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Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to

By : Renee J. Valdez
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Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to

By: Renee J. Valdez

Overview of this book

The new iPad's display and processing power allows for a rich media experience that is unlike any other. Instead of solely consuming media, you can create, edit, and manage everything from Excel documents to HD home movies. The multi-touch interface makes creating and editing intuitive. iCloud syncs documents, movies, music, and images to the cloud for access from all your Apple devices."Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to" will walk you through iCloud setup, project creations, and syncing. If you want to utilize all that your iPad has to offer, this is the book for you. Exploring Apple's suite of apps designed especially for the iPad, these recipes provide easy to follow steps enabling you to become a power user.You'll begin with the basics; setting up Mail, and managing your photos. Each recipe builds upon previous recipes and by the end of the book, you'll have projects in every app within Apple's media suites.If you're interested in using your iPad to the fullest, this book will cover the major applications developed by Apple and take advantage of all of its features. We begin by setting up email, using the VIP inbox, iCloud, and Photostream within the Photos application. We'll then dig a little deeper and explore iPhoto and iMovie, creating slideshows, and creating a video trailer. Lastly, we'll explore the apps within Apple's iWorks suite, learning how to create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations. We will finish the book with a musical note, exploring iTunes and GarageBand. "Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to" will walk you through tasks with easy to follow recipes that will give you a great overview on the new iPad and its features.  

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Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to
Renee J. Valdez
Jan, 2013 | 74 pages
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Table of Contents (7 chapters)
Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to
Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.packtpub.com
www.packtpub.com
Preface
Preface
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Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to
Instant New iPad Features in iOS 6 How-to
New iPad features and native applications (Must know)
Working with the Mail application (Must know)
Adding an @iCloud.com e-mail address (Should know)
Photos – editing, sharing, and Photo Stream (Should know)
iPhoto – editing, sharing, and importing (Should know)
iMovie – capturing, editing, and sharing your footage (Should know)
iWork – Keynote, Numbers, and Pages (Must know)
Starting a Keynote presentation (Should know)
Numbers – starting and editing a spreadsheet (Must know)
Pages – starting and editing a document (Should know)
Sharing and syncing documents from Keynote, Numbers, and Pages (Should know)
iBooks – downloading from iBookstore and importing PDFs (Should know)
Garageband – a basic project (Become an expert)

About the Reviewers

Allen Sherrod is currently a senior iOS developer of interactive apps with several apps in the iTunes store, including an app for the upcoming DreamWorks movie Rise of the Guardians. He started with programming in high school as he learned OpenGL and Direct3D for the first time. From there, he took to game development as a hobby while in college, wrote several books on it, and now currently creates interactive storybook and comic apps for mobile platforms. He has also authored and co-authored several books on gaming, such as Essential XNA Game Studio 2.0 Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms for Game Developers, and Beginning DirectX 11 Game Programming, to name a few.

I would like to thank my family and friends for always supporting and helping me over the years.

Jayant C. Varma has been a veteran for over 20 years in the world of technology. He has vast and rich experience spanning across several countries and industries (managing IT operations). Over these years, he has worked across a wide range of systems and languages, both computer and human. Starting off with what was fun and games with Basic and Z80 on the ZX Spectrum, he has now come full circle, back to games and apps on mobile devices. He has been with mobile development from the early 2000s when Microsoft released the PocketPC Mobile OS based on Windows CE. Currently, he is based in Australia and has founded OZApps (http://www.oz-apps.com), a one-stop shop consultancy for companies wanting to implement and enhance their mobile strategy. He has seen both sides of the industry from a commercial aspect as an IT manager for the automobile sector (BMW and Nissan), and from an academic perspective with teaching young graduates and conducting training and running workshops on mobile development at the University.

He is the author of Learn Lua for iOS Game Development, Apress (http://www.apress.com/9781430246626). He also helps developers through his blog at http://howto.oz-apps.com and a review site at http://reviewme.oz-apps.com. You can also follow him on Twitter; his Twitter handles are @ozapps, @whatsin4me, and @learnlua.

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