For Seniors: Find Help for Your iPad
Apple is known for its easy-to-use products and helpful customer support. Apple makes help available through various outlets. Apple employees are very knowledgeable about all things Apple, so they should [more…]
For Seniors: Find a Missing iPad
The FindMyiPad feature can find a missing iPad whether you simply mislay it or someone steals it. FindMyiPad not only tracks down your iPad but also lets you wipe out the data contained in it if you have [more…]
For Seniors: Reasons to Own a Laptop, Netbook, or Tablet
Should you purchase a laptop, netbook, or tablet? As a senior, you may have already thought of reasons to buy, such as e-mailing friends or browsing the Internet. However, laptops, netbooks, and tablets [more…]
For Seniors: Buying the Right Tablet
Buying a tablet is not often an impulse decision. Before you decide to purchase a tablet, there are several things you might want to consider first.
Laptops and netbooks are portable computers, although [more…]
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…]
How to Manage E-mail on Your iPad
Managing e-mail messages on your iPad typically involves either moving the messages to a folder or deleting them. To herd your messages into folders, you have the following options: [more…]
The iPad Big Picture: What It Does
The iPad has many best-of-class features, but perhaps its most unusual feature is the lack of a physical keyboard or stylus. Instead, it has a 9.7-inch super-high-resolution touchscreen that you operate [more…]
The iPad’s Home Screen Icons
The original iPad's Home screen displayed 17 icons, with each icon representing a different built-in application or function. If you have a second- or third-generation iPad, you have three additional apps [more…]
How to Tap, Flick, Pinch, and Conrol the iPad Display
The iPad, like the iPhone, dispenses with a physical mouse and keyboard. Apple is once again living up to an old company advertising slogan to “Think Different.” [more…]
Navigate beyond the iPad Home Screen
The Home screen is not the only screen of icons on your iPad tablet. After you start adding apps from the iTunes App Store, you may see two or more tiny dots among the Safari, Mail, Photos, and Music icons [more…]
The Virtual iPad Keyboard
Instead of a physical keyboard, several “soft” or “virtual” English-language keyboard layouts slide up from the bottom of the iPad screen, all variations on the alphabetical keyboard, the numeric and punctuation [more…]
International Keyboard Layouts for iPad
Apple is expanding the iPad’s reach globally with international keyboard layouts on the iPad for dozens of languages. To access a keyboard that isn’t customized for Americanized English, tap Settings→General→Keyboard→International [more…]
Wi-Fi Options for the iPad
Wi-Fi is the chief way to browse the web (or send e-mail, access the App Store or iTunes Store, or check out YouTube) on the iPad. But for all the places you can find an Internet [more…]
How to Look at Web Links with Safari
Surfing the web on the iPad would be a real drag if you had to enter a URL in Safari every time you want to navigate from one page to another. That’s why bookmarks are so useful and why handy links are [more…]
How to Open Flash on the iPad
The iPad's lack of support for Adobe Flash video for web pages is a void that is unlikely to ever get addressed. Even Adobe is no longer embracing Flash for mobile devices. But because Flash has been the [more…]
Tabbed Browsing on the iPad
Safari on the iPad lets you open up to nine pages simultaneously, but the iOS 5 and 5.1 versions dump the awkward multipage interface and gain instead a brilliant rendition of tabbed browsing similar to [more…]
How to Change and Manage Bookmarks on the iPad
If you decide a website you previously bookmarked with Safari on your iPad is no longer meaningful, you can change it or get rid of it: [more…]
How to Use Safari's Reading List on the iPad
When you visit a web page on your iPad you’d like to read, but just not now, the Reading List feature is sure to come in handy. Here’s how it works: [more…]
How to Clip a Web Page on the iPad
In their infinite wisdom, the folks at Apple let you use Safari on your iPad to bestow special privileges on your most frequently visited websites, a process called clipping. [more…]
How to Use Safari's History Option
The Safari web browser on the iPad records the web pages you visit and keeps the logs on hand for several days. Sometimes, you want to revisit a site that you failed to bookmark, but you can’t remember [more…]
How to Do a Web Search in Safari
Conducting a search with Safari on your iPad is quite simple. The figure shows a Google search about iPads on the iPad. The default search engine on the iPad is Google [more…]
