I had the power support anti-glare for the iPad 1, but won't be getting one to use the iPad 2. *shrug*zychi said:
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Dont bother dude, you really don't need one. I know, it's scary, this is my first iOS device I am not using a case or screen protector. Fuck it, the screen is near indestructible (see video on the other page) and most screen protectors are horrible, nothing comes close to the feel of the normal screen and nothing is out yet for the iPad 2 that is a 100% fit. Save your money and buy a small microfiber towe for fingerprintsl. I bought a bag of 15 at Costco for $19. They are yellow and blue, designed for cars, but they work awesome on my idevices.zychi said:
Cases take away from the form factor, and most are ugly. Just get a smart cover and a cheap $5-$10 neoprene sleeve off of eBay. Covers your bases with the screen and the sleeve protects it when you are carrying it around.
I always find it was stupid to pay for a beautiful handheld device and then cover it with some cheap plastic, in order to protect it from minor use. Who cares. 1st world problems. Enjoy the beauty of the device, who cares if you lose $50 in resale value, I am enjoying the device more by not covering it with plastic sheets.
japtor said:
Thanks for this. Just set my portfolio up in it and I love it.
The iPad is now the most portable, easily updatable portfolio I've ever had.
Also, picked up the orange smart cover today. It's more sherbert-y that I really care for, but I can't bring myself to pay the $70 for the red. Going to run up to the Apple Store this week to see if seeing it in person changes my mind.
Overall though, I really like the smart cover. Amazed at how strong the magnets hold and how well they auto-align.
Knight77 said:
Just saw your complaint in the Android thread about only getting one answer here. I would say it depends on what kind of user you are. Do you like tweaking hardware, or do you just want something you can use? That's pretty much what I went through when I switched from Windows to OS X.
I haven't gotten to mess with a XOOM yet, but from the sounds of it, it's still a little rough around the edges. The hardware numbers are better, but it may not feel all that different in actual use.
The current app draught will pass. I was an early adopter of the iPad 1 and it was slow going for several months.
Is Flash important to you? Android performance is still spotty, but it doesn't seem like Apple is changing their stance anytime soon.
All of those are software issues that will pass. So, check out the hardware and see which feels better. Decide if you like the fundamental differences between Android's open-platform or Apple's closed, but well integrated approach. It's typically the small things that impress me about Apple software. The most recent example that I can think of was finding out that Mail automatically makes tracking numbers clickable links out to the FedEx/UPS sites.
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Old news, but wow, the Twitter iPad app UI is fucking amazing. Wow. UI at its finest right here.
Rez said:
Yes, but know what? You can't delete a tweet you've previously posted. I do tests from time to time posting tweets, and the inability to delete my tweets bothers me to no end.
I have to go through the browser mobile app to do so.
I considered other free iPad Twitter clients, but there isn't one that clearly beats the official one (which, besides not allowing deleting tweets, is awesome).
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Rez said:
They removed the URL shortened which is bizarre. Otherwise I agree.
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How is Echofon on iPad?
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It charges slowly using most USB connections on a PC, though it will charge faster when it's off than on.Shadow780 said:
I got my iPad 2 smart cover today, though my iPad 2 isn't scheduled to ship for a few more weeks, and I think I convinced the FedEx driver to get an iPad.
You need extra power USB ports that can supply at least 5W: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4049Shadow780 said:
The 2011 MBPs can actually supply 10W like the AC adapter.
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Shadow780 said:
If it says "Not Charging" that just means its not charging/trickle charging while the screen is on. The screen is the single most power-drain on the device. WHen the screen is off it will charge, though not nearly as fast as the iPad charger.
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k0ji-wd said:
My Macbook is 3 years old and won't charge the iPad.
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Yeah, the iPhone delete option isn't fantastic either. You can delete them on the iPhone, but it is not very simple, you have to view the individual tweet and then you can delete it, pain in the ass.FerranMG said:Yes, but know what? You can't delete a tweet you've previously posted. I do tests from time to time posting tweets, and the inability to delete my tweets bothers me to no end.
I have to go through the browser mobile app to do so.
