You can password-protect apps like iTunes so that a family member can't buy every U2 record with your credit card. Go to Settings, then General, then Restrictions.
Press Enable Restrictions and type a password,...
You may be tempted to read e-books in landscape mode - with the Apple iBooks app, you'll have a few more on-screen aids and a book spine.
The spine, though, has this fuzzy pattern that actually draws your eyes away from the words and ruins the immersion of the e-book....
Have you ever played Tap Tap Revenge on the iPhone? Good, then you know how annoying notifications can be. These messages pop up on the iPad as well. But you can control them.
Go to Settings, Notifications, and configure which alerts...
Like the iPhone, you can use a custom wallpaper. First, use Safari to find the image you want.
(Try Interfacelift.com, which has iPad-sized images.) View the image, then press and hold on the screen and select...
You're entering text but you realize you've made a mistake a couple of lines back. You either fumble about with your finger trying to get back to the exact place, or you use the magnifying glass.
Touch and hold your finger in the right area and the magnifying glass appears,...
Save time typing web addresses in Safari by using the iPad's ".com" key when typing in a URL.
A little-known timesaver is that if you hold down the .com key you get access to a menu that offers a .co.uk option, too.
"iPad Tips and Tricks : Quicker websites "
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Save time filling out web forms in Safari by making use of Autofill. In Settings choose Safari.
AutoFill, then select Use Contact Info to autofill information from the Contacts app, or Names & Passwords.
"iPad Tips and Tricks: Enable Autofill "
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As you type you'll notice that the iPad guesses at the word you're typing.
To choose this suggestion simply stop typing the word and tap the space bar. If you're typing a lot of...
Double-clicking the Home button takes you to the home screen by default, but you can redefine its action in General - Home.
To help save you time you can set it to bring up Spotlight search...
Instead of wading hopelessly through your music library looking for that one song you want, or endlessly hacking through your Contacts.
It's much quicker to make use of the Spotlight search -...
This is a great tip for any app, like Notes, Pages or Mail, that you type into using the iPad's virtual keyboard. Rather than having to go to the second screen of the keyboard every time you want to type an apostrophe (which is a real pain) just tap and hold on the exclamation key...
iPad automatically syncs with iTunes when connected with the computer.But you may find this feature disturbing. So if you want to prevent iPad sync with iTunes unless you allow it to do so.
then here is how to disable iPad sync. Just follow the below steps to prevent or disable...
Copying text is as easy as double tapping a word. If you are doing a research paper, or want to email a blurb from a news article to a friend, you will likely have to copy and paste a paragraph.
You don‘t want to do this the slow and manual way, and the iPad allows for a...
The iPad supports the ePub format, and you can load these books simply by e-mailing them to yourself. Apple's iBooks app is your portal to reading and buying eBooks on the iPad-and it includes a section with a few free books. But don't...
You probably know by now that the iPad doubles as a digital picture frame.You can access this function a few ways, but the easiest way?
When you wake the iPad, look to the right of Slide to Unlock. You'll see a flower.Click it. The slideshow will begin after a moment....
Another oldie but goody that many that many people don't realize you can do in the iPhone OS: screenshot anything you're looking at. And keep in mind, when this happens on the iPad, it's at 768x1024 resolution-making it potentially a lot more...
So you're all the way to the bottom of a blog when you realize that you want to read a story back at the top. Don't do the whole repeatedly drag your finger across the screen thing. That's a horrible method for covering a lot of real estate. Instead:
Tap...
Did you know that you can set your mail to preview more than two lines? The iPhone has this option, too, but its smaller screen means that it's not so practical. On the iPad, however, I find the feature is pretty handy for skimming several emails without opening them.
Go...
When you have a Bluetooth keyboard connected to your iPad, the virtual keyboard will cease to appear. (This is a good thing.) However, what if, for some random reason, you needed that virtual keyboard.
Don't unpair your Bluetooth. Just... Hit the eject key on Apple's physical...
You may have 1080P videos on your computer, but the iPad can't play them-in fact, iTunes won't even let you copy them to the iPad! The easiest solution? Downrez them to 720P using an app like Handbrake.
Joel gives you a full tutorial on that here.
You can also...
When you press the power button on the iPad it really just turns off the screen. That‘s why it comes on so fast. What you may want to do to conserve battery life or recover from a freeze is do a reboot.
To do this just hold down both the...
Unlike the iPhone, there's no dedicated mute switch on the iPad. There you are, in the back row of a funeral just minding your own business when, oops, you...
There are four default apps in your dock at the bottom of the iPad screen. But you can actually add two more. As you would move any app to a new location or screen, tap and hold one of the app icons till it starts dancing....
Spotlight is the search screen that you access by hitting the Home button when you are on the first screen of apps. It has a search field at the top.Start typing and it begins to populate the list...
