[danbrew]

Anybody happen to know of a good tool that captures the screen on an iPad? Would like to find something that saves the screen to a jpg. Would be really cool if we could record activity to a utube flick too.

Interesting how the ipad automatically capitalizes the P in iPad.

Thanks, danbrew

[Wiskedjak]

Press the power button and the home button at the same time. Puts the jpg into the Saved Photos folder in Photo Albums.

[turtle777]

Uhm, yeah, this worked on the iPhone OS since day 1.

-t

[-Q-]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Uhm, yeah, this worked on the iPhone OS since day 1.

-t

Actually, it wasn't implemented until iPhone OS 2.0, but close enough.

[danbrew]

Nice, thanks. Good to know for those of us without iPhones...

[danbrew]

The only way I could figure out how to get them out of the iPad was to go into the photo app and copy the picture and then go into the mail app and paste the picture. Is there a better/easier way?

thanks,

danbrew



Would be very cool if I could capture "video" - online cbts, etc. Got an app that I'm working with where it would be very helpful if I could say to somebody "watch this tutorial" and then it's a movie of my touch, typing, etc.

bonus if you can tell me what that thing in the picture is.
extra huge bonus if you can tell me exactly where that one is located.

[Spheric Harlot]

It's a gun.

I'm gonna say Truk Island or Palau.

No screen capture apps available for iPad at this time.

[-Q-]

I don't think I've ever seen a video of the iPhone/iPad UI captured directly on the device. Most tutorials I've seen have used the hardware emulator that comes with the developer tools and recorded that for the tutorial. Like below:

Videos - OmniGraffle for iPad - Products - The Omni Group

[chabig]

Ummm, the question has already been answered. Screen captures are provided by the system itself. No app required.

[-Q-]

Originally Posted by chabig 

Ummm, the question has already been answered. Screen captures are provided by the system itself. No app required.

Ummm, the OP asked a follow-up question about recording video on the phone/pad. "Screen capture" doesn't just include single image acquisition.

[chabig]

Originally Posted by -Q- 

Ummm, the OP asked a follow-up question about recording video on the phone/pad. "Screen capture" doesn't just include single image acquisition.

Yep. You're right. My apologies.

[ipadfreak]

it's not exactly a in app type, but there's a app through Cyida called DisplayOut and you record that

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ipadfreak 

it's not exactly a in app type, but there's a app through Cyida called DisplayOut and you record that

Well, that would result in an analog recording.

Bottom line: right now, there is no iPad screen capture app that would let you record a digital stream of your screen.

-t

[ipadfreak]

No app but possible yes

[ghporter]

Originally Posted by danbrew 

The only way I could figure out how to get them out of the iPad was to go into the photo app and copy the picture and then go into the mail app and paste the picture. Is there a better/easier way?

With your iPad connected to your Mac, open Image Capture-the iPad will be mounted as a source device. Click on the entry for the iPad and Image Capture will list all the photo and video contents. This is WAY under documented-you'd think Apple would at least hint that it works this way.

[Wiskedjak]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

This is WAY under documented-you'd think Apple would at least hint that it works this way.

Doesn't surprise me at all. There is tonnes of undocumented and extremely useful functionality in Apple software.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by ghporter 

With your iPad connected to your Mac, open Image Capture-the iPad will be mounted as a source device. Click on the entry for the iPad and Image Capture will list all the photo and video contents. This is WAY under documented-you'd think Apple would at least hint that it works this way.

Doesn't it automatically open iPhoto? The iPhone does.

No need for documentation - it just happens.

[ghporter]

My iPhone just makes iTunes open when I connect it, so it never has "just happened" for me. You can control what automatically opens when you connect the phone or iPad though. Not sure why my setup didn't open iPhoto too...

[Wiskedjak]

Isn't the default behavior when connecting any iDevice to open iTunes? My iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad have never opened iPhoto.

[-Q-]

It's been so long I may be remembering incorrectly, but I think the option to open iPhoto when any sort of camera device is connected is stored within iPhoto itself and pops up when you launch iPhoto for the first time. If you don't set it to open every time a camera is connected when that dialogue first appears, you have to set it in iPhoto prefs.

[RangerWeb]

Here is a great example of a Live Ipad 2 screen captured in 720P.

There is no Jail Break!

YouTube - ‪IPAD2 720P Screen Capture.wmv‬‏

[Nancy20]

Ok admit I am an idiot - but does anyone know if on an iPad 2 if you accidentally take a video instead of a picture - can you ever capture a fram from the video and save as a picture? Thanks!

[Nancy20]

Not to be stupid but where is the power button - know where the home button is....saw if you press both together it will create a PDF of the screen shot?

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by Nancy20 

Not to be stupid but where is the power button

At the top of the device, upper right-hand corner.

Screen shots are not saved as PDF; they're saved as PNG files.