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November 8, 2013 By Andy Traub

How to display your iPhone and iPad on your desktop computer

Have you ever wanted to share something from your iOS device to create a tutorial or simply show people functionality during a live presentation? There’s a program build just for you and it’s called Reflector.

reflector app
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Air Play Is The Key
Apple built in a function called Air Play into its devices and a program called Reflector uses that function to display your iOS devices on your desktop or laptop computer. This program works for PC and Mac. Since the devices need to be on the same wifi network make sure you’ve set them up appropriately before you try to connect via Reflector.

Recording built in
Reflector even has screen recording built in so you can record whatever is on your monitor.

Reliability
A few times I’ve tried to connect my iPad and it says it’s “air playing” but I can’t see it on my screen but after restarting my iPad the issue goes away. Here’s a video and some step by step instructions.

Coolest Features & Video Tour

View two iOS devices simultaneously
Dual idevices reflector app

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Filed Under: How I work, ipad, iPhone, Productivity, Tech tools, Uncategorized

January 4, 2013 By Andy Traub

How to open Kindle and iBook files on your iPad and iPhone using Dropbox

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I made this video to help the 494 Early To Rise Insiders open their free copies of my upcoming book. I hope it might help you too. Let me know if it does.


 
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Filed Under: How I work, ipad, iPhone, Publishing, Uncategorized

October 20, 2010 By Andy Traub

Consuming content with Instapaper (How I Work Series)

Does anyone else see the irony that reading sites that are supposed to make you productive can have the opposite effect?  For fans of GTD (Getting Things Done) and sites like LifeHacker.com, productivity can be a wonderful pursuit but are usually a phenomenal waste of time. Ironically LifeHacker.com, which is supposed to help me “hack” my life to be more productive, used to distract me endlessely.  Instead of  just spending time on web sites and telling you to follow a Franklin Covey planner (I don’t own one) I’m sharing on how I get things done in my business.  Here’s why I’m sharing my work tips;

Reason #1 – Systems are critical to productivity. Even if you write poetry or paint canvases for a living you still need systems. If artists needs sytems, habits and structure to be productive then the rest of us do too. What’s your system for checking email, corresponding on Twitter, processing new customers or forecasting your cash flow? Yeah, we need systems.

Reason #2 – The more I share about how I work the more accountability I have to keep those systems going. I like to practice what I preach because I like to preach/teach a lot.

How I read articles when I don’t have time to read articles.

– Go to Instapaper.com
– Click on the “Register” button on the top right and get an account
– On the right side of the page under the “Folders” section click on “Add Folder”
– Name your folders by topics that you have interest in. Keep the names short.

Here are my folders;

BetterBiz – Tips on improving productivity, marketing
BlogThisAT.com – Articles that are great sources of blog posts
For client – Articles my consulting clients would benefit from hearing about
Personal – uh, personal stuff
Post it – Articles that I want my Virtual Assistant to Tweet about. I also add comments to these articles once they’re in my Instapaper list. He uses that text and then creates a link to the article using Hootsuite and schedules the tweets to go out throughout the day. More on Hootsuite in future posts.
SMStrategy – More specific articles about my social media strategy
BTWshow – Articles for my Business Tech Weekly podcast

– Click one of your folders
– On the right side of your page you’ll see “Folder tools”. Drag the folder name in that section to your bookmarks toolbar and put it in a folder. Repeat this with all of your folder bookmarklets. When you click on the bookmarklet the page/article will be automatically added to that folder.
– To read your articles:

Four ways to visit your Instapaper.com account.

Email them to your Kindle (see “Extras” button on Instapaper.com for instructions).
Read them on your iPad with the Instapaper App
Download them to your Kindle automatically with Ephemera (mac only)
Download them to your Kindle automatically with Calibre (mac or pc) using this process

Happy reading. Let me know if this helps.

Oh yeah, don’t forget to take action on what you learn. The world needs you to ship.

HERE’S A SIMILAR POST I DID ON INSTAPAPER

Filed Under: advice, Attitude, How I work, ipad, organizing, Permission, Productivity, software, Tech tools, tutorial, Tutorials, Uncategorized

June 10, 2010 By Andy Traub

How to use Instapaper with folders

Let’s say you surf the web often and come across helpful articles and are looking for a way to capture them for future reading. That’s why there’s Instapaper. It’s an incredibly easy method for capturing content for future reference and you can even sort those articles into folders within your instapaper account / ipad / ipod app. Here’s a video preview.

Do you use Instapaper or a different service/method for capturing content to read later?




Bonus: By request…
How to reorder folders in Instapaper

Filed Under: ipad, organizing, Tech tools, tutorial, Tutorials, Uncategorized

May 24, 2010 By Andy Traub

Fellow iPad travel warrior Jon Dale

Jon Dale is a smart man. You can find him at JonDale.com. He’s a social media consultant and so he travels a lot imparting wisdom to companies and individuals all over America. He inspired me to take an iPad only trip to Colorado last week and while I was there he posted a video of his own on how he packs for his trips using his Saddleback bag.

Below you’ll find his video and my response. You can follow Jon on Twitter and get the sweet bag or iPad case at Saddleback Leather.

Jon’s travel video:

My Response: (featuring my handsome son Samuel)
(Video and Audio are not matched up…blame it on my MacBook…)

Filed Under: ipad, organizing, Social Media, Solopreneur, Tutorials, Uncategorized

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