Smartphone & Tablet Productivity

iBooks is a great, free, app available for all your iDevices. On older iPads it came pre-installed, this is not the case on newer iPads. You will need to go to the App Store and download it for free. You can store books or PDFs in iBooks. It's a great place to keep customer facing documents organized and available on the go. This video is shown using iOS 6, but it works the same in iOS 7. New video for iOS 7 coming soon!

You can change a setting that will allow Siri to read e-mail messages to you. You will have to turn on "Speak Selection" in the Accessibility section of Settings. This is NOT an entirely hands-free operation, it should not be performed while driving! This video is shown using iOS 6, but it works the same in iOS 7. New video for iOS 7 coming soon!

If you do not want to hear the voice navigation on your iPhone (or iPad), you can turn the voice off, or change the volume. There are still some reasons that voice navigation will not work on your iPhone. If you have tried several “fixes” and the voice navigation still does not work, you may have to contact your cell phone carrier or even Apple Support. Siri MUST be turned on for voice navigation to work. This video is shown using iOS 6, but it works the same in iOS 7. New video for iOS 7 coming soon!

You can now use your iPad as a personal HotSpot. This means you can use your iPad to generate a Wi-Fi signal that you can use to connect other devices to the internet (i.e. laptop). This video will walk you through the steps to connect your laptop to Wi-Fi using your iPad HotSpot. This video is shown using iOS 6, but it works the same in iOS 7. New video for iOS 7 coming soon!

If you have an iPad, iPhone (or iPod Touch), you will probably want to be able to view notes you create on one device on all of your devices. You will need to make sure that iCloud is turned on for all the devices, and that “Notes” is ON in the iCloud Settings. The iPad only uses one account for Notes and that is iCloud. On your iPhone you have to option to choose the default account. When you select iCloud, as the default “Notes” account on your iPhone, all notes will be shown on all devices. This process shown on iOS 6, but it works the same in iOS 7.