Ipad Tips and Tricks.Book
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iPad Tips and Tricks Contents iPad Tips & Tricks Moving icons around your Home Screen Before you begin Create folders for your apps Introduction Keyboard Tricks Security Caps Lock Setting Auto-Lock Shift hold Creating a passcode Enter a period by typing a double space Automatically wipe the iPad clean Quickly hide the keyboard Hold down keys for special characters Hold down the dollar ($) symbol for foreign currencies The iBooks App Hold down the hyphen key (-) to access dashes and iBooks App bullets Downloading and installing iBooks Other special characters you can access Add books to iBooks Selecting text A couple of iBooks notes Using the magnifying glass Creating your own PDF files Using different keyboards Creating your own ePub files Email and Web Browsing Generally Fun Tips and Tricks Access a list of domains Intro Highlight part of a message before replying Charging your iPad Create a link to a web page on your Home Screen Close apps that you’re not using Turn off auto-rotate Take a screen shot Other Stuff Transferring your iPad’s photos to your computer Useful free apps iPad Tips & Tricks Before you begin All the cool and fun tips in this booklet are easy to follow but there are just a couple of pre-requisites before continuing on: • Have you installed iTunes on your computer? • Have you set up your Apple ID and entered your billing information for the iTunes store yet? Yeah, I know, why do you have to enter a credit card if all you want to do is download the free apps? It’s frustrating but, at 2:00 in the morning when you decide that you just have to have the full Angry Birds app and you have to have it now, you’ll be thankful! • Is your iPad charged? The battery life on the iPad is actually really good so, as long as your battery is charged at least 50%, you can easily get through this booklet and watch some funny YouTube videos! Introduction Congratulations on your new iPad! It may appear new and daunting or it may be as familiar as your iPhone that you’ve owned since it was first introduced in June 2007. Either way, your iPad has some fun and helpful shortcuts that you may not be aware of. Hopefully there’s something in here for everyone. If you have an idea to add to this, please send an email to [email protected]. Let’s start with making sure your iPad is secure! here we go… Security Setting Auto-Lock You can tell the iPad to turn off the screen, or automatically lock, after a certain amount of time has passed: 2 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, or never. Access the Auto-Lock from the iPad’s settings under General > Auto- Lock. Creating a For further security, you can set a four-number passcode to unlock your passcode iPad. To turn on the passcode, go to the iPad’s settings and go to General > Passcode Lock and enter the four digit number. For even stronger security, turn off the Simple Passcode and you can use any length combination of alpha and numeric characters. Automatically wipe After you set a passcode, you can tell the iPad to erase all the data if the iPad clean there are 10 unsuccessful attempts in a row to unlock your iPad. Obviously, if you choose this setting, you need to make sure your passcode is easy to remember and that you should use iTunes on a regular basis to back up your data. The iBooks App iBooks App Why start with this app instead of a general section? So that you know how to copy this booklet onto your iPad for future reference! But don’t worry, the general stuff comes next. Downloading and iBooks is a free app that allows you to install books in two basic formats: installing iBooks PDF and ePub books. Books can range in price from free (which is always good) to a few dollars. Once you have iBooks installed and know how to add a PDF to your library, you can easily and quickly create your own body of work and add it to your iBooks library. Or your students can add it to their library, etc. Get ready to install iBooks: • make sure your iPad is plugged into your computer and that iTunes is open • Click on the iTunes Store link on the left hand side of your screen: Once the store appears (it may take a few seconds), you’re ready to find and install the app: 1. Type iBooks and press Enter in the search bar (upper-right corner of iTunes). Sure you can search the store in other ways but, since we know the name of the app, why create extra work? 2. You’ll see several apps that are available. Not only do you want the free iBooks (ignore all the others) but make sure you select the iPad app, not the iPhone app. The iPhone version will give you a tiny reader in the middle of your large iPad screen. Remember, select the iPad version! 3. Click on the button that says “Free”. You’ll be prompted to sign into the iTunes store with your Apple ID and password. Go ahead and enter it and click “Buy”. Yes, it is free and you still have to say “Buy” but don’t worry, you’re not being charged for anything! 4. You’ll see a little spinning icon and a number. The spinning icon means that there is an active download happening and the number is, well, the number of apps you are downloading! (this really is quite straightforward): Once the icon goes away, the app has been downloaded to your computer. Now you need to get it onto your iPad. This step is even easier! 1. In iTunes (where everything happens), click on the link for your iPad under the Devices section on the left: 2. Click the Sync button in the lower-right corner and then wait for the sync to finish. 3. Turn on your iPad, scroll to the second page of the iPad and you will see your new ‘app: Add books to So you’ve installed iBooks, opened it up and... wait, there are no books! iBooks iBooks is more like a bookshelf than anything else. Like any set of bookshelves, you have to add your own books to it. Let’s go ahead and add this book. Before we do that, make sure that you’ve done the following: • Created a new folder in your H: Drive called My eBooks (get in the habit of saving all of your books to this folder). • Saved this file as iPad Tips and Tricks.PDF in your My eBooks folder. Ready? No pictures this time to help you because, if you’ve gotten this far, the next steps are so easy that you won’t need pictures: 1. In iTunes, go to File > Add File to Library… 2. This brings up the Add to Library dialog box. Navigate to your My eBooks folder and find iPad Tips and Tricks.PDF. 3. Click Open and it will appear that nothing has happened. That’s okay, something happened but you just can’t see it yet. 4. Click back on the link for your iPad, just like you did when installing iBooks and then click the Sync button. 5. Once the iPad has finished its sync, open iBooks on your iPad and… wait, it’s not there? 6. iBooks keeps PDF files separate from what it normally considers “books” (and, no, I don’t know why). In the upper-left corner of iBooks, there is a button that says Collections. Tap that and you will see a drop down menu where you can choose between books and PDF files. Tap the PDFs button and you will go back to the bookshelf and now you can see the file. A couple of iBooks Just a few other comments about iBooks and the books you install: notes • iBooks is capable of using PDF files (as you just experienced) and ePub files. ePub files are what iBooks sorts as “books”. When browsing or shopping for books, always get either the ePub or PDf version. • All apps for the iPad must be purchased and downloaded through iTunes. Books, whether PDF or ePub files, can be purchased or downloaded from anywhere to your computer. You just need iTunes to transfer those files to your iPad. • Want to get started reading? Check out the Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org for tens of thousands of free books. Lazy readers beware, most of the books there don’t have pictures. Creating your own At some point, you’ll ask (or should ask) if you can create your own PDF PDF files files to be loaded into iBooks. You sure can! Here are some tips for creating PDF files to read on your iPad. BTW (that’s the cool person’s short-hand for by the way), I’m assuming you have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer and know the basics of creating a PDF. If you don’t, submit a request to Information Technology to purchase and install Acrobat. • Decide if you want to create a file that is landscape oriented (where the screen is wider than it is taller) or portrait oriented (where it’s taller than it is wider). • The iPad screen, in pixels, is 1024 × 768 and, in points, is 768 × 576. Depending on which application you’re creating the content in (Word, PowerPoint, etc.) you will need to set the page size in either pixels or points.