S iPad Tips: How To Use Multi Touch Gestures. By Lory | February 4, 2013 | No comment yet It is time again for PadGadget’s iPad Tips. In this series, we offer tips and tricks for getting the best use out of your iPad. Last week, we told you about things you can do when your iPad is synced with iTunes. This week, we are going to go over the basics of multi touch gesturing.
When Apple released iOS 5.0, there were so many new and awesome features that some of them were overlooked. Multi touch gesturing was one of those features. If you had forgotten about that ability, or maybe never knew about it in the first place, we’ve got an iPad tip for how to enable multi touch gesturing and what to do once you have it. The first and most obvious thing you’ll need to do is make sure multi touch gesturing is turned on. Now that you have it enabled, you’ll be able to go directly to the home screen, call up the multitasking bar, switch between open apps, and close multiple apps at once. Pinch to Home Screen Swipe Vertically For Multitasking Bar. iPad 2 - Now with iOS 5 and iCloud. Guide to setting up AirPlay and Party Play for Real Racing 2. How To Setup Wi-Fi Sync for the iPad in iOS 5. One of the very new ‘PC Free’ features of iOS 5 is Wi-Fi sync – wireless sync between your iPad or iPhone and your PC.
This will allow you to keep photos and videos, music, and apps in sync without having to connect your iPad to your PC via the sync /charge cable. Once this feature is enabled, every time you connect your iPad to a power source it will automatically sync and and backup any new content purchased on the iPad to iTunes. You can also manually force a sync by going to Settings > General > iTunes Wi-Fi Sync and tapping ‘Sync Now’. You do need to turn this on in iTunes in order for it to work. It’s very easy to do this – here’s how: – Connect your iPad to your PC via USB / sync cable. – In the Devices section in the left-hand pane of the iTunes window, click on your iPad’s name and you’ll see it highlighted in blue – Then in the main window of iTunes scroll down just a bit so you can see the Options section That’s it.
The following two tabs change content below. Quick Tip: How To Delete Individual iCloud Backups. If you’re utilizing Apple’s iCloud backup service and are running low on those free five gigabytes of storage, you may wish to delete individual backups and free-up some space (either that, or you’ll have to spend some cash on increasing your iCloud storage).
Fortunately, deleting individual iCloud backups is easy to do. Read on, and we’ll explain the entire process. First, you need to launch the Settings app, and then touch the “iCloud” tab. Here, there will be a list of iOS applications that are currently hooked-up to iCloud. However, the section we’re interested in is right at the bottom of this screen: a tab called “Storage & Backup.” The “Manage Storage” screen outlines how those five gigabytes of free iCloud storage (or more, if you’ve subscribed) are being spent. As I’m using my iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (and have given my iPhone 4 to a grateful donee), I need to delete the iPhone 4 iCloud backups, as they’re taking up a valuable 1.7 gigabytes. [via iMore] Create your own iPad keyboard for less than $10! One of the more common complaints among iPad users is that the keyboard is awkward to use.
Apple offers a wireless keyboard solution at the prohibitive price of about $70 plus shipping but you can actually create your own simple iPad keyboard for less than $10. You need two simple components: A USB camera connection kit (see left). This is normally used for connecting digital cameras to your iPad. You can find them on eBay for around $3.A USB keyboard. The process is very easy. Ironically, PC keyboards worked well and the only problem we encountered was in trying to connect some Apple keyboards. Sam Gliksman samgliksman@gmail.com. iPad Tips: How To Move the Split Keyboard Around the Page When It’s in Your Way.
One of the many nice features of iOS 5 is the ability to split the keyboard on the iPad. Doing this can be very useful and can make typing faster and easier at times. I’ve found I’m using this feature more and more and finding it very effective. I use it when I have the iPad 2 in portrait and landscape mode and it allows me to reach characters I just can’t get to if the keyboard is in its standard docked mode unless I hold the iPad with one hand and peck away at the keys with the other. One drawback of using the split keyboard is that if you are writing a longer note or editing a longer document with a good number of paragraphs, you’ll find that the keyboard is on top of areas you’re trying to type in at times. Happily, there’s an easy solution to this little problem – you move the split keyboard around the page so that you can see your latest lines of typing.
