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hey guys Brian Shawn here with cnet.com and Apple's iOS 4.2 beta that specific to the iPad was recently released so we wanted to show off some of the major improvements and some of the more subtle ones as well the biggest addition is multitasking and it works just like it has on an iPhone double click the home button and you'll see apps that are currently running in portrait mode you'll see six apps at a time and in landscape mode you'll see seven now what's great about this is that I've been dying for Pandora to have multitasking on the iPad and it looks like the app was built already with that in mind so it works like a charm I can listen to my Pandora stream while checking out a recipe for dinner or surfing the web now just like an iOS 4.1 once you've accessed the multitasking feature you can swipe to the right to reveal the music controls and more a new change is that the screen orientation lock is now accessible here so you can lock the iPad to portrait or landscape mode the physical button on the right hand side that used to be the screen lock is now a mute switch but I'm not sure if I like that change it and the biggest addition that I love the ability to control the brightness of the screen with this slider without jumping into the Preferences Thank You Now folders is here on the iPad and you can put up to 20 icons per folder compared to only 12 on the iPhone AirPrint makes its debut and the wireless printing option is integrated into the apps so if I'm in the mail app it will show up here and I'll be able to select a printer it sees and choose how many copies I want you'll also find printing in the photo app and Safari airplay is Apple's wireless streaming feature that streams to the new Apple TV or other compatible devices you'll be able to access it in the iPod app movie app and YouTube app now let's show you a few other features in 4.2 game centers here on the iPad and it's pretty much what we've seen in iOS 4.1 male now has a unified mailbox for your multiple accounts and you can also organize your emails by threads which I love Safari has an updated icon that now shows you how many Safari pages you have open in the background and closing them feels snappier than before now all of you fans of the Notes app will now be getting a few other fonts that you can change in the settings instead of just marker felt so you guys can rejoice and if you're using the iPad 3G with the cellular data option turned on you now have the ability to toggle between 3G and edge if you want to reduce the drain on your battery even if it means slower download speeds I'm Brian Chong for cnet.com and this is the beta and there's sure to be more improvements on the way before it's November release but we wanted to give you a sneak peek at iOS 4.2 in action