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From: Chris Ridd on 3 Jun 2010 04:54 On 2010-06-03 09:40:24 +0100, Sak Wathanasin said: > On 3 June, 08:28, Jim <j...(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >>> It's there in Project Gutenberg. �Only 3.3 MB of plain ascii. >> >> Which you can convert into ePub format using Stanza. > > Excellent! > > Is there a way to convert a DVD to iPad format? I have some home > movies it'd be good to get on there. Have the original iMovie projects > somewhere, and I guess I could export from them if need be. Handbrake would be fastest, though exporting again from iMovie would be better quality (no going through an intermediate MPEG-2 codec). -- Chris
From: Sak Wathanasin on 3 Jun 2010 04:55 On 2 June, 21:01, pe...(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > Jim <j...(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > He seems to think the battery life is inadequate. Is it? > > > I'm getting between 9 and 11 hours of use out of it between charges. > > A bagatelle then. > > Presumably, for those many of us who like to read 'War and Peace' *and* > 'The Brothers Karamazov' in the park on the same day, somebody is going > to produce a clip-on battery pack, as for the iPhone? Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, an iPad of Verse--and Thou ..... Hmm, doesn't quite scan. Never mind. The iPad is lovely though - it feels so good. No 2 daughter set it up for my wife all by herself; well, nearly - I had to add the MAC addr to access list for the wireless and enter the WPA key. Typing is definitely easier: the WPA key is a random 32-char sequence and it took me about 4 attempts on the iPhone, but I got it in 1 on the iPad. It slurped across all the iPhone settings, music, photos etc and it was up and accessing mail &c in under 15 mins. I'll spend some quality time with it over the weekend (assuming I can prise it out of the girls' hands), but initial impressions are that compared with the iPhone/iPT, the UI experience is very smooth.
From: Peter Ceresole on 3 Jun 2010 05:39 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, > A Flask of Wine, an iPad of Verse--and Thou > .... > > Hmm, doesn't quite scan. Good enough, though. > I had to > add the MAC addr to access list for the wireless and enter the WPA > key. Typing is definitely easier: the WPA key is a random 32-char > sequence and it took me about 4 attempts on the iPhone, but I got it > in 1 on the iPad. Yes. That was the kind of thing that made me get a conductive stylus for the iTouch- even though Steve won't let the Applestore sell them. Idiot... I've always found the iTouch's keyboard to be a useless abortion (did I mention that I don't like it?) and that experience would always prevent me from getting an iPhone [1]. But with the stylus, it's okay. As it is, when I needed to get a phone recently I bought a Nokia 2730, which has a physical keyboard. I like it. [1] My daughters love theirs. That's their problem... -- Peter
From: Ben Shimmin on 3 Jun 2010 09:01 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>: > Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: >> Another take on the iPad: > > He seems to think the battery life is inadequate. Is it? I quote: the relatively short battery life makes long afternoons curled up with a good novel sort of challenging Just how long are his afternoons? Like others have said, you can easily get 10 to 11 hours with pretty heavy usage. I haven't spent a long period of time purely reading on it, but I reckon you could get even longer than that. I would say battery life and raw speed are the best things about the iPad. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
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