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2. The Home screen actually extends beyond the screen width. On Home screen, swipe your
fingertip left and right along the screen to reveal the full width of the Home screen. This additional
space gives you more room to customize Home with application shortcuts, and widgets.
3. Create Home screen shortcuts and widgets:
• Touch the Apps tab with your fingertip to reveal the application icons, on Main Menu swipe your
fingertip right to show the widgets.
• Select an Application shortcut, a Shortcut to some of your saved information (such as a play list),
a Widget (a clock or picture frame) for your Home screen.
• The application, shortcut, folder, or widget appears on Home screen.
Tip: To create an application shortcut quickly, touch the application tab to reveal all the
application icons, then touch & hold an application icon. Its shortcut is added to the Home screen;
close the application tab to see it.
4. To remove a shortcut or widget from your Home screen, touch & hol
d the item to enter “move
mode
”. Drag the item to the Trash button (Remove) and release. You will know when your item is
in the Trash because the item and the tab will turn red.
5. Move objects on the Home screen
• To move an icon or other item on the Home screen, you must first touch & hold it to enter move
mode. .
• Without lifting your finger (or you‟ll drop out of move mode), drag the object to the new position.
To move an item to a section of the Home screen not in view, move it to the edge of the screen
and hold it there for a moment. The screen view will shift; position the object and release.
5.1 Read your notifications
On the top of your tablet screen is the status bar. On the left side, icons will appear, notifying you
of a new email, upcoming calendar event, or something else you should notice. On the right side
of the status bar, you‟ll see connection status icons.
5.2 Connection status icons
When you see a notification in the status bar, touch the bar and swipe your finger up the screen
to open the list of notifications displayed in the sliding window.
Ongoing notifications report activities such as song playing.
