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• • April 5, 2010 at 10:26 pm #55425
    kjgEnergy

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    I can't wait to get my hands on the iPad when it arrives to Australia later this month. So who has one? and just how great are they?

    Thanks for sharing.

  • April 5, 2010 at 10:52 pm #55426
    David Blatner

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    So far, the things I like:

    • Great for watching movies.
    • Netflix streaming. Wow. Killer app.
    • Kindle is nicer than iBook.
    • Showing photos is great. So much nicer than on iphone.
    • It's a good size to surf web while on couch.
    • Pandora (now with ipad support) is amazing.

    Things I don't like:

    • Can't really hold it with one hand easily
    • Have to keep track of yet another gadget (walking with my laptop, iPad, iPhone, and coffee is tricky!)
    • Free iBooks in iBook look really dorky and like they threw it together without much thought

  • May 2, 2010 at 11:07 am #55615
    garricks

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    Using Keynote, giving 1-on-1 presentations is awesome. This week I plan to hook my iPad up to a conference room projector & see if it works.

    For some reason I really like the Mail app in landscape mode …more so than the iPhone Mail app. I've been whipping through mail boxes at light speed.

    Typing on a virtual keyboard is tricky. They made it look so easy on “Star Trek.” LOL

    Even though most people seem to be looking at iPad as a consumer device, I'm trying to find ways to use it at the office (I'm an inhouse designer).

  • May 2, 2010 at 4:26 pm #55617
    Adam Jury

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    So I gave into weakness when I was in Chicago a couple weeks ago, because goodness knows when they're actually going to launch them in Canada now. A couple apps that haven't been mentioned in this thread:

    * Instapaper: You can sync web articles (or email text) to this service, and they will sync to the Instapaper app so you can read them later. Great for queuing up articles to read over lunch, or on public transit, etc. The Instapaper site itself can also export to Kindle or ePub format, or give you “printable” versions. And, if you share an Instapaper account with some trusted friends/co-workers/other colleagues, it's a great way to share stuff you're reading with each other.

    * Air Video: This is a great app for streaming video in a variety of formats from another computer. That computer needs a little server app installed, and you simply tell it what directories to stream to your iPad. If it's in an iPad native format, it will play as-is. If it's not, the Air Video Server app on your computer (Windows or OS X) will convert it on the fly and stream it over. This is awesome for those of us that rip all our TV shows and movies onto a media server — the iPad is truly on-demand video anywhere in my house, with no need to sync stuff via iTunes or encode video into an iTunes-friendly format. (It can stream over the internet, too, but I've yet to test this.)

    * Blokus: This board game is just plain awesome. I had been holding off on buying the analog version of the game, but the $5 spent on the digital version has made the real version an essential purchase before my next board-gaming night.

    * Marvel Comics: This app makes reading comics just gorgeous and is so intuitive and well-thought out. I look forward to DC Comics coming out with a similar app!

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