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Like I said, I’m amazed Scribble was able to handle that so well. |
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06-25-2020, 04:32 PM | #32 |
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I’m glad they included cursive script capability too. Many schools don’t even teach kids to write in cursive anymore, so it will be a lost art in a generation or two.
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06-25-2020, 05:30 PM | #33 |
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Here is a MacRumors Youtube video on using Scribble in iPadOS 14.
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https://eshop.macsales.com/installvi...?filter=memory In which case you might as well upgrade the internal drive as well. |
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06-25-2020, 07:50 PM | #36 |
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I wanted one, but they were too expensive. Apple gave up on it relatively quickly too. Sony came out with a similar device too, but gave up on it almost immediately. I bought the Sony device but it never worked well at all. Total waste of money. The Palm Pilot was the first device that I could actually use to great benefit. And it fit in my shirt pocket. I still have it, though I doubt it will boot up anymore. I think it was the Palm Pilot III.
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06-26-2020, 01:20 AM | #37 |
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The Newton was the first piece of Apple hardware I owned. My employer worked out a deal with them for 50% off or something like that of a limited quantity. This was the early days of PDAs and people still carried around Daytimers. I quickly realized I had no use for any sort of PDA, and the thing didn’t even play chess (maybe later on there was a chess app). I sold it to another employee a couple of weeks later for what I’d paid for it.
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06-26-2020, 11:13 AM | #39 |
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Apple had the right idea in general terms when it came to the Newton, which was more like a tablet than a PDA. A lot of companies were churning out PDAs including Sharp, Hewlett Packard, Palm, etc. Most were useless due to battery issues and device resetting which wiped all the data. Since most PDAs required tedious hand entry, the constant resets were a deal killer. The PDAs though were basically designed to replace your Rolodex by giving you an electronic list of contacts, plus it provided a simple calendar and a few other simple features. Basically the PDA was an electronic version Fonzie's "little black book" on steroids. They were never intended as app machines in the early days. Palm added app capability later on, as did other manufacturers, and we discovered that they made nice little portable eBook readers in an era predating eInk devices, though your eyes had to be much better than more are now in old age! Someone came up with a way to convert text files into a Palm database file, and we were then converting books from text to Palm files. But that low resolution screen of my Palm Pilot III only had 160x160 px.
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Has anyone heard anything about Apples tvOS 14? I'm really enjoying my Apple TV 4K, but I'm wondering what new features might come our way in tvOS 14.
I'm having a lot of issues streaming Philo on it though, but I also have those issues with my Fire TV, so that is likely a Philo issue. On the Apple TV 4K some of the Philo channels freeze up fairly often and I get error 11839. This is a fairly new issue and it seems to be getting worse over time, but again I think it is a Philo booboo rather than an Apple TV 4K or Fire TV issue. All other streaming services are working fine, and I have an ethernet connection to both devices which provided 200+ Mbps DL speed to the Apple TV 4K and about 100 Mbps DL to the Fire TV. |
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It looks like the new tvOS 14 features are - YouTube 4K support, multiuser game support, home app and picture in picture support. |
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‘Multiuser game support’. What I’d like are ability for pass-and-play games or on-the-same-screen games (separate controller for each player).
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I've been going back and forth the last several days with Philo CS trying to get them to address their live TV streaming. They are bullheaded and don't want to admit the fault is on their end. I've got Fire TV and Roku and Apple TV 4K and all of them have the same streaming issue with Philo live TV constantly freezing on several channels, but none of my devices have this issue with any other streaming service. Occasion issues occur with all streaming services of course, but the Philo issue is a daily PITA. I get so tired of CS telling me to restart the device, update the firmware, restart the app, and all the other standard crap we all know to do before we even call them. Three days into the CS back and forth and I’m still only getting that kind of a response. I guess I’m going to have to search for another streaming service, but their price of $20/month will be tough to match. Philo is cheap because they don’t have news or sports channels or local programming. Hulu and Sling are way too expensive and designed to make you get extra packages. AT&T sux, so I won’t deal with them and whatever streaming service they have today or tomorrow. No desire whatever to go back to cable.. I’ve got a few services like Netflix, MotorTrend, BritBox, and Curiosity which I periodically purchase for a few months, then after I’ve seen all I want to of their current programming I cancel and wait several months or a year and purchase it again if they have new programming. |
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I did load the MacOs Big Surr on my laptop. It's a different feel for sure. I am disappointed that they didn't improve the sync and the apps, but maybe they will do that before the final release. I haven't run across any apps that don't work, but then again, I have a fairly minimal set of apps on my laptop. I pretty much just use it when I'm downstairs.
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Both of my Macs are pretty old now, so I will try to get the most out of them before switching to Win 10 or its next iteration. I doubt I’ll ever buy one of the non-intel models. I just don’t see software developers wanting to port their intel Mac apps over to the new chips. A few like Adobe and Microsoft will, but many of the others likely won’t. I hope I’m wrong on this, but only time will tell. I might upgrade to a newer intel based Mac at some point though. Last edited by OtinG; 06-28-2020 at 04:29 PM. |
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