About HP ePrint

Most newer HP printers with Ethernet and/or Wi-Fi connections support a collection of features known as ePrint. For iPad users, the two most significant capabilities of ePrint are these:

• AirPrint support for wireless printing direct from your iPad when it’s on the same local network as your HP printer

• Support for printing from anywhere in the world, by sending a

document (as an attachment) to your printer’s email address In addition to the latest printer models that feature ePrint support out of the box, an increasing number of older printers can acquire ePrint capabilities by way of a free firmware upgrade. HP maintains a PDF file listing all AirPrint-compatible models (including those requiring firmware upgrades) at http://www.hp.com/sbso/printing/mac/apple-airprint.pdf (you may have to copy and paste this link into your browser’s URL field in order to load it properly). HP also has an FAQ page about using their printers with AirPrint: http://www.hp.com/sbso/printing/mac/hp-airprint.html.

Source of Information : TidBITS-Take Control of Working with Your iPad 2011

USE AIRPRINT

When Apple first announced that a new capability called AirPrint would be included in iOS 4.2, it sounded like a simple, thorough solution to most iPad printing problems. With AirPrint, an iOS developer could easily add a Print command to an app, letting users print wirelessly to either an HP printer that supports ePrint technology (see the sidebar About HP ePrint, ahead) or to any printer shared by a Mac, AirPort base station, or Time Capsule on a local network. iPad users wouldn’t need to install drivers or do any configuration, but merely select the printer they wanted to use.

When AirPrint finally appeared, however, it didn’t come close to its promise. AirPrint required changes not only to iOS but also to Mac OS X, with a minimum system requirement of Mac OS X 10.6.5 Snow Leopard. That’s fair enough, but for reasons Apple never revealed, the company pulled support for AirPrint from Mac OS X 10.6.5 at the last minute. As a result, AirPrint officially supports only a handful of HP printers that include ePrint capabilities. I’m sure that’ll help sales of new HP printers, but it doesn’t make life any easier for everyone who already has a perfectly functional printer and just wants to print from an iPad (or other iOS device).

Fortunately, developers found easy workarounds to the problem (read Enable AirPrint Support for Shared Printers, next), and almost immediately began shipping software that restored the promised-butmissing support for shared printers to AirPrint. So you can, in fact, print from your iPad to almost any printer you can print to from a Mac or PC, as long as you’ve installed a small, inexpensive application on one of your computers first.

However, even though this arrangement solves a lot of printing problems, it still has a few gaps:

• Developers must explicitly add AirPrint support to their apps. Many have done so, but many others have not, and if you want to print from those apps, you need to use a different approach.

• AirPrint works over a local network, but provides no way to print to a remote printer. (HP printers with ePrint do offer this capability, but not via AirPrint; see the sidebar About HP ePrint, ahead.)

• Although most printers can work with AirPrint, not all do.

• Even with supported printers, AirPrint doesn’t give you access to all your printer’s features.

• Mac OS X has a “print-to-PDF” feature whereby you can create a PDF file rather than sending it to a printer, but AirPrint doesn’t offer this capability.

So, if your iPad printing needs go beyond what AirPrint can handle, even with one of the third-party applications that extend support to shared printers, you may need to use more elaborate means to achieve your desired results, as I discuss later in this chapter, in Use a Third-Party Printing App and Print On a Computer.

HP maintains a PDF document with a list of all iOS apps that claim AirPrint support: http://www.hp.com/sbso/printing/mac/listairprint-compatible-apps.pdf. (If this link won’t load properly, try copying it and pasting it into your Web browser’s URL field.)

Source of Information : TidBITS-Take Control of Working with Your iPad 2011

ANNOTATE PDFS

In addition to writing your own text, you may want to review and provide feedback on PDF documents other people have created. On the iPad, several apps offer comparable features. A few examples:

• iAnnotate PDF: This iPad app is a full-featured PDF reader with annotation capabilities. (Aji, $9.99)

• GoodReader for iPad: Mentioned numerous other times in this book, this all-purpose tool for transferring and displaying documents also lets you add notes and drawings to PDFs. (Good.iWare, $2.99)

• smartNote: This note-taking app, discussed in Take Notes, lets you use any PDF file as the “paper,” on which you can add free-form drawings, shapes, notes, and other annotations. (Christopher Thibault and Brendan Lee, $2.99)

