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iPad mini rippling thru my hardware setup

  • Posted on December 29, 2012December 29, 2012
  • by john

Ok I got an iPad mini for Christmas — thanks family! The lack of retina display does bother me, it is super noticeable. I will certainly upgrade to an iPad…

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At least the Surface has forced me to think about what devices I carry

  • Posted on October 31, 2012October 31, 2012
  • by john

Overall the Surface is, well, a turd. It is a crappy cheap laptop. Or maybe an ok-but-expensive tablet, although completely lacking the tablet apps I want. But it has forced…

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Watching TV on the iPad
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Watching TV on the iPad

  • Posted on May 3, 2012May 4, 2012
  • by john

I pay a large amount to Comcast/Xfinity each month to view nearly their entire lineup (ex non-English channels) at our home. And because we pay for a Time-Warner Cable sub…

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Yes the retina display iPad is beautiful, but the software is starting to feel dated

  • Posted on March 22, 2012
  • by john

OK I am completely conflating issues in this post but that accurately reflects my state of mind. Like everyone else has said, the new screen is beautiful, the pad does…

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My overall reaction to iOS5? Confusion.

  • Posted on October 13, 2011October 13, 2011
  • by john

OK like the rest of the working world I spent hours yesterday trying to upgrade my iPhone4 and iPad2 to iOS5. About a dozen retries for the phone, maybe half…

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Air Display iPad app is way cool

  • Posted on May 27, 2010
  • by john

OK, this thing seems a little laggy, and doesn’t seem to love Spaces, but the promise of “Air Display”:http://avatron.com/apps/air-display/ is freaking phenomenal. The iPad makes a GREAT auxiliary display for…

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Mech Eng basics on the web

  • Posted on April 28, 2010May 1, 2010
  • by john

Taking Finite Element Analysis this term which would be way easier if I actually had ever taken a basic course in mechanical engineering. Beams, trusses, springs, cantilevers are all foreign…

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First iPad-only day trip

  • Posted on April 21, 2010
  • by john

Ok took my first day trip today to San Jose with no laptop — iPad only. I can’t imagine ever taking a laptop on a day trip again. Massive reduction…

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40 years of computing!

  • Posted on April 14, 2010
  • by john

I’m using my iPad to remotely login to an XP machine at UW to run ANSYS, which still feels exactly like ANSYS from the 70s: painful syntax, all upper case,…

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iPad apps — first week likes, dislikes

  • Posted on April 11, 2010
  • by john

So here is my first week of good and bad apps, I have spent way too much trying things out. My motto — “Buying iPad apps so you don’t have…

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The size of our gadgets

  • Posted on April 8, 2010
  • by john

Some smart guys have noticed that “internally, the iPad looks more like a battery with a computer than a computer with a battery”:http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/the_ipad. This is a pretty fundamental point. I…

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iPad file management blows

  • Posted on April 7, 2010April 7, 2010
  • by john

Hoisted from the “comments”:http://theludwigs.com/2010/04/the-ipad-and-pdfs-conclusions-for-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1064: For all the great things on the iPad, file management is currently a disaster. I’ve got two different apps that can connect to my ftp server…

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The Nook dude at the Barnes&Nobles looked forlorn today

  • Posted on April 6, 2010
  • by john

How bad would it be to be a Nook pusher right now? The Kindle has its adherents, the iPad is out there, why would anyone buy a Nook? I have…

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iPad and remote desktop

  • Posted on April 6, 2010
  • by john

I am trying out my iPad as a remote desktop client to my mac, my windows machine, and an appserver at UW. The net is — it works, but I…

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The iPad and PDFs — conclusions for now

  • Posted on April 5, 2010April 6, 2010
  • by john

Several comments have asked for my recommendations. After two days of tinkering, here is what you should do if you’d like to use your iPad to read and annotate PDFs.…

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iPad Day 2 — PDF reading and annotating

  • Posted on April 4, 2010April 4, 2010
  • by john

One of primary use cases I am testing out on the iPad is reading and annotating PDFs. I am in the process of reviewing 200-300 papers on nanowire/nanotube manipulation via…

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iPad day 1

  • Posted on April 3, 2010
  • by john

Really really slow on first sync. I’ve purchased a ton of iPhone apps over time and the iPad insists on installing all of them, even crappy ones that I have…

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iPad preorder day arrives

  • Posted on March 12, 2010
  • by john

Ok well the day arrived. I can’t quite figure out what the ipad is for. I still need to carry my iPhone for phone calls. I still need to carry…

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