Once you get your iPad fully loaded, you may actually want to find something onto it - a certain song in your music library, a calendar appointment you need to reference, or someone's address. If you have 64 gigabytes of stuff on the bulging iPad, you may not want to wade around looking for a nugget of information. You can, however, shine the Spotlight onto it.
Spotlight is the iPad's built-in tool for introspection and self-searching. It lets you scan your iPad for words, apps, phrases, names, titles, and more. You can call up song files, old appointments, emails with directions to Gettysburg, and many types of other things. You get to Spotlight in a few different ways:
If you're on your first Home screen, press the house button to contact Spotlight. If you're a few Home screens deep, flick backwards from left to until you pass your first Home screen and get through to the Spotlight screen, where you can flick no further.
Once you're on the Spotlight screen, type the name or words you're looking for. Spotlight begins to search even before a person finishes typing, and narrows their email list as you continue. On the search results screen, tap anything to open it. You can even launch an app from the list of results - the industry great way to fire up programs once you fill up your 11 Home screens with icons and do not have any place to display app links anymore.
It's okay, you can admit it. You've tried and tried and tried, but you just can't deal with that flat glass typing surface. Your fingers long for the tactile feel of softly clicking Chiclet keys beneath them, especially for huge documents or programs that require lots of text entry. If the describes you, fear not. You can get the comfort of a physical keyboard, and also you even have a couple of options.
The iPad conveniently has a Bluetooth chip tucked inside, so you can use the slab having a Bluetoothenabled wireless keyboard, like the stylish $69 model Apple makes.
To get the iPad ready for that wireless keyboard, choose Settings, then General, then Bluetoothand then On. Then do as instructed that come with your particular keyboard to put it into Bluetooth pairing mode - this results in holding down a control button until something blinks.
The iPad looks around for nearby devices, and should find the keyboard singing its Bluetooth siren song. When you see the keyboard in the Devices list, select it and type in any passkey numbers it requests to complete the connection. The Bluetooth icon and keyboard name appear on-screen to announce their pairing. To return to the virtual keyboard, choose Settings, next General and then Bluetooth?Off or press the Eject key on the Bluetooth keyboard.
If you wish to simultaneously power your 'Pad while you type, consider Apple's combination iPad Keyboard Dock. It's a full-size keyboard sitting atop a charging dock. You plug the power cord to the wall, stick the iPad in its little charger booster seat and peck away using the screen tilted at a comfortable viewing angle.
You can also connect the iPad Keyboard Dock USB cable to our computer to do some syncing. With even more optional cables, you can connect the dock to your TV, stereo, or video projector. Visit store.apple.com to determine the iPad Keyboard Dock along with other accessories, like the plain iPad Dock, the Component and Composite AV cables, or the Dock Connector to VGA Adapter.
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