Indice dei contenuti per Issue 22 in iPad User Magazine

The iPad can sometimes be overlooked as a tool for productivity, but it’s actually a very powerful way to work on the go. It offers everything from creative and design tools to many advanced custom apps for certain professions – sadly, we can’t feature them all! But we are looking at the world of work in this issue of iPad User, and we’ve got tutorials for a range of common things you might want to do to become even more productive with your iPad. We’ll look at using Reminders to ensure you’re keeping up with your tasks, using apps more smartly with extensions, customising things like contacts and calendars to make them work better for you, and doing great things with Numbers and Keynote on the go! We’ll also look…

SKILL LEVEL Anyone can do it IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU’LL NEED iPad, iOS 8, an app that provides a Share or Action extension A long-standing complaint about iOS is the tight degree of control that Apple exercises over what apps are able to do. Those restrictions have been relaxed in iOS 8 to allow apps to extend the system’s capabilities in carefully defined ways. This means you aren’t reliant on Apple adding support for a particular social network to be able to share something directly to it, and kludgy workarounds such as special bookmarklets that send a web page to an online service are no longer necessary. Extensions enable photo-editing apps to make filters and tools available within the Camera and Photos apps. Information from apps can be…

SKILL LEVEL Could be tricky IT WILL TAKE 1 hour YOU’LL NEED iPad, Editorial, a Dropbox account (for our example workflow) Editorial allows you to automate repetitive tasks by creating reusable workflows At its simplest, Editorial is a text editor that supports Markdown, the plain text formatting syntax that’s gained in popularity in recent years and is supported by WordPress, among others. However, there’s much more to it than that. Editorial enables you to automate repetitive tasks by creating reusable workflows. There are three ways you can add workflows in Editorial: by scripting them from scratch in Python; by putting Actions together in sequence, a bit like Automator; or by importing workflows created by others. Most of us lack the skills to take the first option, but the latter two…

SKILL LEVEL Anyone can do it IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU’LL NEED iPad, Keynote for iPad, Apple TV, television or projector Keynote is an app particularly well suited to iPad. The landscape screen orientation and ease with which you can enter and edit text, pictures and transitions mean it’s perfect for working on presentations even when you’re on the move. Traditionally though, you would have had to take a laptop and hook it up to a projector to show the presentation to a group of people. But with Keynote for iPad, plus an Apple TV, it’s even easier, with no compatibility issues to worry about. The Apple TV itself is very portable, much more so than a projector. The two devices need to be on the same wireless network,…

Netatmo Welcome £199 Netatmo, netatmo.com Most security cameras can detect motion and tell you when there’s someone moving around in your home, but the Welcome goes one step further by using face-recognition technology to differentiate between people that you trust – such as members of your own family – and unwelcome strangers. It stores its HD recordings on an 8GB memory card and sends you a notification with a photo snapshot whenever it detects motion or a face that it doesn’t recognise. You can then decide if you want to use the app to stream or download the video recording from the camera to your iPad. It’s easy to set up, though the app is unclear when you’re trying to set up family members’ faces. Cliff Joseph ThermalTake Contour £50…

SKILL LEVEL Anyone can do it IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes YOU’LL NEED iOS device with iOS 6.0 or higher, Mac with OS X 10.6 or higher, library card This hidden gem of an app allows you to borrow free ebooks and audiobooks from your local library OverDrive doesn’t get a lot of attention, but it’s a must-have app for pretty much anyone who has ever picked up a book. It takes a few minutes to get it set up properly, but it’s well worth the effort as this hidden gem of an app allows you to borrow free ebooks and audiobooks from your local library. OverDrive is free to download from the App Store, and there’s no charge for borrowing books – you don’t even have to worry about…