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From: Woody on 25 Jul 2010 08:45 Gavin <gwilbyREMOVE(a)stoof.co.uk> wrote: > On 2010-07-24 18:00:38 +0100, italiancar(a)gmail.com (SteveH) said: > > > Just put together a presentation in Keynote - much easier than it is to > > do the same in Powerpoint. > > > > Sent it over to the iPad. > > > > Hooked it up to a big display via the VGA adaptor. > > > > All seems to work very well. > > > > The big test is Monday, when I'm presenting to around 25 people - > > including playing a couple of video clips which stutter and freeze on my > > company laptop. > > > > The only downside so far is that I can't control the slides remotely via > > my iPhone. If anyone knows how to do this, it would be really useful. > > > > I've also installed 'displayout', which mirrors the iPad onto a big > > screen - which means I can share the previous week sales update when > > it's emailed over during the morning. > > Bit of a thread Hijack, but Im getting two iPads next week for a couple > of clients. > > All they need to be able to do is get the Internet (Safari), Email from > Exchange servers (mail.app), All good > read PDF documents (GoodReader) remember books (which is free) can aparently read PDFs too now. Not sure how well it does, I use Good Reader. > and open > and edit Word Documents (Pages). Open and edit, or open, edit and save? Pages can't save as anything other than Pages document. If you need to edit and save word documents you would probably need something like Documents to go. I have both. I use documents to go to share documents with others, I use pages to edit my own stuff. Pages is much better, but doesn't play well with others. Same with numbers, I *really* like numbers on the iPad, but its not excel, if that is what you need -- Woody Alienrat Design Ltd
From: Graeme on 25 Jul 2010 10:10 In message <i2h9ea$b72$1(a)news.eternal-september.org> Gavin <gwilbyREMOVE(a)stoof.co.uk> wrote: [snip] > > Bit of a thread Hijack, but Im getting two iPads next week for a couple > of clients. > > All they need to be able to do is get the Internet (Safari), Email from > Exchange servers (mail.app), read PDF documents (GoodReader), and open > and edit Word Documents (Pages). iBook reads PDFs fine. > > Im quiet looking forward to it to be honest, although I still cant see > myself buying one anytime soon. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: smurf on 25 Jul 2010 18:22 Graeme wrote: > In message <i2h9ea$b72$1(a)news.eternal-september.org> > Gavin <gwilbyREMOVE(a)stoof.co.uk> wrote: > > [snip] >> >> Bit of a thread Hijack, but Im getting two iPads next week for a >> couple of clients. >> >> All they need to be able to do is get the Internet (Safari), Email >> from Exchange servers (mail.app), read PDF documents (GoodReader), >> and open and edit Word Documents (Pages). > > iBook reads PDFs fine. not from emails though. > >> >> Im quiet looking forward to it to be honest, although I still cant >> see myself buying one anytime soon.
From: Sak Wathanasin on 26 Jul 2010 04:30
On 25 July, 13:07, Gavin <gwilbyREM...(a)stoof.co.uk> wrote: > All they need to be able to do is get the Internet (Safari), Email from > Exchange servers (mail.app), read PDF documents (GoodReader), and open > and edit Word Documents (Pages). Should be fine for that - there're 2 or 3 people at my current clients who do this and they're happy with it. Using it as a replacement for paper copies of minutes & agenda in meetings has worked well for me, as does taking the register in my coaching sessions (as a bonus, the kids come up and go "is that an iPad?" instead of my having to go look for them), |