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    Fast Charging for iPads

    Posted: 03 May 2018 10:55 AM PDT

    Hi

    I do know that the newer iPads (including the pros) have some degree of fast charging. I wanted to ask if anyone has used any 3rd party adapters (eg Anker or Aukey, or other known brands) and had decent performance for fast charging? Or maybe its just in my imagination that iPads have fast charging.

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    What are your favorite stands or mounts for using an iPad at a desk?

    Posted: 03 May 2018 11:38 AM PDT

    I specifically wanna use it as a sorta miscellaneous monitor for example I can use it to control music or have a YouTube video in the background. But I'd be curious to see any setups.

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    The pinnacle of paperless student with iPad Pro - How to use iPad Pro in college

    Posted: 02 May 2018 02:45 PM PDT

    Hi there! Well, lately I've read a lot of posts asking about using the iPad Pro or the latest iPad for note-taking, and I've being doing it for a year now. So I guess I'll be able to answer some if not all of the questions about it. I'll organice this post this way:

    1. Hardware I use.
    2. Software I use.
    3. Is it possible to use the iPad w/Apple Pencil as a replacement of pen and paper?
    4. Is it possible to use the iPad as a laptop replacement?
    5. How I take notes and how I organice them.
    6. How do I stay paperless.

    I might add more stuff if there are good questions that I feel would add value to the post.

    A bit of background: I'm studying Civil Engineering in Argentina, I have an average of 9.11 out of 10, which I guess would translate to something close to a 3.8-4 GPA (Don't really know how it works, it's what I've been told). I bought the my iPad at launch last year and I used as standalone device for 6 months.

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    1. Hardware I use: Currently, all the hardware I use for college as well as living in general are: - iPad Pro 12.9 2017 64gb w/Apple Pencil: I use it as a textbook, as a notebook, and as my principal recreational device. Most of the time I use any technological device, It's my iPad, I'm even writing this in Apollo in my iPad. - iPhone 8 64gb: well, it's my phone. I guess I use it almost like everyone else. Apart from communicating, I scan everything that I get, and I upload it quickly to Evernote. - Desktop powerful enough to handle Mathematica, AutoCAD and Office: I didn't use a computer for 6 months after buying the iPP (what's a computer?) because I didn't have one. And I didn't really feel I needed one. But It made life a bit easier because I could use the named programs from home instead of having to go to college for that. - HP Prime: this thing just rocks. I love being able to use it for tests, and makes my mathematical courses way easier and enjoyable. - Logitech Bluetooth keyboard.

    Thanks to the iPad, I haven't used paper for almost a year. I'll talk more about it in the point 6. So that's really it, I don't need anything else for college and I hope I won't be needing anything else until I finish my career. It even replaced my broken phone for 3 months until I got the iPhone. So it's what I consider my main device.

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    2. Software I use: I'll name the software I use in my iPad and iPhone, since in my desktop I just have those I already said and some games. I'll try to divide them into categories:

    Storage: There isn't any file that is in my iDevices that isn't in the cloud. I pay for two services and use the free tier in the third. It helps me to get any file anywhere, and it has been lifesaving. 1. Evernote: this is my principal app. I store every piece of info I get here, my notes, recipes, tickets, important photos, articles I read that I liked, documents, textbooks. Everything. I'll talk more how I use it in the fifth and sixth point, but it's safe to say that this has become my second brain, exactly how they advertise it. 2. iCloud: it's the second service I pay for. The only use I have for it it's backup and Photos, which is why I use it. It's really seamless to take a photo with my iPhone and having it in my iPad in seconds. I got 50gb, and it has been plenty for now. 3. Google Drive: I use this cloud exclusively for group projects. Everyone has one and it lets us organize all the info in a way that we can access it whenever we need it.

    Automation: 1. Filterize: it helps me maintain Evernote neat and organized. It creates lists of my notes from every class, my exercises, etc. In short, this app is what makes all my system possible without me needing to keep working on it. 2. IFTTT: it syncs reminders to my calendar, upload screenshots to Evernote, and some other miscellaneous stuff that makes my life a bit easier.

    Note-taking: 1. Noteshelf 2: I jumped onboard recently. I use for all my classes that involve math. I'll talk how I use it in the fifth point, but I mostly use it because of the Evernote syncing. It's pretty neat. 2. Evernote: I type directly in Evernote for those classes that don't need math. There isn't much to say. It let me keep them organized.

    Other college related stuff: 1. Fantastical 2: It has been my favorite to use. I like the UI and let me organice different calendars from Gmail and iCloud. 2. Todoist: I know the app. It's simple and keep me busy when I don't know what comes next. 3. Spark: I got 4 different mails over the time, some are full of SPAM and stuff I don't really want to see. This app just makes an excellent work curating everything from every mail I have and making it accesible for me. It literally made email usable again for me. 4. WolframAlpha: tremendously helpful app. It helps me to understand new concepts easily, and show me step-to-step solutions for almost any problem I throw at it. 5. Desmos and Geogrebra: graphing stuff very quickly. 6. PDF Expert: marking and reading my digital textbooks. 7. Scanner PRO: scanning every piece of paper that falls in my hand and OCR the shit out of everything.

