iPad BasicsTonya Engst- P20 ppt

For example, you can read books from plenty of other options, including the Take Control ebook series!. Check if the person you are giving the demo to is in your contact list.. Calendars

view free ebooks by tapping Charts in the tab bar The Top Free

Books list appears on the right

Talk about how a nice thing about the iPad is that you aren’t locked into just one ebook reseller For example, you can read books from

plenty of other options, including the Take Control ebook series!

Is Take Control in the iBookstore? By the time you read this

text, the series will quite likely be in the iBookstore The series is also available at http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/

3 Switch out of iBooks and open Safari Visit a few of your

Pull (Zoom)—and remember that a double-tap often zooms text on

a Web page for reading

Contacts

Open the Contacts app Check if the person you are giving the demo to

is in your contact list If yes, make sure the info is up to date If no, add

an entry for them

Calendars

Decide when you’ll next get together with the person you are giving the

demo to and add an event for that (Figure 35)

Figure 35: While you demo the calendar app, add an event that

Game Time

Play the game that you set up earlier, when you prepared this demo

Maps

Open the Maps app Tap the locator button on the toolbar to get

a map of where you are Enter an address of a fun destination in the

directions field at the upper right In Figure 36, I’ve entered a great

biking destination if you happen to be cycling in the Finger Lakes

region of New York State The Fremont Troll in Seattle is also a good choice, and you can locate it by searching for Seattle troll

Figure 36: Tap a resulting red pin and then tap the info button to learn more about the red pin’s location

Maps will respond by placing a red pin at the destination and by show-ing a route to the destination

Tap the pin to show the info button, and then tap the info button

to see more information

Try some of the options in the info popover In particular, if your

popover includes a photo, tap the photo to explore the scenery in

Google Street View

Enjoy pinching, pulling, and dragging around

YouTube

Open the YouTube app and play the videos you set up in your Favorites list earlier

Tip: If you forgot to save them in your Favorites list, you can likely find them in your History, but don’t show off your History list

unless you are certain that you want to share everything in it

Photos

Open the Photos app Tap a photo or tap Albums to view and tap your photos Flick to move to the next photo or tap again to return to the previous screen

Show what happens if you rotate the iPad into portrait and landscape orientation

If the person experiencing the demo particularly likes a photo,

(Figure 37) and then tap Email Photo to email a copy of the photo

to that person

Figure 37: To email the photo to someone else, tap the Share

button and then tap Email Photo

Picture Frame Mode

Press the Sleep/Wake button to sleep the iPad, and press it again to access the Lock screen Instead of sliding to unlock, press the Picture Frame button—it has a flower on it Enjoy the show

You can now let the person you are demoing to continue to explore the iPad, or you can put the iPad in a case that has a kickstand and leave it playing the slideshow

About This Book

Thank you for purchasing this Take Control book We hope you find

it both useful and enjoyable to read We welcome your comments at

tc-comments@tidbits.com

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tonya Engst is best known for co-founding the

TidBITS online publication in 1990 with her now-husband Adam Engst Tonya is now Editor in Chief

of the Take Control series, which is published by TidBITS Publishing Inc She has edited over half of the Take Control titles This is the first Take Control ebook that she has written

When she’s not working at her computer, using her iPad, or hanging out with family and friends, you can probably find her outside, riding

a bicycle or cross-country skiing

AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to Tristan for tea and snacks, thanks to Adam for technical and culinary support, and thanks to the Take Control authors who wrote their iPad ebooks while I wrote this one—Jeff Carlson, Glenn Fleishman, and Joe Kissell Thanks to Eolake Stobblehouse for helping

us all have iPads as early as possible

Bouquets to tech reviewers Chris Pepper, Michael Cohen, Sharon

Zardetto, and Tom Gewecke

Thanks to Apple Inc for making amazing technology that’s (usually) fun to spend time with