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Setting You Straight on Settings
Do you consider yourself a control freak? The type of person who has to have it your way? Boy, have you landed in the right chapter.
Settings is kind of the makeover factory for the iPad mini. You open Settings by tapping its Home screen icon; from there, you can do things such as change the tablet's background or wallpaper and specify the search engine of choice. You can also alter security settings in Safari, tailor email to your liking (among other modifications), and get a handle on how to fetch or push new data.
The Settings area on the iPad mini is roughly analogous to System Preferences on a Mac or the Control Panel in Windows, with a hearty serving of app preferences thrown in for good measure.
But you won't have to visit Settings ...
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