Save images from the web on your iPad

Saving images on the iPad

Every once in awhile, you come across an image on a web page that you just have to have on your iPad. It could be a cool sports photo of your favorite ball player, a picture of a house on a real-estate site, or a wacky picture of a disgruntled cat.

Now, on a regular system, you just have to right-click the look with your mouse and choose Save Image to Desktop. But exactly how do you do that on the iPad, where there is no mouse, trackpad, or obvious method to right-click on anything?

Easy: Just press the required photo or graphic with your finger. A box pops up with a whole couple of options like Open, Open in New Page, Save Image, and Copy. Tap the Save Image button to download a copy of the picture to your iPad's Photo Library. After that, you can look at it any time you want, or email it to someone.

Stream web video and audio with the iPad

When the iPad was announced, there was much grumbling about the fact that it wouldn't play files in the Adobe Flash format - which is a large portion of the videos available on the Web, as well as the code behind of numerous browser-based videogames.

In fact, some people thought the lack of Flash would be a crippling blow towards the iPad's chances of success.

But you know what? A lot of people bought the iPad anyway. Sure, it does not recognize Flash, RealPlayer, or Windows Media file formats. But the iPad isn't utterly clueless about streaming online goodies.

After all, it has that whole YouTube app that plays lots of videos. It can also play some QuickTime movies, like movie trailers, as long as they've been encoded (prepared) in certain formats. It can also play MP3 and WAV audio recordings right off the Web.

Actually, any old MP3 file plays fine right in Safari. If you already played through your 16, 32, or 64 gigabytes of music synced from your computer, you can always do a web search for free mp3 music. For video, you have more to watch on the Web than just 'Pad-friendly streaming videos in your own home, then YouTube.

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