Tag: ipad

iPad habit creeping in to MacBook

Apple's mobile devices

No matter how hard you expect it to happen, those keys on that MacBook’s keyboard won’t ever flip and reveal additional characters. Oh, and there’s no .?123 key on the MacBook to tap and flip the keyboard. Maybe in the future when Apple introduces context aware touch-enabled keyboard for its Macs as per their patent, but not now, not yet, and definitely not on this MacBook you’re typing on.

This is something I have to remind myself almost daily since May. The time spent typing on the iPad has definitely taken over my muscle memory on using the MacBook and its traditional (I’m trying to avoid describing it as quaint) keyboard.

Speaking of additional characters, I wish Apple would incorporate special characters and symbols into the iOS keyboards. All they have to do is make it an additional keyboard option that can be activated by tapping the globe icon.

More than a year ago I got so used to double tapping the space bar to end a sentence when typing on the iPhone, I started doing it on the MacBook.

thedailywhat:

Stop-Motion Short of the Day: Creative communications agency Dentsu London collaborated with BERG on a stop-motion visualization of their “Making Future Magic” strategy, which features stunning iPad-produced light drawings.

The good stuff starts at 1:40.

[t&t.]

peetypassion:

BRABUS iBusiness Is an Apple Fan’s Dream Mobile Office

The iBusiness is most definitely “the business.” The German-engineered, four-seater luxury sedan is the type of car for people who have drivers, and that’s a very good thing, because there’s no chance you’ll be paying much attention to the road in one of these babies unless you’re being paid to.

Each car comes packed to the gills with outstanding multimedia capabilities, including two iPads in the rear seats with matching Bluetooth keyboards for each. The iPads are capable of controlling every aspect of the S600′s COMAND system, including the radio, navigation system and telephone, in addition to BRABUS’ own custom multimedia functions. Don’t think you’ll be limited to offline or 3G use, either, because the car boasts its own wireless internet via UMTS and HSDPA connections.

As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a Mac mini in the back seat that uses a drop-down 15.2-inch TFT display, Magic Mouse and USB 2.0 ports accessible to both passengers for real computing power. Finally, because you wouldn’t want to use iTunes on the Mac mini or the iPod apps on your two iPads, there’s a 64GB iPod touch in the center console that also controls the whole shebang using a custom BRABUS iOS application.

Update on Homescreen.me

I love what these guys do and it looks like they have plenty of things coming up that will make homescreen.me a much better website/vanity board 😉

Update on Homescreen.me

Eye of the Tiger. On iPads. (via JordanHollender)

Hey look at my homescreens!

So I signed up to the brand spankin’ new homescreen.me from the guys behind Smoking Apples and you can see how I arranged the home screens on my iOS devices. The site draws inspiration from firstand20.com but it’s for everyone (who has an invitation).

You can upload a single shot of each of your iPhone, iPhone 4, and iPad home screens but no more. I suppose one reason the iPhone 4 gets its own entry because of its higher resolution display but other than that, I’m not sure why it does. I hope the older iPhones don’t get all upset and cry about it because Preshit and Milind are playing favorites to the new kid.

I expect a gallery is on the way to make it easier to browse through people’s home screens. Somehow I see this developing into something like Flickr for, well, home screens. Would be better if we can submit them directly instead of having to switch to the computer and upload from there, but for a start, it’s neat.

Speaking of which, someone should come up with a collective name for these iOS devices.

Hey look at my homescreens!

It turns out a few days ago Adobe updated its Photoshop.com Mobile app for iOS and renamed it as Photoshop Express, which made a lot more sense and a lot less mouthful.

Many of you might not know this but Adobe used to run a web project called Photoshop Express about two years ago on the domain photoshop.com. It was designed to be a free and light photo editing web app. They’ve since launched it properly and added links to other services such as Flickr and Facebook but dropped the Express name.

For whatever reason, they’ve now repurposed the name for the iOS app and added iPad compatibility. While the app itself is pretty neat for a light editing app, it’s kind of stupid how you can only launch it in portrait orientation. If you launch the app on the iPad while holding it horizontally, the app will quit and hand over whatever file it was going to open to a random app.

iPad Pages.app. Beautiful. Not useful.
I want document sync. Not import. Not export.

@pinot

Replacing the Mac with the iPad

I’ve pretty much offloaded most of the things I used to do on my Mac to the iPhone and the iPad for a much lighter traveling set.

Last week I spent four days out of town and left the MacBook at home. It was a test to see if it might be time to return to the desktop should I decide to replace my notebook. For the most part, it worked especially when time came to look for a power outlet. There was much less need for this ridiculous exercise.

Aside from browsing and email, Notes and Pastebot took care of my writing needs, I’ve got plenty of games in both devices to keep me entertained, iBooks works great as a portable library, and I’ve got almost a full folder of apps to play around with my photos.

What I haven’t found is an app that can fully replace Pixelmator on either the iPhone or the iPad. There are apps like PhotoForge and Photogene but they cover strictly photo manipulation processes. iDraw is an interesting proposition but will need to see convincing reviews for it.

Sometimes I need to come up with a quick image that’s not necessarily based on a photograph and I haven’t found the right app for it. Wanted to check out iDraw on the iPad but I need to know if it’s worth buying or if it’s overkill.

One last hurdle for replacing the Mac as my primary workstation is the fact that there’s no way you can embed a URL inside text. I consider that a deal breaker.

Aside from that and being the hub for the iPad and iPhone, there’s not a lot that I use the Mac for anymore.

iPad + Velcro: Two of Mankind’s greatest inventions, together at last.

goobimama:

You might have seen this video before, but have you seen it on Apple.com?!

iPad + Velcro: Two of Mankind’s greatest inventions, together at last.