Here's one of those iPad features you just wouldn't intuit:
You can un-do typing/deleting/pasting (more than once) by shaking the durn thing!
It has to be shaken pretty vigorously too, so I can't use it, for example, when it's sitting in my book holder.
Thanks to the Ipad Missing Manual.
(Ooh, another advantage to ebooks: sometimes they come out earlier than the print version.)
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By the way, I love O'Reilly's gimmick of having a line drawing of an animal on each of their books. It's beautiful, and it makes O'Reilly books instantly memorable and recognizable.
It's so much more asthetic than the glaring yellow covers of the "Dummies" series. Although admittedly those do have the other characteristics. But they would also if you embedded broken glass in the cover.
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Sounds like someone played with an Etch A Sketch too much as a kid.
Hah!
How about if you held it upside-down while shaking it, you erased everything in the solid-state memory!
I'm guessing that in very general terms, construction of the iPad is likely to be of a similar fashion to a typical laptop / netbook?
Not sure how happy or confident I would feel to be shaking one of those about, particularly as we routinely tend to treat such devices as though they were made of cut glass, wrapping them in neoprene sleeves and protective cases.
I wonder if the Apple warranty covers 'death by shaking'? :-)
That tip will get you a gill of best when I next see you in a pub. Soon the tabloids will be FUDing 'Shaken iPad Syndrome' like they did mugging and dogging.
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