Digital Music

Enter a bright new world of entertainment with Amazon’s red hot tablet. This guide lights the way with lots of illustrations and step-by-step instructions for browsing the Web, emailing, playing games, and viewing books, movies, and magazines in blazing color. Learn how to manage your media library on the Fire and in the cloud—and where to find the coolest apps. Everything you need is right here.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Read all about it. Find, load, and read a variety of ebooks, magazines, and newspapers.
• Go online. Browse the Web and manage email with a secure Wi-Fi connection.
• Put on a show. Watch movies and TV series, and showcase your photos and videos.
• Fill up your jukebox. Listen to your favorite music from Amazon and iTunes.
• Load up on apps. Get popular games, guides, references, and more with Amazon’s Apps for Android.
• Take your briefcase. Read PDFs, Word files, Excel spreadsheets, and other docs.

Apple’s third-generation iPad has a new, razor-sharp Retina display and a robust processor that will dazzle you with their looks and speed, but you won’t get far without an owner’s manual to all the tablet’s features. This comprehensive guide shows you how to transfer media to your iPad, sync and shop wirelessly, tap into WiFi and 4G cellular networks, and use iTunes for media management.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Build your media library. Fill your iPad with music, photos, movies, TV shows, games, eBooks, and more.
• Sync wirelessly. Keep your iPad’s apps, media, and email messages current without cabling up.
• Capture stunning images. Take photos and HD video with the tablet’s new 5 megapixel iSight camera.
• Get online. Connect via WiFi or the blazing-fast 4G LTE cellular network—and create a free Wi-Fi hotspot with Verizon’s iPad.
• Take dictation. “Speak” email messages and notes, and have the iPad type them up.

With the iOS5 software and the new iPhone 4S device, Apple has another world-class hit on its hands. This sleek, highly refined pocket computer comes with everything—cellphone, iPod, Internet, camcorder—except a printed manual. Fortunately, David Pogue is back with the latest edition of his witty, crystal-clear, colorful guide: the world's most popular iPhone book.

• Use it as a phone. Learn the basics as well as time-saving tricks and tips for contact searching by voice, texting, and more.
• Manage your stuff in the cloud. Sync and back up your contacts and media across all of your devices with iCloud.
• Get things done. Ask Siri to send reminders, place calls, and more.
• Master notifications. Use the Notification Center to find missed messages, calendar invitations, friend requests, and more.
• Connect with other iPhone owners. Send unlimited iMessages to friends, family, and colleagues who are also running iOS5.
• Treat it as an iPod. Master the ins and outs of iTunes, and listen to music, upload and view photos, and fill the iPhone with TV shows and movies.
• Take the iPhone online. Make the most of your online experience to browse the Web, read and compose email, use social networks, or send photos and audio files.
• Go beyond the iPhone. Learn how to use the App Store, and how to multitask between your apps, organize them in folders, and read ebooks in iBooks.
  
  Whether you have a brand-new iPhone or want to update an earlier model with the iOS5 software, this beautiful full-color book is the best, most objective resource available.

Now you can overcome the vexing, real-life issues you confront when creating apps for the iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. By making use of more than 100 new recipes in this updated cookbook, you’ll quickly learn the steps necessary for writing complete iOS apps, whether they’re as simple as a music player or feature a complex mix of animations, graphics, multimedia, a database, and iCloud storage.

If you’re comfortable with iOS SDK, this cookbook will teach you how to use hundreds of iOS techniques. Each recipe provides a clear solution with sample code that you can use right away.

• Use different approaches to construct a user interface
• Develop location-aware apps
• Get working examples for implementing gesture recognizers
• Play audio and video files and access the iPod library
• Retrieve contacts and groups from the Address Book
• Determine camera availability and access the Photo Library
• Create multitasking-aware apps
• Maintain persistent storage in your apps
• Use Event Kit to manage calendars and events
• Learn capabilities of the Core Graphics framework
• Access the accelerometer and gyroscope
• Take advantage of the iCloud service

Get a solid grounding in the fundamentals of Cocoa Touch, and avoid problems during iPhone and iPad app development. With this revised and expanded edition, you’ll dig into Cocoa and learn how to work effectively with Objective-C and Xcode. This book covers iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3 in a rigorous, orderly fashion—ideal whether you’re approaching iOS for the first time or need a reference to bolster existing skills.

Many discussions have been expanded or improved. All code examples have been revised, and many new code examples have been added.

• The new memory management system—ARC—is thoroughly explained and all code examples have been revised to use it.
• New Objective-C features, such as declaration of instance variables in the class’s implementation section, are described and incorporated into the revised example code.
• Discussion of how an app launches, and all code examples, are revised for project templates from Xcode 4.2 and later.
• Other new Xcode features, including the Simulator’s Debug menu, are covered, with screen shots based on Xcode 4.2 and later.
• The discussion of Instruments is expanded, with screen shots—by popular request!
• Storyboards are explained and discussed.
• The explanation of view controllers is completely rewritten to include iOS 5 features, such as custom parent view controllers and UIPageViewController.
• The Controls chapter now includes iOS 5 interface customizability and the appearance proxy.
• New features of interface classes are discussed, including tiling and animated images, new table view features, new alert view styles.
• Coverage of frameworks such as Core Motion and AV Foundation is greatly expanded. New iOS 5 classes and frameworks are also discussed, including Core Image and UIDocument (and iCloud support).
• Important iOS 5 changes that can break existing code are explicitly called out in the text and listed in the index.