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Having had the first hour today with and explanation of a local surgery’s website and how to use online services, we can now look at other resources that may be useful on the tablet and then put them all in a folder clled health. Firstly can you put the surgery links onto the desktop and […]

The general rules for buying a tablet are the same whenever you do it.  Tablets, as with any technology always aim to be superceded, often within a year.  Currently there is a perceived “lull” in new technologies meaning that the latest devices are faster and have better cameras and screens, but basically do pretty much […]

A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI/URL) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. There are a number of popular […]

All your apps are “held” under the Apps icon.  On tapping it you will see a list of all the active apps.  There may be more that one screen of apps (indicated  by the grey/white blocks at the bottom of the screen).  At the top of your screen will be a second tab called widgets […]

What is a widget? The briefing widget Displays your upcoming events and top news stories from Yahoo! News so you can get your information and news stories at a glance from your Home screen.  It needs to be configured.  Select the settings option and configure the News, first setting the country.

Flipboard is a social-network aggregation, magazine-format mobile app localized in more than 20 languages. The software collects content from social media and other websites, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to “flip” through their  feeds and feeds from websites.  Effectively it is you own personalised compendium of magazines and media.  Instead of having […]

Opening the box Is your tablet clean? Check… Firstly, delete it from your device through  Settings, Application Manager: Downloaded Now go to the Play Store and choose Apps, My Apps:All Any App with a cross on the right hand side can be deleted permanantly! These are the Apps you should have on your device: ChatON Cloud Print […]

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When you start the tablet you have an opening screen which you have to swipe to “get into” the tablet.  This presents you with a “desktop”, sometimes called a home screen.  It may actually have the option to “navigate” to other screens and there will be apps and widgets on them. Additionally there will be […]