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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Your e-mail, photos, music, books, and games -- everythingyou need is just a touch away with iPad! Part iPod touch, part MacBook, part e-Reader, and all amazing,the iPad combines the best of your favorite gadgets into oneultraportable touch device. From sending e-mail and surfing the webto taking pictures, watching and recording videos, playing games,downloading apps, and so much more, the fun begins right here withthis friendly For Dummies guide * Magic touch -- navigate the multitouch screen, use theonscreen keyboard, and e-mail and surf the web with just the touchof a finger * Picture perfect -- turn your iPad into a digital pictureframe, add cool effects to your photos, and make FaceTime videocalls * Get rhythm -- organize your music collection, listen toyour favorite tunes, and create cool custom playlists * All those apps -- download the latest apps, keep them up todate, and indulge your interests with games, e-books, and more Open the book and find: * Steps for getting started with your iPad * Easy ways to organize your e-mail, calendar, and contacts * How to make a video call with FaceTime * Advice on using the iPad's HD video camera * How to increase productivity with folders and multitasking * Fast and easy shortcuts and helpful iPad hints * Tips for staying connected with Facebook and Twitter Learn to: * Set up your iPad, use the multitouch interface, and getconnected * Surf the web, listen to music, watch movies, and video chat withFaceTime * Utilize your iPad as an e-book reader, portable game console, orHD video camera
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iPad® For Dummies®, Portable Edition
Table of Contents
iPad® For Dummies®, Portable Edition
by Edward C. Baig
USA TODAY Personal Tech Columnist
and Bob LeVitus
Houston Chronicle “Dr. Mac” Columnist
iPad® For Dummies®, Portable Edition
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Introduction
As Yogi Berra would say, “It was déjà vu all over again”: Front-page treatment, top billing on network TV and cable, and diehards lining up days in advance to ensure landing a highly lusted-after product from Apple. Only the product generating the remarkable buzz this time around wasn’t the iPhone or even the first iPad. This time around it was iPad 2. We trust you didn’t pick up this book to read yet another account about how the iPhone launch followed by the iPad launch followed by the iPad 2 launch were epochal events. We trust you did buy the book to find out how to get the very most out of your remarkable device, and that goes for the original iPad as well as its successor. Our goal is to deliver that information in a light and breezy fashion. We expect you to have fun using your iPad or iPad 2. We equally hope that you have fun spending time with us.
About This Book
We need to get one thing out of the way right from the get-go. We think you’re pretty darn smart for buying a For Dummies book. That says to us that you have the confidence and intelligence to know what you don’t know. The For Dummies franchise is built around the core notion that everyone feels insecure about certain topics when tackling them for the first time, especially when those topics have to do with technology.
As with most Apple products, iPads are beautifully designed and intuitive to use. And though our editors may not want us to reveal this dirty little secret (especially on the first page, for goodness sake), the truth is you’ll get pretty far just by exploring the iPad’s many functions and features on your own, without the help of this (or any other) book.
Okay, now that we spilled the beans, we’ll tell you why you shouldn’t run back to the bookstore and request a refund. This book is chock-full of useful tips, advice, and other nuggets that should make your iPad experience all the more pleasurable. We’d even go so far as to say you wouldn’t find some of these nuggets anywhere else. So keep this book nearby and consult it often.
Conventions Used in This Book
First, we want to tell you how we go about our business. iPad For Dummies makes generous use of numbered steps, bullet lists, and pictures. Web addresses are shown in a special monofont typeface, like this.
Overall, we aim to keep technical jargon to a minimum, under the guiding principle that with rare exceptions, you need not know what any of it really means.
Icons Used in This Book
Little round pictures (or icons) appear in the left margins throughout this book to tell you something extra about the topic at hand or hammer a point home.
Here’s what the four icons used in this book look like and mean.
These are the juicy morsels, shortcuts, and recommendations that might make the task at hand faster or easier.
This icon emphasizes the stuff we think you ought to retain. You may even jot down a note to yourself in the iPad.
Put on your propeller beanie hat and pocket protector; this text includes the truly geeky stuff. You can safely ignore this material, but if it weren’t interesting or informative, we wouldn’t have bothered to write it.
You wouldn’t intentionally run a stop sign, would you? In the same fashion, ignoring warnings may be hazardous to your iPad and (by extension) your wallet. There, you now know how these warning icons work, for you have just received your very first warning!
Where to Go from Here
Why straight to Chapter 1, of course (without passing Go). We want to thank you for buying our book. Please enjoy it along with your new iPad.
