Take Control of Media on Your iPad

Move Media Wirelessly

In one respect, the iPad very much resembles a big iPod—to sync media between the iPad and your iTunes library you must physically connect the iPad to the computer using the Dock connector cable. That seems like a quaint method of file transfer for a handheld device that connects to the network wirelessly. Fortunately, that's just one approach. You can copy content directly from the Internet to an app on the iPad, or you can stream media to your iPad, thus playing it directly from some other computer without copying it to the iPad's memory.

Download to Memory

Some media is available for download directly to the iPad without requiring iTunes on a computer. When you purchase a song or movie using the iTunes app, the item is downloaded ...