hahaha.
Zoe: Uh huh. River, honey? He's putting the hair away now. River: It'll still be there... waiting.
'Jaynestown'
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le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 9:42:13 am PDT #13465 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Typo Boy - Apr 04, 2010 9:44:24 am PDT #13466 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Not just iphone or ipad that doesn't have flash. As of some time ago, NO phone had flash. Has that changed? Are there now phones with flash? Quite frankly I'd be thrilled if flash died. As ND says there is nothing you can do with flash you can't do with programs that work better. And I hate sites that use flash for text and menus and anything but video. And I dislike flash even for video and slide shows, but if that was all it was used for would dislike rather than hate it.
sumi - Apr 04, 2010 9:44:42 am PDT #13467 of 25501
Art Crawl!!!
hee.
But I'm so glad to see that my ridiculous problems keeping my browsers running are not solely my own problem.
Una - Apr 04, 2010 9:55:30 am PDT #13468 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
The biggest problem I have with the iPad keyboard is that I have to flip to another "screen" to get a damned apostrophe. The other non-letter characters I might be okay with having separate (although since many of my passwords have letters *and* numbers, typing passwords is an adventure on the iPad!) but I want the damned apostrophe. Sigh. I refuse to give in to lazy txt-typing!
Also, I am VERY surprised that I had to sync the darn thing with a computer just to set it up. Even though I had no desire to sync it at all. So basically, the iPad is a peripheral. You absolutely cannot use it unless you already have a computer, WTF.
(happy to report, however, that using the $29 Snow Leopard "upgrade" from Tiger worked well!)
Anyone know an easy way to get PDFs onto the iPad and read them? That's the one thing I *would* sync to the computer for.
le nubian - Apr 04, 2010 10:01:20 am PDT #13469 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Una,
I use Goodreader for pdfs (esp. large ones) on the ipod touch. There is a tablet edition:
Kristen - Apr 04, 2010 10:09:51 am PDT #13470 of 25501
John August recommended GoodReader also.
megan walker - Apr 04, 2010 10:19:24 am PDT #13471 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
You absolutely cannot use it unless you already have a computer, WTF.
WTF indeed.
Una - Apr 04, 2010 10:25:04 am PDT #13472 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Thanks for the Goodreader ref! I will be trying it out.
meara - Apr 04, 2010 10:56:30 am PDT #13473 of 25501
Ooh, thanks for the upgrade report Una!
Jessica - Apr 04, 2010 11:43:08 am PDT #13474 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Honestly, not having Flash on the iPhone doesn't bug me - I don't expect my phone to give me the entire internet.
Flash missing from the iPad is a bigger deal because the form factor implies a certain level of...computer-ness. And Apple supports Flash on their laptops, so it definitely feels like something *missing* from the iPad in a way that it doesn't on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
That said, I just spend about three hours playing with my sister's iPad (technically it belongs to her boss since she bought it for work, but it lives with her) and OOOOOH, SHINY. I still really don't want to pay for one (blah blah first generation Apple product) but damn if every time it was put down on the couch if I didn't want to pick it up. It's compulsively usable.