Ipads and Useful Apps

Nina Goodwin

@GUTS_SW @Cosmic_UK

Who are Cosmic?

• Based in Honiton, East Devon;

• An ethical IT business;

• Specialises in website development, IT training courses,

business consultancy, tech support, digital marketing and

search engine optimisation;

• Run a wide range of training sessions and workshops;

• Workshops aimed at small and micro businesses.

Introductions

Introducing you to your iPads

What can I use my iPad for?

• Accessing the internet to check your emails, surf the

web and much more.

• iPads are touchscreen devices and manufactured by

Apple.

• Lots of different versions of ipads for example iPad Mini,

iPad Air all come with pre‐installed apps.

What is an app?

An application (app) is a type of shortcut and there are lots

of apps you can get. For example:

App Store where

you can have

access to lots of

different apps;

FaceTime allows

you to make video

and voice calls.

Podcasts allow

you to listen to live

and recorded

audio.

Please turn on your ipads

What do the buttons do?

Activity 1

• Please turn your ipads on and off;

• Turn the volume up and down using the

volume buttons, turn it to mute.

• Pick any app and open it up then press the

home key to get back to the homepage. Try

opening up different apps and going back to

the homepage.

Activity 2

• Tap into the notes app, select new at top

right‐hand corner and type a small message,

using letters numbers and symbols.

How do I connect to WIFI?

• Go to your settings icon; select the WIFI

option and enter password.

Are you connected?

Can you see this symbol in

the top right hand of your

screen?

If so you are connected to

WIFI.

Public WIFI

• If you choose to use WiFi in a public place, whether you

are using a smartphone, laptop or tablet. Remember, not

all public WiFi is encrypted, even if you are asked to enter

a password.

• Always think carefully before sharing private details (like

bank details or passwords) in a public place – can it wait

until you are on a secure connection at home?

• Don’t use Apps in public wifi areas.

Setting up an Email Account

Icons for Different Email Provides

Activity 3

• Open and close some of the apps on your iPad, for example, the calendar, reminders, safari etc.

• Navigate between the different pages of apps on the iPad to find different apps on the other pages.

Activity 4 - Deleting an App

Practice by tapping on an app until all the apps shake (youcan delete an app if you like). To get the apps back tonormal tap on the home button.

Further Support & Information

• Your nearest Apple store has free courses that you can

attend;

• Lots of free online learning; type into Google “Using my

iPad”;

• Try YouTube for online video’s.

Digital or Die?

@GUTS_SW @Cosmic_UK

UK is now a Smart Device Society

• Smartphones overtake laptops as UK internet

users’ number one device;

• We’re spending over two hours online on our

smartphones/tablets every day; twice as long as

laptops and PCs;

• Superfast broadband & 4G is helping change the

way we shop, bank, watch TV and communicate.

We, and our customers….

• Touch their phone 215 times a day;

• Have our phone within reach for 14 hours a day;

• Spend 2 hours and 51 mins on their phone (up 30 mins

from 2013)

So, how can we use mobile technology in our businesses to

become more efficient?

Useful Apps

Nina Goodwin

@GUTS_SW @Cosmic_UK

Check your broadband Speed

Need to take meeting notes?

• Works with Drive, Gmail and Google Photos, so you can store

files, save email attachments and back-up photos directly to Drive.

• Save any attachment to your Drive to organize and share them in

a single, safe place.

• Create and collaborate with others. Share documents and files,

build out spreadsheets and make a presentation on the fly with

Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps.

• Scan all your paper documents with Drive for Android. Just

snap a photo of documents like receipts, letters and statements

and Drive will store them instantly as PDFs.

Need to take meeting notes?

• OneDrive is Microsoft’s free cloud storage solution

• Works across all devices, smartphones & tablets

• Up to 15GB of free storage.

What’s the plan?

Google Calendar

• See your schedule at a glance;

• Add events from Gmail added

automatically;

• Works with all calendars on your phone.

Check my heart rate?

• Real-time heart rate;

• Resting, active, wake up rate;

• Improve your awareness;

• Built into Apple Health and

Google Fit.

IFTTT

IF THIS THEN THAT

• Automate processes;

• Upload social photos to

Google Drive;

• Save stories from news

sites;

• When near home text a

contact.

Start the Journey

TripLog

• Click to start (auto);

• Click to stop;

• Categorise mileage;

• End of month Spreadsheet;

• Photograph parking tickets and

receipts.

