Re: [PLUG] wh(y/i) pad

["John BORIS" <JBORIS@adphila.org>]

Ron
If for anything a good repository for digital references. A kindle does
the same but it depends on your needs. I have both and my iPad is wifi
only so it has not be a part of my tool belt. I got mine to do stats for
football and as a handy notebook. Also hit big at casinos which allowed
me to splurge. 
John Boris ---- Sent from my Blackberry 
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Kaye Jr <rekaye1005@verizon.net>
To:  <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>

Sent: 12/28/2012 4:54:27 PM
Subject: [PLUG] wh(y/i) pad

 if i may link to lincs post ...
and i ask in all sincerity,
why do i need an ipad, for WORK AND/OR HOME
 
 
 Ron Kaye Jr 
914-7294734

On 12/27/12, Lincoln Fessenden 
 wrote:

I had a V2 a while back before I went strictly android and they way I
managed things was to use a file manager on the iPad with ftp (I forget
the name of it), but that let me ftp things to and from the iPad.

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:16:47PM -0500, jeff wrote:
> The world *is* actually going to end shortly, as evidenced by work
> getting me an iPad.
> 
> I am not the least bit interested in iTunes. I don't want to dig up
> Steve Jobs and ask permission each time I want to put a media file
> on my device. No syncing needed - just xfer files and
> play/view/display them.
> 
> Plugging into Win7 allows me access to DCIM but I can't actually put
> anything there. Plugging into Xubuntu 12.04 finds a USB device but
> that's it. Xubuntu 12.10 fully identifies the iPad and that's it.
> I have Googled, installed libimobile, fuse, gtkpod and whatever
> else, to no avail.
> 
> Apparently one cannot simply use a File Manager to manage files.
> Every manager I found wants you to use ITS file system.
> 
> I know these things are pretty popular. How does PLUG use them?
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> -- 
> ThermionicEmissions - the blog
> http://leftystrat.blogspot.com
>
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-Linc Fessenden

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