Help is appreciated.

Q1. When I sync my iPad to my air, is there a way to stop the iPad using my air to charge itself as it drains the battery like mofo?

Q2. I've recently bought an iPad mini and after much shouting at it I managed to sync the games that I have on the iPad with the progress gained. Now, if I write a memo on one devise, it appears on all the others, fantastic! As the devices are 'talking' to each other, is there a way they can talk regarding game progress?

Q3. I have the important app data in iCloud, but if I (well my pesky son) delete an app and its data, can I upload it again with data intact? I tried this and couldn't get the game progress to show up, so I had to reset the iPad mini (deleting everything) to the reload everything from scratch. These seems a long way round and surely there must be an easier solution.

Q4. With the air how the hell do you drag an icon across the hole screen? The track pad only seems to go about a third of the way across the screen, so it's drag, drop, drag, drop, drag, drop. Is there a cut and paste type of option?

Thank you

Mjj

i think i can answer Q4.

two possibilities on how to increase the range of the trackpad :

1. move your fingers quicker - these things move exponentially further the quicker your fingers swipe, so that slowly dragging your fingers across the width of the pad might move 25% of the way across the screen, but swiping quickly you will go way further - try it. this also work if you are swiping the trackpad to control an application - for example if you are watching video in VLC player you can scan forward by swiping two fingers across the trackpad - a slow swipe all the way across the pad might advcance it say 45 seconds for example, but if you whip your fingers across the trackpad quickly you might advance the video by 10 minutes.

2. in the settings menu increase the speed of the trackpad - this option is in the keyboard, trackpad, mouse part on the tab for trackpad - here is also where you can configure all the clever tap/swipe/pinch type gestures - if you haven't got the hang of this yet may i suggest you take the time to learn these as they are a really cool way of navigating and controlling your actions on the machine - i bought a magic mouse when i got my MBP and it's a clever mouse and good to use, but since mastering all the taps/swipes and pinches i have set up i never use it.

i am not a gamer so can't offer much help with the games questions but i wonder if using the "games centre" app might help with syncing your progress on games across your devices?

i think i can answer Q4.

two possibilities on how to increase the range of the trackpad :

1. move your fingers quicker - these things move exponentially further the quicker your fingers swipe, so that slowly dragging your fingers across the width of the pad might move 25% of the way across the screen, but swiping quickly you will go way further - try it. this also work if you are swiping the trackpad to control an application - for example if you are watching video in VLC player you can scan forward by swiping two fingers across the trackpad - a slow swipe all the way across the pad might advcance it say 45 seconds for example, but if you whip your fingers across the trackpad quickly you might advance the video by 10 minutes.

2. in the settings menu increase the speed of the trackpad - this option is in the keyboard, trackpad, mouse part on the tab for trackpad - here is also where you can configure all the clever tap/swipe/pinch type gestures - if you haven't got the hang of this yet may i suggest you take the time to learn these as they are a really cool way of navigating and controlling your actions on the machine - i bought a magic mouse when i got my MBP and it's a clever mouse and good to use, but since mastering all the taps/swipes and pinches i have set up i never use it.

i am not a gamer so can't offer much help with the games questions but i wonder if using the "games centre" app might help with syncing your progress on games across your devices?

You are correct. Open your games through the Game Center and you will be at same place on all your devices. Go to Game Center, tap games at the bottom, select the game, at the top right tap play. It should also get you back to what ever level you were on before your son deleted your game. You are also correct about trackpad speed. Open System Preferences go to trackpad, adjust the speed and yes you should learn the gestures. There are demos in the trackpad settings.

Answer to number 1. Plug your power supply into your computer.

Q4:

1) from folder: right click (or two finger tap) to get menu and select 'copy ....'

2) to folder: right click (or two finger tap) to get menu and find (but don't click) 'paste item'

3) hold down option key and 'paste item' will change to 'move item'

4) click 'move item' and live happily after

Q4:

1) from folder: right click (or two finger tap) to get menu and select 'copy ....'

2) to folder: right click (or two finger tap) to get menu and find (but don't click) 'paste item'

3) hold down option key and 'paste item' will change to 'move item'

4) click 'move item' and live happily after

Didn't even know this, great stuff

For syncing I don't think there is a way to stop the iPad from charging; but you can enable sync over WiFi. Not sure that will help things.

Brilliant. Thank you very much, I shall now be able to stop shouting at my apple devices.

Brilliant. Thank you very much, I shall now be able to stop shouting at my apple devices.

don't count on it ....