• TakeNotes: Like smartNote, this iPad app lets you import a PDF (or JPEG or PNG graphic) and use it as the background for drawing and note-taking, and then save the resulting document as a PDF. (Kishore Tipirneni, $3.99)

Source of Information : TidBITS-Take Control of Working with Your iPad 2011

A Virtual Computer on Your iPad

Sometimes, not even the snazziest iPad app does what you need, and you may find yourself wishing for the resources of a conventional computer—complete with multiple windows, Flash support (shudder!), and system-wide storage. If you don’t have a laptop with you but you do have a high-speed Internet connection, you can use a VNC client such as iTeleport for iPad (iTeleport, $19.99) or iSSH (Zinger-Soft, $9.99) to connect to your own computer at home or the office (using Mac OS X’s screen sharing capability or any VNC client). Another option is LogMeIn Ignition (LogMeIn, $29.99), which accomplishes much the same thing but uses proprietary desktop software that makes it easier to connect when the host computer is behind a NAT router or has a dynamic IP address. Then your iPad becomes a virtual display and controller for the other computer, and (with some limitations), you can use any of the host computer’s capabilities. (Refer to Take Control of iPad Networking & Security for help with iTeleport and LogMeIn Ignition.)

But what if you don’t have a computer you can connect to in this manner—or if that computer is turned off, asleep, behind a firewall, or otherwise inaccessible? A unique app called AlwaysOnPC may be the solution (Xform Computing, $24.99). Like the other apps mentioned here, it uses VNC to create a connection to another computer that you can then control remotely. The difference is that the “computer” on the other end is entirely virtual—it’s your own private Linux desktop, complete with preinstalled software such as a word processor and Web browser— running on the company’s servers. In this environment, you can create and save files, run nearly any Linux application, and yes, view Flash content (albeit without sound).

However, be aware that all of these solutions require a significant amount of Internet bandwidth. If your connection is spotty (or if Wi-Fi or 3G is unavailable), you’ll experience poor performance at best, and a complete lack of function at worst.

Source of Information : TidBITS-Take Control of Working with Your iPad 2011

Use Pages in iPad

The main reason I say that Apple’s $9.99 Pages iPad app may not be the best tool for most word processing on the iPad is that it’s complicated to get documents into and out of it. Although Pages can now connect directly to your iDisk or a WebDAV server, and can receive documents via Document Support (in addition to importing via iTunes and exporting via iTunes, email or iWork.com, the only options available at first), the process is still cumbersome.

Leaving aside the issue of material that may be lost during import, you can’t make a document available to both Pages and any other word processor, on any platform, without the lossy process of importing and exporting. For example, if you normally store documents on your iDisk or in your Dropbox and edit them on various computers, you can’t do that with Pages. The best you can do is to import a copy, edit it in Pages, export a second copy to edit elsewhere, and continue the process repeatedly. So, for documents you need to edit in more than one place, another option, such as those described in Use Google Documents (shortly ahead), or Documents To Go, might serve you better.

However, for documents that will be created and edited entirely on your iPad, and that go beyond plain text to include styles, graphics, tables, and suchlike, Pages can be a great tool.

Using Pages should be fairly self-explanatory, but I do want to point out (or remind you about) a few items of note:

• Importing: Although Pages can import documents from Word and from Pages ’09 on the Mac, remember that some formatting and other page elements will be permanently lost—including comments, tracked changes, footnotes, endnotes, and bookmarks. In addition, fonts that aren’t present on the iPad will be replaced, 3D charts will be converted to 2D charts, multi-page tables will be split into multiple single-page tables, grouped objects will be ungrouped, and a variety of other changes may be made.

For complete details about import changes, read Apple’s “Pages for iPad FAQ,” at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4065.

• Printing: Like the other iWork apps, Pages now supports AirPrint. To learn how to use it (or how to print if you can’t), read Print from Your iPad.

• Keyboard shortcuts: Pages supports all the standard shortcuts when used with an external keyboard (see Use Keyboard Shortcuts). Although you can use Pages with the iPad’s virtual keyboard, it becomes immeasurably easier and more comfortable to use, especially when typing long documents, on a physical keyboard—and the possibility of using shortcuts for common commands such as Cut, Copy, and Paste is a big reason for that. However, not all keyboard shortcuts you may be accustomed to on a Mac or PC word processor apply in Pages—for example, there are no shortcuts for applying bold, italic, or underline styles.