Here’s how: While you tap and hold, just drag the keyboard to where you want it to be. Hope this helps, happy iPad typing. iPad Tips: Getting Started with the iPad. 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. It’s an amazing and powerful device, and a joy to use – whether for work or play. I’m hoping this short guide will give you a good jump-start on getting the most out of your iPad. This guide is divided up into short sections covering key topics, so you can dive in and out of them as needed for subjects you are interested in.
Hit the Read More link to get started … iPad External Buttons – Turn It On and Off and Lots More You’ve probably noticed that the iPad has very few buttons. How to Power Off the iPad: To power off the iPad, hold down the Power button for a few seconds, until you see the ‘Slide to Power Off’ bar across the top of the screen. A double-press on the home button brings up the Multitasking Bar. Or … iPad Basics – How To Use the iPad as a Digital Photo Frame. The iPad is nothing if not versatile – a real jack of all trades. One of its fun and lesser-know features is its ability to server a a digital photo frame – so you can enjoy all your favorite photos as a slideshow invoked right from the lock screen.
Here’s how to do this and a few options you can set for it: – You put the iPad into photo frame (or Picture Frame as Apple calls it) mode from the lock screen. When the lock screen appears, do not slide to unlock. That’s it – that will start up a slideshow of your photos and images held in your photo library. To do so, go to the Settings app. Transition: Choose from Dissolve or Origami for the transition effect between photos. Show Each Photo For: Set how long each photo stays on the screen for (from 2 to 20 seconds) Zoom in on Faces: Toggle on or off Shuffle: Toggle on or off All Photos or Albums: Choose whether you want to display all photos or select just certain albums to display in photo frame mode.
Happy iPad photo framing. Giving your former iPad to a spouse or family member: the quick guide. My wife is thrilled with the "new" iPad 2 she inherited when my new iPad arrived. I wanted to configure it for her so she could get up and running, so I thought I would just change a few settings here or there and give it to her using my settings. After about 30 minutes of tweaking, I decided to start over from scratch. The reason is simple: there are just so many settings underlying the personalization of the iPad that un-doing them all was nearly impossible. It was much easier to add the things that I knew she would want rather than remove the things that she might not. Even the things that I knew I wanted to change, like Messages, left residual effects behind. For example, Spotlight had cached my iMessages, and continued to show them even after I had logged out of my iCloud account and into my wife's.
Long story short: start clean, sync back the apps and media you want to keep, and work from there. Backup your iPad and transfer purchases from iPad (optional) Full Reset Other Apple IDs. Oh My Tech: Setting up the iPad for classrooms. Visitors to an Apple store look at new iPad tablet computers in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) I work at a school where the students’ mobile phones aren’t allowed into the classroom.
We’d love to deploy iPads on a wider basis, but we don’t know how to restrict iMessage. We’re already using LocPad to restrict the students’ website access on their iPads just to the few we need in the math classroom, but we don’t know how to restrict iMessage. Shane Colby With Apple trying to push the iPad as a great device for schools, you would think the company would do everything it could to make it "slacker-proof" for students. But alas, after asking a lot of Apple experts and school instructional technology administrators, I’ve concluded there is apparently no way to block iMessage from the iPad. First, a little background. "OMG! You can, however, restrict everything else on the iPad. Unfortunately, the Apple Configurator will not prevent the use of iMessage. How to share a family iPad. This article originally appeared as a Macworld Daily Reader iPad exclusive and is now available on Macworld.com for your enjoyment.
The iPad, unlike the Mac, is designed as a single-user device. You don’t have the option to create multiple accounts, nor can you create more than a single work environment. But that doesn’t mean that the iPad needs to be left wide open, ready for any passing child to call up inappropriate websites, apps, music, and videos. You can have an iPad that’s both entirely accessible to adults as well as locked down to protect your children from unsavory content. To configure restrictions you must first enable the Restrictions feature. Disallowing app access In the app area you’ll find restrictions for Safari, YouTube, Camera, FaceTime (the previous two won't appear on a first-generation iPad, which doesn’t have a camera), iTunes, and Ping.
