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 (3 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 (3 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 (3 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 (3 years ago) Permalink
Well now I look like a pranny.
― JimD, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
wait what are these for again?
― pollos da don (tpp), Friday, 28 May 2010 11:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
just look how happy owning one can make you:
― joe, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
This thing is too damn reflective
― stet, Friday, 28 May 2010 11:48 (3 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 (3 years ago) Permalink
Guardian eyewitness app is great. Instapaper is a must-have
― stet, Friday, 28 May 2010 13:08 (3 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 (3 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 (3 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 (2 years ago) Permalink
Spread cream cheese on it.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 12:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol
I'm get some of these apps. Any other new ones?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 June 2011 12:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
netlfix if you have a subscription to it
― Latham Green, Tuesday, 7 June 2011 13:16 (2 years 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 (2 years 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 (2 years 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 (2 years 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 (2 years 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 (2 years 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 (2 years 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 (1 year 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 (1 year ago) Permalink
Linux-esque design = unintuitive?
― ljubljana, Friday, 8 June 2012 11:26 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (1 year 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 (11 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 (11 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 (4 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 (4 months ago) Permalink
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― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 8 February 2013 17:16 (4 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 (2 months 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 (2 months 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 (2 months ago) Permalink
cough
― maura, Sunday, 7 April 2013 21:49 (2 months 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 (2 months 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 (2 months 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 (1 month ago) Permalink
thats not a bug but a restriction deliberately coded in the app. they probably do an enhancement update at some point that will correct this for you.
― educate yourself to this reality (sunny successor), Monday, 27 May 2013 04:56 (3 weeks ago) Permalink