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set-up your iPad with the most useful business and personal apps. Learn the tips and techniques you need to maximize your iPad’s capabilities to ensure that you are getting the most out of this workhorse. Begin to use the iPad to watch movies, listen to music, read books, play video games, use FaceTime with distant friends and browse the internet. Unlock the device’s full potential.
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Bridget Gibbons Gibbons Digital Consultants
Oct 15, 2013
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The Basics – Home bu@on
The Basics
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The Basics -‐ NoDficaDon Center � Click on the home bu@on � Slide down from top to reveal noDficaDons
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� Open an App: Touch it � Close it: Press the Home Bu@on
The Basics
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� Tap and hold on any app � Move them when the wiggle � Drag apps on top of each other to create folders � Tap the home bu@on when done
Organizing Apps
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� Hold your finger on the app unDl it wiggles � Drag the app to the very bo@om � Tap the home bu@on
Docking an app
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Switching between Apps � Double tap the home icon � Slide your finger to the app you want and select it Closing an App Completely � Hold your finger on the app you want to close unDl it wiggles
� Press the red circle with the white minus sign � Press the home bu@on
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Basic Wi-‐Fi seXngs
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� Open your browser � Go to a web site � Put two fingers on the screen; drag them apart and pinch them together to zoom in; spread them apart to zoom out
Zoom
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Search � Press the home bu@on � Swipe down � Search box appears at the top
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Easy access to adjustments � Swipe up from the bo@om of the screen � Easy access to volume, airplane mode, clock, camera, etc.
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Apps are the way to go! � 40 billion apps have been downloaded — since the iOS
App Store opened in 2008. � Half of those, 20 billion, were downloaded in 2012. � There are now 775,000 iOS apps available � 300,000 iPad apps
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How to find good apps? � Check Curated Websites And Blogs
� AppAdvice, MacStories, iMore, TUAW � Check iTunes App Store Reviews � Make sure the app Isn’t abandoned
� Check the updated date
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GeXng Started -‐ SeXngs � Bluetooth � Do Not Disturb � Sounds � Brightness � iCloud
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Built in Apps • iPad comes with built-‐in apps that are basic business tools
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Business ProducDvity • Top 3 business tools: Pages, Keynote, Numbers
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Top Apps
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Twi@er
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Twi@er � Simple to operate: sign in with your account and your stream of tweets will be displayed.
� You can see photos and websites that your followers have shared right within your stream
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Facebook � View your Newsfeed � View photos � Send messages to your friends
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Pinterest Benefits � You can browse others in different categories (travel, food, etc.) by swiping in from the lel side.
� The highlight here is content – photos are beauDfully displayed and it's easy to flip through others' boards and admire the striking collecDons of cool stuff.
� You can also browse the web through the app and pin new things to your boards.
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Skype
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Skype � one of the best cross-‐plaoorm video calling services. � The app works much like the desktop programs. � Log in with your username and password and you'll get a list of your contacts.
� You can choose to video call with them, send them a message, or make a regular voice call.
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Amazon Kindle
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Amazon Kindle � Choose from millions of Dtles in Amazon store � Access any books you've bought on other Kindle e-‐readers right on the tablet
� Has a feature called X-‐Ray, which shows the "bones of the book," including the main characters and places
� You can also purchase magazines through the app
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Flipboard Benefits � Social reader app – log in with your social network and it gathers all the links to the stories and photos your friends are sharing in a clean layout
� Flip through pages and pages of stories that are popular with your friends.
� Customize your news sources and select different topic areas
� Basically, build your own personalized magazine
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News360
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News360 � Similar to Flipboard but is for the harder news addict � Launch it, select the topics you are interested in – poliDcs, technology, health, etc.
