

Easy way to lock iPAD screen so kids stay within the app If you would like to receive free learning ideas, sign up for iGameMom weekly email updates. Today we share how to use Guided Access feature to control kids’ screen time and app access, an important parental control feature that iOS has.īeside tech tips, iGameMom shares fun STEM learning ideas for kids. And third, volume boost is coming.Since I posted How to Child-proof iPAD, I received so many questions asking how to lock iPAD screen or iPhone screen, so kids stay within the app you want them to. Adding this one in should make things work. Second, the reason my MTS files don't show up in the app is because VLC recognizes videos by file extension. First, the crash-on-launch problem is known, and will be fixed in the next update. Update: Romain wrote to make a few points. The best part of all this is that VLC for iPad will be free when (and if) it makes it through the app review process and into the store. That said, this is v1.0 and is way more polished than any other video app I have yet seen on the tablet. ITunes on both the Mac and the iPad have whisperingly low maximum volume settings, whereas sound in VLC on the Mac comes out loud and clear, but not on the iPad version. The one big thing I miss is the volume boost of desktop VLC. I'm 15 minutes into Truffaut's 400 Blows and the battery is still at 100 percent. And so far it appears not to drain the battery significantly more than the iPad's hardware-assisted video player (VLC uses software decoders for much of its work). There are a few other iPad apps that will play AVI and DIVX files, among other formats, but VLC plays files that the others wouldn't even open. This is no hardship as the app remembers where you left off. The former usually fixes itself and the latter can be cured by quitting and relaunching VLC. Sometimes the video starts to break up, and sometimes the sound gets out of sync. It works great (although you can't turn them off from within the app). Just make sure the SRT file has the same name as the movie file and drop it into iTunes alongside the movie. Not all file formats are supported: The AVCHD files from my Panasonic GF1, for example, can be added via iTunes but don't appear in the app.
