Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 1:13PM 
Apps that download and save YouTube videos are common for good reason--Google discourages them. If you can't find an app, here is a method that by-passes the problem.
Business, Multimedia, Review, iPad, iPhone Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 9:53AM 
Watching the Today in iPad podcast, a viewer asked for help converting his Keynote presentation to Quicktime (a Mac video format) in order to upload it to YouTube. He is a teacher and wants his students to be able to see his lessons from home. Various solutions mostly involving using a desktop were proposed, but it got me thinking of iPad only methods. On a desktop, creating a screencast of the presentation would accomplish our goals. A screencast, or screen sharing, has a computer save the output of the computer display to disk, often also including audio from a microphone. This creates a video perfect for demonstrating computer tasks. We need an App that lets us do this. Lucky for us that App exists (a couple actually). See how to output your Keynote presentation to Youtube using only the iPad.
Business, Multimedia, Review, iPad, iPhone Wednesday, October 31, 2012 at 11:43PM 
Looking around the Apple section of Microcenter, I overheard a conversation someone was having with a sales person about buying an iPad. Apparently the customer has concerned about the "Great American Novel" he was writing and whether the iPad could handle it. The sales associate suggested converting the novel to RTF (Rich Text Format, an older file format for Microsoft Word) then using the RTF with Apple's word processing app, Pages. This isn't a bad solution, but a couple of thing occurred to me. One--why switch to RTF? Pages will import Word files direct and skipping the unnecessary conversion may well preserve graphics and table information that would otherwise be lost. On the other hand--why assume the laptop goes away? It's probably paid for and getting rid of it isn't going to get you much. Why not continue to use it at home and use the iPad when you are mobile. Since the author didn't seem to mind switch to RTF (I'm guessing the novel doesn't contain much graphics--most don't), it makes sense having the project readily available to both machines. You just need to use Dropbox so the RTFs are accessible, and an iPad app that supports editing RTF documents... an app like Textilus from knowtilus. This way you don't lose any functionality, and gain the ability to work on the novel when inspiration strikes.
Thursday, October 18, 2012 at 7:23PM 
I'm not an accountant so spreadsheets aren't my life, but like most people in the office environment I have used Excel before. So creating a spreadsheet on the iPad should be a snap, just buy Apple's spreadsheet app, Numbers, and your set -- right? Yes and, uh, no. Using Numbers is pretty easy, but it is not a traditional spreadsheet. Here are some tips to help you get the job done.
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Everyone knows that YouTube is a great source of videos on the internet, but it was also one of the first video sharing sites to support the iPad. With its variety of video support, uploading to YouTube takes you pretty far to getting it on your iPad. So if you need a video of kitten playing the piano in your presentation, here is how you get it on the iPad. From there you can edit it, and import it into a presentation on Keynote for the iPad.
Business, Multimedia, Productivity, Review, iPad, iPhone Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 11:11AM 
USB Flash Drives are the storage media of choice for everyday people. They are cheap, easy to carry around, and work everywhere. Unfortunately on the iPad you can only read from them in a limited way with the purchase of the $30 camera kit, and not at all on the iPhone. CloudFTP, a $99 device from Sanho, changes this. CloudFTP gives wireless file sharing capability to any USB device attached. Just plus in your USB key into the CloudFTP, and access your data via Wifi wireless using a web browser or FTP client.
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 3:25PM 
Paper by FiftyThree is a popular drawing app that has been gaining allot of attention lately. Well deserved attention, and it's latest update has really expanded it's utility. Now, not only can you save your drawing to the cameral roll, you do so without the background. This one option opens a whole range of creative opportunities. Let explore some...
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