There's no superfluous remark, let's get to the fun stuff. For iPhone users, these tips may help you quickly and easy to operate your iPad. Those two have something in common.
Tap Home to Get Home
Press the Home button while on navigating your Home screens to return to the main Home screen. Tap it again to get to the search page.
Lock 'er Down
The orientation lock button. You're gonna need it. The iPad's accelerometer is powerful sensitive. Find a happy spot and use the button.
Check your App updates
If you have an iPod touch or iPhone, check for app updates with iTunes. There's a good chance some of your apps are ready to to be updated for the iPad.
You're Not Trapped in the iBookstore
There are gazillions of public domain books in the ePub format on the web. Some of those free books are available in the iBookstore for free, but not all. All of them should work with your iPad and show up in iBooks. And you can find more book from the Google books, Project Gutenberg. Once you've downloaded those books, just drop them into iTunes and sync them to your iPad. Also, you can use the Kindle App for iPad. Here is another way to transfer audio books from ipod to ipad for mac, Mac users should take a look.
Where are My iPad Only Apps?
iTunes pulls a cruel trick by putting your iPad only apps at the bottom of your apps list. Just scroll on down to the bottom. There they are.
You can also put iTunes in list view to scroll quickly through your apps and organize by Kind.
Send SMS
Just because you don't have a phone in the iPad doesn't mean you can't send SMS to friends. There are tons of free sms apps in the App Store you can try out. Also, you can send SMS with AIM. Just fire up AIM and to send a text message to a friend, just send the message to your friend's phone number with +1 at the beginning.
Copy and Paste Photos Instead of Sharing
You can only email five pictures from the Photo app using the Email button. You can copy far more and paste them into the Mail app. Need to send 15 pictures? Copy and paste them from the Photo app into a Mail document.
Share Documents
If you're wondering where Pages, Numbers and other Apps that save files keep their files. Take a gander at the Apps tab when you plug in your iPad. Scroll down and you'll see the File Sharing. Check out the apps that utilize fie sharing and the actual documents.
When you're ready to sync your files, use the Add.. button to add your files and work with them on the go. If you just need an ipad to mac music transfer, the one I use now is good.
Picture Frame
Got an iPad dock? Now your iPad can be one of those picture frames you give to your mom. While the iPad is locked, click on the white flower for the slideshow to begin.
You can adjust the photo settings in Settings>Picture Frame.
Hard Reset
If your iPad's giving you trouble, just like the iPhone and iPod touch, you can hard reset it. Just hold down the Home and Top button until you see the Apple logo. This is usually a great fix for misbehaving apps.
Find Your iPad
If you're afraid you might misplace your rather large iPad. Grab yourself a MobileMe account and turn on Find My iPad. It's actually off by default so to turn it on. Navigate to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Your MobileMe account. There you go, just turn it on.
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Tap Home to Get Home
Press the Home button while on navigating your Home screens to return to the main Home screen. Tap it again to get to the search page.
Lock 'er Down
The orientation lock button. You're gonna need it. The iPad's accelerometer is powerful sensitive. Find a happy spot and use the button.
Check your App updates
If you have an iPod touch or iPhone, check for app updates with iTunes. There's a good chance some of your apps are ready to to be updated for the iPad.
You're Not Trapped in the iBookstore
There are gazillions of public domain books in the ePub format on the web. Some of those free books are available in the iBookstore for free, but not all. All of them should work with your iPad and show up in iBooks. And you can find more book from the Google books, Project Gutenberg. Once you've downloaded those books, just drop them into iTunes and sync them to your iPad. Also, you can use the Kindle App for iPad. Here is another way to transfer audio books from ipod to ipad for mac, Mac users should take a look.
Where are My iPad Only Apps?
iTunes pulls a cruel trick by putting your iPad only apps at the bottom of your apps list. Just scroll on down to the bottom. There they are.
You can also put iTunes in list view to scroll quickly through your apps and organize by Kind.
Send SMS
Just because you don't have a phone in the iPad doesn't mean you can't send SMS to friends. There are tons of free sms apps in the App Store you can try out. Also, you can send SMS with AIM. Just fire up AIM and to send a text message to a friend, just send the message to your friend's phone number with +1 at the beginning.
Copy and Paste Photos Instead of Sharing
You can only email five pictures from the Photo app using the Email button. You can copy far more and paste them into the Mail app. Need to send 15 pictures? Copy and paste them from the Photo app into a Mail document.
Share Documents
If you're wondering where Pages, Numbers and other Apps that save files keep their files. Take a gander at the Apps tab when you plug in your iPad. Scroll down and you'll see the File Sharing. Check out the apps that utilize fie sharing and the actual documents.
When you're ready to sync your files, use the Add.. button to add your files and work with them on the go. If you just need an ipad to mac music transfer, the one I use now is good.
Picture Frame
Got an iPad dock? Now your iPad can be one of those picture frames you give to your mom. While the iPad is locked, click on the white flower for the slideshow to begin.
You can adjust the photo settings in Settings>Picture Frame.
Hard Reset
If your iPad's giving you trouble, just like the iPhone and iPod touch, you can hard reset it. Just hold down the Home and Top button until you see the Apple logo. This is usually a great fix for misbehaving apps.
Find Your iPad
If you're afraid you might misplace your rather large iPad. Grab yourself a MobileMe account and turn on Find My iPad. It's actually off by default so to turn it on. Navigate to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Your MobileMe account. There you go, just turn it on.
Do you know all the useful iPas tips? If the answer is "No", you can try now.