For Seniors: Difference between Laptops and Tablets
Laptops and netbooks, however similar, are quite different than tablets. The most popular tablet is the Apple iPad, although companies such as Dell, Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, and Motorola have brought [more…]
For Seniors: Tablet Buying Decisions: Which Operating System?
When deciding which tablet to buy, you must consider the operating system it uses. Most tablets use a mobileoperating system (OS) similar (or identical) to operating systems used on smartphones. The OS [more…]
For Seniors: Use a Tablet Touchscreen and Keyboard
You interact with a tablet through its touchscreen and onscreen keyboard. Using a tablet’s touchscreen or onscreen keyboard, you provide input with your finger or a stylus rather than a mouse. [more…]
For Seniors: Tablet Buying Decisions: Wireless or 3G Internet?
Tablets offer two ways to go online: wirelessly or through a 3G (cellular) connection. Your Internet connection choice affects not only your overall cost but also the convenience and reliability of the [more…]
For Seniors: Tablet Buying Decisions: Which Apps?
A tablet's operating system controls which applications can run on the tablet, because those apps must be compatible with the operating system your tablet uses. So if you choose an Android tablet, you [more…]
Change or Reorder Saved Networks on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Once you’ve connected to a network, the BlackBerry PlayBook makes it easy to reconnect when you’re in the same electronic neighborhood. If more than one of the saved networks is within reach, the PlayBook [more…]
What You Need to Use the BlackBerry PlayBook
Well, obviously you need a BlackBerry PlayBook. But you won’t be able to do anything with it, at least at first, until you connect to the Internet and configure it for the first time. Here’s a list of [more…]
Get to Know the Inside of Your BlackBerry PlayBook
An area that few BlackBerry PlayBook users will ever see is the inside. Here the clever engineers and designers have managed to squeeze all of the electronic parts that make this plastic case into a computer [more…]
Three Regions of the BlackBerry PlayBook Touchscreen
Consider some metaphorical places on the front touchscreen of the BlackBerry PlayBook when you are looking at the home page. Although the entire screen can display a single image or document page, the [more…]
Set Up WiFi or Cell Connection for Your BlackBerry PlayBook
Although the BlackBerry PlayBook isn’t alive, it does have certain needs that must be dealt with before it can do that thing that it does so well. You can mostly just sit back and respond to questions [more…]
ID Yourself and Upgrade the BlackBerry PlayBook OS
As part of the setup process for your new Blackberry PlayBook, you will need to apply for a BlackBerry ID or apply an existing one to your new PlayBook. [more…]
How to Pair Your BlackBerry PlayBook to a Smartphone
At any time you can pair a BlackBerry smartphone to your BlackBerry PlayBook. This is one of the key differences between this tablet and the others.
The process of pairing uses a utility called BlackBerry [more…]
Attach Your BlackBerry PlayBook to PC or Mac
With all the BlackBerry PlayBook’s wireless capabilities, it is still necessary (and sometimes easier) to connect to a personal or laptop computer with a wire [more…]
Master BlackBerry PlayBook Basic Gestures
You can accomplish just about anything you want on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet using one or sometimes two fingers. They’re called gestures. The active area for the touchscreen of the BlackBerry PlayBook [more…]
Advanced Gestures to Use on the BlackBerry PlayBook
Some advanced gestures help you get into the innards of the operating system and the exteriority of the apps and utilities of the BlackBerry PlayBook. [more…]
How to Change the BlackBerry PlayBook Keyboard
The basic keyboard for the BlackBerry PlayBook is a recognizable version of the familiar QWERTY device that most of us have learned to master to some degree or another. [more…]
How to Customize a Configured BlackBerry PlayBook
Don’t worry too much about decisions you make in the initial setup of your brand-spanking-new BlackBerry PlayBook. With the exception of downloading the most current OS and agreeing to the user agreement [more…]
About Your BlackBerry PlayBook
The About panel is your BlackBerry PlayBook’s information panel. It actually has five pages; you can get to more data by tapping the down arrow. [more…]
BlackBerry PlayBook Storage & Sharing Options
If you’re looking for some of the reasons the BlackBerry PlayBook is attractive to corporate and enterprise IT managers — the keepers of company secrets — you’ll find some of the answers in the Storage [more…]
General Settings on Your BlackBerry PlayBook
On their BlackBerry PlayBooks, most users won’t want to change the Application Behavior setting from Default; leaving it as is means an application stays active in the background until another application [more…]
Operations Settings for Your BlackBerry PlayBook
Five categories of settings are related to the way you interact with or receive information from your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet: Keyboard, Screen, Sounds, Date & Time, and HDMI. [more…]
Communication with the BlackBerry PlayBook
The BlackBerry PlayBook is all about communication; it really doesn’t serve much purpose without a link of some sort. The basic mode of communication for the PlayBook, in many situations, is a WiFi connection [more…]
Reasons to Use the BlackBerry PlayBook Bridge
If you own both a BlackBerry PlayBook and an up-to-date BlackBerry smartphone, using the BlackBerry Bridge adds a separate level of apps: e-mail, calendar, contacts, Messenger, and more, each enhanced [more…]
Bridge Links the BlackBerry PlayBook with Your Smartphone
Research in Motion, the developers of the BlackBerry PlayBook, has a business plan that emphasizes security and reliability above bells and whistles. Not that its devices don’t eventually reach the point [more…]
How to Add Bridge on a BlackBerry Phone
There are two ways to add BlackBerry Bridge, the connecting software that comes with your Blackberry Playbook, to a BlackBerry smartphone; neither requires heavy lifting and both are free. And there are [more…]
