Get started enjoying your iPad’s innovative tools and features quickly and easily with iPad Kickstart. Loaded with crisp, full-color screenshots, this practical, visual guide focuses on the best ways to maximize your iPad’s capabilities. Stay organized and connected at home and in the office, get news and entertainment, and explore your creative streak. Tips and Now You Know sidebars offer solutions to potential pitfalls and veteran insight helps you get even more out of this extraordinary device. You’ll also find details on the coolest, most useful apps available.
Set up and customize your iPad
Master the functions, gestures, and controls on your new device
Migrate apps, settings, and content from your older iPad
Connect to the Internet, use email, browse the Web, and keep up with social networks
Use iCloud and iTunes to sync and back up your iPad
Organize your life with Calendar, Contacts, and Reminders
Explore, install, and organize apps that maximize the functionality of your iPad
Download movies, videos, music, ebooks, and games to your iPad
Create your own digital movies, shoot photos, and record music
Use your iPad as a WiFi hotspot and link to devices and accessories
Maintain and troubleshoot your iPad
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The QuickSteps series features a full-color, heavily illustrated, step-by-step format designed for readers who are visual learners. The landscape-oriented layout displays screenshots with callouts that show and explain exactly what readers will see on their computer screens, making it easy to get things done. QuickSteps numbered actions and QuickFacts sidebars break down information into easy-to-accomplish actions.
The How to Do Everything series offers a friendly, results-oriented approach, provides broad coverage, and leads readers from beginning to intermediate skills. Featuring deep dives into a wide range of topics, products, and technologies, the books cover as much ground as possible to deliver a solid learning overview. How To and Did You Know sidebars give deliver step-by-step coverage of specific features.
The Kickstart series helps readers hit the ground running on day one with all the features and functions of the latest devices, software, and technologies quickly and easily. Loaded with crisp, full-color screenshots, these practical, visual guides focus on the best ways to maximize today’s innovative technologies. Tips and Now You Know sidebars offers solutions to potential pitfalls and veteran insight helps readers get even more out of a gadget, tool, or technology.
About the Author
Jay Kinghorn is a prolific author, provocative speaker, and Olympus Visionary photographer who helps companies adapt and innovate with skills training and techniques to stay agile in a rapidly changing business environment. He delivers seminars for the American Society of Media Photographers entitled, “Adaptation: Running a Successful Photo Business in Today’s Era of Smartphones, Tablets and Social Media.” Kinghorn is the coauthor with Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Jay Dickman of Perfect Digital Photography, Second Edition. He blogs at jaykinghorn.com and kinghornvisual.com. Throughout his travels, the iPad has been Kinghorn’s constant companion, allowing him to stay productive, in touch, and entertained on the road and in the air.
