Monthly Archives: July 2010

Amazing iPad Podcast 3 featuring Ross Craig from Canada

26/07/2010 by admin · 1 Comment

I interviewed Ross for Mac20Q about a year ago and he mentioned to me that he would like to have a chat about his experiences with the iPad. So why not I thought. Ross is a good bloke and I enjoyed the previous chat too. We talked about Mac things too, some of which I have left in this podcast where relevant. If you want to hear the full interview you can get it at Answer20Q. The interviews website.

Ross gives us some recommendations for software that he has tried on the iPad and has found useful. He tells me that he has a way to be streaming from Hulu to the iPad, which sounds like a great idea. What about you do you like to stream video to you iPad, is it a good viewing experience for you? I can’t use Hulu here in Spain but Ross tells me a way to get it to work in Safari. I don’t think it is straight forward and sometimes it fails to work but could be worth a try.

Dragon Dictation

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Dragon Dictation for the iPad allows you to speak in the microphone built into the iPad and have it turned into editable text. Now that seems like a super application. I am not sure how well it will work with my accent as Ross says that there were some words it didn’t get due to his Canadian accent. If it worked it could be excellent but often these things are coached to hear an American voice

Do you think you could get the hang of talking to your iPad instead of typing in text?

Posted in iPad Apps.

Ipad market settling down

26/07/2010 by admin · Leave a comment

With the introduction of the new iPhone 4 there has been less in the media about the iPad. In some ways it is good that the hype is going and being replaced by stories of how people are using the device in real life. The iPad has also had one update to the operating system and many users will be looking forward to when IOS4 will be available for the iPad as it is on the iPhone. I am surprised it is not available already.

I am pleased to see that 18 of the applications in my iTunes for the iPhone have been updated to be iPad applications too. I really like it when the developers just update them and don’t require extra money. Amongst those applications the are apps such as iFooty, Evernote, Stars, SimpleNote, Box.net, Dropbox and OffMaps. So as you can see there a number of very useful applications and plenty of free apps too. I used Off Maps when I went for the day to Milan in Italy and I wanted to be able to use the maps and not be stuck with huge roaming charges. I downloaded to the iPad the maps of the centre of Milan and was able to use the GPS and see more than a blue dot on a blank page.

SimpleNote
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Simple Note is a super application that syncs up with Notational Velocity on my Macs. I use it for the simple short quick notes and keep EverNote for the longer more complicated notes. Simple note is great for quickly getting that idea into the cloud and saved for posterity, ore at least as long as you need it. There are other Mac note applications that will sync with Simple note but Notational Velocity has a good way of working. Very easy to find your notes later, you just start typing a word in the top section and the list narrows down to the notes containing those words. It is a built in search feature that works a treat. Basically it looks at data not documents – There is no manual “saving” in Notational Velocity; all modifications take effect immediately.

Posted in iPad Apps, iPad Tips and Tricks, productivity, Utilities.