I wasn't going to get an iPad for awhile, but I'm revising that schedule now that Netflix streaming is supported on it.
HOWEVER just looking at these music making/controller apps makes me want to get one immediately.
Anyway, here we go...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 2 April 2010 20:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
i hav like 25 of these bitches, bow down
― ~cankles~ (ice cr?m), Friday, 2 April 2010 20:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
Popular Science magazine/app looks cool:
http://kottke.org/10/04/a-nice-ipad-magazine
― Nhex, Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
how did they get the ipad to project the images onto the table???
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Saturday, 3 April 2010 03:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
My 3G iPad came today!!!!!!! This is my first ilx post on it!! What should I download?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
www.instapaper.com
― ksh, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
i don't own an iPad, but i've used Instapaper on my iPod Touch, and man it's great
― ksh, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
can only imagine the newest version is even better than the one i used
i prefer instapaper to safari tbh
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 30 April 2010 21:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
I have an iPad! But I can't use it till Tuesday unless someone in NYC with a MacBook wants to come to The Gershwin and let me boot it up via their iTunes.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 1 May 2010 08:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
the Gershwin!! do they still have comedy nights downstairs?
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 1 May 2010 09:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yes, we were at one last night when we got back from the Empire State Building!
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 1 May 2010 10:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
What's ILX like ON IPAD? I've been kinda assuming that just using Safari will be fine.
― stet, Saturday, 1 May 2010 12:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
It's a pretty good experience. Much better than using safari on the iPhone. However, I think an app would be cool, especially to do like a dual pane with your bookmarks or thread list.
― Jeff, Saturday, 1 May 2010 12:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Instapaper's lush on the iPad.
Other apps I've got (downloading via iTunes UK on the iMac and syncing across); Marvel, Minigore HD, Plants vs Zombies HD, Worms HD, Magic Piano, Nat Geo World Atlas, NYT editor's choice, and Tweetdeck. iPad native apps so much nicer than using iPhone apps.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 5 May 2010 08:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
must be some mofo on here bought an EU ipad
― cozen, Friday, 28 May 2010 09:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
I bought one
― treefell, Friday, 28 May 2010 10:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Various of my coworkers have been waving them around today and yesterday. Wondering how much more they get paid than me that they can afford to buy every new thing Apple brings out. Looks pretty shiny, but for almost 600 quid I'd like it to do more than 300 quid gadgets, not less
(leaving thread now, carry on with your scheduled Apple adoration)
― atoms breaking heart (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 28 May 2010 10:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
got mine yesterday. feeling v magical and revolutionary right now.
only disappointment so far is ibooks - there are no books licensed for the uk yet, only copyright free project gutenberg ones.
― joe, Friday, 28 May 2010 10:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
there are no books licensed for the uk yet
Let's see how big that "yet" ends up being. I bet six months.
― JimD, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
i only checked last night, but apparently there are some up this morning: http://www.mobile-ent.biz/news/37285/Paid-e-books-now-live-in-Apples-UK-iBooks-store
― joe, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
I was just in iBooks and there non-Gutenberg books for sale in there.Xpost
― treefell, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well now I look like a pranny.
― JimD, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
wait what are these for again?
― pollos da don (tpp), Friday, 28 May 2010 11:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
just look how happy owning one can make you:
― joe, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
This thing is too damn reflective
― stet, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
so if you can't read it outside the main idea is for something to read the net while lazing around the house? that'd be nice i guess but i have better things to spend £400 on right now
― pollos da don (tpp), Friday, 28 May 2010 12:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Guardian eyewitness app is great. Instapaper is a must-have
― stet, Friday, 28 May 2010 13:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
had a play with one today in-store, very nice
a lot heavier than I expected tho, must be pretty tiring holding it for prolonged periods
would love one but not at the current price
― cozen, Friday, 4 June 2010 19:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
I had a go on one my boss brought in the other week, and the first thing that jumped out at me was how grotty his screen already was with smeared fingerprints.
He did show me a nifty looking Adobe app, some kind of Photoshop/painting thing, I forget what it was called but it was a bit like Brushes (which I have on my tooch).
