Take Control of Working with Your iPad

Use Third-Party Apps

Of the many apps that can get files onto and off of your iPad without using iTunes, I've chosen a few (many of which appear in Table 11-1, a few pages earlier) to serve as examples of what you can do and how. Here's an alphabetical listing:

• Air Sharing HD: This nicely designed, multifunctional iPad app lets you view shared documents on a wide variety of local, network, and cloud servers and copy any document to your iPad for offline access; you can also share your iPad itself and access it from other devices on your network in a Web browser or via WebDAV, and you can even print from Air Sharing HD to any printer on your local network. (Avatron Software, $9.99)

• Documents to Go Premium: If you want to edit Microsoft Office files ...