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For our fifth Tip & Trick, we're going to head back to Safari,
to browse around the internet for just a second, because I'm going to
show you
the differences and some other different bookmarkings
that you can do with a webpage. And the handiest one of all, which is
making it your very own icon on your apps,
or on your iPad's desktop. Here's what I mean.
Once you're in here, navigating around Safari,
you'll notice there's this little tiny button up here at the top.
It's a square or rectangle with a bump-out arrow.
I always call this the "I can do more with this icon"
because you're going to see this icon smattered
all over your iPad, whether you're in Evernote, or
if you are in the camera roll, or if you're in Safari,
even if you're in something like a Photoshop Elements, you're probably going
to find som icon that looks remarkably like this one.
And it almost always means exactly that "I can do more with
what i'm looking at," whether it's an image, or text. And typically when you press this button,
you get a set of options of more things you can't do
with that object. In this case, I can add this to my bookmarks, this is talking about the webpage
in this case.
You can add it to your reading list, add it to your home screen,
and you can mail this link as a page to someone if you wanted to.
Then that opens up your Mail app, and you can even tweet or print this. Now
remember, you cannot print this unless you have a web-enabled printer,
or WiFi-enabled printer. But the one thing that I'm going to show you right now is
the
adding it to your bookmarks. So if you hit add to bookmark, you'll notice that you're given
a few options here.
First of all, it automatically names it according to what it thinks
YOU want to name it. It then lists the address that you are about to bookmark.
But you can choose right here whether you want to put it in your bookmarks or
your bookmark bar,
which is something that rides right underneath the address bar here. If you put in your
bookmark bar,
easily accessible. Bookmarks are more like those file folders that you can place
them in.
And you can put it in your bookmarks, just like that,
and then hit "save" for you to access later.
Or the handiest one of all, let's say that you do have a website for your school,
or a website that you visit very frequently.
You can actually shortcut this so that you don't even have to go through Safari
in order to open up that bookmark, and here's how you do it. Click this button.
Once you have that, you click that button, the "I can do more with this icon,"
you have this "add to homescreen" option. Click that,
and it gives you a little image of the icon if it doesn't recognize that it's
just a generic image, and then again, it names it what it thinks you want to
name it.
You can rename it if you want to. And
when you finish, you just hit "add" and watch what it does.
It'll throw it as an icon at the end of your
iPad pages of apps, and now becomes an app-icon
that you can simply press and it will open that page,
in Safari for you automatically. It's a fantastic little shortcut
and that ends No. 5 Tip & Trick