mrkgoo said:I actually made the mistake of buying all the games I liked that I already played. They were my favourite games on the iPhone, but they're 'just' up-rezzed on the iPad. I don't regret having them, but they are a bit too expensive for what they are. My favourites happen to be Scrbble and Tetris, just because they are staples and fun to play.
Gary Whitta said:That reminds me, the zombies are on my fucking ROOF now! WTF? That's not cool.
AstroLad said:There are a lot of products I like (I own every console, for starters). The difference between I and GAF is that I actually focus on the value of the product to me rather than the brand or what other people will think of me. This is why I find threads like this one and the $300 jeans thread hilarious. Only on GAF....
Tobor said:Have any of the good Tower Defense games been iPad'ded yet besides PvZ? Any new Tower Defense games that take advantage of the screen?
True, that will be my day 1 purchase. You still enjoying it?Kung Fu Jedi said:Who cares! We've finally got Warpgate!
Nazgul_Hunter said:I'm still sticking with Tris for my Tetris fix; but the touch controls don't seem to scale up as well as they should.
AstroLad said:To me, the iPad is just another Apple product that people will pay an exorbitant premium for in order to look like hipsters (read: douchebags). The "I'm a Mac" ads are literally the coupe of the century in terms of getting impressionable kids to blindly drop wads of money they don't have on a brand. Miley Cyrus must be envious.
If the iPad had any other branding (even, gasp!, "M$" branding), all of GAF would literally be laughing at it and its many huge flaws would be front and center instead of being pooh-poohed away any time they are even casually or tangentially referenced.
Look, I own an iTouch before anyone accuses me of being a hater. To me, almost all of this Apple crap is the perfect symbol of where America's at today.
And I don't mean that in a good way....
Gary Whitta said:That reminds me, the zombies are on my fucking ROOF now! WTF? That's not cool.
Tobor said:True, that will be my day 1 purchase. You still enjoying it?
Gary Whitta said:Hey where's a good place for iPad wallpapers? I imagine there will be an app soon but until then...
Gary Whitta said:Hey where's a good place for iPad wallpapers? I imagine there will be an app soon but until then...
Pretty sure there is one called Backgrounds that you get.Gary Whitta said:Hey where's a good place for iPad wallpapers? I imagine there will be an app soon but until then...
Yeah I have that on my iPhone and just downloaded the HD version for iPad. ThanksRubxQub said:Pretty sure there is one called Backgrounds that you get.
teiresias said:I just tried an iPad in the local Apple store. When I decided to leave without buying one the employees all started calling me sub-human trash that shouldn't be allowed to be stealing precious life-giving oxygen from Steve Jobs' atmosphere. This one blonde chick was in tears and throwing magic mice at me, and this other guy started stabbing out his eyes with one of those iphone stylus things saying the sight of someone as decrepit and reprehensible as one who won't buy an iPad made him rather be completely blind to the world.
I was trapped against the wall - surrounded by the mob of employees. By this time rabid fans who had just been customers had also joined the mob. I quickly grabbed an iphone display and an ipad display - ripping them from their tethers. This enraged them more - "Your filth shall not touch the iPad", "Leave it be infidel", "He sullies it, he sullies it!!".
Luckily in their state of agitation I had time to download a flashlight app to the iphone. Holding the iPad like a shield and the iPhone below it and facing backwards toward the iPad I activated the flahlight app creating a blinding glare before me that pierced the store.
The mob grabbed their faces, crying out "It is the light of Jobs!! Jobs glow blinds me for it is magical!!" I was able to force them away as I pressed forward, iPad before me the glare of it's non-eink screen providing me safe passage.
Finally I reached the door and began to run for my life. Unfortunately, mall goers behind me were caught in the fray as the fanboys and employees poured out of the store - now free from the Jobs glare's power - and began doing all kinds of horrible things I couldn't bear to watch.
