Monday, September 27, 2010

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kindle


If the Italian shop for books Apple is still empty so bleak, it is said that there is still deprived of the opportunity to read books on the iPad. Firstly, any e-book purchase (or own) can be brought up iPad to be read with iBook with the simple gesture of a drag & drop on iTunes .
But in addition to this possibility recently, there is at least one other big book store in iPadlandia : nothing less than Amazon USA. Unlike Apple, Amazon has no problem to make available to the user catalog of the Italian shop. It does so through an application - Kindle - Kindle reader that creates a virtual iPad. With the advantage over the hardware player by the same name, see the books in color instead of black and white. You download free
Kindle Apple Store, you register and then you are ready to buy books (there are also free) from what is probably the best stocked bookstore in the world. Obviously you have to adapt to the English reading: If you shop There are books in Italian I have found them.
If the English language can be a problem for the novels, it becomes almost an advantage for technical texts (eg computer) or, to remain in the vicinity of my taste of music. You save because the inaccuracies of the translation.

Kindle (the application) has a very pleasant, in my opinion not only more pleasant than the iBook, but the same print. Now to read in bed by iPad, maybe a light off, has already become a habit for me. So far I've downloaded
"Conversation with the Dead: the Grateful Dead interview book" And two manuals iPad, which I think is very consistent read on the small screen. In addition to a New Oxford American Dictionary free. After the purchase is located on the link to download the book, very quickly even in 3G connection. Payment is by credit card of course.

more pleasant side of things is the fact that you can buy instantly, even from your bed at night, after you hear the desire to read, without having to wait for the next day to go to the library. On this national publishers should think about.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

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for the rest of the computer (# 2) after a few thousand kilometers


Some time ago I gave my dad an iMac, the beautiful white model with a cake base. He seemed excited: he wanted to know how to use it as a typewriter, you had to explain how a spreadsheet (but I could never really explain what good is a spreadsheet), was interested in iPhoto, which I intended to use as a replacement of the prints pictures of the granddaughter, but never too successful.
the end, the thing he liked most was insert the CD, probably because it was the thing that most closely approximates the experience of using the DVD player, the one tool that was intuitive, unlike the computer. The end you have guessed quell'iMac lying unused for a long time.

Today my father has used my iPad, the same one that I'm writing this post. He loved the experience of browsing the photographs, it was fun to beat a broom, and when at last he began to speak in dialect with the cat's Talkin Tom exclaimed, "the hip Vori Mj chel rob people."
I did not have to talk about log-in, windows, menus, applications. All intuitive even to his experience.
I think Steve Jobs has seen far away.

- 100% Posted from my iPad

Monday, September 13, 2010

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" Since I have it in hand, my iPad has different path thousands of kilometers. So after a fairly intense use, I reflected yesterday in the train-while-I used about how he eventually changed my ways of interacting in a different way than I expected to read the first American reviews.
I find it very convenient and easy to write on the tablet (to play there this summer I wrote an entire novelette and ten thousand words, on the beach for the most part) and Pages is the perfect application to do so. But above all, when I'm on the internet with a computer seems very cumbersome to do certain simple operations. The IPAD is always there, you take it, is ready, you put it in your backpack and sleeping.
So a really good feeling. I would not have bet at the beginning
. Read about

Blog Notes, the blog of writer Giuseppe Granieri. The entire post can be read here .

- 100% Posted from my iPad

Sunday, September 5, 2010

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Getting Things Done productivity

iPad Speaking of productivity in the previous post, I decided to postpone discussion on the choice of implementation of Getting Things Done , ie create a list of things to do as productive as possible. GTD applications on a Mac are many and the choice is not easy, especially not being able to prove in general more than a few.
A program of work should be used for GTD, it is self-evident; but to be used must be able to meet some requirements: (1) must have a fast and intuitive for taking notes quickly without getting lost or losing time, but (2) should also be useful , that have enough power to create projects of any complexity. In short, must be good at hiding their complexity under the hood. In addition it is desirable that synchronize information between your computer (Mac), iPhone and iPad, because it is the end with the phone going around and it is important that you can read at a glance of things to do at the moment, and the ability to add notes on the fly.
Finally a program of GTD inevitably forces us at least a little at a certain work discipline, and it is important to know that convince us to do so.

In the past, on Mac I have never found a GTD program that would satisfy me, because I always hoped that Apple would be to put something together in an efficient information iCal, and Notes Mail . But none of these programs have never been too significant developments of the day on which it was submitted.

After much browsing in the store, the two programs were finalists Things and OmniFocus, both unfortunately also the most expensive among all those available (respectively 15.99 and € 31.99, among the more expensive applications on the Apple Store).
I tried the trial version for both Mac in earlier times, but not lovers, also because of an insufficiently pleasing look and feel (I admit, I'm a perfectionist interface, but because I believe that beauty and efficiency go hand in hand). OmniFocus also the impression of being not only too expensive too complex.
version of Things iPad is rather elegant, and I decided to that. Using Things is apparently so easy to take at first as if to repent of the expenditure, but then discover that behind the immediate interface lies a more than enough power. You can create notes flying, but also projects and at work, in a very natural and without any obligation. Every thing "to do" moves in an intuitive way (on the Mac with drag and drop) and we are offered a list of things to do in a day and order cromnologico. In addition syncs "fairly" with iPhone. I write enough so far because synchronization occurs only in wi-fi Mac with iPad ed iPhone , ma i programmatori stanno lavorando alacremente ad una versione universale che sincronizzi tramite il cloud computing. Certo, per usarlo su tutte le piattaforme bisogna acquistare tre volte Things ...
In Things per iPad quello che mi manca è una visione a calendario: non credo sarebbe impossibile mostrare un calendario che fonda le informazioni di iCal e quelle di Things. Inoltre forse mi farebbe piacere un outliner, ma forse lo penso solo per abitudine. La versione di Things per Mac ha meno sex appeal grafico ma funziona bene. Anche qui, sarebbe auspicabile la possibilità di visionare da una sola finestra il calendario di iCal e le mail. Things per iPhone , infine, fa esattamente quello che deve fare: mostrare gli impegni ed permettere annotazioni.
Per inciso, aggiungo che su iPhone ho affiancato a Things un programmino di note molto comodo, Awesome Note , che permette di scrivere note volanti ma anche liste, per esempio della spesa, o informazioni di altro tipo (io uso il diario di viaggio nei miei tour motociclistici) per task banali per cui non vale la pena di mobilitare la famiglia Things .


