IPad users, you have come to the right place. You got the iPad home, you've watched the swanky iPad Guided Tour videos on Apple.com. Now it's time to go beyond upsizing all your iPhone apps and get to the nitty-gritty of iPad awesomeness. Check out our list of tips and tricks that'll have you wowing your friends and working more efficiently with your new device.

 

 

 

Check your App updates

 

If you have an iPod touch or iPhone, check for app updates with iTunes. There's a good chance some of your apps are ready to to be updated for the iPad.

 

 

 

Where are My iPad Only Apps?

 

iTunes pulls a cruel trick by putting your iPad only apps at the bottom of your apps list. Just scroll on down to the bottom. There they are.

You can also put iTunes in list view to scroll quickly through your apps and organize by Kind. Also, you can transfer apps to ipad from you PC/Mac is avoidable

 

 

 

You're Not Trapped in the iBookstore

 

There are gazillions of public domain books in the ePub format on the web. Some of those free books are available in the iBookstore for free, but not all. All of them should work with your iPad and show up in iBooks.

Here are a few places to get books:

Google books

Project Gutenberg

Once you've downloaded those books, just drop them into iTunes and sync them to your iPad.

Don't forget, you can also use the Kindle App for iPad.

 

 

 

Send SMS

 

Just because you don't have a phone in the iPad doesn't mean you can't send SMS to friends. There are tons of free sms apps in the App Store you can try out. Also, you can send SMS with AIM. Just fire up AIM and to send a text message to a friend, just send the message to your friend's phone number with +1 at the beginning.

 

 

 

My Old iPod/iPhone Dock Stuff

Bad news, we couldn't the iPad to work with some of our old iPod /iPhone dock stuff. Obviously, it wouldn't fit in some, but in others it just gave us a warning that the product wasn't made for the iPad. We even tried hooking it up to our car stereo via the dock connection. Maybe a software update will allow us to dock in the future.

 

 

 

Copy and Paste Photos Instead of Sharing

 

You can only email five pictures from the Photo app using the Email button. You can copy far more and paste them into the Mail app. Need to send 15 pictures? Copy and paste them from the Photo app into a Mail document. Just transfer photos to ipad and have a try.

 

 

 

Create Your Own Wallpaper

 

iPad wallpaper images should be 1024x768, or you can just use this super rad one. To assign your image to your home screen background or lock screen, launch the Photo app.

 

Tap to enlarge the image you want to use. Tap on the share button. Tap Use as Wallpaper. Resize the image to your liking and tap Set Lock Screen, Set Home Screen or Set Both.

 

 

 

Safari Quick Scroll

 

Need to get back to the top of a webpage? Tap the menu bar to zoom back up to the top. Just like the iPhone.

 

 

 

Tap Home to Get Home

 

Press the Home button while on navigating your Home screens to return to the main Home screen. Tap it again to get to the search page.

 

 

 

Rearrange Your Search Results

 

When doing a global search on the iPad, the default results  display is to put contacts first. If you'd rather have apps or songs or even podcasts first, you can adjust the results by navigating to Settings>General>Home>Search Results. Tap and hold on the three light grey bars to the right of an item, then drag it up and down to suit your needs.

work with the iPad. All the keyboards we used utilized Bluetooth 2.0 technology.