To connect your iPad to your wireless network, follow these steps.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen.
2. Choose Wi-Fi from the list of settings on the left.
3. Make sure that Wi-Fi is turned on.
4. Tap the item that represents your network. (If you tap on the blue-circled right arrow next to each network, you can further customize your network settings.)

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   I Don’t Have a Wireless Network
   If you don’t have a Wi-Fi network but do have high-speed Internet through a telephone or cable provider, you have several options. The first is to call your provider and ask for a new network modem that enables wireless connections. Some providers might upgrade your box for free or a small cost.
   Another option is to keep your current box and add a wireless base station of your own, such as the Apple Airport Extreme base station.

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5. If the network is protected by a password, you will be asked to enter the password. Once you enter the password, your iPad will remember it. So if you switch between two locations, like work and home, you will be asked to enter the password for each the first time you use that connection. From that point on, your iPad will automatically log on to each connection as you move around.

Go Further:

SECURITY? YES!

Your wireless network at home should have security turned on. This means that you should see a padlock next to it in the list of Wi-Fi networks on your iPad. When you select it for the first time, you should be asked to supply a password.

If you don’t require a password, seriously consider changing your Wi-Fi network box’s settings to add security. The issue isn’t simply about requiring a password to use your Internet connection. It is about the fact that a secure network will send encrypted data through the air. Otherwise, anyone can simply “sniff” your wireless connection and see what you are doing online—such as using credit cards and logging on to membership sites. See your network equipment’s documentation to set up security.

1. Launch the Settings app.
2. Tap Cellular Data on the left.
3. Turn on Cellular Data.
4. Next, you are prompted to create a 3G account with a service. The service is with AT&T if you have purchased your iPad in the U.S. and it contains an AT&T SIM card.
5. Enter your name and phone number.
6. Create a username and password.
7. Choose a data plan.
8. Enter your credit card information.
9. Tap Next to proceed through a series of screens to confirm your purchase and approve the license agreement.
10. Tap OK.

Working with Wi-Fi and 3G

After you establish a 3G plan, your iPad should still connect to your Wi-Fi networks when it is in range and use 3G when it cannot find a Wi-Fi network. You can also return to Settings and turn on or off Cellular Data to specifically prevent your iPad from using the 3G network. This is handy when you want to use your iPad on an airplane and are told to turn off all mobile phone devices.

WATCH FOR DATA ROAMING

In the Cellular Data settings you can turn on or off Data Roaming. This is what enables your iPad to connect to wireless data networks that are outside of your data plan, such as networks in other countries. If you leave Data Roaming on and your iPad connects to such a network, you may find a surprise bill in the mail. You can avoid extra charges by leaving Data Roaming off or by purchasing a plan from AT&T for International data roaming.

Syncing Contacts, Calendars, and Other Information

Use the Info tab in iTunes to sync your contacts, calendars, and a few other things to your iPad.

1. Click the Info tab in iTunes to choose how to sync your contacts. You can sync all your contacts from Address Book or sync only selected groups.
2. You can also sync with contacts you have stored with either Yahoo! or Google. You need to enter your login information so that iTunes can access the contacts on that service.
3. Choose to sync all the calendars in iCal or just selected ones. In addition, you can choose not to sync old events.
4. Next you can sync email accounts with Apple’s Mail program, which syncs the settings between your computer and your iPad, not the mail messages. See Chapter 8, “Communicating with Email,” for more on getting mail on your iPad.
5. To transfer your Mac’s bookmarks to your iPad and keep the bookmarks synced between the iPad and the Mac, check the Sync Safari bookmarks check box.
6. Check the Sync Notes option to use the Notes app to exchange your iCal and Mail notes between your Mac and the iPad. This is a great way to create notes, lists, and small documents and share them between your iPad and your Mac.
7. Use the Advanced options (Contacts, Calendars, Mail Accounts, Bookmarks, and Notes) to indicate that during the next sync the information should be erased from your iPad and replaced with the corresponding information from your Mac or PC.
8. Click the Apply button to sync.

1. Click the Apps tab of your iPad’s settings in iTunes.
2. Use the list on the left to check or uncheck apps to determine which ones to sync with your iPad.
3. Drag the app icons around on the representation of the Home screen page.
   

