Using your iPad is not a passive activity. With its ample touchscreen and powerful collection of apps, the iPad is perfect for doing stuff-for building, creating, and organizing. Want to plan an event? Manage a project? Even make an ebook? You can do all that and more with your iPad. In this practical hands-on guide, you'll learn how to bull; bull;Organise a party: Set up the calendar event, create invitations, invite attendees, and mail out the invites. bull;Build a recipe scrapbook: Write up recipes in Pages (or find recipes via one of the useful recipe apps) and import pictures of the finished dish to go with the recipe in the book. Even learn iPad kitchen tips! bull;Plan a vacation: Buy tickets, find destination activities, and map out directions. bull;Watch videos: Stream videos with Air Video, convert high-quality movies from DVDs, and buy or rent videos from the iTunes Store. bull;Get smart: Learn another language with one of the many translations apps available, and build an illustrated deck of flash cards with common words and phrases. Plus many more useful projects-both big and small-to help you do stuff with your iPad.