into the video you are is shown at the left end of the timeline and the remaining time in the video is displayed at the right end Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 239 With the release of iOS 4 3 coincident with the iPad 2 s debut Air Video will play your videos over AirPlay in the background so you ca
253. the person you re going to send the email to The results can include people you ve corresponded with even though they aren t listed in your Contacts app e If you know exactly whom you want to email it may be more efficient to tap the blue plus sign icon at the right end of the To field scroll through your Contacts app and select that person s email address e If you want to email an image to someone you can use the Photos app like so 1 2 Tap the Photos app s icon to launch the app on your iPad Find the image you want to send and tap the curved arrow Action button in the top right corner You see a popover with several buttons including Email Photo Tap Email Photo The iPad switches to Mail where the image is already attached to a blank email form Add an address subject and message body Send the finished email You re back at the image you selected in step 2 2 Tap Save Draft The draft is saved to the Drafts folder for that email account Manage your mailboxes If you have multiple devices that can check email and multiple email accounts the best mail management tip we can offer you is to let your email server manage mail for you Leaving your mail on the server and letting the server be the primary email source means that you ll see the Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 29 same mailboxes and find the same messages in the same read or unread states on all your devices Navigating your mai
254. ting system the blue Apple logo if you re using a Mac or the Windows logo if that s your platform to download the Air Video Server soft ware for your computer The Server software for your platform downloads and installs itself on your computer If the Server software doesn t install automatically when you download it run the installer Windows or drag the Server application s icon to your Applications folder Mac Introduce your iPad to Air Video Server Now that you have Air Video on your iPad and Air Video Server on your computer it s time to open the lines of communication Setting up Air Video Server 1 Launch Air Video Server You should see the dialog shown in Figure 3 64 Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 233 Figure 3 64 The Air SO Air Video Server Preferences Video Server Preferences dialog Server Running Yes Folders Conversion Settings Remote Subtitles Logs Folder Name Path Add Folder Add iTunes Playlist Remove Selected 2 If you want to specify a folder such as your Movies folder on a Mac or your MyMovies folder in Windows click the Add Folder button and navigate in the Open dialog to select your folder Now your specified folder appears in the dialog s list box as shown in Figure 3 65 Figure 3 65 Your first entry in the folders that Air Video can access ANA Air Video Server Preferences Server Running Yes Folders Conversion Setting
255. ting system Mac Windows or Linux 3 Download the free Dropbox for iPad app from the App Store Logging in to Dropbox 1 Launch Dropbox by tapping its icon You see the login screen Figure 2 4 Figure 2 4 The Dropbox login screen Dropbox Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 85 2 Enter the email address and password you used to register with Dropbox then tap Log in You see the Welcome to Dropbox screen Figure 2 5 My Dropbox icon Figure 2 5 Dropbox welcome screen Welcome to Dropbox Dropbox This application allows you to access your Dropbox on the go search your files send them to your friends and even sync your favorites for use offline Viewing Files Now you can view files from your Dropbox right on your iPad Need to review a slide deck but don t have your computer with you Dropbox has you covered Want to read a report someone from work just shared with you No problem Want to open a file in another app Go for it Want to listen to music or watch videos stored in your Dropbox That works too 3 Tap the My Dropbox icon You see the My Dropbox popover Figure 2 6 on the next page Your list of folders and files may look different Dropbox automati cally creates the Photos and Public folders for you these folders have special properties and purposes You can create a new folder by tapping the plus sign in the bottom left corner of any Dropbox f
