Using an iPad - was krankshaft format solution found

[Arin Komins]

A quick dispute: as long as the PDFs have reflow active, reading on a 
smaller screen can be a pleasure.  I routinely use my ancient winmo 6.0 
phone to read ebooks in pdf format, and haven't ever had a problem.  

(...but said PDFs need to have reflow allowed, or it's a nightmare.)

Thanks,

Arin

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, John Rennie wrote:

:Subject: Re: Using an iPad - was krankshaft format solution found
:
:The 7" tablets are too small really. You need a 10" screen like the
:iPad or the Archos 101 for reading PDFs to be a pleasant experience.
:Be warned that the experience of several friends suggests that wives
:love iPads and will quick monopolise it. Most of my friends have had
:to buy a second iPad for their own use. Friends with a teenage
:daughter have had to buy a third!
:
:Re XBMC: WMV is a closed format developed by Microsoft, and the open
:source community has had to reverse engineer it. If you want to use
:an open source media player WMV is best avoided. Conversely, if you
:have to play WMVs the best option is to use Windows Media Player.
:
:>BTW, how can an iPad help with XMBC?
:
:You can run XBMC on an iPad (not on the iPad 2 yet) if you jailbreak
:it. However most of us would just use the XBMC remote control applet
:to control an HTPC running XBMC. The XBMC remote control applet is
:available for both iPad and Android. XBMC itself has not been ported
:to Android yet.
:
:JR
:
:-----Original Message-----
:From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Jonathan Smith
:Sent: 10 April 2011 13:55
:To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
:Subject: Re: Using an iPad - was krankshaft format solution found
:
:Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me! You make it sound like a gadget
:I must have. I am very interested in something that enables me to read PDFs
:and get online quickly. ther are other options for tablets which I haven't
:looked at like one produced by Asus. I resisted buying an Archos at the time
:because I didn't have faith in its realiblity and the screen was too small.
:The PMP seems to have died to to be reborn as the tablet.
:
:I have been looking at XMBC. I have tried it on Windows 7 PC. Its a good as
:a media centre (less clumsy than Micosoft's!), especially for large music
:collections. It seems fairly easy to configure but i am finding some minor
:problems with some video file types, like WMV, but as i didn't record them I
:don't know if the problem lies with a bad recording. I'll try in on a Mac
:soon.
:
:BTW, how can an iPad help with XMBC?
:

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