Top 5 Things to do When You Get Your iPad 2 [Setup and Security]

There are a few things to do as soon as you get your iPad 2 home and out of the box. Today we are going to cover security, protection and a few other things to do right now.

Top 5 Things to do When you get Your iPad 2:

These steps are free, and should only take about 10 minutes, though the initial sync may take longer if you have a lot of apps and media.

Set up Find My iPad – 3 minutes

If you skipped past this when you first connected your iPad to iTunes, make sure you enable the free Find My iPad feature. This requires you to set oil a MobileMe account, but is completely free and will help you find your iPad if it is lost or stolen.

1. To setup Find My iPad, tap the settings icon on your iPad 2.
2. Tap on Mail, contacts and Calendars.
3. Add a MobileMe account.
4. Enter your Apple user ID, the same one you use to buy in iTunes. If you do not have an account the tool will walk you through creating one for free.
5. Verify your email by clicking on the link Apple sends you.
6. Go back to the MobileMe screen in Settings, and click the switch to “ON”

Set a Passcode – 1 Minute

Setting up a Passcode, or security lock, on your iPad is a good way to protect your important data and email accounts. By turning on a Passcode the iPad cannot be unlocked without a 4 digit code which keeps your data secure. You can even wipe the iPad, erasing all data if the Passcode is entered wrong ten times straight.

To set up a Passcode:

1. Tap Settings.
2. Choose Passcode Lock form the right side menu.
3. Tap turn Passcode on.
4. Enter a 4 digit Passcode that you will remember, ,but not something as simple as 1234. For help, use the letters to spell out a four letter word.
5. Enter the Passcode a second time to verify.
6. Choose how long you want the iPad 2 to wait before the Passcode turns on and locks the device.
7. When you turn your iPad on next, you will be prompted to enter your Passcode.

Put it in a Case – 1 minute

The quickest way to devalue your new iPad 2 is to leave it open to the elements. If you didn’t get the Smart Cover from Apple, look for a third party case or even a sleeve to keep your iPad 2 from being scratched. Within a month or two there will be many more case options available for purchase. You may also want to get a Zaggmate invisible shield or similar wrap to protect the back and screen from scratches.

Create an If Found Lockscreen Message – 1 minute

If you are prone to leaving your iPad 2 laying around, you should change the locksreen so that it has your contact information on it. This will make it easy to get your iPad back if it is lost. You may also have better luck with this tip if you add a reward.

How to Setup an If Found Message on the iPad 2:

1. Open the iPad Notes app.
2. Type a short message with your phone number and email including reward info.
3. Take a screenshot of it by holding the power button and home button at the same time.
4. Open the Photo app.
5. Open the screenshot you just took.
6. Tap on the image, choose the action icon in the upper right.
7. Choose use as wallpaper
8. Zoom in or out and move the image until it is where you want it to be.
9. Tap Use as Lockscreen.

If you want to get more advanced you could upload an image to a free photo editor like Picnik and add your information to a picture.

Sync your iPad – 3 minutes (to start may take longer to complete)

After you’ve prepared your iPad for the hazards of daily use, the last thing to do is to sync it up with your computer. If you are upgrading, you can restore form a backup of your previous iPad to get exactly what you had on the old device. If you are upgrading, but want to use. Anew computer, you can transfer the apps from your old iPad to the computer and then sync those apps to your iPad 2. Finally, if you are a new user, you can plug in and sync your music and movies over by simply plugging in and opening iTunes.

If you want to control what movies and other media are synced, visit the settings of your iPad when it is plugged in by clicking on the iPad name on the right menu bar and hen clicking on the tabs across the top to choose how many moves to transfer, what episodes of a TV show to transfer and what iPhoto albums to transfer to your iPad 2.

Stay tuned for more iPad 2 tips and guides.

