Apple IPAD Owner's Thread

[cjwct]

Hey everyone ... my school gave me an IPad2 today and needless to say I have never played/worked with Apple products. With that being said I was hoping I could find out a few things:

1. What's the "best" office suite I can get which will allow me to view/edit my MS documents (Word, Excel, PPoint) and create new docs?

2. How exactly do I get my MS docs into the IPad2?

3. I saw someone mentioned a Bamboo stylus; love to know more about that and how its going.

Thanks in advance

 

[meStevo]

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[rockymtnhigh]

Hey everyone ... my school gave me an IPad2 today and needless to say I have never played/worked with Apple products. With that being said I was hoping I could find out a few things:

1. What's the "best" office suite I can get which will allow me to view/edit my MS documents (Word, Excel, PPoint) and create new docs?

2. How exactly do I get my MS docs into the IPad2?

3. I saw someone mentioned a Bamboo stylus; love to know more about that and how its going.

Thanks in advance

I like Quick Office Pro HD. Its better than Documents to Go. Pages is a nice word processor, but is really for folks who have pages on a mac.

I get docs on the ipad many ways. I have a Dropbox.com account, and use Dropbox's ipad app to bring files in and out of the iPad. I also use an app called ReaddleDocs, which is a great file manager. It can sync dropbox as well as google docs, and several other "cloud" programs.

I still love the Bamboo stylus. Its a great stylus. Well worth the $29. Indeed, I used it at a meeting tonight for about 2 hours. YEAH, a LONG meeting. I use it with UPad, a very nice notes app.

welcome to the world of the iPad.

 

[cjwct]

I like Quick Office Pro HD. Its better than Documents to Go. Pages is a nice word processor, but is really for folks who have pages on a mac.

I get docs on the ipad many ways. I have a Dropbox.com account, and use Dropbox's ipad app to bring files in and out of the iPad. I also use an app called ReaddleDocs, which is a great file manager. It can sync dropbox as well as google docs, and several other "cloud" programs.

I still love the Bamboo stylus. Its a great stylus. Well worth the $29. Indeed, I used it at a meeting tonight for about 2 hours. YEAH, a LONG meeting. I use it with UPad, a very nice notes app.

welcome to the world of the iPad.

Thanks so much. I feel dumb I didn't think of Dropbox Does Quick Office Pro allow you to create docs as well? Also, after taking notes with the Stylus are the notes converted into a Word doc?

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Thanks so much. I feel dumb I didn't think of Dropbox Does Quick Office Pro allow you to create docs as well? Also, after taking notes with the Stylus are the notes converted into a Word doc?

Yes, but not with the stylus. You use the keyboard.

The documents I create wi IPad get converted into PDF and exported via email or Dropbox. Dropbox is pretty universally supported on a lot of iPad apps.

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[cjwct]

Anyone know of a good case for it?

 

[isaacmorseMI]

Anyone know of a good case for it?

I have one of these. Love it.

Speck Products | Speck Products FitFolio iPad 2 Case | Case for iPad 2 | iPad 2 Stand

 

[cjwct]

Got Office Pro and the case ... love both; ty ... new q ... when writing an email the attachment feature is dsabled; is there a work around this?

 

[rockymtnhigh]

The new "Newspapers" and magazine bookshelf in iOS5 is now actually working -- for some apps. Nat Geo and Popular Mechanics are now showing up in my bookshelf. I like it!

 

[isaacmorseMI]

Going to put iOS 5 on my iPad in a few.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The new "Newspapers" and magazine bookshelf in iOS5 is now actually working -- for some apps. Nat Geo and Popular Mechanics are now showing up in my bookshelf. I like it!

I cant find any magazine in the App Store...

 

[isaacmorseMI]

Going to put iOS 5 on my iPad in a few.

Updating.

 

[stimpson]

My "newer update version" in iTunes only shows 4.3.5. Not 5. Or am I stupid and the .5 means ios5?

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[isaacmorseMI]

My "newer update version" in iTunes only shows 4.3.5. Not 5.

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Do you have iTunes 10.5? You need that to update to iOS 5.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Do you have iTunes 10.5? You need that to update to iOS 5.

For whatever reason 10.3.5 is iOS 5. BUT when I tried to install it, it crapped out right after extracting the software on my wife's iPad. I'll probably just use the Gold Master that I have.

 

[rockymtnhigh]

I cant find any magazine in the App Store...

I was suscribed to Popular Mechanics and National Geographic, and they just popped up in there after an update. Same with The New Yorker. Time, Wired, and the few others I use are not there.

And I don't ever expect to see the Zinio magazines I subscribe to there. But I could be wrong. Been wrong before on occasion.

 

[stimpson]

Do you have iTunes 10.5? You need that to update to iOS 5.

Yes

For whatever reason 10.3.5 is iOS 5. BUT when I tried to install it, it crapped out right after extracting the software on my wife's iPad. I'll probably just use the Gold Master that I have.

Read just now about several download and install issues. Servers overloaded.

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[rockymtnhigh]

Yes



Read just now about several download and install issues. Servers overloaded.

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I figured something like that. Will try it again tonight later, or just wait a few days. She doesn't know what she is missing, and won't care. LOL

 

[dangue]

I figured something like that. Will try it again tonight later, or just wait a few days. She doesn't know what she is missing, and won't care. LOL

Just downloaded iOS 5 on my iPad. Can't play with icloud until I convert mobile me to icloud, but trying to do so throws an error and says try again later. PITA. It's not a big deal, especially since it won't be that useful to be until there's a jailbreak of iOS 5 so that I can upgrade my iPhone 4. Once I've done that, then music and photo synch will be useful.

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[stimpson]

Yep. Mine crapping out after extracting software. Gives an "unknown error". WTF. Wife's downloading update now, and saying 2 hrs remaining. Gonna be a long night.