What can anyone say about an iPad that has not been said before? Some look at it as the future of technology and others think of it as a plaything. If you’re one who looks at it as a helpful tool, you will find the advice from this article to be useful.

If you want to stream movies, listen to music and play games on your iPad, consider that your battery life will be much shorter. If you lessen the brightness of the screen, you can get more from your battery. In most cases, there is no need to keep the maximum brightness level to read, surf the Internet or tinker with apps.

Remote servers need to be access using a VPN connection. You can connect to VPN connections using the iPad by navigating to Network, which is located under Settings, and turning on VPN. Next, you need to supply both username and server address. If you are unaware of the server address, you must contact the network administrator.

It is possible to expand the amount of preview text you get for emails. In your Settings menu, click on Mail, and then find the Preview setting. Changes this setting to display up to five lines. It will be easier to go through your emails if you can eliminate the unimportant ones right away.

On your email, you will notice that the default only allows for two visible lines. You might want to see more than that. Navigate to Settings and select Mail. Select Contacts under Mail, then select Calendar to alter the options for additional lines in Preview mail.

It matters not what your intended purpose for the iPad might be; you can improve upon that purpose if you take the right steps. These tips merely brush the surface of the vast capacity of iPad. The iPad isn’t that complex, so it you do a bit more research, you’ll be an expert relatively quickly.