Wednesday, September 1, 2010

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iPad non è solo tutte le cose meravigliose che abbiamo descritto nelle "Road tests" recent post. It is also a personal computer to all intents and purposes, a few limitations which are mostly placed artificially in order not to overlap (for now) to the lucrative market for mobile computers: the MacBook . Compared to the traditional PC iPad has the great advantage of making invisible the operating system: the computer is ready instantly turns off instantly and every program you open in an intuitive way by touching an attractive icon.
The advantage for users is that iPad has eliminated the need for file management.
The disadvantage is that it has not replaced by any altro metodo.
Da un certo punto di vista con iPad mi par di tornare ai tempi del mio primo glorioso Apple //c , un bel computer la cui memoria di massa era costituita semplicemente da un floppy disc di cartone. Quando infilavo il floppy , sistema operativo, applicazione e documenti erano tutti li. Quando infilavo il floppy di un altro applicativo, i documenti del primo non c’erano più.
Quando negli anni ‘90 Apple mise sul mercato il proprio primo dispositivo palmare, lo straordinario Apple Newton , questo consisteva grosso modo in un blocco di appunti con un blob di dati su cui i vari applicativi potevano mettere le mani. Il sistema Operating Newton was oriented to the documents. In contrast, in iPad each application has its precise place where the barriers can not get out. In this space hold their own data and documents, and can not get out of here, more or less as it was mentioned on Apple / / (or MS DOS ). iPad is oriented programs. The advantages of this method are those of a very solid (more than one application may crash and collapse badly written without disturbing the others) and ease of use. The disadvantages? Manage complex projects gets a little 'complicated.
Until it comes to films, photographs, libri, riviste, giochi non c’è problema. Quando invece si desideri ottenere il massimo della produttività utilizzando un iPad al posto di un computer tradizionale, con qualche ostacolo ci si può scontrare.
Quando misi le mani sul mio primo Macintosh , praticamente il primo modello (un 512 K o FatMac ), restai conquistato dalle killer app con cui arrivava. Naturalmente MacWrite, MacPaint e MacDraw (e più tardi Word e Multiplan - il papà di Excel ) ma anche programmi che non avevo immaginato prima, come Think Tank , un outliner che nel tempo sarebbe diventato More (Then gradually evolved in some way to the current Adobe Flash alo same motion in which the T-Rex has evolved over the current sparrows). Since I use iPad'm looking for a killer app with the same content.
course I downloaded the suite of office Pages (writing), Numbers (spreadsheet), Keynote (presentation), Bento (database). Special programs that allow you to create formatted documents on the fly with sophisticated iPad without anything to envy to the personal computer. The problem is that I never ever want to format documents in a sophisticated way to a iPad. What I need is a program that allows me to concentrate on the substance (ideas, plans, notes, programs) to the form (formatting - beyond all iPad currently does not provide the press). I am very happy with the programs of the office suite, but I use them more to see and edit documents already created on the Mac and creating new ones.
I needed first and foremost a writing program, more agile and more "tank of ideas" (think tank) in Pages. The programs of its kind on the store are hundreds if not thousands, and it is difficult to decide which is best without having to try it. The good news is that the programs still cost a few euro, and then some the attempt can be done. On writing the app I've found is more suited to my needs Notebooks , which allows me to write notes on a sheet of paper "and possibly pick it up in the projects (the program calls" books "). A second app, Adobe Ideas allows me to collect notes also designed to complement those written. The limitation is that documents created with the two separate app can not, as explained, be collected in projects, or folders, unit. There are programs that let you write and draw, like Notepad Pro but hurt both.
Dropbox allows me to see documents from the dropbox in my computer and possibly even open them or Notebooks Pages or Numbers . Bento is my data base, simple but time-saving and intuitive. For those who need complex management is already available to the winning couple version of FileMaker Pro and Mac iPad covering the most professional and business needs.
MaxJournal is a diary that allows you to write something every day and can be password protected (I wonder why we can not do the same with Mail ...). The restriction is that it has nothing to do with iCal (the program agenda iPad), and the result is that never use it.
3banana is a free program notes. There is already an excellent program native of notes, notes exactly, but since you can sync your notes with the Mac and iPhone, is the need for a program known as a "non" to synchronize. 3banana order is perfect.
Blogpress is an agile program to update the blog by iPad. Of course you should be able to do it directly from Safari mobile, but since the interface blogspot does not always work perfectly, it is more comfortable with the economic Blogpress .

purposes all these applications, I still had the need (speaking of "reservoir of ideas") of an app to help me get organized. Getting Things Done (GTD), of "doing things", as they say in English. Here the choice is very much on the next post and tell you how I solved it myself.