256. tory Korong Forever The Judy Coll Stunt Blackbirds and Thrushes The King is Dead Sunshyness Dookie Blue Devils amp Dust Wah The Beatles You can use the search box at the top of the screen to find the songs you want You can also use the buttons at the bottom to add albums artists genres and composers 6 Tap the blue Done button Your new playlist appears Figure 3 28 Jbrary rage From iPad Misc Playlists Music Videos 3 Purchased J Purchased on Mich Smart Playlists The Abduction of From iPad Now Playing d at Shuffle gt c Across The Univer o AsOne Code Monkey Dark Time In the The Beatles Dropkick Murphys Jonathan Coulton Laurie Anderson Let It Be Naked 3 38 Blackout 301 Best Concert Ever 4 00 Hometand Deluxe Ve 5 14 196 The iPad 2 Project Book 7 Tap any song to delete it from the playlist or tap the playlist in the Library column to delete the whole thing 8 When the playlist is the way you want it tap Done again Manage your music by hand Some people like total control of every single item on their iPads prefer ring to add and remove songs manually rather than rely on syncing If you re one of those people this last section and iTunes Manually manage music and video option are for you The aforementioned setting allows you to drag songs albums playlists videos
257. ts editing options Because you have only one slide at this point however and it s selected a single tap displays the options 2 Tap Copy tap the thumbnail again and then tap Paste A second thumbnail appears in the column below the first and its contents are displayed in Keynote s main viewing area As you d expect this image is a duplicate of the first slide for the moment 3 Double tap the text field on the slide and enter the new text Hello My name is 4 Tap the picture once pause tap again to display the image editing options see the nearby sidebar iPad Editing Techniques and then tap Replace You want to put a different picture on the slide so you need to get rid of the existing one first When you tap Replace the Photo Albums popover appears Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 149 5 Tap either Saved Photos original iPad or Camera Roll iPad 2 and then tap the name tag image which will be on your iPad if you completed the steps in Gathering images with Google Images earlier in this project 6 Drag the photo so that it s centered above the text field You have the English version of a phrase slide Next you make the Slide that has the Italian translation iPad Editing Techniques When you begin editing a text field you can use the common iPad editing tools e Tap to select a location in the text e Tap and hold to see a magnified view of the text and then drag to positio
258. tton Figure 2 72 10 Ingens Etiam sit amet est Donec quis nunc Aenean tacults laoreet arcu Curabitur vulputate viverra pede Nulla nune lectus vitae pulvinar magna Sed et lacus quis enim mattis nonummy Integer facilisis arcu Nulla rutrum commodo ligula Nune ut lectus Tap Paste The template s placeholder text is replaced by the ingredients for your recipe If you want your ingredients list to be in italics select the ingredients and then tap the I button on the Pages toolbar 11 Repeat steps 1 10 copying the procedure or preparation section of your recipe from the Blank staging document and pasting it in the Cooking Instructions section of the Recipe document Figure 2 73 on the next page Now all you need to do is replace the image from the template with the image for your recipe 134 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 73 The Recipe document with all the template text replaced by a new recipe Recipe RASPBERRY OAT BARS Cooking Time 40 Minutes Makes 2 Dozen Ingredients 1 2 cup packed brown sugar light or dark 1 cup Undteached all purpose flour 1 4 teaspoon Baking soda 1 8 teaspoon Salt 1 cup rolled old fasheoned or quick oats 1 2 cup unsalted butter cut into 1 2 inch pieces soMened to cool room temperature 3 4 to 1 Cup seedless raspberry jam of preserves or conserve Cooking Instructions Preheal oven to 350 degrees F Line an Sinch square baking