I considered other free iPad Twitter clients, but there isn't one that clearly beats the official one (which, besides not allowing deleting tweets, is awesome).
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I'm in this boat.guise said:
It's a shitty boat.
what i'm pissed about is a large online poker company bwin.com has an ipad poker client, you can only download it if you have a UK or austrian account. SHIT SHIT.
Use both. They do different things. Plex for your DVD collection, AirVideo for everything else.Popstar said:
Plex has a big update coming soon that will make the app even better. But it only does media in your Plex library, which is TV, movies, music, photos. So get AirVideo as well and you'll never be away from any of your videos. Though some people have mentioned StreamToMe instead of AirVideo because it does other stuff as well I think?
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Why? Wouldn't it be the reverse, too?Jasoco said:
What else would there be? Are you referring to the ability to use AirVideo outside of the home (does Plex not do this)?
No. Both let you watch your video from ANYWHERE with internet.Of All Trades said:
Plex plays stuff you have databased into a library in your Plex Media Server. TV shows and movies. Stuff that has metadata on the internet.
AirVideo will let you also play files that can't be categorized or thrown into Plex, like videos you download from video sites or porn or whatever.
By having both apps you have the best of both worlds. You have A) a nicely ordered list of all your movies and TV shows in an easy to understand display with posters for each movie, show, season and episode as well as your iTunes and iPhoto libraries if you wish. And you have B) a secondary folder-based structure of all your other non-categorizable videos in AirVideo.
Both apps will convert the video in real-time and stream it to your iDevice either from within the network or outside the house anywhere there's sufficient bandwidth. AirVideo also lets you play properly formatted videos straight to the device without re-encoding as long as they're properly created for an iDevice. And the next Plex will also do this for its media too.
Plex's benefit is having all your stuff viewable from anywhere. Whether it's on a Mac mini connected to the TV, or your laptop in the bedroom, or your AppleTV in the living room, or the iPhone, iPod touch or iPad in your back yard or anywhere. AirVideo's benefit is also being able to view all the other stuff you might have. And it can convert any video file including FLV's (Why waste time reencoding a FLV to a video when most video players can just play the FLV as-is, and you don't lose even more quality.) to iDevice compatible video and will play it right then and there. It makes me wish there was also a Mac version of the AirVideo player so I could watch my videos on my MacBook as well from anywhere.
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I thought Plex was based off of XBMC so I'm kinda baffled that it won't play things that don't have scrapeable metadata. I was hoping to use it as a way of getting an XBMC experience on my iPad without having to JB but now I think I'll just keep using airvideo and wait for something better.Jasoco said:
You can try Radio Shack, rumor is that they start selling iPads tomorrow:jon bones said:
http://www.9to5mac.com/58153/ipad-2-arrives-to-500-radioshack-stores-tomorrow/
Target stock checker:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=12159692&postcount=185
I think scalpers are more or less gone with the international iPad launch, FWIW.
You CAN put all your videos into Plex, I never said it COULDN'T, but it'll just create a single list with no folder structure whatsoever. Which is not the way to browse a whole bunch of random videos. It's best to use an app like AirVideo that shows all the files in their folder tree structure for random stuff and Plex for the stuff that's actually in the IMDb and TVDb. I have hundreds of GB of random videos I've collected over the last 10 years of owning a Mac.giga said:
If you use Personal Media, it will just create one big list with no genres, no folders, no layout whatsoever. Just files ordered by name. Which becomes unweildy on collections with more than a handful of random videos. Like huge porn collections or all the videos you downloaded off YouTube and Vimeo.
A new Mac mini I saved up just for the purpose of hosting all my media and storing my backups and being an all-around workhorse for ripping and encoding and downloading and watching any video I can view on the internet. I don't even use an actual Cable box anymore except for Conan which I only do so I can see it in HD and because we already have the box. I could actually live without it and just watch all my TV on my mini if I had to.numble said:
I just put up a new domain today because of input from people around twitter, etc. I got sick of using ipad wallpaper sites that had crappy content, etc, so I just made my own.dallow_bg said:
Here's the link (feel free to add it to the OP):
http://www.ipadmiration.com
Edit: Also, if anyone has any ideas for a better name, let me know
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Jasoco said:
But it sounds like Plex has no browser mode? I have movies that for whatever reason just baffle scrapers (mostly Criterion foreign movies) and I figured Plex would let me navigate to them (like AirVideo) since I can name the file as something I recognize. Still strange that it doesn't allow that.
