Apps for iPad

Damian Duffy

alexlyons wrote: »

Looking for an iPad app that allows notes to be added to PowerPoint presentations, ideally to individual slides. Editting the presentation would be a nice bonus but not a deal breaker. Similar to desktop versions that allow notes etc.

Any ideas??

Quick Office Connect, DocsToGo or OfficeHD all do what you need. I use Quick Office and it is superb. I make alot of presentations, word and excel files etc and edit, review or practice presentations using my iPad and it's brilliant. Just edit, save to device and hook it up to iTunes to get it back on your pc if you need to.

alexlyons

Damian Duffy wrote: »

Quick Office Connect, DocsToGo or OfficeHD all do what you need. I use Quick Office and it is superb. I make alot of presentations, word and excel files etc and edit, review or practice presentations using my iPad and it's brilliant. Just edit, save to device and hook it up to iTunes to get it back on your pc if you need to.

Thanks for that.

Any chance of a screen capture of adding notes to a powerpoint slide in Quick Office? there's non on the app store page for it and I'd love to see it before I buy!!

Earthhorse

basquille wrote: »

You need to download them in the US App Store - sign up for a US account with a new e-mail address / ID by clicking a free app in the US store (this way, you won't require a US credit card).

How do I log out of the Irish store to do this? When I click on this link, http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dragon-dictation/id341446764?mt=8, it just starts up the AppStore and tells me the request couldn't be completed. Sorry, AppStore newb here.

jakdublin

adox wrote: »

Been using the Plex app since it was released and am very happy with it. One thing I only found out tonight is the 4OD plugin works on the iPad. I didn't expect it to but it does.

How do you find the plug in?

kavanagh_h

Hi Quintron
I just won an ipad. Can you tell me why you have kindle and ibooks on your ipad. Does it not come with an ereader or is it not any good? I haven't yet received my lucky win.

Hol.

quintron wrote: »

A few recommended apps based on my usage over the past couple of months:

Reading

• Stanza
• Kindle
• iBooks

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Earthhorse

kavanagh_h wrote: »

Can you tell me why you have kindle and ibooks on your ipad. Does it not come with an ereader or is it not any good?

Both Kindle and iBooks are free in the Apple AppStore. The difference is in the range of titles available on each (Kindle has more), the formats they use and the interface. You can try both out and see which you prefer.

54kroc

Can anyone recommend a good poker app for the iPad?

Dont be at yourself

I've got WSOP for the iPhone and it's pretty decent. The iPad version looks very similar.

sweetie

adox wrote: »

Been using the Plex app since it was released and am very happy with it. One thing I only found out tonight is the 4OD plugin works on the iPad. I didn't expect it to but it does.

is it necessary to have a mac for plex or is that just for streaming from? Would consider getting it just for 4od

Dont be at yourself

You need the Plex Media Server running on your Mac. That does all the legwork, and streams the video to your iPad. Can highly recommend it though, it's probably the best home cinema solution around.

sweetie

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

You need the Plex Media Server running on your Mac. That does all the legwork, and streams the video to your iPad. Can highly recommend it though, it's probably the best home cinema solution around.

thanks, shame they don't do a pc version

gonedrinking

Whats the best text to speech app for the ipad? or is the inbuilt one the best there is? Can it be used to read every book or just certain books? I'd like to use it as a study tool where I can listen to my textbook when I'm travelling to work, would it be suitable for that or does it sound too much like a robot speaking and therefore hard to take in?

Also whats the best dictation app? The dragon dictation app only seems to be able to cope with 3 paragraphs at a time before it stops.

_Whimsical_

gonedrinking wrote: »

Whats the best text to speech app for the ipad? or is the inbuilt one the best there is? Can it be used to read every book or just certain books? I'd like to use it as a study tool where I can listen to my textbook when I'm travelling to work, would it be suitable for that or does it sound too much like a robot speaking and therefore hard to take in?

Also whats the best dictation app? The dragon dictation app only seems to be able to cope with 3 paragraphs at a time before it stops.

The iPad has built in text to speech??:)

gonedrinking

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

The iPad has built in text to speech??:)

sure does:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5kLiRxuuq0

_Whimsical_

gonedrinking wrote: »

sure does:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5kLiRxuuq0

Wow that is just fantastic!:)
It seems to work with books in iBooks but not PDFs. It doesn't work in kindle either as far as I can see. Still fantastic though. With the voice at the right speed it doesn't sound too roboty at all. Thanks Gonedrinking:)


Gonedrinking's question still stands :

gonedrinking wrote: »

Whats the best text to speech app for the ipad? or is the inbuilt one the best there is? Can it be used to read every book or just certain books? I'd like to use it as a study tool where I can listen to my textbook when I'm travelling to work, would it be suitable for that or does it sound too much like a robot speaking and therefore hard to take in?

