I just use my iPad with wifi. I might jailbreak my phone when I go on vacation this summer for tethering purposes, as I'm not dragging my laptop up north with me and I'm not sure about wifi in the cottage. But for what I generally need, hotspots are fine. I'm using it to read books as often as surfing, if not more so.

If you're giving an iPad to someone for email and they're usually not connected to the internet, do you think it will have much of a payoff? I mean, even before you get to adapting to a new tool. If she doesn't send email on her home computer, will she travel to hotspots in order to deliberately send them?

I'm Wi Fi only on my tablet, and I'm rarely in scenarios where I actually use public networks, if you don't count UCLA Medical.

My mother asked me if she should buy a tablet with the remaining money in her grant. I asked her "Why tablet?" and she said "Because you have one."

Needless to say I'm recommending she replace her laptop instead. I'm still trying to drag my sister into the tablet age, and she actually had use cases in mind when she bought hers.

ita, That's what I'm trying to figure out, if it's worth doing? She has an the Amazon ebook reader. So... I dunno how much use she will get out of the iPad. She hasn't had internet connection since AOL dial up, and it was local long distance, so she got smacked with a big phone bill. And ever since then, she has been gun shy about the internet. But, she's wanting a new computer. My sister is supposed to be sending her a laptop, but given the recent track record of my sister, dunno when that would happen. The only reason I'm thinking of passing along my iPad 2, is because I have won an iPad3 in a raffle. I suppose I could keep the 2 at work, and the 3 at home. But wanted to explore the idea of sharing with Mom.

How do you get it to do that with hover menus expanded?

It'll work with application menus, submenus, context menus, and tooltips. But it sounds like maybe you're talking about something different?

Is she the type of person who'd travel to a hotspot in order to send email? How many hotspots is she near? Do they have to be free hotspots? And if she wants a new computer, will the iPad just end up redundant to boot?

But it sounds like maybe you're talking about something different?

Web applications. With menus that disappear when you use the keyboard. Hence the need for specialised software, with the timer. Otherwise, yeah, I'd use the OS.

Huh, works for my blog's menus.

Okay, let me rephrase: what's the cheapest print screen application for Windows that anyone here's familiar with that has a timer function?

Hopefully that clears up any confusion.

ita, That's what I'm trying to figure out, if it's worth doing?

I don't think it is. It doesn't solve any of her needs.

If the library has free wifi, they likely also have computers patrons can use. She can write emails from there. No shipping or new tech to learn. And if she's adverse to using the computers at the library, she's not going to see the iPad that needs to be in a wireless area and has onscreen typing as a good thing.

Sorry. It's just weird because the PrtScn key doesn't generate a KeyDown event so I'm not sure how the application manages to dismiss the menu before the KeyUp event. You have to really go out of your way to capture a KeyDown event with PrtScn.