� It feeds you current news about each of those from different news outlets
� Will analyze what you like and start to feed you more about those stories
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Instapaper
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Instapaper � Reading a long arDcle on your computer is not fun � Sign up for an Instapaper account (instapaper.com) and when you come across a long arDcle on your computer, you can "Instapaper it" with a bookmarklet that you install
� When you log in to that same account through the iPad app, the arDcle will appear in an easy to read format
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Evernote
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Evernote � Step up from Apple's built-‐in Notes app. � The cross-‐plaoorm app syncs your notes from the web and all of Evernotes other apps so you always have them in one place.
� You can insert images and voice reminders within your notes too.
� Evernote has organized all your notes into notebooks, which you can give a cover photo.
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Dropbox
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Dropbox � Best way to get photos and files from one device to another.
� The app can be downloaded on your computer (Mac or PC), your phone, and your iPad. Drop a file in your Dropbox on your computer and it will pop up on your iPad.
� It's a great way to transfer images or files. Dropbox gives you 2GB for free;
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Onlive Desktop
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Onlive Desktop � OnLive Desktop lets you see your full PC desktop right on the iPad's screen.
� You can navigate your Windows PC, open files or folders and even read and edit Microsol Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents.
� You can access your PC from anywhere as long as you are connected to WiFi.
� Mac – Appears that you need to upload files to see them.
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ShowYou
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ShowYou � The app you want for tuning into the best videos on the Internet.
� Brings in video that your friends are sharing on Twi@er or Facebook.
� Log in with your accounts and it will bring in the videos people are sharing on YouTube and other video sites.
� You can share your own videos with your ShowYou followers and easily share them on other social networks.
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YouTube
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YouTube � While ShowYou is great for seeing what others are watching, nothing can top the official YouTube app.
� It features lists of video topics on the lel side along with subscripDons to your favorite channels.
� When you play a video at full screen, you just have to swipe from the lel to bring back those channels.
� Swipe from the right and you will see suggested videos based on the one you are watching
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HuluPlus
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HuluPlus � One of those must-‐have apps for turning your iPad into a TV replacement.
� If you have a Hulu Plus subscripDon ($7.99 a month) you get unlimited streaming through the app
� You get all the standard video controls, but move to the split screen mode and you can watch a video while browsing other shows.
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GetGlue
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GetGlue � Log in with your Facebook account and you can "check-‐in" to the TV show you are watching.
� You can then see who else is watching that show and what they are saying about it.
� You can follow friends and they can follow you. � The app also shows you what is coming up on TV and provides central pages for programs to show you what others are saying about it.
� Basically, it's the ulDmate social experience around TV.
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Zeebox
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ZeeBox � The app shows you what people are talking about – the biggest buzz around shows, what the stars are watching and what people are raDng shows.
� When you input your zip code and cable provider it will also give you a guide of the day's programming and what the buzz is about the show with data from Twi@er.
� If you happen to be watching the same show as a friend you can even chat with them within the app about it.
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SpoDfy
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SpoDfy � Ho@est music services and its iPad app shows off its greatest features.
� Log in and you will be presented with your collecDon of songs, albums and playlists on the lel side.
� On the right column you see the list of songs. The app also surfaces opDons which are buried in the desktop apps or sites, like the Inbox and messaging features.
� There's also an easy search funcDon and "What's New" area to see top songs.
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Pandora
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Pandora � Must-‐have when it comes to discovering music. � Log in with your account and you'll get all your saved staDons.
� You can easily search for an arDst or song to create a new staDon. T
� he app is decently designed but don't expect any bells and whistles here
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Shazam
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Shazam � Popular music idenDficaDon app
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Fab
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Fab � Fab has become one of the most popular places to shop on the Internet because of its social media De-‐in and its awesome inventory.
� You can browse lots of cool stuff in the well laid-‐out app. � You can see what your friends have bought or liked if you log in with your Facebook account.
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Red Laser
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Red Laser � RedLaser scans the ordinary bar code on any product and shows you all the prices of that product in your area.
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Flashlight
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Flashlight � Flashlight uses the LED light on iPhone 4 and fills your screen with bright white light to illuminate your world when you find yourself in a dark spot or concert.