I'm just glad I made it home alright.
teiresias said:I just tried an iPad in the local Apple store. When I decided to leave without buying one the employees all started calling me sub-human trash that shouldn't be allowed to be stealing precious life-giving oxygen from Steve Jobs' atmosphere. This one blonde chick was in tears and throwing magic mice at me, and this other guy started stabbing out his eyes with one of those iphone stylus things saying the sight of someone as decrepit and reprehensible as one who won't buy an iPad made him rather be completely blind to the world.
I was trapped against the wall - surrounded by the mob of employees. By this time rabid fans who had just been customers had also joined the mob. I quickly grabbed an iphone display and an ipad display - ripping them from their tethers. This enraged them more - "Your filth shall not touch the iPad", "Leave it be infidel", "He sullies it, he sullies it!!".
Luckily in their state of agitation I had time to download a flashlight app to the iphone. Holding the iPad like a shield and the iPhone below it and facing backwards toward the iPad I activated the flahlight app creating a blinding glare before me that pierced the store.
The mob grabbed their faces, crying out "It is the light of Jobs!! Jobs glow blinds me for it is magical!!" I was able to force them away as I pressed forward, iPad before me the glare of it's non-eink screen providing me safe passage.
Finally I reached the door and began to run for my life. Unfortunately, mall goers behind me were caught in the fray as the fanboys and employees poured out of the store - now free from the Jobs glare's power - and began doing all kinds of horrible things I couldn't bear to watch.
I'm just glad I made it home alright.
Gary Whitta said:Hey where's a good place for iPad wallpapers? I imagine there will be an app soon but until then...
teiresias said:I just tried an iPad in the local Apple store. When I decided to leave without buying one the employees all started calling me sub-human trash that shouldn't be allowed to be stealing precious life-giving oxygen from Steve Jobs' atmosphere. This one blonde chick was in tears and throwing magic mice at me, and this other guy started stabbing out his eyes with one of those iphone stylus things saying the sight of someone as decrepit and reprehensible as one who won't buy an iPad made him rather be completely blind to the world.
I was trapped against the wall - surrounded by the mob of employees. By this time rabid fans who had just been customers had also joined the mob. I quickly grabbed an iphone display and an ipad display - ripping them from their tethers. This enraged them more - "Your filth shall not touch the iPad", "Leave it be infidel", "He sullies it, he sullies it!!".
Luckily in their state of agitation I had time to download a flashlight app to the iphone. Holding the iPad like a shield and the iPhone below it and facing backwards toward the iPad I activated the flahlight app creating a blinding glare before me that pierced the store.
The mob grabbed their faces, crying out "It is the light of Jobs!! Jobs glow blinds me for it is magical!!" I was able to force them away as I pressed forward, iPad before me the glare of it's non-eink screen providing me safe passage.
Finally I reached the door and began to run for my life. Unfortunately, mall goers behind me were caught in the fray as the fanboys and employees poured out of the store - now free from the Jobs glare's power - and began doing all kinds of horrible things I couldn't bear to watch.
I'm just glad I made it home alright.
UBS analyst Maynard Um is raising is March quarter iPhone sales estimate from 7 million units up to 7.5 million, and hes also bumping up his iPad sales estimates for the year to 2.1 million units in fiscal 2010 and 4.6 million in 2011. Mr. Um is raising his estimates based on higher than expected demand in the U.S. and overseas.
Although we remain bullish on the long term evolution of the iPad into the central console for the home, over the near and medium-term, until we see more compelling apps to drive mass market adoption, we prefer to be cautious on overall adoption, Mr. Um said.
Multi-tasking is brilliant in almost every way, but when it comes to staying on-task it's the worst kind of poison for people like me who are big procrastinator/ADD types.scorcho said:platitudes like this crack me up - http://db.tidbits.com/article/11152
that's a whole lot of paragraphs to advocate the joys of running single applications in fullscreen mode on a large-ish display.
Gary Whitta said:Multi-tasking is brilliant in almost every way, but when it comes to staying on-task it's the worst kind of poison for people like me who are big procrastinator/ADD types.