Start the journey

• Expensify makes capturing

receipts, tracking time or

mileage, business travel and

creating expense reports quick

and easy;

Halve the time it takes to pay

● All RingGo users have unlimited use of the

RingGo apps to pay to park your vehicle;

● Automatically lists nearby zones and

distances;

● Search by location;

● View sites on Google maps;

● Favourite sites stored and recalled

● Shows recent RingGo activity

● Account management

1st Meeting: Breakfast Presentation

Evernote

• Present straight from

Evernote on my phone;

• Write notes in my pad &

Scan notes in;

• Meet new people? Scan

their cards & connect to

LinkedIn.

Scannable

• Automatically capture high-quality scans

anywhere;

• Point your camera at documents, expense

receipts, or whiteboards. Scannable

immediately captures them

• Automatically rotates, crops, and adjusts

images so your scans are clear and easy to

read.

• Send documents to colleagues via email

or text, or export them as PDF and JPG files

to Evernote.

• Pull information from business cards and

LinkedIn, add profile photos, and save it all to

your contacts list.

Cam Scanner

• Use your phone camera to

scan receipts, notes, invoices,

whiteboard discussions,

business cards, certificates,

• Smart cropping and auto

enhancing make the texts and

graphics look clear and sharp

• Easily share docs in PDF or

JPEG format with others via

social media, email attachment

or sending the doc link

National Rail Enquries

• My Travel: Set up personalised travel updates.

Save your favourite journeys and stations. Find the

next train home and get relevant live updates at a

glance.

• Journey Planner - Plan your journeys with up-to-

the-minute travel information and track the progress

of trains and as well as being alerted to disruptions

along your route.

• Real Time Push Notifications - Get disruption

alerts sent straight to your phone or watch as they

happen.

• Wake-up alerts - Avoid missing your stop or getting

caught out when the train divides or arrives at its

destination.

• Intergrates with Apple watch.

Bsafe - Lone Working

• Set up your own social personal safety network of friends, family and

coworkers

• Share locations when you'd like to find each other more easily

• Ask friends to walk you home with Follow Me’s live GPS trace, or help

friends stay safer by walking them home from wherever you are

• Use Timer Mode to program an automatic alarm that will trigger if you

have not checked in in time

• Use I’m Here to tell selected people where you are right now

• Use Fake Call to make the phone ring when you want it to. You can even

define who the call should be from

• And in case you are ever in trouble, the Guardian Alert button will

immediately notify your friends and family members that you need help,

and let them know where you are (GPS) and what’s happening (video). It

will even set off a optional siren!

Need to collect information?

Google Forms

• Set up your own booking

forms, enquiry forms,

surveys and feedback

forms;

• Forms App (In Google

Drive);

• Forms you create on your

PC can be viewed and

completed in the browser of

your phone;

• Save to Google Drive.

Paperless working?

Tracking things to do

Todoist

• Capture every action - personal, shopping, business,

ideas, questions to ask colleagues;

• Add that very next action to a list….

@next actions (or things to do)

@Project list (lots of things in projects)

@Waiting for..

@Personal list

@Shopping list

• Set reminders

Tracking things to do

Wonderlist

• Easily share lists and

collaborate with family,

friends and colleagues;

• Share the work and

delegate to-dos;

• Organize your projects

for home, work and

everywhere in between

with Folders.

Conference Session?

Buddhify

• The mindfulness app for your

modern life;

• Practical, playful and beautifully-

designed, buddhify increases your

wellbeing by teaching you

mindfulness-based meditation on the

go.

• With over 11 hours of custom

meditations for 15 different parts of

your day including traveling, being

online, taking a work break and going

to sleep, buddhify gives you a simple

but effective way to bring more

mindfulness and calm to your busy

day.

What apps do you use?

What is Get up to Speed?

• Fully funded business and community support alongside

roll-out of superfast broadband;

• Helping to ensure we all make the most out of the

superfast broadband;

Delivered by Cosmic Peninsula Consortium

At Work

• Communicate effectively online; reducing need to travel;

• Extend market reach; better use of web and social media;

• Save costs; using Cloud technologies;

• Collaborate and manage projects remotely;

• Become more flexible; work on-the-go;

• Compete with urban, national and international

businesses.

At Home

• Everyone using the connection at the same time;

• Reduce social isolation - connect with family & friends

using video conferencing;

• Work from home more efficiently;

• Watch, listen and read: TV, music and ebooks;

• Better connected to services, health, social

care,government.

Increasing services delivered online and future planning of

health & care services

Any Questions?

Contact us

www.get-up-to-speed.co.uk

info@get-up-to-speed.co.uk