Apple iPad and related items (part 2)

*sits up and takes notice*

me too.....

I know someone who does games, she gets £250 per article, and loadsa free stuff...... but it dont half seem looooooong....

I'd love to do some more techy stuff tho

Oooooh I cant remember who's she's doing it through, Ill have a look next time she links one to me....... tbh, they're normally walkthroughs of RPG games, so looooooooooooooooooong articles.

I might try writing a couple of articles, how long is a good length for a review?

I was also thinking about writing some how to's........ setting up your own VPN on a router for using on public wifi etc....... I dont know if stuff like that would get any interest though.

Would love to write for WF, have in fact started a couple posts a few times but never seem to find time to get something properly done...

I'd be happy to have a go at writing a review on this and maybe some other ipad music apps as that's mainly what I got mine for...

cool - will try and sit down over the weekend and get something together!

Ive been planning on writing an article on how to set up a home VPN for idevices using ddwrt router firmware...... is that a bit too shit to write about?

(its very handy mind)

Trainz simulator is only 99c this weekend!

I'm tone deaf and almost totally a-musical.

Still, do you reckon it'd be worth a punt, for a bit of a laugh?

Given artichoke's reaction to my singing ("you only do it to annoy me " (I don't )), I can only imagine what her reaction to my music would be. Still, whaddaya reckon, Crispy? Fun for an atonal musically stunted lulz?

if you use all the helper functions then it's almost impossible to make it sound bad. It's worth having just for showoff value tbh - anyone with a fraction of a gram of musical talent will instantly want to get one

I got grade 4 trumpet. I only discovered during my sister's Maids' of Honours' speech that the reason her viola had sounded so... samey... over the 8 years she 'learnt' it, is that she'd taken grade 1 8 times, and failed grade 1 8 times.

Out of interest, would it be relatively easy to knock out some, say, gabber? And / or a bit of happy hardcore?

No, it's not really suited to it. There's no drum programming (yet)
There are dance music apps but they're nowhere near as polished

Oh

This evening, put on some headphones, dim the lights, maybe a wee toke if so inclined, and lose yourself in Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery - pixel art, gorgeous music, witty self-referential dialogue, atmosphere in truckloads. I'm only 30% through it but it's already one of my favorite iOS games. Comes out on iphone/pod in a month.

iPad looks like a winner when it comes to games, perfect for games like Carccacone (sp!) and Settlers of Catania.

I've relented and ordered one. It was the news that they're releasing Baldur's Gate for it in the summer that swayed me.

Didn't you buy one before then sell it over a bout of buyers regret?

Yeah, the first one. I took it back for a full refund after a month. I claimed I was a scientist who needed a device that could charge from usb for field trips. They grudgingly accepted the full refund

Haha very creative!

The iPad does charge from USB.

Only from certain desktop macs.

I don't get it. It comes with a USB cable. You plug it into a USB port. It charges.

Ok, well, the first one only charged from certain Macs two years ago. I proved it in-store with a pc and a Macbook. It might have changed now that manufacturers are upgrading the voltage of their usb ports.