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List of useful iPad Tricks

You bought an iPad and Apple didn't include any instructions. After findling around with it you probably think you know everything there is to know. Here is a list of some useful iPad tricks for your iPad you most likely missed. I bet you didn't know at least one of these!

1. Video in Slow Motion
While watching a video, pause it and hold your finger on the forward or back button and watch your video go in slow motion.

2. Fast Forward/Rewind Music & Video
Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art to manually FF/rewind.

3. How to convert YouTube video to iPad?
There must be some wonderful videos you’ve ever watched on YouTube and want to put them on your iPad. But iPad can play only MP4 video, and YouTube video is FLV, you have to download and convert YouTube video to MP4 video at first, then you can add it into your iTunes library and sync to your iPad.
You can read this step by step guide: Youtube to iPad

4. How to copy music and photos from my iPad to computer?
Sometime we lost iTunes library or want to copy files from other iPad back to computer, because iTunes prevents user do that, you need special software to bypass iTunes. I’d recommend iPad Transfer to you, It is a life saver when
- Sending your iPad for repair.
- Backup song/video/photo to PC.
- Moving song/video/photo to iPod or a new iPad.
- Share your iPad song/video/photo with friends.
- Computer crashed.

5. How to download torrent video and put torrent video to iPad?
Torrent is a small file with the suffix .torrent, which contains all the information needed to download a file the torrent was made for. That means it contains file names, their sizes, where to download from and so on. You can get torrents for almost anything on lots of web sites and torrent search engines.
Torrent is the most popular way of downloading large files, including movies and games (remember legality of downloading). Downloading with a torrent is advantageous especially when downloading files, which are momentarily very popular and whitch lots of people are downloading. Because the more people download the file, the higher speed for everyone.
This guide tell you how to download torrent video and put torrent video to iPad.

6. How to rip DVD movie and convert video to iPad?
If you want to watch some videos that you download from internet or you already have it on DVD and don't want to pay for it again on itunes. You can use a third part software to help you to do this. Read the page: Where to Download Free Software to Rip DVD and Convert Video to iPad?

7. Where to download music and movie for iPad
1. iTunes store: $0.99 for one song, $9.99 for one movie, $1.99 for one TV show.
2. Limewire is fast and popular file sharing freeware working on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Through the P2P (peer-to-peer) network, you can free download various files by its category or keyword searching. Here is a step by step guide will teach you how to use limewire to download video to iPad.
3. Other stream video website such as Yahoo, MySpace, etc. here is a list of free stream video website http://www.dvd-video-converters.com/freeresource.html

8. Mini Music Menu
Double click the Home button while in any application and a mini music menu will pop up. This prevents you from exiting your application to change your music.

9. Save Video position
If you’re watching a video and would like to stop and continue watching it later, click on the “Done” button. When you go back to that video it will resume where you left off.

10. How to burn your iPad/iTunes music and videos to DVD?
Many users want to burn DRM protected iTunes videos/movies/TV shows to DVD playable on home DVD player and enjoy on the widescreen TV. I know you can enjoy iTunes movie on TV with Apple TV, but why do you have to spend more $299 if you can do that with some easy software.
This step by step iTunes to DVD guide will teach you how to burn iTunes video to DVD.