Apple iTablet: the story continues

[sianon]

Originally Posted by stustaff

think your maybe a bit behind on some of the MAC comments Karen

A mac will quite happily read anything in any MS OFFICE format and also create files that can be read on any Windows machine. and if you used say a card to store the files on it coukld be easily plugged into a PC or you could just email them to yourself.

if you can read or write a file in Windows you can pretty much do the same in OSX.

oh and yes my work are all winxp but i happily do work on my Mac and email it in to work and then continue on the work on my Windows machine.

Happy to stand corrected, if it can produce files that can be read by windows, then it may be a very useful device.

Karen

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by stustaff

think your maybe a bit behind on some of the MAC comments Karen

A mac will quite happily read anything in any MS OFFICE format and also create files that can be read on any Windows machine. and if you used say a card to store the files on it coukld be easily plugged into a PC or you could just email them to yourself.

if you can read or write a file in Windows you can pretty much do the same in OSX.

oh and yes my work are all winxp but i happily do work on my Mac and email it in to work and then continue on the work on my Windows machine.

What is the mac equivalent of MS OneNote? complete with it's total integration into office/outlook, etc...? I originally used Evernote but find I prefer OneNote.

[Dulin's Books]

WSJ says Apple Tablet will begin shipping in March

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000..._LEFTWhatsNews

By YUKARI IWATANI KANE And GEOFFREY FOWLER

Apple Inc. plans to unveil a new multimedia tablet device later this month, but doesn't plan on shipping the product until March, people briefed by the company said.

While the shipping time hasn't been finalized and could change, people briefed on the matter said the new tablet device will come with a 10- to 11-inch touch screen. An Apple spokesman said the company doesn't comment on rumors and speculation.

One of the people briefed on the matter added that Apple was working on two different material finishes for the tablet, though it was unclear whether the Cupertino, Calif., company was just testing them or planning to come out with multiple versions of the device at different prices.

Analysts currently believe an Apple tablet will be priced at about $1,000, possibly including a subscription to a nationwide Wi-Fi wireless service.


The tablet is expected to be a multimedia device that will let people watch movies and television shows, play games, surf the Internet and read electronic books and newspapers. People briefed by Apple also say that the company believes it could redefine the way consumers interact with a variety of content. Textbooks and newspapers, for example, could be presented differently through color screens, a touch interface, and the integration of live up-to-the-minute information from multiple sources.

Write to Yukari Iwatani Kane at yukari.iwatani@wsj.com and Geoffrey Fowler at geoffrey.fowler@wsj.com

[brecklundin]

Thanks Dulin,

Still it would be a tough sell to me for a grand considing it's more expensive than my 52" Samsung LCD flat screen.

[sianon]

Originally Posted by brecklundin

What is the mac equivalent of MS OneNote? complete with it's total integration into office/outlook, etc...? I originally used Evernote but find I prefer OneNote.

One note is a delightful and very useful program and one whcih I could not do without now.

I am becoming increasingly annoyed that we continue to use an old version of windows XP and Office 2003 at work. No one note and no sticky notes on the screen as per Windows 7. Wanted to put some reminder notes for some priority tasks for tomorrow morning, and had to use primitive paper post it notes

Karen

[WillAdams]

Word 2008 has a notebook mode which is very nice --- may work for your needs.

Other Mac OS X programs like to OneNote:

Aquaminds NoteTaker --- http://www.aquaminds.com/index.jsp
OmniGroup Outliner --- http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/
Circus Ponies Notebook --- http://www.circusponies.com/
Zengobi Curio --- http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/
Mariner Software Mac Journal --- http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85
Journler --- http://journler.com/
Notemind --- http://www.synium.de/products/notemind/index.html
MyNotes --- http://www.mishimo.com/mynotes
Mage Software InkBook --- http://www.magesw.com/inkbook/
SOHO Notes --- http://www.chronosnet.com/Download/s..._download.html

Some people use the Zotero plug-in for FireFox to manage their research:

http://www.zotero.org/

William

[brecklundin]

WOW, thanks Will!!! If I do end up with one of these tablets, still doubtful, it's cool to see there will be options worth checking into! thanks!!

Originally Posted by WillAdams

Word 2008 has a notebook mode which is very nice --- may work for your needs.

Other Mac OS X programs like to OneNote:

Aquaminds NoteTaker --- http://www.aquaminds.com/index.jsp
OmniGroup Outliner --- http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/
Circus Ponies Notebook --- http://www.circusponies.com/
Zengobi Curio --- http://www.zengobi.com/products/curio/
Mariner Software Mac Journal --- http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85
Journler --- http://journler.com/
Notemind --- http://www.synium.de/products/notemind/index.html
MyNotes --- http://www.mishimo.com/mynotes
Mage Software InkBook --- http://www.magesw.com/inkbook/
SOHO Notes --- http://www.chronosnet.com/Download/s..._download.html

Some people use the Zotero plug-in for FireFox to manage their research:

http://www.zotero.org/

William

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by sianon

One note is a delightful and very useful program and one whcih I could not do without now.

I am becoming increasingly annoyed that we continue to use an old version of windows XP and Office 2003 at work. No one note and no sticky notes on the screen as per Windows 7. Wanted to put some reminder notes for some priority tasks for tomorrow morning, and had to use primitive paper post it notes


Karen

I agree...OneNote might be my favorite MS app of all time. I use it every day for working as well as anything else I need to keep track of. Evernote is also really nice as well and I was using it before OneNote...gotta give MS credit because they won me over with OneNote from the first time I used it.

For anyone who does not know what OneNote is or what it does here is the Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote

And there are other similar apps out there but these are the sort of features I WANT in my portable devices along with ability to sync them all as needed. And I see no reason an ereading deivce should not move in such a direction for their more full featured models. To me this sort of app is like a PDA on steroids. Integrate it (it already is btw) with email AND ebooks and it's a students dream/killer app. Toss in an office suite with a spreadsheet app, a DB app, graphics app and there is not much else a person needs to do anything you want. And these sort of programs do not have a high hardware overhead relative to today's hardware, even reader hardware. Even storage space is so cheap & fast as to make this really possible in a slate PC device.

The way I see it, reader brands need to bolt the reader software onto something like a OneNote app rather than keeping them apart from productivity apps...I think that is the issue many have with the one-trick-pony dedicated reader, especially so in large format devices. The device OS is kludged to make it reading software centric rather than the reader software being merely one feature of the OS...so much processing and resources are being wasted simply to read a book. It really does not take very powerful hardware to format and display a book and what is there in place now is going to waste for the most part.

I sense the designers of the Que had this idea in mind. Probably the Skiff as well. And certainly, well, hopefully, Apple...we already know MS is moving this was as their Win7 is actually designed aorund a touch interface with the legacy keyboard/mouse interface bolted on to the system. Also there is that spiffy MS dual screen thingy we have all seen here on MR. Sorry I forget the name of that device...but it looks really nice as well.

like I mention many times, I want a small 5" device for novels & recreational reading but for other needs I want a full featured slate PC like device that can run real apps and give me real connectivity as well as ebook access. And I do not mind an 8.5"x11" form factor if it's only 1/3" thick, heck lets splurge and go up to 1/2" and call it good!!