Part II

Introduction

Welcome to your new iPad—and to the book that tells you what you need to know to get the most out of it. In this part we show you how the book is organized and where to go to find what you need. We even show you how to get some great tips and tricks sent right to your iPad.

Introduction

Congratulations on Your iPad!

In your hands is perhaps the most powerful and elegant media player, E-Book reader, gaming machine, life organizer, and just about everything else available today—the iPad.

The iPad can do close to 90% of what you already do on your computer…. only better. The iPad can do virtually everything you can do on your smartphone. You can even make phone calls from your iPad with the Skype app. Yet, the iPad is neither computer nor smartphone—it is nestled somewhere in between, where most of us live.

With your iPad you can view your photos and interact with them using the same touch-screen gestures as an iPhone or iPod touch. You can pinch and zoom, rotate and e-mail your photos all with simple gestures.

With your iPad you can interact with your content like never before. Newspapers look and read like newspapers and a web site all in one. Flip through stories, videos, and pictures, and interact with your news.

With your iPad you can, for the first time, really feel like you are reading a book when you read on an electronic device. Pages turn slowly or quickly (you can even see the words on the back of the pages when you turn them).

With your iPad you can manage your media library like never before. iTunes is a beautiful interface on the iPad. Choosing music, watching videos, organizing playlists, and more is effortless and fun on the large, high definition–quality screen.

Do you have a Netflix account? You can manage your content, organize your queue, and stream high-quality movies and TV shows right on the iPad.

No more updating your Facebook status on the tiny screen of your smartphone—with the iPad you can see the full web site and have access to all the features of your desktop version, yet also be able to “interact” with Facebook like never before, using the touch screen.

Stay connected to the web and your e-mail with the built-in Wi-Fi connection or the optional 3G connection of the iPad. All the latest high-speed protocols are supported, so you can always be in touch and get the latest content. There is even an almost “full-size” keyboard to type out e-mails when you turn the iPad into landscape mode.

Getting the Most Out of iPad Made Simple

This book can be read cover-to-cover, but you can also peruse it in a modular fashion, by chapter or by topic within a chapter. Maybe you just want to check out the App store, try iBooks, get setup with your e-mail or contacts, or you might just want to load up your music. You can do all this and more with our book.

You will soon realize that your iPad is a very powerful device. There are, however, many secrets “locked” inside that we help you “unlock” throughout this book.

Take your time—this book can help you on your way to learning how to best use, work and have fun with your new iPad. Think back to when you tried to use your first Windows or Mac computer. It took a little while to get familiar with how to do things. It's the same with the iPad. Use this book to help you get up to speed and learn all the best tips and tricks more quickly.

Remember that devices this powerful are not always easy to grasp—at first.

You'll get the most out of your iPad if you read the book a section at a time and then try out what you read. We all know that reading and then doing an activity gives us a much higher retention rate than simply reading alone.

So, in order to learn and remember what you learn, we recommend to:

                   Read a little, try a little on your iPad, and repeat!

How This Book Is Organized

Knowing how this book is organized will help you more quickly locate things that are important to you. Here we show you the main organization of this book. Remember to take advantage of our abridged table of contents, detailed table of contents, and our comprehensive index to help you quickly pinpoint items of interest.

Day in the Life of an iPad User

Located inside the front and back cover, this is an excellent piece of information full of easy-to-access cross-reference chapter numbers. So if you see something you want to learn, simply thumb to that page and learn it—all in just a few minutes.

Part 1: Quick Start Guide

Touch Screen Basics: Use many visual images to help you quickly learn how to touch, swipe, flick, zoom and more with your iPad touch screen.

App Reference Tables: Quickly peruse the icons or apps grouped by category. Get a thumbnail of what all the apps do on your iPad and Chapters to jump right to the details of how to get the most out of each app in this book.

Other Fun Stuff: Learn quickly about the iPad as music and video player and electronic picture frame.

iPad Accessories: Get a brief overview of some of the more common accessories, such as keyboards, camera and VGA adapter connectors.

Part 2: Introduction

You are here now …

Part 3: You and Your iPad …

This is the meat of the book, organized in 25 easy-to-understand chapters packed with loads of pictures to guide you every step of the way.

Part 4: iPad's Soulmate: iTunes

As a special bonus for our readers, we have provided an extensive iTunes Bonus Guide in Chapter 26 which shows you how to really get around iTunes and explore all the possibilities of the desktop application. The more comfortable you can get with iTunes, the more you can arrange and use content from your computer on your iPad – making for a more enjoyable user experience.

Quickly Locating Tips, Cautions, and Notes

If you flip through this book, you can instantly see these items based on their formatting. For example, if you wanted to find all the Calendar tips, you would flip to the Calendar chapter and quickly find them.

Free iPad E-mail Tips

Check out the authors web site at www.madesimplelearning.com for a series of very useful “bite-size” chunks of iPad tips and tricks. We have taken a selection of great tips out of this book and even added a few new ones. Click on the “Free Tips” section and register for your tips in order to receive a tip right in your iPad inbox about once a week. Learning in small chunks is a great way to master your iPad!