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Sure, you can surf the web, watch movies and listen to music on the iPad, but it can be a powerful personal productivity tool too. We continue our how to use the iPad video tutorial series and iPad new user guide with a close look at the Calendar and Contacts apps on your iPad.

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butterscotch TUTORIAL SPECIAL Part Seven of Ten: Navigation your calendar and contacts on the iPad Andrew Moore-Crispin: Hi this is Andrew Moore-Crispin with your butterscotch.com tutorial series on using a new iPad. iPad 101, and today we are taking to look at some of the productivity application that built into the iPad. Specifically we look at the calendar and the contacts applications. So we'll start up with calendar. You can see the application shortcut by default was in the top left of your first home screen and it displays today's date and the day. So tap on that. Now we can see here the day view, so we can see if we had a bunch of events schedule we could get kind of a agenda view here. At anytime we can tap on the plus icon to add a new event. We can say shoot we can set the location. By the way at an absolute minimum you should set the title of your event and whether event actually runs from it too. So you can choose to move the day in this case we want it on today or we can move to time here or we can choose to set alert, so it will be alerted before the event actually starts or you can choose none. Then we'll say done. Now we see our new event actually appears in the calendar here. We can also tap on the buttons across the top to get different views on our schedule, so here we are seeing the week view you can see very briefs synopsis of different events that we have going on. We can also look at the month view that is a little different than the calendar application on for example your iPhone or your iPod Touch and then we actually get a little bit of detail that we can look at here. We can also tap on an event to see a little bit more detail about that event. We can also tap on list to get a list view of all the events that we have up coming. This is kind of more like an agenda view. At anytime we can tap on this today icon to get taken back to our events for today and we can also using the scrubber bar across the bottom and quick select a new date here, so when you go to Thursday the 22nd and we can also tap on the month, the name of the month here to flip forward anytime of month. We also have access to numerous calendars here if we've set up sync from say Google calendar or an iCal on our Mac or in our PC. That's a quick look at the calendar application. Now we are going to take quick look at the contacts application. So you can see here we get an address book style view on our contacts. We can also use the letter tabs across the left here to quickly jump to letters that start with the given name. We can also at anytime choose to share a contact by tapping on share now we can email that contact or we can edit the contact to add in for example a website URL, a home address, phone numbers, all that kind of stuff. We can also new fields, if for example there was specific information that we wanted to add about a person we can add all that here. And we'll tap outside tap done to say that we're finished with this contact. Also at anytime we can tap on the plus icon to add a new contact. So here we put in first and last name, put your stuff explanatory, phone numbers all that kind of stuff here. Now it's a point to note that if we actually add an address to a contact, we can within the application here, so if we find Apple, we can actually tap on their address here and we can either choose to copy or if we just tap once we'll be taken into the map application to see exactly where they was site on the map. That's a quick look at the productivity application on the iPad. And that concludes part seven of our iPad tutorial series. Be sure hit up the show notes on butterscotch.com and check out all parts in this series. butterscotch tasty tech delicious downloads butterscotch.com a division of Tucows Male Speaker: Hey this is Doc. If you are looking for a cheap and easy way to put your own content on the web go get domain names from hover.com. Just visit hover.com/butterscotch and you'll get 10% off and support shows like these. Thanks.