New iPad few questions...

[leighschvartz]

Hi all!

Just got the new iPad and on it now, the screen and usability is incredible!

Few questions though... App wise - what is the best browser to use? Do most of you just stick to safari or are there better alternatives? In terms of downloading is there anything better?

Also - I've got avplayerhd for my video which is working well, but what was th app thA was really good for streaming video from my MBP?

Thank you!

Leigh

 

[monkeylui]

I like safari just fine. Atomic browser & skyfire are both good though.

Stream to me or air video are very good for streaming from the MBP.

 

[Stealthipad]

If you give Safari a chance you will like it, at least I did but then I came from Windows

There are other browsers but I became so happy with safari that I looked no farther.

 

[donnaw]

I still use Safari most of the time but I use Photon for flash content. My husband goes to a lot of sites that have flash so he uses Photon exclusively. The reason I don't is that their bookmark organization is really, really bad. Meaning that it has no way to organize or rename them.

 

[leighschvartz]

OK cool - one more while we are here .. What's the best way to transfer avi and mkv video files from my laptop to my iPad for offline viewing? I know air video can stream but what's the best to way to store for later viewing?

 

[HengenJL]

OK cool - one more while we are here .. What's the best way to transfer avi and mkv video files from my laptop to my iPad for offline viewing? I know air video can stream but what's the best to way to store for later viewing?

I highly recommend Goodplayer for this situation. There is a thread in thenipad apps section of this forum about Goodplayer and the developer is active in that thread.

 

[porcupine8]

I use atomic over safari for two reasons: downloads and user agent switching.