Source : GottaBeMobile
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5 Ways to View PowerPoint Presentation on iPad

Do you have a ton of PowerPoint presentations you want to view on your iPad? Playing PowerPoint presentation on iPad is wanted for most iPad users. Even though your iPad can not play PowerPoint directly, there are some simple yet not direct ways to have your PowerPoint slideshows displayed on your iPad. Let’s walk through the following 4 ways below to show you how to watch PowerPoint Presentation using your iPad.

Export PowerPoint slides as pictures

iPad is equipped with a slideshow photo viewer, then converting your PowerPoint slideshow to pictures is a good way to view it on iPad. The most common supported image formats by iPad are .jpg, .bmp, .gif, and .png. The following steps let you save your slideshow as pictures: 1. Open up your PowerPoint slideshow. 2. Export the slides using File > Save As... 3. At the pop-up, select the 'Save as type", and choose "*.jpg". 4. When PowerPoint asks whether you want to export all slides, choose "Every Slide". Then your slides are now exported. PowerPoint will tell you where the still pictures have been stored. By default, they are named "Slide x.JPG". After that, you can transport the pictures to the Image folder of iPad. The limitations of this solution is that no animations, no transitions, and no sound and video clips will be preserved when displaying the presentation.

An improved solution for this is using Picture Link to make your ppt interactive. with Picture link, you can easily adjust the playing order as you want.

Convert PowerPoint presentation to video formats for Playing it on iPad

I think this is the best way to play PowerPoint presentation on iPad. Many PowerPoint to video converters provide the smart feature to convert PowerPoint presentation to iPad supported video formats (.m4v, .mp4, and .mov) that retain all the features of the original PowerPoint files like animations, transitions, audios, and video clips.

Acoolsoft PPT to Video Pro is such a converter that you can convert your presentation to .mp4 or .mov video for iPad. It also enables users to convert presentations to videos then let you transfer the video presentation for viewing on iPad.

I like this “loseless” way that help me view the video presentation on my iPad. It displays the presentation on iPad as the same as the original presentation file, and you will like it too!

Transfer PowerPoint to PDF files

iPad is a superior platform to read PDF files in a tablet-style format. There are quite a few programs like CloudReaders and Easy PDF that are designed for viewing PDF files on iand. Transferring PowerPoint presentations to PDF files may be another way to view PPT on iPad. Besides the programs mentioned above, Apple iPad supports also viewing PDF as an attachment via Mail application.

There are many free PowerPoint to PDF converters online to create PDF files from PowerPoint presentation, such as

http://www.freepdfconvert.com/, http://www.pdfonline.com/, and Anypdftools PowerPoint to PDF converter. However, if there are many animations, audios and video in your presentation, it may not be a good way to retain all the effects and objects. All the animations and transitions will disappear, not to mention the audio and video clips.

Forward PowerPoint attachment to MightyMeeting for viewing it on iPad

Forward PowerPoint attachments to MightyMeeting also let you view your presentation on your iPad. This app can be used to view the slides and project them via iPad's VGA output. You can also share the slides remotely.

View PowerPoint presentations on iPad via presentation sharing sites

The lack of Flash support is an obstacle for many presentations sharing websites that use Adobe’s technology for multimedia support to show the presentation on iPad, but there are some sites features compatibility for the iPad, such as authorSTREAM.com and DocStoc.com.

Take authorSTREAM.com for example, it is a free web-based platform that offers the new edition for PowerPoint presentation sharing service compatible with iPad. for sharing PowerPoint presentations．

For viewing your PowerPoint slide show on iPad, you can upload your PowerPoint slide show on authorSTREAM.com. When you open the URL provided by authorStream on iPad, you can view your presentation normally that has been converted to the iPad compatible format. You can also download your presentations as video, and view them on iPad. This way is good for presentations that do not include videos and audios files that are larger than 50,000KB. It will retain the animations of the presentation but not all the audios and videos.

