iPads

myageingparent.com has some really good recommendations for apps http://www.myageingparent.com/top-ipad-apps-for-the-elderly/

What about games? I am hooked on words with friends. A bit like scrabble.
And solitaire and spider of course. Can't see the appeal of angry birds but its very popular. I have kindle and kobo too.
I like right move to look at property, and I read newspapers on line.
Any more favourites? Preferably free ones. There are loads of free ones.

I love IMDb for checking who's who when watching old films on TV, iPlayer etc, BBC news for quick thumbnail info and a new one I found recently DOTT, Do One Thing Today, just a gentle little exhortation each morning which I check out when I switch on with my morning , along with the Kindle Daily Deal, which is my all time favourite, brilliant.

Thanks Jeni . Anyone else finding typing on iPhone easier?
My usual upgrade strategy is to change mobile gadgets over a Bank Holiday weekend,hence no work pressures, then any teething problems I can get back into the shop ( I 'm a contact customer) & get help. Next step Easter...

Yes! I found iPhone much easier and quicker.

I use Evening Standard on iPAD, Facebook, Kindle....
has anyone successfully moved from a Blackberry - which I find brilliant for typing emails - to an iPhone and got up to typing speed quickly? I have a dilemma on this one

Not at all if DSIL is a computer geek. He even hacked into my orange account to find the pass code my provider hadn't bother to tell me had changed. At the moment I haven't bought any apps not brave enough. The times app has been a godsend in Geneva where the UK papers always seem to be yesterday's and weather beaten

whenim keep tryiNG persuade OH TO get IPAD THINK HE may enjoy using it (me too of course!) he steers well clear of computer so would be nice for him. I don`t think would be too complicated set up is it??

Whoops - those are the Apps on my iPhone although most of them can be used in my iPad.

British Gas for my meter readings, London trains to check the times for going home after work, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Weather, my bank, Summly for the news, Heathrow and British Airways when I travel, Shazam when I don't recognise a piece of music and Sky+ to check alternative showings of TV programmes.

Staw poll round friends and colleagues found London Bus Checker, TripAdvisor, pedometers .... are any others popular?

I've got a funny app called 'Angry Gran Run' which my 12 year old grandson put on my iPad. Great fun!

My favourites tend to be Google, Facebook, Next, my bank, Ebay, Amazon, Pinterest, some garden centres and various newspapers.

What Apps are your favourites on iPAD?

There are spectacle cleaning cloths all over the place here, and they are just right for iPod / iPad screens. A baby wipe now and then is helpful - I use them for the phones too. And an Egypt cloth!

I was wondering why you'd gone to Egypt for cloth!

I pad finger alert that should read E cloth...

Bought a spray from the pound shop and a Egypt cloth thingy that brings my screen up,and my phone and my glasses....well worth the expense

That was my strategy before, but I'm completely won over by these little gizmos.

I just keep a soft cloth (old hanky usually) handy and give the iPad screen a buffing every now and then. Works a treat.

Someone, I forget who, recommended some touch-type styluses (styli?) for iPads to avoid finger marks. Mine arrived today after about a month from Hong Kong. They are marvellous, worth the wait. Only one problem, I ordered two. I now realise they come in packs of eight. So with the additional pack they sent as 'a gesture if good willing' I now am the proud owner of 24 styluses

It's OK stans I only bite if attacked otherwise I'm 'armless!

Thanks Kali I've just done as you said. worried about you name tho'. Is it short for Kalispera or do you wear a necklace of skulls?

Unless its an Open Network you will need a code when you try to access a new wifi network. So you need to ask your DD and SiL for their code. Go to settings on your iPad follow your logic.

Can any Gnetter help me? I am new to Ipad but I'm staying in a flat in Geneva next week where they use IPads etc so I think they have wifi. Do I have to have a code or anything when one changes venues? My DD and SIL will not be ther when I arrive . Should I ask them anything about access? All advice welcome as their computer is used for business and needs passwords so I have been babysitting without any TV etc-in the past.

Brilliant!