*** The Official iPad (Early 2012) Thread ***

Funnily enough I'd only learned about this feature today via my brother (I had every other button/gesture thing down but had missed this one).

2.2MB .png files that are suitably huge (2k x 1.5k anyway) on ipad 3 but can't argue with the results.
 
Depends on the aspect ratio of my film as to how big the black bars are, my 1080p full screen films on my tv have far less, whereas a 1080p with black bars on tv will look like that looper screen above, watching the former is a dream on my iPad, where as the latter is perfectly fine.

All in all a very lovely experience when I'm out of the house, hope this also helps :)
 
Speed said:
Indeed, contact the seller and say it isn't working. With any luck he will be decent about it and sort you out with another.
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I contacted the seller and he told me there was a problem with some of his sim cards, i returned it and received a new one this morning.
I have it in my ipad3 now and it looks to be working.
So thanks for your help and advice.
 
A few quick questions:

1) What are the options of keeping my bookmarks in sync on an iPad? I remember my old iPod touch could sync bookmarks from desktop Safari via iTunes, but they used to show up as a subfolder on the iPod (something like "desktop/mobile bookmarks) which meant an annoying extra finger press when accessing bookmarks. Also I am using Chrome on my Mac atm, I suppose I could copy those back to desktop Safari but it would be a pain doing that everytime I added something new in Chrome.

2) Is there any way to natively play back 720p mkv files (I am sure people know what sort I mean) on the iPad. If so, which App? I recall when iPads first came out 3rd party players could only use software acceleration which meant playback was slow. Can they now use the GPU for acceleration, or are the CPUs fast enough for software playback to be flawless? If not, is there a quick way to convert these files to iPad friendly files? I don't want to re-encode files, but for PS3 you can "remux" files so it changes the container from MKV to mp4, which takes minutes compared to hours for an actual recode to a Native apple format.

3) I will be primarily syncing it to my MacBookPro. How easy it to get non Apple ebooks on there. Free ones from the internet etc? Do I just drag them into iTunes or is it more complicated than that? Can they be played back in iBooks?

4) I recall my iPod was really slow syncing (slower than the USB connection could handle so I always put it down to Apple using slow RAM chips in the iPod or iTunes being crappy!). Is syncing via cable fast now? If so how many MB a sec can I expect. I plan to get the 64GB one so might want to sync large files to it, every now and then. As a point of reference USB2 memory sticks can write about 25MB/Sec, would it be as quick as that? Can someone just sync a large file and check in activity monitor how quick disk read/write is?

None of these are dealbreakers for me tbh, I plan on buying one (stock permitting) anyway!


rp2000
 
rp2000 said:
Blablabla :D
rp2000
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1) iCloud will sync bookmarks between devices, I don't use it. I just checked the iCloud settings though (on Windows PC) and by default it will sync from IE but there is the option for Safari as well. So you will probably have to copy bookmarks over to Safari but this would work.

2) I don't understand all this video stuff but Avplayer I presume: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/avplayer/id395680819?mt=8

3) Not a clue :p PDFs can be put into iBooks IIRC though.

4) I'll copy over a 987MB file and see how long it takes. I've never found it quick though. Okay.. I kinda had my 4S plugged in and not my iPad, sigh. But similar specs.. For the file it took 55 seconds. Modern Times (y) free christmas gift, woo!
 
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oli356 said:
1) iCloud will sync bookmarks between devices, I don't use it. I just checked the iCloud settings though (on Windows PC) and by default it will sync from IE but there is the option for Safari as well. So you will probably have to copy bookmarks over to Safari but this would work.

2) I don't understand all this video stuff but Avplayer I presume: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/avplayer/id395680819?mt=8

3) Not a clue :p PDFs can be put into iBooks IIRC though.

4) I'll copy over a 987MB file and see how long it takes. I've never found it quick though. Okay.. I kinda had my 4S plugged in and not my iPad, sigh. But similar specs.. For the file it took 55 seconds. Modern Times (y) free christmas gift, woo!
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That answers enough for now. File copy speed seems reasonable, faster than I thought it would be tbh.

Thanks for all your help (in this and the accessories thread).


rp2000
 
Ynot said:
Yes working, do I have to register for data useage, I have the giffgaff sim btw.
Thanks
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What do you mean? If your on giffgaff just buy the goodybag and your have to enter the networking settings into the iPad I presume, as I did on my iphone with them.
 
oli356 said:
What do you mean? If your on giffgaff just buy the goodybag and your have to enter the networking settings into the iPad I presume, as I did on my iphone with them.
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Sorry, I'm new to all this, the sims working,why do i have to buy the goddybag?
What's that for?
Thanks.
 
Ynot said:
Sorry, I'm new to all this, the sims working,why do i have to buy the goddybag?
What's that for?
Thanks.
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Ann right, well if everything's working then no need.

But normally if you get a sim from giffgaff you need to buy the gigabag or whatever the data ones are called, otherwise it's just a blank sim..
 
oli356 said:
Ann right, well if everything's working then no need.

But normally if you get a sim from giffgaff you need to buy the gigabag or whatever the data ones are called, otherwise it's just a blank sim..
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OK, thanks, ..learning all the time :)
 
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