Category Archives: iPad Project

Using Quickoffice Pro HD with Dropbox on the iPad

My colleague recently acquired an iPad and in setting up her iPad she ran into a problem that is quite common. While you can open a file from the Dropbox app into Quickoffice (or other apps) you cannot upload it … Continue reading

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iPad therefore iPonder…

Overall impressions: I have been using the iPhone and iOS since the first few months of release, so transitioning and working within the iPad environment was straightforward. It did not take long after playing with a first generation iPad to … Continue reading

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Lynda.com now available for PSU…on the iPad!

Lynda.com is a tremendous resource of video tutorials on just about anything you can imagine tech related. Penn State now has an account with Lynda and the best part? Lynda now has an iPad app that works with it! From … Continue reading

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Two Great Productivity Apps

I have had my iPad2 for a couple of weeks now.  Most of my time with it has been spent researching productivity apps. I am committed to eliminating all my lab notebooks and finding a way to keep them electronically. … Continue reading

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Presenting with the iPad

At the beginning of July, I participated in the Hermeneutics Colloquium at the University of Freiburg. For the conference, I had written a paper, but I brought neither paper, nor books, nor physical copies of articles of any kind.  Rather, … Continue reading

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Mismatches

Although I’ve had a busy research summer, my iPad, thus far, has been collecting plenty of dust. My current projects don’t seem to be compatible with it, or perhaps it’s the other way around. Either way (or both ways), there’s … Continue reading

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ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard

ShowMe, an interactive whiteboard app for the iPad, allows users to create voice-over tutorials that can be shared online. It has a simple interface with a writing tool, upload image function, and a record button. Captured videos are uploaded directly … Continue reading

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Traveling with my iPad

Over the past month or so, I have done quite a bit of traveling (California, Nevada, and Massachusetts, to name a few places).  I am happy to report that my iPad was extremely useful and helped me to remain quite … Continue reading

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iPad Apps

xxl13 (who are you?) just posted about not really having time to go through many apps and yet the iPad has already become useful, just for reading. Coincidentally I received an (unsolicited, not sure why I cannot get off these … Continue reading

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Stylin’: Using a Stylus with the iPad

For the past week, I’ve been experimenting with using a stylus with the iPad. Now that I’ve gotten into the habit, I find it preferable to using the iPad without. There are a two uses, though, that I find the … Continue reading

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