If there was a Mac program that forced single-tasking, shutting off my access to all other programs other than the one I'm supposed to be working on for a set period of time, I would download and use it. A lot of writers I know use Freedom, which shuts off their internet for a specified period so they can't get distracted by email/web, I might look into that.
Gary Whitta said:
Gary Whitta said:Multi-tasking is brilliant in almost every way, but when it comes to staying on-task it's the worst kind of poison for people like me who are big procrastinator/ADD types.
If there was a Mac program that forced single-tasking, shutting off my access to all other programs other than the one I'm supposed to be working on for a set period of time, I would download and use it. A lot of writers I know use Freedom, which shuts off their internet for a specified period so they can't get distracted by email/web, I might look into that.
Gary Whitta said:Multi-tasking is brilliant in almost every way, but when it comes to staying on-task it's the worst kind of poison for people like me who are big procrastinator/ADD types.
If there was a Mac program that forced single-tasking, shutting off my access to all other programs other than the one I'm supposed to be working on for a set period of time, I would download and use it. A lot of writers I know use Freedom, which shuts off their internet for a specified period so they can't get distracted by email/web, I might look into that.
teiresias said:I just tried an iPad in the local Apple store. When I decided to leave without buying one the employees all started calling me sub-human trash that shouldn't be allowed to be stealing precious life-giving oxygen from Steve Jobs' atmosphere. This one blonde chick was in tears and throwing magic mice at me, and this other guy started stabbing out his eyes with one of those iphone stylus things saying the sight of someone as decrepit and reprehensible as one who won't buy an iPad made him rather be completely blind to the world.
I was trapped against the wall - surrounded by the mob of employees. By this time rabid fans who had just been customers had also joined the mob. I quickly grabbed an iphone display and an ipad display - ripping them from their tethers. This enraged them more - "Your filth shall not touch the iPad", "Leave it be infidel", "He sullies it, he sullies it!!".
Luckily in their state of agitation I had time to download a flashlight app to the iphone. Holding the iPad like a shield and the iPhone below it and facing backwards toward the iPad I activated the flahlight app creating a blinding glare before me that pierced the store.
The mob grabbed their faces, crying out "It is the light of Jobs!! Jobs glow blinds me for it is magical!!" I was able to force them away as I pressed forward, iPad before me the glare of it's non-eink screen providing me safe passage.
Finally I reached the door and began to run for my life. Unfortunately, mall goers behind me were caught in the fray as the fanboys and employees poured out of the store - now free from the Jobs glare's power - and began doing all kinds of horrible things I couldn't bear to watch.
I'm just glad I made it home alright.
I wonder if you could create a separate profile on your mac that only allowed you to use your word processor?Gary Whitta said:Multi-tasking is brilliant in almost every way, but when it comes to staying on-task it's the worst kind of poison for people like me who are big procrastinator/ADD types.
If there was a Mac program that forced single-tasking, shutting off my access to all other programs other than the one I'm supposed to be working on for a set period of time, I would download and use it. A lot of writers I know use Freedom, which shuts off their internet for a specified period so they can't get distracted by email/web, I might look into that.
Gary Whitta said:Multi-tasking is brilliant in almost every way, but when it comes to staying on-task it's the worst kind of poison for people like me who are big procrastinator/ADD types.
If there was a Mac program that forced single-tasking, shutting off my access to all other programs other than the one I'm supposed to be working on for a set period of time, I would download and use it. A lot of writers I know use Freedom, which shuts off their internet for a specified period so they can't get distracted by email/web, I might look into that.
Yeah, I have that in my DockLCfiner said:WRITEROOM
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroomDoctorWho said:What is this writeroom you speak of?
:lol thanks. I just ignore it at this point. How many times on the gaming side has someone called me a Nintendo hater or a Sony hater only to get owned when they find out I own a Wii, DSi, PS3, and PSP?Lonestar said:Oh yeah, to the people that call Astro "Poor", they're wrong.