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Words with Friends
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Words with Friends � You will find that some have turned their iPads into Words with Friends machines, just playing the Scrabble-‐like game with opponents for hours and hours.
� Zynga's Words with Friends is exactly what it says it is – a word game to play with your friends.
� Very similar to Scrabble, each player gets a selecDon of le@ers and has to create words.
� Sign in with Facebook and you can start games with your friends. You can play mulDple games at the same Dme.
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Virtuoso
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Virtuoso Piano 3 � Piano keys are conveniently labeled with chords and colors to help you learn, and right and lel arrows at the top help you progress and navigate the keyboard, bringing you up and down the scale.
� For $.99 each you can purchase addiDonal packs, such as guitar packs as well as the ability to disable ads.
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Photoshop Touch / Express
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Photoshop Touch � Provides you with the basic ediDng tools to crop, adjust or create effects from digital images.
� If you use Adobe's Photoshop solware, you will find a familiar set tools in this app such as flip, straighten, crop and rotate. Select a photo from your collecDon, and then press the edit bu@on.
� A row of tools appear as icons on the bo@om; tap on the lens icon to apply camera filters, such as Sol Focus or Sharpen. Press Crop and swipe from the top or bo@om corners to adjust the frame.
� Adobe offers a more basic free app called Photoshop Express, but Photoshop touch provides more interacDv
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ESPN Scorecenter
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ESPN Scorecenter � Scorecenter for iPad contains a rich amount of informaDon and detail on the games and teams fans love to follow.
� Tap the menu bu@on to access any sport-‐-‐football, for example. Select NFL to see a recent calendar of teams that played and the scores, too.
� The app allows users to view video replay; swipe to the right of the screen and the screen loads the selected video quickly, and also provides a quick capDon of what you're about to see.
� This is a comprehensive app with an enormous amount of data at your fingerDps.
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Around Me
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Around Me � Around Me locates the nearest gas staDon, bank or restaurant for you, and
the newest release even lets you book a hotel. � Launch the app and a column with categories to search appears on the lel
side, and a map with your current locaDon loads onto the main screen. � Tap "Supermarkets," for example, and the app loads the nearest opDons in
the lel side column with the address and distance from you. � The app contains a useful set of map tools, such as zoom and search
bu@ons; press the compass icon, enter in your address, and the app will adjust the locaDon on the map below.
� Tap the Hotels tab, and the app provides a list of hotels nearest you including star raDngs and the lowest rate available per night.
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Dark Sky
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Dark Sky � The preXest one you will find. A weather radar for local forecasts, the app provides up-‐to-‐the-‐hour weather predicDons for your specific locaDon.
� The GPS driven app also employs radar animaDon to show you the path of rain or a snowstorm.
� You can even pinpoint the arrival of a storm or precipitaDon; the middle secDon provides tabs indicaDng the weather now and an hour from now (press the Next Hour tab and it will display addiDonal predicDons including the next few hours and look ahead to the morning, too)
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Chrome
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Chrome � Every iPad comes with Apple's Safari browser, but Google's Chrome is giving that preloaded opDon a run for its money.
� Launch the app and sign into Chrome to sync your bookmarks with your Google accounts—this will allow you to bring all of those bookmarks and tabs to your tablet.
� You can easily toggle through tabs by swipe the screen to move to the next one and search Google right from the address bar.
� For the privacy-‐minded user, you can browse sites without leaving a trace in your history or cookies by tapping on the tab switcher icon in the upper right-‐hand corner.
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Paper by FilyThree
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Paper by FilyThree � Design lovers, illustrators and even the casual doodler will find Paper to be an essenDal app for sharing sketches and illustraDons across the web. Begin with a blank journal, and choose a photo for the cover of your journal from your camera roll.
� Tap the journal to open it and start to fill it. Tap on a page, and a row of drawing utensils and a pale@e appear before you below.
