You can save gifs to camera roll and send them to people. Long press on image and tap on save image. You won't see the animation in the camera roll though. Only when you send it in messages or email, it will show the animation.
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iPad Pro What Can't you do on your iPad Pro ?
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You can save gifs to camera roll and send them to people. Long press on image and tap on save image. You won't see the animation in the camera roll though. Only when you send it in messages or email, it will show the animation.
I am actually having my rMBP's battery replaced courtesy of Apple at the moment, and it's going to take up to ten days apparently!
So, I am left with only my iPad Pro and iPhone! This is going to be an interesting test of how much one can rely on iOS alone!
I have a few essays to write and a dissertation to start on; here's hoping it will be fine! The one and only thing I will probably have an issue with is because I got the 9.7" and I make all my notes in Notability, it's not going to be the most easy experience to have my notes open on one side, and Pages on the other... But that's more due to my choice of device size, rather than the limitation of it.
It would be nice to be able to dual monitor the iPad, but that's not possible- this is one of the things that catches my eye about the Surface. But I'd rather have to work around issues on an iOS device, than have to battle with Windows just to start the thing up.
So, I am left with only my iPad Pro and iPhone! This is going to be an interesting test of how much one can rely on iOS alone!
I have a few essays to write and a dissertation to start on; here's hoping it will be fine! The one and only thing I will probably have an issue with is because I got the 9.7" and I make all my notes in Notability, it's not going to be the most easy experience to have my notes open on one side, and Pages on the other... But that's more due to my choice of device size, rather than the limitation of it.
It would be nice to be able to dual monitor the iPad, but that's not possible- this is one of the things that catches my eye about the Surface. But I'd rather have to work around issues on an iOS device, than have to battle with Windows just to start the thing up.
Yes, it does. But if anything, as long as you have internet, I'd still recommend you use Google Photos anyway. Always good to have your pictures stored in multiple locations, and Google Photos is free.
Is there a young person nearby who can help you? Long press on an image is a pretty basic iOS feature.
Haha! A nice combination of frustration and flippancy!
It is true that sometimes iOS can be quite opaque to people who aren't used to just figuring things out.
iOS has a lot of hidden features like that (like the print to PDF system wide that I mentioned before).
Maybe Apple should signpost these a bit more obviously...
That may be possible in the future if MS release a version of Windows that will run on ARM but even then, I can't see Apple supporting it given it is still a desktop OS with full mouse support.
As with a few other posters my primary limitation is functionality within Excel. In particular pivot table functionality is something I hope MS implements. Additionally, I find many corporate network admins are still reluctant to allow users to install something like Parallels on their PC in order to access files on the IPP. So I find that I have to manually shuffle files between devices while at work. This becomes especially problematic when away from the office. I recognize these use cases are not the fault of the IPP, but they do currently limit my ability to go IPP only.
You can save the animated gif to photos by long press and selecting Save Image from Safari. It won't appear animated in Photos but if you create a new Keynote presentation on the iPad and insert the gif into your presentation from Photos, it will be animated in the presentation. I think the disconnect you are experiencing is the fact the gif does not appear as animated when viewed in Photos even though it does retain the animation for use in suitable applications.
In the first place, horses for courses.
Mac Pro's/iMacs are for hardcore computer/video power.
MacBook Pro's for portable power, Macbook 12" for those that like the shape of a laptop and want to go light.
IPads are for lazy folks like me, I carry a 9.7 everywhere, always, anytime.
I use a 12.9 iPad as a notepad (check out Nebo, goodreader), PDF annotating device (Documents5 with paid PDF expert) and book reader. (I'm so bad, I buy brand new study books that aren't available in digital format, have the spine cut off, scan them and the OCR them on my MacBook Pro/MacMini).
I use my 9.7" like an A5 notepad, reading books, reading good quality PDF's, quick reference book, consuming (Three newspapers with good apps, several newspapers on the internet, a little bit of television or series).
Reading on an iPad is natural: portrait mode, full pages, annotating, it's (almost?) quicker to open an iPad then to open a book, having the power of google, knowledge databases like Wolfram Alpha or Legal Intelligence, having every (study) book always with you in 1 pound...
