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iPad Tips & Tricks

The iPad and the iPad 2 are amazing and powerful devices. To help you do amazing things with it, we offer this collection of tips and tricks and how-to articles.

Some of these are iPad Basics sort of stuff that are helpful for newer users- for instance, how to instantly jump to the top of a web or email page, how to save images from the iPad web browser or email apps. Others are how-to’s that are useful even for iPad power users – things like how to print from the iPad, or the best ways to get photos and videos transferred from an iPhone to the iPad without having to connect to a PC, or how to disable In-App purchases so your kids can’t inadvertently run up your App Store spending.

I hope some of these iPad tips will help you get the most out of your iPad.

iPad Tips: Easiest Way To Get Deleted Apps Back on Your iPad

by Patrick Jordan January 2, 2012

Here’s a quick, useful iPad tip that will help you out if you’ve ever accidentally deleted an app you had installed on your iPad. Or perhaps had a child who accidentally deleted an app you still want on your iPad. Luckily, regardless of how an app was deleted, it’s very easy to get it back [...]

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iPad Tips: Getting Started with the iPad

by Patrick Jordan December 27, 2011

Have you just got a shiny new iPad as a holiday gift, or maybe just bought one for yourself? Here’s an easy Getting Started Guide that will help you get the most out of your new favorite tablet: The iPad has been a huge hit ever since it first hit the market back in 2010. [...]

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iPad Basics: How to Show the Battery Percentage on the Home Screen Status Bar

by Patrick Jordan December 27, 2011

Here’s a very quick basic iPad tip for those of you who would like to be able to always see the percentage of battery left, instead of seeing just the battery icon and having to guess at how much is left. If you’d like for the percentage of battery remaining to also be displayed in [...]

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New iPad User? Some Starter Tips, Tricks, and iPad App Recommendations

by Patrick Jordan December 25, 2011

Welcome to any new iPad users visiting here today. If you’ve just received a new iPad or iPad 2 as a holiday gift, congratulations – it really is a superb device. The iPad is wonderfully easy to use and there are excellent apps to help you do just about anything you want to do with [...]

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iPad Basics: How To Attach a Photo to an Email

by Patrick Jordan December 18, 2011

Here’s a question I see asked quite a lot by newer iPad users: how do you attach a photo to an email? Happily, this is very easy to do. Here’s how to add a photo as an attachment to an email on the iPad: – Open the Photos app on the iPad (That’s right things [...]

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iPad Tips: Tap and Drag to Select Multiple Photos in the Photo Library

by Patrick Jordan December 14, 2011

Here’s a neat little iPad tip that I spotted over at Mac OS X Hints this morning. It’s a slick alternative way to select multiple photos in the iPad photo library. The way I’ve always known to select multiple photos in any album in the photo library is to tap the Share button at the [...]

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iPad Tips: How To Use Home Sharing to Share Your Whole iTunes Music Library to the iPad

by Patrick Jordan December 12, 2011

If you’re not keen on using up tons of storage space on your iPad with music but still would love to have access to your full iTunes Music Library on the iPad at times, here’s a quick and easy tip to help you achieve that. All you need to do is use the Home Sharing [...]

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iPad Tips: Use Screenshot to Create a New Image

by Patrick Jordan November 22, 2011

The iPad’s screen capture ability can be useful for a number of reasons – from showing someone how a web page looks to sharing an app screen and lots more. One of my favorite ways to use the screenshot capability, that I’ve noticed many people are not aware of, is to create new images with [...]

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Potential Quick Fixes When Your iPad Won’t Connect to Your Wifi Network

by Patrick Jordan November 1, 2011

The iPad is a great device even when its offline, but like nearly all computing devices these days it is much greater when it’s connected to the web. For most of us, most of the time that means connecting via a WiFi network when possible. So it is terribly frustrating when an iPad won’t connect [...]

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iPad and iOS 5 Tips – How To Reopen Recently Closed Tabs in Safari

by Patrick Jordan October 28, 2011

Tabbed browsing in Safari is one of the many new features that iOS 5 has brought to the iPad. Many users who are fond of tabbed browsing in their desktop browsers are happy to see this feature come to the iPad’s built-in browser. Others – I’ve recently discovered – are not at all happy about [...]

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How Do You Add an App to the Newsstand Folder? You Don’t

by Patrick Jordan October 28, 2011

How do I get my XYZ newspaper or magazine app to go into the Newsstand folder? I’ve seen a few people asking this at forums and social networks, so I thought I’d give it a quick mention. Usually they’ve tried dragging the app in question into the Newsstand folder and seen that this doesn’t work. [...]

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