Unlike with the Mac, the iPad offers no parental controls that attempt to keep your child from viewing inappropriate sites. iOS 5 features: New Multi-Touch gestures for iPad 2. In developer betas of iOS 4.3, Apple introduced new four- and five-finger multitasking gestures for the iPad. Those gestures didn't make it to the public release of iOS 4.3 for some reason, which was unfortunate because a lot of beta testers found them extremely useful. Fortunately, these new gestures have made the cut for iOS 5 -- at least for the iPad 2. Owners of the original iPad are still out of luck, it seems. The gestures aren't active by default, but going into the General section of the Settings app will give you a simple On/Off choice. Apple even gives a handy mini-primer of what the gestures do: Use four or five fingers to: Pinch to the Home Screen Swipe up to reveal multitasking bar Swipe left or right between apps For those of you who have been using the new Multi-Touch gestures in OS X Lion on the Mac, these gestures will feel very familiar.
Our sister site Engadget did a video overview of these new gestures several months back. iPad Basics: How To Use Notification Center on the iPad. Notification Center is one of the headline features in iOS 5. It’s a major improvement to how notifications were previously delivered in iOS and it works wonderfully well on the iPad. It lets you see all your notifications in one clear list view, and it’s instantly available with just a quick swipe gesture from anywhere on the iPad. For those of your who are newer to the iPad or iOS 5, or even just to notifications on the iPad, here are a few handy little tips for working with Notification Center: How To Open and Close Notification Center on the iPad – To open Notification Center from any of your home screens or any app that displays the status bar, just swipe down from anywhere on the status bar.
. – To close Notification Center you look for the same set bars at the bottom center of the Notification Center view, and tap and swipe up – To scroll through all your notifications, tap anywhere within the Notification Center list view and move your finger up and down. More Notifications Options. AirPrint 101. Languages AirPrint enables instant printing from iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac without the need to install drivers or download software. Simply select an AirPrint printer and print.
It's that simple. Get details on how to print using AirPrint in iOS. AirPrint AirPrint is an Apple technology that lets you create full-quality printed output without the need to download or install drivers. iOS requirements To print from your iOS device using AirPrint, you need one of the following devices using the latest version of iOS: iPad (all models) iPhone (3GS or later) iPod touch (3rd generation or later) OS X requirements To print from your Mac using AirPrint, you need the following: OS X Lion or later an AirPrint printer Printers not listed in this article are not supported by AirPrint.
Tip: Many AirPrint printers are available from the Apple Online Store. Important: Some AirPrint printers listed in this article will require a firmware update out of the box to become AirPrint-enabled. AirPrint printers. Create An iPad App List - SD. Share links from Mac to iOS using Safari Reading List. Browsing a Flash-based website on your iOS device, and want to send it to your Mac? If you have an iCloud account, it's easy to use Safari’s Reading List to swap links between your Mac and your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. Download Macworld Video #172 • Format: MPEG-4/H.264 • Resolution: 480 x 272 (iPhone & iPod compatible) • Size: 5.1 MB • Length: 1 minute, 48 seconds Show Notes Safari’s Reading List was introduced with iOS 5 and Safari 5.
To subscribe to the Macworld Video stream via iTunes, click here. You can also see a complete archive of all our videos on Macworld’s YouTube channel. Or just point your favorite podcast-savvy RSS reader to: Show transcript It's easy enough to sync your Mac’s email, contacts, calendars, photos, and even bookmarks with your iOS device, but what if you want to transfer something more immediate—like the current website on your Mac? On an iOS device, you can also do the reverse.
There Are Six Secret Buttons On The iPad's Split Keyboard. I never, ever use the iPad’s split virtual keyboard – for some reason (finger size, I suspect) I just can’t get away with it, poor old me. However, for those of you who often hold down the hide keyboard icon and “split” the iPad’s virtual keyboard into two, smaller pieces, something of a major discovery has been made by David Chartier of Finer Things: the iPad’s split keyboard has six secret, invisible virtual buttons.
Yes – “OMG,” indeed: the buttons, highlighted in the below image, are intended to make typing on the split keyboard a little easier. Take a look at the image, and you’ll see what I mean: If you often use the split keyboard, try typing in those open spaces to the left and right of the keyboard segments, and check out the discovery for yourself. If, like me, you’re not such a fan of the split keyboard mode – well, this interesting tidbit might just persuade you try the alternative keyboard layout once again.
Or not. Let us know in the comments!