Smartphone & Tablet Productivity

When you receive an invitation to a meeting via e-mail, you can accept or decline (or say maybe) directly from your iPad or iPhone. You will see a red notification circle on your Calendar app icon. This process is shown on iPhone, but works the same on iPad. This process is shown using iOS 8.

If you want to give your eyes a break at night, or just make the screen easier to view in adverse light, you can invert the colors of your Android screen. The process may vary slightly depending on the Model of your Android phone, but this tutorial will point you in the right direction.

You can respond to an incoming call with a Text Message or set a reminder to call the person back. This process is shown using iOS 8.

You cannot set a Home Page for the Chrome browser on your Android (like you can on the default Android browser, separate tutorial available). Below are instructions for a work-around. This process is shown using a Samsung Galaxy Series. The process may be different depending on your device, but this tutorial will point you in the right direction.

There are quite a few people in your contacts that probably have an extension that needs to be dialed when you call their office phone. Adding a pause in a phone number within a contact will allow the phone to dial the office number, pause, and then dial the extension number. In this example we will show you how to add an extension in an existing contact, you can also add the extension in the number when you create a new contact.