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Ouhei: Oct 23, 2008

As far as facebook goes, I was reading about Flipboard, seems like a really cool way to browse that kind of info? Anyone have experience with it?

# ? Mar 7, 2011 15:33

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# ? May 22, 2013 18:29

Daddy Fantastic: Jun 22, 2002; For the glory of FYAD

zoux posted:

Anyone having problems with the Netflix app? Whenever i try and watch a movie it goes through the loading process but then it just goes back to the menu.

Are you using dd-wrt by any chance? I had a problem that sounds like what you're describing. The fix is to switch to Google DNS (8.8.8.8) on the iPad. I guess there's something incompatible between DNS on dd-wrt and the Netflix app.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 17:35

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Daddy Fantastic posted:

Are you using dd-wrt by any chance? I had a problem that sounds like what you're describing. The fix is to switch to Google DNS (8.8.8.8) on the iPad. I guess there's something incompatible between DNS on dd-wrt and the Netflix app.

I use DD-WRT and don't have a lick of problem with Netflix on the iPad through it. Maybe update your firmware?

# ? Mar 7, 2011 19:56

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

I'll try and update when I get to a computer. i don't know what ddwrt is.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 20:16

randyest: Sep 1, 2004

Ouhei posted:

As far as facebook goes, I was reading about Flipboard, seems like a really cool way to browse that kind of info? Anyone have experience with it?

Yes. Flipbook is pretty cool for the way it combines news (from a huge array of sources, including Economist for free!) and facebook and/or twitter. If it didn't waste screen space with retweet notices on some stuff it'd be perfect. I still use it everyday.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 20:17

eightysixed: Sep 23, 2004; You can walk into a movie theater in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean just like in no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer. And in Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's. And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

Daddy Fantastic posted:

Are you using dd-wrt by any chance? I had a problem that sounds like what you're describing. The fix is to switch to Google DNS (8.8.8.8) on the iPad. I guess there's something incompatible between DNS on dd-wrt and the Netflix app.

This is what I had to do

# ? Mar 7, 2011 20:22

Alfalfa: Apr 24, 2003; Superman Don't Need No Seat Belt

Nice op and finally a decent thread, but add News Rack to RSS Apps. I enjoy it way more than any of the other ones out there and for some reason I really did not like Reeder on my iPad. On my iPhone yes... iPad no.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 21:35

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

eightysixed posted:

This is what I had to do

Huh interesting. You don't use OpenDNS by any chance, do you?

# ? Mar 7, 2011 21:47

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Oh, by the way:

ante posted:

Weather

I really like Weatherbug for iPad. It's now free (ads are pretty unobtrusive) and has maps, forecast, and local weather cams. Plus, you can add a bunch of different locations and bounce between them pretty quickly, so it's great for traveling.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 21:53

Ouhei: Oct 23, 2008

randyest posted:

Yes. Flipbook is pretty cool for the way it combines news (from a huge array of sources, including Economist for free!) and facebook and/or twitter. If it didn't waste screen space with retweet notices on some stuff it'd be perfect. I still use it everyday.

Sweet, can't wait till this weekend when I can download all these.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 21:54

eightysixed: Sep 23, 2004; You can walk into a movie theater in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean just like in no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer. And in Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's. And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

Doctor Zero posted:

Huh interesting. You don't use OpenDNS by any chance, do you?

Nope, Comcast default DNS. Changing to Google DNS worked immediately

# ? Mar 7, 2011 21:55

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

Mine works here at work just fine but not at home. I'll try the DNS switch and let y'all know. My roommate, who manages the router/everything else that has to do with computers because I am a moron, informed me that we do indeed use DD-WRT at home.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 22:50

frumpsnake: Jan 30, 2001; The sad part is, he wasn't always evil.

It's not really a mystery.

Content providers try to return the nearest server geographically when you perform a DNS lookup. By using a provider you can end up hitting a completely different server that's closer to your DNS provider rather than your ISPs.

This can also go the other way and hurt performance, usually only (but not necessarily) if you're outside of North America.

edit: Apparently the problem is DNSMasq. Turn it off in DD-WRT/Tomato/OpenWRT etc. and you shouldn't have problems.

frumpsnake fucked around with this message at Mar 7, 2011 around 23:00

# ? Mar 7, 2011 22:54

Quine Connoisseur: Jun 28, 2005

frumpsnake posted:

edit: Apparently the problem is DNSMasq. Turn it off in DD-WRT/Tomato/OpenWRT etc. and you shouldn't have problems.