    Non-college related stuff: 1. Spotify. 2. Netflix. 3. Plex. 4. Youtube. 5. Medium.

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    3. Is it possible to use the iPad w/Apple Pencil as a replacement of pen and paper? Short answer: Yes.

    Long answer: Thanks to really well-made apps like Notability, GoodNotes, Noteshelf and others, and thanks to the Apple Pencil, it's not just possible, it's really worth it. The latency it's next to non-existent, it helps you organize better, you won't be loosing papers you need. And to be honest, in the long run it'll save you money. Textbooks are cheaper (...or free...), and you won't be needing to buy new paper, notebooks, blinders, pencils, rules, erases, etc. I just see positive about doing it.

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    4. Is it possible to use the iPad as a laptop replacement?

    Well... That depends. There are many people who have achieved that. I went iPad-only for 6 months, and it was pretty comfortable. Now, if you need to use programs like Excel, AutoCAD, MathLab, or any program that's exclusively made for Window/Mac, then no. You can't. Or you can too. Now that I got a desktop, I wouldn't need a laptop. When I'm on the go, the iPad can do anything I need to do, inclusive some light Excel and visualize drawings in AutoCAD. But when I need to do some serious Excel or I need to draw something by myself, I use my desktop.

    So yes, you could do it. It depends mostly in which programs do you need to use. Probably, for the 90% of stuff you need, It will suffice, the other 10% will decide if you can do it or not. For me, that 10% can be done in my desktop, and I don't need to do it on the go, so everything I need to take with me is the iPad.

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    ** 5. How I take notes and how I organice them. **

    This is the most important part. How I take notes, and how I keep it mostly simple. As I said, I keep everything in my Evernote, and thanks to Noteshelf 2, it's made automatically. Well, first I'll talk of the structure of Noteshelf, then I'll go over my Evernote setup, and last but not not least, how Filterize does its job.

    -Noteshelf 2: this app lets you create Categories, which can contain notebooks, where you write. It also lets you sync a Notebook to Evernote. This means that it "publish" it to Evernote in .png format. And every time you add anything to the notes it will get added to Evernote as well. You can even move the note to different notebooks in Evernote, tag it and change its name. So, first, I created a Category for each class I take handwritten notes. Categories setup. Then, after that, I'll create a "master note" in each subject for the Theory and other for the Exercises, but I won't be writing directly on them. The Evernote sync will be turned on for these notebooks.

    For every lecture, I'll create a new note called "Class nºX: Subject", where X is the number of lectures already taken to that point in the class. The subject will be the title of the topic what we'll learn. I'll publish this note to Evernote, which will keep the name, and it's going to get tagged as follow: "-ClassName, -Theory" After that, Filterize will take on and add the rest of the tags needed: "-NªSemester, -University, -Professor".

    After I published it to Evernote, I'll append the notebook to my Master note of Theory and erase the original one. I'll do something really similar for practice, but instead of doing one for every lecture, I'd made one for each topic, for example "Heat transfer" or "Partial derivatives", etc.

    -Evernote: I have a stack for college. Right now it has these notebooks: - First year. - Calculus II. - Physics II. - Material technology. - Civil engineering II. - Statics.

    First year contains every note from every class from last year. I can find anything thanks to tag sorting, and if that doesn't work, the search engine of Evernote it's just fantastic, it searches text in pdfs and handwritten notes, so I have all my notes from last year for reference at my fingertips all the time. For every class I have an "Index" note. Here I have lists that links to notes from any class, exercises from any subject, etc. This is an example of my Calculus II Index note. Keeping stuff organized this way help me to access quickly to the notes of a given subject I need at the moment, and also it made sharing my notes ridiculously easy. Evernote lets my share a public link to my notes, so when someone needs, lets say, "Hoja de ejercicios 7" I can just look up there and in less than two minutes I can send them a note with 10+ pages of exercises.

    As I said before, Evernote became my second brain. It keeps everything I need, and It has made wonder on how I keep my stuff college-wise accesible at any time and in a organized manner. But this need work. You could throw everything in one notebook and Evernote would be good enough to let you retrieve what you need thanks to its search engine. But keeping my system needs a bit more of work. You need to add some tags manually before it gets automated, but I feel it's well worth it.

