Here is something to chew on about IPad and IBook. If you have already chewed and swallowed this information than I am sorry, but here we go again. The Ipad2 has two cameras one in the front mainly for face time, but can also be used for still shots. It is a .3 megapixel camera The rear of the IPad has a .7 megapixel camera and can also be used for facetime. It is typically used as the main still camera and is used to shoot videos which is a neat app that can be used. The rear camera has a 5x digital zoom.
The screen on the IPad is a touch screen . The neat reality with touch screens is that you do not need peripherals attached to your IPad, allowing it to be more mobile which it is intended to be. There also is less buttons on the IPad scence the screen is your button. The screen is a 9.7 almost the size of most net books and not as bulky. The screens orientation adjust both vertically and horizontally depending on the position of the IPad. There is however a switch button that will hold a particular orientation if you so desire. With an IPad there are certain gestures and tap feature that are neat. One is it is set up like a mouse were you can one tap to connect. You can also two tap to zoom. You also have the option of taping , holding, and dragging for highlights. But my favorite so far is the ability to expand and shrink the size of the text
The rest that I noted from my IBook on the IPad is there is a microphone built into the IPad, which is standard on this size mobile device. There is key board that pops up which you can use, without buying a keyboard. But it still does not work as well as a regular peripheral keyboard. But it is only a couple of years old give them time Apple will make it work.
Then we have, what the books state make the IPad fun, the APPS. From a functional standpoint the apps make the IPad or the IPad makes the APPS, whichever way you look at it, the main aspect that makes the IPAD stand out from the rest. The APPS are either located on your dock or you can have a folder on your dock that has all the ones you may not use all the time. The other usable feature that I came upon was the ability to hit the home button open up another APP , while your previous APP
is stationary were you left it. So when you open up that same APP again you do not lose your place.
Since we are already talking about APPS lets talk about IBook. I must say that I enjoyed IBook a lot more then I thought. I think its readability is better then a book. But more then that I see it as an all in one book reading, highlighting, note taking, and interactive machine. Let me explain some more about what I mean. Right now when I read a book lets say for this class. I read with the book to my left and take notes at the same time. Now because I still am in the elementary age of typing I still look down at the keys. So using IBooks I am able to look at the book while looking at the keys, while taking notes. The highlights are a lot more fluid then when I try to use a highlighter and this one does not bleed through the page. Then with notes it leaves a posted note next to were you took the note. Therefore you not haveing to right down page references in you notes. On the posted note there is the date you wrote it. Than if you go to the table of content you have all your notes in the various colors you chose from, as well as, your bookmarks (this was found by Jerry).
Since I am running out of time let me go through the rest I found, which by no means is all there is, rather quickly. At the bottom you have a option to scroll to a particular chapter or page. You also have a search option were you can type in a word and the IBook program will populate all those section with that word in it. There is an option to change the font. If you leave a page there is a resume button that will take back to your original spot. You can highlight a word and go to the dictionary. There is a lot more. I am sold on the IBook. Well on to drawing
Very thorough. Thanks :-)
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