Ipadded!

[gwyn]

You guys, I'm writing this on my spankin' new iPad! I've been trying for ages to rack up points on my credit card rewards, but it just seemed to take forever to accumulate enough, so I could only get a 16 GB one, but I finally have one! I've already downloaded the Nook app so I could move all my ebooks here, and got the Kindle app even though I have a lot of beeves with Amazon about publishing. But I could never get copies of some of the books by friends that were only on Kindle.

So what do you use on yours? Tina recced Evernote, so I got that, but not sure what else to do. Honestly, the most I do with my iPhone is play solitaire since I find reading on it hard. Also, do you use a screen protector? Mine came with some but I can't get the air bubbles and sticky residue from the tab off, so I'm not sold. It also came with a case but it's not really my style. Plus it smells.

Augh, I don't have time for a new toy! Vid is due in a couple weeks, and a book proof is due in 10 days. But...toy!

Comments

[frayadjacent]

I'm not sure it's as good as VLC; I seem to remember having issues with wmv files. But it's handled mov, avi, divx, and mp4 just fine. I think it does fine with all the codecs you'd typically find in a vid or a movie or episode you downloaded from the Internet. I can't recall if I've tried mkv on it but I bet it would work?

What you have to do is plug your iPad into your computer, then open iTunes on your computer. Go to the part of iTunes that controls your iPad, and there's an applications tab. If you've installed GoodPlayer, you can click on it from applications and import video files from your computer onto your iPad that way. It annoys me that you have to go through iTunes to control your iPad, but it works ok. I think you might also be able to download videos directly via GoodPlayer, but I've never actually done it!