Showing posts with label Yourself. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yourself. Show all posts

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sams Teach Yourself iPad 2 in 10 Minutes (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself -- Minutes)

Sams Teach Yourself iPad 2 in 10 Minutes (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself -- Minutes)

Sams Teach Yourself iPad™ 2 in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use your iPad 2 to get online, get apps, use the Web, manage email, use maps, books, photos, music, video–anything! Each compact lesson zeroes in on essential techniques, with fast, step-by-step instructions that help you do it right the first time!

 

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

 

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

  • Use FaceTime for personal video phone calls and conferences
  • Take photos and make video clips with the front-facing and rear-facing cameras
  • Manage settings for the iPad 2
  • Use iTunes to buy and synchronize multimedia—music, videos, movies, documents and more—between the computer and the iPad 2
  • Hook up to external devices such as a camera, a presentation screen, TV, or HDTV.
  • Use Safari to access the Web
  • Use email of many kinds, including Gmail, with and without a live connection
  • Manage personal information with the Calendar, Contacts, and Notes
  • Use the Maps app for local searches and navigation
  • Get full-screen iPad apps, as well as iPhone-sized apps from the App Store
  • Use iBooks and the iBooks Store
  • Get and play music on iPad
  • Use the iWork apps for creating presentations and working with numbers

 

Category:  iPad

Covers:  Apple Digital Media

User Level:  Beginning

 

 

 

Price: $14.99


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Sams Teach Yourself iPad in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself -- Minutes)

Sams Teach Yourself iPad in 10 Minutes (Sams Teach Yourself -- Minutes)<>Sams Teach Yourself iPad™ in 10 Minutes offers straightforward, practical answers when you need fast results. By working through 10-minute lessons, you’ll learn everything you need to use your iPad to get online, get apps, use the Web, manage email, use maps, books, photos, music, video—anything! Each compact lesson zeroes in on essential techniques, with fast, step-by-step instructions that help you do it right the first time!

 

Tips point out shortcuts and solutions

Cautions help you avoid common pitfalls

Notes provide additional information

 

10 minutes is all you need to learn how to…

  • Make the Home screen an efficient control center for your iPad
  • Get online with Wi-Fi or 3G cellular connections
  • Get iPad and iPhone apps, including paid and free apps
  • Surf the Web
  • Receive and send email from as many accounts as you need
  • Use maps, books, music, photos, video, and more!

Price: $14.99


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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPad 2 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech))

See your iPad 2 in a whole new way!

As the amazing iPad continues to evolve, so does this feature-rich book. As, colorful, and accessible as your new iPad 2, this book is the iPad's perfect companion. Open it and find over a hundred tasks succinctly explained using easy-to-follow, side-by-side, full-color screenshots. Want to download books or apps or videos? Send photos or emails? Sync with your other devices? Learn how and much more in this practical, visual guide.

  • Helps you get the most out of the new Apple iPad 2
  • Shows you how to download apps from the App Store, send photos or emails, access rich multimedia content and social media, use the multi-touch display, and more
  • Uses easy-to-follow, full-color, two-page tutorials, so you can quickly get the information you need and see step by step how to do tasks

Now that you've got the latest iPad, make sure you have the latest version of this practical, visual guide!


iPad 2 Tips from the Book

Protect Your iPad with a Passcode
(Click on the image for instructions)
Create a Custom Slideshow
(Click on the image for instructions)
Add an Email Account for the First Time
(Click on the image for instructions)

Price: $29.99


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Sams Teach Yourself iPad Application Development in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)

Sams Teach Yourself iPad Application Development in 24 Hours (2nd Edition) (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)

Apple's iPad is the world's hottest device: 12,000,000+ have been sold in the past six months alone. Now, there's a friendly, easy guide to iPad/iPad 2 development for every developer and power user. In just 24 quick lessons, Sams Teach Yourself iPad Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition will help you gain true mastery. Each lesson builds on all that's come before, teaching you all you need to know, without ever overwhelming you. Fully updated for iPad 2 and the latest iOS features, this book covers:

 

-Getting started fast

-Mastering essential Objective

-C, Cocoa Touch, and MVC concepts

-Building multi-touch apps

-Using popovers, custom keyboards, and other iPad UI elements

-Integrating media into apps

-Reading, writing, and navigating data

-Sensing movement with the accelerometer

 -Writing "universal" apps for all iOS devices

 -Debugging iPad software

-App Store distribution, and much more

 

Step-by-step instructions walk through common questions, issues, and tasks... Q and As, Quizzes, and Exercises test your knowledge... "Did You Know?" tips offer insider advice and shortcuts... "Watch Out!" alerts help you avoid problems. By the time you're are finished, you won't just understand iPad 2 programming: you'll be comfortable writing real-world apps that sell.

Price: $39.99


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Sams Teach Yourself iPad Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)

Sams Teach Yourself iPad Application Development in 24 Hours (Sams Teach Yourself -- Hours)

The clear, easy-to-understand tutorial for developers who want to write software for today's hottest new device: Apple's iPad!

 

 

Figures and code appear as they do in Xcode

Covers iOS 3.2 and up

 

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful applications for today’s hottest tablet device: the iPad! Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master every skill and technology you need, from setting up your Xcode development environment to utilizing the full iPad screen real estate for touchable interfaces, integrating maps and media, to improving the reliability and performance of your software. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common iPad development tasks.

 

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

 

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

 

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to perform tasks.

 

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

Printed in full color

•    Learn the features of the Xcode development suite

•    Prepare your system and iPad for efficient development

•    Get started fast with Apple’s Objective-C and Cocoa Touch

•    Understand the Model-View-Controller (MVC) development paradigm

•    Implement advanced application interfaces with interactive widgets and web-connected interfaces

•    Enhance the user experience with popovers and other iPad-only UI features

•    Build interfaces that adjust to the iPad’s orientation

•    Read and write data, and navigate it with table views

•    Implement media playback and recording capabilities

•    Integrate your software with the iPad’s email, photos, iPod, and address book applications

•    Create map and location-based services

•    Sense motion with the iPad accelerometer input

•    Discover the tools for building universal iPad/iPhone/iPod touch applications

•    Distribute your applications through the App Store

 

 

Price: $39.99


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