Note: At the time we wrote this book, all the information it contained was accurate for the Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G iPads and iPad 2s, version 5.0 of the iOS (operating system) used by the iPad, and version 10.5 of iTunes. Apple is likely to introduce new versions of iOS and iTunes — and possibly even a new iPad device — between book editions. If you buy a new iPad and you find that the device itself, what you see on screen, or the version of iTunes on your computer look a little different, be sure to check out what Apple has to say at www.apple.com/ipad. You’ll no doubt find updates on the company’s latest releases. When a change is very substantial, we may add an update or bonus information that you can download at this book’s companion website, www.dummies.com/go/ipad.
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Chapter 1
Getting to Know Your iPad
In This Chapter
Turning the device on and off and locking it
Looking at the big picture
Touring the outside of the iPad 2
Discovering the stupendous Home screen
Congratulations! You’ve selected one of the most incredible handheld devices we’ve ever seen. Of course, the iPad 2 is a combination of a killer audio and video iPod, an e-book reader, a powerful Internet communications device, a movie and still camera, a video chat terminal, a superb handheld gaming device, and a platform for over 300,000 apps (probably a lot more by the time you read this).
In this chapter, we offer a gentle introduction to all the pieces that make up your iPad, plus overviews of its revolutionary hardware and software features.
Turning the iPad On and Off
Apple has taken the time to partially charge your iPad, so you get some measure of instant gratification. After taking it out of the box, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button on the upper-right edge. At first, you see the famous Apple logo, followed a few seconds later by a connection symbol (the USB cable leading to an iTunes icon). This is your cue to sync your iPad, which we cover later, in Chapter 3.
To turn the device completely off, press and hold the Sleep/Wake button again until a red arrow appears at the top of the screen. Then drag the arrow from the left to the right with your finger. Tap Cancel at the bottom of the screen if you change your mind.
Locking the iPad
Here are some sound reasons for locking your iPad:
You can’t inadvertently turn it on.
You keep prying eyes at bay.
You spare the battery some juice.
Apple makes it a cinch to lock the iPad.
In fact, you don’t need to do anything to lock the iPad; by default, it happens automatically as long as you don’t touch the screen for a minute or two. You can change this delay time from the General pane of the Settings screen (more about the Settings screen appears in later chapters).
Can’t wait? To lock the iPad immediately, press the Sleep/Wake button.
Unlocking the iPad is easy, too. Here’s how it works:
1. Press the Sleep/Wake button. Or press the Home button on the front of the screen.
Either way, the onscreen slider appears.
2. Drag the slider to the right with your finger.
3. In some cases, you also need to enter a passcode.
Exploring the iPad’s Big Picture
The iPad has many best-of-class features, but perhaps its most unusual feature is the lack of a physical keyboard or stylus. Instead, it has a 9.7-inch super-high-resolution touchscreen (132 pixels per inch at 1024 x 748 resolution, if you care about such things) that you operate with your finger.
Another feature that knocked our socks off was the iPad’s built-in sensors. An accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape mode and instantly adjusts what’s on the display accordingly.
A light sensor adjusts the display’s brightness in response to the current ambient lighting conditions.
In the following sections, we’re not just gawking over the wonderful screen. We take a brief look at some of the iPad’s features, broken down by product category.
The iPad as an iPod
We agree with Steve Jobs on this one: The iPad is magical — and without a doubt, the best iPod Apple has ever produced. You can enjoy all your existing iPod content — music, audiobooks, audio and video podcasts, music videos, television shows, and movies — on the iPad’s gorgeous high-resolution color display, which is bigger, brighter, and richer than any iPod or iPhone display that came before it.
Bottom line: If you can get the content — video, audio, or whatever — into iTunes on your Mac or PC, you can synchronize it and watch or listen to it on your iPad.
Chapter 3 is all about syncing; for now, just know that some video content may need to be converted to an iPad-compatible format (with proper resolution, frame rate, bit rate, and file format) to play on your iPad. If you try to sync an incompatible video file, iTunes will alert you that there’s an issue. (Naturally, if you share movies from iMovie or images and video clips from iPhoto on your Mac and specify that the destination device is your iPad, Apple’s applications will do the conversion chores automatically.)
If you get an error message about an incompatible video file, select the file in iTunes on your computer and choose Advanced⇒Create iPad or AppleTV Version. When the conversion is finished, sync again. Chapter 5 covers video in more detail.
