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Название: iPad All-in-One For Dummies

Автор: Nancy C. Muir

Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited

Жанр: Зарубежная образовательная литература

Серия: For Dummies

isbn: 9781118944424

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СКАЧАТЬ your mobile phone, you use the pads of your fingertips (not your fingernails) and do the following:

      1. Tap the Settings icon.

      The various settings (which you read more about throughout this book) appear. (See Figure 2-5.)

      Figure 2-5: Settings is your central command for all things iPad.

      2. To return to the Home screen, press the Home button.

      3. Swipe a finger or two from right to left on the screen.

      Because the iPad has a few additional Home screens available (15, to be exact) that you can fill up with all the apps you’ll be downloading, the screen shifts slightly to the left. (If you have more apps downloaded, filling additional Home screens, this action moves you to the next Home screen.)

      

With multiple Home screens in use, you get little dots at the bottom of the screen above the Dock icons, indicating which of the Home screens you’re on. You can tap to the right or left of the dots to move one screen in either direction.

      4. To experience the rotating screen feature, hold the iPad firmly and turn it sideways.

      The screen flips to a horizontal orientation. If it doesn’t, check the Side switch (above the volume rocker on the side of your iPad) to make sure that it’s not active. Though this Side switch can be set to mute the iPad rather than control orientation, by default it works with the orientation feature.

      5. To flip the screen back, just turn the device so that it’s oriented like a pad of paper again.

      6. Tap Music in the Dock.

      7. Drag your finger down from the top of the screen to reveal the Notification Center (covered in Book V, Chapter 4).

      8. Drag up from the bottom of the Home screen.

      Notification Center disappears and the Control Center (discussed later in this chapter) is displayed.

      9. Practice multitasking by double-pressing the Home button.

      All running apps appear in a display across the middle of the screen.

      1. Swipe to scroll through the apps, and tap one to jump to it without going back to the Home screen.

      

You can customize the Home screen by changing the wallpaper and brightness. Read about making these changes in Chapter 8 of this minibook.

       Goodbye, click-and-drag; hello, tap-and-swipe

      If you’re like me, you’ll fall in love with the touchscreen interface that iPad sports. It’s just so intuitive to use your finger as a pointing device – something you’re probably already doing on your iPhone, laptop, or other mobile device.

      You can use several methods for getting around and getting things done in iPad using its Multi-Touch screen, including

      ✔ Tap once. To open an application on the Home screen, choose a field such as a search field, select an item in a list, select an arrow to move back or forward one screen, or follow an online link, tap the item once with your finger.

      ✔ Tap twice. Use this method to enlarge or reduce the display of a web page (see Chapter 6 in this minibook for more about using the Safari web browser) or zoom in or out in the Maps app.

      ✔ Pinch and expand. As an alternative to the tap-twice method, you can pinch or expand (unpinch) two fingers (most people use their index finger and thumb) on the screen (see Figure 2-6) when you’re looking at photos, maps, web pages, or email messages to quickly reduce or enlarge them, respectively.

      

You can use a three-finger tap to zoom your screen to be even larger, or use Multitasking Gestures to swipe with four or five fingers. (See “Exploring Multitasking Gestures,” later in this chapter.) These techniques are handy if you have vision challenges.

      Figure 2-6: Pinch to zoom in or out on a page.

      ✔ Drag to scroll (known as swiping). When you press your finger to the screen and drag to the right or left, you move from one Home screen to another. (See Figure 2-7.) Swiping to the left on the Home screen, for example, moves you to the next Home screen. Swiping up while reading an online newspaper moves you down the page, while swiping down moves you back up the page.

      Figure 2-7: Swiping gets you around a screen quickly.

      ✔ Flick. To scroll more quickly on a page, quickly flick your finger on the screen in the direction you want to move.

      ✔ Tap the status bar. To move quickly to the top of a list, web page, or email message, tap the Status bar at the top of the iPad screen.

      ✔ Tap and hold. If you’re in any application where selecting text is an option, such as Notes or Mail, or if you’re on a web page, tapping and holding on text will select a word and bring up a contextual menu with editing tools that allow you to select, cut, copy, or paste text, and more. You can also use this tap-and-hold method to reposition the insertion point under the magnifying glass icon that appears.

      

Notice that when you rock your iPad backward or forward, the background moves as well. (This parallax feature was introduced in iOS 7.) You can disable this feature if it makes you seasick. Open the Settings app, tap General, tap Accessibility, and then set the Reduce Motion switch to Off.

      To display the Notification Center, swipe down from the top of the screen with one finger. It lists all messages, mail, calendar events, and more in one handy spot.

      If you feel like having a practice session, try the following steps from the Home screen:

      1. Tap the Safari button to display the web browser.

      You may be asked to enter your Wi-Fi network password to access the network to go online.

      2. Tap a link to move to another page.

      3. Double-tap the page to enlarge it; then pinch two fingers together on the screen to reduce its size.

      4. Drag one finger around the page to scroll up or down or side to side.

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