"iPad and iPhone Kung Fu" is a fun read with over 300 tips, tricks, hints, and hacks to help you make the most of your iDevice. You can learn to, for instance, learn the secrets of FaceTime, Maps, Safari, and Mail and transform your Apple device into a go-to office tool, as well as tighten security to deter theft.

Designed to be dipped into, most tips in "iPad and iPhone Kung Fu" take only a minute to implement, but will improve your use of iOS 7. Whether it's browsing the web with Safari, emailing with Mail, photographing with the Camera app, sharing on Facebook or Twitter, reading and learning with iBooks, or navigating with Maps, this book digs down into the nitty-gritty of the operating system and its apps.


But the iPad and iPhone aren't just about content consumption. Learn tricks for using Apple's iWork applications to edit and create documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Find tips for using GarageBand to make tunes, and hints for how iMovie can create your latest blockbuster. You'll discover the secrets of Apple's iPhoto image editing app too.



The author, Keir Thomas, has been writing about computers for nearly two decades and is the author of "Mac Kung Fu" and "Ubuntu Kung Fu," also from Pragmatic Bookshelf. The author of more than ten books, which have been read by more than a million people and translated into many languages, Keir formerly edited computer magazines.

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