John August recommended GoodReader also.
I'll be in my bunk.
Jayne ,'War Stories'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
Got a question about technology? Ask it here. Discussion of hardware, software, TiVos, multi-region DVDs, Windows, Macs, LINUX, hand-helds, iPods, anything tech related. Better than any helpdesk!
Kristen - Apr 04, 2010 10:09:51 am PDT #13470 of 25501
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.
Una - Apr 04, 2010 12:03:23 pm PDT #13475 of 25501
when i die, please bake my ashes into a brick and use me to hit fascists.
Now reporting from my iPad and Goodreader? Is awesome.
meara--if I have any further issues with the upgrade I'll let you know!
tommyrot - Apr 04, 2010 12:06:29 pm PDT #13476 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
Yesterday I saw one for the first time and played with it for 30 seconds. Today I'm almost regretting not buying one, even though I had not ever seriously considered buying one when it was first released.
meara - Apr 04, 2010 12:51:33 pm PDT #13477 of 25501
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.
Yeah, this. I expect it, because of price and size and such, to be more...functional. I want to be surfing the WHOLE web. From my couch, and my coffee shop, and what have you. And if all I've got is wifi...then it can't just be mobile versions of the web. Which means not having flash...sure, sometimes is just "gee, that annoying page's intro won't load, no big", and too many pages overuse it anyway. But sometimes that means I can't even get PAST the first page. And that's something pages ought to fix, yes...but also something I shouldn't be at home on my iPad and go "Oh, guess I have to go over to the REAL COMPUTER for this site!". If I want to watch Hulu on the iPad I feel like I ought to be able to or whatever, man...
DCJensen - Apr 04, 2010 1:13:48 pm PDT #13478 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
One could easily remote to their other computer, even away from home and browse from there.
Until a hack for flash is done...
Jon B. - Apr 04, 2010 1:33:42 pm PDT #13479 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Last week, there was a symposium at the NERD building in Cambridge titled "Looking at the Next Open Web Platform" where folks from the W3 Consortium and elsewhere talked about SVG, HTML 5, CSS 3, and other future standards. I couldn't make the actual talk, but the slides were made available and I read through them. Bottom line: audio, video and vector graphics are going to be a part of the W3 open standards. I don't see how Flash can survive if browsers will soon be able to support the same functionality natively. So while it's annoying now, maybe Apple is probably figuring that eventually major web sites will stop using Flash and no one will care?