259. u can t use AirPlay to transmit digital rights management DRM in this chapter 242 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 75 The Home Sharing screen You can use Air Video and AirPlay to stream convert on the fly content to AppleTV with the help of Air Video Server 2 4 5 or later At this writing this method is the only known way to view certain types of content Adobe Flash DivX MKV and so on via AppleTV Share your iTunes Library Almost from the start iTunes has supported sharing an iTunes Library from one Mac or PC to other computers The addition of Home Sharing takes this functionality one step further Now you can access your iTunes content not only on other computers but also on any iOS device that contains your iTunes Store account information After an iTunes Library is set up as a Server all activity is initiated by devices on the network Therefore you can t use Home Sharing to get content to AppleTV or to wireless speakers which have no user inter face for requesting data Accessing a shared iTunes Library on an iPad 1 Launch iTunes on your Mac or PC 2 Turn on Home Sharing by choosing Advanced gt Turn On Home Sharing 3 Enter your Apple ID and password in the Home Sharing screen Figure 3 75 and click the Create Home Share button 7 Home Sharing Apple ID Password No Thanks Create Home Share Figure 3 76 Choose the library from which you want to retrieve songs
260. u open the app it provides a helpful tip as shown in Figure 2 98 The app tells you about the screen you re looking at and mentions another service Triplt that makes TravelTracker even more useful We won t use Triplt in this project but it s worth checking out Figure 2 98 The All Trips page in Travel Tracker complete with a tip 2 Ifthe tip appears tap OK to dismiss it then tap the New Trip button in the top right corner of the screen A popover containing a New Trip form appears Figure 2 99 Note that the form starts the trip on the current date You need to change that date but first you should give the trip a name Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 157 Figure 2 99 Creating a new trip New Trip Title Start Date Wed March 30 2011 End Date Thu March 31 2011 Re Default Currency Group Mine Notes 3 Inthe form tap Title An Edit Trip Name form appears 4 Typea title such as Holiday In Portland Figure 2 100 Figure 2 100 Every trip needs a name Cancel Edit Trip Name Holiday In Portland 5 Tap the Save button in the top right corner to save your work and close the form The New Trip form returns 6 Tap Start Date An Edit Trip Dates form opens featuring a standard iPad date selection widget 7 Tap the Start field and use the widget to dial the start date for this project November 21 2011 Your selected date appears in the Start field Figure
261. u remembered to start the dishwasher as you stand in line waiting to board that add on may be just what you need Scheduling a dinner 1 Inthe top right corner of the itinerary screen refer to Figure 2 102 tap New Item The New Item popover displays a list of items that you can add to the itinerary Figure 2 103 Figure 2 103 Any or all een New item of these items can go in your itinerary Flight Flight from frequent Train Ride Lodging Car Rental Transport Dining Meeting Activity Drive Cruise amp Note Map Directions E Photo Album 160 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 2 104 Enter information about your dining plans here Figure 2 105 Set this widget so that you won t miss dinner 2 Tap Dining A New Dining screen appears Figure 2 104 This screen where you add restaurant and reservation information sets the reservation to the first day of the trip by default The time is also set by default to 6 p m you won t need to change it for this task After all 6 p m is a good time for dinner Ca New Dining ES Restaurant gt When Mon Nov 21 2011 6 00 PM Cuisine gt People gt Conf gt Status gt Notes 3 Tap the When field A date and time selection widget appears displaying the default date and time Figure 2 105 Cancel Edit When Sun Nov 20 5 59 AM Mon Nov 215 6 00 PM Enum 4
262. ubg books a shared universe series created by Terri Wi are set in Bordertown a liminal area on the border B Use Dropbox to share and sync files Dropbox allows you to share data between computers and other devices by storing your files on its servers A free account gives you 2 GB of file storage You ll be warned before you reach the limit You can access any files that you upload from any device that has Dropbox installed or from the Dropbox Web site a On your computer Dropbox creates a Dropbox folder Any file or folder that you add to the Dropbox folder is available to you via Dropbox on your iPad e On your iPad you can share any file in your Dropbox by dragging a file into your Public folder and you can sync files that you ve marked as favorites in Dropbox In the following sections we show you how to log in to Dropbox on your iPad favorite a file in Dropbox sync individual files in Dropbox and share a file and a folder using Dropbox 84 The iPad 2 Project Book Syncing files in Dropbox works a little differently on an iPad than it does on a computer On a computer the files in your Dropbox sync automatically but on an iPad files sync on demand You have to mark any file you want to sync on your iPad as a favorite before you can sync so we present those tasks in that order Getting the software 1 Register for a free Dropbox account at www dropbox com 2 Download the software for your opera
