I just ordered the new iPad Mini for my husband.
He knows nothing about computers or tablet. Totally a beginner. I want to order a simple "how to" book for him.That will explain where to begin,
how to use gestures etc., settings.
Since no Mini books out there I would like to know if an iPad ios6 would be okay. I would think they would be
similar enough. My teaching him would not work.
Hi,
I'm glad we could help!
I get that it would be hard to teach your husband. Mine is surrounded by four financial screens all day and can do those computers in his sleep - but doing regular stuff on a computer? (He usually only used it at home to check out golf courses and sports scores.) He only wanted "the cheapest kindle," so he could read at night and when he had to fly, but, in front of him, I suggested we get him an ipad instead and we went through all the reasons. The poor guy sat there clueless which really amused us! He let us make the decision.
However, I got him started. I actually had him meet me at the Apple store to pick it up so they could set up anything he needed with an Apple guy. That helped. Then my sons helped him. He's pretty good at it now, uses it a lot, and loves it. The Apple guy showed me how to sync his ipad to my imac and I gave him all the music I had in itunes that I had downloaded from our cd's of many years first. That made him really happy! He has lots of music on it and can read the paper at the same time. This from a guy who had no need for an ipad. He now does so much more on it.
Where in our 50's, so clearly we didn't grow up in the tech world where it all comes so naturally. And the $12. bridge tolls are not worth paying for to get going. (Ours are same and going up soon.)
I checked lynda.com (great reviews,) but they only have a few ipad lessons, so probably not worth it for you, even just for a month. There are others but I don't think they're worth the price. If your husband checks youtube.com with some questions, he might be amazed at the help he can get.
If he can use your computer while he works from a tutorial step by step with his ipad mini, he might find it cool enough that learning it will encourage him to do more with it. He does have an e-mail address, doesn't he? (My husband had one on our family computer but never used it - only his office e-mail. So we set one up and he must it because it will be his Apple ID.)
I think you made a great decision in buying your husband the ipad mini. And I'm sure he'll enjoy it!
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<Edited by Host>Read this:
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You may have to do this several times.
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school environment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
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I was just wandering if the new iPad mini is able to connect to the internet if you have wired internet?
Thanks
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If not .............
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http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/assistant/itunes/
iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Mac OS X
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iOS: Device not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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No work around that I know of.
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Greetings,
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At home, I use Apple routers, and have no issues with any of my WiFi enabled devices, computers, mobile devices, etc - even the lowly PeeCees. I have locations where I have Juniper Networks, as well as Aruba, and a few Netgears - all of them work as they should.
The cheaper routers, Linksys, D-Link, Seimens home units, and many other no name devices have caused issues of various kinds, and even connectivity.
I have no idea what Starbucks uses, but I always have a good connection, and I go there nearly every morning and get some work done, as well as play.
You could try changing channels, 2.4 to 5 Gigs, changing locations of the router. I have had to do all of these at one time or another over the many years that I have been a Network Engineer.
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I have an Ipad first generation with IOS 5.1.1. and I have just got a new ipad mini. Should I use the back up copy of the old Ipad from Itunes to configure the new one, or it is better to configure the new one from scratch?
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I just receive my new ipad mini. After turning on, there is not apps to do any setting. There is a picture of a world map with either Chinese or Japanese language.
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1. Turn on iPad
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3. Set Country; tap Next
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5. Setup WiFi (connect to internet)
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we can take my ipad mini 32 gb lte i buyed with free contract on att and give me the new ipad mini with retina display with how much difference please
help meI'm sorry but this would be down to Apple, you'd have to ask them directly.
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Steve -
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crh24 wrote:
WWWP wrote:
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FYI
Complete guide to using iOS 6
http://howto.cnet.com/ios-6-complete-guide/
Guide to Built-In Apps on iOS
https://sites.google.com/site/appleclubfhs/support/advice-and-articles/guide-to- built-in-apps-ios
You can download a complete iOS 5 iPad User Guide and iOS 6 iPad User Guide here: http://support.apple.com/manuals/ipad/
Also, Good Instructions http://www.tcgeeks.com/how-to-use-ipad-2/
Apple - iPad - Guided Tours
http://www.apple.com/ipad/videos/
Apple iPad Guided Tours - Watch the videos see all the amazing iPad apps in action. Learn how to use FaceTime, Mail, Safari, Videos, Maps, iBooks, App Store, and more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT2bD0-OqBM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROY4tLyNlsg&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPXXhmwYf4&feature=relmfu
How to - Articles & User Guides & Tutorials
http://www.iphone-mac.com/index.php/Index/howto/id/4/type/select
iPad How-Tos http://ipod.about.com/lr/ipad_how-tos/903396/1/
You can download this guide to your iPad.
iPad User Guide for iOS 5
http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/ipad-user-guide-for-ios-5/id470308101?mt=11
Cheers, Tom
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