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[7 - No tomorrow]

if you want stuff on the ipad more permanently then convert with handbrake, stick them in a converted videos folder then sync that over with itunes

Yeah, I want to stick a few movies on for a long flight. I will need this.

The amount of rules with this thing. Jesus.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Oh, the brother has written an app for the iPad

It's an album guide to The Beatles' Please Please Me

The first of a series.

In case anyone's interested, here's a link to the demo

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[sreiki]

Anyone have issues with the bottom button not working? I have a hard to exiting apps because that 1 button on the front of the iPod is not working.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Anyone have issues with the bottom button not working? I have a hard to exiting apps because that 1 button on the front of the iPod is not working.

Nope.
Works fine for me.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Windows for the iPad. Allows you to use Flash, it says here.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/t...he-art.html?ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=all

February 22, 2012
[h=1]Windows on the iPad, and Speedy[/h][h=6]By DAVID POGUE[/h]You’re probably paying something like $60 a month for high-speed Internet. I’m paying $5 a month, and my connection is 1,000 times faster.
Your iPad can’t play Flash videos on the Web. Mine can.
Your copy of Windows needs constant updating and patching and protection against viruses and spyware. Mine is always clean and always up-to-date.
No, I’m not some kind of smug techno-elitist; you can have all of that, too. All you have to do is sign up for a radical iPad service called OnLive Desktop Plus.
It’s a tiny app — about 5 megabytes. When you open it, you see a standard Windows 7 desktop, right there on your iPad. The full, latest versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader are set up and ready to use — no installation, no serial numbers, no pop-up balloons nagging you to update this or that. It may be the least annoying version of Windows you’ve ever used.
That’s pretty impressive — but not as impressive as what’s going on behind the scenes. The PC that’s driving your iPad Windows experience is, in fact, a “farm” of computers at one of three data centers thousands of miles away. Every time you tap the screen, scroll a list or type on the on-screen keyboard, you’re sending signals to those distant computers. The screen image is blasted back to your iPad with astonishingly little lag.
There’s an insane amount of technology behind this stunt — 10 years in the making, according to the company’s founder. (He’s a veteran of Apple’s original QuickTime team and Microsoft’s WebTV and Xbox teams.) OnLive Desktop builds on the company’s original business, a service that lets gamers play high-horsepower video games on Macs or low-powered Windows computers like netbooks.
The free version of the OnLive Desktop service arrived in January. It gives you Word, Excel and PowerPoint, a few basic Windows apps (like Paint, Media Player, Notepad and Calculator), and 2 gigabytes of storage.
Plenty of apps give you stripped-down versions of Office on the iPad. But OnLive Desktop gives you the complete Windows Office suite. In Word, you can do fancy stuff like tracking changes and high-end typography. In PowerPoint, you can make slide shows that the iPad projects with all of the cross fades, zooms and animations intact.
Thanks to Microsoft’s own Touch Pack add-on, all of this works with touch-screen gestures. You can pinch and spread two fingers to zoom in and out of your Office documents. You can use Windows’ impressive handwriting recognition to enter text (although a Bluetooth keyboard works better). You can flick to scroll through a list.
Instead of clicking the mouse on things, you can simply tap, although a stylus works better than a fingertip; many of the Windows controls are too tiny for a finger to tap precisely. (On a real Windows PC, you could open the Control Panel to enlarge the controls for touch use — but OnLive’s simulated PC is lacking the Control Panel, which is one of its few downsides.)
OnLive Desktop is seamless and fairly amazing. And fast; on what other PC does Word open in one second?
But the only way to get files onto and off OnLive Desktop is using a Documents folder on the desktop. To access it, you have to visit OnLive’s Web site on your actual PC.
The news today is the new service, called OnLive Desktop Plus. It’s not free — it costs $5 a month — but it adds Adobe Reader, Internet Explorer and a 1-gigabit-a-second Internet connection.
That’s not a typo. And “1-gigabit Internet” means the fastest connection you’ve ever used in your life — on your iPad. It means speeds 500 or 1,000 times as fast as what you probably get at home. It means downloading a 20-megabyte file before your finger lifts from the glass.
You get the same speed in both directions. You can upload a 30-megabyte file in one second.
And remember, you’re using a state-of-the-art Windows computer, so you can play any kind of video you might encounter online. OnLive Desktop Plus turns the iPad from a tablet that can’t play Flash videos at all — into the smoothest Flash player you’ve ever used. And yes, that includes watching free TV at Hulu.com, which you can’t otherwise do on the iPad.
The Plus version’s Internet connection makes a world of difference. Now you can use DropBox to get files onto and off your iPad from other gadgets, like Macs and PCs. (That, the company says, is why the Plus service still offers only 2 gigabytes of storage for your files; it figures you’ve now got the whole Internet as your storage bin.) You can get to your Gmail, Yahoo mail, corporate Exchange mail and other online accounts — with ridiculously quick response.
Now, you might be wondering: What good is a 1-gigabit connection on OnLive’s end, if the far slower connection on my end is the bottleneck?

The secret is that OnLive isn’t sending you all of the data from your Web browsing session. It’s sending you only a video stream the size of your iPad screen. For example, if you’re playing a hi-def video, OnLive pares down the data to just what your iPad can show. If you scroll a video off the screen, OnLive doesn’t bother sending you its data. And so on.


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[pissypants]

May be US only? My brother just tried on ipad in the UK and no dice.

 

[Napalm]

Coming soon to this side of the atlantic...

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Can anyone recommend a good protective case for the iPad?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

iPad cases & iPad covers by OtterBox

Supposed to be the business.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

iPad cases & iPad covers by OtterBox

Supposed to be the business.

Thanks for that

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

I spilled coffee on mine during the world cup. It hasn't worked since.

I don't even think it's repairable.

 

[nooleen]

stupid world cup

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The main fucking thing is that I can't justify replacing it.

Like I have a phone, I have a laptop. Spending 400 quid or whatever seems stupid, when I could fly to LA or whatever with that money.

Anyway.

 

[pete]

Problem solved

Potential iPad Air 2 Leaks Show A Thinner Case, And The Arrival Of Touch ID | TechCrunch

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Problem solved

Potential iPad Air 2 Leaks Show A Thinner Case, And The Arrival Of Touch ID | TechCrunch

Oh, lovely.

 

[pete]

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