Category: iPad
The Latest Senior Tech Recipes for iPad
Here is the complete catalog of Senior Tech Recipes for iPad
Notes is More then Plain Text
Notes are good reminders, memory tools and a system for filing information. The Notes app on your iPhone or iPad is a note taking app that is good for capturing all kinds of notes including shopping lists, to-do lists
, trip itineraries, plans,
meeting notes and more
When you combine the app with the other tools on your device including Siri, dictation and even your finger, the app becomes a powerhouse tool for helping you stay organized and engaged.
This recipe will get you started in the Notes app.
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Using the iPhone Calendar App
The iPhone Calendar allows you to keep a calendar in your pocket or handbag. But beyond a basic calendar it offers a number of other benefits to help you stay oranized.
This Senior Tech Lesson will focus on the two core tasks of working with the Calendar App, viewing your Calendar and creating events.
How to Reduce the Storage Consumed by Text Messages
This Nugget will show you the Settings that will reduce the amount of storage consumed by text messages and photo attachments.
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Listening to Podcasts with the Podcasts App
Podcasts are audio programs that are made available on the internet. They are downloaded to your computer or phone for playing anywhere or anytime.
The Apple Podcasts app is the built-in tool for managing your search, subscription and playback of the podcasts that you choose.
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Share Photos with iCloud Photo Sharing
Imagine that you have been taking photos while on vacation with a friend. With iCloud Photo Sharing, you can invite others to view and share a collection of photos. You can also make the sharing public by publishing your album to a website for anyone to view.
This recipe will show you how to use iCloud Photo Sharing.
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Crop & Edit Photos with the Photos App
The Photos app includes significant photo editing capabilities that allows you to edit and modify a photo in your library. Included are functions to Remove red eye, crop, rotate, and add text.
This recipe will review the key edit functions.
Organizing your Photos with Albums
The primary way to organize photos in the Photos app is to create and place photos into albums.
This recipe will show you how to create albums and add photos to your albums.
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iWork for iPhone and iPad – The Basics
iWork for iPhone and iPad is Apple’s suite of office apps. The suite is comprised of three primary tools:
Pages for word processing, Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations.
The iWork Suite is very capable and is perfect for seniors and their typical home use. This recipe will provide help with the basic concepts.
The iWork suite is FREE and is installed from the App Store.
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Beyond Point and Shoot with iPhone Photography
A great many iPhone users will use their iPhone cameras in a point and shoot fashion. They will pull out their camera, aim at their subject and press the shutter button to snap the photo.
With later iPhone models, the iPhone’s camera has included modes and features that take it into new territory. If you are only doing point and shoot, you may be missing some great photo opportunities.
The purpose of this recipe is to deliver quick tips for iPhone Photography. It includes Flash, Live Photo, HDR, Zoom, Focus and Exposure and all of the Modes including photo, square, pano, video, time-lapse, and slo-mo.
The Basics of iPhone Photography – Let’s Point and Shoot
The camera on your iPhone has grown up in a hurry. The camera in your pocket or purse has plenty of features that make it a camera worthy of capturing the pictures of your life.
The purpose of this recipe is to deliver quick tips for iPhone Photography. It includes:
Five ways to launch your camera.
Seven ways to press the shutter.
Explore how to work with Bursts photos.
Use Libby to Read Books from your Library
What could be better than FREE books to read? And we are not talking about the old classics like you can get from the Gutenberg Project. We are talking about the latest New York Times bestsellers that you can read for free from your public library using the Libby app to access eBooks from your local library.
This recipe will get your started.
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Stay Connected with Help from the News App
Better than your morning newspaper. The News app collects and compiles stories and articles on your favorite topics and from your favorite sources and makes it easy to read.
This recipe will introduce you to the news app, demonstrate how to use the News app to read publication via channels. You can also be notified of important stories from favorite channels, search for specific topics, save and share your favorite stories, and more
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Use the Notes App for Everyday Notes
Notes are good reminders, memory tools and a system for filing information. The Notes app on your iPhone or iPad is a note taking app that is good for capturing all kinds of notes including shopping lists, to-do lists
, trip itineraries, plans,
meeting notes and more
When you combine the app with the other tools on your device including Siri, dictation and even your finger, the app becomes a powerhouse tool for helping you stay organized and engaged.
This recipe will get you started in the Notes app.
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Read Books with the Kindle App
Many people would recognize that Amazon really built the eBook marketplace with the release of the original Kindle readers in 2007. The Kindle app from Amazon is a leading eBook app from the Amazon. You will need the Kindle app if you want to read books acquired from Amazon on your iPhone or iPad.
This recipe will show you how to install and use the Kindle app on your iPhone or iPad.
Texting and Messaging with your iPhone and iPad
Texting with your phone has become essential in order to communicate with families and friends. In addition to basic communication, we are now seeing all kinds of services offered via text or text-like services. This includes text banking, numerous payment services, delivery notifications, restaurant reservations and more. For Seniors, texting is also a way that children and grandchildren can send the pictures of their lives.
The Messages apps on your iPhone provides access to the world of texting and iMessages. This recipe will review the basics.
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Reading Books with the Books App
Reading books is good for you. There are even health studies that suggest that reading books can help you live longer.
And many people are discovering the convenience and power of eBooks. And the device in your hand, your iPhone or iPad are one of the preferred platform for reading eBooks.
If you are thinking about reading eBooks on your iPad or iPhone, the iBooks app comes with your device and may be the first reading app that you want to explore.
This recipe provides tips and the basics for using your device as an eBook reader.
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Find Free or Affordable Books for iBooks
Are you into reading books?
You might be surprised to learn that there are many sources for free books that you can read on your iPhone or iPad. This includes free and affordable books for the iBooks app.
This recipe will show you how to get free and affordable books from the Apple store for iBooks. It also cover using the Gutenberg Project in order to access 54,000 free books for download.
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Managing Email: Trash versus Archive
When you look to keep your Mail Inbox tidy, depending on the email provider you use, you may either see Trash or Archive presented as the default “delete” action. This recipe will define the difference between the Archive and Trash actions and show how to change the default action.
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Organize your Email Inbox with Flags, VIP & Folders
If you are an active email user and you get a lot of email and may begin to feel the need to organize your inbox. Or perhaps you would simply like to add some categories of email that you could organize into folders. The Mail app has the ability to create a filing system that can organize your inbox into folders and categories.
This recipe will give you the ingredients and actions to add organization to your Mail inboxes.
Dictate Text Instead of Typing – Great for those small keyboards!
Dictating text instead of typing is a wonderful feature of your iPhone or iPad. It is a great accommodation if you, like many, have fingers that don’t work the keyboard well for typing,
This recipe will give you the easy three-step approach and some tips to make the most of your devices dictation capabilities.
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