Apps Every College Student Should Have Evernote Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. (All Platforms) myhomework myhomework is an app where students can manage their school life. (All Platforms) iprocrastinate iprocrastinate is a simple, effective task manager for the Mac and iphone. Dropbox Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. (All Platforms) Quizlet Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study, and game modes (All Platforms) Mint Manage your budget with easy to use personal finance tools and calculators. Track spending and monitor your online banking account. (All Platforms) Khan Academy Our mission to provide a world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Our library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer (All Platforms)
Learning the ipad App Basics ipad Navigation and Using the ipad Home Button Navigation on the ipad is often accomplished with simple touch gestures. These same gestures can do different things based on the application you have open. For example: touching or tapping an icon will launch the application. Swiping your finger left or right across the screen will move from one screen of icons to the next, yet in the ibooks application, this same gesture will move you from one page of a book to the next. In addition to tapping the screen and moving your finger across the screen, you will occasionally need to touch the screen and hold your finger down. For example, when you touch your finger against an application icon, while keeping your finger held down, you will enter a mode that allows you to move the icon to a different part of the screen. Don't forget the about the ipad Home Button Apple's design is to have as few buttons on the exterior of the ipad as possible. One of the few buttons on the outside is the Home Button. This is the circular button at the bottom of the ipad with square in the middle. The Home Button is used to wake the ipad when it is sleeping. It is also used to exit out of applications. If you need to put the ipad into a
special mode (such as the mode that allows you to move application icons), the home button is used to exit that mode. You can think of the Home Button as the "Go Home" button. Whether your ipad is sleeping or you are inside of an application, it will take you to the home screen. How to Find ipad Apps With over 300,000 apps designed for the ipad and many more compatible iphone apps, finding a good app may sometimes feel overwhelming. Luckily, there are several ways to help you find the best apps. One great way to find quality apps is to use Google rather than searching the App Store directly. For example, if you want to find the best puzzle games, performing a search on Google for "best ipad puzzle games" will yield better results than going through page after page of apps in the App Store. Simply go to Google and type "best ipad" followed by the type of app you are interested in locating. Once you've targeted a particular app, you can search for it in the App Store. (And many lists will contain a link directly to the app in the App Store.) But Google won't always yield the best results. Here are a few other tips for finding great apps: 1. Featured Apps. The first tab on the toolbar at the bottom of the App Store is for featured apps. Apple has chosen these apps as the best of their kind, meaning they are considered higher quality. In addition to the featured apps, you'll be able to see the new and noteworthy list and the Apple staff favorites. 2. Top Charts. While popularity doesn't always mean quality, it's a great place to look. The Top Charts are divided into multiple categories and are listed on the top right side of the App Store screen. Once you've chosen the category, you can review the top apps by swiping
your finger from the bottom of the list towards the top. This gesture is commonly used on the ipad to scroll down lists or down the page on a website. 3. Customer Rating. No matter where you are in the App Store, you can always perform a search for an app by typing into the search box in the top right corner. By default, your results will sort by 'most relevant', which might help you to find a specific app, but doesn't take into account quality. One way to find the better apps is to choose to sort by the ratings assigned by customers. You can do this by tapping "By Relevance" at the top of the screen and choosing "By Rating". Remember to consider both the rating and how many times it has been rated. A 4 star app that has been rated 100 times is far more reliable than a 5 star app that has only been rated 6 times. 4. App Recommendations for Every College Student. Evernote makes it easy to remember things big and small from your everyday life using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. myhomework is an app where students can manage their school life. iprocrastinate is a simple, effective task manager for the Mac and iphone. Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Quizlet is a free website providing learning tools for students, including flashcards, study, and game modes.
Mint manages your budget with easy to use personal finance tools and calculators. Track spending and monitor your online banking account. Khan Academy provides a world class education for anyone, anywhere. Their library of videos covers K 12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer. How to Install ipad Apps Once you've found your app, you will need to install it on your ipad. This is a two step process. First, touch the price, which is outlined in red. (Free apps will read "FREE".) Once you've touched the button, the outline will turn green and read "INSTALL APP". Touch it again to start the install process. When you are on the app's page in the App Store, the download button is located at the top of the screen just above the Details tab. You can also install an app directly from the search results by touching the price tag located on the right side of the search results box. Once you've chosen to install the app, you may be prompted to enter your itunes account password. This request is designed to protect you in case someone picks up your ipad and attempts to download apps without your permission. If you have downloaded one app and hope to immediately continue reviewing or downloading apps, the ipad will assume you are still the user and won't prompt you for your password.
