maxi pad

Thank you for shopping at Worst Buy.

I'm using the Wall Street Journal tablet app and I have to say that this is the way newspapers could survive in something similar to their original form. The advertising is effective without being annoying. It's at least as effective as print ads with the added benefit of tracked views and demographic information.

Heh, the iPad shown in 1994: http://youtu.be/JBEtPQDQNcI

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Heh, the iPad shown in 1994: http://youtu.be/JBEtPQDQNcI

So right in many ways, and so wrong in others... definitely worth the 14 minute watch time.

Meant to mention this on Saturday: the Apple Store in Indianapolis was completely out of iPads (my mom, visiting from Vermont, wanted one). Best Buy, too.

South Korea, too.

:(

The Queen opts for an iPad

The 85-year-old monarch of the United Kingdom has asked her staff to buy her an iPad after she was "wowed" by Apple's tablet when her grandsons showed it off to her, The Sun reported Monday. Queen Elizabeth II was said to be impressed by the large screen and the light weight of what was presumably a second-generation iPad.

A "royal insider" reportedly told the publication that the Queen hadn't seen anything like an iPad before. The royal Princes apparently thought it was "hilarious" that their grandmother ordered one so quickly.

The tabloid reported that the Queen is apparently a "big fan" of Apple's products, and owns at least two iPods -- a £169 model bought back in 2005, and another given as a gift from U.S. President Barack Obama in 2009.

From AppleInsider

track her!

www.corgiwatch.com

They just gave each of us a Samsumg Galaxy Tab 10.1 which isn't even released yet. This is everything good about the Xoom but in a much lighter and thinner package. Love it.

Ah, the joys of working with an "open" model.

"we are using compatibility as a club to make them do things we want."

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They just gave each of us a Samsumg Galaxy Tab 10.1 which isn't even released yet. This is everything good about the Xoom but in a much lighter and thinner package. Love it.

Congratulations on the new toy.

One flaw they copied from the Xoom: proprietary connector. No micro USB built in.

Typing on a tablet is a strnge experience. It reminds me of my Commodore 64 hunt-and-peck days. In fact, I find that I can type at a decnt speed when I use all 5 fingers on my right hand. The funny thing is, it looks like the way that Data would type on a PADD on Star Trek TNG.

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Typing on a tablet is a strnge experience. It reminds me of my Commodore 64 hunt-and-peck days. In fact, I find that I can type at a decnt speed when I use all 5 fingers on my right hand. The funny thing is, it looks like the way that Data would type on a PADD on Star Trek TNG.

I tend to type with the five fingers of my right hand and the index finger of my left. It's odd, and distinctly in-Data-like (but i tend to get RSI pain in my left wrist if I use more than one left finger on the iPad onscreen keyboard).

Hey J Will, I have a question for you. I remember when the iPad was still a rumour that you were looking forward to being able to load it up with programming reference books so you could have them all with you at work without having to carry all those heavy books around. Have you done this with your iPad?

The reason I ask is because I have been reading book on my iPhone, mostly using the kindle app and have found the experience to be great. Up until recently though the only books I have read on my iPhone are books which are meant to be read linearly. I recently bought the kindle version of The Definitive Guide to Javascript 6th ed. and found that it's very difficult to use like a regular reference book on the iPhone. It's difficult to flip to the ToC and quickly find the section chapter that you're looking for. Bookmarking can help somewhat in this regard but the bookmarks are named by passage number which is pretty much useless and there isn't a way to rename them as far as I can tell. I also find that the code samples don't fit on the screen and are hard to follow.

Simon -

I have done this, with my iPad and it is great for this, I have read a bunch of books via Kindle, have a bunch of reference PDFs and manuals on it, and switched all my Magazines to Zinio but Wired (still get paper versions of it). The iPad 2 would be even better because it is thinner but my original iPad works just fine still.

Not sure about the book marking issues you described though.

Daniel

Hi Simon,

Long time no see! I use GoodReader for PDFs, and it works admirably with Apple's developer documents. The table of contents is accessible as a button at the bottom of the screen and you can scroll through categories, to sub-categories, to specific subtopics right in the menu. A larger screen would always be better for reading, of course, but I find the iPad/GoodReader combo more than acceptable. I don't really have a lot of iPad experience with technical documents other than Apple's, so perhaps your Javascript guide wouldn't be quite as well indexed. There's no question that an iPad will be a thousand times better than an iPhone for reading technical literature.

Wow... Who could have forseen

Playbook misses its sales target by 90%.

Seriously... You come out say 14months after the iPad... And you don't have an EMAIL CLIENT? Seriously? Your company is known as the "king of email"!!! What on earth were you thinking?

Morg "It's not like you have say, 4 CEOs or something... sheesh" anti