Source: Acoolsoft

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How To Capture a Screen Shot on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch

Did you know you can capture a screen shot from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch without having to install any third-party ap

 How To Capture a Screen Shot on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch 

ps? This allows you create a picture of anything displayed on the screen, no matter which app you have open. You will need iPhone OS firmware version 2.0 or higher for this trick.

To capture a screen shot:

1. Press and hold the menu button (the main button below the screen).
2. While the menu button is held down, press the power/lock button (the switch on the top edge of the device).

Note: You can also hold the lock button and press the menu button, or try to press the two buttons simultaneously. Do whatever is easiest, but if you keep both buttons held down too long, you will get the power down confirmation.

Your screen will flash white for a second and make a camera shutter noise (if you have the volume turned up) to indicate that the screen shot has been taken. But where is it?

The screen shots you take are automatically saved in the default Photos app under an album called "Saved Photos" or "Camera Roll" depending on your device. From here you can email one or more screen shots or other pictures, by clicking the menu icon (a rectangle with an arrow coming out of it, in the bottom left corner of the screen). Clicking the menu icon from a single picture will email the one image. If you click the menu button from an index page, you can select multiple pictures to email.


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This App Does 24 Things Beyond Expectations

What’s in a name? Safari sort of fits as a web browser. You journey across the web. Mail tells it like it is. It’s email. Word? Use it to write, right?

Photoshop? It’s the customizing shop for photos and images. Address Book? Duh. iPhoto? It’s too easy. Most apps have a name that first the purpose. So, what do you expect from Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner?

The Name Should Fit The Function

First, as a name, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is too long and too wrong for an app that does so much. If my aging memory serves me correctly, this handy app started life as Panther Cache Cleaner, then became Tiger Cache Cleaner, then Leopard Cache Cleaner.

Can you figure out what it does? If you guessed, “cleans caches”, you’d be partly correct.

Before my children-induced arthritis kicks in, I’m shortening this to SLCC.

Wait. That abbreviation doesn’t fit my premise of renaming a capable product so obviously misnamed. Alright, I’m good with Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner—the Mac app that does much more than clean your Mac’s caches.

A Janitor, Security Guard, Handyman In Your Mac

As the year ends so does my annual supply of creativity. For a Mac app so poorly named, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner does a bunch more than you expect from the name.

It’s a Mac janitor, a built-in security guard, a utility handy man app, and a digital mechanic. The interface sort of says it all.

Look at all those buttons. Only one tab has anything to do with cache cleaning, so this little puppy of a utility app is poorly named.

Not only can you use it to clean your Mac’s caches, there’s over two dozen additional functions to improve performance, open up secret settings, test RAM and batteries, repair system preference files, and check for viruses.

What? It’s a virus checker, too? Yes, dear Mac lovers, Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner has the popular and powerful ClamAV anti-virus app built in. Click a tab to change your Mac’s login items. Click another tab to run maintenance scripts. Click another tab to optimize your Mac for the internet.

Preferences are not daunting, but give you even more options.

You probably never guessed that your Mac had all these things going on in the background. Or, ready to when you click something.

Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner goes beyond the call of duty, exceeds expectations, and gives you more point and click power than Silvio Berlusconi has winks for the ladies.

It’ll optimize, customize, sanitize your Mac. It’ll repair, clean, and test more functions than Goldman Sachs has profits.

Well, maybe not quite that much.

But it’s a healthy list that will make you proud to know that there was so much you didn’t really know about your Mac.

What better way to clear out the old year and bring in a sparkling clean new year than with a utility that does more than you expect, that proves once again that you can’t judge a book by the cover. Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner is wrongly named, but rightly deserved. But do you need what it does? Of course you do. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder must be cultivated.

If you’re still in a cleaning mood after a visit to the OCD outpatient clinic, try 7 Free Mac Tools That Do This Or That And More, or feast on the delights of the Top 12 Tools Your New Mac Must Have Now.

Finally, you know about our Special App Review Weeks, right? The most recent was The Best Of Free Mac Apps Week with a dozen of the best free apps to give yourself and the Mac user you love.

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