I am posing from my shiny new iPad! I don't know her name yet. What apps should I get? And can I down/upload my bookmarks from Firefox?
Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.
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Vortex - Nov 02, 2011 5:27:20 pm PDT #18314 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
brenda m - Nov 02, 2011 5:27:44 pm PDT #18315 of 25501
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le nubian - Nov 02, 2011 5:32:29 pm PDT #18316 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Vortex,
the firefox thing is tricky. I would recommend you sync your bookmarks with Safari (do you have a mac) and have the ipad sync bookmarks with safari.
Alternately, I use xmarks to sync my computers' bookmarks and then I use the app to access them if I need to.
Or, you could use pinboard, delicious and use dbd (ipad app) to access those bookmarks.
You might want to search the thread for ipad apps, but otherwise, gizmodo has an apps (best ipad apps) guide. If you give me an idea of the kind of apps you want, I might be able to help.
Vortex - Nov 02, 2011 5:41:36 pm PDT #18317 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Nope, up until now, I've always been a PC girl. Will safari accept HTML?
le nubian - Nov 02, 2011 5:48:44 pm PDT #18318 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
hmm.
Vortex, I think you can google this. Perhaps you need to use icloud to sync bookmarks.
Vortex - Nov 02, 2011 6:31:11 pm PDT #18319 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I have a stupid question -- how do I get stuff from my pc (say photos) to the iPad can I just drag stuff with explorer?
-t - Nov 02, 2011 7:02:25 pm PDT #18320 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think you can do that through iTunes, but I really don't know PCs. I will recommend Flipboard as an app. Love.
le nubian - Nov 02, 2011 7:34:19 pm PDT #18321 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Vortex,
You can't really (I don't think) use explorer with the Ipad. At least on macs, you have to use Itunes as the main means to get things on and off the ipad. This has changed some with icloud and wifi sync.
§ ita § - Nov 02, 2011 7:36:49 pm PDT #18322 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At least on macs, you have to use Itunes as the main means to get things on and off the ipad
How does this work? None of the file systems or phone OSes I've used have been remotely like that.
-t - Nov 02, 2011 7:45:00 pm PDT #18323 of 25501
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It's kind of goofy - when you sync the iPad through iTunes, under the Apps tab there's an option to add or remove files that certain Apps use. It makes more sense looking at it than I am describing, but it's pretty clunky. I have to use that for RecipeManager, pretty much everything else I move around using Dropbox or iCloud.
To be be fair, moving files on and off my Palm Pre was a similar process, just using different syncing software.