Recently I received a plea for help from a visitor to this blog. She’d followed one of my earlier posts on how to delete photos from the iPad. She could not get rid of some of her pictures and was […]
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What’s the best way to clean your iPad screen? The video below describes cloths and cautions for keeping your iPad screen smudge free and shiny. Full disclosure: The folks from CTA Products sent me Cloth Addiction, one of the cleaning […]
How to Clean Your iPad Screen: Cloths & Cautions – ...

In recent posts I wrote about using the handy Shortcuts feature to create abbreviations to save typing and to add words to the iPad dictionary. Seems I missed a simple step and a reader asked me about it. I told […]
iPad Tip: How to Delete a Shortcut or Other Item ...

A few days ago I led an introductory iPad workshop for teachers from a local school system. One of the dozens of topics we addressed was text editing. During my guided practice, I was showing them how to select a […]
Talking Text – How to Make Your iPad Speak Selected ...
You can add words to the iPad dictionary using the Shortcuts feature Settings > General > Keyboard and tap “Add New Shortcut…” Put the word you want to add to the dictionary in the Phrase field and leave the Shortcut […]
How to Add New Words to the iPad Dictionary Using ...
I'm traveling this week. Apple invited me to participate in the International Apple Distinguished Educators Institute in Cork, Ireland. My wife and I added a few days before and after the Institute to explore Dublin and Cork. Soon after we […]