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From: Jim on 28 May 2010 09:00 On 2010-05-28, Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: >>> Also: >>> >>> Wallet. Light. >> >> Bank manager: perturbed? > > For everything else, there's MasterCard? Reminds me of that Dave Barry quote: "Perhaps you are thinking: 'But a tank costs several million dollars, not including floor mats. I don't have that kind of money.' Don't be silly. You're a consumer, right? You have credit cards, right? Perhaps you are thinking: 'Yes, but how am I going to pay the credit-card company?' Don't be silly. You have a tank, right?" Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Trooper on 28 May 2010 09:09 R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Trooper <usenet(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > > > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > And what's special about those 4 icons sitting on the shelf? > > > > You can have multiple pages of icons, the shelf ones stay constant > > regardless of what page you are on :) > > Ah, makes sense. Sort of. You said page? Are the other icons > sitting on pages now, or are they sitting on a vertically raised > desktop? ;) Hmm... Page is the wrong word then, lets use... I don't know... Workbench instead :D T.
From: SteveH on 28 May 2010 09:51 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Calling all iPad owners - could you post your first impressions here? > > Keep it short. Post the good. Especially post the bad. OK, found something very cool. If you install Sphere Lite, you can trick the iPad into making Auntie Beeb believe you're using an iPhone, so you can watch iPlayer on it whilst the Beeb sort out a proper iPad version. -- SteveH
From: Hugh Browton on 28 May 2010 10:00 On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:08:49 +0100, Ben Shimmin wrote (in article <slrnhvv5hh.up7.bas(a)rialto.bas.me.uk>): > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: >> Calling all iPad owners - could you post your first impressions here? >> >> Keep it short. Post the good. Especially post the bad. >> > - Doesn't appear to have Flash (?!). > No!!!!! Really?! -- regards hugh hugh at clarity point uk point co (by the sea) (using Hogwasher) "The question of whether Machines Can Think... is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim." Edsger Dijkstra (1930-2002)
From: Matthew Sylvester on 28 May 2010 10:02
SteveH <italiancar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > whilst the Beeb sort out a proper iPad version http://beta.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/bigscreen/ is aimed squarely at the ipad |