iPad: The Missing Manual, 7th Edition

Chapter 10. The Built-In Apps

Your Home screen comes already loaded with the icons of about 25 programs. These are the essentials; eventually, of course, you’ll fill that Home screen with apps you install yourself. The starter apps include gateways to the Internet (Safari), communications tools (Messages, Mail, Contacts), visual records of your life (Photos, Camera), shopping centers (iTunes Store, App Store), and entertainment (Music, Videos, Podcasts).

Those core apps get special treatment in the other chapters. This chapter covers the secondary programs, in alphabetical order: Calendar, Clock, Compass, Game Center, Health, iBooks, Maps, Newsstand, Notes, Passbook, Podcasts, Reminders, Stocks, Tips, Voice Memos, and Weather.

Note

No, the iPad does not come with a Calculator app, even though the iPhone does. Weird. Of course, there are thousands of free calculator apps waiting for you in the App Store.

Calendar

What kind of digital companion would the iPad be if it didn’t have a calendar program? And not only does it have a calendar—it syncs. If you maintain your life’s schedule on a Mac (in Calendar or Entourage) or a PC (in Outlook), then you already have your calendar on your iPad. Make a change in one place, and it changes in the other, every time you sync over the USB cable.

Better yet, if you have an iCloud account or work for a company with an Exchange server (Chapters Chapter 15 and Chapter 16), then your calendar can be synchronized with your computer automatically ...