IPad on Flo's Thoughts

The iPad Magic Keyboard

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:30:02 +0200

John Gruber:

The Smart Keyboards are iPad covers you can type on. The Magic Keyboard is a portable keyboard stand, not a cover — when you want to use your iPad as a tablet, not a laptop, you must detach it.

It seems obvious, but I didn’t think about it like that yet.

As on Apple’s Smart Keyboards, the iPad Magic Keyboard has no Escape key. If you miss the Escape key, there are a couple workarounds. First, in most situations, ⌘-period works as a synonym for Escape. This is a standard Mac shortcut that dates back to classic Mac OS decades ago. (In my opinion, any context where ⌘-period doesn’t work as a synonym for the Escape key ought to be considered a bug.)

Why the iPad Became My Main Computer

Fri, 06 Feb 2015 13:41:20 +0200

Federico Viticci:

Think about the iPad this way: would a college student who needs to download a file from a school’s web server and write an essay in Pages while looking up two PDFs really enjoy an iPad? I don’t think so. Would a chef who wants to compare orders for her kitchen open 5 windows in Preview for OS X or jump back and forth between files on a third-party app for iPad? She’d just sit down at an iMac and use Preview. But would an iPad make sense for some tasks in those two use cases? Would the portability of an iPad be welcome in the student’s backpack or the chef’s countertop? Absolutely.

Pipetto iPad Case

Sat, 04 May 2013 13:00:00 +0200

After using only the Smart Cover for the last couple of months, a few days back I got a new iPad case in the style of the original case. It’s the Pipetto Leather iPad case in Rocker Black. It’s a lovely and well crafted handmade case which feels pretty great in the hand. The leather is soft but the case itself is rather sturdy.

It offers the same functions in terms of standing as the original iPad case did plus the magnetic put-the-iPad-to-sleep-function. At least it should. Mine actually does not put the device to sleep when I close it. I’m talking to the manufacturer about that.