Cant see myself ever having use for one of these (esp as a pc/netbook replacement - how do you type on it? Hold it with one hand and jab with the other? Sit it awkwardly on yr knee and type normally?).
Mind you those music apps Chris posted up top are killer, and THAT I find interesting, esp the air harp!
― property-disrespecting Moroccan handjob (Trayce), Saturday, 5 June 2010 05:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
my SO wants one for bday but her nerd frenz warn her abt no flash. big deal? not? wsup ilx...
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 23 July 2010 11:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
No flash, no biggie. I've been using one this week, very nice, although I can't wait for the iPhone 4 resolution screen to make it to the iPad.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 23 July 2010 11:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
is she really addicted to those "shoot a gopher" banner ads? if so, you may have a problem.
― al gore vidal gore (s1ocki), Friday, 23 July 2010 13:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
does evony use flash?
― dill hai to mango aur (cozen), Friday, 23 July 2010 14:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Was out today in Belgium. So we bought one today. lolz
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 23 July 2010 14:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
hahaha @ sl0cki... whackamole.
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 23 July 2010 17:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think this has been raised already - but what a pain it is to have pitchfork reviews systematically truncated on Instapaper. What is the deal? some scheme to generate further traffic?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 9 September 2010 12:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
- Flipboard (for flicking through your news feeds and social menagerie like a magazine)- Reeder (for actual Google Reader news reading)- Note Taker HD (for writing notes (better with a stylus))- Pleco (for learning Chinese (okay maybe this one has niche appeal))- Wikipanion Free/Lite/whatever
― VitaweatavegemiteGrrl (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 15 April 2011 21:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
Zite is pretty great; good at finding me new stuff to read, not just making prettier boxes to fill with links I've already seen on Twitter as Flipboard does
― stet, Friday, 15 April 2011 23:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oooh, ta.
― VitaweatavegemiteGrrl (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 15 April 2011 23:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
TraxPad is great for dj'ing. Very similar to Traktor.
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 16 April 2011 00:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Mine is coming today. I've set aside about a hundred bucks to app this fucker up; could I get a handful of top ten must gets?
― forks (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 April 2011 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
garageband!
― diamonddave85, Thursday, 28 April 2011 17:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Really enjoying Korg iElectribe.
― Jeff, Thursday, 28 April 2011 17:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
^^me too. except how do i get what i made into garageband?
― impeccable suit shit stained underwear (thebingo), Thursday, 28 April 2011 17:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Garageband, for sure. Very fun.Zite (free magazine-style rss feeder type thing)Bing (free, and surprisingly good)Cloudreaders (free comic book/PDF app)Netflix (free with subscription, works very well)Friendly (vastly prefer this to the official Facebook app)
more when I get home.
― reggaeton for the painfully alone (polyphonic), Thursday, 28 April 2011 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
cool. i really need some help loading this thing up; mostly got it to read comix, watch netflix, do work on site.
― And thusly create the illusion of babby (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 April 2011 17:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
is there an official facebook app?
― (｡◕‿◕｡) (cozen), Thursday, 28 April 2011 18:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
tunein radio & the final hours of portal 2 are both good too
Friendly for Facebook sucks, I hate it. It's hella ugly and doesn't work properly. But then, neither do any of the other Facebook apps for iPad. I just started using MyPad and it's crashy as hell but looks a HELL of a lot better than Friendly. Can FB just come up with a version of their iPhone app already?!
For comics, I paid for Comic Zeal and it's awesome. a whole bunch of great features and shit looks fantastic in landscape mode.
my favorite social media tings include ShowYou - which scrapes your Facebook & Twitter feeds and displays all the videos your friends post on this gigantic scrollable wall. Just touch once to get a closer look and touch again to play. Very cool. Flipboard I like but is lacking, esp when it only goes back a few hours in my feed. Keep loading, dammit!!
For RSS things I LOVE Pulse. Killer UI makes this one the best. It limits the amount of feeds you can add which is a bit irritating, but I've got enough on there to make using it worthwhile.
