Thread: Ipad tricks

Take a screenshot

Not many people know that there isn't much difference between taking a snapshot of your screen on your iPhone / iPod Touch and taking one on your iPad tablet. In fact, it's exactly the same, minus the differing form factors of course.


To capture your iPad's screen, simultaneously click the Power button (top right) and Home button (bottom, centre) to see a quick flash on the screen and hear a shutter click sound from the device.

That's it. You can access the saved screenshot from Camera Roll under Photos - from here you can choose to email the picture, print it or use it as a wallpaper, among other things.

Disable 3G data roaming

If you jet-set quite a bit and recently bought an iPad with a 3G SIM, you'd do well to turn the 3G radio off whenever you leave your home network. You don't want Press the Power and Home button to incur signifi - simuLtaneousLy to take a screenshot of the cantly higher data charges, unless you're on a corporate account and your employer is footing the bill. Just go to Settings > Cellular Data and make
sure both, Cellular Data Data Roaming are ch off. Alternatively, you car. suspend your iPad's 3G by putting it in Airplane. (from Settings).
need is a free Wi-Fi hotspot to tap into.

Delete 'Sent from my iPad' email signature:

Not everyone wants to know that you're emailing from your iPad . unless you like showing off. Maybe you'd like to substitute the default email signature with something else, some*thing a bit more informative or have nothing at all. You may want to include your official em ailsignature when replying to office email from your iPad?

Here's how:

Go to Settings Mail, Contacts, Calendars and click on the Signature tab on the accompanying right column. You'll see the default "Sent from my iPad" signature in plain text in the subsequent pane. Select your keypad to edit the text to your official signature or hit delete to completely wipe off the sign. Exit Settings and notice the difference when you next send anemail.

Kill running apps Initially, when you have a lim*ited number of apps, you won't notice the iPad (or iPad 2) slowing down a bit. but eventu*ally· as the App Store populates the device with irresistible apps and games - you will. When you open app after app, it's just a matter of time. Bu t how do you know which apps are running and which ones you wish to kill?

Multitasking with iOS 4has made possible killing of background apps *this may even help you prolong your iPad's battery life. To know which apps are running in the iPad's background, double-click the Home button. You'll notice the default desktop grey out and a row popping up at .

Intresting read!- Thanks for this :)