Making Best Use of Your Tablet. Talk prepared by Angela Briggs February 2018

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1 Making Best Use of Your Tablet Talk prepared by Angela Briggs February 2018

2 Tablets are good for: Browsing the internet Sending s Buying online Checking stuff Taking and editing photos Portability Accessing news Skype/ Facetime Social networking

3 Word processing Spreadsheets Tablets are not so good for: Database/ data analysis Producing PowerPoint presentations Gaming Bulk storage Number crunching

4 Apple ipad Microsoft Surface Pro Makes of Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Amazon Fire Google Pixel Lenovo Yoga

5 ios All Apple mobile devices Operating Systems Android Most Samsung; Huawei; Lenovo; Asus; Acer; Amazon Fire; Google Pixel Windows Microsoft Surface; HP; Samsung TabPro

6 Cheapest tablet: Amazon Fire 7-35 From Amazon 7/2/18

7 A closer look at Apple:

8 ipad, ipad Pro, ipad mini Some Apple options: Screen size (12.9, 10.5, 9.7, 7.9 measured diagonally) Storage size (32GB 512GB) Cellular (additional 130!) Price range:

9 Types of connectors: 30 pin dock ipad 1, 2, 3 Lightning ipad Air, Pro etc

10 If you already have another Apple device (iphone, ipod, Mac), use the same Apple ID for all of them this enables syncing of devices. A word of warning!!! Your Apple ID is the account name that you used when setting up the device. Remember your password! You ll need it to download apps etc. It will have a mixture of upper and lower case letters and numbers.

11 Home screen

12 Swiping to right from Home screen

13 Access Control Panel by swiping from bottom of Home Screen or doubleclicking the Home button

14 Airplane mode WiFi Control Panel Air drop Bluetooth Music player Brightness control Screen mirroring Screen orientation lock Silent mode Do not disturb Timer Camera Volume control

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16 WiFi signal Blue tooth Battery usage History Actions Favourites All open tabs

17 Actions

18 Favourites

19 All open tabs

20 History

21 A look at settings.

22 ipad Storage

23 Managing the Home screen

24 Click here Adding an app icon to your home screen Scroll to left and click here

25 Planet Rugby added to home screen

26 Deleting an app icon from the Home screen Tap and hold the app icon you want to remove until they all wiggle Click the cross in the top corner then tap the Home button to return to normal screen

27 Closing multiple tabs Select Settings Scroll down to Safari.. Select Clear History and Website Data, then select Clear

28 Closing apps Access the Control Panel (Swipe from bottom of screen OR double-click Home button) Press each App screen and swipe upwards. You can close several at once!

29 Siri Hold down the Home button to launch Siri Ask any questions you like But try to be polite!

30 Cutting and pasting Press down on word to select it Drag this out to select the whole phrase, then click Copy Open a new page in Notes; press down on the screen to display the bar above and click Paste

31 Managing Photos

32 Click here to create a new album

33 Some ipad drawbacks; Storage 16GB common on early models Key pad Occupies part of your screen Multifunction keys limit ease of use

34 Use cloud storage 5GB free, you pay for extra! Overcoming storage problems Download to PC using the charging/data cable Use flash storage via Lightning connector Use Airdrop to transfer files to other Apple devices

35 icloud Storage Not really in the clouds! Storage is dispersed on Internet servers around the world Used as a back up Allows Apple to synchronise files across your Apple devices

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37 icloud Storage

38 Downloading files to a PC Use the Apple data cable to connect the ipad to the PC The ipad will appear as an external drive in the file list on the PC

39 Using a flash drive

40 Using Airdrop Apple to Apple ONLY! Both devices must have Airdrop enabled Both devices must have WiFi and Bluetooth turned on and be close Must be on Contacts list of both sender and receiver, otherwise settings should be set to Everyone Receiver must accept file

41 Contact names appear here

42 Christmas Lunch Castle Hotel, Brecon December 2017

43 Overcoming Integral case and keyboard keypad problems Separate keyboard

44 Useful Apps Built in: Contact list Alarm clock Calendar / diary Maps Down loaded: Google Newspapers of choice Facebook Calculator Traveline Cymru

45 Contacts

46 AirPrint printer Keyboard / stand Useful Extras ipen Office 365 Powerpack Mobile WiFi device

47 A few words from Viv.

48 Now for the exercises!! Theatre Brycheiniog log on : barndoor1

49 Practice Exercises Locate and open the Wales on line website Open a news item and it to me at briggs.angie@gmail.com Locate the full script of As You Like It at shakespeare.mit.edu; Locate the text string Monsieur Le Beau within the text; Copy and paste the text to your Notes; Now add the page to your home screen; then delete it!! Open the Calendar app; then close it (the app, not the tab) Close all your open tabs