― mikebee (BATTAGS), Thursday, 28 April 2011 19:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Zite is full of UI bugs. Bing is not available here because Microsoft is fucked in the head.
Note Taker HD is really good for taking notes. Flipboard is worthwhile for photo streams and Instagram and stuff. tvGuide is buggy but useful (I don't know how many countries it's good for).
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 28 April 2011 20:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
more?
― And thusly create the illusion of babby (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 April 2011 21:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
instapaper, reeder, itunes remote, eboy fixpix (try the demo first:)
― diamonddave85, Friday, 29 April 2011 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
crunchyroll for watching animes
― diamonddave85, Friday, 29 April 2011 21:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
― but I want a bongo drum (CaptainLorax), Friday, 29 April 2011 21:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
That was bad
― it always seems to have dick smith in it (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 29 April 2011 21:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
maven browser free today. worth a try for the side by side screen mode at least
― smh (cozen), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 19:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just got one. I'm pretty sure it's awesome but I have no idea what to do with it yet!
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 12:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Spread cream cheese on it.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
I'm get some of these apps. Any other new ones?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 12:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
netlfix if you have a subscription to it
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'll post a list for you shortly e. I've gone from trepidation to obsessed with this lil gadget; it's my go to for everything and it took about a month.
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
also you can get soem free books if you get the kindle app
Yeah got the kindle app already :)
Thanks Forks
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
dont get "matching animals" it sucks! http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kids-can-match-animals-vocal/id393993415?mt=8
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
re. games, I have been playing the wazoooooooo out of Puzzle Quest 2 on this puppy
re. work, simplenote + notational velocity + dropbox, as someone mentioned on this board somewhere, is great. & really Dropbox is great since it gives the iPad a file system, even if you can't really manipulate that file system on the iPad itself.
I am still looking for a good way to keep about 10,000 papers + books organized on this thing, though, since that was the main reason I bought it & yet have not figured out how to do this well.
― Euler, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Off-topic re:apps, but I really wish I could charge this thing via the USB bus on my desktop machine.
― what made my hamburger disappear (WmC), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 14:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
mine charges off my usb bus (mb pro) but it takes a long time, like 5+ hours
― Euler, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Okay, for starters there's a bunch of subscription services that are worth getting on for ipad access.
The ones I use are Netflix and Hulu Plus. Both stream easily and well.
Magazines and newspapers where subscription translates to free download: New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Wired, New Yorker, Economist. This'll take care of you for the foreseeable future for reading.
CloudReaders is a free comic reader that doubles as a good pdf viewer.
Dragon offers a dictation service that's kind of astonishing; it's free but requires connection to the web. You can export dictation as a text document and mail it. No good for multiple voices but surprisingly on point for a single voice.
Dropbox and Twitter work fine on iPad and you wanna get the apps if you use those services.
Flipboard is good to use for magazine style reading for blogs and facebook.
Display Link is a free service that requires a download to your PC but then allows you to use your pad as a second monitor.
Skype is like thirty bucks for the year and then your pad is an all purpose phone as long as you're in wifi range. it's VERY handy.
Crosswords is like ten bucks and gives you access to dozens of papers daily.
Crunchyroll is a free Japanese TV streaming service
If you haven't already, get Find iPhone; you can use a PC to find the pad wherever it is geographically
PS Express is free and fine for the most basic cropping/redeye camera work
Games I will Recommend: Dungeon Raid, Cut the Rope, NatlCapitls, Zarik, Infinity Blade, iCut, Stupid Zombie, Paper Train, Colorbind, 7 Words, Smack Gugi, The Heist, Enso Dot, Zentomino, MoxieMost of these are free or cheap.
― When Zeester Met Koffie (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
We just got one of these.
The British Museum has a pretty amazing free app with tons of scanned 19th Century books, including some with awesome illustrations.
It's all too much for me ATM -- the iPad in general.
― hated old moniker, too tired to think of a clever new one (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 June 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
ipad owners: do any of you read long documents, e.g. ebooks on these things? how much worse is it than e.g. kindle for that? what is the current thinking on whether these things will get hi-res iphone type displays?
