Screen Capture
To capture whatever is on your iPad’s screen as a photo, hold the Power button, and hit the Home button. You’ll see the display flash and hear a shutter click, and the image will appear in the Camera Roll in Photos.

Lock Rotation or Mute
Lock Rotation or Mute is now controlled by the same switch and configured in Settings.
Go to Settings>General and under "Use Side Switch To:" choose either Lock Rotation or Mute.

View and Kill Running Applications
Two quick hits of the Home button can show you the apps you have running. Press and hold on one icon, and they’ll all start shaking. Tap on the small red minus sign in the top left corner of its icon to kill that app.

iPod Controls Quick Access
If you swipe left, rather than right, after you tap the Home button twice, you’ll get video/music play controls, and volume and screen-brightness sliders.

Passcode Lock
To set a 4-digit code that needs to be entered to unlock the iPad, choose General>Passcode Lock>Simple Passcode.

Find your iPad
Possibly the most valuable app you can download, Find my iPhone (it works for iPads too) once required a paid MobileMe subscription, but now all you need is an Apple ID. Download it for free in the App Store, follow the set-up instructions, and you can view your iPad on a map from your computer or cell phone.

The Best iPad Apps

Social

Twitter:
The official Twitter app for iPad packs in the features, giving you a
full Tweet-and-browse experience. It can be a little bit overwhelming at
first, but powerful things often are. Free.

Flipboard:
A true testament to the iPad’s transformative powers, Flipboard scrapes
your Twitter and Facebook feeds for links and arranges them in a
simple, beautiful magazine-style format. Free.

BeeJive IM for iPad:
If you’re looking for one place to corral all your chats, BeeJive is
it. It’s the best, best-looking IM client for the iPad, connecting to
AIM, GTalk, Facebook chat and a handful of others. $10.

Entertainment

Korg iMS-20: A faithful reproduction of Korg’s MS-20 analog synth, this is the app that will make your music-playing friend get the iPad. It’s proof of just how powerful the tablet can be as a music production machine. $16.

Sketchbook Pro:
The challenge with drawing apps is packing the most features in the
most accessible way possible. Sketchbook Pro walks that line, offering
up enough stuff to keep real deal artists busy while making it easy enough for schlubs like me to enjoy. $8.

Remote:
With AirPlay, Apple’s signalled its intentions to not just sell you
music and movies but to let you move them around your house, too. The
official Apple Remote is a key piece of the puzzle, serving as a rich
controller for iTunes or AppleTV. Free.

TED for iPad:
TED talks are some of the best content the internet has to offer, bar
none. The iPad, safe from the constant, pinging distractions of the
internet, is the perfect place to watch them. Free.

Kindle:
Even if you don’t have an actual Kindle, Amazon’s still the king of
ebooks. Their iPad app lets you buy books from the vast Kindle library,
and you can rest easy knowing that they’re on a platform that’s almost
guaranteed to have some staying power. Free.

StreamToMe:
The iPad doesn’t play nice with many file formats natively. Along with a
server app you install on your main machine, StreamToMe will re-encode
pretty much any video you throw at it on the fly and beam it to your
iPad. Magnificent. $3.

Netflix:
I’ve gotta say, when you’re curled up in bed streaming some old TV show
to your tablet, the future starts looking like a pretty alright place.
With great new Instant Watch offerings popping up all the time, a
Netflix subscription is essentially mandatory. Free.

Google Earth:
You haven’t experienced Google Earth until you’ve experienced it on the
iPad. Seamless swishing, flicking, pinching, and zooming. Free.

Games

World of Goo:
The smash Wii Ware hit somehow makes even more sense on the iPad, like
this is how it was meant to be played all along. Pure gooey physics fun.
$5.

Osmos HD: One of, if not the most, immersive, unique iPad games in the App Store, Osmos makes cellular life captivatingly beautiful. $5.

Dead Space:
A new, tablet-optimized extension of the popular console shooter
series, Dead Space shows just how robust an iPad game can be. From the
visual details to the spooky sound design, it’s got the full package.
$10.