Also whats the best dictation app? The dragon dictation app only seems to be able to cope with 3 paragraphs at a time before it stops.

_Whimsical_

Two good art apps are reduced today in the app store. Sketchbook Pro is very good.it's now down to 2.99.I have it & it's excellent.

Inspire Pro is reduced for today from $7.99 to $0.99 , that's 79c for us. I haven't had time to give it a good try yet but it has 47 5 star reviews in the US app store & I have seen very good reviews elsewhere too.

If you like to sketch,draw or paint you'd like either of these.

_Whimsical_

Splashtop is 79c now. It's a remote desktop app..a vnc app. It says you can watch flash videos and play flash games on your pc via the iPad as long as you have a wifi connection. It gets great reviews.

Do you have to be using the same wifi connection as your pc when using this app? Could you leave your pc on and leave the house & then hook up to another wifi connection & still be connected to your pc via this app?

DeVore

Just picked up "Cut The Rope" game from Chillingo (whos games seem to be all top notch so far) and its brillant. If you like physics based puzzle games (think Angry Birds) you will like this!

It was about 3 bucks I think but its HUGE as it has about 125 levels with more to come. Great puzzles and easy to get 1 star but some of them are fiendish to get 3.

DeV.

DeVore

btw, I got a Google app today (seemed very official) and it has a voice-to-text system which allowed me to tell it what to look for. You have to activate it in the settings area but it was pretty simple tbh.

DeV.

_Whimsical_

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Splashtop is 79c now. It's a remote desktop app..a vnc app. It says you can watch flash videos and play flash games on your pc via the iPad as long as you have a wifi connection. It gets great reviews.

Do you have to be using the same wifi connection as your pc when using this app? Could you leave your pc on and leave the house & then hook up to another wifi connection & still be connected to your pc via this app?

I tried this app out today & it's fantastic! Not at all jittery or bothersome. I watched 2.5 hours of tv via it as our sky decided to go down today. Couldn't rate it highly enough.

Also it's excellent as a remote control app. I usually use air mouse when I have my pc connected to the tv but this is much much better. You can edit documents, watch megavideo, rte player...everything. Highly recommended.

alexlyons

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

I tried this app out today & it's fantastic! Not at all jittery or bothersome. I watched 2.5 hours of tv via it as our sky decided to go down today. Couldn't rate it highly enough.

Also it's excellent as a remote control app. I usually use air mouse when I have my pc connected to the tv but this is much much better. You can edit documents, watch megavideo, rte player...everything. Highly recommended.

does it only do windows????

Earthhorse

alexlyons wrote: »

does it only do windows????

Looks that way. Shame; looks like a really good app. I downloaded the Google app there, it's almost like another browser minus a few key features e.g. bookmarks. Nice though. I'll post my thoughts on some of the apps I've downloaded when I've had more time to play with them.

bigboy123

I know this is completely off subject, but is anybody else finding that their iPad battery is not lasting as long as when it was first bought, I know the battery degradation is to be expected after a while, but I bought the iPad in august and already I think I notice a change

Does anybody else experience this or am I imagining things?

_Whimsical_

bigboy123 wrote: »

I know this is completely off subject, but is anybody else finding that their iPad battery is not lasting as long as when it was first bought, I know the battery degradation is to be expected after a while, but I bought the iPad in august and already I think I notice a change

Does anybody else experience this or am I imagining things?

Yup I find the same thing. I used to charge it once every two days, now it's every night. I don't know if some apps eat more power than others or if something is running in the background or what it is though.

adox

I'm still getting around 10 hours usage per charge. I've used my iPad nearly everyday since purchase back in may.

Quackles

I'd still get the 10 hours unless I'm streaming video or something intensive like that. Still very happy with the battery life, charging it once a week or so and using it daily.

bigboy123

Quackles wrote: »

I'd still get the 10 hours unless I'm streaming video or something intensive like that. Still very happy with the battery life, charging it once a week or so and using it daily.

I even find that even when using offline apps like pages etc., the battery life is getting less and less per charge, would this have anything to do with some settings etc that use more battery?

Sad Professor

I haven't experienced it with Pages, but some apps will of course be heavier on the battery than others. Certain games and video apps, for example. I've been playing a lot of SimCity on my iPad lately and it eats through the battery in no time. But for regular stuff like browsing, I'd say I get pretty close to 10 hours still. I charge at least once a day, but that's more a reflection of how much much use my iPad gets.

Private Snafu

Not exactly an iPad app, but I've just gotten Tversity Pro and couldn't be happier with it. Videos play smoothly now (unlike air video) from my POS media server

Damian Duffy

bigboy123 wrote: »

I even find that even when using offline apps like pages etc., the battery life is getting less and less per charge, would this have anything to do with some settings etc that use more battery?

Have you changed anything in the settings? Something obvious like increasing the brightness will have a huge effect on the battery life, as well as more energy intensive apps.