If you have a favorite web site that you visit often, it might save some time to save that link as a Home screen button. Surf to the site and choose the + sign next to the URL field. The drop down list has an item that says Add to Home Screen. It now shows up like any other icon for...
You do this by double tapping the shift key on either side of the keyboard. This is on by default. If you need to type a whole word in caps this can be painful.
You control that in the Settings as well. In Settings tap on General and Keyboard to find the item. Set Enable...
It‘s claimed that iPad‘s battery life can support "up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music". Here are some useful but not happy tips to help you use your iPad a lot longer without having to plug in all the time.
1- Turn off all apps...
If you delete an app, either accidentally or because you don‘t think you will use it, you can always get it back one of two ways.
Way 1:
If you have synced your iPad with iTunes since downloading the app, it will be in the Apps tab of your iPad‘s screen in iTunes. Just recheck the box...
The default email signature on the iPad says, "Sent from my iPad". It finds that to be a little boastful. To remove the Apple marketing and become like a real person, go into Settings and tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Find Signature in the fourth...
The iPad can send its display to a larger screen just like a computer can. But only certain apps take advantage of this feature. The Video app does so long as you are obeying the DRM rules.
It is a pain, but if the video has DRM it won‘t work usually. But if you have...
Big corporations often sub-divide their networks into small networks, hidden behind gateways. To access
them, you need to tell your Linux system that there is a gateway to use to access the networks.
The route program makes it easy to add networks, hosts and gateways to...
Mail clients require you to specify your server for incoming mail, but they also need a server for outgoing
mail. If you have sendmail or Qmail running, you can use localhost. If not, you may use your provider's
mailserver.
If you setup your own mail server, you may...
The protocol to use to be able to share files with Windows systems is called SMB. Linux supports
natively a lot of file systems and network protocols.SMB is one of them. To be able to mount a Windows file system to share files, that system needs to have file sharing enabled,...
Winmodems are modems which lack some hardware. They use software drivers to emulate the hardware, andthe CPU to do some tasks. Unfortunately the drivers provided by the winmodem manufacturers are Windows only.
There is no sure way to know if the modem should work in Linux...
When dealing with networking issues, it often helps to be able to use only IP addresses rather than hostnames. Why? For 2 reasons. First, the name server might not always be available if routing is being
changed. And most important, you may not have the time to wait for...
When you try to access a Web site, or any remote site, you need to specify the full hostname. This means the machine name plus the domain name:
lynx my.yahoo.comIf you have a few domain names that you access a lot, you can make your life easier. You can edit/etc/resolv.conf...
Many companies have local networks, and it is becoming even more popular in homes, where 2 or 3 systems are linked together using ethernet wires. Most providers only offer 1 IP address per connection,
which means that you can't put all of the systems on the Internet...
By default, most Linux distributions come with text-based configuration files and console menu-based
configuration programs for PPP dialup.Often, this simply isn't enough for most new users.Several GUI programs exist and can be used to configure your PPP dialup.
One is X-isp,...
A few years ago, every Linux system used the libc version 5.x library. The libc library is the main library that all Unix C programs use.The functions they access are defined in that library.Recently a new version of the library was introduced by the GNU project called...
Qmail is a mail program that allows users to send and receive emails. It also has a lot of good features, one of
them being aliases. You can add aliases to users who do not have an account on the system. Here is how to
doit:
• Create an account called "alias" if...
Samba is a product allowing you to connect your Linux systems to Windows systems for file and printer
sharing. By default the SMB protocol used by Samba sends passwords in clear text. Windows 98 and NT use
encrypted passwords.
If you can't seem to connect from a Windows system on...
KDE is a window manager for the X Window system. It comes with a toolbar at the bottom of the screen and
default buttons. You can drag icons from your desktop to the toolbar.
The problem is that there is no option to add icons.The trick is to drag a file on the...
Find is a very useful and powerful utility. It is often used by system administration and in shell scripts. Here
are 2 commands that might be useful:find / -perm -4000 -print.This command will find every file on the system that is suid. This means that when you run it you will...
On older Linux systems, you may have some errors about include files not found in the asm/ or linux/
directory when you try to compile some programs.
This means that the kernel source code was not installed.Bot asm/ and linux/ directories are links to the
kernel source...
The original ICQ client does not currently run on Linux. Fortunately, there are clones that do run on Linux
and offer the ICQ service to users.
A popular ICQ program is Licq available from http://licq.wibble.net.Another popular one is Micq available at http://micq.chatzone.org....
Linux comes with various freely available word processors and office suites. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office
doesn't come with a Linux native port.But you can still read and write Word and Excel files.Word Perfect is a Corel word processor product that has a Linux port. The...
