I’ve found that my iPad collects “empty folders” in Photos – some quirk related to importing with the Camera Connection Kit, and quite annoying! I finally got annoyed enough to find a way to remove them tonight; I tried Image Capture on OS-X it had no effect, but then a Google search took me to [...]
It is worth exploring your iPad – check out Accessibilty options in Settings / General, where you will find the “White on Black” option: This option simply inverts all colors, resulting in a very strange home screen: But reading iBooks at night might be easier on the eyes: Also in Accessibilty, you can set clicking [...]
My concerns about iPad WiFi performance continued to worry, and while it seems that holding the iPad “correctly”(!) significantly improves connectivity, I still found the App store really sluggish – taking maybe 20s to load up, especially poor when compared with my iPhone that loads so much faster. Of course, the iPhone App store needs [...]
Sadly not everything about the iPad is “magical” yet! Example: When I sync’ed my iPad, I let it sync my complete iPhoto library – this was a mistake for a couple of reasons. First, the sync took many hours as my computer compressed the photos for transfer to iPad (but that’s a good thing at [...]
The iPad is new, and many released Apps are not yet perfect – be sure to check for updates regularly (just visit the App store on your iPad); you’ll be glad you did, when your Apps work better and crash less!
The iPad, like the iPhone, has a brightness control buried in Settings: Like the iPhone, it’s supposed to auto-dim in response to environment lighting – though I’ve not really noticed it working (at least, if it does have any effect, it’s minimal compared to the iPhone). Perhaps for this reason, there’s a “quick adjust” in [...]
How many iPad owners thought that, when they opened their iPad and first saw the default home screen, with great scratches all across it: Whoever thought that wallpaper background would be nice, should have removed the “star streaks” that look just like scratches (or maybe it was deliberate by Apple, so that anyone who has [...]