Infinity Blade: How good can an iPad game really look? Uh, check out Infinity Blade to find out. Spoiler: really f-ing good. $6.

Monkey Island 2 Special Edition:
The iPad’s big touchscreen breathes new life into the LucasArts
classic, and its smart UI stays out of the way while you enjoy the
puzzles, humor, and animations you remember from way back when. $5.

Flight Control HD:
It was one of the best games when the iPad came out and it still
is—directing air traffic can quickly turn from meditation to mayhem.
Both modes are fun. $5.

The Incident: 8-bit pixel revival at its finest, the Incident is at once retro and fresh, apocalyptic and hilarious. $2.

Productivity

Instapaper:
Reading, it turns out, is just about the best thing you can do on this
crazy futuristic tech-slab of yours. Instapaper strips all the web junk
from the articles you come across and leaves you with the sweet, pure
text. $5.

Reeder:
Thanks to RSS feeds, you will never, ever run out of cool stuff to
read. Reeder is the cleverest, prettiest way to sift through it all. $5.

Elements:
An attractively sparse text editor for the iPad with a handful of
features—like autosaving to the cloud via Dropbox—that set it apart. If
you’re used to cumbersome, feature-soaked text editors like Word,
Elements is a breath of fresh air. $5.

SimpleNote:
SimpleNote is the longstanding holder of the minimalist note taking
crown: It lets you take notes and keep them in sync across your iPad,
iPhone, and the web reliably and simply with zero distractions. Free.

Dropbox:
Wanna see what this “cloud” fuss is all about. Start dumping your files
in Dropbox on your PC or Mac and watch them magically appear in the
iPad app. It’s quick, it’s clean, it works, and it’s free.

Screens:
VNC can get confusing, but Screens makes it dead simple. Turn internet
sharing on on your Mac (or PC, or Linux machine) and Screens will let
you control it. You can even use all your favorite multitouch gestures.
$20.

Pulse:
So you like the idea of RSS—news coming to you, instead of you going to
it—but don’t want to deal with adding feeds and endless lists of
headlines. Pulse makes the whole thing visual, giving you swipeable
columns and rows of stories and sources. Free.

Lifestyle

NightStandHD:
If you happen to dock your iPad next to your bed, you might be
thinking, “Hey, this thing could probably make for a pretty beautiful
clock.” You’re right! NightStandHD has a handful of beautiful clocks
both analog (looking) and digital. $2.

Epicurious:
You like food, right? Epicurious has got tons of recipes presented in a
nice, photo-friendly format. Show this to your Mom to justify your iPad
purchase. Free.

Wired: No one’s really made the slam dunk tablet magazine yet, but if you want to get a sense of how the magazine of the future might look, Wired’s leading the pack. $4.

Gravilux:
Most people looked at the iPad and saw a device for creation or
consumption. Scott Snibbe saw it as the perfect platform for interactive
art. Gravilux, a whirling, touch-baed gravity simulation, is
addictively purposeless. $2.

New York Times for iPad:
After a somewhat clunky start in the app world, NYT has pulled it
together and put together a clean, content-packed tablet edition of
their paper. You’ll have to start paying for it soon, but for now it’s
free.

Yelp:
The preeminent food-finding service goes great on the tablet. Just make
sure to wash your hands before you pick it back up. Free.

A report released by The Nielsen Company shows 29.7 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers own smartphones that run full operating systems.

The stats indicate that iPhone and Blackberry are neck in neck at 27% and Android comes in second at 22%.

Article link:

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/us-smartphone-battle-heats-up/

Steve Wozniak reveals Apple’s pre-iPhone smartphone development and makes a prediction about the future of the mobile industry.

Updated 10/18/2010: It seems something was lost in the English-Dutch translation. Wozniak has now claimed that he was misquoted in the interview with De Telegraaf and that he never said that Android’s OS was superior to the iPhone’s. Wozniak clarified his thoughts on Android and the iPhone in a conversation with Engadget earlier today.

Apparently, you don’t become an Apple co-founder by being shy and reserved. This time, it’s Steve Wozniak – the other of Apple’s co-founding “two Steves” – making waves with candid comments about the tech industry, specifically targeting the company he helped to launch nearly 35 years ago.

