Once a week we dump out the Tips box and share some great reader tips with you. This week we’re looking at an easy way to change the screen brightness on the iPad, how to score extra Dropbox space by syncing your photos, and how to cut down on your cable clutter.

通过ipad multitray快速访问屏幕亮度

Nick writes in with the following tip:

So there I was telling my buddy about how I like my jailbroken iPad because I can install extra tools to do the things the iPad doesn’t do very well on its own. I gave the example of installing SBSettings so that I could quickly access the screen brightness slider without having to go into the settings menu. At that point my buddy pointed out that you can do that with a stock iPad by simply double clicking the home button (which pulls up the Multitray) and then swiping to the right. I’ve been jailbreaking since before they introduced the Multitray so that’s clearly a feature I overlooked. I figured I’d write in about it, given the chance that many other HTG readers probably don’t know about it either!

尼克，我们不会撒谎的。我们已经使用SBSettings很长时间了，很显然，我们和你一样，从来没有寻找过这个新功能，因为我们在SBSettings中拥有了我们所需要的一切。谢谢分享！

获得4.5 gb免费dropbox存储空间

Kelly用以下Dropbox技巧写道：

Dropbox is rolling out a new Photo Sync feature. If you get in on the beta test (which you can do by simply downloading the beta release of the new Windows Dropbox client), they’ll reward you with up to 4.5GB of extra storage space. It’s pretty simple. The beta isn’t on the front page (you’ve got to visit this forum post) but once you’ve found and installed it, you just start syncing photos and video from your mobile devices/cameras. For every 500MB you upload they’ll give you 500MB of storage (up to 4.5GB). It only took two syncs with my 4GB camera SD card to max out the free storage. Totally painless. Definitely the easiest way I’ve ever gotten extra Dropbox space.

至于得分免费存储去，这是相当该死的无痛。小费不错！

利用多用途电缆消除充电电缆杂波

Courtney使用以下电缆分离提示写入：

I was recently on a business trip with a colleague. When we were unpacking our stuff, she practically dumped out a file cabinet’s worth of cables. She had a cable and wall charger for every device she’d brought with her. The thing is, most of the cables and chargers were essentially interchangeable. Aside from the charger for her laptop, everything else could have effectively been mixed and mingled. Her kindle and her Bluetooth headset both used micro USB. Her iPhone uses the propriety Apple connector but the cable for the Kindle and Bluetooth headset could have been plugged into the iPhone wall wart. There were additional gadgets that all shared various connectors and charging schemes.

My point, if I’m getting a little long winded, is that she had gotten so used to everything needing a cable and a charger that she hadn’t stopped to look and see that they were all virtually interchangeable. After helping her par down the pile, all she really needed was her laptop charger, a USB wall wart (from the iPhone), one micro USB cable and one Apple sync cable. In reality very few of her devices needed to be charged c***tantly (like the Kindle and her Bluetooth headset), so it wasn’t necessary to bring a powerstrip’s worth of cords.

这看起来很简单，但你是对的考特尼：很容易忘记检查你的电缆，只是养成了沿着设备附带的电缆拖拉的习惯。如果你想轻装上阵，出门前花点时间清点一下你的充电和布线需求是值得的。