Edition: 1
Release: 2010-05-03
Publisher: Wiley
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0470540966
iPad Portable GeniusEverything everyone wants to know about using the Apple iPadOn January 27, 2010, Apple announced the latest in its line of revolutionary, ultraportable devices – the iPad. Free download iPad Portable Genius books collection in PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, and TXT formats. iPad Portable Genius is the latest in a line of ultra handy, go-to and goes-with you anywhere guides for getting the most out of a new Apple product. Written to provide readers with highly useful information that’s easily accessible, iPad Portable Genius is full of tips, tricks and techniques for maximizing each of the iPad’s most popular features.Designed in full-color with an Apple look and feel, and written in a hip, sophisticated, no-nonsense tone that reads as though a friend is providing inside information on the iPadHighlights iPad’s key features so users will quickly feel confident they are getting the most out of the mobile device’s array of amazing featuresOther titles by McFedries: iPhone 3G Portable Genius and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Vista, both by WileyiPad Portable Genius is an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand guide for quickly getting the most out of Apple’s new iPad.On January 27, 2010, Apple announced the latest in its line of revolutionary, ultraportable devices – the iPad. Best deals ebooks download iPad Portable Genius on amazon.iPad Portable Genius is the latest in a line of ultra handy, go-to and goes-with you anywhere guides for getting the most out of a new Apple product. Written to provide readers with highly useful information that’s easily accessible, iPad Portable Genius is full of tips, tricks and techniques for maximizing each of the iPad’s most popular features. Designed in full-color with an Apple look and feel, and written in a hip, sophisticated, no-nonsense tone that reads as though a friend is providing inside information on the iPad Highlights iPad’s key features so users will quickly feel confident they are getting the most out of the mobile device’s array of amazing features Other titles by McFedries: iPhone 3G Portable Genius and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows Vista, both by Wiley iPad Portable Genius is an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand guide for quickly getting the most out of Apple’s new iPad. Apps That Rock the iPad
Amazon-exclusive content from author Paul McFedries At last count, Apple had stuffed more than 185,000 apps into the App Store, a pick-your-jaw-up-off-the-floor number if ever there was one. (And you can bet your last dollar that by the time you read this the number will be even bigger, probably much bigger.) The vast majority of those apps were designed for the iPhone and the iPod touch, so where does that leave you has a proud owner of a sleek, new iPad? Ignoring apps that simply don't make sense on the iPad (telephony apps, camera apps, basically anything that requires hardware that the iPad lacks), you can install almost all of those apps. You can then run them as is (that is, iPhone-size), or you can tap the "2x" button and scale them up to the full iPad screen--a technique that Apple calls "pixel doubling." Pixel-doubled apps work just fine but, alas, they look terrible. Text is jagged, pictures are pixellated, and the app layout just feels wrong, because it was designed for a 3.5-inch (diagonal) 320x480 iPhone screen, not the expansive 9.7-inch, 768x1024 iPad screen. The iPad screen is not only 5 times larger than the iPhone screen, but it also supports full HD and displays extra-sharp colors thanks to its use of In-Plane Switching technology. So to really get the most out of your iPad, you need to use apps that are designed take full advantage of the iPad's large screen, high resolution, and sharp display. Here (in no particular order) are 15 such apps, each one of which truly rocks your iPad's world.
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Speaking of reading, if you're constantly perusing blogs, news sites, and other hubs of web content, you probably come across all kinds of pages that you don't have time to read now, so you save them for later. Like most of us "saving them for later" means emailing yourself the link, saving a bookmark, adding a favorite in Twitter, and on and on. Rather than having all these links scattered here and there, set up an Instapaper account and you can then store them all in one place. Even better, download the Instapaper Pro app for iPad (.99, although there's also a free version) and you can read everything right from the comfort of your iPad. Instapaper Pro is particularly suited to Wi-Fi-only iPads, because it enables you to read pages offline, so you can still catch up even with no Wi-Fi in sight. Also: If you need to read PDF files, Microsoft Office documents, iWork files, and text files on your iPad, you can read all of these file types and more using the GoodReader for iPad app (.99).
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The iPad is ideally suited to "lean back" activities such as reading, surfing the web, watching videos and movies, viewing photos, and listening to music. However, you can also use your iPad as a "lean forward" device where you create content. For evidence, look no farther than Apple's new iWork suite for iPad. These three apps -- the Pages word processor, the Numbers spreadsheet, and the Keynote presentation program -- share the same names as their Mac desktop cousins, but make no mistake: These are brand new programs designed from the ground up to take advantage of all that the iPad has to offer. You probably won't want to use them to write your next novel or build the corporate budget, but these apps are simple, easy to use, have all the features you need or basic chores, and are absurdly cheap for office productivity apps: just .99 each. (By the way, I wrote this article using the Pages app on my iPad.) Also: If you're a Google Docs user, you can create and edit documents on your iPad using the GoDocs app (.99).
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Media professionals, pundits, and prognosticators all expected the iPad to save the media industry from what otherwise appears to be certain doom. No one knows for sure what impact the iPad will have magazines, newspapers, and other media in the long term, but if the PopSci+ app (.99) is an indication of things to come, then I for one welcome our new iPad media overlords. As the extra + in PopSci+ indicates, this version of Popular Science isn't just some lame print-to-digital conversion. INstead, PopSci+ reimagines what a digital magazine should be: Stunning photos and graphics, innovative integration of text and images, intuitive navigation. All in all, a very satisfying and promising beginning. Also: The GQ magazine app (.99) also has some interesting features, and in the near future look for apps from Wired, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.
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The Star Walk for iPad app (.99) takes your current location and constructs a beautiful map of the night sky rom your vantage point. Swipe the map left and right, up and down to traverse the sky, and as you move Star Walk shows the constellations, major stars, and the current locations of the Moon and the visible planets. Awesome with a capital A. Also: Distant Suns for the iPad is more expensive (.99), but it's a wickedly powerful astronomy app that gives you a wealth of data about planets, starts, nebulae, galaxies, and more.
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The iPad itself is quintessentially cool, so it appropriate that the online arbiter of cool things, Cool Hunting should have a very cool iPad app. The free app gives you easy access to all the latest ooh finds from the cool hunters. Also: If you love travel and beautiful photographs, combine both passions with Beautiful Planet HD for iPad (.99), a stunning collection of photographs from around the world.
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