� Select the pen tool and a color from the pale@e and begin to draw-‐-‐the lighter you press, the thinner the line. Pinch and zoom to shrink the journal and flip to the next page, or close it enDrely when you are done. If you've got an iPad stylus this is one of the best apps to go along with it
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TED
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TED � TED is a series of events featuring some of society’s most fascinaDng and innovaDve ideas and most influenDal thinkers.
� You’ll definitely disagree with some of them, because there’s a large diversity of opinions.
� But, there are a lot of talks worth listening to and they’re all free. Many of the talks are short and succinct, somewhere between 5-‐20 minutes.
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NPR
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NPR � Another one of the best iPad news apps from a media organizaDon is the NPR app.
� It lets you quickly skim top stories, read related text arDcles, and quickly add radio/audio stories to a playlist that you can then listen to all at once.
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The Guardian Eyewitness
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Guardian Eyewitness � features amazing photojournalism from around the world from the popular UK news publicaDon.
� The photos look fantasDc on the iPad screen and provide a great way to scan through some of the most important current events on the planet.
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ProPublica
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ProPublica � A non-‐profit publicaDon of invesDgaDve reporters, is doing some of the most important work in journalism today — the work that has increasingly been cut out of the profit-‐driven newsrooms.
� Plus, they have an excellent iPad app. The three column layout gives you the latest stories from ProPublica (most of which don’t make the mainstream news), the middle column links to good invesDgaDve news pieces from the mainstream media (many of the stories are buried), and the third column has ProPublica’s “Projects” or groups of stories where you can stay up to date on on-‐going issues. Keep in mind that ProPublica is non-‐profit and funded completely by donaDons.
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NASA
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NASA � NASA has a strong tradiDon of sharing its space exploraDon advances and research and they’ve conDnued that tradiDon in mulD-‐touch style with an excellent iPad app that lets you explore photography from satellites, see NASA’s launch schedules, research historical informaDon about missions, and watch NASA TV live.
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Louvre HD
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Louvre HD � Providing excellent photos of 150 of the Louvre’s most popular masterpieces, chosen by the museum’s curators. It also provides a virtual tour of the Louvre itself.
� It’s great that this app provides a visual tour and gives you a map to help you find each of the 150 masterpieces. It also provides excellent informaDon on the artwork and the museum itself.
� This is the kind of app that can enhance your real world experience of a place, or virtually take you to a place you may never visit.
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Disney American Presidents: The Unofficial Oval Office Scrapbook
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Disney American Presidents: The Unofficial Oval Office Scrapbook � This app gives users the chance to explore a digital scrapbook to learn about the lives and Dmes of all 44 U.S. presidents.
� Swipe to the lel to page through each president, one by one, and learn about the era in which they lived, significant challenges they faced, and fun and entertaining facts you may not have known about the men who sat in the Oval Office.
� One outstanding feature is the original video content; for each president, the app provides expert interviews and commentary from historians and poliDcal commentators. (
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Barefoot Atlas
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Barefoot Atlas � Lets you turn around the world with an interacDve 3D globe. With one finger, spin the globe to find a country. Pinch to zoom in and select an object to learn more from the narrator and geographer, Nick Crane.
� Tap on the Polar Bear, for example, and the object enlarges to the foreground accompanied by an informaDon text field. On the top lel, tap on a selecDon of four icons to see countries, regions, favorites and features. Select a country, for example, and the globe rotates to reveal your selecDon along with basic data about the country, such as the capital city and local Dme. It's worth the money.
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AllRecipes
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AllRecipes � Allrecipes provides some of the best cooking tools on the iPad. Its main app provides thousands of recipes in a well-‐organized layout. But to add to that Allrecipes has released its Video Cookbook app, which provides users with thousands of recipes and hundreds of how-‐to videos to help you cook up a storm, step-‐by-‐step.
� Tap on a dish, such as Green Grape Salad. On the right-‐hand side, the app displays shopping list of ingredients and cooking direcDons and on the lel side, the app displays video synced with simple instrucDons as well as esDmate prep and cook Dmes. Other cooking apps, such as Foodily and Epicurios, provide helpful how-‐to's and recipe as well.