In an interview with the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Steve Wozniak reveals that Apple had collaborated in developing a smartphone with an unnamed Japanese company in 2004. While Apple had been satisfied with the product, the project was eventually dropped. Here’s what he had to say:

“Apple was satisfied with the quality but wanted something that could surprise the world. If Apple comes with a new product it must have a real breakthrough.  Companies need to wait to capture a market until they have something extremely strong.  A new product was separated from the rest of the group should be developed. In addition, developers must depart from beaten paths.”

Apple, of course, would eventually go on to release the iPhone in Jan. of 2007.

Wozniak also made a prediction that’s sure to irk Steve Jobs: Android will become the dominant smartphone platform and not the iPhone. Wozniak compared the Android operating system to Windows saying that it would succeed in winning over a larger demographic of people in spite of its flaws and inconsistencies. Wonziak indicated Android’s more expansive features and openness as being its primary advantages over the iPhone.

“The iPhone has very few weak points,” he said “There are no serious complaints or issues. When it comes to quality, the iPhone leads the way. Apple has shown the world what direction we’re going. Android phones do come with more options, though.”

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-co-founder-says-android-will-beat-the-iphone/?news=123

Tools to help you build and publish a competitive app, with no programming knowledge required.

You want your business to get in on the hot iPhone app trend.

Problem: You can’t shell out thousands of dollars for a developer, and you don’t want to learn Cocoa, the iPhone’s programming system.

Solution: Have an online service build one for you!

There are now some great tools available to help you build and publish a competitive app, with no programming knowledge required — and at a fraction of the cost of hiring a developer.

From coding to submitting to updating, these services do the technical work for you — all you need is a creative vision.

Many of these services do the same thing: they take your online content and integrate it into an app. The packaging and style all vary, so visit their sites to find which one suits your tastes and budget.

AppMakr
AppMakr is a good option for a Web site or blog looking to create a basic app, according to Guy Kawasaki. This website takes your online feeds and turns them into an app for you.

All you need to provide is your chosen feed (blog, RSS, Twitter stream, etc.), a few graphics, and some design choices, and they take control of the developing and submission process from there. You can even make the decision to "monetize" your app by selecting advertisers or choosing to charge for the download.

Cost: $199 for AppMakr to publish your app, $499 for you to publish it under your own brand. Phone-based support is also available during the creation phase of your app development, at $120 an hour.

Swebapps
Create an app in seven steps with Swebapps. What could be easier than "drag and drop"?

From their website:

Step 1. Select 4, 6, or 8 buttons
Step 2. Drag and Drop buttons on to phone.
Step 3. Customize button images if needed.
Step 4. Click on button and enter content.
Step 5. Submit for development.
Step 6. Create account.
Step 7. Finalize.

Swebapps also provides tools to track your analytics and update your app after its been published to the App Store.

Cost: Creating an app through Swebapps costs a one-time fee of $50 per button (minimum $200), and a $25/month hosting fee.

My App Builder
My App Builder is a tool that takes your content and turns it into an app for you for a low monthly hosting fee. Bonus: that monthly membership cost gives you the freedom to create as many apps as you want, with only a small publishing fee each time.

Whether you want to use your blog posts, RSS feed, videos, or Twitter stream, My App Builder will turn your information into an app. All you have to provide are your images, content, and a vision of how you want it to flow.

Cost: $29 per month, and $20 per app submission.

iSites
iSites, which just launched, is another app builder that integrates your social feeds seamlessly into an app. And, according to their website, you can do it in 10 minutes.

Provide your chosen feeds, customize your app with some design choices, and iSites does the rest for you. They promise to "take care of the app store submission in less than 24 hours."

In addition, iSites offers the ability to easily make changes to your app and see the results in real-time, and the apps work on both the iPhone and Android platforms.

Cost: $25 per app; $99 (per year) if you choose to monetize by integrating with AdMob.

TapLynx
TapLynx is another aggregator for your online feeds. The platform used by such online news sources as All Things D and Variety, TapLynx is elegantly designed and offers more versatility than other simple aggregators, and it comes with the ability to embed video.

