Take notes on your iPad and watch YouTube videos

iPad notes

Need a bit of virtual iPad scratch paper to put in writing a few thoughts? Want to copy a recipe off a web page and save it for future reference, whenever you may not have online access? The iPad's Notes program is here now to serve. To get started, go back to your Home screen and tap Notes. The program opens, and here's where Apple's designers got really creative.

Whenever you hold the iPad in portrait mode, it appears like one of those yellow lined pads of paper you accustomed to use to scribble lecture notes in school. But hold the iPad in landscape mode and the yellow pad shrinks down to size and shares the screen having a virtual slip of index paper, all tucked inside a faux leather folio, the type made to sit on top of your desk and look fancy. You can even see stitches in the digital leather.

When you hold the iPad in portrait mode, you can see the same index of your stored notes by tapping the Notes button in the upper-right corner from the screen. Tap any entry in the list to jump to that particular note and open it up so you can read it - or add more text into itYou can't, however, paste picture files - you just get a string of text using the image file's name and location. To start a new note, tap the plus icon in the upper-right corner to generate a blank sheet of "paper." Tap the yellow Note itself to summon the iPad's keyboard for any little good-old-fashioned text entry.

If you are seeking a certain word or words, type them to the Search box to contact a list of all the notes where the words appear. To flip forward or backward through your collected notes, tap the arrow keys at the end of the screen. You can even email the items in a note by tapping the mail icon listed below.

Watch YouTube videos on the iPad

While YouTube videos on the Web usually come in the Flash format, a technology foreign towards the iPad, Apple convinced the website to re-encode its an incredible number of videos into H.264 format, a much higher-quality rendering than Flash - and one you can play via the iPad's YouTube app.

If you have an idea of what topic or video you need to see, tap the Search box and enter your keywords. If you are just browsing for fun times, tap one from the icons at the bottom from the screen to find videos in any of these ways:

Featured. A flickable list of videos hand-picked by YouTube's editors. You see the name, length, star rating, and popularity of each one.
Top Rated. When someone watches a video on YouTube, they can give it a star rating. This list rounds up the highest-rated videos. Beware, though - you may be disappointed in the taste from the masses.
Most Viewed. A popularity contest. Tap the buttons at the top to look over the most-viewed videos Today, This Week, or All. Tap the strain More panel to see the next chunk of the list.
Favorites. A summary of videos you've flagged as your own personal faves, as described in a minute.
Subscriptions. If you have a YouTube account, you can subscribe to specific "channels" of videos and see them here.
My Videos. If you have used your YouTube account on your computer or iPhone to upload videos, tap here to see them once you log in.
History. This can be a list of videos you viewed recently on the iPad. If you wish to nuke the list, hit the Clear button.

Tap any video thumbnail to open a Details screen for that video, having a description, date, category name, tags, the uploader's name, play length, number of views, links to related videos, and so forth. That same Details screen offers an Add button so you can give a video to your list of Favorites. Tap the Share button to transmit a link to the clip by email. You can also Rate and Flag selected videos.

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