Infuriating?? I hadnt thought of using that word but my wife had a personal melt-down last nite as she was "playing" with the Ipad that I got her for Xmas and she kept hitting a brick wall with Apple. Hopefully my office laptop will be good enough to download the necessary apps to get her started. If not, I guess we will be visiting an Apple store soon. Funny, that you have to have a pretty damn good computer in order to fire up an Ipad.
Don't forget the Car Cast with Tim on it. Actually most of the Car Casts are pretty good.
Words with Friends
Evernote
Key Ring
TaskTask
Kindle
iBooks
Fios DVR Manager (a must if you have Fios)
Gate Guru (if you travel)
Tag Reader
Around Me
Layar
Shazam
Fandango
YP Mobile
YouTube
IMDB
TruTV
Urbanspoon
CraigsPro
Ebay
iTriage
jaysgarage
AAA Apps
Photoshop Express
Dropbox
Mint.com
Cut The Rope
R.Racing GTI (free)
Flight Control Free
Break
iGun
iPew
I am on the iPhone, but most of these should rock the pad as well. I left out the driving apps that I use, and I have apps from all of my banks and credit cards as well that help with online banking.
Hey, I am posting from my IPad now! 21st century....meet Per. Per, meet 21st century.
4cylndrfury wrote: Speaking of using spreadsheets etc, anyone have experience with th openoffice.org stuff? I've heard it's a reasonable facsimile to excel and word etc. Id be interested in learning how to use that stuff too.
I wrote my book with OpenOffice. The only problem I've seen myself is that some DOC documents created with Word don't display properly in it, and its equation writer wasn't compatible with whatever program my publisher used to typeset the book. I also use their spreadsheet part and it's pretty decent too.
Got her signed up and she is learning how to deal with it. Not sure I will be joining the fun(I have too much invested in laptops and netbooks) but there seem to be some real improvements over traditional structures.
I've written one or two books in OpenOffice. The latest one was done in Google Docs. I've got access to the manuscript from anywhere, it's awesome.
As for the iPad, I've got the latest iPod Touch. I've played with a few apps on it, but mostly it's just running Pandora. Yes, I've turned a global communications network and a tiny computer with an awesome screen into a transistor radio. I'm looking forward to trying it with an Innovate OT-2 though - every 1972 MG's engine data should be accessed with an iPod.
For those of you who used OpenOffice try the $10 Pages app. It's so much easier and is completely (so far) Word compatible.
If it's as compatible as Pages for the Mac it will be 100% Word compatible and actually much more compatible than having the wrong version of Word itself. The spreadsheet is just as compatible. I work in a spread sheet so little I haven't even looked to see if the iPad version has a spreadsheet.
On my computer I open rate sheets built in Excel all the time with zero issues whereas others who try it in Excel run into the dreaded wrong version or encryption issues. I still wish they'd seen their rates in PDF, but their technogeeks just say we NEED the new versions of Word & Excel so they aren't going to change anytime soon. Sales depts. run scared of IT guys!!
DirtyBird222 wrote: throw in trash...
This.
Apple's stuff does work- but to not include Flash? Come on Steve, how the hell am I supposed to waste time when I'm not playing Angry Birds or Cut the Rope?
ditchdigger wrote: I realize we are all busy people but do we not have the little extra time to type or say "application" rather than app? I have no idea why this bothers me so much and it has now been compounded by applebees advertising their appetizers as apps.
The former doesn't bother me, as "app" has different semmantics than "application".
Get used to your language getting mangled... you're not in control of it anymore.
The one thing I'm holding out on is "literally". People keep trying to use it as a generic intensifier, and you CANNOT do that... that's the ONE word that must stick to it's given meaning, or the whole language falls apart.
It's amazing how little flash content is out there. Or should I say it's amazing how little flash content worth wasting time on.
On my iPhone it's a rarity for me to go to a website and not be able to use it or see what I want to see. The flash content is usually some secondary piece and quite commonly some sort of ad so I never really miss flash.
