Using Galaxy Tab: An Android Tab

Chapter    5

Business and Pleasure

We’ve spent the last several chapters setting up your tablet and downloading all the goodies. In the last chapter we looked at ways to install apps. In this chapter, we’ll start looking at ways to use your tablet for business and pleasure. We’ll also look at ways to set up security and share your tablet with the kids.

Let’s get started by gussying up your Home screen. As you remember from Chapter 2, you have two alternative, widgetized layouts for your Home screen. There are six basic areas that can be populated by widgets that are useful to you. Let’s start with the calendar.

The Calendar

By default, the calendar syncs to your Google Calendar, but it may also sync with other calendar apps at the same time (as ...