I HAVE BECOME A GEEK

 

My name is Sally Carrocino and I am a Geek.

I have entered a 12 step program and

step #1 is to share what I have learned.
It really escalated about 2 years ago
when I bought my iPad.

I was immediately attracted to it's size and

capacity to to eliminate so many other things

I was carrying around.  My most favorite

app is iBooks.  if you don't have it, go to your

app store on your iPad and download it.  it

is a free app by Apple. The drop down

menu on the top left corner gives you

two options. Books and PDF.

 

 

Portable Document Format (PDF)

is a file that you can send by email

and when you open it on your

iPad in iBooks it becomes a flip

book.  Everyone uses this format

it is universal.  All of the companies

I represent have their catalogs and

price list as a PDF.  So instead

of carrying around masses of catalogs

I have them all on this shelf on my

nice compact iPad. I can than

email to a customer, fast and efficient

 

The other option is Books and

this is just like a Kindle.  You buy and store

books and read them at your leisure.

A concept that everyone understands and

uses in some form.

One other feature I want to mention before

going further is a Screen Shot.  This

is taking a picture of anything on your screen,

no matter what app your looking at. 

A page on your iBooks, an email,

a web site...anything.

I use this dozens of times a day.

The picture goes to your photo file and from

there you can access it many different ways.

Since I love using my iBooks so much

I have become a huge fan of PDF's,

so I needed to have an app that could

turn anything into a PDF.  I found

Save2PDF after surfing

around the app store.  This has been

so useful and actually a lot of fun to use.

 

You upload pictures from your

picture file that you have taken,

saved from somewhere else or

did a screen shot of.  Your able to

rearrange them in any order you like.

I have made several catalogs this way

for lines that I represent that don't

have a catalog of their own.  This way I

can easily do a blast email to introduce

the line and include the catalog.

You have the option to preview, email

as well as save it.

 

I was at a trade show earlier in the

year and heard a couple of

people talking about a new app

they were excited about.  I didn't know

them but promptly interrupted and asked

to see it.  That was my introduction

to another big favorite, Penultimate.

This is how I created some of those

multi picture pages shown above.

You have a drop down menu of paper

types, lined, graph, plain etc.

You can either take a picture from this

app and it will appear on the page or

you can upload from your photos.

You can move the pictures around the page.

You can make them larger or smaller as well

as delete if you don't want it after all.

Another great feature is you can write

on the page. 

There are so many ways to use this app.

If your at a trade show and you want to

remember what you have seen and make

notes.  Or your putting together a presentation

for a client, this is a easy way

to organize things so they can

easily visualize what you have in mind.

 

When you have it the way you want it

you can email that page or save it

to your photos.

You can also save it on this app, which

is nice if you think you might want to

go back and change it at sometime.

I think I should stop here for now.

There will be a I AM A GEEK part 2.

If you have any questions don't

hesitate to email me.  It is all

about sharing the knowledge.  Plus

if you have a favorite app please tell

me about it.

scarrocino@aol.com