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Stylus on Ipad

I heard many praises on the Bamboo Stylus so I ordered it from Amazon and it should get here between 1 and 2 months haha

In the meantime I'm using a Kensington Virtuoso + Note Taker HD. I can say that the app is easily the best for Office note-taking IMO.

I'm sure once the bamboo stylus gets here, it will only make the experience so much better!
 
I just got my Wacom Bamboo Stylus. Found them in stock at MacMall. I'm very happy with it. It wasn't cheap, but it feels great in the hand and the responsiveness is perfect (not sure what the complaints were about -- all stylii require a tad more pressure than a finger, but just a tad). It glides across the screen (especially a screen cleaned with iKlear or other solution from time to time). And the smaller tip is quite a bit smaller than a Targus (seems about half the diameter to me).
 
I just placed my second order at wacom two have as a back up, shipped in a day! I dont know why people dont order direct, no one is discounting it and the shipping is gratis!
 
3goldens said:
I just placed my second order at wacom two have as a back up, shipped in a day! I dont know why people dont order direct, no one is discounting it and the shipping is gratis!
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I thought it was on backorder at Wacom. Maybe I'll give them a try as Amazon went from one to two weeks to one to two months. This object is not easy to get. :)
 
info said:
I thought it was on backorder at Wacom. Maybe I'll give them a try as Amazon went from one to two weeks to one to two months. This object is not easy to get. :)
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They were backordered at Wacom and they wouldn't let you order. I tried for 2 days before ordering from B&H Photo.

robdam1001 said:
Does the Wacom include a tethering cord?
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No, just a clip.
 
seajay96 said:
I'm a lefty also, but I didn't really like any of the wrist/palm protect features...I found, for my own personal style, that it was just as easy to write from above without resting my wrist on the screen, but I don't do that full wrap the hand around style of writing like a lot of lefties...

If you write like that and are unwilling to change, I think you will find it difficult, if not impossible to use handwriting on the iPad.
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As a lefty, wrist protection doesn't work well for me either. Pennultimate seems to be the most renowned of the note taking apps, but my left handedness definitely creates issues since I have to rest my hand on the screen too much--it has a hard time figuring out what is the stylus, and what is just my wrist touching the screenhttp://cdn.macrumors.com/vb/images/smilies/frown.gif
 
After using a homemade stylus for several months I have invested in the Boxwave ($15 on amazon) and I love it. Any smaller and the tip would have spotty detection, any larger and the tip would block too much of the screen for highlighting my medical textbooks. I have been using iAnnotate for a year now and its the most powerful tool for PDF annotation that I have used. It handles 900 page textbooks with ease. Incredible customization tools. Basically I use Goodreader as my "finder" to sync with my cloud storage for backups and transfers. iAnnotate for my textbooks of course. And after using Note Taker HD for about 8 months I have switched to uPad. It offers the same features as Note Taker, but it has smoother ink and less lag. It feels more natural and has a more pleasing UI. After taking notes I export them as PDFs from uPad to Goodreader, and from there up to my cloud for safe storage. Overall I'm very happy with how my system is working right now. Good luck with your medical classes!
 
Self Made Stylus

I have been exploring the idea of making a stylus and have realized i can use an anti static bag material for a stylus. I have rolled the material so that it produces a narrow end and a wide end. The wide end allows for it to be trimmed like a quill point. As long as I am holding the conductive point and the quill tip has enough screen contact it works great. Because the quill tip end is flexible it can be very pressure sensitive. It is very lightweight and does a good job.

I am trying to calculate the minimal screen contact area in hopes to produce the finest tip available.
 
Fontan75 said:
I have been exploring the idea of making a stylus and have realized i can use an anti static bag material for a stylus. I have rolled the material so that it produces a narrow end and a wide end. The wide end allows for it to be trimmed like a quill point. As long as I am holding the conductive point and the quill tip has enough screen contact it works great. Because the quill tip end is flexible it can be very pressure sensitive. It is very lightweight and does a good job.

I am trying to calculate the minimal screen contact area in hopes to produce the finest tip available.
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You can evaluate the diameter required for the stylus by looking at practically any of the commercially available products. Basically, it has to 5 mm in size to trigger the capacitive screen.

There's a common misconception about styluses, that a finer tip makes a finer line. In fact, that's not true. The width of a line is determined by the app that interprets the touch on the screen, not by the width/diameter of the tip, itself. In other words, a finger makes as fine or wide a line as the smallest possible stylus.

The advantage of a small tip, of course, is that it enables a user to "see" the contact point and the mark on the screen more easily. Probably the best of the available styluses in this regard is the Adonit "Jot" stylus which uses a tiny ball to mark the contact point surrounded by a transparent "collar" (disc) that enables the user to judge the point at which the mark will be made. Unfortunately, many users have found the contact made by the collar to be somewhat unreliable. In other words, "marks" on the screen are sometimes missed and that makes writing or drawing on the screen very inefficient.
 
whatever stylus you choose.
Please be sure to stay clear of the Adonit Jot or Jot pro.
It will leave fine hairline scratches on your screens coating.
I had used it on a less than one month old iPad 2 and now all down the middle of the screen you can see these hairline scratches you can even make out some words for notes I created.
 