Source of Information : TidBITS-Take Control of Working with Your iPad 2011

Use the iWork Document Manager in iPad

Before getting into the specifics of Pages (and, later, other word processors), I want to take a moment to talk about a feature common to all three iWork apps: a screen Apple calls the Document Manager, although that term doesn’t appear in the apps themselves. This is where the app lists all the documents you’ve created or imported, and where you can open, rename, delete, or export them. The Document Manager appears automatically the first time you open any iWork app, and you can tell that’s what you’re looking at because it has a gray fabric-like background and large images of the first page of each of your documents.

To display the Document Manager:
• Pages: Tap the My Pages button in the upper-left of the screen.

• Numbers: Tap the My Spreadsheets button in the upper-left of the screen.

• Keynote: Tap the My Presentations button in the upper-left of the screen.

From within the Document Manager, tap any document to open it; swipe left or right to see other documents.

You can also do the following:
• Create a new document: Tap New Document (Pages), New Spreadsheet (Numbers), or New Presentation (Keynote).

• Delete the current document: Tap the Trash icon.

• Duplicate the current document: Tap the plus icon and then tap Duplicate Document.

• Export the current document: Tap the Action icon and then do one of the following, depending on where you want the document to go:
- Email: Tap Email Document.
- iWork.com: Tap Share via iWork.com. (See the sidebar Sharing Documents via iWork.com for more details.)
- Through iTunes to your computer: Tap Send to iTunes, and then tap a file format. (For further instructions, read Copy Documents via iTunes.)
- iDisk: Tap Copy to iDisk, tap a file format, navigate to the folder where you want to store the document, and tap Copy.
- A WebDAV server: Tap Copy to WebDAV. The first time that you connect to a WebDAV server with iWork, you must fill in the server address and your credentials, and tap Sign In. Then tap a file format, navigate to the folder where you want to store the document, and tap Copy. Later, iWork will automatically reconnect to the same WebDAV server so that you can skip the sign-in step; to switch servers, tap Sign Out and enter the new server’s information.

• Import a document: Tap the Import icon and then do one of the following, depending on where the document is coming from:
- Your computer through iTunes: Tap Copy from iTunes and then tap the document name.
- iDisk: Tap Copy from iDisk, navigate to the document, and then tap the document name.
- A WebDAV server: Tap Copy from WebDAV and (as when exporting documents) sign in if necessary. Then navigate to the document and tap the document name.

Dropbox via WebDAV: A clever service called DropDAV acts as a bridge between Dropbox and iWork, by giving you access to documents in your Dropbox via WebDAV. After signing up for an account, all you need to do is tap Copy from WebDAV and enter https://dav.dropdav.com and your Dropbox credentials. DropDAV is free for those with free Dropbox accounts; if you’ve paid for additional Dropbox storage, DropDAV charges either $3 (for 50 GB Dropbox accounts) or $6 (for 100 GB accounts) per month. http://dropdav.com/

Source of Information : TidBITS-Take Control of Working with Your iPad 2011

Understand the Place of Word Processing on the iPad

If you’ll bear with me for another philosophical moment, I want to provide a bit of context for thinking about word processing on the iPad. I’m a professional writer, so I take my word processing tools as seriously as a chef takes the choice of knives. Whatever else I may be able to accomplish on my iPad, if I can’t use it for heavy-duty word processing, it can never replace my laptop.

So, let me begin with the bad news. At present, no app exists on the iPad that supports all the Microsoft Word features that I use on a daily basis. Things like complex formatting (including fonts, borders, and shading), comments, revision tracking, bookmarks, footnotes, and numerous other niceties are either entirely absent, or severely constrained, in every currently available iPad app—and that includes Pages. In addition, with most iPad apps that can edit Word documents—again, including Pages—you’re almost guaranteed to lose something, and perhaps many things, in the process of importing, editing, and exporting the document. (Documents To Go is a notable exception, as I discuss later.)

For me, personally, no matter how handily portable the iPad is, I won’t be using it to write or edit any technical books—Take Control or otherwise—unless or until Microsoft decides to produce an iPad version of Word, and I’m not holding my breath on that one. If I were an academic, I might easily say the same thing about research papers, theses, and the like—and the same is doubtless true in many fields.

