iOs & iOs Apps (inc iPhone, iPad, iPod, iBrick)

Dang, just read that Siri's only available for the 4S for the time being. Was looking forward to never having to type a text again.

Isn't that known as "making a phone call?"

If I know anything about creative directors it's that they spend a lot of time looking over designers shoulders going mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm AMIRITE??

repped. YESUIZRITE.

HEH!

I hate talking on the phone, also no one understands my thick accent.

no one understands my thick accent.

Beg pardon?

Will siri understand it?

No, because I only have an iPhone 4

:(

I have one which I use almost exclusively. The Netbook hardly ever gets used.
I tend to use it for mail, web, reading books, PDF manuals and comics, making notes with Evernote, making spreadsheets with Numbers, knocking up musical ideas with Garageband and watching movies and TV shows.
I think you still need a real PC or mac. The iPad is not a desktop replacement (It has not Flash, and having no user-accessible file system as such it can't even download many files from the web), but it is a laptop replacement. I still have a powerful desktop for music production, image editing, huge filestore for MP3s (and the iTunes is shared so I can play them on the iPad - with Airport Express plugged into the stereo. nice)

However, I have found it enormously useful to make sure I always own at least one OSX machine (my Netbook is a hackintosh) to edit PDFs on.
Preview makes rotating and cropping single pages really easy, and a lot of PDFs have an image format that doesn't work in iBooks. Opening them in Preview and saving them fixes these problematic PDFs. Some apps also have iOS "extras" (such as the comic book reader I've got which has a really nifty iOS app to transfer content). I also keep one old Windows XP laptop, for reading those troublesome (especially copy-protected) discs that won't work on Windows 7, plugging in old devices (e.g. anything with a serial port).

you tried GoodReader for iPad? Its a PDF-based revelation.

The iPad is not a desktop replacement (It has not Flash, and having no user-accessible file system as such it can't even download many files from the web),

Maybe a different tablet would be a good idea, if you miss these features?

No, because I only have an iPhone 4

:(

Maybe worth playing with Dragon speak to see if it understands you, before considering upgrading to 4S, just to get Siri? I believe they use the same speech recognition engine.

(such as the comic book reader I've got which has a really nifty iOS app to transfer content)

Which one as a matter of interest? I've been using the Comixology app.

Maybe a different tablet would be a good idea, if you miss these features?

Ha.
For what I use the iPad for I don't, but sometimes you need to use a real computer.

Which one as a matter of interest? I've been using the Comixology app.

ComicBookLover.

Very good for CBZ and CBR archives that you might have downloaded off less than legitimate websites.
I got it purely to read my way through the entire Modesty Blaise collection

^ Thanks. I'm a comic newb tbh. Just finished the Sandman series and looking for new stuff.

^ Thanks. I'm a comic newb tbh. Just finished the Sandman series and looking for new stuff.

Preacher. I can't reccommend it highly enough.

Thanks! Will check it out.

Preacher. I can't reccommend it highly enough.

+1

I see the Facebook app is finally out for iPad.
And full of bugs.

So when does the new ios launch for proper? Anyone know?

Tomorrow

Mint.

Fingers crossed I wont have to reinstall everything to go from the beta, to the full release...

ioS5 is out there. Go and get it, minions.

Got it, notifications and to-do lists/reminders looking good

A nice feature. I used Sorted and Wunderlist for that.
I'd love to see all the calendars, notes and to-do lists integrated in one and able to wirelessly sync with other devices. Right now I have four different lists/calendars and all the shit is multiplied on my Mac.

Blackberry is finished...

ipad (1) doesn't seem to want to update... just keeps erroring after extract.

Anyone know where I can download the ipsw (or whatever it is) so I don't have to download it through itunes?