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.
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