Slanj friends Dougie form Scotland here, just splashed out and took the plunge and bought a ipad2 !!!
Having been a Pc user for some 15+ years now hey what a shock, a very different operation it is to get used to although in ways similar?
So why did i buy? darn good question, basically i am a semi retired but still functioning webmaster/owner of a VW Van forum and a few others for my sins as such due to ill health [important point here] as i have MS and find often a keybaord har dto use and voice activated software is still not conversant in enough of a degree with the "Scottish" accent to be useful enough so a soft-touch screen was my only route, but it also had to be portable, light and able to be used from a bed where sadly i spend a good portion of my time nowadays which after investigation nothing else in its price bracket really was sad reality that Windows operated machines are so far back and archaoch in this respect...
So having purchased i first had to overcome the severe lack of information in teh box?? a flyer sized piece of card with 3 instructions really doesnt cut it Apple come-on, not everyone first off has access to a PC nor do they use Apple Stote or Itunes a bad mistake in my view to pressume anything luckily we had a PC although not Itunes after i kid you not 6 attempts and hours of hair pulling i finally got it to opeate and have been ok ever since however a decent manaula would of gone a LONG LONG way to assist me with this i really find it incredible in this day and age it does not come with any such materials..
So having taken the plunge i am not wholly unimpressed with it, but have my doubts, and my scepticm about the product that will only be altered through use, i still object to ahving to again purchase software that i have already done on my current PC just as Apple have an obvious monopoly on software that you reaquire to get any functionality from the machine much as most is not that expensive a mere £0.69 - £ 1.69 a piece although that could soon mount up if not carefull, and so to my questions then for now?
1 - Who does one know what size, a document, a file or an image is on the Ipad so as to know when storage is running low? i can see no way of gaining this information..
1A - Is there a way to find out how much overall of the available GB's storage availablel that you have used on an Ipad 2 and if so how?
2 - How do you remove downloaded apps when no longer required i.e uninstall useless apps??
3 - Is there any preferably FREE software that will interegrate Microsoft Word docs to Ipad and back again.
5 - I have for years kept a daily diary just written in word 2007 formats but can not use this on my Ipad so how can i transfer, use said diary on my Ipad or is there any similar products for ipad that i can download my previous few years diaries and carry on in my ipad format if you se what i mean [i require to keep, health, drug and feelings logs on my various conditions, it would be so great if i did not require to re-write 2+ years of diary to get it all in the one format again it was previously written in mobile word 2001 from an Ipaq devise that is easily readable on my main PC as all was stored on an SD card of course with no external storage systems able to be used this also causes me an issue more later about that though]
I welcome your thoughts, help and assistance on these few points guys and look forward to contributing and asking more as time progresses ....
For now
Slanj
Having been a Pc user for some 15+ years now hey what a shock, a very different operation it is to get used to although in ways similar?
So why did i buy? darn good question, basically i am a semi retired but still functioning webmaster/owner of a VW Van forum and a few others for my sins as such due to ill health [important point here] as i have MS and find often a keybaord har dto use and voice activated software is still not conversant in enough of a degree with the "Scottish" accent to be useful enough so a soft-touch screen was my only route, but it also had to be portable, light and able to be used from a bed where sadly i spend a good portion of my time nowadays which after investigation nothing else in its price bracket really was sad reality that Windows operated machines are so far back and archaoch in this respect...
So having purchased i first had to overcome the severe lack of information in teh box?? a flyer sized piece of card with 3 instructions really doesnt cut it Apple come-on, not everyone first off has access to a PC nor do they use Apple Stote or Itunes a bad mistake in my view to pressume anything luckily we had a PC although not Itunes after i kid you not 6 attempts and hours of hair pulling i finally got it to opeate and have been ok ever since however a decent manaula would of gone a LONG LONG way to assist me with this i really find it incredible in this day and age it does not come with any such materials..
So having taken the plunge i am not wholly unimpressed with it, but have my doubts, and my scepticm about the product that will only be altered through use, i still object to ahving to again purchase software that i have already done on my current PC just as Apple have an obvious monopoly on software that you reaquire to get any functionality from the machine much as most is not that expensive a mere £0.69 - £ 1.69 a piece although that could soon mount up if not carefull, and so to my questions then for now?
1 - Who does one know what size, a document, a file or an image is on the Ipad so as to know when storage is running low? i can see no way of gaining this information..
1A - Is there a way to find out how much overall of the available GB's storage availablel that you have used on an Ipad 2 and if so how?
2 - How do you remove downloaded apps when no longer required i.e uninstall useless apps??
3 - Is there any preferably FREE software that will interegrate Microsoft Word docs to Ipad and back again.
5 - I have for years kept a daily diary just written in word 2007 formats but can not use this on my Ipad so how can i transfer, use said diary on my Ipad or is there any similar products for ipad that i can download my previous few years diaries and carry on in my ipad format if you se what i mean [i require to keep, health, drug and feelings logs on my various conditions, it would be so great if i did not require to re-write 2+ years of diary to get it all in the one format again it was previously written in mobile word 2001 from an Ipaq devise that is easily readable on my main PC as all was stored on an SD card of course with no external storage systems able to be used this also causes me an issue more later about that though]
I welcome your thoughts, help and assistance on these few points guys and look forward to contributing and asking more as time progresses ....
For now
Slanj
If its any consolation im in a windswept Central Scotland [Loch Lomond] 