263. ues to run and a dialog Figure 3 68 informs you that you can still access it via an icon in the main menu bar Mac or system tray Windows You re good to go and should find your specified content available in the Air Server app on your iPad Figure 3 69 Chapter 3 Music Books and Movies on the iPad 235 Server Running server kunnin Closing this window does nor quit the application You an access the application through leon in menubar Conversion Settings Remote Subtitles Logs n logs ee Oo Do not display this warning again 4 Users dre Movies O0 ToEngae AOE SETEN SUE MS Ag Nolumes My Book TY Shaya iTunes Playlist Chose Add Disk Falder Add Tunes Playlist l Remove Selected Add Folder Add iTunes Playlist Kemove Selected bol eee est testi eT LC Figure 3 67 Make sure that Server is turned on l Figure 3 68 Use the menu bar or system tray icon to access the faceless Server application Figure 3 69 Your PM selected folders and Global Setings their contents are now M a available on your iPad We 2007EmmyMusicaiNumbers thet 43 MB Pilot Pilot 5223 601 MB InPtainSight301 4221 228 MB InPlainSight302 InPlainSight303 4235 220 MO InPlainSight304 41 03 266 MB 236 The iPad 2 Project Book Setting Additional Server Preferences In the Air Video Server Preferences dialog refer to Figure 3 64 earlier in this project you
264. ully in the Mac OS X and Windows versions of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome as well as in Safari see the next task Just drag the bookmarklet to your toolbar or bookmark bar Installing the bookmarklet in Safari on your computer 1 Launch Safari on your computer 2 Goto www instapaper com extras 3 Follow the instructions on the page to install the bookmarklet in Safari 4 Sync your iPad and your computer following the instructions in the Information Syncing Project in Chapter 1 of this book Your bookmarklet is magically transported to Safari on your iPad along with your other Safari bookmarks Figure 2 41 Instapaper Settings popover Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 109 If the bookmarks bar isn t visible in Safari on your iPad open the Settings app tap Safari and select Always Show Bookmarks Bar Installing the bookmarklet in Safari on your iPad 1 Launch and log in to Instapaper on your iPad 2 Tap the Settings button at the top of the Read Later screen refer to Figure 2 40 earlier in this project You see the Settings popover Figure 2 41 iPad 5 42 PM Folders Settings Read Later Settings Dark Mode Rotation ON Scroll Mode Pagination Editors les to Read Later from or your own web browsing here when you save them with Okmark in Safari or email them er Read Later email address p bere for help Sharing Accounts gt Show Brows
265. up trip with 155 159 Trunk Notes adding image to 71 73 additional features of 78 configuring for wiki sharing 74 77 formatting bar buttons in 66 67 limitations for some wikiwords 66 modes in 59 navigation bar for 61 searching 62 64 viewing 59 62 turning on off calendar alert sounds 43 Find My iPad 56 57 Internet access for Air Video Server 236 metronome during track playback 178 movie syncing 203 204 Show To Cc Label 3031 Time Zone Support 46 TV show syncing 207 wired syncing 16 17 TV See also Air Video TV show episodes streaming Air Video content to HD 239 streaming content to AppleTV 239 242 TV show episodes choices for syncing 206 207 downloading software for streaming from Internet 211 212 playing in Netflix 221 222 reviewing viewing history for 215 selecting in Netflix 219 220 turning on off syncing of 207 viewing available 214 215 viewing recent favorites on ABC Player 212213 U updating Air Video display 239 UPnP Universal Plug and Play 236 URLs for contacts 25 user feedback for ABC Player 216 V Vacation Planning Project 154 168 See also KAYAK Travel Tracker about 154 entering flight info into itinerary 166 168 finding flights 162 165 getting TravelTracker and KAYAK for 154155 scheduling dinner 159 162 setting up trip 155 159 vCards 26 27 video See also movies commercials for streaming 216 217 218 controlling ABC Player video playback 217 file formats for
