Firstly, there are rumours of an 'ipad lite' showing up early next year; Secondly, the continual gossip about the iPad 3 with retina display and faster processor. Both items are trailed to debut in February next year, 12 months after the iPad 2, which followed the iPad 1 by 12 months.
I think that if you have no existing stake in the platform you should wait until mid-February before diving in. If a new product is announced, either there'll be a price cut or a new high-end model meaning a lot of early adopters upgrading and selling their iPad 2's on eBay.
This assumes you have no overwhelming use case for an iPad right now, of course. If you do, then you needs it when you needs it and that's the end of it.
]]>Here's an iOS5/iCloud tip: GoodReader for iPad and iPhone just got updated with iCloud support. The way it works is, there's a new local folder in your content area labeled iCloud. Anything, anything, you put in that folder in one device will then show up on all of them. It's a trivial way to move almost any content "directly" between an iPhone and an iPad.
I'm expecting Pages for MacOS to get iCloud support soon. But what I'm really looking forward to is OmniOutliner (for both iOS and MacOS) getting it.
]]>However, I have zip PowerPoint experience (I think I've used it for maybe six hours in the past 20 years) and no real interest in using it with iOS -- you'll need to find an expert. In particular, I don't know whether QO or D2G can handle audio/video content in PowerPoint.
Apple's own Keynote presentation package can import PowerPoint (at least, the desktop OSX version can: dunno about the iOS version -- I haven't bought it).
If you actually have a Mac I'd say it's a fairly good bet that some combination of Keynote and/or OpenOffice and/or one of the iPad apps would let you do the job you're after. If you're on Windows, I'm less sure how to proceed.
]]>Apologies if you've addressed this before, of course.
And welcome, at last, to Twitter. I think you'll enjoy it.
]]>I think I've got a twitter account - I've used it ONCE, but I can't even remember my log-in/name there. It's excuse me, fucking useless unless you have touchscreen phone (I think) Or am I just a Luddite?
]]>I'd suggest going to that page, and then starting the process of getting your user name by feeding it your email address. Once you've got your ID and password again, you can then search for @cstross, and then actually follow him.
On the other hand, you don't have to follow everyone on every single network. I'm happy to keep the hell out of FB and leave it to the giddy young things of the newer generations.
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]]>BTW, is logging in via twitter going to be available after the upcoming blog update?
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