iGo With My iPad

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

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We have talked about how we use the iWork apps around the office. Some Keynote, some Numbers and a lot of Pages. (Why we have pictures on our iPad – Part 1) Normally, we share items we create via email, now Apple has updated all of their iWork apps with MobileMe. Allowing you to create [...]

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A few weeks ago we went into detail about why we are so interested in storing, editing and using photos through our iPads. While the iPad doesn’t have a camera yet, we still must have images on it to insert into documents, emails and presentations. Most often, rather than using USB/iTunes, we move photos from [...]

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The folks that support DropBox (free to sign up and use) have released updates for the many different platforms you can access your DropBox data storage with. Reminder, we store our work files on our DropBox account so we can access documents via our iPads, iPhones and desktops. If we have internet access, we have [...]

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We have posted many times how we use GoodReader all the time around the office to access our work files in meetings. Generally these are grabbed from our DropBox accounts. A complaint has been around managing all of those files. We have a long scrolling list of docs, PDFs and spreadsheets down the left side [...]

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As you may have read here in the past, we use our iPads a lot for writing on. Taking short and long notes alike, we need to use a stylus for the precision and form factor of ‘writing’. After testing many options, Pogo has been a hit amongst both the handwriting and the drawing crowd. [...]

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You read that headline right… a fun new case for the iPad to protect and say “Hi, I’m having fun today!”. As with most cases worth spending the money on, this one is made to protect your valuable iOS device. But, with this case, folks across the room will think you actually have a ‘really [...]

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It’s hard to watch any TV without seeing the eTrade baby and his little friends. He always has a fresh insight to nothing important but brings us all a good laugh. So, since we were talking about the new commercial in the office this morning, the ads must be working. Last night, we enjoyed the [...]

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We spend a lot of time in our RSS readers, our Facebook likes and multiple Twitter streams to keep informed to what the street says is going on. Recently though, it was brought to our attention by a client that there was news by the good old sources that we were missing. While it seems [...]

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Months ago we took at a look at ReaddleDocs and agreed we really didn’t NEED another PDF reader app. We have several and they were getting the job done. As well, many like GoodReader did more to download/upload files to the Cloud so we could gather documents in meetings… more than just PDFs. Now, it [...]

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We reviewed an app for the iPad called Tabloids a while back. It treated your twitter friend’s posts as news articles and showed you where their links led. It was cool and occasionally when it worked it was a nice interface over the other ‘text’ Twitter options. This week, several folks on the team mentioned [...]

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