Syncing my iTunes music to my iPad...
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From: Trooper on 28 May 2010 04:50 Woody wrote: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > >> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>: >> >> [...] >> >> > I will do a review later, but the thing that i am currenly most suprised >> > at is not the speed (as people said it was fast - it is), or nice to >> > use, but it is some of the software is so nice to use. >> >> What apps are you liking for it? > > Well, ignoring the obvious plants vs zombies, I am impressed with the > iWork stuff (pages and numbers, didn't bother with the other one, not my > sort of app), I like the built in stuff, address book is sort of cutesy > but functional, iCal is very nice indeed. > A quick numbers question*, I have an excel spreadsheet which is in my dropbox and I use it to track my finances, daily spend on stuff, budget, costs for various things over the year etc... Nothing complex, but a fair amount of tabs and calculations in it. Can Numbers access Dropbox to get to the spreadsheet? (I assume it will be able to read the excel format?) If not, how would I go about getting it onto the iPad, there is no folder/file structure as I understand it? T. * I would have had a play around myself, but my iPad is currently at the depot for redelivery today. It's getting sent to my dads house as he is retired and in all day... apart from when he popped out for an hour yesterday... I'm sure they were waiting round the corner till he left the house!
From: Sak Wathanasin on 28 May 2010 04:51 On 28 May, 09:22, zoara <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > I wonder how long it will be until the rest of the world realises that > what's made tablets fail (and fail, and fail) in the past is that > they've just had Windows thrown on them with no thought as to how well > it fits the experience. Makes you wonder why MS hasn't got it yet when they've had the table- thingy for a while (pre-iPhone at least). Played with one at Warwick U the other day, and its gesture-based UI is not bad - has pinch, rotate etc. They hired Walter Smith (who designed the Newton OS), so they must have a clue as to how to make a tablet-OS tick.
From: Jim on 28 May 2010 04:57 On 2010-05-28, Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > On 28 May, 09:22, zoara <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > >> I wonder how long it will be until the rest of the world realises that >> what's made tablets fail (and fail, and fail) in the past is that >> they've just had Windows thrown on them with no thought as to how well >> it fits the experience. > > Makes you wonder why MS hasn't got it yet when they've had the table- > thingy for a while (pre-iPhone at least). Played with one at Warwick U > the other day, and its gesture-based UI is not bad - has pinch, rotate > etc. They hired Walter Smith (who designed the Newton OS), so they > must have a clue as to how to make a tablet-OS tick. There's a saying I heard somewhere: Microsoft doesn't sell you solutions, Microsoft sells you Windows. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Pd on 28 May 2010 04:59 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > There's a saying I heard somewhere: Microsoft doesn't sell you solutions, > Microsoft sells you Windows. And if you add Office, you've got all you need. MSPaint & Powerpoint - that's Photoshop and Illustrator covered. -- Pd
From: Jim on 28 May 2010 05:05
On 2010-05-28, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> There's a saying I heard somewhere: Microsoft doesn't sell you solutions, >> Microsoft sells you Windows. > > And if you add Office, you've got all you need. > > MSPaint & Powerpoint - that's Photoshop and Illustrator covered. It's a slightly more serious point though - when faced with a problem Microsoft appear to think "How can we make Windows solve this?" I wish they'd take a step back and ask "What's the best way to solve this?" Sometimes the answer may well be Windows. Sometimes it won't. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett |