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Using our iPads – At work, at home and at play

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Oh, the fun of the old classic instruments of the 50′s! Today’s post is from the group of coworkers that love the retro look and feel. They talk about Mad Men over Monday morning coffee, they dress with classic colorful box designs, they have interesting lamps and while they couches look cool and are great [...]

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At work and at home, when it comes time to entering a lot of text into our iPads, we turn to our Bluetooth keyboards. The keyboards sit on our desks and on the kitchen counter. They are small enough to carry with us into meetings or be pushed out of the way when we need [...]

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Part of what the iPad shows us very early on was that it’s all about the visual sweep. The device gave us the chance to rethink how information was being presented. A few early adopters changed everything by taking a whole new look at the physical world and didn’t just reproduce actions we did with [...]

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As more and more team members start using the iPads for taking notes, it means that more folks are having to manage Word Docs that someone on a desktop created and shared. There are a couple very nice Word/Excel/PowerPoint apps for the iPad. The issue comes in when everything is being written in plain text [...]

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We covered iMockups for iPad back when it first came out. It seemed like a good idea, we could quickly create multiple Web pages for projects on the iPad before anyone had to do heavy coding. It would appear the app may have been more of a hit than we thought since we are still [...]

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We love spring sales, especially when they are for things we want. Our iPads, both the iPad2 and new iPads in the office can use new cases. Griffin Technology has decided to move some inventory for their spring cleaning, so it’s time for us to buy. While there are many options in the area of [...]

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It isn’t the actual task manager as much as how close the manager fits with the way you work. There are many revolutionary new ways of getting things handled that come up during your day. Systems that have big books written about them, offer software and even classes you can take. After all that, you [...]

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More and more writing is needing to be done in a clean environment. There are very few documents that actually need advanced layout. Easy to read text with bold lettering and lists is all that is really needed. Most important is the speed that notes can be taken, then shared with others. Whether the need [...]

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We received our Jot Flip stylus/pens this week. As promised, we put them through the paces and are reporting back if if we got what was advertised. Right out of the box, we found the weight to be similar to the rest of the Jot Stylus line, which puts it in the class of a [...]

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