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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Neat ideas for iPad

I came across a neat tutorial concerning use of the iPad.
On YouTube, Alex Lindsay was showing of some crazy technical stuff (uploading at 4K resolution), so I thought I would see what it looked like. Of course, it was cool, but it was the content that really pulled me in.
Ultimately, his guest, Sid Soghoian, was walking through a process to use a supplied Automator function with a collection of photos, video, audio and text files.
  • The Automator packages all of the pieces up into a folder (think “self-contained web site) that you upload to the web.
  • Once uploaded, you can send that link to an iPad.
  • The iPad will open the link up in Safari, so it seems kind of goofy at first. But if you then turn that mini site into a web app on your home screen, it becomes it’s own iPad app.
The walk through tutorials are on padilicious.com
There are other processes shown that look like they could come in really handy - making your own multimedia EPUB book that can be viewed in iBooks looks to be really cool.

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