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Had some serious issues with displaying my manga in the correct order. Apparently they went from arranging pictures by filename to EXIF date tags, which is stupid. Whoever got that idea deserves a foot in the head. Got it right with a third party software, but damn, hope I don't have to do that anymore.
Is Pages really worth $9.99?
Can it adjust page margins, line spacing, superscript and subscript, insert page breaks, insert page numbers, make tables, make table of contents detecting heading type text, and email the document easily? Does it make documents in .doc format and can it read and edit .doc format?
Can it adjust page margins, line spacing, superscript and subscript, insert page breaks, insert page numbers, make tables, make table of contents detecting heading type text, and email the document easily? Does it make documents in .doc format and can it read and edit .doc format?
Tobor said:
Why doesn't it support sub/super script? Seems like an odd omission.
My 6 year old laptop just lost 20% of it's viewing area to dead pixels so I may have to use my iPad 2 as an actual laptop replacement since I can't afford another laptop after buying an iPad 2. If I need to do written assignments, I guess Pages is the app to get.
brianmcdoogle
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Looking for some reading/magazine apps for the iPad. I currently read The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, National Geogrphic, The Atlantic, and Wired (which sucks. Horrible writing and articles).I would love a film magazine, but Empire isn't available in the United States. I could get Film Comment on Zinio, but I don't want to because I like individual apps for iPad. And I thought about the Economist, but I want to do in-app subscriptions so the companies don't have my info and begin letter bombing me with spam. So, anything you guys like, or are people not reading magazines on iPad?
ipukespiders
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Gonna be hard to do, with my perversions.MDJCM said:
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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This.brianmcdoogle said:
Magazines are the Internet delivered to you weekly or monthly. What's the point?
dark_chris
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Im about to get my first iPad.
I figure it would be great for taking notes in class.
Anyone recommend a good app for it?
I figure it would be great for taking notes in class.
Anyone recommend a good app for it?
If this is what people think its no wonder the industry is failing.Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
I don't agree, are you planning on using an external keyboard? I would say Pages is the best app for you if you are planning on using a keyboard and not a finger/stylus.dark_chris said:
Crazymoogle
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I don't remember this Kickstarter project (a Bluetooth Keyboard, specifically for iPad so far) being mentioned in here yet. Sure, it's not cheap to get in at this point, and it's more of a travel convenience thing, but it actually looks pretty cool.
(The most obvious application to me would be only popping up certain keys for games, but I can see his point about avoiding unnecessary BT activation, heh...)
(The most obvious application to me would be only popping up certain keys for games, but I can see his point about avoiding unnecessary BT activation, heh...)
dark_chris
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rezuth said:
I've already tested on typing and i can type fast with my fingers.
Narpas Sword0
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Anyone knowof any good bluetooth keyoard folio cases for ipad 1?
soul creator
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Richard Dawkins' Magic of Reality app is out (the actual hardcover book isn't released until next week for US folks)
Pachterballs
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
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I buy
EDGE/DwELL various others.
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this is really misguided..Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
magazines are CONTENT delivered to you on a scheduled basis collected in a single release.
the problem with just regurgitating everything as it's written is, well... timing and scheduling.
look at it this way. When a game site does "Sonic week", do you really think they decided 48 hours earlier to do a sonic week the next week? No, it's probably something that they put together for a couple of weeks at least. Do you think that the game sites aren't thinking about running Batman articles next month, or Uncharted articles next month? I guarantee they've been thinking about this stuff already, if not for a few months now.
the only benefit to the "instant 24/7 delivery" of the internet is news, hands down. Breaking news on the internet has made news from periodical news sources (daily, weekly or monthly) obsolete. Absolutely. However editorial content is entirely another story, and the internet hasn't done a single thing to kill periodicals when it comes to editorial content. Magazines go through great effort to put "issues" together.. a collection of collected and related editorial content.. the same way internet gaming sites do the "best of the year" stuff at the end of the year, the "fall preview" stuff late summer, etc.
none of this changes with internet delivered magazines, nor would it. and magazines actually hold one ADVANTAGE over the internet (aka any magazine, print or internet). They don't need to worry about providing content every single day. As an internet site, not only better you have content every day, but you better have LOTS of content every day.. enough to bring someone to the site every single day because you are paying for the bandwidth/storage every day regardless. So if you are needing to hold someone's attention for 5 minutes a day, every day of the month, you are looking at needing 150 minutes of content every month, and more when considering the variety of your audience.
with a magazine, you can instantly take that instead down to 60 minutes, or 90 minutes of content. And even better, you are still getting advertiser money, because you are still shifting tens of thousands (or millions) of readers.. and have hard numbers to go to advertisers with.
bottom line, apple and amazon were/are smart with the newsstand approach. editorial content in a periodical fashion is definitely not dead, and arguably will probably never be dead. about the only change the internet has brought along is in regards to the news, but for editorial content the periodical approach is still very much alive and even holds some benefits over the 24/7 site access approach.
McSweeney's, WSC (When Saturday Comes), EW's Must List, Atomix Mag (verry buggy -_-), The Chronicle (of Higer Education), <insert your city's local weekly here>, <insert a photography mag of choice>, Maxim, Sports Illustrated, GQ, Playboy(girl?) and so on.brianmcdoogle said:
P.s. If you really want Empire, it's not so hard to buy UK iTunes cards online and create a UK account, like I did. The iTunes/iOS ecosystem is so robust that there's almost always a workaround for an Apple restriction.
Edit: Liu Kang has point though and you should try sticking the magazine's rss feed in flipboard before deciding on a subsscription.
Betta Lines
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But much of the editorial content ends up on the internet anyway. For instance, Edge magazine's articles end up on next-gen.biz a while after the magazine has been released. And if this content is not news, I have no problem waiting for it. The only think I want delivered instantly is news.borghe said:
I'm not saying magazines have no value - they are good for people who don't have the time to collate their own content from the net, and the presentation/ease of use is still superior (although apps like Flipboard are closing that gap).
this is kind of my point. you get early access to content and it's delivered right to your device on schedule with zero effort from you.. to many (millions) of people that is worth a nominal cost of $.99-2.99 per digital issue.Pazuzu9 said:
there isn't a "right answer" here.. that's all I'm really trying to say. There was talk in here that the internet has made the magazine model irrelevant, and I was simply pointing out that the editorial periodical model is still very much relevant and definitely has demand relatively unaffected by the internet. And people who are ok with waiting 1-30 days for the content to come to the ad-supported internet have their alternative as well.
personally I participate in both as I'm sure many here do as well. There is editorial content that I don't want to wait for (mainly Edge, Gamepro, and some film stuff") and there is news and other editorial content that I don't care about waiting for (local newspaper, entertainment weekly, usa today, etc)
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... and mark them all as read?Ashes1396 said:
Buckethead
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So I downloaded a bunch of podcasts on my iPad.
Everytime I sync with iTunes it transfers them to my computer.
I delete them and sync and it just puts them back on.
I don't want them on my iPad.
How do I get them off?
Everytime I sync with iTunes it transfers them to my computer.
I delete them and sync and it just puts them back on.
I don't want them on my iPad.
How do I get them off?
Buckethead
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I don't see said option?rezuth said:
Technosteve
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Nifty is that a custom ios firmware?
I've Googled, and can't seem to find anyone else with this problem. Please help iGaf!
Printing from my iPad (1), to my HP Deskjet 3070A is great fun, but yields mixed results. In Pages and Numbers, the print preview seems to have no bearing on how my printed document appears. For example, a centralised table in Numbers, which is set as Fit to Page and appears at an optimized size in the middle of my landscape page, prints with a huge margin on one side. The margins don't exist in the page setup, and my printer is aligned correctly. What the fuck?
It doesn't even look like an A4 size. My printout looks nothing like this. The right-hand and bottom margins are much wider. It's not central at all.
Printing from my iPad (1), to my HP Deskjet 3070A is great fun, but yields mixed results. In Pages and Numbers, the print preview seems to have no bearing on how my printed document appears. For example, a centralised table in Numbers, which is set as Fit to Page and appears at an optimized size in the middle of my landscape page, prints with a huge margin on one side. The margins don't exist in the page setup, and my printer is aligned correctly. What the fuck?
It doesn't even look like an A4 size. My printout looks nothing like this. The right-hand and bottom margins are much wider. It's not central at all.
Hey US Apple employees, I have a family friend who works in a retail store and wanted to ask him if he could get me the ipad at a discount, but didn't want to ask him how much the discount is. Can someone PM me what the employee discount is on these things? I don't have a lot of money and am debating between the Kindle Fire and an iPad, greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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