iPad Tips & Apps

[carlitos]

I have it installed on a Win7 & an XP machine as well as my Macbook and have not noticed any performance problems. I find it the most convenient way to deal with podcasts and audiobooks, not to mention loading my own movies and e-books without having to purchase from Apple.
I'm not trying to convince you, PhreePhly, I'm not a fanboy either way and everyone can do as they please. I just think people shouldn't be afraid to give it a try. It can always be uninstalled if it doesn't work out.

It runs pretty slow on my old MacBook (not pro), but I figure that's because I've got 15,000 songs on it. As noted, it's a nice, easy way to deal with podcasts and such.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Two iPad2 questions:

How do you move the cursor along to say, the middle of a word?

I can find the backspace button, but where's delete?

 

[Zax63]

Two iPad2 questions:

How do you move the cursor along to say, the middle of a word?

Tap and hold, you should get a magnifying lens that shows the cursor. Drag to position the cursor. I'm not sure that works everywhere, probably up to the programmer on any particular app.

I can find the backspace button, but where's delete?

Edit:
The top right key on the virtual keyboard above the return button, looks like a small white x inside a black thing pointing left.
Oops, misread the question. I don't think there is a delete. Just have to position the cursor on the other side and backspace.

Here is one that took me a while to stumble on - double tapping the shift button turns on caps lock. The shift turns blue with a solid white up arrow.

Just found another interesting thing. Put one finger on each side of the virtual keyboard and drag them apart. Ta Da, a split keyboard. Reverse the process to restore.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Tap and hold, you should get a magnifying lens that shows the cursor. Drag to position the cursor. I'm not sure that works everywhere, probably up to the programmer on any particular app.


Edit:
The top right key on the virtual keyboard above the return button, looks like a small white x inside a black thing pointing left.
Oops, misread the question. I don't think there is a delete. Just have to position the cursor on the other side and backspace.

Here is one that took me a while to stumble on - double tapping the shift button turns on caps lock. The shift turns blue with a solid white up arrow.

Just found another interesting thing. Put one finger on each side of the virtual keyboard and drag them apart. Ta Da, a split keyboard. Reverse the process to restore.

Thanks, Zax!

 

[lionking]

Ah, I thought Zax found the magical iPad delete!

It doesn't really cause problems in practice.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Ah, I thought Zax found the magical iPad delete!

It doesn't really cause problems in practice.

No, apart from me spending ages prodding the poor thing like a grumpy great aunt with a walking stick talking to her relations on Xmas day.

 

[kajata]

And in case you didn't know...if you hold a letter or symbol on the keyboard related alternatives will pop up.

Example: hold down "e" for a second and you can choose an "ę" or "ê". Hold down "$" and choose "€" or hold down ".com" and you could choose ".org"

As far as a delete button goes...not even found on a standard physical Mac keyboard. Annoying. One of those things that I found Apple has tried to simplify and streamline too much.

 

[megaresp]

...sent from my TRS-80 using Telepathy

I hope you haven't sold out and upgraded to TRS-DOS. Give me cassette-based computing or death!

 

[megaresp]

No, apart from me spending ages prodding the poor thing like a grumpy great aunt with a walking stick talking to her relations on Xmas day.

You can delete a word easily enough - tap and hold on a word. Choose select and hit backspace. Word gone. For multiple words, expand the selectors to fully encompass the text you wish to delete.

Sure beats 50 gazillion manual backspace taps.

 

[Orphia Nay]

Thanks, peeps.

And in case you didn't know...if you hold a letter or symbol on the keyboard related alternatives will pop up.

Example: hold down "e" for a second and you can choose an "ę" or "ê". Hold down "$" and choose "€" or hold down ".com" and you could choose ".org"

Cool, thanks!

As far as a delete button goes...not even found on a standard physical Mac keyboard. Annoying. One of those things that I found Apple has tried to simplify and streamline too much.

Yes, and what with the news apps I've got only giving you a few headlines for each subsection of news, I get the impression things are being dumbed-down. I may not sound like the sharpest knife in the drawer in this thread, but I can cope with a fair bit of information.