From: d4g4h4 on
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <1jk1105.dmmv3tqx1utcN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>,
> d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> > The iPad is a pretty useless device for most news video content though.
>
> But I have this old-fashioned habit of preferring to READ my news rather
> than watch little videos anyway 8-)

Then you've got quite an expensive newspaper in the ipad. My gripe here
is that apple are promoting this as having a web browser, when it's
fundamentally broken by not supporting flash. It would drive me nuts.

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From: d4g4h4 on
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <1jk1m9u.13u9z94do5ia7N%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>,
> d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
> > I use an app for BBC news which is useful as it downloads news stories
> > so you can read them online.
>
> I discovered I can also read whatever was on it while on line stays
> there when it's out of wi-fi space.

I meant offline.

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(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
www.davidhorne.net (email address on website)
"[Do you think the world learned anything from the first
world war?] No. They never learn." -Harry Patch (1898-2009)
From: Sterling Fellow on
erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> said:

>What happened to "travel" topics here lately?

i have been trying to find some, even this thread seems to be about
ipads or something.
--
Sterling Fellow


From: Martin on
On 14/06/10 00:08, erilar wrote:
> In article <hv25m0$h91$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Why not use your PC?
>
> I don't have one if you're using that term in its modern limited sense,
> as I suppose you probably are. Nowadays it just means M$-enslaved to
> those of us with other systems 8-) I have three sizes/generations of
> computers and none uses that _________

I am using Open Suse Linux 11.2 and have no problems accessing the BBC
website and other news websites.

From: tim.... on

"erilar" <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in message
news:drache-0F6D7D.17005113062010(a)reserved-multicast-range-not-delegated.example.com...
> In article <87k9jsFo8hU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> why do you need an app?
>
> It's an iPad.

How is that an answer?

Surely it has an internet browser (the website shows it with one)

http://images.apple.com/uk/ipad/home/images/hero_20100127.png

tim