According to MacWorld, "if your goal is to create a content-centric app with text, photos, and videos, the framework might just provide a smart shortcut. And since TapLynx supports sponsorship, display ads, and video pre-roll ads, monetizing your app should be pretty doable, too."

Cost: $599 for the ‘Enterprise Package’ — with 16 customizable tabs, search features, video, etc.

AppBreeder
AppBreeder offers you a little more complexity than other app builders, as well as an app that can be used on the iPhone, Blackberry, and Android platforms.

If you just want something basic, you can pick from 11 App Kits, ranging from templates like "Business" to "Restaurant" to "Tour." AppBreeder personalizes and builds it for your purposes, then publishes it to the App Store for $99.99, if you allow ads.

Creating a custom app or adding a customized gadget ups the price significantly, but it is still likely to be cheaper than hiring a developer, and you get a better app.

Cost: Nothing to build, $99.99 to publish a basic app, and starting at $1,499 for a custom app with gadgets.

GameSalad
If you think an iPhone game would be a good option for your business, GameSalad is a great platform to easily develop your very own game, with no coding required.

According to their website, "GameSalad is the world’s most advanced tool for non-programmers… Build games visually using a drag-and-drop interface along with a robust behavior system."

Cost: For $99 per year, you get unlimited access to their game creation tool and publishing options.

AppIncubator
AppIncubator is slightly different from standard app builders: It’s a mobile app that allows you to submit ideas for apps.

You download the app, then submit your idea. If you want to get more detailed, you can use the storyboard tool on the website to describe exactly how you want the app to look and function.

If the people at MEDL Mobile like your idea, they’ll develop and market it, and share a portion of the profits with you.

Granted, this isn’t a great way to create your business’s main app — but if you have a unique idea for an app and want to see it come to fruition with little effort on your part, this is the way to go.

Cost: Free, with potential profit.

For those who are familiar with Flash
For those who are familiar with coding in Adobe ActionScript 3: You can now develop an iPhone app.

In October, Adobe announced that its to-be-released Flash Professional CS5 will come with an iPhone app packager, which will let users publish projects to run as native apps on the iPhone, according to Adobe’s Developer website.

This will be ideal for people who are not familiar with the Mac Cocoa development platform but have Flash-development experience.

Cost: TBD

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/217545

What has worked best for me after working with a number of apps is Create a document using Pages.
Share with iWorks.
I can login to iWorks and download as Pages, PDF document type.
I can access the downloaded document using ReaddleDocs and open it back in Pages again.

I can’t find a logical way to share out of iAnnotate other than wifi sharing or uploading to iTunes which seems like more steps than most people will want.

75 tips and tricks

Tips and tricks

More tips and tricks

iPad Tutorials

ReaddleDocs

Evernote

Pandora

Twitterrific

Pages

Keynote

http://webworkerdaily.com/2010/06/16/the-ipad-works-thanks-to-these-apps/

Instapaper Pro ($4.99) This is the app to use for grabbing pages for reading later while you still have wireless access. Heck, I have a Wi-Fi + 3G model so I’m very rarely out of network range, but I still use it because of its formatting options and cross-platform compatibility. It’s a joy, and the ability to jump from iPhone to iPad seamlessly with it makes it a must-have for business use.

To register your iPad, connect to your computer and launch iTunes.

iPad Users Guide

http://howtomakeiphoneapps.com/2009/03/how-to-add-a-nice-background-image-to-your-grouped-table-view/

What you need to do is create a view with your background image and add that view to your app’s window. Then you must set the table view’s background color to “clearColor”.

Here is how you would do that from the app delegate:

UIView *backgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame: window.frame];
backgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"TableViewBackground.png"]];
[window addSubview:backgroundView];
[backgroundView release];

yourTableViewController = [[ATableViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped];
yourTableViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[window addSubview:yourTableViewController.view];

[window makeKeyAndVisible];

yourTableViewController is declared at the top level of the app delegate and ATableViewController is a subclass of UITableViewController that simply displays the rows and sections in the example.