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LunchBox
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LunchBox � Lunchbox is a food-‐finding app that will save you in a pinch when you forget to pack that brown bag or need a quick list of restaurant opDons. Search categories, such as Food and Snacks and Coffee and Tea.
� Search for locaDons on the map by pinching and zooming on the screen, or enter a search term, such as "Veggie Burger" to see the nearby opDons. Tap on a suggested locaDon, and the app displays a map, as well as reviews, star raDngs, and photos taken by other users. The app provided a wealth of opDons when we looked at it—it even recognized our own ABC cafeteria.
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Vegetarian How to Cook Everything
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Vegetarian How to Cook Everything � Ten dollars might seem pricey for a Vegetarian cooking app, but this is like buying a premium cookbook. New York Times columnist and author Mark Bi@man provides vegetarians with over 2,000 recipes in this app, making it easy to incorporate variety into a diet that might otherwise seem limited. Search by recipe or type in a general term to find a slew of possibiliDes.
� The app includes a built-‐in Dmer so you can keep track while you cook. Select a recipe and tap the "Favorites" key to add to your list of go-‐to recipes. Tap on a featured recipe, and see an overview of the dish, as well as ingredients, preparaDons steps and variaDons on the selecDon.
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Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker
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Livestrong.com Calorie Tracker � The New Year is approaching, which means resoluDons on staying in shape and eaDng be@er. LIVESTRONG.COM calorie tracker aims to help users lose weight the old fashioned way—by keeping track of calories.
� The app gives you access to MyPlate, which provides a database of over 1.3 million food items and tracks your calories and exercise acDvity to help reach your weight-‐loss goals. Enter basic informaDon, including weight and height, as well as your acDvity level.
� Select a goal, such as losing two pounds per week, and the app will calculate the calorie goal you should meet each day. By creaDng a LIVESTRONG account, you can communicate with members to help you stay moDvated and accountable to your goals.
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Fitness HD
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Fitness HD � The app provides over 700 exercises with text descripDons as well as photos, video and audio to aide you in your fitness endeavors. Open the app and tap "Exercise Base." From there, select movements according to the part of the body you wish to target.
� The premium version of this app gives you access to a food and body tracker, addiDonal workouts and well as the ability to communicate with fitness experts. This app provides simple, solid instrucDon on how to do basic exercise moves, but you will need to fork over at least another $2.99 to get a more in-‐depth experience.
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Pocket Yoga
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Pocket Yoga � Visual and voice instrucDons guide pracDDoners through each pose in an effort to make doing the rouDnes accessible anyDme. Select "PracDce" from the main screen and choose from workouts labeled Ocean, Desert and Mountain.
� Once you select your workout, decide on a length of Dme; you can select a 30-‐minute, 45-‐minute, or 1-‐hour workout. The instructor, represented by an illustraDon, narrates the workout, pose-‐by-‐pose, peppering in breathing instrucDons, too, as you move. Convenience is the word that comes to mind with this app—place your iPad or iPhone at the end of you yoga mat and go.
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Apps GoneFree
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Apps GoneFree � However, on occasion, developers and companies will reduce the price of apps to free. That is where Apps GoneFree comes in. This app handpicks free apps based on a 3-‐star raDng or be@er, provides a useful summary and lists them for you daily.
� On the lel hand side, the app shows calendar with the date and days of the week running down the column in descending order. In the center panel, AppsGoneFree lists apps that are now free along with a short write-‐up describing each one. You can take a look back on the calendar to see free apps released on a previous day, and choose one from the list.
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Organize Apps � iPad lets you organize apps in folders (if you have iOS version 4.2 or later) The process is simple: � Tap and hold an app Dll all apps do their jiggle dance � Drag an app on top of another app
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Thank you!
Bridget Gibbons [email protected]
@gibbonsdigital Fb.com/gibbbonsdigital www.GibbonsDigital.com
