The iPad tricks and tips thread

[JefferyShin]

To prevent pages from reloading in Safari surf with your left hand only.


ETA: if you normally surf with your left hand, use your right hand.

It's magical. It knows the difference.

Whaaaaa?

Could you explain what you mean?

 

[msavwah]

swiping up on the comma/exclamation softkey automatically inserts the apostrophe for you

Nice!
You can actually just hold it a sec too.

 

[mcdj]

ETA: if you normally surf with your left hand, use your right hand.

ETA?

 

[iSingandiDance]

From the iPod screen, you can enlarge the artwork by pinching out. You can return the artwork to its normal size by pinching in.

Kinda cool.

 

[danpass]

ETA?

Edited To Add


let's keep up with the acronyms shall we?

 

[ZBoater]

Edited To Add


let's keep up with the acronyms shall we?

Whatever happened to Estimated Time of Arrival?

 

[dav]

From the iPod screen, you can enlarge the artwork by pinching out. You can return the artwork to its normal size by pinching in.

Kinda cool.

thanks for this. any way to prevent the ipod from going into full screen art mode? hate that mode, wish it functioned more like itunes.

 

[MisterL99]

If you don't want to swipe on the home screen to go from page to page, simply tap on those dots at the bottom and they will change the page for you.

Nice

 

[Lwyd]

In Keynote while playing a slide show (full screen) if you tap and hold for a few seconds you get a laser pointer. This is great if you're playing the slides on a projector.

 

[Galley]

The wallpaper trick doesn't seem to work with square images.

 

[nightfly13]

Still awaiting delivery of my iPad, but been using an iPhone for ages. The default setting for a double click of the home button is favorites for quick phone calls. What does it do on the iPad? On iPhone, triple clicking takes you to the spotlight-like search feature.

 

[PsyD4Me]

Probably won't help you as it doesn't improve scrolling in any direction as such... But have you tried touching the bar at the top (with time, battery etc) while looking at any scrollabl content anywhere on the iPad? On the iPhone, this scrolls straight to the top of the page really quick.

Wow than didn't know that, now I gotta figure out how to scroll down

 

[3goldens]

Thank you so much. Having to hit the numbers/symbols button every time I needed an apostrophe was ridiculous!! This trick will be super handy!!!

That is. Good one they should have soft keys for mor functions!

 

[mcdj]

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let's keep up with the acronyms shall we?

man this place makes me feel old sometimes.

 

[gillybean]

Still awaiting delivery of my iPad, but been using an iPhone for ages. The default setting for a double click of the home button is favorites for quick phone calls. What does it do on the iPad? On iPhone, triple clicking takes you to the spotlight-like search feature.

Double click brings up the small music controls if you have music playing.

Triple click brings you to search.

 

[ZBoater]

Double click brings up the small music controls if you have music playing.

Triple click brings you to search.

That is customizable under Settings / General / Home.

 

[jaycee520]

Press home + sleep button for screenshot. Shows up in photos.

Thanks..ill never find that out

 

[PsyD4Me]

This thread should be renamed to the iPad Easter Egg thread

 

[JefferyShin]

In safari, there's no need to type .com for most sites.

For example, just type in flickr and the top bar and click go, and it'll automatically fill in .com, regardless of if you have visited the site before or not.

 

[phpmaven]

Everyone probably knows this but I will post anyway. If you hold the .COM button down .NET, .ORG, ect will show up.

Actually, I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip.

 

[phpmaven]

Too bad you have no idea how to use an apostrophe.

Tip's... I didn't see that. Good one.

 

[phpmaven]

Nice to see the pedant grammar police are patrolling the forum!*

Chill

Actually, that should be "Nice to see THAT the pedant grammar police are patrolling the forum!"

 

[snapper07]

Tip's... I didn't see that. Good one.

Actually, that should be "Nice to see THAT the pedant grammar police are patrolling the forum!"

Oh dear some people really don't have anything better to do.

It's pedantic, pompous, pathetic and pointless to endlessly correct people's spelling and grammar on this forum do people not take a moment to think that other forum users might not have such a great grasp of the English language?

 

[ngenerator]

to download a web pdf (for example) simply type a 'g' in front of the http and Goodreader will automatically download it.

e.g.: ghttp://.......

Wow, awesome! It works like a charm!

 

[snapper07]

to download a web pdf (for example) simply type a 'g' in front of the http and Goodreader will automatically download it.

e.g.: ghttp://.......

Wow, awesome! It works like a charm!

Wow yes genius what a great feature.