In our February Meeting a question came up about network storage devices (NAS) for iPad and iPhones. We briefly discussed the Seagate wireless device. Here are some links to related devices. We will definitely look into this more in our April Meeting when our topic will be on “The Cloud.”
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Touchscreen Shortcuts for the iPad and iPhone
Apple has a website with you in mind, so I have assembled some favorite touchscreen shortcuts …
- Double tap the Space bar in order to end a sentence and begin a new sentence.
- Double tap the Shift key in order to lock the caps lock. Tap once to unlock.
- Tap on the “.?123” key, hold, and drag to the desired character or numeral and release in order to enter the character or numeral and return to the alphabetic keyboard.
- Tap and hold a letter on the keyboard to enable accented versions of that letter.
- Tapping and holding on text brings up common options. Tap select to select a word. Use left/right arrow keys to extend options, including bold/italics/underline as well as define to get a definition.
- In Safari, if you know the domain of the web site you are trying to navigate to, you can type that in, such as “yahoo” or “wikipedia” or “smalldog” without the “www” or “.com” and you should find that Safari will get you there.
- In Safari, when entering an address in the address bar, tap and hold the “.com” key to get access to .net, .org, .edu sites
- When you are looking at a website, an email inbox list, or a long mail message, tap the status bar where the time is displayed and you will jump back to the top of the list.
If you want to see the full set click through to iPhone (caveat – most of the tips work on your iPad as well – but not always !!)
Adding Accent Marks on Apple Devices
Do your Apple devices have a foreign accent?
Have you wondered how to type character marks over the vowels of foreign words? Well, thanks to the Small Dog Electronics newsletter, Kibbles & Bytes, you can learn how to add those sexy little accent marks over vowels, if your Mac uses Lion OSX 10.7, and your handheld devices use their new iOS.
For those of you using Lion, the same steps you take on your iPhone (or the like) are now applicable.
To produce an accent on your Mac using 10.7, press and (briefly) hold the letter that needs the accent mark.
Your accent character choices will then appear, and you can navigate to the one you need
Thanks to David Watersun for this tip.
Save Data Storage When you Download IOS5
No need to send all of your apps to the ICloud, using up your data, when apps are already saved in your ITunes.
Multiple IDs on iCloud
We are of course concentrating on iCloud and IOS5 at next months meetings. Meanwhile a number of questions arose at our September meeting regarding single households with multiple iTunes IDs and the issue with synching ….
