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Have a Little Google Fun
The Google search engine has quite a few hidden secrets, called Easter Eggs. To get the most fun out of them, go to www.google.com and type in the suggested search words. Then click the I’m Feeling Lucky button to activate the Easter Egg.
If you don’t see the I’m Feeling Lucky button, click on the gear in the upper right corner, click Search Settings, then, under Google Instant, choose Do Not Use Google Instant, then scroll down to Save Preferences in the bottom right corner.
1. Google Tilt: Search the term “askew” and you’ll get more than just the definition…
2. Google Gravity: Search “Google gravity” and then click the I’m Feeling Lucky button. Whoa!
3. Google Sphere: Search “Google sphere” then click the I’m Feeling Lucky button. Yeah.
4. Barrel Roll: Search “do a barrel roll” and hold onto your stomach!
5. Google Rainbow: Search “Google rainbow” and then click I’m Feeling Lucky. Can you see the rainbow?
6. Ask Google “where is Chuck Norris?” and click the I’m Feeling Lucky button.
7. Pig Latin Google: For some Pig Latin fun, Google “ooglegay igpay atinlay”
8. Google Pacman: View the awesome Google Pacman Doodle by searching “Google Pacman” and click the I’m Feeling Lucky button. Use your arrows to play a real game!
9. Google Guitar: Search “Google guitar” and click I’m Feeling Lucky. Strum away with the musical Google Doodle to honor Les Paul’s 96th birthday.
10. Google Pirate: Arrr! Search “Google pirate” and click I’m Feeling Lucky. (This one made me giggle.)
11. Google Hacker: Google gets hacked! Type in “Google hacker” and then click I’m feeling lucky.
12. Google Loco: Search “Google loco” and uh, it gets a little crazy. (Try searching something now!)
13. Weenie Google: Search “weenie Google,” click the I’m Feeling Lucky button, and watch it shrink away!
14. Epic Google: Or, search “epic Google,” click the I’m Feeling Lucky button, and see what you get.
15. Gothic Google: Feeling a bit dark? Search “Google gothic” and click the I’m Feeling Lucky button.
16. Google Flight Simulator: Enjoy the Flight Simulator when you go to Google Earth, click on Tools > Enter Flight Simulator and you’re off!
17. Ask Google “what is the loneliest number?”
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
This month’s apps are all about pure, simple, no experience necessary FUN!
MyPaint Free requires no artistic talent. Just pick a color, adjust the thickness of the brush and drag your finger on the blank page to create your very own masterpiece.
Taiko brings a set of Japanese Taiko drums to your iPad. The harder you hit the drums, the louder the sound. Swirl your finger for faster or slower rolls. For one or two drummers!
Songify turns speech into music, automatically. Speak into your device, choose a rhythm, then sit back and laugh.
Note: Even if an app is only available for the iPhone, you can still install it on the iPad and even enlarge it to full screen!
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How to Back Up Your Address Book
Even if you use Time Machine to backup your computer, it’s a great idea to have a separate backup of just your Address Book that you can save onto a flashdrive, just in case.
Here’s a free video lesson that will teach you how to do this!
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
Emailing More Than One Photo
It’s pretty simple to email one photo:
1. Tap the Photos icon on the Home screen
2. Tap the Photo
3. Tap the arrow icon in the top right corner
4. Select Email Photo
To send more than one photo at a time:
1. Tap the Photos icon on the Home screen
2. Tap the arrow icon in the top right corner
3. Now tap the photos you want to send and a check mark will appear on the photos
4. Tap Share in the top left corner
5. Choose Email
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Private Browsing with Safari
Are you doing a lot of online shopping for the holidays and don’t want your family members to see what you’ve been buying?
You can set Safari to NOT include your visited websites in the History.
From the Safari menu, choose Private Browsing
Done. No more snooping or spoiled surprises.
iPad Tip of the Week
Typing an Apostrophe
How often do you need to type an apostrophe. It’s such a pain to press the ?123 key to switch to the punctuation keyboard.
Here’s an easy trick:
Press and hold on the ,! key and the apostrophe key will appear. Just slide your finger on it to use it.
ATTENTION iPOD NANO USERS
Some 1st Generation iPod Nanos have Faulty Batteries
Apple is recalling a series of 1st generation iPod Nanos and replacing them, free of charge. The affected products were sold between September 2005 and December 2006 and have the risk of overheating and possibly even catching on fire.
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Changing What Appears When You Re-Open a program
Lion’s Resume feature automatically re-opens all of the windows you were working in when you Quit the program. This can be a handy, time-saving feature for some people, and an annoyance for others.
To turn off the Resume feature in only certain programs, hold down the Option key when Quitting and the choice will say “Quit and Close All Windows”.
To disable Resume for all programs, in System Preferences, choose General. Below the choices for Number of Recent items, remove the check mark next to “Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps”.
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
Auto-Complete Text
Do you type the same phrases all of the time on your iPad or iPhone? The new iOS 5 has a slick new feature to help you with this.
Let’s say you often type “Love you much” in your emails. You can create a shortcut so that, when you type LYM it will automatically type the complete phrase.
1. Tap Settings
2. Tap General
3. Scroll all the way down to Keyboard
4. Scroll down to Shortcuts
5. Tap Add New Shortcut…
6. Type in the complete phrase, ie: Love you much!
7. Next to “Shortcut” type the letters you want to use for that phrase, ie: lym
8. Tap SAVE
9. Open up Mail and try it!
10. You can create many different shortcuts. I’m not sure if there is a limit to how many you can create.
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Reading Articles in Safari Just Got Easier
Have you found an interesting article to read, but you find all of the ads on the screen so distracting?
Safari has a built in READER feature that will open most articles in a new window with just the article. No distractions.
1. Find an article in a newspaper
2. Click on the word READER that appears at the far right side of the page’s address (this may not be available for all articles)
3. The article will open in a new window
4. Click READER again to get back to the full page in Safari
iPad and iPhone Tip of the Week
Format Text in Mail with iOS5
It’s true. Now you can bold, italicize and even underline text in Mail. And you can indent paragraphs too.
1. Select the text you want to change
2. Tap the right arrow at the far right of the Cut, Copy, Paste menu
3. Tap BIU to change the format or Quote Level if you want to indent
4. Tap your desired format choice
5. Tap on the page to get out of the menu
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