101 Save YouTube Favorites Open the YouTube app. Add a few videos that you want to share during your demo the YouTube app’s Favorites list so you can access them easily during your demo. I recommend these videos: • iPad Proves Ideal Cat Plaything: If you even vaguely find cats cute, you’ll enjoy watching a cat using the iPad. To locate this video, type ipad proves ideal in the YouTube app’s search field; then tap Search. Or just tap this link if you’re reading on your iPad; it should open in the YouTube app: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EYyXRiziHL8. • David Pogue – Apple iPad Town Meeting: In this video, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue uses humor to make the point that although the iPad has its shortcomings, it’s still a way- cool first-generation device. The video addresses certain common criticisms of the iPad—lack of Flash support, no multitasking, and so forth—so you don’t have to during your demo. To find this video, type Pogue iPad town in the YouTube app’s search field; then tap Search. Or visit this link to open the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguaLlieuO8. What’s unboxing? The term unboxing comes up in David’s video. In the tech world, unboxing videos are a phenomenon that occurs when a new gizmo comes out. People who get it first take videos of what it was like to open the box for the first time. These videos are more exciting when the box is complicated or it contains lots of small parts. Coming in iOS 4: Some multitasking-related limitations will be significantly addressed in iOS 4. To “favorite” a YouTube video on the iPad, first play it. Then, while its playing, tap the screen to bring up the playback controls. On the play- back controls, tap the Bookmark button (Figure 32). Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> 102 Figure 32: To mark a video as a favorite, play the video, tap the screen to reveal the playback controls (shown here in the lower left), and then tap the Bookmark button in the controls. (In this screen- shot, I’m playing a video of myself and Take Control publisher Adam Engst explaining Take Control to Macworld interviewer Chris Breen. The video is called Macworld 2010: TidBITS.) Make Safari Bookmarks Decide on a few Web sites that you’d like to show off during your demo. Visit each one in turn, and bookmark it by tapping the plus button on the Safari toolbar. Practice visiting each bookmarked site. To do so, tap the button that looks like an open book to show your bookmarks, and then tap a bookmark. No bookmarks? If the popover doesn’t show your main bookmarks, tap the button at the upper left and navigate there. Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> 103 Do a Dry Run Run through the steps for giving your demo, below, once or twice before you give your demo and you’ll be ready to go. If you’ll be giving a demo without an Internet connection, be sure to run through the demo sans Internet in advance, so you know what to skip or explain differently. Increase Your iPad IQ Want to boost your iPad know-how to the stratosphere so you can demo even more cool things about using the iPad? Buy the discounted Improve Your iPad IQ bundle! GIVE YOUR DEMO Although I’ve written the instructions below as though you’ll be per- forming the actions, it’s best if you let the person you are demoing to run the touchscreen, since touching the iPad is a huge part of under- standing why it’s so compelling. Tabletop Tip If you give your demo while sitting at a table, face to face with your friend, you’ll likely set the iPad on the table flat with the status bar closest to you and Dock closest to your friend, meaning that you’ll be viewing the iPad upside down. Note that if you try to control the iPad from this position, your finger will be at a reverse angle from usual and the iPad won’t be all that responsive. You can counter this by tilting your finger as though it were the other way round. Practice helps. iPod and Music Observe that many people think the iPad is just a big iPod touch. Open the iPod app. Browse around in the app and play some music. Show off the Now Playing view and look at an album or genre list (Figure 33). Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> 104 Figure 33: To see a list of songs in a genre, tap the Genre button on the tab bar at the bottom of the main iPod screen and then tap a genre’s icon. In this screenshot, I’m viewing my New Age song list and I’ve tapped the first song, Celestial Soda Pop, to play it. Talk about how you can listen just on the internal speakers, with headphones, or with external speakers. Leave the music playing at an enjoyable, but low, volume, as you continue with the demo. iBooks and Ebooks There are few different things you can do with regard to ebooks, but here’s how I like to run my demos: 1. Open iBooks, and then tap the free ebook that comes with iBooks, Winnie-the-Pooh. Drag with your finger to turn the pages slowly while watching the subtle, gorgeous special effects. In portrait orientation, turn pages from the corners to see what happens. Rotate the iPad to see what happens. Read the “To Her” dedication on page 7 (Figure 34). Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> 105 Figure 34: In portrait view, slowly drag a page from the corner to watch the fun effects. The “To Her” dedication is charming and fur- ther cements Winnie-the-Pooh as a good choice for the free ebook that comes with iBooks. 2. Click the Store button at the top left of the main iBooks screen to access the iBookstore. Open the Free section. The organization of the iBookstore may change from time to time, but right now you can Download from Wow! eBook <www.wowebook.com> . differently. Increase Your iPad IQ Want to boost your iPad know-how to the stratosphere so you can demo even more cool things about using the iPad? Buy the discounted Improve Your iPad IQ bundle! GIVE. recommend these videos: • iPad Proves Ideal Cat Plaything: If you even vaguely find cats cute, you’ll enjoy watching a cat using the iPad. To locate this video, type ipad proves ideal in the. that you’ll be viewing the iPad upside down. Note that if you try to control the iPad from this position, your finger will be at a reverse angle from usual and the iPad won’t be all that responsive.