― caek, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 11:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
The current retina display is great for comics magazines newspaper books... I dont notice any strain but i have admittedly kinda given up
― generous doler out of lollies (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 12:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I use the Kindle app all the time and it's better than the Kindle in every way except the display quality. Thinking on Retina display is that it's probably summer 2012, but they just bumped the MBA in under a year, so who knows?
― stet, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
There is some eyestrain when you read on the ipad just like there is when you read on a computer monitor, so it probably makes more sense for articles and short stories than for books.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've read at least six books on the iPad, most in the Kindle app, but a few in Stanza too.I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who gets eyestrain from reading from an lcd monitor but otherwise it's a perfectly good way to read books.
― treefell, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've read a bunch of articles & it's been good for that because I can send the marked up articles right to editors (these are referee reports). I haven't read any books on it yet.
― Euler, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I read my knitting patterns on it. Also articles. I am going to read books on'em in due time. I love it. No problems whatsoever with eye strain
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
pdfs euler? what app do you use to mark them up?
― caek, Sunday, 24 July 2011 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
GoodReader. It's ok & someone could do better, but this works for now. The markups are embedded in the doc so people on other machines can read them, which is obviously crucial.
― Euler, Sunday, 24 July 2011 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
feedly!!
i like much better than flipboard, pulse, etc
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've only had an iPad for 4 days, but Zite is my favorite news aggregator / personal magazine so far.
― waxing gibbous (Sanpaku), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, I've tried a lot and Zite's my favourite.
― Alba, Thursday, 11 August 2011 08:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any good Tower Defense for the iPad besides Plants vs Zombies?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 19 September 2011 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
a couple dozen. i'd start with anomaly, which is an inverse tower defense
― A Fudgesicle is a frozen, ice cream-like snack. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
The geodefense games are good if you like vector graphics.
― polyphonic, Monday, 19 September 2011 16:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fieldrunners.
― Alba, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 21:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
so I got 1 of these w/ keyboard and am gonna use it as my 'primary computer' (I have a v. old laptop to use when necessary but my life involves v. little non-text content creation / programs that can't be ipaded)
onlive is...amazing? how is this even legal?
― iatee, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
ya that program kinda weirds me out that it even exists
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
gj buying an ipad 3 weeks before the new ones come out i guess
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 23 February 2012 17:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
I bought a refurbished ipad 2 for $419 because I needed a tablet right now for day-to-day stuff and I did not think that whatever money I would have saved when the price goes down a tad was worth not having an ipad now. I would have also bought a refurbished ipad 2 'when the new ones come out'.
― iatee, Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
wtf at onlive desktop.when did this go live?
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 February 2012 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
1) what is onlive2) what is the latest on ipad3 release/ipad2 price drop
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
onlive streams a windows desktop to your ipad, a desktop w/ word, powerpoint, excel and a mouse
― iatee, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
the pay version also lets you use internet explorer, with which (I think?) you could use flash stuff
― iatee, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/technology/personaltech/onlive-desktop-plus-puts-windows-7-on-the-ipad-in-blazing-speed-state-of-the-art.html?_r=2&nl=technology&emc=cta1&pagewanted=all
― iatee, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
ipad 3 march 7, nothing about 2 price drop
― caek, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
uh, that 1 gig per sec element is news to me; that's sick.
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks dudes
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 24 February 2012 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks to
- iThoughts HD (for Freemind-like mindmaps)- TouchDraw (for Visio-like flowcharts and org charts)- iMockups (for Balsamiq-like screen mockups)- Notes Plus- iDesk- wireless keyboard
my workflow at work is suddenly insanely awesome.
Also picked up Notability the other day. Looks like a really good competitor to Notes Plus and Note Taker HD, but I need to play with it a bit more.
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 25 February 2012 08:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
love flipbook
― iatee, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
er flipboard
Paper is really good. The simplicity makes it easy to just open and draw stuff. No pen thicknesses, no colour pickers etc. The colour tool (watercolour brush thing) is fiddly though, and the provided colours aren't labelled, so people like me draw orange grass.
― TURPS-DEFCON1.jpg (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 2 April 2012 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
cloudon - onlive stripped down and easier to use
― iatee, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm after an app that scrapes out the videos from my Facebook wall and will play them in turn as a background process. Does anyone know if an app like this exists?
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 15 April 2012 09:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Anyone who fancies a drawing app, get Procreate. Zero lag on ipad 3, ridiculously comprehensive brush customisation, lovely interface, e.g. sliders for brush size & opacity unobtrusively right there on the screen. Sketchbook is pretty well thought out too but it has slight lag and the ui just feels slightly less friendly, although it's hardly thrown together. ArtStudio actually wins on the toolset - dodge/burn, blur, gradient fill, select tools, all missing from procreate & sketchbook, although you can kinda fake them with smudging, opacity & layer effects - but the ui is cartoony and unwieldy. iDraw has massive massive lag.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 10:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm, procreate is really quite incredible
― o s– man (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 11:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Any recommendations on a text editor with Dropbox integration that can open text files with any extension, not just txt? In particular I want to edit Tex files (not run Tex, just edit the files.
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
notesy does that (just checked it will open a tex file)
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
cool, thanks!
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't use it for serious editing (ON IPHONE) so not sure if it's up to that
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah not really into serious editing ON IPAD just on flights etc I might wanna tweak my beamer nahmean?
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
caek, dl'ed this & synched it with nv on my mbp via Dropbox but don't see how to access my full Dropbox file system. Is this doable?
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's a bit hacky, but under settings > dropbox, you can change the folder there. you have to type the name.
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
it seems like it's kind of geared to using NV ON IPHONE (i.e. flat directories)
― caek, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I dig that, have been using simplenote that way for a while, but I sometimes just wanna f with tex files on the run too. The hack will do!
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
could I also add some kind of symbolic link in my notesy folder to my other db folders that I want to access in notesy? my unix majick is weak
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, that works. just checked.
e.g. open up terminal and do something like
ln -s ~/research/writing/importantpaper/ ~/Dropbox/notes/importantpaper
where you change the two paths as necessary
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
first path is the directory you keep your paper in, second path is going to show up as a subdirectory of your notesy db.
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
it will also show PDFs in that directory. it lists them as "not a note", but if you tap them it shows you the PDF
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah I can do that; would be even sweeter if I could just navigate to my dropbox folders & edit what I'd like, but I'll take this. feel like "folder structure" isn't really a thing in the new iOS world & maybe I should try living more in that world but I have lots of papers & talks in various stages of completion & I'm used to keeping them separate. & I still keep multiple drafts of docs in progress b/c I want to know what version I sent to so-and-so so when they give me comments I know what they're talking about, & so things get messy. gotta figure all this out. anyway thanks!
― Euler, Thursday, 10 May 2012 14:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
i tried putting "/" as the notes folder path in notesy's settings but i think it got confused. you could try that though?
multiple drafts is, in the long run, enormously simplified by using version control, although that doesn't obviate the need for folders, and there is a learning curve.
but yeah, folders are old school. my adviser has a separate folder for everyone he's ever got email from. smdh.
― caek, Thursday, 10 May 2012 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just how good is NoteTaker? And are there any decent apps that convert handwriting to typed.... words? For some reason I'm finding it hard to phrase this very simple question. I'm going to bed.
― ljubljana, Friday, 8 June 2012 03:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
note taker hd is good but looks like it was designed by a linux user. notes plus has decent handwriting recognition but performs like shit on the retina ipad.
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 03:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
Linux-esque design = unintuitive?
― ljubljana, Friday, 8 June 2012 11:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's not the most attractive or minimal design you've ever seen
― that's not kewell (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 8 June 2012 12:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/uplink/id522659218?mt=8 <- i don't have an ipad but the orignal was awesome so i presume this is too :D
― DG, Friday, 8 June 2012 15:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
If anyone is interested in really attractive iPad digital magazines, check out the German magazine Done or the Japanese magazine Katachi.
