If you got a new iPad mini for Christmas, congratulations. Someone likes you enough to get you one of the hottest tablets available today. Look forward to hours of great fun reading books, magazines, checking email and reading your favorite websites.
Let us guide you through the iPad mini setup process. We’ll share tips for securing the iPad mini, setting up parental controls and we’ll also share app recommendations to make the iPad more useful. This process will take about 15-30 minutes from unboxing to installing fun apps to use for the holidays.
We also recommend getting an iPad mini case to protect it from dings and scratches that will happen during regular usage. Just avoid iPad mini Smart Cover, which we found overpriced and less useful than the larger iPad Smart Cover.
Initial iPad mini Setup
Watch the iPad mini unboxing we made shortly after the Wi-Fi version shipped.
Even though Apple ships the iPad mini with plenty of battery life to get started, we recommend topping off the battery early in the process.
Here’s the list of steps one takes on first boot:
- Choose a language
- Select a country
- Connect to Wi-fi
- Turn on location services for things like Maps or apps that find nearby places
- Set up as a new device, unless you will replace an old iPad then use a backup from a computer if possible or iCloud
- Sign into an existing Apple ID or create a new one
- Choose to use iCloud
- Back up the iPad to iCloud or a computer
- Use Find my iPad if it gets lost or stolen
- Set up FaceTime contact email address or phone numbers
- Choose to use Siri, a voice recognition function
iPad mini Security
LIke most things on the iPad mini, users find security features in the Settings app. It looks like a black set of gears.
First, set an Auto-Lock time. This turns of the screen to save battery life and secures the iPad from people who a user doesn’t want accessing the iPad. We recommend either 2 or 5 minutes.
Go back and choose Passcode Lock. Before turning it on choose between a simple passcode or a longer one.
Simple passcodes use four numbers like the screenshot above shows. Longer ones might look like the following: dxlldd994ls. Go into the Settings app and Passcode Lock screen
Once a user protects the iPad mini with a passcode, the user can choose how long the iPad must remain locked before entering the passcode. Set the setting Require Passcode to Immediately for strongest security. Set it to a minute so you don’t need to enter the code if the screen was just locked.
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The last two options on the Passcode Lock screen let the user decide whether to allow access to the iPad mini by using Siri or when using the Picture Frame function, which shows a slide show of pictures on the iPad. For greatest security set these both to Off.
Finally, choose to Erase Data if an incorrect passcode gets entered ten times. This keeps people from guessing the code.
Parental Controls
Parents can limit what a child purchases, kinds of web sites the child can visit, playable games by rating, and more.
In Settings find the Restrictions options. First hit the Enable Restrictions button. This turns them on for all options. The parent can then turn them off for specific apps. A few examples include turning off access to explicit music and podcasts, limiting what movies, shows or games the iPad will play by ratings or turning off In-App Purchases from this list.
Read: How to Lock the iPad to a Single App for Kid Mode
Set Up Accounts on the iPad mini
A user will now want to set up accounts for email, calendars and contacts.
From Settings, first choose iCloud and turn on which items that need syncing with iCloud. We recommend turning them all on, but some might not use iCloud for Notes, Calendars or other items. Save some space in an iCloud account, which Apple limits to 5GB in a free account, by turning off unused items.
Now tap on Mail. Contacts, Calendars to add these kinds of accounts. Here’s where the user will add their Gmail, Yahoo or work email accounts.
Setting Up Important Apps
The above will only set up an iPad for the bare minimum functions like surfing the web, reading email and personal information management. The genius of the iPad comes from the apps a user can add. Open the App Store on the iPad. We recommend getting a few apps as follows:
- Facebook and Twitter – install these and set up an account from the Settings app so the user can post things from Safari or the App Store
- Apple Apps – this list in the App store includes things like Find my iPhone or the iWork productivity apps
- New to the App Store – this list has popular apps that make the iPad mini very useful
- Editor’s Choice – Apple selected what their app store editor’s consider the best apps available
- Hall of Fame – Apple listed the best apps of all time because they’re well designed or extremely popular
While looking for apps, understand that Apple designed iOS so that apps made for the iPhone. Apple designed the iPad’s operating system to enlarge the app so it fills the screen, but it won’t look as good.
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Kevin Purcell
Kevin loves notebooks, tablets, gadgets and photography. He grew up with computers starting out on a Vic 20 and Commodore 64. The first computer he owned himself was an 8086 Compaq Deskpro. His foray into tablet computing began when he bought a Samsung Q1 Ultra. The smartphone market opened up for him with his Palm Treo 600.
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2012年12月23日 星期日
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Apple could update the big iPad as soon as March, according to Japanese site Macotakara.Steve Kovach, Business Insider
Macotakara is citing an "inside source." As with any Apple rumor site Macotakara has a mixed record, so we wouldn't etch this report in stone. It's something interesting to keep in mind, especially if other reports start leaking out to confirm it.
Anyway, Macotakara says the fifth generation iPad will be a lot like the iPad Mini. It will be thinner and lighter.
We've been expecting the bigger iPad to be made thinner and lighter like the iPad Mini and the iPhone 5 design. What we're unclear about is how soon Apple would update the iPad.
Apple just released the fourth-generation iPad in October. This was unexpected because it released the third generation iPad in March. But, Apple hasn't changed the physical design of the iPad in two years. And Macotakara indicates that the internals of the fifth-generation iPad will be the same as the fourth-generation iPad.
It's possible Apple is putting the pedal to the metal and is going to blast out new iPad updates every six months to make sure Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and Amazon can't catch up in the tablet market.
CEO Tim Cook's specialty is managing the supply chain. Whereas Steve Jobs differentiated Apple through its visionary products, the new Apple under Cook could be differentiating itself by premium products that are continuously refreshed.
We're not sure if this would hurt or help sales. Some people will grumble that they just bought an iPad and Apple is already making a new one. But, overall, it's probably better to just constantly update the products so people don't feel like they should wait a long time to get a new iPad.
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the fifth generation iPad will be a lot like the iPad Mini. It will be thinner and lighter.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/next-ipad-march-2012-12#ixzz2FvZKiF8g
2012年12月10日 星期一
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