But in some of your problems I might be able to help you a little bit.
iOS seems to be made for doing one task at a time in isolation. Any task that involves grouping data from multiple sources or routing files through multiple apps is hard or impossible.
> that seems like a difficult one, there is the split screen, but I'm not sure how much that helps you.
You can't select a bunch of files at once for moving or deletion.
> you can with Documents5/PDFexpert, I use it as a kind of file browser and it works (for me) pretty well.
There is no AppleScript (SwiftScript?) to automate tasks. I'm not a heavy scripter but I run at least one script every day.
As an example, I sometimes need to process a moderate number (>100) of data files by changing one parameter in each file and processing them again. iOS would have you manually edit each file. In macOS I run a script that does this in under a minute.
>there are some automation apps, there is one called workflow, but I have no idea if this will do your trick.
iOS won't support Parallels to let me run Windows programs. I need to run just one program, a scientific app made by my company.
> I doubt your company will allow you, but I use Jump Desktop for those occasions when I need the power of a desktop and I'm not at home or in the office. Others are allowed to use some Citrix thing to login to their remote/virtual workspace, no idea how it works, but it might be a solution.
iOS doesn't support drag and drop between apps.
>No, not as such, but copy paste does work well (for me, again) and it does work between (Apple) devices these days as well.
iOS doesn't upport as many graphic and video formats as does macOS.
>No, not native, but VLC and other apps might help out. That is the power of iOS as well, the many, many apps that are available.
iOS doesn't support a general print to PDF as does macOS.
>Again, not native, but PDF Print will help out as there are many others that let you print almost anything.
iOS versions of iWork don't export to Word and ppt as do the macOS versions. Numbers doesn't export to csv files.
>I got a "free" copy of Microsoft Office 365 from the university that also works on both my iPads (12.9 and 9.7), Mac mini, MacBook Pro
There is no general place to exchange data, like the macOS desktop, but iCloud Drive is slowly evolving in that direction.
>If you mean by data to select/sort/duplicate files, then again Documents5 is what does this for me.
I really hopes this helps a bit, but as nice, beautiful and useful iPads are, there is no one size fits all. You can push an iPad (Pro) into tasks that it wasn't designed for, but at some point it's wiser to use a better fitting tool.
In the mean time I'm happy I'm not hauling around that old 17" MacBook Pro anymore. Man that was big and heavy and needed some serious protection!
Yesteryear wasn't always better
Can you shed some light on what you use to scan books into OCR, etc? What hardware/software specifically.
I have a lot of old paperback books which I would love to read on my iPad. There are no digital versions of these books anywhere.
I use nothing special, I use my Mac and a canon dual sided scanner the p-215ii, at 600dpi black and white for textbooks and then use Adobe Acrobat XI with clearscan settings for OCR.
I use my iPad Pr 12.9 for big text books in portrait of my 9.7 in landscape and then read a page in 2 sections.
Normal sized text books can be read normally on my 9.7 or large/dual page on my 12.9.
There are dedicated book scanners with 2 20mp canon camera's and a lot of mechanical stuff. But they are bloody expensive and still need a lot of time to scan books. And then a lot of time to prepair them for OCR etc.
I use my iPad Pr 12.9 for big text books in portrait of my 9.7 in landscape and then read a page in 2 sections.
Normal sized text books can be read normally on my 9.7 or large/dual page on my 12.9.
There are dedicated book scanners with 2 20mp canon camera's and a lot of mechanical stuff. But they are bloody expensive and still need a lot of time to scan books. And then a lot of time to prepair them for OCR etc.
Trip routing for trucks using currently available APIs does not include height / weight restrictions for trucks. Too expensive for a developer to create on their own and too much chance of an error and litigation for such small profit margin for the time / effort to write the code. Silly as it sounds, I will make more money building childrens' book apps with very little chance of litigation. While open source groups are currently developing height data for navigation it is far from prime time.
Fuel tax would not be that hard... hmm... adding it to the very large list of applications the world needs.
Hmmm... iPad/iPhone has screen and camera. Create truck routing / dash cam / receipt scanning / current-next trip info / gps updates to central database.... seems like a solid pack idea. Could probably undercut Qualcomm and others.
