Apple iPad and related items

[Shippou-Sensei]

my boss has one and he let me have a play with it

it's a nice little machine it's very slick and it is about the right size for what it does, also the screen is excellent and video play back is very sweet and the browsing experiance is crisp

however more and more it told me it was the answer to a question i wasn't asking

i would fucking hate it if i got one because of these reasons... all my new music is flac... all m,y video is mkv with soft subs and sometime dual audio... and i can just envision the hell i'd have to go through trying to get it all on there...

the books are nice but waaaaaaaaaaaay over priced... mind you it would be awesome for manga... but not regular books...

 

[Crispy]

AirVideo can pipe your MKV over wifi, with on the fly conversion to MP4, with dual audio and subtitle support

You'd be a bit screwed with the FLACs though

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

you know if it wasn't for the price... and my pathalogical hate of itunes i'd be tempted

if i was rich i'd get one...


but then if i was rich i'd have ended up smothered under a pile of dakimakura

 

[elbows]

Doh I thought my screen had gone wrong, it was extremely dark in portrait mode but ok in landscape, then I realised I was wearing sunglasses and for whatever reason (polarisation?) they almost completely block out the light from the screen when its in portrait mode.

I decided to test this phenomenon with laptop screen and the gasses do a similar thing but only when at angles such as 45 and 135, not 0 or 90.

 

[grit]

(polarisation?)

Yeah that sounds right

 

[elbows]

Tried it with the iphone and it only goes really dark at around 25 degrees.

 

[fjydj]

This seems a neat trick, add the BBC iplayer to the homepage and it then opens in it's own window, not in safari. Never noticed that happen before.

 

[elbows]

Vaguely interesting looking at the design of the iPad now that the iPhone 4 design is confirmed. Although the iPad is seen as being mostly a giant iPhone/iPod touch, there are at least some slight hints of the iPhone 4 design around the edges, ie slightly less curvy than the older iPhones. So the iPad probably just about pulls off the feat of not looking instantly outdated looks wise now that iPhone 4 is here.

 

[editor]

Priceless!

Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs’ Praise in Morning…Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains

Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–as one of the most promising developers for the new tablet device–in his keynote speech by Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.


But, by the afternoon, that flush of entrepreneurial success had turned sour, after Apple (AAPL) informed the two that Pulse was being pulled from the App Store, after it received a written notice from the New York Times Company (NYT) that “The New York Times Company believes your application named ‘Pulse News Reader’ infringes The New York Times Company’s rights.”


In an unusual coincidence, the Times’ Web site was on prominent display on a huge screen shot of the iPad during Jobs’ speech.
Ironically, the Times wrote a big wet kiss about Pulse last week in a blog post, titled “The iPad Pulse Reader Scales the Charts,” by tech writer Brad Stone.


“Pulse is a stylish and easy-to-use news aggregator,” wrote Stone. “News organizations still puzzling over their iPad strategies can perhaps derive some hope from Pulse’s success–or at least its price tag.”
No longer. Pulse was down completely by 6:30 pm PT last night.


http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100608...e-hours-later-after-new-york-times-complaint/

 

[editor]

Teehee!

Over 100,000 iPad owners' e-mail addresses exposed

A security bug in AT&T's Web site had exposed more than 100,000 iPad users' e-mail addresses, U.S. media reported Wednesday.

A group of hackers, known as Goatse Security, who had uncovered flaws in browsers Firefox and Safari, had successfully downloaded the information from AT&T's Web site.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-06/10/c_13342849.htm

 

[Kanda]

Funny why?

 

[editor]

Goatse security, that's why!

 

[hendo]

LOL - did anyone ever think they'd need over a thousand pounds worth of kit just to play Scrabble..?

The Scrabble app was the first thing I bought. It's super.

Another of the first things I bought was the clever Pulse news app, which is back in the store btw, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Flash or no Flash I love my ipad. I pop video on it for night shifts, have started to read books on it, check me news sites and tweet away on tweetdeck. Still looking for a top strategy title, ie Civ, hurry up developers.

But wish it supported picasa and had a dedicated blogging app. It seems less obviously a creating tool than a computer should be.

 

[Crispy]

You can get civ revolution for it. Not full fat civ, that's for sure, but it scratches the itch.

 

[elbows]

Ahhh the Star Walk app is great, and quite the demo of what a decent iPad app can do. Now I just need to clouds to bugger off one evening so I can make good use of it.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

This seems a neat trick, add the BBC iplayer to the homepage and it then opens in it's own window, not in safari. Never noticed that happen before.

That is clever - kids will love that they can watch their Cbeebies shows on it.

 

[elbows]

This seems a neat trick, add the BBC iplayer to the homepage and it then opens in it's own window, not in safari. Never noticed that happen before.

That stuffs been around since an earlier version of the OS on the iPhone - part of Apples pre-app-store efforts to make webapps useful. With one line added to your webpage you can tell it to hide the safari browser chrome when loaded via its own icon. Its still loading in safari, its just that most of the Safari UI is hidden.

 

[Sunray]

Using the iPad to post this and the keyboard is a puzzle, there is plenty of space but it's copied from the iPhone. I'm not sure that that is sensible, make the keys a bit smaller and then put a full keyboard there.

Whats the point of full gps on a wifi only iPad?

 

[elbows]

Whats the point of full gps on a wifi only iPad?

Apps that dont require a current internet connection can make good use of GPS.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Would have loved an iPad with evernote today while doing some viewings...

 

[editor]

It seems that you can't swap microSIM cards between the iPhone and iPad: http://www.wirefresh.com/iphone-micro-sim-wont-work-with-apples-ipad/

 

[Kanda]

It seems that you can't swap microSIM cards between the iPhone and iPad: http://www.wirefresh.com/iphone-micro-sim-wont-work-with-apples-ipad/

Never expected it too. Why would you??

 

[editor]

Never expected it too. Why would you??

Handy to swap over SIMs if you were running out of data allowance on the one device etc.

 

[Kanda]

It's £2 for 500MB if I'm running out on my iPad....

Anyway.. can you swap the SIM out of 3G dongles into phones? That's how I see this issue...

 

[elbows]

Im not surprised the iPad SIM wont work on the iPhone due to the lack of voice, but perhaps an iPhone 4 microSIM will work in an iPad.

 

[Kaye]

If you don't have an ipad, add "sent from my ipad" at the bottom of an email to a few people and see what response you get!

 

[Kanda]

If you don't have an ipad, add "sent from my ipad" at the bottom of an email to a few people and see what response you get!

Why?

 

[grit]

If you don't have an ipad, add "sent from my ipad" at the bottom of an email to a few people and see what response you get!

Mockery in my circles.

 

[paolo]

Wirefresh headline: "iPhone micro-SIM won’t work with Apple’s iPad"
Wirefresh O2 quote: "iPad micro-SIM card will not work with your iPhone"

Is the headline a guess?

 

[editor]

Wirefresh headline: "iPhone micro-SIM won’t work with Apple’s iPad"
Wirefresh O2 quote: "iPad micro-SIM card will not work with your iPhone"

Is the headline a guess?

No idea why you're bringing this up because that style of writing is no different to hundreds of news reports you'll read today and every other day.