After spending a few months with the iPad, Katie and David reflect on how they get work done on them.
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I highly recommend Air Video,
http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html
which allows you to stream video from your Mac to the iPad (or iPod Touch). In particular, it will stream while it converts it for the iPad on the fly. So, you can just point it at a folder of videos. I use it on my iPod Touch (I don’t have an iPad yet). You’ll get thumbnails of the videos in the folder and you can do an off-line conversion or convert the video while it plays.
Great show as always. A couple miscellaneous comments:
- I think this happened after the show was recorded, but Documents to Go seems to be the first app to break the “common sense barrier” and offer a way to bring docs from Dropbox on to the iPad, edit, and then sync back out to Dropbox again. It looks like it does the same with other cloud storage services, including iDisk, as well. I have only tried it with Dropbox so far, but it worked like a charm. Nice little surprise, since I already owned Docs to Go on the iPhone (and wasn’t getting much use out of it) and was pleased to see iPad support implemented as a universal app. It still would be nicer to be able to do this with the iWork apps though.
- I believe that David has mentioned in the past that he is running the iPhone version of OmniFocus on the iPad, so I was hoping for a little OF on the iPad workflow voodoo. I could see doing the bulk of my OF interaction on the iPad once the native iPad app is out, but I struggle with things like not being able to create an OF actions from email like you can with the Mac version. Probably nothing Omni can do until multitasking is there, but looking for any workarounds in the meantime.
Great episode, and that’s from someone who has not yet purchased an iPad.
Scott
I really enjoyed the show. Listened to it again after I got my iPad. I’m wondering if either of you have evaluated Quickoffice vs DocstoGo and if you thought either of them were better than the apple apps.
For simple text editing on the iPad of Dropbox documents, there’s now Droptext which is only $0.99.