<p>Definitely add the full CC site as a shortcut on your iPad. Much better than the mobile version. I also like the full facebook webpage better than the iPad version.</p>
<p>So how do you do a shortcut on an iPad? Will have to search it…</p>
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<p>Thumper, please remember my comment about “being prepared to adopt the Apple types of libraries and slave with the moronic iTunes.” Fwiw, imagine a collection of several thousand pictures neatly divided in more than 200 individual albums that require group editing and updates from organizations that would never consider Apple computers. </p>
<p>I understand that for some moving to a different type of folder and album organization is not problematic, but for others it is.</p>
<p>For the shortcuts:</p>
<p>[place</a> a website shortcut on your ipad home screen](<a href=“http://quikstarts.com/Hardware/Apple-iPad/place-a-website-shortcut-on-your-ipad-home-screen/]place”>http://quikstarts.com/Hardware/Apple-iPad/place-a-website-shortcut-on-your-ipad-home-screen/)</p>
<p>Xiggi, I do NOT own an Apple Computer. Transferring my photos from my PC computer to my IPad was very easy. It only involved my use of ITunes, which everyone who has an IPad has (I would assume). It did NOT involve my use of Apple “devices” other than my IPad (and Itunes). It really was a snap. I have several hundred photo albums ON my computer and when I went to put the photos on my IPad, I was able to select which albums I wanted to have on my IPad. I chose two. They very nicely come up now on my IPad under photos, each of the albums labeled clearly the same was as on “My Pictures” on my PC.</p>
<p>I must be misunderstanding your difficulty with this.</p>
<p>Xiggi - I also don’t quite understand what you are trying to get at. You can’t edit photos on iPad, but the resolution is great. Photo is my favorite part of iPad
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<p>No you can’t edit the photos ON the IPad but you CAN edit them before you add them to your IPad photo library. I edited my albums on “My Pictures” on my computer BEFORE I put them on my IPad. I used the editing software on my PC based computer to do so. Once the libraries were as I wanted them, THEN I put them on my IPad. Like I said…easy peasy.</p>
<p>The nice thing about the IPad photo feature is the ease of showing the pics to others.</p>
<p>Just got the Bear Motion leather case for my H. It does come in several different colors, like pink, although i got him the black or dark brown- can’t remember. It got some of the best reviews I read.</p>
<p>There are several photo editing apps you can use after the pictures are on your IPad. I use them on my iPhone all the time. CameraBag, Photogene, 100 Cameras in 1 are some of my favorites. The Backgrounds App and WP Maker also are great.</p>
<p>My daughter just has a Zagg screen protector installed at Best Buy on her new iPad. Normally the Zagg is $29.99 and $15.00 installation; this week, the installation is covered in the price, so you are only paying $29.99. </p>
<p>So far no one else in the family has been able to play with her new toy; maybe before she heads home she will allow us to touch it ;)</p>
<p>My DH gave me an Ipad2 for Christmas:). I’ve been transfixed ever since, downloading apps like a demon. First I loaded sketchbook pro, then instapaper, noteshelf, notesplus, Scrabble, angrybirds (ha!), skywalk, Pages, kindle and kindle cloud reader, the nook app, facebook app, CNN, NPR and PBS apps, tuneln Radio, SiriusXM app, dropbox, First Chapters—to name a few. Now, to figure out the ins and outs of all these apps, even as I hunt greedily for more.</p>
<p>I downloaded my first book using the Kindle Cloud App tonight (South of Broad by Pat Conroy. This apps does not have all the features of the original Kindle app yet. But, I was able to send it to that app as well from the Amazon site. I think it’s hysterical how Amazon was able to do an end-run around Apple’s attempt to extort 30% from Amazon’s Kindle book sales. By using the html5 format and the cloud, they developed a cloud based app that makes Kindle books readily available to Ipad users, and not be compelled to pay Apple a penny in fees. Love it! Now, I’m waiting for Barnes and Noble to do the same with their Nook app, and all will be rainbows and unicorns.</p>
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<p>What am I missing? My D was able to set up the cloud for me in 2.5 seconds. And tonight, I saw a very clear youtube video on how to do the same in “settings” (I think it was settings. I’ll have to go back and view that tutorial again:).</p>
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<p>$15.00 to apply a cling film to the screen of an Ipad? Yowsers! Last night, I ordered a Adonit Jot stylus from Amazon to use with my new Sketchbook Pro app. But, I read that screen protectors render styluses less responsive, and in some cases, unusable, which simply won’t do. Does anyone know anything about this?</p>
<p>At our Best Buy, they will put the screen protector on for free…if you just ask.</p>
<p>Re: Nook and Kindle apps. I have both on my IPad. I purchase my books on my PC and POOF they go to my IPad…not involvement with Apple company at all. </p>
<p>I’m not sure what Kindle features are missing on the IPad…mine works exactly the same as my daughter’s kindle, and my nook app works exactly the same way as my husband’s Nook.</p>
<p>I DO want to figure out how to archive books. I’ll get there.</p>
