iPad Tips and Tricks: Some Tricks of the iPad Trade Part 5

Posted Jun 3, 2010 at 8:20AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: iPad Tips & Tricks Tags: apple, email, iTunes, usb

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Maximize your iPad's battery If you tote your iPad around town a lot, or are a frequent traveler, battery life is of the utmost importance. One great feature of the iPad is that its battery can go strong for around ten hours, but you can maximize its life by performing a few simple steps. Of course, some of these will take away from the fun factor of the iPad, but you can do them while you are not actually using the device and they should help its battery life.

1. avoid playing games on the iPad
2. turn off any videos that are playing
3. disable Wi-Fi
4. disable Bluetooth
5. lower the display's brightness as much as possible

Cram your music in iTunes Music nuts will want to store as many songs as they can on their iPad. While it should have plenty of music storage for most users, you never know how carried away some people can get when it comes to music. If you are one of these music fanatics, there is a way to compress your music files to get the most out of your storage. To compress your music files, go into iTunes. The iTunes summary will give you an option to convert all of your songs to the 128kbps format automatically. Once you enable this, your songs will become more “storage-friendly” and you will be able to store more music on the iPad. Use USB wisely The iPad can be a bit picky when it comes to USB. Some USB docks will not work with the iPad. You could be sitting there all day with your iPad connected to a dock, and check it to find out that it has not charged at properly. Some USB ports on your computer may not work well in charging the iPad either. For this reason, when you connect your iPad to a computer to charge, make sure it does so properly. If it doesn't try a different USB port on the computer until you find the right solution. Disable email alerts Are you a very popular person? Are you a member to a lot of websites and get tons of emails daily? If so, depending on your tolerance level for distractions, you may want to turn of the email alert chimes on your iPad. Sure, they are a great way to notify yourself of when a new email pops in, especially if you were waiting on one from a special someone, but they can get annoying. To disable the email chimes, go to Settings>General>Sounds. Once there, you can turn the chimes off. If they are not that distracting to you, but a little on the loud side, you can also adjust their volume by following the same steps. There are more iPad tips and tricks to come in part 6............

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