Samsung Galaxy Tabs For Dummies E-Book

Dan Gookin

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Seitenzahl: 390

Beschreibung

A colorful, entertaining, and informative guide to theSamsung Galaxy family of tablets Samsung's bestselling Galaxy Tabs may come in multiplesizes, but they all share the wildly popular Androidoperating system and are packed with tons of top-notchtablet features. This full-color book shows you how to enjoyall the things your Galaxy Tab can do, regardless of model: browsethe web, handle e-mail, manage your social media, make phone callsand video chat, read e-books, take and share photos, play music,and more. Author Dan Gookin, famous for his skill in demystifyingtechnology, takes you on a tour of the Galaxy,explaining hidden tablet tricks and showing you how tomake your Tab your own. * Walks you through every element of the popular Galaxy Tabmodels, illustrated with full-color screen shots that show youexactly how to use your new tablet * Covers the unique elements of this amazing Android tabletthat give the Galaxy Tab a competitive edge as well as morecommon tablet features like the touchscreen interface, web browser,camera, social media, e-mail, apps, and more * Includes tips for filling your Galaxy Tab with music, movies,TV shows, books, games, photos, videos, and other cool content fromGoogle Play * Shows you how to type successfully on the Tab keyboard, getdirections, manage your content, connect wirelessly, travel withyour Tab, and customize its features Samsung Galaxy Tabs For Dummies is the perfect guide forgetting started and getting around the Galaxy like a pro.

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Samsung® Galaxy Tabs For Dummies®

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2013949559

ISBN 978-1-118-77294-2 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-118-77295-9 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-118-77371-0 (ebk)

Manufactured in the United States of America

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Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: A Galaxy in Your Hands

Chapter 1: A Quick Orientation

Set Up Your Galaxy Tablet

Opening the box

Charging the battery

Know Your Way around the Galaxy

Finding things on the tablet

Inserting and removing a microSD card

Getting optional accessories

Where to Keep Your Tablet

Making a home for the tablet

Taking the tablet with you

Chapter 2: The On and Off Chapter

Hello, Tablet

Turning on your Galaxy tablet (for the first time)

Turning on your tablet

Working the various lock screens

Unlocking the tablet

Unlocking and running an app

Account Creation and Configuration

Obtaining a Google account

Adding accounts to the tablet

Farewell, Tablet

Locking the tablet

Controlling the lock timeout

Turning off your Galaxy tablet

Chapter 3: Find Your Way around the Galaxy

Basic Operations

Touching the touchscreen

Changing the orientation

Controlling the volume

Behold the Home Screen

Touring the Home screen

Accessing multiple Home screens

Using common buttons and icons

Home Screen Chores

Starting an app

Accessing a widget

Reviewing notifications

Making Quick Settings

Visiting the Apps screen

Reviewing recent apps

Playing with Multi Window

The Magical S Pen

Understanding the S Pen

Using Air Command

Doing some S Pen tricks

Chapter 4: Typing and Text

This Is a Keyboard?

Using the onscreen keyboard

Accessing special keyboard symbols

The Old Hunt-and-Peck

Typing one character at a time

Typing quickly by using predictive text

Adding SwiftKey Flow

Scribbling text with the S Pen

Google Voice Typing

Activating voice input

Dictating input

Uttering s**** words

Text Editing

Moving the cursor

Selecting text

Cutting, copying, and pasting

Part II: Tablet Communications

Chapter 5: All Your Friends in the Galaxy

Meet the Tablet's Address Book

Using the Contacts app

Sorting your contacts

Searching contacts

More Friends in Your Galaxy

Creating a contact from scratch

Creating a contact from an e-mail message

Importing contacts from your computer

Grabbing contacts from your social networking sites

Manage Your Friends

Editing contact information

Taking a picture of a contact

Building contact groups

Making a favorite

Joining identical contacts

Separating contacts

Removing a contact

Chapter 6: Mail of the Electronic Kind

Galactic E-Mail

Setting up an Email account

Adding even more e-mail accounts

You've Got E-Mail

Getting a new message

Checking the inbox

Reading e-mail

Write That Message

Composing a Gmail message

Crafting an Email message

Sending e-mail to a contact

Message Attachments

Dealing with attachments

Sending an attachment

E-Mail Configuration

Creating a signature

Configuring the manual delete option

Setting the primary e-mail account

Chapter 7: Web Browsing

Mobile Web Browsing

Viewing the web

Visiting a web page

Browsing back and forth

Working with bookmarks

Managing web pages in multiple tabs

Searching in and on the web

Sharing a page

The Art of Downloading

Grabbing an image from a web page

Downloading a file

Internet App Controls and Settings

Setting a home page

Changing the way the web looks

Setting privacy and security options

Chapter 8: The Digital Social Life

In Your Facebook

Setting up your Facebook account

Getting the Facebook app

Running Facebook on your tablet

Setting your status

Uploading a picture to Facebook

Configuring the Facebook app

Tweet Suite

Setting up Twitter

Tweeting

Even More Social Networking

Chapter 9: Text Chat, Video Chat, and Even Phone Calls

Let's Hang Out

Using Hangouts

Typing at your friends

Talking and video chat

Connect to the World with Skype

Getting Skype for your tablet

Chatting with another Skype user

Seeing on Skype (video call)

Placing a Skype phone call

Part III: Everything in the Galaxy

Chapter 10: Getting from Here to There

There's a Map for That

Using the Maps app

Adding layers

It Knows Where You Are

Finding out where you are

Helping others find your location