I only have one site that I visit that has flash in an inconvenient place. There's a scheduling section and because I can't use flash I can't change the calendar from today to tomorrow or next week.
ok, got a geek question for apple people...I have tons of music on my PC at work. I dont own a PC at home right now (water damaged and inoperable, no extra cash right now to fix it). I want to get the music and photos off my work hard drive, but cant use iTunes because its website is banned on my network. Im also leary of connecting my iPad to my works network because Im not sure about using personal devices on the corporate net. All I have is the charge/USB cable to transfer with. Is there any way to get the files over there without connecting to the net? Bluetooth maybe???
4cylndrfury wrote: ok, got a geek question for apple people...I have tons of music on my PC at work. I dont own a PC at home right now (water damaged and inoperable, no extra cash right now to fix it). I want to get the music and photos off my work hard drive, but cant use iTunes because its website is banned on my network. Im also leary of connecting my iPad to my works network because Im not sure about using personal devices on the corporate net. All I have is the charge/USB cable to transfer with. Is there any way to get the files over there without connecting to the net? Bluetooth maybe???
I don't use fruit for computing.... 
but if you had an Android phone you could just use the sdcard mount function and your USB cable to send it over to the phone. There has to be a way to do this with Apple products.
You could also try using your Google Documents account as data. I was able to transfer some mp3's and pictures that way. I copied them up, and then copied them down to my destination.
Does an iPad have a usb connection? You could use a USB stick if that's the case.
Actually I'm pretty sure you have to play with iTunes to get the data onto your iPad, although there might be some alternatives that can also transfer data to an iPod-like device (MediaMonkey used to be able to do that, don't know if that works with the iPad). Nevertheless that would require a physical connection. TBH, pretty much all transfer methods do, transferring via Bluetooth is likely to take centuries on a decent size music collection...
Wifi might be an option, but only if you have some software on the iPad you can use as a recipient.
Another alternative would be to borrow someone else's laptop, transfer all the music to that one and the use that with iTunes to sync your iPad...
For the record, get Slacker Radio.
Pandora is terrible, once you start rating songs on different stations, you end up with a small list of the same songs playing across all of your different "band" stations.
Slacker has a much larger variety to their song mix.
Thumbdrive! to get it off your work PC
Then worry about the transfer into the iPad once you are home and near the interweb.
carguy123 wrote: worry about the transfer into the iPad once you are home and near the interweb.
I would, but home computer no worky. Guess Im gonna go to the 'rents place to use their PC. Mom has an iPod, so they should have iTunes installed.
Its kind of a pain the way the lords of drivel at apple have bottlenecked everything. Schwinn did the same thing in the 80s with bicycles, and it crushed them when the rest of the industry tossed em the bird. They never recovered. Now Schwinns are available at wally world, made by 8 year olds in indonesian sweat shops, and real bike shops wont carry them. Good luck with that apple.
Also, and not related - what are some good Learn Me/How To Suspension, and EFI books that are available as E-books? Those are 2 areas Id love to learn a bit more of.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
Turns out there's a jaylenosgarage.com app that's pretty cool too. Nothing rotary engine related, though... THe video for the NSU spider didn't work for me and I couldn't find the Cosmo video he made.
I found one called Autogeek that has car washing/detailing videos. It's kind of advertisement, but still useful info.
Also Pocketdyno is addicting in the free version. I haven't shelled out any money for any app yet, but it turns out an ecoboost flex can put down 150 whp on packed snow with all season tires in 1st gear! or should I say, 150 ish whp because I was guessing on the weight of the gas in the tank and crap in the trunk.
slefain wrote: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple
I lold
OBD-II iOS hookup/code reading goodness
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/04/griffin-gets-an-iphone-all-up-in-your-cars-obd-ii-port-with-the/
OBD-II iOS tuning goodness 
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/09/sct-itsx-lets-you-tune-your-car-from-your-ipad-video/
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+1!!
z31maniac wrote: For the record, get Slacker Radio. Pandora is terrible, once you start rating songs on different stations, you end up with a small list of the same songs playing across all of your different "band" stations. Slacker has a much larger variety to their song mix.
I think they may have recently added this feature, but Pandora let me expand my playlist a lot by adding other bands it suggested. Worked pretty well too.
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