DeVore

There is a free app called Pad Info which reports basic internal data about your iPad. I find it very handy for showing estimates of battery life and disk usage.

DeV.

thecivvie

I love this app, monitors my vodafone usage (updated receipe to add support for data allowances), Rss feeds, local usage for 3G ipads, dropbox and loads more stuff. This is a native iPad app not a universal one. Well worth the €2.39 I spent. I am trying to see if I can get the author to add support for the Vodafone Mi-Fi as well

Link is http://itunes.apple.com/ie/app/quota-for-ipad/id368020518?mt=8

tallus

Apologies if this is off topic, but has anybody else had trouble with VLC freezing ?

I tried it out over the weekend, and anything I try to watch freezes after a few minutes viewing. I turned off the wifi and got about 15 minutes before it froze again.

Edit: Did a search on the www and it appears that this is a problem with the newer versionn of VLC, and their dev team are looking into the problem.
Now all I have to do is try to find the older version..

/edit

Kilnacash

Enter FilmOn which hopes to change how we watch broadcast television on the iPad. By visiting http://filmon.com via Mobile Safari on your iPhone or iPad, you can watch live television from select broadcast stations

Basq

Kilnacash wrote: »

Enter FilmOn which hopes to change how we watch broadcast television on the iPad. By visiting http://filmon.com via Mobile Safari on your iPhone or iPad, you can watch live television from select broadcast stations

Interesting..

.. is that legal though?

Boxfresh

Kilnacash wrote: »

Enter FilmOn which hopes to change how we watch broadcast television on the iPad. By visiting http://filmon.com via Mobile Safari on your iPhone or iPad, you can watch live television from select broadcast stations

Excellent

culabula

Saved FilmOn to the home screen, just sits there doing nothing.

Soot-fan

Play through a VPN and you get more channels

culabula

Soot-fan wrote: »

Play through a VPN and you get more channels

Do you mean that this is a US-centric service?

_Whimsical_

Wow filmON is amazing. I don't have any VPN switched on and I'm getting around 20 channels in excellent quality. All the BBC channels are there,a few itvs ,five and several others.

Does anyone know how long it's free for? If you click the little box in the top right it opens a page about subscriptions.

Sad Professor

FilmOn doesn't seem to like 4.2 on the iPad. Won't work at all. Okay on iPhone but only a few stations.

_Whimsical_

Sad Professor wrote: »

FilmOn doesn't seem to like 4.2 on the iPad. Won't work at all. Okay on iPhone but only a few stations.

In the few mins I spent looking it up I noticed people say that 4.2 was not supported yet. Looks like it really is free! It won't work on my iPod but works excellently on the iPad 3.2.2!

tallus

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

In the few mins I spent looking it up I noticed people say that 4.2 was not supported yet. Looks like it really is free! It won't work on my iPod but works excellently on the iPad 3.2.2!

Working perfectly on 3.2.2 for me too!

_Whimsical_

basquille wrote: »

Interesting..

.. is that legal though?

It's the subject of an upcoming court case in the US :http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69510K20101006
God I hope he wins!

This has to be the best find for ipad yet. Thank you OP.

Has anyone found the "swipe for fullscreen" doesn't work ?

adox

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

It's the subject of an upcoming court case in the US :http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69510K20101006
God I hope he wins!

This has to be the best find for ipad yet. Thank you OP.

Has anyone found the "swipe for fullscreen" doesn't work ?

It had me confused as I couldnt get it to work either, but if you do a pinch out with finger and thumb it goes to fullscreen.

Speaking of finger adn thumb, those adult channels are a bit racey!

culabula

Sad Professor wrote: »

FilmOn doesn't seem to like 4.2 on the iPad. Won't work at all. Okay on iPhone but only a few stations.

Yep, just worked that out with a pal's. Thought maybe it was UK nets, but it's 4.2. Same with France24 and BFMTV.

DeVore

I didnt think 4.x was out for the iPad yet? (When is the November OS update with promised multitasking etc?)

Or am I confused?

DeV.

Basq

DeVore wrote: »

I didnt think 4.x was out for the iPad yet? (When is the November OS update with promised multitasking etc?)

Or am I confused?

DeV.

There's a final beta of 4.2 out IIRC.

Think 4.2 should be officially released to the public in the next day or two: http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/11/04/ios-4-2-release-date-update-for-iphone-ipod-touch/

_Whimsical_

DeVore wrote: »

I didnt think 4.x was out for the iPad yet? (When is the November OS update with promised multitasking etc?)

Or am I confused?

DeV.

No you're right. It isn't released to the general public yet but some people are already using the beta version. It's only available to those with developers licences.

jamesd

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

No you're right. It isn't released to the general public yet but some people are already using the beta version. It's only available to those with developers licences.

You don't need a dev license for the 4.2 betas or GM for the iPad.