Having said all that, let me now turn to the good news. As long as perfect Word compatibility and pro features such as comments and change tracking aren’t essential to your work, the iPad can be an outstanding tool for writing. I will happily write lengthy magazine articles, letters, essays, and other disquisitions on my iPad, and if the occasion arises to produce a résumé, poster, or flyer, I’ll likely turn to my iPad first. The combination of portability, support for full-size physical keyboards, and solid word processing software makes the iPad ideal for these less-demanding writing tasks.

In short, the sort of word processing for which the iPad is best suited is self-contained. You create the document, from start to finish, on your iPad, and then you email it, upload it, print it, or whatever—but you don’t engage in collaborative editing with other people, and preferably don’t work on the document on a variety of devices.

Office on the Web? In early June 2010, Microsoft launched its free Office Web Apps service in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Ireland. Log in to the service (http://office.live.com/) and you can create or edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents in a Web browser—much like Google Docs. Unfortunately, while this service works great for me in Safari on a Mac, and is supported in several other Web browsers, including a variety of Windows-based browsers, the iPad is another story. You can view Office documents just fine on your iPad, but editing is either impossible or extremely limited, depending on which browser app you use and how it’s configured. The problem is partially related to the fact that Office Web Apps were designed to assume the presence of a mouse, but there are a variety of other issues with the iPad too. It’s possible that Microsoft will update Office Web Apps to make it iPad-friendly, but once again… I’m not holding my breath.

Source of Information : TidBITS-Take Control of Working with Your iPad 2011

Recovering WSS Databases Using Windows Server Backup

If full system backups have been run on systems running Windows SharePoint Services, because SharePoint and Windows Server Backup are both support and use the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), the databases files can be used for restore purposes. To restore a Windows Internal Database for Windows SharePoint Services from a Windows Server full system backup, perform the following steps:

1. Log on to the Windows Server 2008 R2 system with an account with administrator privileges.

2. Click Start, click All Programs, click Administrative Tools, and select Internet Information Services (IIS manager).

3. Double-click on the server in the tree pane, and double-click on Sites.

4. Locate the WSS site that will be restored, right-click the site, choose Manage Web
Site, and click Stop. This stops the website. Leave IIS Manager open.

5. Click Start, click All Programs, click Administrative Tools, and select Services.

6. Locate the Windows SharePoint Services Timer Service, right-click the service, and select Stop.

7. Scroll up and locate the Windows Internal Database (MICROSOFT##SSEE) service, right-click the service, and select Stop. Leave the services console open.

8. Click Start, click All Programs, click Administrative Tools, and select Windows Server Backup.

9. In the Actions pane, select Recover to start the Recovery Wizard.

10. On the Getting Started page, select either to restore data previously backed up from the local computer or a different computer. For this example, select This Server (Servername), and click Next to continue.

11. On the next page, select the date of the backup by selecting the correct month and click on the particular day.

12. After the month and day are selected, if multiple backups were run in a single day, click the Time drop-down list arrow, and select the correct backup.

13. On the Select Recovery Type page, select the Files and Folders option button and click Next to continue.

14. On the Select Items to Recover page, expand the server node; select the disks, folders, and files to be restored; and click Next to continue. For example, select the c:\windows\SYSMSI\SSEE\MSSQL.2005\MSSQL\Data\WSS_Content.MDF and WSS_Content_log.LDF, as shown in Figure 31.11.

15. On the Specify Recovery Options page, specify whether the files will be restored to the original location or an alternate location. Do not click Next.

16. On the Specify Recovery Options page, choose to recover the files to the original location and choose to overwrite the existing versions with the recovered versions. Ensure that the check box to restore access control list permissions is checked and click Next to continue.

17. On the Confirmation page, verify the restore selections and options. If everything is
correct, click the Recover button to start the recovery process.

18. On the Recovery Progress page, verify the success of the recovery or troubleshoot the errors if the recovery fails.

19. Click Close to complete the recovery and close Windows Server Backup.

20. Open the Services window and start the Windows Internal Database Service and start the Windows SharePoint Services Timer Service. Close the Services console.

21. Open the IIS Manager console, locate the SharePoint site, right-click the site, choose Manage Web Site, and click Start to start the website.

22. Open a web browser and connect to the SharePoint site. If everything looks okay, perform a full backup of the system.

Source of Information : Sams - Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed