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Bought iCab and am loving it in fullscreen so far. Only question, I set up swipe gestures but using one finger when you swipe left it brings you to a gray screen, what is the point of that?
 
Gary Whitta said:
How's NBA Jam on iPad? I'm downloading it now to help me survive a long flight later today.
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It's actually pretty fun, definitely worth the .99 I paid. Not having native hd sucks though.
 
Bouth Splashtop and AVplayerHD today.

The former allows me to play Shogun 2 on my ipad while I'm trying to enjoy the good weather. The latter allows me to drop in my unwatched K-Drama and find a subtitle for it later on without breaking a sweat.

Honestly, if the iPad had better image customisation tools, I could be completely without my PC for weeks on end. Here is hoping Adobe can come though.
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
Bought iCab and am loving it in fullscreen so far. Only question, I set up swipe gestures but using one finger when you swipe left it brings you to a gray screen, what is the point of that?
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It's supposed to swipe between tabs. Maybe you need to reboot the app.
 
Any browser that doesn't refresh your tabs every time you switch?

I see everyone mentioning iCab, Will check that out.
 
Gary Whitta said:
How's NBA Jam on iPad? I'm downloading it now to help me survive a long flight later today.
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It's a really, really good version of NBA Jam and it's great fun!

suffah said:
It's actually pretty fun, definitely worth the .99 I paid. Not having native hd sucks though.
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Sounds like you accidentally bought the iPhone version instead of the iPad version.
 
Veal said:
Having been apart of the "ipad-is-entirely-useless" camp for a little while, my thoughts on the usefulness of an ipad has changed considerably. I used to think "why buy an ipad when I could just get a cheaper netbook or laptop and be done with it" but now I'm seriously wondering if getting an ipad in lieu of either would be a good choice?

The form factor seems like a major plus and I'd just be goofing off with it for the most part (with some school time thrown in here and there.) Has the functionality of the ipad (and tablet pc's in general) gotten to the point where a laptop could be seen as overkill now?
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IMO they compliment each other but neither can replace the other.
 
What is that URL of the website which lists stock for the ipad 2? I have a friend trying to find one. He's calling around and having no luck.
 
The New Yorker is finally free for subscribers. And a year digital-only subscription is a fair price of $60. Fucking finally. After a year of one star reviews Conde Nast has gotten the message. And only a week or so after announcing they wouldn't be bringing other magazines to the iPad due to soft sales.

It seems like all the publishers are starting to really come around recently. Maybe because they're hands are being forced by Apple's deadline.
 
Is there a good app to stream my iTunes on my PC to my iPad 2? Most of the time I like controlling the iTunes library with Remote and having it on the main speakers but occasionally I want to stream my music direct to the iPad.
 
gutterboy44 said:
Is there a good app to stream my iTunes on my PC to my iPad 2? Most of the time I like controlling the iTunes library with Remote and having it on the main speakers but occasionally I want to stream my music direct to the iPad.
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yeah, it's the home sharing built into 1OS 4.3 and itunes 10.2. enter your itunes account in the ipod settings and then tap on the home icon in the ipod app and choose your shared itunes library.
 
gutterboy44 said:
Is there a good app to stream my iTunes on my PC to my iPad 2? Most of the time I like controlling the iTunes library with Remote and having it on the main speakers but occasionally I want to stream my music direct to the iPad.
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That's built into iTunes. Just turn on home sharing and choose your library in the iPod app on the iPad.
 
gutterboy44 said:
Is there a good app to stream my iTunes on my PC to my iPad 2? Most of the time I like controlling the iTunes library with Remote and having it on the main speakers but occasionally I want to stream my music direct to the iPad.
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Apple added that functionality in 4.3. You have to activate home sharing in iTunes on your PC. The iPod app on your iPad will find the shared library and then you'll be able to stream your music.

Edit: beaten like a first gen iPad.
 
gutterboy44 said:
Hahah thanks for the info blast. I feel stupid now. I thought it was built in, was right under my nose.
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nah, don't feel dumb. it was only added a couple months ago and it's not super easy to find and enable compared to most iOS features.
 
dyls said:
The New Yorker is finally free for subscribers. And a year digital-only subscription is a fair price of $60. Fucking finally. After a year of one star reviews Conde Nast has gotten the message. And only a week or so after announcing they wouldn't be bringing other magazines to the iPad due to soft sales.

