Many of my clients are users over 50 years of age. In fact most of my clients are in this category, and unfortunately as you age your eyesight may diminish as well. So, one of the complaints I see from my clients regarding the iPad is the small text on it. Luckily, there is a…
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One of my customers gave me her iPad to fix today. She was afraid water damage or something else had destroyed the iPad. When she tried to open an app by selecting it with her finger, a border would appear around the app but it would not open. If she double tapped on an icon…
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I tried updating the apps on my iPad tonight since I had neglected to do any updates for awhile. There were 45 apps that needed to be updated. That would be almost a quarter of all the apps I have installed on the iPad. Unfortunately, when I tried updating them I was met by this…
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I was working on a customer’s iPad yesterday and noticed they had a few app updates to download and install. You can always tell when you have apps to update by looking at the App Store icon. If it has a red circle with a number, you have apps to update. Normally, in these situations,…
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With the introduction of the new iPad, 3rd generation, and the retina display, apps are being updated by their authors to take advantage of the better graphics. Unfortunately, one of the disadvantages of better graphics is the fact that applications may double or triple in size. For this reason, the 16GB iPad may have fulfilled…
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One of the more common issues I see with customers that own iPads is they forget to update the free and purchased applications on their iPad. Updating apps on the iPad is similar to keeping your programs updated on your normal personal computer. An iPad app may have a problem, or it may have been…
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If you are anything like me, you’ve downloaded a few apps either free or paid versions that didn’t pan out. Either the app didn’t work like it should, or something else about the app made you want to delete it as soon as you downloaded it. Its easy enough to remove or delete an app…
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In some of my other articles I’ve discussed how to unlock an iPad if the passcode is forgotten. The new iOS5 that was released earlier this month, has a major security flaw related to the iPad 2. A person with a smart cover can unlock your iPad 2 without the passcode by using a smart…
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Creating a folder and grouping your apps into folders accomplishes a couple of things. For one, it allow you to organize your applications together, so you can have your favorite applications in the same folder or group applications in other ways. The second reason is obvious, it allows you to put more applications on the…
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