-Rebecca Johnson

If you use email distribution lists, you may have noticed that your iPad doesn’t. Here’s how to fix that.

You’ll need to fool your iPad by creating an individual contact for your distribution list in the Contacts app on your iPad. Enter all of the emails for your list in the email field for this individual contact. Please know that this workaround isn’t pretty. Every time you send an email to this contact from your iPad, you’ll receive an error. Just tell the iPad to send anyway and you’ll have successfully tricked your iPad into sending an email out to a group.

Here is how to create a contact for your distribution list, step by step.

First, find an email that you’ve sent to the distribution list. Copy all of the email addresses in the “To:” field and paste these into a Word document. You’ll get something that looks like this:

Then, strip out all text other than the email addresses and separate the email addresses with semicolons. You’ll get something that looks like this:

Copy this block of email addresses into the BODY of an email (not the “To:” field) and send it to yourself. Open this email on your iPad and copy the block of addresses.

Next, open the Contacts app on your iPad and create an individual contact for this distribution list. Paste that entire block of email addresses in the email field for that individual contact. Name your contact something easy to type and you’re set.

You can send an email to this list by typing the name of this contact in the “To:” field of any email you send from the Mail app on your iPad. Remember, when you send the email, it will give you an error, saying that it looks like there’s something wrong with the email address. Go ahead and send anyway.

It takes a bit of work to set up a list as a contact, but if you use lists, the extra time involved is worth it.

Please let me know in the comments whether you’ve found an easier way to do this. I know that there are also apps that will allow you to send a single email to a group of people, but I’ve heard that emails sent this way do not go through the Exchange server. Again, if I’m wrong, let me know.

-Rebecca Johnson

UPDATE: I noticed that a number of comments indicate that emails to groups are being rejected by the server. I have been testing this on a mail server running Exchange 2007. I just tried it using my gmail account to send an email to the group I’d created and I was rejected. So, many apologies to those folks on gmail who are using the advice in this post. However, one of our brilliant student employees came up with this workaround for gmail accounts. For those folks who have gmail: consult Creating an Email Distribution List for Your Gmail Account. Please let us know if this works for you. Thanks!

-Rebecca Johnson

Docs-to-go is 40% off and currently $9.99. http://appshopper.com/business/documents-to-go%c2%ae-with-exchange-attachments-microsoft-word-editing-exchange-attachments-desktop-sync

Quick Office is 75% off and currently $4.99 http://appshopper.com/business/quickoffice-connect-mobile-suite-for-ipad

Penultimate is 50% off and currently $0.99 http://appshopper.com/productivity/penultimate

Notability is 60% off and currently $1.99  http://appshopper.com/productivity/notability

-Jason Miller

Re-Enabling Password Check

-Rebecca Johnson

–Rebecca Johnson

Logitech solar keyboard
Logitech tablet keyboard for iPad
Zaggfolio
Apple bluetooth keyboard

iRig microphone

Targus stylus (the Targus stylus in our showcase, the one with the wide, angled tip, seems to no longer be available, the link in the text is to a page showing other Targus styli)
Pogo Sketch
Cosmonaut
Kensington Combo

Pix and Stix

Altec Lansing speakers
Reel Boom speakers (bluetooth and wireless)

The following four items are all Apple products and can be found on this page: iPad accessories
VGA display connector
iPad dock (when used in a multimedia room, this dock seems to distort the mirrored image from the iPad)
Apple digital AV adapter
camera kit connection

–Rebecca Johnson

The key is to add your gmail account to the iPad as an Exchange account. So, under Mail, Contacts, and Calendars in Settings, tap Add Account . . . and select Microsoft Exchange. In the first screen, enter your gmail address and password in the appropriate fields. Entering a Description is optional, but it can be helpful if you have multiple accounts on a single device.

On the next screen, enter m.google.com in the Server and Domain fields. Enter your entire gmail address as the User name. Tap Next. Now you’re ready to create an email distribution list on your iPad using your gmail account.

–Rebecca Johnson

Use HTML to create a link in your email signature in iOS 6.0

Have multiple email signatures on your iOS 6.0 device

Reorder your inboxes with iOS 6.0

Get Google Maps back on your iOS 6.0 device

Get Google Maps “Streetview” for the Google Maps web application

–Rebecca Johnson

iPad tip of the week: Emailing Photos and Videos:

With the release of iOS 6 it is now easier than ever to add photos/videos to emails. You can now add them from within the email itself. Here is how:

1. Open the mail app
2. Create a new email message by tapping the new mail icon in the top right corner of the screen
3. Tap and hold anywhere in the body of the message to bring up a list of options.
4. Locate the option that is labeled “Insert Photo or Video” and tap that option
5. You will now be presented with a box labeled photos, which will give you access to your media. Choose camera roll or photo stream depending on where your attachment is located.
6. After taping either camera roll or photo stream, tap the item that you want to attach to the email.
7. Tap the use button located in the top right corner to attach the item to the mail message.
8. Complete your email and then send.

-Jason Miller