<p>There are a number of places that send free Kindle book notices daily. Some are really not terrific books but then some are. Hey, for free…not bad. Kindle has a “Kindle Daily Deal” you should sign up for at the Amazon site. Books are 99 cents but these are usually recent releases.</p>
<p>poetsheart- I loved South of Broad, but then again, I think Pat Conroy is the best modern fiction writer…</p>
<p>I don’t have a screen protector on my iPad. I don’t feel like it’s at risk. I have always had one of the iPhone and they are a pain in the butt to put on and I never seem to be that thrilled with them, so right now it is naked, too.</p>
<p>Poetsheart, thanks for the list of the apps you bought - that gives me some guidance as to ones to at least check out!</p>
<p>This is what I have added to my iPad beyond those apps that were on it originally. </p>
<p>Radio Stations/Music:
MVY Radio (Martha’s Vineyard Radio)
FIP (eclectic station from Paris)
KUSC (Classical station from Los Angeles)
WXPN (University of Pennsylvania public radio)
Pandora
Public Radio (covers all public radio stations with a search feature)</p>
<p>Entertainment:
Xfinity TV (You need Comcast to use this)
Netflix
HBOGo (You need premium cable to use this)</p>
<p>Kindle
Audible
IndieBound Reader (allows me to read e-books purchased from independent book sellers)
Book Crawler (paid app to organize what I have read)
NYTimes
BBC News
NPR
Accuweather</p>
<p>Urbanspoon
OpenTable
Yelp
Epicurious</p>
<p>Chronicle (paid app - diary/journal)</p>
<p>Resources:
IMDB (internet movie data base)
HopStop (how to get where you need to go)
FlightView (flight information)</p>
<p>Numbers (paid app - spreadsheets)
Pages (paid app - basic word processing)</p>
<p>I have never managed to do anything with photos on my iPad and look forward to trying one of the photo editing apps mentioned.</p>
<p>Apps I like:</p>
<p>Words with Friends (in addition to playing a scrabble type game, I use it to chat with my friends while playing)</p>
<p>Bestroom (locates restrooms)</p>
<p>Facebook</p>
<p>CC (but really it’s easier to navigate on the PC)</p>
<p>Skype (my daughter says it’s much clearer from my IPad than from my computer)</p>
<p>Big Oven (I got it as a free app…it’s a cookbook and I like it)</p>
<p>Kindle and Nook apps</p>
<p>My local newspaper</p>
<p>Freebooks (sounds like what it is)</p>
<p>iRigrecorder (it’s a recording app…you never know when you might want to record something)…Since I’m not into music editing, I got the free one and it serves my purposes quite well.</p>
<p>I sprung the 99 cents (on sale) for Words with Friends…no ads and no problems with it.</p>
<p>OH…and check out Starbucks each Tuesday. They have a free app per week. Cards are at Starbucks stores. Some are for apps and some for ITunes music. BUT free. I got a great cookbook How to Cook Everything (Mark Bittman) free with one of those cards.</p>
<p>Thumper, I’m confused - you pick up/buy some type of card from Starbucks? Or is there a Starbucks app???</p>
<p>Bestroom (locates restrooms)</p>
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<p>Perhaps, I was not clear about my “beef.” It is not about the quality of the display. In fact, it was because of the high quality of the display that I tried to move the digital photography part of a project onto the iPad. The issue, which has improved slightly, is about how the available “sync” and transfer are creating problems because of the inherent inability to maintain directory structures. While there are techniques that mitigate the problems, it remains that albums are the equivalent of a shoebox where photos are “organized” in very simplistic ways. </p>
<p>I am fully aware of the possibilities to update albums and transfer photos from the My Pictures to the iPad via Itunes. However, what happens when you want to transfer this:</p>
<p>My Pictures
- Travel
— Rwanda
— Belgium<br> - Family
— Graduations
----- DD1
----- DD2
— Parties
----- Christmas 2011
----- Christmas 2010</p>
<p>Your choices are to have two albums called Travel and Family with all the pictures shuffled in the process, or create a number of directories for each entry BEFORE starting the transfers. </p>
<p>For my project, there was simply no way to make such changes on a consistent basis. Another limitation was the need to not only be able to display (and annotate) the pictures but have access to the TITLE and the properties of the pictures. </p>
<p>To provide some context, imagine a medical project that tracks the efficacy of a lip balm for 200 patients who receive a new drug. Each patient is monitored weekly and pictures are taken before, during, and after treatment, resulting in nine weekly pictures. The pictures are then reviewed by external specialists who mark the “lesions” onto pictures and create another set of pictures. Each patient accumulates 36 pictures EVERY week. On the other hand, this was accomplished easily with a 300 dollars netbook, a couple of USB dongles, and a boxnet account. </p>
<p>The bottom line for me is that I have no difficulty in displaying my “festive” activities on the iPad, share pictures of parties and events that do not have to be organized. Anything beyond that simply does not work well on an iPad --even with the third party applications. </p>
<p>And, fwiw, it is obvious that Apple did not design the iPad to be an intelligent and stand-alone device as it remains hopelessly hostage of iTunes or iCloud in the future. While there is hope for iCloud to turn into a great tool, iTunes will remain a clumsy, annoying, and hopeless mess.</p>