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#3585697 - 06/03/12 10:43 PM
Early bday present-iPad3
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So my husband discovered (stole) my android tablet and since he likes android he kept it. The gift for him stealing my tablet is the iPad3 for my birthday. I'm not exactly excited with it, I'm sure it will grow on me soon. I guess I'm so accustomed to my android tablet and how I can use it, the ipad3 doesn't function the same. Major complaint so far is the lack of bluetooth file transfer from pc to tablet, but I'm using Dropbox to overcome that problem. Now to research apps for my favorite games.
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#3585826 - 06/04/12 08:03 AM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Lifer
Registered: 01/27/03
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I guess the saying "what you grow up with is always best" is true... I started with iPad and tried my wifes android and hated it, lol... I absolutely love my iPad... congrats. 
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#3586155 - 06/04/12 05:40 PM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Magnum - what are, for you, the essential iPad apps?
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#3586558 - 06/05/12 12:52 PM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Stephanie, get Battle Academy!
Our password is always SimHQ
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#3586569 - 06/05/12 01:19 PM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Lifer
Registered: 01/27/03
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Loc: Naples, Florida
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it all depends on WHAT you want to do with your iPad... use it for office stuff, then the office apps work great (under apple apps)
for the gamer... me... web site apps like IGN, gamespot, @gamer etc etc... thats gaming news and reviews... for games, theres plenty of good shooters out there, but i don't like them due to the lack of controller... so I mostly play classics like Battleship, risk, monopoly, and great games like Real racing 2 HD, Battle Academy and Combat Mission Touch...
if your into art and drawing, good apps for that... music too... it's all up to your intrest...
iBook, I keep all my manuals and game guides on the iPad easy to use and look up WHILE gaming... etc etc.
I posted some screens once of all my apps, can't find it now thou...
and now looks like M$ is introducing glass apps... they work in conjunction with your xbox 360 system and game, so you have the map on your ipad while playing on 360... coming Decemember.
etc
etc
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#3586580 - 06/05/12 01:48 PM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Chief Pheasant Controller
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Dude, the MS app thing would be AWESOME.
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#3586819 - 06/05/12 08:27 PM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Registered: 09/15/04
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Thanks, Magnum. Big draw for me is the ability to have all my pdf manuals etc on a decent sized portable screen, accessible during computer use. Do you use any outside app for pdf display, or does the iPad have a good enough native display for them? Can you organize them by category or are they all listed together?
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#3586842 - 06/05/12 09:45 PM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Flipboard is a very safe recommendation, and wonderfully leverages the good things about an iPad.
Good Reader would be the first recommendation for PDF viewing.
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#3586868 - 06/05/12 10:22 PM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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+1 for Goodreader
I keep all my pdf game manuals there, it's like iBook but also allows annotation and has dropbox, http, ftp to make it easy to get the pdf's on the iPad when iTunes is not available.
Flipboard to read news
Kindle App for reading ebooks
Splashtop Remote for playing games on the PC and streaming it to the iPad while on the couch
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#3586914 - 06/06/12 12:03 AM
Re: Early bday present-iPad3
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Thanks guys - very helpful advice. My new edition is expected to arrive beginning of next week. Courtesy of United Mileage Plus redemption. Some of those zillions of miles are paying off!
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