How to Move ipad Apps Once you have downloaded an app from the App Store, the ipad may put it on a second screen. You can switch between screens by swiping your finger across the ipad, but you may want to move the app to the first screen so you can get to it more quickly. You can move an ipad app by placing your finger on the app's icon and holding it down until all of the icons on the screen start jiggling. (Some icons will also show a black circle with an x in the middle.) We'll call this the "move state". While your ipad is in the move state, you can move icons by holding your finger down on top of them and simply drag or move your finger. The icon will move with your finger so long as you keep your finger pressed to the screen. To move the ipad app to another screen, hold your finger down on the icon to initiate the move, and then slide your finger to the edge of the screen. You will want to stop at the spot on the screen where the display gives way to the black edge of the ipad. (If you move your finger onto that black edge, the ipad will not recognize where your finger is placed.) If you move the app's icon to the left side of the display, the ipad will shift to the screen to the left. If you move the icon to the right side of the display, it will shift to the screen to the right. To place or set the app's icon, simply lift up your finger. When you have completed your move or reorganization of ipad apps, you can leave the "move state" by clicking the home button. Remember, this button is one of the few physical buttons on the ipad and is used to let you exit from what you are doing on the ipad.
How to Delete ipad Apps You can delete an ipad app similar to how you would move the icon for an ipad app. First, tap and hold the icon until all of the icons on the screen are jiggling. This is the "move state." When in this state, some of the icons will have a black circle at the top with an "x" in the middle. Simply tap the "x" button to delete an app. Don't worry about accidentally deleting an app. The ipad will confirm your choice before the app is actually deleted. What about apps that do not have an "x" button? You are not allowed to delete the default applications that came installed on your ipad. These include the Calender, Contacts, itunes, App Store, Game Center, etc. How to Create Folders and Organize ipad Apps You can also create a folder of icons on the ipad screen. To do this, enter the "move state" by touching an ipad app and holding your finger down on it until the app icons are jiggling. If you recall from the tutorial on moving apps, you can move an app around the screen by keeping your finger pressed down to the icon and moving the finger on the display.
You can create a folder by 'dropping' an app on top of another app. Notice that when you move an application's icon on top of another app, that app is highlighted by a square. This indicates that you can create a folder by lifting your finger, thereby dropping the icon on it. And you can put other icons in the folder by dragging them to the folder and dropping/releasing the app. When you create a folder, you will see a title bar with the name of the folder on it and all of the contents below it. The ipad will try to give the folder a smart name based on the functionality of the apps you have combined. If you want to rename the folder, simply touch the title area and type in a new name using the on screen keyboard. In the future, you can just tap the folder icon to get access to those apps. When you are in the folder and want to exit out of it, simply press the ipad home button. The home is used to exit out of whatever task you are currently doing on the ipad. How to use PDF or epub files on an ipad epub files are non editable text files, normally converted books, meant for reading. PDFs are also non editable text files meant for reading. The best way to view and store these types of files on the ipad is with Apple s ibooks app. 1. The first thing you will want to do is to download Apple s ibooks app from the App Store. This application allows you to view epub/pdf files from your ipad. You can also download and store books from the ibooks Store. 2. When you have an epub/pdf file on your PC or Mac and want it on your ipad, the easiest option for getting it on your ipad is to simply email the file to yourself. 3.Once you receive the email, open the Mail application and find the email. 4. Open the email and then tap on the attached epub/pdf file. You will see this popup, or one similar to it.
5. You will want to tap on the option Open in ibooks 6. Once you tap this option, the epub/pdf file will save to your ipad and then open in ibooks.
How to Download Files from Dropbox for Printing 1. Go to www.dropbox.com 2. Sign in
3. Select the file you want to download 4. Click the download button 5. Go to the desktop and click the Computer icon 6. Click the Downloads icon
7. Open the file you want to print 8. Print the file
How to print files from Google Drive 1. Go to drive.google.com 2. Sign in
3. Select the file you want to download 4. Click Print on the top left. 5. If on Chrome, just choose the correct printer and click print.
In other browsers such as Firefox or internet Explorer, you may need to save the file then print manually. Choose Print from my computer. Print the file from whatever program it opens with.