Tuesday, June 14, 2011

First steps with my tablet

I received my new tablet yesterday. I charged it for 1 hour and then fired it up. I pushed the power button and nothing happened. I then decided to read the manual (I had printed out the manual from a pdf on the Coby site. The enclosed manual has small print, so the pdf that I printed out is much easier on my eyes.) To start the tablet you need to hold the power button in until the screen comes to life. I need to time the boot up time. My tablet started right up to the opening screen, with the animated falling leaves in the background. This is nice but I plan on adding my own background and eliminate the animation. I then went to settings and connected to my Wi-Fi network. This went very smoothly and I was now on line.

I tried the default browser and went to my website. Most of my page showed up fine but when I zoomed in and out, the sidebar on the right side disappeared. Scrolling the web page vertically worked well using my finger tip. I went to FaceBook using the default browser. I had a problem logging in to FB. After I entered my email address, it would not let me continue to enter my password. Maybe I was doing something wrong?

I then went to the AppsLib Store using the app on the main page. It asked me to register, which I tried to do. I don't think I was successful in registering, but it brought me to the AppsLib main page. I found that scrolling through the apps was difficult, because when I tried to swipe down with my finger, it thought I wanted to open info on that app. Maybe I should have pushed the calibrate icon first; I'll try that today. I was able to download and install Note Everything successfully.

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