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Offline gunug

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« on: June 08, 2010, 08:16:28 AM »
TURNED ON
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Someone just placed an iPAD on my desk and I touched it and realized that it was turned on (is it ever off?).  I'm not exactly sure what a person would do with the thing on a permanent basis, let alone the few days I'm going to play with it.  I guess the point is to see how close it will get to replacing the other things in my life; at least the electronic things. . .to ask more of it might not be fair!  It just went to sleep and I guess that you turn it on by pushing on the one actual button on the front of it; yep that woke it up!  It will be interesting to see what I have to say about the thing after dinking with it for a few more days.

LOCKED
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I just did a sequence of touches and sighs and went from a situation where there were choices (that is ersatz buttons to push) to one that seems to have no choices (at least I can't see how to unlock the thing).  Now it's turned itself off again!  FUN!!!
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« Reply #1 on: June 08, 2010, 11:29:44 AM »
Probably, like the iPhone, there is a setting that determines the users choice of when the iPad 'sleeps.' You must remember these things may not be connected to an electrical outlet for most of the day. Continuing to power the display would be a real drain on the battery. So, when the machine (iPhone or iPad) doesn't have any kind of input for a certain period of time, it shuts off the display. My iMac does the same thing. With the iPhone, it not only shuts off the display but it returns to the 'locked' mode and requires a password before you can use anything except to dial 911. Similar to having a password required to get out of a screensaver or waking from a sleep state on a Mac and most other computers.

I would suggest that you do, indeed, 'play' with the thing and actually see what it can do, depending on what apps are installed. If you'd like to change the display shut off, that should be as simple as touching the prefs icon and selecting something in the list it will present (I have no idea what that list might contain, since I don't have one to 'play' with).

"Locking" usually requires that the device is set up to lock itself after a certain period of time. If there is a certain sequence of finger swipes, you'll have to talk to whoever owns the thing. dntknw.gif
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« Reply #2 on: June 08, 2010, 11:35:45 AM »
ABD - The problem that the school district "owns" this thing!  The one's that know more about it than I do are on vacation and the lunatic is running the asylum! rabbit3.gif I'll "play" some more and try not to take it too seriously!
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« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2010, 11:47:31 AM »
Well, if you can still play with it, it's not "locked." The Preferences icon looks just like the one in Leopard, at least on the iPhone. One of the problems, for me, anyway, is that there is no "Columns" view on the iPhone, probably the same on the iPad. Icons are pretty, but they tend to sometimes be poor at displaying what app they are for or what that app might do. Steve's 'solution is to make them humongous (512 x 512 pixels). That would be fine on the iPad, but on the iPhone, they are more like 36 x 36! Text is extremely easy to read on the iPhone and can usually supply pretty specific info...turn the thing to landscape and it could display most of what can be seen on a small laptop screen! Oh well...

I may get to actually touch an iPad in a few weeks. My California son, is supposed to meet up with the rest of our family in central Missouri for a mini-reunion out in the farmlands. Of course, even cell phone use is spotty, so I don't expect much fancy stuff that requires interweb use out there...
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« Reply #4 on: June 08, 2010, 12:13:45 PM »
AL doesn't have 3G cellular service so he's a little behind the curve.  The internet works fine here in the office area where we have 802.11n.  I think I haven't got the touch down never having used an iPhone and the Samsung 3G phone that I had used a pointer stick to browse around with so I didn't need as fine a touch.  Maybe I can use the pointer on the iPad.  

In a way I can begin to have some feel for the guy in this NYTimes article who seems is in an electronic never-never land:
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While he managed to salvage the $1.3 million deal after apologizing to his suitor, Mr. Campbell continues to struggle with the effects of the deluge of data. Even after he unplugs, he craves the stimulation he gets from his electronic gadgets. He forgets things like dinner plans, and he has trouble focusing on his family.

His wife, Brenda, complains, “It seems like he can no longer be fully in the moment.”

This is your brain on computers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technolo...amp;ref=general
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« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2010, 03:35:11 PM »
That point may not work. The iPhone and I assume the iPad both use a capacitance sensitive layer just below the screen to sense where an actual finger/toe/ellbone might be...but, if the 'stick/bat/limb/10' pole' is electrically conductive... rofl.gif
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« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2010, 07:10:54 PM »
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« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2010, 04:05:01 AM »
John, the Settings icon will take you to a lot of things that can be adjusted.  I don't think there is any kind of limitation that the school can put on the iPads like they can with computers. However, you have to sync it to a computer running 10.5.8 to add any applications, music or photos, etc.  

Do play with it, though unless they put some application on it I think you will only have Safari to take you online.  I don't remember exactly what came with it but since then I've downloaded about 60 applications (free) for my Mom to play with (and me, too).

