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MobileMe and the iPad
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I have seen or heard no mention of MobileMe use with the iPad, I of course expect that it will be included as it is already integrated into the iPhone OS and Apple already produce an iDisk application. But will this be it or will we be treated to a host of new features, will the iDisk app get the same conversion for iPad treatment that has been shown for other Apple apps like mail, calendar and contacts? Could MobileMe or iDisk be used to sync and store documents between Mac OSX desktop and the new ipad versions of the iWork apps.
Tags: iDisk, MobileMe
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Will the iPad Offer Printer Support.
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
With the launch of the iPad imminent I have heard no mention of whether printer support will be built in. I do not expect to be able to plug a USB printer directly into the iPad unless the advertised photo connection kit will double as an external USB port although I feel this is unlikely. I would like to be able to print to network attached or shared printers over a wireless network though. This would seem sensible as Apple also prepares to launch the iPad version of the iWork applications, Pages, Keynote and Numbers that could all warrant the use of a printer. Otherwise users of these apps would have to sync the documents back to a computer in order to print them. This could be particularly fiddly if the user does not have the desktop versions of these apps or is using windows where the desktop versions are not even available. This would presumably be possible using one of the existing iPhone or iPod touch third party printing applications available, but an integrated solution would be so much slicker.
Tags: Apple, printing
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