Devildog4355 Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 15237 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 93 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 958 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 580 Achievement Points: 6679 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/30/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2021 Birthday: 05/04/1992 Posted May 22, 2014 I don't like apple products but I happened to stumble into a free iPad. I have now found the best use for an apple product yet! Putting apple's on apple's Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.70 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Posted May 22, 2014 or selling it.... that's what I would do. Scoarch 1
Devildog4355 Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 15237 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 93 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 958 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 580 Achievement Points: 6679 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/30/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2021 Birthday: 05/04/1992 Author Posted May 22, 2014 i have thought about it, i found it a few months back and tried to find the owner with no success. there was no data on it and it was fully wiped (assuming by apple icloud) i tried to track it down by S/N but was not registered. so local PD said if i couldn't find an owner then i can enjoy my new ipad. BUDMAN, Scoarch, Astronomer and 1 other 4 Awards
Fir3Marshal Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 20789 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 28 Topic Count: 118 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 936 Content Per Day: 0.23 Reputation: 325 Achievement Points: 7004 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/12/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 21, 2014 Birthday: 04/18/1981 Posted May 22, 2014 Nice! I have had an iPad for years, they are actually well worth using.... codpiece 1
BUDMAN Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7099 Content Per Day: 1.26 Reputation: 4638 Achievement Points: 60376 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Posted May 22, 2014 My Daughter's School you have to have one for home and such..... Does some cool stuff to be honest. codpiece 1 Awards
Senapsbread Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 20680 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 6 Topic Count: 22 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 205 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 100 Achievement Points: 1481 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/11/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 8, 2023 Birthday: 01/05/1993 Posted May 22, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6WuHzE-1fk eidolonFIRE 1
little_old_man Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 1194 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 436 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 6692 Content Per Day: 1.21 Reputation: 11691 Achievement Points: 53094 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 76 Joined: 02/27/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 16, 2023 Birthday: 04/15/1960 Posted May 22, 2014 If they were a little softer I would wipe my ass with them. Scoarch and eidolonFIRE 2 Awards
Scoarch Posted May 22, 2014 Member ID: 1733 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 9 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 614 Content Per Day: 0.11 Reputation: 555 Achievement Points: 5925 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 16, 2022 Birthday: 10/14/1967 Posted May 22, 2014 My Daughter's School you have to have one for home and such..... Does some cool stuff to be honest. Sort of a drag for a single low income parent. Some could not afford such a luxury Awards
White_Dragon Posted May 23, 2014 Member ID: 20018 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 47 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 184 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 244 Achievement Points: 1870 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/08/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 9, 2023 Birthday: 07/01/1952 Posted May 23, 2014 What's an I-Pad? Axelation 1 Awards
Astronomer Posted May 23, 2014 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.46 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted May 23, 2014 I won one at a trade show a year and a bit ago. I'm a gadget guy so I set out to find actual uses for the thing. I tried the same thing for a Microsoft Surface RT tablet that I also won, but luckily I got a gift receipt so I could return it for a store credit. A canon 70D DSLR was the happy outcome there. The iPad is handy for remotely logging into servers via SSH, for troubleshooting networks, for reading the news (FlipBoard spanks Google News), for controlling my Hue Lights, home theater receiver-amp, satellite receiver/PVR, and Apple TV; reading forums and whatnot on the InterTubes, streaming music to my bluetooth room-filling speakers, and most importantly, my mom has an iPad. She's in her mid 70's with reduced mobility, and my dad is 88 and in declining health. I call them on the iPad's video chat app, FaceTime, 4 nights a week: 3 on the days that my dad has dialysis and once on the weekend. Dialysis can kick the shit out of my dad, and with the FaceTime chats, I can tell at a glance at my mom how dad's dialysis went, and the conversations take my mom's mind off of her troubles. I can show her our garden, the work done on the house, the cats and dogs (which she loves), and just chat while I prepare supper. She wishes all of her sisters and friends had iPads. She prefers the video chats to the telephone and says it's almost like visiting. I can do almost all of the above with my Google Nexus 7 tablet, but the ease of connecting with my parents (and my wife who lives in all-Apple ecosystem of iPhone, iPad, and iMac) means that the iPad does have its uses. I'm no Apple fanboi - my servers all run Linux plus one BSD machine, my main rig is a built-by-me Windows 8.1 powerhouse, and I have a Lenovo laptop converted into a Hackintosh so I'm familiar with the environment should I need to troubleshoot my wife's system (no need yet 17 months in). Awards
Devildog4355 Posted May 23, 2014 Member ID: 15237 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 27 Topic Count: 93 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 958 Content Per Day: 0.22 Reputation: 580 Achievement Points: 6679 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/30/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2021 Birthday: 05/04/1992 Author Posted May 23, 2014 Yea they are great systems I got my grandma set up with one and she loves it. I agree they are great and have a lot of uses. I just hate the apple cult that ha been crated around them Astronomer 1 Awards
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