17. The Two iPad Centers

In This Chapter

• The two iPad centers

Exploring the Notification Center

Configuring Notification Center

Exploring the Game Center

• Configuring Game Center

Your iPad has the ability to notify you of many things—new email messages, reminders, birthdays, app updates, and much more. Although many of the apps can pop up alerts on the screen or use the badge system (small numbers on the icon of the app), one really useful feature is built right in to your iPad that can do even more amazing things. It’s called the Notification Center, and you may find it just as useful as I do for getting a daily (or hourly) update of all the things that matter to you.

The Notification Center is meant to be a single location for you ...

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