The Home button (the depressed divot) will get you out of any application and take you back to the main page. Anytime you get confused or lost just press it. When you want to actually shut it off, hold down the little switch at the top of the unit until you see the background startup screen and a slider that says something like "slide to shut down". Slide it in the direction of the arrow and it will spin a gear and go black.  To then start it back up, hold down the same switch for a couple seconds until you see the same screen asking to slide to open.  It takes about 20 seconds to boot up from black to the screen.

The iPad will last for about 10 hours with use and recharges pretty quickly. Took about 45  minutes to charge Moms' from about 38% battery to 100%.  

Have fun playing with it. Just wash your hands first.  smile.gif
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« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2010, 01:50:20 PM »
I had to let a more "needy" member of our department use the thing for a week or so; I'll probably get to play with it later!  
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Have fun playing with it. Just wash your hands first.

That's really a pet peeve in the making for me, just how dirty and fingerprinted these touchy feely things get in a short time!  I guess you can't work with the "white glove" because it probably won't work with a white glove. It calls for a conductive glove; maybe something from the Michael Jackson estate, preferably with sequins in black! wink.gif
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« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2010, 04:29:37 PM »
I have seen one, in deepest darkest Shetland!  The man in our local PO has one!

Anywho, he let me have a play for 10 minutes and my initial thoughts were that I would want a protective screen for it and how heavy it was.

Not sure whether I will get one. I would want a webcam on it for Skype really.  Then I could see the point.
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« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2010, 05:53:35 PM »
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Not sure whether I will get one. I would want a webcam on it for Skype really. Then I could see the point.

In the Apple in Education seminar that I went to a couple of weeks ago the PhD education specialist they had giving a lecture said something that encouraged me to think he was less than "excited" by the prospect of using a webcam hung on an iPad.  It wasn't exactly what he said but something different in the tone of his voice.  I know that there is a camera built into the webcam that I was using but I only saw it doing video once and it was probably running some software written for the iPhone (Skype?) who knows! I'd want to see it in operation with my chosen software on the internet connection that I'd be using; I'm sure that this might not be a practical vetting situation where you're at Frances.  Maybe someone here at TS who has a not dissimilar internet connection and the iPAD model you're thinking about can offer insight in video operations. :smiley dancing around the subject:
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« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2010, 10:04:25 PM »
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« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2010, 03:12:44 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2010, 07:52:26 AM »
I actually got to play with one for about 5 minutes the other day at Best Buy. Unfortunately, the idiots there only have a couple of them online, so for most of that time, I couldn't go online as the online ones were in use. My son, who has used iPod Touches belonging to friends got right into a game and was completely comfortable with it. I, of course, tried to go online. I found the onscreen keyboard a bit hard to get used to - if you're a touch typist as I am, you have to get used to the fact that you CANNOT rest your hands on the home row - so you really have to look at the keyboard and do a modified hunt and peck. It's incredibly sensitive -  I spent a lot of time using the back button! If I got one of these, I'd really have to get the keyboard for it, since I think I'd use it for web browsing at least some of the time. And if I got one for my Dad, I would definitely have to get him a keyboard.

That was about all the investigation I had time for. tongue.gif

Sidenote: we were in WorstBuy looking for headphones - earbuds for my iPod as my children have disappeared with mine, and noise-cancelling headphones for my younger son - so he can really tune us out when he's on the computer! And after looking at them for a bit, we decided we'd better do a quick price check and went over to the computer section to do a bit of surreptitious checking at *other* stores with online presence. We both tried out several computers in their large laptop section...none of them were internet connected. Finally went over to a salesperson and asked if there WERE any connected to the internet. "Oh," he said, "you'll have to go over to the Mac section for that"!!!!!! Guess even in the store, they're afraid they'll get virus-infested! Of course, they had moved the Mac section since I'd last been in there and I'd been looking for it. They put it way the other side of some 5 or 6 aisles of other computer gadgetry - can't actually have people doing side-by-side comparisons of course! Anyway - upshot was we decided there was something incredibly WRONG about Canadian pricing - the headphones I wanted were $16 at Amazon.com in the US and they were $39 here. The ones Jeff wanted were $200 here and a mere $67 at Amazon.com. So, we're ordering them from Amazon.com and I'll pick them up at my friend's house in the US when I'm visiting North Andover at the beginning of June. $83 USD vs $261 CDN - after the 13% sales taxes we also pay here sure sounds much better. That's probably the absolute worst example of nutball Canadian pricing I'd come across yet.
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« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2010, 10:36:46 AM »
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as my children have disappeared with mine
WOW.gif I know how you feel, but I hope you find your kids soon!!! Even if you have to buy sone headphones at Canadian prices. tease.gif
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