My New iPad, 3rd Edition – New from No Starch Press

It can be tricky to learn the ins and outs of any new piece of technology, especially from dry manuals or tedious lessons. No Starch Press has announced a new edition of Wallace Wang’s best-selling, task-based, My New iPad, 3rd Edition, a book that promises to demystify Apple’s iconic tablet computer.

Most people don’t buy an iPad because they want to use it to do work. They want to play and they don’t want a lot of fuss. In My New iPad (No Starch Press, June 2012, 312 pp., $24.95, ISBN 9781593274290), author Wallace Wang offers new iPad owners hands-on, straightforward instructions for getting organized with the Notes, Reminders, Calendar, and Contacts apps; set up email; browse the web; set parental controls (there’s a lot of bad stuff out there); use a secret passcode; and encrypt backups.

“This is a get things done and don’t feel dumb with your iPad book,” says No Starch Press founder Bill Pollock. “For everyone struggling with their first tablet, this book promises to make things a lot easier.”

In My New iPad, readers will learn how to:
• Find their way using the Maps app and the iPad’s compass
• Use dictation and keyboard shortcuts to save time typing
• Listen to music, read ebooks and magazines, and take photos and videos
• Use FaceTime to talk face-to-face with distant friends and relatives
• Shop iTunes and the App Store for the best new music, apps, movies, games, magazines, and books
• Each chapter presents a new project, making it easy to pick and choose the most interesting ones. New iPad owners will find that help is close at hand with My New iPad.

Wallace Wang is author of several best-selling computer books, including My New Mac, My New iPhone, and Steal This Computer Book (all No Starch Press). A successful standup comic who has appeared on A&E’s “Evening at the Improv,” Wang appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas, Nevada.

My New iPad, 3rd Edition
Publisher: No Starch Press
By Wallace Wang
ISBN: 9781593274290,
$24.95
June 2012, 312 pp.
order@oreilly.com
1-800-998-9938
1-707-827-7000

I found the previous edition of this book very helpful when I bought my iPad 2 a year ago. For my ‘Book Mystique review of My New iPad 2: A User’s Guide, see:
http://bit.ly/ig6F6t

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