The following list are some not-so-obvious iPad tricks that everyone should know about:
- Screenshots
To take a screenshot, simply press the “Sleep/Wake-Power” button along with the “Home” button at the same time - Turn off Programs running
Double click your “Home” button. After doing this you will notice a bottom display arise. Press and hold an icon. They will all start to jiggle…They will also have little red “x”s in the top-left corner. Press these in order to shut off programs that are running in the background. This will save on battery life. - Combining programs
To add programs to a cluster like you see in the picture above, Click and Hold a program until it start to jiggle. Drag the program on to another icon. It will automatically create a cluster and will try to name it for you. You can rename it if you would like. - Selecting
While on text, if you would like to select, copy, cut, paste: double click on the text you would like to affect. It will automatically ask you if you would like to do any of the above mentioned tasks. If you would like to select more, drag the little blue dots to the left or to the right of the word until you are selecting precisely. - Undo
Just Shake it! Ha ha. Neat.
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Mrs.M
April 17, 2011 at 8:28 am
Hi,
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Thank you!
Minho
April 17, 2011 at 8:28 am
Thank you! I’ll tell this information to my friend. He was confused of taking screenshot. He’ll like it
Seth
April 18, 2011 at 8:28 am
This is reeally cool I didn’t now that IPad can do that, did you know that Iphone 4 can also do the exact same?
ictdesign
April 19, 2011 at 8:31 am
Thanks for the info Seth. I will check it out.
Max
April 24, 2011 at 8:40 am
Thankyou, this trick is great!I think this trick could help me alot. I don’t know about turn off program that are running.
Pete
April 24, 2011 at 8:41 am
I don’t have an ipad but i find these tricks very helpful. At first i actually thought it’s just a bigger version of the iphone that can’t be use to call someone. Now that i know it can do much more, I might even reconsider of not buying it. I wonder if these tricks work the same way for the iphone.
Heart
April 25, 2011 at 6:27 am
Thank It will be helpful to me
silvia
April 28, 2011 at 4:26 am
These tricks are very helpful.
I learned lot from this article. nice.
ictdesign
April 28, 2011 at 4:32 am
Glad you learned something.