I'm still surprised there isn't a decent visio app out there. There are a couple strong vector drawing apps but they lack the more technical aspect of Visio and good compatibility.
Omnigraffle is good enough for the most part for me when I work alone, but everyone else uses Visio and compatibility is an big issue when I work in teams, both for iOS and macOS.
Thanks for that info...I'll take a look at that.
As far is taking the spine off the books, what do you use?
I don't have the equipment myself so I go to a good old fashioned printing shop with dozens of heidelbergers and every thing from a a hundred years or more old (hobby/work deformation of the owner, but they do work and are used!) to the latest printers.
They have several guillotine cutters, both hydraulic and electric. Paperbacks are cut with the cover on, hard covers are first cut off with a surgical blade, then the block is straightened/uncurved and cut.
Yeah, part of me decries the butchering of the book to get the pages loose, but I don't really see any other choice.
I really want to get this scanning started this year and thanks to you, it's beginning to take shape.
The main thing I can't do at the moment on my iPad is download video streams from I player via the Get Iplayer app. I use this a few times a week and it's certainly a hole in my mainly iPad-based workflow ... but on the other hand, I could argue that even if I did have this ability my iPad Air 2's capacity of 64GB would limit how much I used it anyway.
Re: file management and project management on the iPad, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Devonthink to Go, which can be used as a standalone app or in conjunction with DEvonthink on the Mac. I'm still learning it and have yet to use it for more than managing a large text e book library, but the functionality is improving, especially now that it also acts as a storage container.
Re: video editing ... Try LumaFusion, which looks like it's aiming to match Elements at least. Pro-level video editing? Probably not, but it has excellent features including the ability to edit multiple video streams. Pinnacle Pro are apparently also going to be adding this to their offering too, so whilst it's not competing with the likes of Final Cut etc, it's still a vast improving on what has been possible on ios until now.
Re: file management and project management on the iPad, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Devonthink to Go, which can be used as a standalone app or in conjunction with DEvonthink on the Mac. I'm still learning it and have yet to use it for more than managing a large text e book library, but the functionality is improving, especially now that it also acts as a storage container.
Re: video editing ... Try LumaFusion, which looks like it's aiming to match Elements at least. Pro-level video editing? Probably not, but it has excellent features including the ability to edit multiple video streams. Pinnacle Pro are apparently also going to be adding this to their offering too, so whilst it's not competing with the likes of Final Cut etc, it's still a vast improving on what has been possible on ios until now.
http://www.studiomango.nl/nl/portfolio-items/lineaire-boekenscanner-3/
This is what you need.... there is a movie as wel.
It's a working prototype, but I have no idea what it will cost.
Me want
Image editor... I use Paint.NET. There are plenty of image editors for Ipad, but they're mostly on my PC, so may as well just use a software program on that.
Also, it's more of a hassle to manage image files on Ipad vs. Windows.
I'm a hobbyist Python programmer, and like having more control in managing my files. Not to mention having a full keyboard
PC games on Steam and optical disc
Some independent games are just straight up written for PC. There have been independent efforts to be able to play on Ipad, but that'll take a lot of compiling and tech stuff that I'd rather not mess with.
Music editor. See Image editor above. Here, I use Audacity
I use MuseScore as a sheet music editor. Also does playback
I like having a larger monitor for viewing
For storage, I can just hook up an inexpensive external hardrive.
Also, it's more of a hassle to manage image files on Ipad vs. Windows.
I'm a hobbyist Python programmer, and like having more control in managing my files. Not to mention having a full keyboard
PC games on Steam and optical disc
Some independent games are just straight up written for PC. There have been independent efforts to be able to play on Ipad, but that'll take a lot of compiling and tech stuff that I'd rather not mess with.
Music editor. See Image editor above. Here, I use Audacity
I use MuseScore as a sheet music editor. Also does playback
I like having a larger monitor for viewing
For storage, I can just hook up an inexpensive external hardrive.
Sorry, I am curious: How do I implement a solver function in Numbers? I know in Excel there is this Solver where I can find a value for X in an equation...