It seems like all the publishers are starting to really come around recently. Maybe because they're hands are being forced by Apple's deadline.
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I don't see why all magazines don't do this. Let you pick from paper or iPad app when you have a subscription. It's actually cheaper for them to give it to you digitally than it is to mail a mag to your house.
 
So, Conde Nast publications are now on board for subscriptions:

Apple is winning over the big publishers. Last week, Hearst Corp. said it planned to start selling its magazines using Apple’s new iTunes subscription service. Now rival Conde Nast is actually doing it, via the publisher’s New Yorker title.

An updated version of that magazine’s iPad app lets users subscribe to the weekly magazine for $5.99 a month, or the equivalent of a $1.50 an issue. That’s a steep discount from the app’s old model, which only sold individual issues for $4.99 a pop.

Conde Nast is selling an annual subscription to the iPad app for $59.99; a yearly subscription to the print version of the magazine costs $69.95. Very important: Conde says print subscribers will get iPad access for free.
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http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/201...ption-bandwagon-starting-with-the-new-yorker/

And they are running this story in this week's New Yorker:

The myth -- repeated ad nauseam by Apple (AAPL) naysayers -- is that Steve Jobs stole the ideas behind the Macintosh from Xerox's (XRX) Palo Alto Research Center.

The truth is that he paid for them -- with 100,000 shares of his company a year before its initial public offering.

The deeper truth, which Malcom ("The Tipping Point") Gladwell explores at length in the current issue of the New Yorker, is that Jobs had no interest in reproducing the work the team at Xerox PARC had done.

Jobs knew that the demo he and Bill Atkinson were given that day in 1979 -- Atkinson with his nose pressed almost against the screen, Jobs pacing around the room in an excited state -- represented the seeds of a computer revolution. But also knew that it was fatally flawed at many levels, starting with the three-button mouse that cost $300 and broke down within two weeks. Gladwell writes:

"The difference between direct and indirect manipulation—between three buttons and one button, three hundred dollars and fifteen dollars, and a roller ball supported by ball bearings and a free-rolling ball—is not trivial. It is the difference between something intended for experts, which is what Xerox PARC had in mind, and something that's appropriate for a mass audience, which is what Apple had in mind. PARC was building a personal computer. Apple wanted to build a popular computer."​

It's a story that's been told before, but Gladwell spins it well with lots of new detail and color, including how Apple's first prototype mice were constructed out of butter dishes, spools of guitar wire, toy train wheels and roller balls taken from underarm deodorant sticks.

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The piece is available free to subscribers on the iPad as part of a deal with Apple announced Monday. Like Time Inc., Condé Nast has used a Steve Jobs story as a lure to enlist new subscribers.

The image above is taken from a slide show of early mouse prototypes that the New Yorker has posted here.
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http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/09/how-apple-made-the-mouse/

Moves like these that are bringing the big publishers to the iPad are what will eventually bring me into the iPad-owning fold. Reasonable subscriptions and individual issue prices for Conde Nast is an especially big one for me.

Just pushing me closer and closer to that tipping point...
 
dyls said:
The New Yorker is finally free for subscribers. And a year digital-only subscription is a fair price of $60. Fucking finally. After a year of one star reviews Conde Nast has gotten the message. And only a week or so after announcing they wouldn't be bringing other magazines to the iPad due to soft sales.

It seems like all the publishers are starting to really come around recently. Maybe because they're hands are being forced by Apple's deadline.
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I was hoping for a lower digital price. It is $10 cheaper than print if you get it direct from The New Yorker, but you can find really cheap print subscriptions for the New Yorker on a lot of those cheap online magazine retailers.
 
numble said:
I was hoping for a lower digital price. It is $10 cheaper than print if you get it direct from The New Yorker, but you can find really cheap print subscriptions for the New Yorker on a lot of those cheap online magazine retailers.
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So, get it from them, and then you still get the iPad app for free, right?
 
