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For technical support please visit www.wiley.com/techsupport. Sales | Contact Wiley at (877) 762-2974 or fax (317) 572-4002. Credits Acquisitions Editor Aaron Black Sr. Project Editor Sarah Hellert Technical Editor Dennis Cohen Copy Editor Marylouise Wiack Director, Content Development & Assembly Robyn Siesky Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Richard Swadley About the Author Guy Hart-Davis is the author of Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPhone 5s and 5c ; Teach Yourself VISUALLY iMac, 3rd Edition; iMac Portable Genius, 4th Edition; iLife 11 Portable Genius ; and iWork Portable Genius, 2nd Edition. Authors Acknowledgments My thanks go to the many people who turned my manuscript into the highly graphical book you are holding. In particular, I thank Aaron Black for asking me to write the book; Sarah Hellert for keeping me on track and guiding the editorial process; Marylouise Wiack for skillfully editing the text; and Dennis Cohen for reviewing the book for technical accuracy and contributing helpful suggestions.
How to Use This Book Who This Book Is For This book is for the reader who has never used this particular technology or software application. It is also for readers who want to expand their knowledge. The Conventions in This Book Steps This book uses a step-by-step format to guide you easily through each task. Numbered steps are actions you must do; bulleted steps clarify a point, step, or optional feature; and indented steps give you the result. Notes Notes give additional information special conditions that may occur during an operation, a situation that you want to avoid, or a cross-reference to a related area of the book. Tips Tips offer additional information, including warnings and shortcuts. Bold Bold type shows command names or options that you must click or text or numbers you must type. Italics Italic type introduces and defines a new term. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Your iPad The iPad Air and iPad mini are powerful and extremely popular touch-screen tablet computers created by Apple. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Your iPad The iPad Air and iPad mini are powerful and extremely popular touch-screen tablet computers created by Apple.
You can use an iPad either as a full-powered computing device on its own or as a companion device to your Mac or PC. In this chapter, you set up your iPad Air or iPad mini, sync data to it, and learn to use the user interface. Take a Look at the iPad Air and iPad mini The Apple iPad is the most popular tablet computer on the market. Powerful, elegantly designed, and easy to use, the iPad can take over many of the tasks you normally perform on your desktop or laptop computer, such as surfing the web, exchanging e-mail messages, desktop publishing, and playing video games. The iPad comes in two sizes: full-size and mini. The latest version of the full-size iPad is the iPad Air.