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iPad Tips & Tricks

How To Quickly Insert an Apostrophe on the iPad Keyboard

by patrickj August 27, 2010

I spotted a basic but very cool iPad keyboard tip the other day, over at the iPad in Canada site – on how to insert an apostrophe quickly via the iPad keyboard. This method allows you to insert an apostrophe straight from the main Qwerty section of the keyboard, without having to shift over to [...]

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How To Save Web Pages for Reading in iBooks (on a Mac)

by patrickj July 24, 2010

Have you ever started reading a long article on the web and thought that it would be great to be able to read it in iBooks on the iPad? If so, did you know it’s quite easy (on a Mac) to print a web page as a PDF to iTunes and read it later on [...]

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Are You Using the iPad Bookmarks Bar in Safari?

by patrickj July 19, 2010

Here’s a swell little iPad feature that I’ve never made use of before today.  I have no great excuse to explain why, but I’ve just never realized / remembered this was a feature on the iPad: the Bookmarks Bar As in, the thin bar running just below the address bar and search field etc. at [...]

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How To Use Custom Wallpapers on the iPad

by patrickj July 2, 2010

One of the very first things Steve Jobs mentioned about the iPad when he introduced it is the ability to set custom wallpapers for both the home screen and lock screen.  This is a nice, and very easy, way to personalize your iPad – so it seems well worth a quick how to post. If [...]

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How To Save Images in the iPad Safari and Mail Apps

by patrickj May 12, 2010

Here’s another basic but very handy tip for those of you who are new to the iPad.  You may often receive a photo in an email that you want to save and keep on your iPad – or spot an image in a web site that you’d like to save. It’s very easy to do [...]

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iPad Basics: How To Take a Screenshot & a Trick With Existing Pictures

by patrickj May 7, 2010

Just like the iPhone and the iPod Touch, the iPad is able to take a screenshot, to capture the contents of its current screen as a new image. This is very easy to do, and there is also a neat little trick for creating new images out of existing photos via the screenshot feature on [...]

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Getting Started with iPad – A Few Basic Tips

by patrickj April 30, 2010

A quick set of Getting Started tips for the iPad Today is iPad Launch Day Part 2 – the day that the iPad WiFi + 3G models hit the streets.  I’ve had my WiFi only iPad for just about four weeks now, so this seems as good a time as any to share a few [...]

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iPad Camera Connection Kit – Importing Photos from an iPhone

by patrickj April 24, 2010

The iPad Camera Connection Kit’s primary purpose is to import photos and images from iPhones, cameras, and SD cards, for storage and display on the iPad. I just received mine yesterday and have now had a chance to try out importing photos from an iPhone via the iPad Camera Connection Kit – so I thought [...]

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Apple’s Suggested Fixes for iPad WiFi Issues

by patrickj April 12, 2010

Touch wood, I have not experienced any WiFi issues with my iPad so far – but I know there are a lot of folks who have been reporting problems of this sort. For those who do, Apple has got a Knowledge Base support article on the subject – with a rundown of symptoms and possible [...]

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How-To: Use The iPad as a Digital Picture Frame

by patrickj April 4, 2010

A quick guide to using your iPad in Picture Frame mode If you thought the iPad was going to make for a gorgeous digital photo frame, you were absolutely right.  This is already one of the many pleasures I’ve found in the iPad.  I’ve got my iPad dock placed just to the right of my [...]

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