Scottish Elises

I bought Mrs Pete an Ipad against my better judgement - I am neither a graphic designer nor a lady so have struggled to see the appeal but I knew she wanted one.
Now I'm trying to set the bloody thing up.

What the hell is iCloud. Why does she want it?
How can i get it to read/edit Office docs?

Should I jailbreak it?
Is there anyway to get it to show avi files?
What else should I put on it for her?

Help as always appreciated...

I use quick office app for word, excel, PowerPoint etc... Not the best, but works... Sometimes.
Iannotate for PDF markups

I only use iCloud for synchronising contacts between my iPhone and iPad... Otherwise, i use Dropbox app which is linked with my iPad, iPhone and windows laptop.

Not sure about avi files...?

What does she want to use it for?

Also the usual tv apps are worth a download...

iplayer, 4OD, ITV Player, TVCatchup

r055 wrote:I use quick office app for word, excel, PowerPoint etc... Not the best, but works... Sometimes.
Iannotate for PDF markups

I only use iCloud for synchronising contacts between my iPhone and iPad... Otherwise, i use Dropbox app which is linked with my iPad, iPhone and windows laptop.

Not sure about avi files...?

What does she want to use it for?

That is a good question. Web. Email. Light office stuff... I'll look at quick office (it got mixed reviews on app store)

pete wrote:

r055 wrote:I use quick office app for word, excel, PowerPoint etc... Not the best, but works... Sometimes.
Iannotate for PDF markups

I only use iCloud for synchronising contacts between my iPhone and iPad... Otherwise, i use Dropbox app which is linked with my iPad, iPhone and windows laptop.

Not sure about avi files...?

What does she want to use it for?

That is a good question. Web. Email. Light office stuff... I'll look at quick office (it got mixed reviews on app store)

Got to say I've not used it in anger yet...

I think the habit of using one apple id (but seemingly having loads) across 2 phones and an ipad is finally counting against us. (Prior to this we just shared apps).

I seem to have 2 ids with 2 user names but one email address... Surely Apple can see this?

Time for bed I think.

I to gave Mags an Apple for Xmas....





She ate it

Time to get it on ebay "unwanted gift" and cut your losses. Load of old tosh. Get her a proper xmas present .... like an ironing board

[to those that don't know me, that is a joke and not meant as a serious xmas gift suggestion]

Cheers,
Robin

robin wrote:Time to get it on ebay "unwanted gift" and cut your losses. Load of old tosh. Get her a proper xmas present .... like an ironing board

[to those that don't know me, that is a joke and not meant as a serious xmas gift suggestion]

Cheers,
Robin

Very practical

robin wrote:Time to get it on ebay "unwanted gift" and cut your losses. Load of old tosh. Get her a proper xmas present .... like an ironing board

[to those that don't know me, that is a joke and not meant as a serious xmas gift suggestion]

Cheers,
Robin

LOL

robin wrote:Time to get it on ebay "unwanted gift" and cut your losses. Load of old tosh. Get her a proper xmas present .... like an ironing board

[to those that don't know me, that is a joke and not meant as a serious xmas gift suggestion]

Cheers,
Robin

Coward.........

tut

I got an iPad for my birthday and I have to say I love it. Instead of the office packages I went for pages, mac equivalent of word and I prefer it. You can still save it as a Microsoft word doc, as well as a PDF. You can get numbers instead of excel and a power point version too but I haven't bought these, as I don't need them at the moment. You can also print from it like the iPhone but you need an air play printer (HP) but these can be picked up for £50 and we need a new printer anyway.

I'm loving the tv stuff: sky go, 4od, itv player and iplayer. Also I just downloaded a kindle app even though it has iBooks, so can buy kindle books. When I'm not using it, it's a digital photo frame set up in the livingroom. It's awesome!

iCloud is great too, if I read a book on the iPad iBooks, then want to read from the same place on my iPhone while I'm away from it, it takes you to the place you stopped. Great for taking pics, downloading music, books and videos as it saves them automatically on all your devices too (we don't have any windows computers at home anymore). Like I said-awesome.

I got an ipad last year and quickly got bored with it until I started to use it with my camera, it is great for viewing pictures and emailing them or posting them on the web.

I haven't updated to icloud yet, I am still using the old dotmac service because icloud doesn't have all the features from the old setup, it is a backward step in a lot of ways. Also to get it to work on my ibook I will need to upgrade to Lion which doesn't run my copy of Office for Mac, a bit sh1t really, as bad as W7 for not being backward compatible.

Much moaning on apple forums and it looks like they are putting a fix on the next Lion update.

As for printing from the ipad I use Print'n' Share, it is a bit fiddly to set up but works well once you do. I also use quickoffice for spread sheets and stuff.

After being a bit disappointed at first I think the ipad is a really good bit of kit, I just wish you could have more than one window open at a time, tried various apps for this but none seem to work very well.

Malcolm

I have Office 2011 on my MBA running Lion Malcolm, and it works fine

tut

Sure, but if you had an older version of it you would not be able to install it I believe, so you're forced to buy new s/w if you upgrade. Given it's only a word processor (free ones are available) I struggle to justify spending money on one.

Cheers,
Robin