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Re: iPadOS

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Post by throwaway413 »

xpe wrote: post #261
simonh wrote: post #219

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Maybe they’re mostly used for that, but ‘made for that’ is just not true. Apple has consistently, right from the start marketed it as a productivity and creative device, even emphasising iWork apps in the launch presentation and releasing Garage Band for it a few months after launch. They’ve consistently highlighted creative apps for the iPad year after year. For me, my iPad is m primary creative device, by far. I wr…

What do you use for (a) coding and (b) keyboard?

Here's my setup:

1) iPad Pro 256gb 11"

2) Apple keyboard case

3) Apple magic keyboard 2 w/ number pad (when I need to really get into it)

4) DigitalOcean VM instance

5) Termius ssh iOS app

6) Neovim on the VM, or sometimes I pull out VS Code via code-server [1] and exposed via #7

7) Custom domain name w/ nginx serving up my projects and services from the VM

8) AirPlay via my Apple TV to any connected displays

[1] https://github.com/cdr/code-server

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Post by markandrewj »

oarsinsync wrote: post #296
mjcohen wrote: post #294

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Or go into the finder (or iTunes), find the triangle beside the CD name, and left-click it.

I don’t think that existed back in the day, I could be wrong though. I’m thinking 1998-1999 era iMac personally.

The trash can method is how you would of ejected the CD in OS 9, but back then there was also an eject key on the keyboard.

Re: iPadOS

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Post by cultofmetatron »

vvilliam0 wrote: post #241

Sidecar as a pen tablet could be a game-changer. My fiancee has been looking for a mobile drawing computer. The only thing I could recommend until now was the Surface Book since Apple doesn't make anything mobile that could run the full Adobe suite. If you can sketch with the iPad Photoshop and there is sidecar support for Illustrator and the other apps, it might be a good deal.

I'm currently using my ipad pro as a secondary monitor with full wacom tablet-like functionality using the duet app. it works pretty well and has full support for the apple pencil. I have paperlike as a screen protector which gives a paperlike "resistence" when I'm drawing on it too..

https://www.duetdisplay.com/ https://paperlike.com/

Re: iPadOS

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

throwaway413 wrote: post #301
xpe wrote: post #261

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What do you use for (a) coding and (b) keyboard?

Here's my setup: 1) iPad Pro 256gb 11" 2) Apple keyboard case 3) Apple magic keyboard 2 w/ number pad (when I need to really get into it) 4) DigitalOcean VM instance 5) Termius ssh iOS app 6) Neovim on the VM, or sometimes I pull out VS Code via code-server [1] and exposed via #7 7) Custom domain name w/ nginx serving up my projects and services from the VM 8) AirPlay via my Apple TV to any connected displays [1] htt…

Blink is by far the best ssh/mosh app I have found. mosh is a gamechanger if you use mobile data and the interface of the app is the best implementation of a shell I came across so far. If you haven't tried it yet it's worth looking at. Steep price tag but justified by how much you use it.

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Post by chaboud »

dallen33 wrote: post #18

The list of supported devices is impressive. The iPad Air 2 came out in 2014. 12.9-inch iPad Pro 11-inch iPad Pro 10.5-inch iPad Pro 9.7-inch iPad Pro iPad (7th generation) iPad (6th generation) iPad (5th generation) iPad mini (5th generation) iPad mini 4 iPad Air (3rd generation) iPad Air 2

I noticed that my iPad mini 2 finally falls off the list, but that thing is somewhat ancient.

However, my Thinkpad X220 (maybe circa 2011?) still runs Windows 10 and Ubuntu, allowing it to stay up to date on security patches. In a way, Apple's support levels are only impressive because we're inured to quick device expiration in other contexts (e.g. phones).

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Post by fragmede »

tolmasky wrote: post #184

Apparently as part of the "desktop class" browser experience in iPad OS, Safari lost its ability to double-tap to zoom. This is a feature I use on basically every single webpage, including when I am browsing on an actual desktop computer. Chrome's lack of this feature kept me on desktop Safari for ages. I can't believe they've taken it out. It significantly deteriorates my browsing experiencing. And for what? To add…

Fwiw Chrome on OS X supports the zoom mode you are talking about. (I'm not talking about ctrl-+ text resizing zoom.) On a mighty/apple mouse, it's a triple tap gesture iirc.

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Post by iaml »

redler wrote: post #38
iaml wrote: post #16

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It's very annoying. I haven't found a way to close the app in slideover apart from opening sidedrawer and closing all the apps there.

Perhaps dragging the overlaid app, by its header, straight off the edge of the screen (i.e., horizontally)?

Thanks! Didn't try that particular combination.

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Post by newscracker »

wlesieutre wrote: post #101
nostromo wrote: post #55

I've tried to use these desktop-inspired features on iPad and they are befuddling. Using two apps at once is beyond confusing. A simple use case, like copying an address from a Safari tab into Gmail via split screen requires so many mysterious, undiscoverable gestures, I doubt almost anyone is doing that. I think Jobs was right that convergence between workstations and mobile devices requires too many sacrifices, at…

A lot of discovery on desktop computers was by hovering over stuff for tooltips or poking around in menus. Touch devices don't have that, so you get the basic functionality exposed, but other stuff isn't as discoverable. I don't think this is as much of a problem as people make it out to be. They've managed to keep the iPad just as accessible to everyone, and they prod you occasionally with notifications from the Tip…

> As far as moving a URL from a Safari tab to Gmail, why not just copy and paste it? Tap once on the URL bar, the keyboard pops up with all the text selected, and there's a copy button right there. Or you can tap on the selected text to bring up the cut/copy/paste buttons.

Not the GP, but I can think of one reason not to copy paste, which is to avoid overwriting whatever’s already in the clipboard. However bad the discoverability may be, this function is just drag and drop, and need not involve the clipboard unless the user wants to.

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Post by p1necone »

nessus42 wrote: post #286
crooked-v wrote: post #257

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> you can swipe from the bottom-right corner of the screen with the Apple Pencil and it'll take a screenshot of the webpage and open it for marking up I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists???

> I... but... how in the world is anyone ever supposed to know that exists??? Apple products have been like this for ages. I.e., they present a "simple" interface for the "typical" user, and then they provide "advanced" features for the "power user" that are only accessible via keyboard shortcuts, or what have you. (E.g., doing a screenshot on MacOS is via Command-$.) Their success in achieving the right balance, how…

I'm utterly bewildered that there's no official documentation of this stuff though. This seems to be common with a lot of modern software too.

I remember when google maps changed from having a from location box and a to location box to just letting you type "from address A to address B", which is pretty nifty. However this was never actually documented so I spent months pressing randomly to get the old UI up (it still seemed to exist, but only in some states of the application) before I finally realized that was the new way.

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