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Posts by jcoffey
IOS 4.3 the shocking truth
01 year ago
Wednesday, 3-9-11, at 10am IOS 4.3 was released. I quickly connected my IPad and upgraded. Yea, a painless upgrade. Now for the testing, is it better?
I began with Safari. Opening a page was quicker. Then I went to a You Tube video I had tried the night before. It had taken several minutes to buffer the one and a half minute show. Now it began playing and did not need to stop for buffering, that is a win.
Now we check Hulu. Normally I have several stops to buffer and some total stops during any length show. With IOS 4.3 the show started up, only had some minor blips that would have been a stop. It kept on going without a hitch. Yet another win. App loading feels faster too.
What about the playing of your library media to the iPad via AirPlay? That’s not exactly what they mean. They mean’t you could access your home-shared library from your iPad or iPhone or touch. Once you go to settings on the device and put in your apple ID you can access your music, podcasts and video from either the iPod app or the video app.
I think this update is a win, right now. Now we will see how the new apps work this Friday.
The Daily Telegraph
01 year ago
The Daily has been out for several weeks now. I have found it to be a little too slow. It has taken as long as fifteen minutes to update and crash at least once during that time. It’s not that the news is not current or even a problem to be updated during the day. But taking more that a minute to update is too slow.
As for the presentation, I like the carousel of pages,, but the movement of the page is too slow and clunky. I don’t like the need to rotate my iPad to see some pages. Reading the news should not require movements to get the whole story. At the same time I think having accessible extra information is good. Those methods should be the same throughout the program.
Overall if you want an overview of some news then try The Daily, while it is free. I do not think you should subscribe though.
I think that if you subscribe to something you should be getting extras and lose the ads. You might say “but jerry, the magazines have ads in them and you subscribed to them”. I would respond, “hey the subscription was supposed to pay for the transport of that magazine to me, ahead of the general release to the public stands. The cover price of a magazine goes mostly to pay for the transportation and distribution chain, not the publisher”. They are, or should be, making their income from the ads in the publication.
IOS 4.1 – An early view
01 year ago
I was able to get IOS 4.1 on my 2nd gen ipod touch early and my I say I am underwhelmed. While it seems a bit faster, on a 2nd gen touch, I do not get many of the cool features. No home screen wallpaper, no multitasking, no bluetooth keyboard!
If you are just going to IOS4 then you will be wowed. Having folders, grouping by a common theme, for your apps is very nice. It makes finding the app you want much easier. For those of you with a 3rd gen device the wallpaper for you screen is nice. As an ipad user I like being able to change the view from my page when I wish, beach for the summer, mountains for a view, relaxing for those down times. I am anxiously waiting for IOS 4.2 for the iPad.
Get the latest version for your iPhone or touch as soon as is possible. Let me know how the new version works you.
Cloud printing for the poor
2I was going through my chrome options this morning, trying to find a way to reduce the visible size of the app screen and found “cloud printing”?
This feature showed up in Chrome v9 apperently, I just didn’t notice. So I set it up and checked to see if I could print from my ipad to the desktop printer. It worked! I can even print from my iPod touch on IOS 4.2
Setting up was a breeze. Just click on the wrench and go to options then the under the hood tab. Sign in to “Cloud print” and your off.
I tested it with my iPad and Google docs. I tried two different docs and both printed just as they should. You are offered a choice of printers, based on what you have installed on the computer.
Currently the spreadsheet did not offer a cloud print choice.
I then used team viewer to setup cloud printing on a home computer with a printer and WOW. There is the printer at home. I could be anywhere and send a print-job to a printer at work or at home!
This is just one more reason to use chrome and Google docs for your word processing needs.