I got an IPAD for my birthday, what can I use it for?

[heinkel_111]

I mean is there any chance at all of making it collaborate with any of my open source based archives of pictures, videos, music?

Anyone here having fun with an IPAD without letting apple run their lives?

[GreyGeek]

It's a walled garden, designed to run your wallet. I have an iPod 4th Gen that I keep around for my grandson to play games on. And, I take the occasional picture or video. I transfer them to my Acer by plugging the iPod into a USB port, and when the dialog opens up I choose Dolphin, navigate to the DCIM folder, and drag and drop the jpgs and mov's that I want to save to my laptop. I never delete using Dolphin, I leave that task to iOS.

[vw72]

I mean is there any chance at all of making it collaborate with any of my open source based archives of pictures, videos, music?

Anyone here having fun with an IPAD without letting apple run their lives?

While not open source, the iPad is very good at what it does do. I'd suggest you just enjoy it and use it.

[lcorken]

Well, Happy birthday!:grin:

I just got a new smart phone and am trying to figure out what to do with it.
There is a thread on that.

Ken.

[vinnywright]

Well, Happy birthday!:grin:

I just got a new smart phone and am trying to figure out what to do with it.
There is a thread on that.

Ken.

IDK ..........make smart calls ......... LOL

what do you want to do with it ?

VINNY

[lcorken]

@ VINNY IDK ..........make smart calls ......... LOL

what do you want to do with it ?

I don't know anything smart. I don't know! My wife made me buy it!

Ken.

[eggbert]

Some ideas off the top of my head:

Door stop
Shim for table with one short leg
Small serving platter for appetizers

Personally I would use an iPad for any of these things before I turned it on. Apple makes MS look like Mother Theresa.

[HalationEffect]

Some ideas off the top of my head:

Door stop
Shim for table with one short leg
Small serving platter for appetizers

Personally I would use an iPad for any of these things before I turned it on. Apple makes MS look like Mother Theresa.

Funny that, I was just musing to myself fairly recently that with companies like Apple and Oracle around, Microsoft has pretty much lost its boogeyman status

[oshunluvr]

Sell it and buy something nice... and from a company that supports linux or open source...

[woodsmoke]

read books from Project Gutenberg instead of paying Apple.

woodsmoke

[smile4yourself]

The ipad is a lovely gadget. I use it all the time to read the news, check the weather, play bridge, log into Google mail, Check out Picasa, Blog on my numerous Google blogs, read all the Kubuntu documents, watch You Tube, etc. etc.
I use Dropbox from my Kubuntu desktop to move files to and from the ipad. I use Keepass on the ipad to manage my passwords --the same data file used by Keepass on the Kubuntu desktop.

The clarity of the ipad3 is wonderful. Yes I have spent a little bit of money on a few apps which I downloaded, but I have not spent $30 yet. Oh I forgot to tell you all the free books and free apps that are available.

I think it was a better buy than a Linux laptop that would have cost me twice as much.

[arist]

There many free apps for the iPad. I've had mine nearly two years and still haven't paid Apple a dime (I won it in a raffle). My favorite app is Tagesschau, which allows me to watch the same news programs that Germans see on TV. The tablet format is sometimes just too convenient (e.g., surfing the web in bed). If I were to buy one, of course, it wouldn't be an Apple product.

[smile4yourself]

I think it's a great tool to help you fix Kubuntu when it fails. This happened to me a number of times, but on the ipad I can access all my blog notes, as well as doing any other searches for answers....

[sithlord48]

you can aparently blend it .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko

[HalationEffect]

you can aparently blend it .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAl28d6tbko

Hilarious! Now that's what I call Apple juice