Sam Costello - My iPad for Kids

Sam Costello

800 East 96th Street,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA

My iPad for Kids

Copyright 2012 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-4951-2
ISBN-10: 0-7897-4951-3

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First Printing: June 2012

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Visit www.informit.com/title/9780789749512 where youll find all sorts of additional content we werent able to squeeze into this book, including content on everything from building slideshows in the Photos app to a slew of other handy educational apps you can download to help you with coursework!

Sam Costello is a writer and web marketer living in Providence, Rhode Island. He has written about technology, movies, books, comics, food, and more for magazines and websites large and small, including PC World, CNN.com, Rue Morgue, Cape Cod Magazine, and InfoWorld. His writing has been published on five continents.

Sam has been the About.com Guide to iPhone and iPod since 2007. At that sitehttp://ipod.about.comhe writes reviews, how-tos, and tech support articles about the iPhone, iPod, iTunes, and other Apple technologies.

In addition to nonfiction writing, he also writes comics and short stories.

By day, Sam is a technology manager at the Boston office of Digitas, a leading digital marketing agency.

Sam lives with his girlfriend Jenn and their two cats, Oni and Clarence. He holds a Media Studies degree from Ithaca College.

Website: http://www.samcostello.net

Twitter: @samcostello

To my parents, David and Stephanie. Thank you for supporting my love of reading and books, and for encouraging me to write. I wouldnt be here without youliterally.

Thanks to Jenn, my parents, and my brother Jeff for your support. Thanks to my friends for being understanding of my disappearance from our social calendars for the months Ive been working on this book. Ill see you all soon.

Thanks to the people who generously loaned me iPads and accessories that helped with the completion of this book: J.D. Harper and Laura Mullen.

Thanks, too, to everyone at Pearson who helped bring this book to life: Laura Norman, Todd Brakke, Cindy Teeters, Jovana Shirley, Jennifer Kettell, Bart Reed, and anyone I may be forgetting.

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If you want to learn even more about how to use your iPad for fun and school and get recommendations on tons more cool apps, check out the many online extras for this book at www.informit.com/title/9780789749512.

Youll learn advanced tips on how to get the most out of ringtones, email, and Pages. Discover where to get free e-books, suggestions for more learning apps for school, and how to play games from your iPad on an HDTV.

Congratulations! Youve got an iPad. Its an exciting, fun, helpful gadget. Youre going to love it. To get the most you can out of it, you need to learn how to use it. Lets start with the basics:

How the iPad works

If you put an iPad next to a computer, you might think they dont have much in common. One has a big screen, a DVD drive, a keyboard, and mouse; the other is just a flat slab of plastic and metal and glass. But appearances can be deceiving. It may not look like it, but the iPad is just a computer in a different package.

Just like a desktop or laptop computer, the iPad runs software, can get on the Internet, lets you play games, watch videos, listen to music, and communicate with your family, teachers, and friends. Unlike your desktop computer, your iPad can be chucked in your backpack so you have it with you wherever you go.

Unlike a traditional computer, the iPad doesnt have a button labeled On or even one thats obviously designed to turn it on. But that doesnt mean it doesnt have one. In fact, the iPads On button does much more than a normal On button.