266. ven Account section 4 Press the iPad s Home button to exit Settings Find recipes with BigOven BigOven began as a Web site for people who love to cook but who face the never ending question What do make for dinner tonight ona regular basis The Web site and apps are designed to help people plan meals and exchange recipes Searching for recipes in BigOven 1 Tap the BigOven icon to launch the app 2 Tap the BigOven button in the top left corner of the splash screen You see the BigOven navigation popover Figure 2 55 which displays categories you can search Figure 2 55 BigOven Heson Q navigation popover T e BigOven 170 000 Recipes Find a Recipe Use Up Leftovers Recent Raves What s Cooking Around Me My Kitchen Grocery List Favorite Recipes Try Soon Recipes Recipes I ve Posted Recipes I ve Made Elsewhere BigOven Food Glossary Help More 122 The iPad 2 Project Book 3 Tap Find a Recipe A search form opens Figure 2 56 Figure 2 56 Search form Search 170 000 Recipes ss By Title By Keyword Goel Ideas Lottovers search BigOven You can perform a variety of searches including those restricted to the title of a recipe or keywords The basic functions of all search types are the same however so we ll go through one search step by step and leave the other types for you to explore on your own 4 Tap the Leftovers button at the top of the search form You see a
267. ver in the Connect to Servers bar refer to Figure 2 23 You see a popover similar to the one in Figure 2 24 Figure 2 24 Dropbox server popover e ee Se ee Office Files Manage Files E Mar 30 2011 8 91 PM Web Downloads Syne Photos Jul 20 2010 7 15 PM es Public n Jul 20 2010 7 15 PM Shared project files Apr i 2041 3 04 PM 4 Select a file to view in GoodReader Figure 2 25 For this task select a PDF file but the steps are the same for opening any type of file Figure 2 25 Selected PDF file iPad Projects DE Apr 2 2011 6 04 PM 1 2 MB Take_Control_of_PDFpen_5_1 0_ pdf Apr 2 2011 6 04 PM 1 9 MB watkinas 2000 Indo European and the Indo Europeans Apr 2 2011 6 04 PM 109 KB Chapter 2 Working and Playing in the iPad 99 If you ve created folders in Dropbox tap the blue gt icon next to a folder s name to see its contents 5 Tap the Download button in the bottom right corner of the popover A My Documents popover opens Figure 2 26 The dialog in the figure shows previously downloaded files which are dimmed and unavailable Figure 2 26 iPad gt 1 07 PM 100 mt My Documen ooooOoOoO ee ee PADANE iPad Projects DB Cose review popover S l Find Files nies Ene Manage Files Mar 20 2011 8 31 PM pdfs l Web Downloads Apr 2 2011 6 03 PM Download Photos Browse the Web Jui
268. w the option s name become available Figure 3 37 on the next page 206 The iPad 2 Project Book Figure 3 37 You can pick movies individ ually and choose playlists of movies J e e e e J Sync Movies Automatically include Movies DugsspecialMinsion ry tlisab C occu ey famil tervest Th p a Cat Smart Har 5 2 HA Haruhi Se irr im MA y k Aw Let There Be Love Macbeth demo short JZ i include Movies from Playlists Peay Anime eo Oy Princess Nine Mo 1 First inning 2 Click to select the movies you want to include along with your choices from step 1 If you choose any of the unwatched items from the Automatically include pop up menu in step 1 you can select only additional movies that don t match the unwatched items you ve chosen The movies that match your choice are automatically selected in the Movies list and can t be deselected 3 Inthe Include Movies from Playlists list scroll down in the Movies syncing pane to see it click to select the playlists you want to sync Sync TV show episodes The videos in your iTunes Library that are categorized as TV shows have two special items of information associated with them that affect syncing the name of the TV series and the episode of that series You can use these two pieces of information to specify which TV show episodes get synced The choices you have for syncing TV show episodes are similar to those for
269. wser on your computer this URL may differ from one time to another Figure 1 56 The Wi Fi ane Wi Fi Sharing Sharing window la Connected On your computer browse to http 10 0 1 7 10000 4 Enter the URL from this window in the address field of a Web browser on your computer cS The text can t be copied you need to type it 5 Tap the blue Done button in the top left corner of the Wi Fi Sharing window on your iPad Figure 1 57 The Trunk Notes home page viewed in a Web browser Figure 1 58 The edit screen in a Web browser Chapter 1 Living in the iPad 77 6 On your computer go to the address you entered in your Web browser You should see the Trunk Notes home page Figure 1 57 where you can browse your Trunk Notes pages edit them or create new ones HomePage Home Edit All Pages Search Export HTML Backup Upload Welcome to Trunk Notes This is your home page Edit it and place links to your most important notes To leam more about Trunk Notes see Docs GettingStarted The default W Fi Share username and password are trunk and password These can be changed in the Settings app Discuss Trunk Notes with other users suggest features and provide feedback to the developers appsonthemove com foum Get the latest Trunk Notes news by following us on Twitter twitter cor appsonthernove Apps On The Move is also the creator of Go Calc a custom calculator builder See app