In Plex, you create categories. For me I have Movies (Animated), Movies (Live Action) and TV Shows. Each are in their own folder.Of All Trades said:
You can create as many categories as you want. They would fall generally under Movie or TV Show but can also be Home Movies/Personal videos. Thing is unless it's a TV show, you're gonna get one single list of videos.
But if you wanted to take all the time, you could manually edit the metadata to sort them how you want and give them your own "genre" and treat the genre as a category. Also, Plex has an amazing Search system that will be in the iOS app in a few days/weeks which will make it easier if you know what you want to watch.
It's just that both Plex and AirVideo do it differently.
Plex shows everything in one list, but can have as many of these lists as you want.
And AirVideo shows everything as they are on the HD. But doesn't allow metadata.
I use both.
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Hey guys, I'm looking for an app that handles PDF annotation (including the option to insert text boxes and the like) for use in lectures. I have the ClassOrganizer app which is perfect in every way except it only imports PDF, it doesn't let you modify them in any way.
Any suggestions?
Any suggestions?
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Oh the pain. Fedex tried to deliver my iPad today but nobody was home.
Thanks, I may do this once the next Mac mini refresh comes around. The SuperDrive in my MacBook is dead, so I need a ripping device. I wish Mac Minis came with an AppleTV mode built-in; I know it can do all the same things, but I'd like that simple remote-controlled interface.Jasoco said:
Rez said:
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pdf-highlighter/id400191310?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/pdf-assistant/id381445845?mt=8
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/goodreader-for-ipad/id363448914?mt=8
search for "pdf annotation" in itunes.
i have used goodreader myself and think it's OK.
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Yep, I did the search but there were a few choices, so I was just looking to see if anyone who had already been through the rigmarole had any recommendations. 
iAnnotate looks great.
iAnnotate looks great.
The mini can do a lot at once. It's nice. Right now it's encoding and streaming videos to my dad's iPad via Plex and is playing my music while downloading files. I could open Plex up right now and watch a 720p (My TV is only 720, else I'd be watching 1080.) movie if I wanted to and it wouldn't skip a beat. Hell, if I wanted to I could also have Handbrake encoding more DVD's at the same time, but I like to leave that to sleeping hours over night. Since it is running all the time. Never have I felt like I was taxing it to its limits. Not that it doesn't have a limit, it just takes a lot before you feel it.numble said:
I even have an alias to it on my Mac for Screen Sharing, Teleport for controlling it remotely over the network. (Teleport is amazing. Look into it.) Rowmote Pro for using both my iPod and iPad as remote controls for whatever's onscreen. (The app lets me use a trackpad and keyboard interface as well) Remoter, another remote screen viewing app for viewing and manipulating the mini over the network and the internet. PlexApp for either controlling Plex on my mini or watching my media on my iPad/iPod over the network or internet. AirVideo for also watching video on my iPad/iPod over the network or internet. My MacBook also backs up to it via CCC every three hours and every morning at 7, my media and backups are also backed up. Even my settings on the mini are backed up in case of disaster. And that backup is backed up. I have Chrome installed so I can watch internet video sites on a big screen TV like TGWTG and AVGN or YouTube or Vimeo videos. And I have Hulu Desktop installed for catching up on the weeks shows.
This thing is a godsend. I held out hoping for a 2011 update, but couldn't wait any longer so I got the 2010 model and it's great. It may be C2D, but it's awesome.
Yeah I use iAnnotate myself to highlight and write on PDF's of books and magazines that I read. It works great.Rez said:Yep, I did the search but there were a few choices, so I was just looking to see if anyone who had already been through the rigmarole had any recommendations.
iAnnotate looks great.
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