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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Hold-it Multi-stand

I'm amazed, the Back2 site actually used my letter for a testimonial for their book-holder! (Bottom of page.) It was a quite honest letter, so I guess they are not selling too many of these yet, to use it.

I'm not sure why this particular google search found this article, but I like it. Adam touched upon a central point in the 'pad's "magic" there.
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6 comments:

  1. Bronislaus Janulis / Framewright17 Jul 2010, 13:25:00

    Interesting article from Adam Engst. The senior kid at our house, Princess Texts-A-Lot,(the small figure in "Small", from your recent contest) replaced her stolen lap top with an iPad; she will be able to do most of her school work on it.

    Here, Ten One Designs has a pressure sensitive pen already:

    http://tenonedesign.com/blog/pressure-sensitive-drawing-on-ipad/

    Personally, I have been underwhelmed by Wacoms, or even Brushes for the iPhone; if I need art on a screen, I draw or paint, and scan to get it to the screen.

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  2. Eolake Stobblehouse17 Jul 2010, 15:23:00

    It seems somehow it does it using a "dead" pen, a Pogo.
    I'm a little suspicious: how does the iPad feel the pressure?

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  3. Eolake Stobblehouse17 Jul 2010, 15:23:00

    What homework can she do on the pad?

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  4. Bronislaus Janulis / Framewright17 Jul 2010, 18:16:00

    1. I don't know either, or how the "pressure sensitive part works.

    2. With Pages and Keynote she can do presentations and WP, and with the Wi-Fi in the house, research, and most important, movie watching.

    Me, I'm trying very hard to not want or get an iPad, though it seems to me that one can do serious work on one. The iPhone is far handier, though limited; but I've never owned a laptop.

    Eolake, you have the iPhone 4, and an iPad. I'm curious if the 4 lowers the resolution of photos as the older phones did?

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  5. Eolake Stobblehouse17 Jul 2010, 18:29:00

    I am reading Joe Kissell's TakeControl ebook about working on the ipad. It much depends on use. For instance, for much DTP formatting, forget it. So far. Needs better software for it.

    I'll test the photo thing.

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  6. Eolake Stobblehouse17 Jul 2010, 19:12:00

    OK...
    It seems it does not compress/change the 5MP photos from its own camera (about 2.5megabytes each). But I emailed a 6Megabyte photo to myself, and saved it on the phone, then saved it.

    Then I mailed it *from* the phone again. And the "actual size" option was now under 600kb.
    When I received it, it was now reduced to 2.5megabytes.
    I have not seen any setting to change this.

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