iPad, Terraria, cameras.

  • The IT department at the college has a few iPads that they're using to explore. They've been checking out various ways of making things such as inventory and remote management easier.

    I was supposed to be assigned one a while ago, but I really didn't care... then I happened to be talking with the head of the IT program today and it came up that I didn't have one (I was going to return somebody else's to him since they were done messing with it), so he made me take it. I said no like 6 times and then he just stuck it in my hands anyways. XD

    So I'm going to head into the iPortableDeviceThing™ section of the forums some time soon to see how I can suitably pimp it out. It's an iPad 1 on 4.3.5, and while I've read it can be jailbroken I don't want to risk things... but I have to admit the free app selection is crap compared to Android. I was hoping to get some cable wiring diagrams (or at least a copy of the TIA/EIA 568 standards) but I couldn't find crap.

    Honestly I think my favorite use for this will be the ability to share stuff on the internet with my grandmother without us having to crowd around a computer.

  • Also Terraria updated to 1.0.6 today. Totally going to make a new world and character to explore the new combat features and changed progression and all that jazz. Zombies in fire? Yesplz.

  • Waiting on my Camera to get here. Still haven't decided what I'll take a picture of first. And no, not my penis, Tagzard.

EDIT: Damn list spacing.

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my high school got like 20 ipads (first gen) for use in class, as opposed to laptops, and it's really not as efficient as a laptop, plus no word processing, and everyone is distracting because "OMG IT'S AN IPAD"
 
[quote name='Terminator02' post='3824849' date='Aug 10 2011, 01:27 AM']my high school got like 20 ipads (first gen) for use in class, as opposed to laptops, and it's really not as efficient as a laptop, plus no word processing, and everyone is distracting because "OMG IT'S AN IPAD"[/quote]
>No word processing.
>iWork for iPad.
>Pages, Numbers and Keynote.

:angry:
 
[quote name='Terminator02' post='3824849' date='Aug 10 2011, 08:27 AM']my high school got like 20 ipads (first gen) for use in class, as opposed to laptops, and it's really not as efficient as a laptop, plus no word processing, and everyone is distracting because "OMG IT'S AN IPAD"[/quote]

Your school is retarded...
Anyone who picks an iPad to do a laptops job just be put down. Especially in a school environment. A laptop is infinitely better.
 
[quote name='Hells Malice' post='3825490' date='Aug 10 2011, 04:19 PM']Your school is retarded...
Anyone who picks an iPad to do a laptops job just be put down. Especially in a school environment. A laptop is infinitely better.[/quote]

Exactly. Schools only buy them to essentially "advertise" how well off their school is. Our school bought tons of netbooks instead and they work decently for your basic school functions.
 
Woah my post was grammatical shit...

and yeah netbooks are great for a school to buy. They work perfectly for what a school needs them for, and they're ridiculously portable.
 
Yeah many of the labs here use desktops, the ones that get moved from time to time use laptops, and then things are actually needed to be portable people are assigned netbooks (and instructors are assigned laptops).
 
And the camera's here!

rydoll.jpg


Fuck yeah macro. <3 I could never get anything like that with my old camera. Also liking the speed of the auto focus and how damn quick it starts up. Gonna' wait a bit before writing my review on newegg though.

Any Video Converter actually seems happy to stream copy the video from MOV (and it does it in a matter of moments) so I can move the video into the AVI container for frame editing... but it seems to choke on the audio but that's no biggie since it will still convert that.

I'm damn excited to have this thing.


EDIT: inb4 "double post" - Blogs don't follow normal thread list order, but if told I'll stop.
 
[quote name='Terminator02' post='3826264' date='Aug 10 2011, 04:11 PM']Stop double posting :angry:[/quote]

^^^^^ :angry:

:P

iPads are overrated, your new camera seems neat, and I haven't played Terraria but probably wouldn't like it since I can't get myself to bother with PC games that often.
 

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