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   Go Ahead—Select More Than One
   You can click more than one app icon in iTunes and then drag them around as groups. This makes it easy to rearrange your apps in iTunes and is the reason many people do it here, rather than on the iPad itself.

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4. Select another Home screen page by clicking a page on the right.
5. You can drag an app from the main representation to another page on the right to move it to another page.
6. You can also drag apps in and out of the iPad’s dock area at the bottom.
7. Click the Sync button if you want to apply the changes now.

Syncing Documents

Apps sometimes have documents. For example, Pages is a word processor, so it would naturally have word processing documents. Documents are stored on your iPad, but you might want to access them on your Mac or PC as well.

1. Click the Apps tab of your iPad’s settings in iTunes.
2. Scroll down to the bottom.
3. In the File Sharing section, choose an app.
4. Select a document from the right.
5. Click the Save To button to save the document as a file on your computer.
6. Click the Add button to import a file from your computer to your iPad. Each app has its own document space on your iPad. So if you have two PDF readers, and you want the PDF document available to both, you need to add it to each app’s documents.

Syncing Music

The easy way to sync music is to select Entire Music Library In iTunes on your computer. If you have more music than can fit on your iPad, though, you must make some choices. Syncing Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, iTunes U, and Books all work in a similar way to syncing music, so you can apply what you learn in these steps to those items as well.

1. Click the Music tab of your iPad’s settings in iTunes.
2. Click the Selected Playlists, Artists, and Genres button.
3. Check off any playlists in the Playlists section that you want to include.
4. Check off any artists for which you want to include every song by that artist.
5. Check off any genres to include in their entirety.
6. Use the search box to quickly find specific artists.
7. Click the Sync button if you want to apply the changes now.

Go Further:

CHECK IT OFF

Another way to select songs to sync with your iPad is to use the Entire Music Library option but also choose Sync Only Checked Songs and Videos from the Summary tab. Then you can pick and choose each song that syncs.

Another option is to strictly use playlists to sync without checking off any artists or genres. Then, in addition to your normal playlists, create one called For iPad and put every song in there that you want on your iPad. Then set that playlist to sync.

Syncing Photos

Syncing your photos actually isn’t that much different than syncing music. You can choose to have all your photos transferred to your iPad, or choose them by albums, events, or faces.

1. Click the Photos tab of your iPad’s settings in iTunes.
2. Click the Synch Photos From check box. If you use iPhoto you should choose iPhoto from the drop-down menu. Other choices for Mac users include choosing any folder or the Pictures folder.
   If you use Windows, you can choose your My Pictures folder or another folder. Any subfolders are treated as albums, and you can select or deselect any of them.
   You might sync photos to your iPad by selecting a photo tool, such as a Photoshop Elements, as your sync companion. If you can, you can use the groupings in that program as albums.
3. Choose whether to sync all photos or only selected ones.
4. If you choose selected photos, you can also choose a number of recent events or all events from a recent period of time.
5. Select any albums that you want to sync.
6. Select specific events you want to sync.
7. You can also select to sync all photos tagged for a specific person in iPhoto.
8. Click the Apply button to apply the changes.

ONE WAY ONLY

Like with the iPhone and iPod Touch, syncing photos works only one way. You cannot pull photos from your iPad back to your computer unless you email them—and then you get a smaller version of the photo, not the original. So it is important that you maintain your real photo library on your computer and remember to back it up. The photos on your iPad are for viewing only.

Go Further

MobileMe accounts store data such as contacts, calendars, and bookmarks on the MobileMe servers, which enables two Macs that use MobileMe to keep those things in sync. It can also keep iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads in sync with the same data.

To get MobileMe, check out http://www.apple.com/mobileme.

Syncing Using MobileMe

If you have a MobileMe account, you can sync parts of your iPad’s data wirelessly. You can do it even if your iPad and Mac are not in the same location.

1. Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen, and then tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
2. Tap Add Account.
3. Tap the MobileMe button.
4. Enter your name as you would like it to appear when people receive email from you.
5. Enter your MobileMe email address and password.
6. The Description should automatically fill with your email address. Leave it or enter a different description.
7. Tap Next. It can take a few seconds for your iPad to verify your account.
8. Choose which pieces of data you want to use from your MobileMe account.
9. Tap Save.

No Email Please

If you do not use your MobileMe email account, you can just switch off Mail in your MobileMe settings. You can still sync the other data and use Find My iPad.