Last week I mentioned some tricks to get more out of your iPhone and this week I will turn my attention to the iPad. Here are five handy tricks that you might not have discovered yet…
Get the Big Picture!
To take a screen shot push the power button and the home button at once for just a second. You can also use this trick on your iPhone. On the iPad, however, that screen shot is at 768 X 1024 resolution making it a lot more useful than the tiny iPhone shots.
Get Social with Siri
Did you know you can have your personal assistant, Siri, post to Facebook or Tweet for you? You can say “Post to Facebook: I love Small Dog Electronics” or say “Tweet: Heading over to Small Dog now”.
Be All Thumbs
I have seen some really fast typing done by all thumbs but the iOS keyboard doesn’t quite facilitate that for most people. However, you can split the keyboard into two halves and move it around on your iPad screen. Simply press and hold the keyboard icon on the lower right side of the keyboard and choose “Split” and it will separate into two halves. You can stick it back together by pinching it together or by pressing and holding the keyboard icon. Your other choice is to “Undock” or “Dock” which means you can move the keyboard anywhere on the screen or move it back.
Hey Where’s My Manual?
Wait a minute, this fancy iPad didn’t come with an instruction manual!
Not to worry my friend. Surf over to Apple’s Product Manual page or search in the iBooks app and you will find the 25 MB Apple User Guide to download. Read on and you might even find more tricks!
Customize your Triple Click!
You can activate voiceover, invert colors, set the screen to grayscale, zoom, switch control and assistive touch by customizing the triple click of your home button. Head to Settings > General > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut and you can customize the triple click.