iPad+PD

Andrew's Amazing Apple iPad Adventures (ie.tips)

**//Quick summary of iPad PD session//**

- Smartcover - turns iPad on & off - Use finger to swipe on screen to move through pages - press Home button to move to first screen - press Home button again to be able to search the iPad for apps, etc - Multitouch - pinch to zoom, can use two fingers to zoom in & out - When typing - turn iPad horizontal to get a bigger keyboard - press the shift button once to get one capital letter, - press twice quickly to turn on caps lock - press the ?123 button for numbers - when in numbers, press #+= button for special symbols like ^ - press & hold finger down & keyboard will change to numbers - while still holding finger down, drag to number & let go & will automatically revert back to letter keyboard. - press & hold in typing area (eg. Safari address bar) & magnifying glass will appear & allow you to - move the cursor to a certain spot, <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- highlight a word to cut, copy, paste <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- once highlighted, can extend the copy area <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- press spacebar twice for a. (fullstop) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Settings button (grey icon with gear looking picture - normally on first screen) is where most setting changes are made <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Screen automatically rotates portrait or landscape when you change orientation (some apps prevent this) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- You can lock the rotation with the button above the side volume control, after changing - Settings - General - Use Side switch to - Lock rotation (usually initially set to mute) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Connect to wireless away from school - Settings - Wi-Fi (2nd from top on left) - Choose a Network (press on the words, not the blue arrow on the right) & enter the security password if required (Macca's don't usually need) - see separate post for full instructions. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Purchase apps through App Store button <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Featured, Top Charts, Categories at bottom to browse, or search box at top right <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- To search, click in search box, may need to click the X on the right to clear old search, type in name (eg. Maths) & press Search on keyboard <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- To refine search click options at top (eg. Category - Education) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Take note of cost, how many stars other have rated, release date <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- iPad Apps are usually those at a higher quality (HD) picture <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Free or light apps are sometimes available to trial & sometimes this is only an iPhone app <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Click the picture for more info (or you can just click the price/free to install from this screen) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Description of app <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- pictures of app - which usually has more than one that you can swipe through <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Customer reviews in Ratings <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Click on cost/free to purchase, click install app to download & install, enter iTunes account password & iPad Apps will close & you are usually taken to last screen with the icon showing a download progress bar. Once finished you can then use. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- iTunes app will let you purchase/download Albums, Songs, Music Videos, Podcasts, iTunesU(niversity) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">You can select these categories at the bottom of the screen. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Apps are classed as <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- An iPod/iPhone app is 320x480 resoluction. When run on an iPad you can click the x2 button to go full screen, which will run as 640x960. Native iPad res is 1024x768 (HD). iPad 3 will have retina display for proper Full HD display (IMO). <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- iBooks app is used to search for electronic books (eBooks) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Click collections up top left to show either eBooks, or PDF's you have downloaded <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Click Store, if asked by proxy - probably need to enter MyInternet login details. May need to enter iTunes details. Featured, Top Charts, Browse at bottom, or search top right <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- When reading a book or pdf, press on the page somewhere to get iBook controls back & select Library at top left to go back to the bookshelf (menu) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Kindle app can be downloaded from the App store if you prefer that <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- iMovie & Garageband do NOT come with the iPad. They both need to be purchased ($6 IIRC) - Highly recommended <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- iPod button (on the dock at the bottom of the screen) for music, videos, audiobooks, podcasts stored on the iPad <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- ios4 brought Multitasking, meaning several apps can run at once. This can slow down the iPad considerably so if you double click (press) the home button, it will show a list of running apps at the bottom of the screen, which you can press on to go to the app, or hold down to terminate the running app (click top left X) <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Delete apps - hold the icon down & all icons on the screen will shake in terror on who is about to be deleted & press the X at top left to delete - you will get another message to confirm. System apps on the front screen cannot be deleted. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Move apps - while the apps are shaking, press & hold & drag to the side of the screen & it will move onto another page <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Create folders - drag one app on top of another. You can rename the generic folder name. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Turn off the iPad - hold the sleep button down until the power off slide button shows (usually 5 secs). Do this if the iPad has frozen, wireles isn't working, an app is playing up, etc <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Screenshot - to take a picture of what's on the screen - Press & hold the sleep button, then quickly press the home button. The screen flashes & pic is saved in photo album. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Restrictions - Parental Controls can lock out certain features (eg. unable to delete apps, etc) but the iPad will not sync while these are on <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Safari is Apple's web browser. You can type in the URL in the address bar as normal or do a google search in the search bar at top right. You can save a bookmark to safari (icon with arrow pointing out) - Add bookmark, or to the home screen with the other icons. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- when you have scrolled all the way to the bottom of a web page, you can press just above the address bar to quickly go back to the top of the screen <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- double tap a block of text in Safari to get it to automatically expand that section to the screen <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Internet login - we use a generic ipad account to do general browsing so you should not need to enter login details that much <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- MyMail access - because of the generic account, you will need to clear Safari's cookies to access - Settings - Safari - Clear cookies <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Wireless troubleshooting - I have made a separate post about this, but go to Settings - Wi-Fi to see the list of Networks - press the blue arrow on the right to see network settings <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- normal Headphones can be used to listen to the iPad <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- the iPad has a built in microphone <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Charging - the iPad need to be plugged into the power socket to charge, it will not charge from the usb slot on a computer <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; font-size: 140%; left: 1px; margin: 0px; position: relative; top: 1px;">- Cleaning - with normal glasses cleaner & cloth