The iPad as an Internet communications device
But wait — there’s more! Not only is the iPad a stellar iPod, but it’s also a full-featured Internet communications device with a rich HTML e-mail client that’s compatible with most POP and IMAP mail services, with support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Also on-board is a world-class web browser (Safari) that, unlike on many mobile devices, makes web surfing fun and easy on the eyes. Chapter 4 explains how to surf the Web using Safari.
There’s been a lot of buzz about the iPad 2’s built-in FaceTime application, and no wonder — it allows you to chat with another FaceTime user over a Wi-Fi Internet connection, complete with audio and real-time video! We cover FaceTime in Chapter 5.
You’ll also find details about Message, the 3G/Wi-Fi messaging app, in Chapter 4 — send unlimited photos, videos and contacts as well as text to any iOS 5 device (along with the traditional SMS/MMS messages from your cellular carrier, if you have a 3G-equipped iPad).
iOS 5 even integrates Twitter into many of your favorite apps, including Safari, Camera, Maps, and YouTube!
Another cool Internet feature is Maps, a killer mapping application based on Google Maps. By using GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model) or triangulation (Wi-Fi model), the iPad can determine your location, let you view maps and satellite imagery, and obtain driving directions and traffic information regardless of where you happen to be. You can also find businesses such as gas stations, restaurants, hospitals, and Apple stores with just a few taps.
The iPad as an e-book reader
Download the free iBooks app from the App Store, and you’ll discover a completely new way of finding and reading books. The iBookstore, covered in Chapter 5, is chock full of good reading at prices that are lower than a hardcover copy. And best of all, a great number of books are absolutely free. If you’ve never read a book on your iPad, try it. We think you’ll love it.
iOS 5 also introduces Newsstand, the central storage spot for all of your magazine and newspaper application subscriptions. You’ll find out more about Newsstand in Chapter 5.
The iPad as a platform for third-party apps
Over 300,000 iPhone apps are available at this writing, in categories that include games, business, education, entertainment, healthcare and fitness, music, photography, productivity, travel, sports, and many more. The cool thing is that most of those iPhone apps run flawlessly on the iPad. Meanwhile, the App Store offers over 50,000 apps designed specifically for the iPad’s large screen, with many more on the way. Chapter 6 helps you fill your iPad with all the cool apps your heart desires.
What do you need to use your iPad?
To actually use your iPad, only a few simple things are required. Here is a list of everything you need:
An original iPad or iPad 2 (running iOS 5, if you want to take advantage of all the new features covered in this book)
An iTunes Store account (assuming you want to acquire apps, videos, music, iBooks, podcasts, and the like, which you almost certainly do)
Internet access — broadband wireless Internet access recommended
Plus you need one of the following:
A Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X version 10.7 or later, and iTunes 10.5 or later
A PC with a USB 2.0 port; Windows 7, Windows Vista, or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later; and iTunes 10.5 or later
Touring the iPad Exterior
The iPad is a harmonious combination of hardware and software. The following sections look at the hardware — what’s on the outside.
On the top edge
On the top of your iPad, you’ll find the headphone jack, and the Sleep/Wake button, as shown in Figure 1-1:
On/Off, Sleep/Wake button: This button is used to put your iPad’s screen to sleep or to wake it up. It’s also how you turn your iPad on or off. To put it to sleep or wake it up, just press the button. To turn it on or off, press and hold the button for a few seconds.
Your iPad’s battery runs down faster when your iPad is awake, so we suggest that you make a habit of putting it to sleep when you’re not using it.
When your iPad is sleeping, nothing happens if you touch its screen. To wake it up, merely press the button again or press the Home button on the front of the device (as described in a moment).
Headphone jack: This jack lets you plug in a headset. You can use the Apple headsets or headphones that came with your iPhone or iPod. Or you can use pretty much any headphone or headset that plugs into a 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack.
Throughout this book, we use the words headphones, earphones, and headset interchangeably. Strictly speaking, a headset includes a microphone so that you can talk (or record) as well as listen; headphones or earphones are for listening only. Either type works with your iPad.
Microphone: This tiny dot has moved from next to the headphone jack on the original iPad to the center of the top edge on the iPad 2. It’s actually a pretty good microphone.
Although your iPad doesn’t include the Voice Notes app that comes with the iPhone, the App Store offers several free voice-recording apps for the iPad and/or iPhone.
Figure 1-1: The top edge of the iPad 2.
On the bottom edge
On the bottom of your iPad are the speaker and the dock connector, as shown in Figure 1-2:
Speaker:
