The iPad is a beautiful thing, but for me, it's been sort of neither fish or fowl - couldn't quite get it past the status of toy, and didn't really want to play with it. With these hundred tips, I've started to "get it" - and now for sure I'll have a lot more fun using ipad.

Shut Down Your iPad For Real

When you press the power button on the iPad it really just turns off the screen. That‘s whyit comes on so fast. What you may want to do to conserve battery life or recover from a freeze is do a reboot. 

To do this just hold down both the power button and Home button until the red slider

appears on the screen. Slide it and the iPad will shut down. Give it a minute and then you can restart it by pressing the power button again. It seems to take a few seconds before it responds so be patient. And, to force quit an application, just hold the home button by itself in a similar fashion.

iTurn iPad caps lock on

You do this by double tapping the shift key on either side of the keyboard. This is on by default. If you need to type a whole word in caps this can be painful. You control that in the Settings as well. In Settings tap on General and Keyboard to find the item. Set Enable Caps Lock to Off.

Download podcasts

You can search for and subscribe to podcasts so they are downloaded automatically to your iPad. Go to iTunes, then click Podcasts at the bottom of the screen. Search for the one you want and select it, then select Free next to the episodes you want. Note: to subscribe to podcasts, you need to use a PC and sync with the iPad. Why this is true we have no idea. By the way, here is the guide on how to transfer ipad music to itunes, now you can enjoy more beautiful pictures.

Easy/Quick Mute

Unlike the iPhone, there's no dedicated mute switch on the iPad.

Apple decided to make the volume buttons do double duty. Tap them repeatedly and the volume will go up or down. But if you press and hold the volume down button for about two seconds, then you get a quick mute.

Copy and Paste Text from One App to Another

Just tap and hold a word, then use your finger to drag to select more text, and then Copy it. Go to the other application, tap and hold in the input box, and then use Paste. Easy!

Want to select a whole paragraph the easy way? Just tap it 4 times to highlight the entire paragraph, then use Copy.

But, is there any easy methods to transfer files to iPad without iTunes? If you are a newbie for iTunes, you may find it complexed to transfer files to iPad with iTunes. Don't want to use iTunes to manage your iPad files and transfer media files for iPad? Just follow the guide below to copy files to ipad without itunes easily and freely.

Change your Default Email Signature

The default email signature on the iPad says, ―Sent from my iPad.  It finds that to be a little boastful. To remove the Apple marketing and become like a real person, go into Settings and tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars. Find Signature in the fourth section down. Type whatever you wish.  Some people will leave the phrase and add something like ―so forgive the brevity of this message.

Take an iPad screenshot

Like the iPhone, you can take a screenshot by pressing Home and then the power button. Images are saved automatically in the Photos gallery. Here, you can view or email them.

Increase iPad battery life

The iPad battery can last for up to 10 hours, but you can squeak out a bit more usage. Drag the brightness slider (under Settings, Brightness) as low as you can stand, turn off both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (under Settings), don't play and videos or music, and avoid gaming apps.

Save space for more music When you connect your iPad to iTunes, there's an option under summary that, when enabled, will automatically convert all songs to 128 kbps, which will save space on the device.

Turn off duplicate names for Wi-Fi nets

The iPad has problems if you use a dual-channel router (one that supports both 802.11a and 802.11n at the same time) if the networks use the same name. Change the SSID to different names.

Turn off push

Most mail accounts default to Push as a delivery mechanism, if available. This automatically 'pushes' any new emails your way as soon as they are available.  If you find this annoying or distracting you can set your Mail accounts to check for new messages at intervals, or manually so they only check for new messages when you tap the Refresh button. To turn off Push select the Settings app and Mail, Contacts, Calendars and choose Fetch New Data, then turn Push on or off.

All those must for new users - Impressed not just with a lot of the tips but also the layout and simple straightforward instructions. Thanks for simplifying so many previously tedious actions particularly on the keyboard.