OK, my ipad came yesterday. It was a headachew and a half setting it up - I had to join itunes and set up an account before I could do anything else, and that was a huge pain because my wife had used my email to set up an apple account when we bought Klaxon a Mac last year, and she couldn't remember her password. When I finally got that straightened out, itunes hung on me right at the end of configuring my ipad, so I had to get out of the hung browser - which would not die - and do it all over again. The whole process took me about 1.5 hours. Then I spent the rest of the night finding apps to do what I wanted, and figuring out how to move my game pdfs over to the ipad.
Good news it, it's beautiful. This is the perfect platform for pdf games! The colors are crisp, the display is big, and the speed is very fast - at least with the small sized pdfs I make. The 450+ page StarCluster 3 DE was only about 15 MB. I haven't yet moved any other pdfs over. The process of moving pdfs over is cumbersome and non-intuitive, because the ipad is not a computer at all, It's a glorified smart phone. I had to move the files into my local itunes, then sync.
Still, I'm very happy with the platform. Next, I run games from it! :D
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The whole having to connect to iTunes is a near-dealbreaker for me. I'm a long-time Mac user, but this annoys me so much. I did get my wife an iPad for xmas and once I got through my fury at not being able to just turn it on and use it (especially since there is no technical reason you can't), I have since found out that it really is possibly the first gadget that makes me feel kind of like we are in the future. When we are reading, my wife keeps it next to her and uses it to look stuff up. It's really like an info table, connected into the planet's collective brain.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty much my feeling too, Olman! The actual human-device interface is as slick as greased snot, and its cababilities are astonishing. The iTunes thing sucks rancid goats though. This baby should just work out of the box once it's charged up! File exchange should be transparent, or at least *documented*! I love the iPad itself, but I'm still angry about the set-up experience.
ReplyDeleteSteve Jobs ownz yor gateway?
ReplyDeleteLove the results I've seen, the techno-propriatry-BS to get there turns me off, though (plus the fact that Apple Products down here are about twice the price of normal products just because they can be).
I had to buy a new wireless router because my old one just wasn't working. Now I have full functionality, finally! The browser looks pretty good. :D
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I believe you can get a drop box app. this would solve your PDF irritation. Put your PDF's in the drop box from your pc, then just access your files through your box.
ReplyDeleteSomething to look into...
Thanks, Anonymous! I'll check into dropbox!
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