    Filterize: This is what makes magic. It's connected to my Evernote, and it organice it as I need it. If you don't really know how to script it or you don't use Mac, then it's a wonderful tool. Some stuff it does: - It creates those lists I showed automatically. They are called Table of content (ToCs), and when a note fills a specific criteria, it adds it to the list. For example, one of the ToC I showed would search for notes that would fit this criteria: "intitle:"Class" tag:"Calculus.II" tag:"Theory" . This list makes the list of all my notes of the Calculus clases. If you change intitle"Class" for intitle"Exercise" and you change the tag Theory for Practice, you'll get my ToC of exercises. - It tags automatically any note that's tagged with some of my classes names with: -College and -2ºYear. - It takes my mails that I forward to Evernote, and if it comes from certain people it stores it to Others in my University stack. If they are PayPal tickets, it tags it as /Ticket, /PayPal, /Expeneses, and moves it to a different notebook. - If I webclip an article it moves it to an Article notebook I have, tags it, and makes a ToC for the articles I didn't read and the articles I read.

    It has a lot more of functionalities, but those are more tailored for other stuff like an ONG I participate.

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    ** 6. How do I stay paperless. ** At this point, having paper it's something that really bothers me. You have to not loose it, to keep it somewhere where you'll find it if you need it. It takes space. It takes time to keep it organized (more than my current system after you set it up). I don't know, I've grown a resistance to have and use paper in general.

    What I've do to stay paperfree is the following: - I downloaded all of my textbooks, so I don't really need paper since I have everything in the iPad. - If someone gives me a sheet of paper, and old tests to practice for example, I'd scan it with my iPhone and send it to Evernote properly tagged. As easy as that, and I'll have a note there where I could even write or highlight on.

    At the beginning it requires effort to be and stay paperless, after a couple of weeks you really see the benefit of it and it start to be a natural thing in you. I could find anything I've signed in the last two years with just a couple of clicks, and it doesn't need a complete phyisical archive full of copies for that. All in all, going paperless was the best decision I've made. I'm a messy person. I forget stuff and loose them all the time. The fewer things I have, the less I loose. The less that I'm involved in organizing my stuff, the better they get organized. I've reached a point where I feel this system works for me and I almost don't work for it. Just add some tags and that's it. At most, every couple of months I'd need to add a new filter in Filterize, but that's it.

    The reason to post this was to show that yes. You can get by using an iPad for college/note taking. And not just get by, you can get the experience to be way better, simple and faster.

    If you have any question about my setup, how it works, anything, I'll be glad to answer.

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    Anyone use the 2018 iPad as main computer?

    Posted: 03 May 2018 12:30 PM PDT

    I know many of you use iPad Pro as your main computer, but is iPad 2018 enough for daily use? Of coz I am comparing to iPad pro, it doesn't need to fully replace my laptop. If iPad pro can do it, can 2018 do it too?

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    Is it a good time to buy the latest iPad Pro 12.9?

    Posted: 03 May 2018 09:06 AM PDT

    I've had my eye in the latest iPad Pro 12.9 inch for the past few months....I finally saved enough to buy one but I've heard rumors that a brand new iPad will be announced next month. I would be really upset if I buy one now and the newer model gets released right away. It's too much of an investment to buy the inferior model. I feel like the March release might mean that new hardware won't be released around fall and I don't want to wait that long. What do you guys think? Should I just buy the latest model now? Or wait for a possible new iPad to hopefully be released next month?

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    Compactbility

    Posted: 03 May 2018 10:10 AM PDT

    I have a dell laptop and I am looking to buy an ipad Pro and pencil. Is compatibility across devices an issue? I am a first time apple device buyer. Pls advice.

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    25 Multitasking Tips - do you know them all? [9to5Mac]

    Posted: 02 May 2018 06:19 PM PDT

    Just got a pretty nice deal on an 128GB iPad Pro 12.9... any software engineers here that have found neat uses for it?

    Posted: 03 May 2018 01:48 PM PDT

    I'm in a bit of a device hiatus lately... being someone who was attached to Windows Phone, Microsoft going from "If no other OEM will make them, we'll make them" to "screw our supporters" has me experimenting with a full switch to Apple products.

    Someone who really needed some cash let go of a 12.9in 128GB iPad Pro with a really nice ass case and an even nicer backlit ZAGG keyboard case combo for a price I couldn't pass up ($480).

    Given that I only really ever exposed myself to iPad minis, the size seemed absolutely ridiculous... but at the same time I can't get over how lovely the speakers are. Seeing as my departure from Microsoft's ecosystem will eventually mean parting with my Surface Book, I'll either have to go back to juggling laptop+tablet, or... evaluating how far iPad Pro has come long as a "laptop replacement".

    I see a lot of the right-brainers doing some really neat stuff with iPad Pros... some of which seem very practical in moderately lucrative creative fields... but what about guys like me who live in IDEs? Though my first instinct was to flip it while I could still turn my $480 into (potentially) a couple hundred more, I'm kind of interested in seeing what it has to offer. Closest I've found is Swift Playgrounds(?) and an app called Code Master which could potentially serve as a Notepad++ alternative.

