Ten Hints, Tips, and Shortcuts - iPad Mini - page 446

Consider moving the Safari icon from the Dock onto one of your Home screens so that you never
tap it by accident. Finally, remember that the Dock has room for six icons, even though it only has
four by default. If you like, place both Safari and your new Home Page icon in the Dock so that you
can tap either one depending upon your needs.
Storing Files
A tiny Massachusetts software company — Ecamm Network — sells a piece of OS X software,
PhoneView ($29.95), which lets you copy files from your Mac to your iPad mini and copy files from
the mini to a Mac, as shown in Figure 20-9 . (No Windows version is available.) Better still, you can
try the program for a week before deciding whether you want to buy it. Go to www.ecamm.com to
fetch the free demo.
Figure 20-9: Store all your files with PhoneView.
The big deal here is that while automatic backups protect most of the files on your iPad mini, there's
no way to manipulate them. They're backed up and restored, but heaven help you if you want to ex-
tract one or more individual iMessages, specific songs, videos, notes, or other types of data from
your iPad mini. The bottom line is that there's no easier way than PhoneView.
In a nutshell, here's how PhoneView works. After downloading the software to your Mac, double-
click the program's icon to start it. Then do one of the following:
To transfer files and folders to the iPad mini (assuming that you have room on the device),
click the Copy to iPad button on the toolbar and then select the files you want to copy. The