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OMG.. iPad as a install manual!!
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True for some things, but I was having problems reading the drawings on an electrical timer for my outside lightning, the drawings were small and it was dark out (dark at 4 pm here), so I went for my computer and got the manual online and went from there enlarging the figures. I could easily see myself doing the same thing with an ipad, would have been easier and faster than the mbp.
Of course, the easiest and fastest method was installing this thing with daylight.
The iPad has proved to be helpful in several repair installs, including taking the iPad to lowes to find parts. On one repair job, I was in the attic worrying on the hot water heater trying determine what was wrong. So, with iPad in hand, I was easily able to research and see much more clearly what the diagrams were talking about.
The iPad is the sinlge greatest resource on the planet. I imagine how cool they would be 10 years ago with start trek and Picard picking up different tablets for different subjects. The iPad is a paradigm shift in mobile computing...and it is just getting started.
The iPad is the sinlge greatest resource on the planet. I imagine how cool they would be 10 years ago with start trek and Picard picking up different tablets for different subjects. The iPad is a paradigm shift in mobile computing...and it is just getting started.
So instead of opening the supplied paper manual you went and got your ipad, searched for the manual online, downloaded it, and read it on an LCD display?
Now you are talking about how amazing it is? Some of you really baffle me.
Thank god for the ipad!!!
Now you are talking about how amazing it is? Some of you really baffle me.
Thank god for the ipad!!!
Money saver too...
Well the ability to be able to download a pdf manual has been around since long before the ipad. I've probably saved enough money by doing this on my laptops, to more than pay for my ipad. Going to a store and purchasing a couple of ATV manuals can set you back a quite a few bucks, but many are available online in pdf for free, as with a lot of other auto manuals.
Although it is a a lot more fun on the ipad! Just have to make sure the fingers are clean!
Well the ability to be able to download a pdf manual has been around since long before the ipad. I've probably saved enough money by doing this on my laptops, to more than pay for my ipad. Going to a store and purchasing a couple of ATV manuals can set you back a quite a few bucks, but many are available online in pdf for free, as with a lot of other auto manuals.
Although it is a a lot more fun on the ipad! Just have to make sure the fingers are clean!
When did everyone get so cynical? The OP was mainly about finding another way to find/read a manual, not so much finding the most efficient or quickest way. Relax
Good Reader is a phenomenal program...I've been using my iPad for insruction manuals as well...if not in a pdf format, you can add the letter "G" to the beginning of the "http" on your address bar, and it will download as a pdf directly to GoodReader!
My recent purchase of a Canon S95 didn't actually include a hard manual. I downloaded it to Good Reader...and it makes so much more sense to me, to have it with...anywhere I go, an opportunity to read it when necessary...and not endlessly search where I put the manual after opening the box
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My recent purchase of a Canon S95 didn't actually include a hard manual. I downloaded it to Good Reader...and it makes so much more sense to me, to have it with...anywhere I go, an opportunity to read it when necessary...and not endlessly search where I put the manual after opening the box
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Good Reader is a phenomenal program...I've been using my iPad for insruction manuals as well...if not in a pdf format, you can add the letter "G" to the beginning of the "http" on your address bar, and it will download as a pdf directly to GoodReader!
My recent purchase of a Canon S95 didn't actually include a hard manual. I downloaded it to Good Reader...and it makes so much more sense to me, to have it with...anywhere I go, an opportunity to read it when necessary...and not endlessly search where I put the manual after opening the box
lol recently I was looking everywhere in the house for my S95 manual - I knew it had to be somewhere... where did I put it???
then I finally remembered it only came with a PDF version of the manual
(unlike all the previous Canon cameras I've seen) - so I loaded the PDF into Goodreader with a bunch of other user manuals I keep handy thereThank you.... I was simply saying how convenient it was plus being of the over 50 crowd the ability of stretching illustrations was very helpful..
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Great for coupons also...
I use it for coupons on a regular basis. Not enough to pay for the iPad, but every place I have shown a coupon on the screen has accepted it so far.
I went to Whataburger tonight for the free item of the day as part of the 12 Days of Christmas, and ALMOST was rejected. The cashier started to say I needed a printed coupon. I explained that I had just used the coupon a couple of days and pointed the to the cashiers key on the onscreen coupon. She leaned over to another clerk who had just walked up, who had been there two nights ago when I did the same, and confirmed that it was ok. My cashier exclaimed, "Well, I learned something new tonight!". WOW! What a lesson! LOL!
I use it for coupons on a regular basis. Not enough to pay for the iPad, but every place I have shown a coupon on the screen has accepted it so far.
I went to Whataburger tonight for the free item of the day as part of the 12 Days of Christmas, and ALMOST was rejected. The cashier started to say I needed a printed coupon. I explained that I had just used the coupon a couple of days and pointed the to the cashiers key on the onscreen coupon. She leaned over to another clerk who had just walked up, who had been there two nights ago when I did the same, and confirmed that it was ok. My cashier exclaimed, "Well, I learned something new tonight!". WOW! What a lesson! LOL!
Moved into a rented apartment a few months ago. No manuals for any appliances, but have so far found ones for the washing machine, oven and TV on-line.
The boiler still baffles me though, can't find a manual for it!
The boiler still baffles me though, can't find a manual for it!
I do a lot of lego sets with my son. Many of them have instructions to make two different models, but you only get one hard copy and have to download the other.
Until I got my iPad I never used to bother with the alternative, as they are too big to print and it's a pain having to access the computer screen.
Since getting the iPad I've downloaded all the other instructions to it and we have been able to follow them on that. It's saved quite a bit of money as we don't need to buy new sets as often.
Of course, it would be even better if both instruction books were included in the box, but they would claim that it saves a few trees.
Until I got my iPad I never used to bother with the alternative, as they are too big to print and it's a pain having to access the computer screen.
Since getting the iPad I've downloaded all the other instructions to it and we have been able to follow them on that. It's saved quite a bit of money as we don't need to buy new sets as often.
Of course, it would be even better if both instruction books were included in the box, but they would claim that it saves a few trees.
Wish I was...
a programmer because there should be " an app for that."
Someone build and they WILL COME!
a programmer because there should be " an app for that."
Someone build and they WILL COME!
iPad as a videogame strategy guide is much better
I like using my iPad to track details when playing long games like Oblivion and Fallout3. I'm thinking of writing an app with story thread tracking so you can tap a character and find all related plot threads from the game (which would be user-entered as they played the game).
I do a lot of Lego sets as well...with myself.
You must be talking about the Technic sets as all mine, including Creators, have the instructions printed.
I do a lot of Lego sets as well...with myself.
You must be talking about the Technic sets as all mine, including Creators, have the instructions printed.
Yep, mainly Technics. The instructions would cost huge amounts to print out.
I'd love to do some by myself, but I wouldn't hear the end of it if he found I'd been building stuff without his help.
Does it take your mind off the fact that you bought a luxury Hyundai?
This was too funny to not quote and notice.
There is no amount of free merchandise that will get me to buy a Hyundai, much less a "luxury" Hyundai. Is the luxury the fact that the vehicle starts, runs, and drives?
It's much less expensive to accidentally drop a paper manual off the top of the ladder than your iPad.