New iPad 3 user - the most frustrating 7 hours of my life.......
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Midranger4
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Jez EMIN said:
App arrow keys URL free provides directional keys in addition to others you may find useful.
Cursor placement is what by default the iPad provides. Takes some practice and topic can be found in the manual or online.
twerppoet
iPad Fan
Well, for heavy typing most bluetooth keyboards will pair with the iPad, and the arrow keys will work normally in most apps.
Some text apps modify the keyboard to include arrow keys, but there is no way to modify the system's default keyboard. (short of jailbreaking)
A little practice with the tapping and holding behavior for text selection and cursor placement may reduce how much you miss the arrow keys. I once spent an hour playing with this in Safari (for non-editable text) and Notes just to get familiar with what I can do. Experience really does make things quicker.
And while nothing is quite as fast as well practiced keyboard arrows and shortcuts, the text field is close to the software keyboard, so it's not as bad as reaching back and forth between a mouse and keyboard on a computer; which is what I usually do, and tends to explain my rather blasé attitude towards the missing arrow keys.
MoonlitSonata
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Marli said:
Wrong.
taddle
iPF Noob
MoonlitSonata said:
I agree, but in a more productive way. The iPad is certainly used for professional things, product design, sports, and business. I think your forgetting that a professional is just somebody good enough to get paid for what they do.
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Today was yet again another extremely frustrating day with my iPad.
I've come to the conclusion that the iPad is a wonderful piece of kit until you need to connect it to your pc and try to keep it in sync with photos, and then the fun begins.....
For example, I created 9 images in Lightroom exported them out to my hard disk as jpgs, iTunes saw that there were 9 images waiting for syncing but would only upload 8 of them. There was one particular image it wouldn't upload. It took a lot of investigation as to why it didn't like this particular jpg and I can't claim to have gotten to the bottom of it.
Every imaging application could open and view this image, but for some reason it wouldn't get uploaded.....
Opened and saved via photoshop fixed it for uploading, but when I reexported out of Lightroom, yet again the problem occurred (iTunes sees 9 images but would only upload 8 to my iPad unless I opened and saved the file in photoshop as a jpg OR reexported from Lightroom as a Tiff instead.......
How strange.......
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I've come to the conclusion that the iPad is a wonderful piece of kit until you need to connect it to your pc and try to keep it in sync with photos, and then the fun begins.....
For example, I created 9 images in Lightroom exported them out to my hard disk as jpgs, iTunes saw that there were 9 images waiting for syncing but would only upload 8 of them. There was one particular image it wouldn't upload. It took a lot of investigation as to why it didn't like this particular jpg and I can't claim to have gotten to the bottom of it.
Every imaging application could open and view this image, but for some reason it wouldn't get uploaded.....
Opened and saved via photoshop fixed it for uploading, but when I reexported out of Lightroom, yet again the problem occurred (iTunes sees 9 images but would only upload 8 to my iPad unless I opened and saved the file in photoshop as a jpg OR reexported from Lightroom as a Tiff instead.......
How strange.......
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twerppoet
iPad Fan
That is strange.
Depending on what you want to do with the photos once they are on the iPad, you may want to consider an alternative photo app like Photo Manager Pro or PhotoSort. If you want to work with them some more in other apps, then Photos is necessary. If all you want is to organize and view them, the alternatives may make your life easier.
Depending on what you want to do with the photos once they are on the iPad, you may want to consider an alternative photo app like Photo Manager Pro or PhotoSort. If you want to work with them some more in other apps, then Photos is necessary. If all you want is to organize and view them, the alternatives may make your life easier.
Thanks guys,
Getting them off the iPad and onto my pc has to be done via Photosmith since I need to work on them in Lightroom. Once I'm done with them in Lightroom , the good ones (which will have been edited for sure in some way) I d want to put back up to my iPad (as a photo album I guess)
Downloading from Photosmith to pc is a separate problem as even that doesn't work completely (in discussions with app writer)
Right now all I need to be comfortable doing with my iPad is getting PDFs , music and photos on and off it. (well actually PDFs and music is pretty much from PC to iPad only)
I did download and install the Dropbox app but that is looking at a hard disk place that isn't designated as my iPad sync area and by that time I'd had enough of all of this.....
I'll take a look at the photo manager app you mention but I feel like I've gotten to the point where I'm desperately buying apps in the hope it'll fix this problem or that.....
And I'm wise enough to bow to the wisdom of others when they say to get off iTunes if possible (I can see iTunes as being a restriction for me at some point in the future).
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Getting them off the iPad and onto my pc has to be done via Photosmith since I need to work on them in Lightroom. Once I'm done with them in Lightroom , the good ones (which will have been edited for sure in some way) I d want to put back up to my iPad (as a photo album I guess)
Downloading from Photosmith to pc is a separate problem as even that doesn't work completely (in discussions with app writer)
Right now all I need to be comfortable doing with my iPad is getting PDFs , music and photos on and off it. (well actually PDFs and music is pretty much from PC to iPad only)
I did download and install the Dropbox app but that is looking at a hard disk place that isn't designated as my iPad sync area and by that time I'd had enough of all of this.....
I'll take a look at the photo manager app you mention but I feel like I've gotten to the point where I'm desperately buying apps in the hope it'll fix this problem or that.....
And I'm wise enough to bow to the wisdom of others when they say to get off iTunes if possible (I can see iTunes as being a restriction for me at some point in the future).
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Wireless isn't the way I want to go with file transfers, images are way too big and way too many of them.
This is the problem also with Photosmith (I.e.. Wireless transfer = very slow), however the whole point I bought Photosmith is that in the field I can work on my images and the metadata can be imported into Lightroom.
Hence my desire to stick with Photosmith.
The app developers of Photosmith said cable transfer isn't possible due to Apple restriction, and that seems to me to be in order to use iTunes I guess because I'm guessing iTunes is the only package that allows transfer via cable with your pc......
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This is the problem also with Photosmith (I.e.. Wireless transfer = very slow), however the whole point I bought Photosmith is that in the field I can work on my images and the metadata can be imported into Lightroom.
Hence my desire to stick with Photosmith.
The app developers of Photosmith said cable transfer isn't possible due to Apple restriction, and that seems to me to be in order to use iTunes I guess because I'm guessing iTunes is the only package that allows transfer via cable with your pc......
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