Not entirely, the problem is actually Netflix's use of DNS rebinding. If you're using DNSMasq (and you should be), disable "no DNS rebind" and watch Netflix start working again.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 23:08

Chinaman7000: Nov 28, 2003

I think we should rewrite the description for Splashtop to say THIS poo poo LETS YOU USE YOUR COMPUTER ON YOUR IPAD so stupid people like me know what "VNC remote desktop" means and buy it asap.

# ? Mar 7, 2011 23:08

CelestialScribe: Jan 16, 2008

Just a quick rewrite - does anyone know if QuickOffice allows you to save edited files BACK to DropBox?

# ? Mar 8, 2011 01:23

randyest: Sep 1, 2004

CelestialScribe posted:

Just a quick rewrite - does anyone know if QuickOffice allows you to save edited files BACK to DropBox?

Yes, yes it does. In fact that's what happens by default.

I think you asked me this before and I forgot to answer, sorry!

# ? Mar 8, 2011 01:35

CelestialScribe: Jan 16, 2008

No problem! Thanks for the answer.

# ? Mar 8, 2011 02:01

GoatSeeGuy: Dec 26, 2003; What if Jerome Walton made me a champion?

Chinaman7000 posted:

I think we should rewrite the description for Splashtop to say THIS poo poo LETS YOU USE YOUR COMPUTER ON YOUR IPAD so stupid people like me know what "VNC remote desktop" means and buy it asap.

The iPad version is 4.99. I'm guessing I need the iPad dedicated version to a void the whole 2X thing?

# ? Mar 8, 2011 02:55

zoux: Apr 28, 2006

By the way, resetting the DNS to Google totally worked and now I can watch movies at my house on Netflix again

# ? Mar 8, 2011 15:24

eightysixed: Sep 23, 2004; You can walk into a movie theater in Amsterdam and buy a beer. And I don't mean just like in no paper cup, I'm talking about a glass of beer. And in Paris, you can buy a beer at McDonald's. And you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?

^^^^ do what's below, I'm going to try it tonight, because after switching to GoogleDNS, there are other places I can't access. Very frustrating. If the below works, it's a win-win.

amf5 posted:

Not entirely, the problem is actually Netflix's use of DNS rebinding. If you're using DNSMasq (and you should be), disable "no DNS rebind" and watch Netflix start working again.

Thanks for this. Trying tonight. Trip report later.

# ? Mar 8, 2011 18:04

jerkstore77: Dec 26, 2003; Future of the franchise

I pretty much just found the reason why I bought an iPad.

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# ? Mar 9, 2011 15:47

keyframe: Sep 15, 2007; GINYU FORCE RULES

Flickstackr is the best flikr app on ipad. If you are on flikr buy this now.

Life if you like photography this is up there with big picture. As far as I remember it's free or really cheap.

LightboxHD use your ipad as a lightbox with custom mask cutouts and colors and all kinds of poo poo. Its the poor mans lightbox (or the most expensive lightbox in the world depending on how you look at it

)

# ? Mar 9, 2011 16:28

Pissflaps: Oct 20, 2002; If you would like to be considered for Asstard Crew please PM me for the application

I owned an Amiga when they were the thing to have and played Speedball 2 to death. Anyway, I got the iPad version for 59p and it's pretty good. If you remember the original game, all the sounds are there and it plays very similarly.

There are some subtle differences that keen players of the original will notice, but overall not a bad effort. Would be great if they could remake more Bitmap Brothers games of the era.

# ? Mar 9, 2011 18:31

Wikipedia Brown: Aug 4, 2004; Star Trek:
The Motion Picture

jerkstore77 posted:

I pretty much just found the reason why I bought an iPad.

Dang, that's quite an endorsement.

# ? Mar 9, 2011 19:18

Chinaman7000: Nov 28, 2003

Wikipedia Brown posted:

Dang, that's quite an endorsement.

funtimedave knows what he's talking about. Hard to doubt a name like that.

# ? Mar 9, 2011 19:20

jerkstore77: Dec 26, 2003; Future of the franchise

For what its worth, the cat sounds are so annoyingly bad, they are kind of funny.