I think this is the most active Apple hardware thread so I thought I'd ask for recommendations here:

Moving to SF and going to be without my monster gaming PC for about three weeks so I was thinking of picking up a Mac laptop since I don't have a personal laptop of any kind. I'm guessing my needs would be pretty light -- productivity software and web most likely. Portability is pretty key but so is having a keyboard and something that's decent to work on. Would the $999 Air be a good choice? I really don't follow laptops anymore so I'm mostly in the dark here.
 
There was a piece in the online NY Post that indicated it would be $19.99 for a New Yorker e-subscription. The article was poorly-written, so that might explain the confusion.
 
dream said:
The Air should be fine for you, AstroLad.
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Ok thanks. I'm guessing now is a non-stupid time to buy then? i.e. not "NOOO JUST WAIT TWO WEEKS." Might head over to the App Store tomorrow.
 
damn so much Apple stories in the magazines, guess it's all this ipad stuff. Their's the fortune magazine story about how they are codifying Apple's management style, how mobile me is a giant piece of shit.
 
AstroLad said:
Ok thanks. I'm guessing now is a non-stupid time to buy then? i.e. not "NOOO JUST WAIT TWO WEEKS." Might head over to the App Store tomorrow.
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A Sandy Bridge + Thunderbolt update is coming any day now!

And by any day I mean any day...within the next 3-4 months, so yeah just buy it. To save some money you could look into Amazon to save on tax, or perhaps the Apple refurb store (just watch out for the older models).
 
Bought my gf an iPad 2, I think she'll will like it. As much as I like Android, the iOS on the tablet form is better then Honeycomb at the moment.
 
So what's the best note taking app?

Evernote sucks, Moleskine is kinda cool but somewhat limited... What's cheap and decent?
 
Can anyone recommend a good, safe, case? I'm looking for a rubber shell, with a cover like Apple's.

I found a few rubber shells, but they have no cover and/or can't use the Smart Cover (Griffin, I'm looking at you).

Im not a fan of leather; I would rather have the black, industrial look, if possible. I'm really afraid of it being dropped, since my kids like to play it.

My "limit" is 80, but willing to spend a bit more.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Zozz said:
Bought my gf an iPad 2, I think she'll will like it. As much as I like Android, the iOS on the tablet form is better then Honeycomb at the moment.
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I agree. And I'm enjoying my iPad, but the iTunes thing, lack of SD card, native HDMI support, GB of RAM (should be 2) and other things have me in the mindset that I'll probably be updating tablets annually. But it could simply be a case of the maturity of the platform.


But I expect the next generation of Google tablet OS, hardware and pricing to competitively go at Apple. Like the Transformer looks good, it's just the OS and video card that aren't on the level of Paddy.

Nevertheless, I'm addicted to playing solitaire, reading ebooks and comic zeal.
 
Zozz said:
Bought my gf an iPad 2, I think she'll will like it. As much as I like Android, the iOS on the tablet form is better then Honeycomb at the moment.
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This is a good opportunity to go the extra mile for your girlfriend. When I upgraded to an iPad 2, my wife inherited my first gen iPad. However, I took the opportunity to make it much more than a mere hand me down. I put all of her favorite movies, books, and music on the device. Then, I themed it based on our children and included all of our wedding photos. I even imported all of her favorite games, turned on home sharing, and bought her a new case. Then, I gave it to her wrapped as a gift. It brought tears to her eyes.

If this is a gift for a loved one, go the extra mile and personalize it for her. She will appreciate the effort.
 
Spiderjericho said:
I agree. And I'm enjoying my iPad, but the iTunes thing, lack of SD card, native HDMI support, GB of RAM (should be 2) and other things have me in the mindset that I'll probably be updating tablets annually. But it could simply be a case of the maturity of the platform.


But I expect the next generation of Google tablet OS, hardware and pricing to competitively go at Apple. Like the Transformer looks good, it's just the OS and video card that aren't on the level of Paddy.

Nevertheless, I'm addicted to playing solitaire, reading ebooks and comic zeal.
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Why would it need 2gb of ram? Sounds like e-penis competition.
 
rezuth said:
Why would it need 2gb of ram? Sounds like e-penis competition.
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2 would be awesome, but that won't happen. I'm using the OG iPad and 256MB isn't enough for a good browsing or multi-tasking experience. The 2nd gen iPad does a better job, but it's still not "perfect". I hope the next iPad will come with at least 1GB.
 
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