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iAmYou said:
whatever stylus you choose.
Please be sure to stay clear of the Adonit Jot or Jot pro.
It will leave fine hairline scratches on your screen.
I had used it on a less than one month old iPad 2 and now all down the middle of the screen you can see these hairline scratches you can even make out some words for notes I created.
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If you say so. I have to wonder, however, just how hard you're pressing to create scratches on an iPad screen, especially since attempts to scratch the screen with a set of keys is unsuccessful. I have my own complaints about the Jot Pro but I've used it extensively and there is absolutely no damage to the screen as a result.
 
Willie5566 said:
Anyone see this:

http://comfipen.com/#/accupen/4556946983
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The concept is identical to the Adonit Jot and the Dagi. The barrel appears to be somewhat "fatter" and shorter than those, however. You'll notice that the video shows the stylus being used almost vertically in most cases. That is the problem with the Jot. (I haven't used the Dagi.) The Jot becomes increasingly unreliable in terms of making marks, especially short marks, as the stylus is held at an acute angle in relation to the screen.

Another user who has tested even more styluses than I have has used the Dagi, as well. It, too, has a spring to hold the disc in place on the screen. Unfortunately, he reports it is not uniformly successful in doing so.

The problem with this design is that because it occasionally fails to capture a short mark (or the beginning of a mark), the effect is something like using a ballpoint pen that is low on ink. Worth noting, though, that those who write cursively rather than printing individual letters seem to have more success with the Jot. I suspect the same would be true with the Comfipen.

All in all, the biggest advantage of this design is that it's easy to see precisely where the middle of the contact point is on the screen. I've found, however, that with practice it's easy to recognize the contact point of a particular stylus. When that happens, the initial advantage of the pen-point is less important.
 
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If you say so. I have to wonder, however, just how hard you're pressing to create scratches on an iPad screen, especially since attempts to scratch the screen with a set of keys is unsuccessful. I have my own complaints about the Jot Pro but I've used it extensively and there is absolutely no damage to the screen as a result.
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Not pressing very hard at all. Obviously it is scratches to the coating on the screen and not the actual hardened glass of the iPad but I really didn't think people on here would be so obtuse as to actually think it was scratching through the coating and going to the glass.
I have not seen anyone try to scratch the ipad2 screen with keys.
 
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iAmYou said:
That video is an iPad 1 not an iPad 2 but thanks.
Do you work for adonit or donate to their kick starter program?
Why do you defend them?

Those look like scratches to me.
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No, I don't work for Adonit and did not contribute to their kickstarter program. I purchased a Jot Pro after it was released. And if you read my posts you'll find that I don't "defend" the product. In fact, I've found it unacceptable for my own use on a couple of grounds, most importantly that the design tends to miss short strokes and the beginning of strokes, making it difficult to use with precision unless the stylus is held at close to a right angle to the screen.

What I have NOT found to be a problem after extensive use is the Jot scratching the iPad (2) screen. And frankly, I'm pretty ocd about my screen. I clean it with a microfiber cloth several times a day and use a commercial glass cleaner regularly. If use of the Jot produced scratches on my screen I would have noticed it immediately and would have posted a comment about it.

It may be that you have a defective screen or the ball point on the Jot is defective. My sympathies if that is true. But if the Jot were capable of scratching an iPad screen (either generation), there would be innumerable reports of damage to iPad screens from other sources including the metal barrels of other styluses, fingernails, etc.

Obviously, you feel your screen has been damaged with the Jot. And there is no way to resolve the issue of whether that is the result of the Jot or not. I have to think, however, that if this were a true problem with the iPad, Apple would have warned iPad owners about the dangers of touching the screen with any metal object.
 
All i know is that they weren't there prior to Jot use, and now they are so.
Take that for what its worth. I have returned the product for a refund and will never recommend the product.
I will pay apple to replace the screen and move on.
 
iAmYou said:
All i know is that they weren't there prior to Jot use, and now they are so.
Take that for what its worth. I have returned the product for a refund and will never recommend the product.
I will pay apple to replace the screen and move on.
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Just did a quick google on the "oleophobic coating" that is used on the iPad to resist fingerprints. i.e. "oleo" meaning "oil". It does appear that the coating can "wear off" or "age" prematurely on a variety of devices. No specific cause is cited except perhaps excessive "rubbing" of a particular portion of a screen or a manufacturing defect in the application of the coating. It wouldn't surprise me that such variance occurs in manufacturing process.

I suspect that something along this line may be the source of your problem. As you note, the problem you've encountered is not scratching the "glass" but scratches on the coating, itself. I'm guessing that your particular screen may suffer from a problematic application of the coating. (i.e. not applied evenly, not cured properly, etc.) If so, it may be covered under warranty.

BTW, I didn't mean for my comments to be taken as a flame directed at you personally. Obviously, you have a problem with your screen. And as you say, the problem emerged after you began to use the Jot. I can understand both your frustration and your conclusion that the source of the problem was the stylus. And if I were in your situation I'd be hesitant to use or recommend the Jot, as well. I just suspect that the problem lies with your particular screen rather than the stylus.

Good luck in getting your screen replaced. Given others' problems with the oleophobic coating on various devices, I would suggest you consider bringing it up with Apple rather than assuming that the problem resulted from your use of a stylus (for which Apple bears no responsibility.)
 
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