# ? Mar 9, 2011 20:04

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

Planning to get the wifey an iPad 2 on Friday, and I'd like to pre-load it up with some cool stuff before giving it to her. Please fellow goons, help me ~~pleasure~~ please my wife. Basically I'm looking in three areas:

- Music apps. She's a music major (horn and piano). I'm definitely gonna grab Garage Band; are there any other cool music apps out there?
- Single-player games for her. She likes Plants vs Zombies (but has played it to death on PC), Dr. Mario, Tilt to Live, Dungeon Raid, and Sword & Poker.
- Single-system two-player games for us. If anyone has a link to a big list or something I could browse that'd be great.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 05:22

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

"Cool music apps" is kind of broad, but the iPad has a fairly large assortment of music-making apps for it. They tend to get pricey, but there are usually lots of YouTube videos about them. As one suggestion, check out ThumbJam. And everyone, music major or not, should have BeBot installed (the two are kind of similar).

Also, there's an iOS music production thread in Musicians' Lounge.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 06:10

zelah: Dec 1, 2004; Diabetes, you are not invited to my pizza party.

Battleheart is incredibly fun. Imagine Castle Crashers with no story line and some RPG elements.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 08:44

vtlock: Feb 7, 2003

Cicero posted:

- Music apps. She's a music major (horn and piano). I'm definitely gonna grab Garage Band; are there any other cool music apps out there?

Be sure to check out Aweditorium, which is a pretty cool way to discover new music. It's like an immersive, image-driven pandora.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 14:37

Vegastar: Jan 2, 2005; Tigers will do anything for a tuna sandwich.

Cicero posted:

Planning to get the wifey an iPad 2 on Friday, and I'd like to pre-load it up with some cool stuff before giving it to her. Please fellow goons, help me ~~pleasure~~ please my wife. Basically I'm looking in three areas:

- Music apps. She's a music major (horn and piano). I'm definitely gonna grab Garage Band; are there any other cool music apps out there?
- Single-player games for her. She likes Plants vs Zombies (but has played it to death on PC), Dr. Mario, Tilt to Live, Dungeon Raid, and Sword & Poker.
- Single-system two-player games for us. If anyone has a link to a big list or something I could browse that'd be great.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

For music apps, there are a couple cool, silly toys and some more serious stuff. Get mugician, it's free and fun to play with. Basically it's a 12 string bass simulator, but far stranger. Funk box is neat for basic drum patterning, and the bs16i is a keyboard app I haven't yet learned everything about but have entirely too much fun with.
World of Goo is an incredible little physics puzzler, gaming wise, that everyone should love. If you don't, you're an awful person.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 14:46

Doctor Zero: Sep 21, 2002; Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Cicero posted:

Planning to get the wifey an iPad 2 on Friday, and I'd like to pre-load it up with some cool stuff before giving it to her. Please fellow goons, help me ~~pleasure~~ please my wife. Basically I'm looking in three areas:

- Music apps. She's a music major (horn and piano). I'm definitely gonna grab Garage Band; are there any other cool music apps out there?
- Single-player games for her. She likes Plants vs Zombies (but has played it to death on PC), Dr. Mario, Tilt to Live, Dungeon Raid, and Sword & Poker.
- Single-system two-player games for us. If anyone has a link to a big list or something I could browse that'd be great.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

Every person I have shown Bebot to has bought it on the spot. 100%.

Although it's more of a music "toy" it's just so drat cute!

# ? Mar 10, 2011 16:04

keyframe: Sep 15, 2007; GINYU FORCE RULES

If you wanted to interactively generate trees on your ipad for free, well now you can:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/tree...30117?mt=8&ls=1

# ? Mar 10, 2011 16:33

Ziploc: Sep 19, 2006; MX-5

keyframe posted:

If you wanted to interactively generate trees on your ipad for free, well now you can:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/tree...30117?mt=8&ls=1

That's actually cool. Helpful for artists.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 17:05

Etrips: Nov 8, 2004

Any app recommendations for keeping track of weight lifting, weight gain/loss progress and such?

# ? Mar 10, 2011 18:33

FLX: Sep 18, 2005; ___
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iMovie and GarageBand were just released in the App Store!

# ? Mar 10, 2011 18:58

Butt Soup Barnes: Nov 25, 2008

I thought iMovie was iPad 2 only?

Edit: Yeah, it is, Garageband is only showing up in the market for original iPads I guess.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 19:00

FLX: Sep 18, 2005; ___
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iMovie shows up in the app store, but it says in the description that it only works on the iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and iPad 2. What happens if I buy it on my iPad 1?

GarageBand is iPad only.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 19:16

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# ? May 22, 2013 18:29

Butt Soup Barnes: Nov 25, 2008

FLX posted:

iMovie shows up in the app store, but it says in the description that it only works on the iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and iPad 2. What happens if I buy it on my iPad 1?

GarageBand is iPad only.

You can't buy it on your iPad 1, it won't show up in the market.

# ? Mar 10, 2011 19:25

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