    But I wanna hear it from someone who isn't operating off less than a day of time with the iPad Pro... I wouldn't be too saddened to find out that I'd just have to remote into a PC/Mac because I kind of expect that outcome.

    So (being intentionally vague about languages) any software engineers in the group that have found a way to make an iPad Pro their only computer? ...or even neat implementations of iPad Pro into their professional lifestyle?

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    Ipad 2018 keyboard

    Posted: 03 May 2018 01:05 PM PDT

    I've recently bought the new 2018 for uni and i'm looking for a decent bluetooth keyboard for it, does anyone have suggestions for what I should buy? Preferably one thats not too expensive. Thanks

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    Offline Forms now in Formplus! Take a look at our Latest Features

    Posted: 03 May 2018 09:12 AM PDT

    Is there any way to fix the pixelated/blurry photos for instagram?

    Posted: 03 May 2018 02:35 AM PDT

    10 Best Free Music Players for iPad of 2018

    Posted: 03 May 2018 08:34 AM PDT

    I know this probably isn't accurate, but I found this on the speck website while looking for a new 10.5 case. What'cha think?

    Posted: 02 May 2018 07:47 PM PDT

    Questions about pre-ordering apple products.

    Posted: 03 May 2018 03:24 AM PDT

    I am planning to get a new iPad and I am contemplating between getting the 2018 version soon or waiting for the new pro to be released. The problem is that there are no official apple stores in my country so I'll have to rely on a friend who happens to be travelling to the states during that time. So I was wondering if it will be wise to bank on the hope that apple releases the new ipad during WWDC and if they do then what is the pre-ordering process like? If I pre order during the announcement day will I get it delivered on the release day or will it take longer?

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    Accessories compatibility: does the Air/Air 2 smart cover work on the 2017/2018 ipad?

    Posted: 03 May 2018 02:35 AM PDT

    I've just bought a new 2017 iPad and i wanted to buy a smart cover. I'm trying to find the cheapest option so, are the older Smart Cover model work on my iPad?

    Any other offbrand choices?

    Thank you in advance, have a great day :)

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    Singapore iPad Cellular users, what are the plans available for Apple SIM?

    Posted: 03 May 2018 02:07 AM PDT

    I am looking at purchasing an iPad Pro 10.5 256GB, and I am planning to get the Cellular model. However, I cannot find any articles listing the plans that I can use with Apple SIM across different carriers, and if none of them are more value than my current 7GB phone plan which I keep exceeding whenever I hotspot to my MacBook Air/Pro (I use 1 external drive with macOS on it, easier & more capacity, and I can choose which to use and still have my data everywhere), then I might as well keep exceeding ($10/GB) and save that extra $200 from the WiFi + Cellular model by getting the WiFi only model. Can someone provide screenshots of the different plans available across the different carriers (StarHub, SingTel & M1)? Thank you very much for your help!

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    Quick question about the pencil usefulness

    Posted: 02 May 2018 08:51 PM PDT

    I own a business and typically will draw things on paper for my designers of how I want them to look. Ancient I know, I just really hate photoshop / illustrator... anyways.

    The iPad + Pencil is really intriguing to me. I want it primarily to draw basic sketches of how brochures should be laid out etc. My question is do any of the programs you can draw in, also allow you to create things like text boxes where you can actually type? Also, do any have basic functionality such as creating boxes, shapes etc?

    Thanks!

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    Can I use Command + Tab on a Logitech keyboard iPad Pro 10.5

    Posted: 02 May 2018 07:50 PM PDT

    I want a keyboard for my iPad Pro 10.5 but the Smart Case is extremely expensive. I was thinking of buying a Logitech K380, but my question is, would it have the same functionality as the Smart keyboard? I know I would have to pair it via Bluetooth but that doesn't bother me.

    Would comman+tab, command + c, command + v, etc work?

    Thanks

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    Does this sound too good to be true?

    Posted: 02 May 2018 05:50 PM PDT

    So I've been wanting to buy an iPad for my SO for a while now for their birthday coming up this summer since they have an iPad Mini getting long in the tooth and I felt that the 10.5 iPad Pro would be the best option as far as future proofing.

    So after looking at what eBay had to offer, I saw a seller that had multiple 10.5 iPad Pro's they were selling. They had at least 5 "brand new, unopened, sealed" ones going off at auction and they were ending all around $450-$550.

    Well, I just snagged one of them for $510 and this is the first time I have ever gone through eBay to buy an iPad or an Apple product for that matter.

    By the looks of their history it seems like they are pretty legit, but how does someone make money off of selling multiple iPads less than retail price off of eBay when they also get a cut of the money?

    Where is this seller getting all of these iPads from? Is my deal too good to be true?

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