― Darin, Friday, 8 June 2012 16:00 (11 months ago) Permalink
suddenly the ipad is usefull
http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/icade/
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Monday, 16 July 2012 16:32 (10 months ago) Permalink
played w/one of those in a store the other week. the stick is a bit too loose, but it's otherwise p. good. Paperboy was spot on, and I died in the usual locations.
― stet, Monday, 16 July 2012 16:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
ios 6.1 has killed a load of adobe-based magazine apps (they crash on opening if there's no data connection). fast company and gq中国 have issued app fixes so far.
― walloreinhart (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:12 (3 months ago) Permalink
in other news, i just bought this -- http://readdle.com/products/scannerpro/ -- so we'll see how that goes
― markers, Thursday, February 7, 2013 3:20 PM
― markers, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:36 (3 months ago) Permalink
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― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:16 (3 months ago) Permalink
is anyone subscribed to wired via newsstand? will i need a wired account to subscribe or can i just do it via the app w/o an account like what i did with the magazine?
― markers, Sunday, 7 April 2013 18:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
you can just do it via the app w/o an account like what you did with the magazine
― Let's Make Laugh II (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
it's independent of everything, and you don't even need to give condé nast your email address etc. if you don't want to
― Let's Make Laugh II (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
cough
― maura, Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:49 (1 month ago) Permalink
of course the excellent maura magazine maintains superb quality without being half a gig per issue
― Let's Make Laugh II (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 7 April 2013 22:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
it slices it dices it juliennes
― I offer about as much diversity as a saltine cracker. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 8 April 2013 06:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
let's talk about pdf management. at this point i haven't started doing heavy pdf reading on my ipad, but at some point soon i'll want to be able to read some books and academic articles and stuff. right now i just shoved a few of them into ibooks, but that doesn't seem like a good long term solution. is dedicated pdf app + dropbox the way to go? or is there a better way? this is going to be a mess, isn't it?
for what it's worth, i don't think someone who's just going to read a few pdfs needs some sort of system, but i anticipate using this for open access books and academic articles mostly. at least that's what i know i'll use it for now. i'm not in academia but if the people who are and who do this kind of crazy pdf management stuff can shed any light on the situation it'd be appreciated.
― markers, Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:45 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
as far as the app portion of the system goes i guess there's pdf expert, iannotate, good reader, other stuff? i'd like the best in class app, really.
― markers, Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:46 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one of the reasons that spotify's cool for music is because you no longer really have to manage a music library. and although shit like this exists -- http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/browzine/47955 -- i'm still going to have to manage a pdf library for a while it seems. some philosophy books from re.press, some stuff from open humanities press, journal articles from that open access journal, dissertations and shit people post to their personal sites.
― markers, Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:48 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one last thing: it seems to me like something involving dropbox or something like dropbox would be ideal because you don't want to just import a bunch of pdfs into an ios app a la ibooks and then have them stuck in there. how would you go about getting all that shit out? you'd probably have to sync with itunes or email everything out, which is just shitty. the goal is to make shit portable enough that whatever app i'm using at the time is interacting with the files but not holding onto them
― markers, Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:51 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― markers, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 19:12 (1 month ago) Permalink
I just tried this to see if it worked. Using Google Drive, I dragged and dropped a file into my Drive on my work PC. Then I opened Drive on my phone and opened the PDF and it worked perfectly. So that might be a good workflow.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 19:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
ok dope. thank you.
― markers, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
still thinking about what direction i'm going to take, and i've at least eliminated goodreader as an option. my guess is that my final setup will be either iannotate or pdf expert and dropbox. something like that. once i get this set up i don't want to have to change it for a while.
― markers, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 20:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
went with iannotate
― markers, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 03:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
markers: I use Papers --- http://www.papersapp.com/papers/. It’s excellent.
― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 21:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
I'm using the official Youtube app on my iPad, and I've no big complaints except for one huge annoying 'bug'. When I go to my favourites, it will only go back as far as the last 80 faves or so. After that it just stops, is unable to scroll any further. I've 500 something faves, but I just can't access them through this app.
Does anyone use an alternative Youtube app that's good? And might nog have this bug?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 19 May 2013 13:36 (6 days ago) Permalink