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Apple iPad Pre-Orders to Begin February 25th? Speculation about Other Features?
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Actually, you have nearly most of the known cancers every day, and the hole reason why we grow old is because free radicals destroy and mutate our DNA.
http://www.goodiware.com/goodreader.html
"ATTENTION. USB File Transfer was removed due to Apple's demand, to avoid a violation of Apple's rules. New users will not be able to use this feature."
Stanza - http://www.lexcycle.com/faq#3n619
Deprecated: Transferring books via the USB cable (for epub or eReader) this option will no longer be available in Stanza 2.1
A couple of which I have found which appear to be requirements of Apple to stop sharing PDF files from the local drive...
Leo was talking about Kim Komando, and wasn't being tongue in cheek, but was laughing at her. She's a pretty big hack. I would suspect she's just talking to her herself talk at this point.
It's called the real world. Many people *know* that SD cards are where pictures are stored but the *vast* majority of people don't remove the SD card from their camera and place it in an SD slot on their computer. They simply connect their camera to their computer by way of USB and download them that way. I get the fact that the iPad doesn't come with a USB port but so what? Put the iPad on its dock and transfer/sync the pics from your computer to your iPad just like you would with an iPhone. Is it really that big of a deal. I mean, your iPad is probably not 'gonna be your primary rig so you would normally dl them to a computer first anyway, right?
And for the small % of people who MUST connect their camera or its SD card directly to the ipad, $29 isn't the end of the world, is it? If you want to pretend it has a USB port just leave the USB camera connector permanently attached to the end of your camera's USB cable
It has nothing to do with pdfs. These apps were using undocumented private APIs, which is forbidden.
OS 3.2 adds an officially-supported API specifically for this purpose, so any inconvenience will be temporary.
Excellent, if true then I look forward to trying out my own PDF's on the platform.
Note that the iBooks reader application probably won't handle pdf (it uses epub), but there will doubtless be lots of third party pdf readers (pdf support is in the sdk, and there are already lots of iPhone third party pdf readers).
Not only that, but realistically, is the avg person going to store an entire SD card worth of pictures on a 16GB or even 32 or 64GB device? Doubtful. It's far more practical to archive the pictures either on a regular computer with 100x+ more capacity or even just put them in the cloud (Picassa, Flickr, etc) and then use the iPad to hold select gem pictures culled from the batch.
The way I view the iPad, the memory is only meant to store media that will be immediately consumed, be it books, music, video or apps. It's not meant to be a permanent storage home for one's media.
I'm so hoping for the front-facing camera too for a Skype or future iChat (if they can redo iWork, why not iChat too?).
An exciting year!
No, you ****tard, the United Kingdom *is" the United Kingdom. That's because it "is" united. Politics aside, that's how it works. And that in no way stops Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland from dissing on England (I say this as a rabid England rugby fan). A/An historic problem is not grammatical. Nor is the issue of whether Apple is or are or has or have a lot of good people working for them.
I don't actually care about this grammatical ********. I just wanted to call you a ****tard.
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As I reply to this, I am writing from my cheap netbook running a clunky OS on the couch. I bought the netbook for the portability, but in (almost) every other way it has been a massive disappointment. The iPad strives to improve this situation, where the netbooks created a market.
The only real challenge they face is not being able to do "everything" you do with a normal computer. For me, this includes Word, Excel, and Sketchup. The first two are likely to be solved by the time of release. It will be interesting to see what happens to the third.
From where I sit, the iPad will be what the Netbooks promised to be. The legitimate concern is if they will end up being compared to the Linux Netbooks rather than the Windows Netbooks. The former failed in the market as being a confusing offering to consumers. This is where Apple could really innovate.
I'll take a big iPod Touch
As I lie in bed listening to music and surfing the net on my iPod Touch I am wearing a pair of drugstore reading glasses so that I can properly see the screen. I love my Touch but I can hardly wait to relegate it to emergency use and use the iPad so that I can actually read without ruining my eyes. I'm thinking that 4:3 or not, films and TV shows are going to look one whole lot better on the iPad than it does on my squinty Touch.
What did people expect this thing to do - beam you up to a waiting starship??!!! With all of the out of the box tasks and the ones that will inevitably come during the next year or so - I'm going to be one happy camper.
As I lie in bed listening to music and surfing the net on my iPod Touch I am wearing a pair of drugstore reading glasses so that I can properly see the screen. I love my Touch but I can hardly wait to relegate it to emergency use and use the iPad so that I can actually read without ruining my eyes. I'm thinking that 4:3 or not, films and TV shows are going to look one whole lot better on the iPad than it does on my squinty Touch.
What did people expect this thing to do - beam you up to a waiting starship??!!! With all of the out of the box tasks and the ones that will inevitably come during the next year or so - I'm going to be one happy camper.
You can also use "ad-hoc-deployment". You need the IDs of the target devices (up to 100 AFAIK) and you can compile a version that runs on these devices without the App store. The users just have to drag the file into the iTunes Window to install.
Christian
Actually, if that floats somebody's boat then there's an app for that so yeah....starship here they come! LMAO
http://linktoapp.com/Tricorder
I kinda wish Apple included a 3.5mm Line-in jack for audio. The iPad would make a great portable tool for recording audio given that some cool apps come out for it. An Audacity app for the iPad would be amazing IMO.
That would be cool in deed. But with no USB-port or even mic port, I guess we'll have to rely on some third party accessory maker to come up with an audio in/out adapter that plugs into the 30 pin connector?
I'm pretty sure I made it through college without a C compiler (though some semesters were a bit hazy), but I'm just a lowly molecular biology guy these days.
I do agree though, that it would be a VERY bad idea to come to college with only an iPad and no laptop. There are some things that a laptop will just plain do better.
That said, I would love to go back, have my textbooks on an iPad and use it to take notes in class.
The 3.5mm Jack Is Audio Input Capable
The 3.5mm Jack Is Audio Input Capable. There are even microphones already for sale that use the 3.5mm "headphone" jack. Alternately you can buy external microphones that hook to the 30 pin connector and also include 3.5mm external mic inputs.I kinda wish Apple included a 3.5mm Line-in jack for audio. The iPad would make a great portable tool for recording audio given that some cool apps come out for it. An Audacity app for the iPad would be amazing IMO.