You just need to log in to the Google account in question, then go to this link. http://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect. Then you just check the accounts you want to see on your iPhone or iPad. Click Save and you are done. It’s that easy.

Flick the ?/. key and you get “.

Now Press the .?123 Button to get to the number keyboard:

Press and hold the ” key you get a choice of several types of quotes and double arrow keys.

Press and hold the period key and get the option for an ellipsis…

Press and hold the question mark (?) to get an upside down question mark.

Press and hold the exclamation point (!) to get an upside down exclamation point.

One of my favorites is the dash key (-). Press and hold it and you get the option for a short dash (n dash) or a long dash (m dash) or a bullet or dot (•). The nice thing about the bullet • is • that • you • can • put • it • in • the • middle • of • a • sentence • instead • of • a • dash. It is actually easier to use this dot on the iPad keyboard than it is to add a dot on a regular keyboard. Normally you would have to insert a symbol if you wanted to use it in the middle of a sentence. In case you didn’t know, the n-dash is called that because it is the width of the “n” and the m-dash is the width of the “m”. Just an extra tidbit of trivia for you today.

Hold the $ and you get your choice of currency symbols. Then do what I did and press and hold all the keys on the keyboard to see what what other “hidden” keys you can find.

Read my other posts about Diacritical Marks and Quick Apostrophe.

JUST DOUBLE TAP THE SHIFT ARROW AND THE CAPS LOCK WILL STAY ON UNTIL YOU TAP IT AGAIN.

YOU CAN TELL THAT THE CAPS LOCK IS ON BECAUSE THE SHIFT ARROW IS BLUE.

I have an accent mark in my name. I have always just typed ‘Renee’. I don’t really worry about whether the accent mark it there or not. But with the iPad 2 I can easily add the accent mark. In fact I have added it to my email signature on my iPad. Now I can type Renée.

With the keyboard open all you have to do it tap and hold on a vowel or the N, Y, L, or S keys to see the options you have for each key. Then slide your finger up to the type of mark you want.

I was taking photos of my iPad to show what I was talking about in my posts when I remembered that I could just do a screenshot with my iPad.

All you have to do is hold the Home Button and the Sleep/Wake Button at the same time. The Home Button is the round button you can see on the bottom front of your iPad when it is vertical. The Sleep/Wake Button is on the top right. You can’t see it when you facing the iPad. I actually found it was a little difficult to hold both buttons at once.  I learned that you can hold the Home Button first and then hold the Sleep/Wake Button with the same results.

You know you have done it right when the screen flickers a little and if your sound is on it makes the camera noise. The iPad saves the image in the camera roll so it is easy to find and use to post on a website or email to a friend.

Maybe you just want to gloat a little and send someone an email with your Words With Friends screen to show what a great word you just played. Or that you finally won a game.

You can see the really beautiful screenshots that the iPad can take on my post about the FREE Betty Crocker Cookbook App.

This little trick works for an iPhone too.

This great cooking app from Betty Crocker is FREE!  Look in the upper right.  I wonder what happens you click Surprise Me!  I think I would be really surprised if it did the cooking for me.  But that probably isn’t what happens.

I did a search for pork tenderloin since that is what was thawed for dinner.  I found Grilled Jamaican Jerk Pork Chops with Mango Salsa.  I had all the ingredients for the salsa and anything that works for a pork chop will work for a pork tenderloin.

There is a nice photo of the finished product. I can scroll through the recipe or go straight to Cook Mode. Cook Mode gives me step-by-step directions in a nice large font I can read without glasses.

I just press the number for each step and it tells me what to do each step of the way. If I need to refer to the recipe I can just tap Ingredients in the upper right corner.

Dinner was outstanding.  I added some grilled vegetables and boiled new potatoes.  Yum.

What is great about using an iPad instead of a cookbook is being able to search by ingredients. I can just type in the ingredients I have on hand and search for a recipe that uses those ingredients.

Did I mention that this app is FREE?

How fun is that?

Another part of the multi-tasking bar can be found by flipping the bar all the way to the left.
Here you can adjust the volume or adjust the brightness on the screen, lock the orientation of the screen or mute your iPad depending on your settings, or have quick controls for your iPod.

Update 6-14-11:  It’s a good idea to close all of your apps once a day.  Having too many apps open at once drains your battery more quickly.

The multi-tasking bar is just another way to move around your iPad quickly and easily.