The Ultimate iPad: Your Digital Life at Your Fingertips / Kelly, James Floyd

 

Your iPad. You already know it’s fun. But did you know it can save you hours every single week? Did you know it can help you get rid of clutter, annoyances, and stress—both paper and digital? Do you know the tricks and shortcuts for doing more with your iPad than you ever did with your PC or Mac? With The Ultimate iPad, you will—and it’ll be easy!

 

One simple step at a time, James Floyd Kelly will help you pick and use the best apps and services to pull together all your content, media, and knowledge: email, Internet, books, movies, TV, personal and work documents, magazines, financial data, and more. Packed with large full-color photos, The Ultimate iPad teaches dozens of amazingly useful techniques you won’t find in any other iPad book. You’ll discover how to:

• Totally de-clutter yourself in less than 30 days
• Use Evernote to organize all your documents on your iPad
• Set up your “always-available” cloud storage service with 30x to 50x or even unlimited storage space
• Store your DVD movies in the cloud for anytime/anywhere viewing
• Inexpensively and legally convert your existing print library to digital
• Use Dropbox for file transfers and other tasks iTunes can’t handle
• Get rid of print magazine stacks and make your magazines searchable
• Automate home security with low-cost webcams and your iPad
• Build a personal reference library with the GoodReader and Pocket apps: never lose a web article again
• Store an official digital signature you can add to any PDF document
• Set up Quick-Fix shortcuts that deliver the information you want right now—even if you’re offline
• Create a painless backup system that really works for you—finally!