It's... the iPad!

Antimon · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:58 pm Post subject:

I don't think nails work...

/Stefan

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:46 am Post subject:

alienmeatsack · Joined: Mar 04, 2010 Posts: 137 Location: Oklahoma

Whether nails would work depends on the touch interface they use.

On the iPhone/iPod Touch, nails don't work. But, on the Magic Mouse, they do if your nails are the right thickness or less and allow whatever conductive mumbojumbo they use thru.

v-un-v · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:35 am Post subject:

Yes, especially effective if you also hammer those nails through! Wink

Blue Hell · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:02 am Post subject:

robsol · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 7:33 am Post subject:

So, the Pad is with us, and we alreday have a (small?) problem - the wifi signal...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8606727.stm

Having to rely on wifi is one major reason why I'm left cold by this somewhat interesting toy, but I am surprised it is an issue, even for a small minority after countless pod- and phone updates.

Oh well...

Antimon · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2010 8:02 am Post subject:

I'm, constantly having problems with wifi on all my gadgets everywhere. iPod Touch, MacBook Pro, a Windows laptop, an Android phone, at home, at my parent's or at work - all the freaking time. I'm probably a bit of a moron when it comes to this stuff, but it really seems to be an imperfect technology. My Nintendo Wii seems to work ok though...

/Stefan

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:23 am Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:44 am Post subject:

The charging issues seem pretty widespread, especially with PCs. It seems to be with any USB port that delivers 5V (the standard), new macs provide up to 10V so are not an issue.

Apparently putting the iPad into sleep mode enables it to charge from a 5V port, so it will not charge when syncing, nice design!

Still looking every day on the apple store to see if I can buy one though!

Andy

Antimon · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:51 am Post subject:

robsol · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:16 am Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:28 am Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:31 am Post subject:

Definitely some Wi Fi devices are much worse than others.

The Wi Fi on my 1st Gen iTouch is terrible, also the PS3 is just plain slow.

The iPhone 3GS is pretty good though, I would have thought they would have used the same hardware.

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 5:36 am Post subject:

That's odd, because the reception on Rosie's 1st gen touch is pretty good. Perhaps it's a build revision abnormality?

I do know one thing for sure, and that I often have to turn my router off and on again, because it sometimes looses the signal. Also my O2 email addresses many times over, loose the password, yet I rarely have any problems with my MobileMe address Confused

O2- they're SHITE! I want to switch to Vodaphone!!!

BobTheDog · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:10 am Post subject:

I was with vodaphone for years until they pissed my off.

My contract had come to an end and I wanted a new phone, with the same contract on their website it was £70 or something, they wanted to charge me £350 as the £70 was only for new customers, they would not sway from this even when I said I would leave them for another carrier.

I had been a vodaphone customer for 15 years and thats how they treat you!

Only after I cancelled did someone get in touch and apologise for what had happened.

TMobile are much nicer.

bachus · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:54 am Post subject:

I gather it is the case that one must buy one's apps directly from Apple.

This practice of allowing the hardware vendor to have absolute power over what apps one can or cannot run on the hardware one owns is very disturbing to me. Seems like the ultimate triumph of an annal retentive proprietary corporate culture and a big step in the wrong direction.

Antimon · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:32 am Post subject:

Blue Hell · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:10 am Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:34 pm Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:49 pm Post subject:

Funny that with all the crap over Microsoft bundling a browser with their operating systems that nothing is ever done about Apple.

v-un-v · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject:

Yeah, but was that because windows explorer was internet explorer and vice versa? If you don't like Safari, you can always bin it. I seem to be fucked when I bin IE. Shocked

It also seems that if you want to download a service pack from Microsoft, this window always appears insisting that one must be using Internet Explorer, and not any old browser (like Google's excellent "Chrome", which I really like instead of Firefox or Safari in Windows)?

Antimon · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:26 pm Post subject:

Though I don't have any positive thoughts about Microsoft and the destructive effect that they've had on the progress of computing in general, I do think the lawsuit against bundling IE with the operating system was kind of strange. Especially since, to my knowledge, we haven't seen a similar thing again. What about bundling a file explorer - shouldn't everyone get to choose their own file explorer (I use FreeCommander on Windows)?

Of course, Windows stands out as usual with its crappy modularization, probably making it impossible to take out and/or replace parts like you do in Unix-based OSs without bringing the whole house of cards down.

Oops, getting into an OS rant again... Embarassed

/Stefan

BobTheDog · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:41 pm Post subject:

What you need is something like this:

Posted Image, might have been reduced in size. Click Image to view fullscreen.

Blue Hell · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 1:54 pm Post subject:

Hmm ... we never have hammer wars Shocked

.. how come?

Antimon · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:20 pm Post subject:

I need a little question mark box? Wink

(the image is 404 in my browser)

/Stefan