Using Ipad 2: Covers Ipad, Ipad 2, Ios 5 - Softcover

Smith, Bud E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789748355 ISBN 13: 9780789748355

Publisher: Que Pub, 2011

Synopsis

The most complete, powerful iPad learning product! Text, video and audio in one tightly-integrated, hands-on learning experience.

• Covers both the iPad 2 and the original iPad
• Also includes coverage of iOS 5!
• Includes 3+ hours of video and audio tutorials at no extra cost! The media is available online via Safari.com and on the DVD bundled with the book!
• More than 300 pages of straighforward, task-driven coverage that will help you get the most from your new iPad!
• Written in plain English for real people. Skip past the hype and learn exactly what the iPad will do and how to do it!

Using the iPad is the world's most complete, useful, media-rich learning experience for Apple's hot new iPad the only product of its kind! It begins with a concise, friendly, straight-to-the-point 300-page iPad guidebook - starting with an easy introduction to the iPad interface, proceeding through the most common activities in the order you are likely to need them, and ending with powerful techniques most iPad users don't know. This easy-to-use text is fully integrated with extensive online learning resources: online video, screencasts, podcasts, and additional web content. It's all designed to run superbly well on the iPad, so you can learn to perform key tasks exactly when you need to know how! Using the iPad covers the iPad 2 as well as the original iPad. It also covers iOS 5, which is the latest version of Apple's iOS operating system. This book covers all this, and more: getting started fast, syncing with computers, web surfing, typing, note taking, email, contacts, appointments, events, maps, photos, videos, music, Apps, books, business productivity, games, customization, and much more. Available in multiple formats, each including an entirely digital version with book text, video, and audio viewable online - on the iPad, the web, and many other devices! The printed book is also bundled with a DVD containing all of the same video available online.

About this title

About the Author

Bud E. Smith is one of the leading authors of technology book writing today. He has written more than 20 books about computer hardware, software, and the Internet, with more than a million copies sold. Bud’s recent books include Teach Yourself Facebook for Business in 10 Minutes and Teach Yourself iPad in 10 Minutes. He is also the author of the upcoming Using Google Sketchup 8.

Starting out as a technical writer and journalist, Bud then moved into marketing and product management for technology companies. He worked at Apple Computer as a senior product manager; at Google competitor AltaVista as a group product manager; and at GPS navigation company Navman as a global product manager.

Bud holds a BA in information systems management from the University of San Francisco and an MSc in information systems from the London School of Economics. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, participating in environmental causes when he’s not working on one of his many technology-related projects.

From the Back Cover

Covers iPad, iPad 2, iOS 5

Do it all with your new Apple iPad from web surfing to syncing, reading books to writing emails, apps to maps, games to spreadsheets, video phone calls with FaceTime to taking photos and capturing video clips, editing photos with PhotoBooth to watching movies! Don t just read about it: see it and hear it with step-by-step video tutorials and valuable audio sidebars delivered through the Free Web Edition that comes with every USING book. For the price of the book, you get online access anywhere with an Internet connection--no books to carry, content updated as the iPad changes, and the benefit of video and audio learning, on your computer, or on the iPad itself!

You ll learn how to

Rearrange the Home page to your liking

Get the most out of mail, maps, and apps

Use FaceTime for video phone calls (iPad 2 only)

Manage the iPad s storage space for music, movies, and more

2 Convenient Ways to Access the Video Tutorials and Audio Sidebars:

Media files are available on the included DVD in the back of the book

The Web Edition of Using the Apple iPad, which includes the media files, is available online anytime and anywhere after you ve registered your book at quepublishing.com/using.

Edition details

• Publisher: Que Pub
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0789748355
• ISBN 13: 9780789748355
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360