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description: Apple's iPad is the perfect personal media center. It lets you search the Web with WiFi helps you stay in touch with its built-in email application and allows you to read books magazines and newspapers in full color. You can also play games listen to music watch videos view photos and create documents layouts and slideshows with iPad's iWork suite. With iPad: The Missing Manual  learning how to use this new device is a snap. The clear step-by-step instructions undocumented shortcuts workarounds and lots of practical timesaving advice help you learn each feature and application -- presented with the renowned Missing Manual wit and easy-to-read format. View Pictures on Your iPadBy J. D. BiersdorferTo see the pictures you synced from your computer tap the Photos icon on the iPads Home screen. Then tap the Photos button at the top of the screen to see your pictures in thumbnail view filling the iPad screen in a grid. If you chose to copy over specific photo albums tap the name of the album you want to look at. Mac syncers can also tap the Events Faces or Places button to see photos sorted in those categories as page xx explains.On the thumbnails screen you can do several things:When you tap the ^ icon in the menu bar you can set a photo as wallpaper assign a picture to your iPads Contacts program send a pic to MobileMe or start a photo slideshow. To get back to your library tap the Photos or album-name button at the top of the screen.Email PhotosIf you want to share your photographic joy you can email one or a bunch of pictures right from the Photos program:Delete PhotosYou have two ways to delete photos from your iPad. If you synced photo albums from iTunes connect the iPad to the computer open iTunes hit the Photos tab and turn off the checkboxes by those albums. Click Apply and then Sync to unsync or remove those pix from the iPads gallery. If you have pictures in your Saved Photos album you want to ditch you can delete a currently open picture by tapping the T icon and then tapping the Delete Photo button. To delete multiple pictures from the Saved Photos thumbnail view tap the ^ icon then tap the unwanted pictures to assign the Blue Checkmarks of Selection. Tap the small red Delete button on the top-left side of the menu bar. Theres a blue Cancel button on the other side of the menu bar if you change your mind.
language: English
title: iPad: The Missing Manual
publisher: O'Reilly Media