iPad usefulness?
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From: Woody on 1 Apr 2010 05:17 Ric <infobubble(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 Mar, 12:29, Ben Shimmin <b...(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > > > If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing > > > her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown > > > about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, > > > but its unknown at the moment. > > > > That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it > > doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. > > > > b. > > > > There are printing apps for the iPhone that work nicely - HP do a free > one which automagically found my networked HP printer... So how do you print from any given application with it? Say if I wanted to print something from safari or my notes? -- Woody
From: Chris Ridd on 1 Apr 2010 05:36 On 2010-04-01 09:44:35 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> Note: if anyone thinks that the iPad isn't going to be a tethered device in >> the same way as the iPod is, or at least a device that works best when >> tethered then, well, you're going to be disappointed. > > Yes. I've been coming to that conclusion, certainly for v.1. > > Pity, as it means my sister in law wll have to get something else. > > I can feel a netbook coming on. I think you should try and live with a netbook (borrow one from a friend?) for a while before suggesting she gets one. None of the people I know with netbooks, apart from Woody, use them. -- Chris
From: Ric on 1 Apr 2010 05:53 On 1 Apr, 10:17, use...(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > Ric <infobub...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On 31 Mar, 12:29, Ben Shimmin <b...(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > > Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > > > > If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing > > > > her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown > > > > about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, > > > > but its unknown at the moment. > > > > That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it > > > doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. > > > > b. > > > There are printing apps for the iPhone that work nicely - HP do a free > > one which automagically found my networked HP printer... > > So how do you print from any given application with it? Say if I wanted > to print something from safari or my notes? > > -- > Woody- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Sorry, it's photos only. I just meant that technically it doesn't seem a biggie, and that I'd expect iWork on iPad to do it natively...
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 1 Apr 2010 05:56 On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 10:36:32 +0100, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >On 2010-04-01 09:44:35 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > >> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> >>> Note: if anyone thinks that the iPad isn't going to be a tethered device in >>> the same way as the iPod is, or at least a device that works best when >>> tethered then, well, you're going to be disappointed. >> >> Yes. I've been coming to that conclusion, certainly for v.1. >> >> Pity, as it means my sister in law wll have to get something else. >> >> I can feel a netbook coming on. > >I think you should try and live with a netbook (borrow one from a >friend?) for a while before suggesting she gets one. > >None of the people I know with netbooks, apart from Woody, use them. My dad used a touchscreen Lifebook for a while, and then traded the 9" one up to a 12". They're geeky toys, and barely practical - not small enough to be pocketable, small enough to be fiddly to work with, particularly the mousing. I'd be quite astonished if PeterC's s-i-l didn't hate it after five minutes. Cheers - Jaimie -- "Jesus died for our sins. Let us not cheapen his sacrifice by failing to commit any of them."
From: Woody on 1 Apr 2010 06:06
Ric <infobubble(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 Apr, 10:17, use...(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > > Ric <infobub...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 31 Mar, 12:29, Ben Shimmin <b...(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > > > Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk>: > > > > > If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing > > > > > her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown > > > > > about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, > > > > > but its unknown at the moment. > > > > > > That's an interesting point. You'd think it'd be possible, but it > > > > doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet. > > > > > > b. > > > > > There are printing apps for the iPhone that work nicely - HP do a free > > > one which automagically found my networked HP printer... > > > > So how do you print from any given application with it? Say if I wanted > > to print something from safari or my notes? > > > > -- > > Woody- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > Sorry, it's photos only. I just meant that technically it doesn't > seem a biggie, and that I'd expect iWork on iPad to do it natively... Printing is next to trivial (where next to trivial is actually fairly hard but a problem solved many years ago). Providing a framework where the applications can print, and a common method so the user knows how to print is not something that is easy to tack on later. -- Woody |