270. y iPhone app 57 finding lost iPad 54 58 Flash Card Project 138 153 about 138 creating flash card deck with Keynote 145 149 exporting flash cards 153 gathering images for 141 143 printing flash cards 152 153 translating words and phrases for 139 141 149 using Keynote for 138 139 viewing presentation 151 folders closing Dropbox 100 creating Dropbox 85 creating playlist 191 192 defined 20 moving email to different 35 37 selecting in iTunes for syncing 191 sharing via Dropbox 89 92 formatting fonts 134 lists 68 69 wiki text 66 69 formatting bar buttons Trunk Notes 66 67 full screen mode Air Video 239 G GarageBand adding drum track 182 183 adding new instrument to song 178 181 choosing and autoplaying Smart Guitar 173 175 getting 170 171 looping selected region of recording 181 182 preparing to record in 175 176 recording tracks in 176 181 resetting tempo 183 184 saving and exporting song to iTunes 184 185 setting up song in 171 173 working in track view 178 179 genres editing song 189 selecting from Netflix movie 219 220 syncing options for 188 189 Ghostscript 199 248 Index Go to Meeting Project 80 111 about 80 annotating PDF files 102 106 downloading and reading Dropbox files in GoodReader 95 102 emailing files to yourself 80 81 previewing Word file in Mail 82 83 reading on the go with Instapaper 108 111 sharing and syncing files with Dropbox 83 92 transferring fil
271. you can add to the presentation at any time Viewing the presentation 1 In the thumbnail column on the left side of the Keynote screen tap the topmost thumbnail This thumbnail represents the title slide that you made in Creating a new presentation earlier in this project Keynote displays the title slide in the main work area 2 Tap the Play button in the top right corner The slide expands to fill the entire screen 3 Tap anywhere on the slide The next slide is displayed 4 Continue to tap until the last slide is displayed 5 Tap the last slide Tapping the last slide ends the presentation and displays the slide composition screen again Now that your flash card composition is complete it s ready to share Naturally you can share it simply by using your iPad to display it but if you want to give it to someone you need to export it or print it You can double tap a presentation at any time to return to the slide composition screen To print from an iPad you must have an AirPrint capable printer ona Wi Fi network to which the iPad is connected To find out more about AirPrint see www apple com ipad features airprint html 152 The iPad 2 Project Book Printing the flash cards 1 Tap the Tools button near the right end of the Keynote toolbar to see the Tools popover Figure 2 95 Figure 2 95 Tools popover Tools button Presenter Notes B Settings Go to Help 2 Inthe Tools
272. your iPad Figure 3 32 shows the tutorial saved in iBooks on an iPad open to the table of contents Tutorial Keith Blount We receive a lot of documentation in HTML RTF and Word formats and we ve come to rely on Scrivener to repurpose that documentation into e books that we can carry around on our iPads and iPhones Also reading documentation on our iOS devices is like having lightweight adjustable second monitors for the documentation while we explore the software on our Macs 202 The iPad 2 Project Book Movie and TV Show Syncing Project Difficulty level Easy Software needed iTunes iPad model Any Additional hardware None Back in the dawn of time when we were in film school movies came in big metal boxes on multiple reels five or so per movie and moving a movie from place to place required a very strong back As for watching that movie have you ever tried to lug around a 35mm movie projector Today you can carry dozens of movies from place to place in a device that you can lift with your fingertips and you can watch those movies in glorious high resolution on that same device with a tap of the finger If you love movies and we do today is a Golden Age coated in platinum and sprinkled with diamonds In this project you see how to get movies and TV shows we love them too synced between your iPad and your computer so that no matter where you are you can get the video fix you crave No sweat Sync

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