that's cause there isn't much to talk about except ios5...

 

Uuuhhh so none of my 3rd party apps are working. None. They all say waiting underneath them and have an empty progress bar on them. They've been like that for an hour, I tried restarting and makes no difference.

Just figured it out! I have to go into the app store and go to purchased iPad apps and tap the iCloud download button next to each and every one of them. Of course the app store app closes after every app your press so you have to relaunch it between every app. Only 95 more to go.....Good times.

 

Stunna, I know you're on a Mac but how did you isolate the ispw file when restoring your iPad? I can't get a box the come up to select the file.. Its the iOS 5 gm.

 

Alt+Click the restore button. You should be able to select the .ipsw then.

 

I feel the same way. I thought the split keyboard was going to be fantastic but it seems awkward. Maybe it'll just take time to get used to.

 

I think it's shift click on the PC, you also have to be running the iTunes 10.5 beta. Just try shift, ctrl or alt, one of those will work

 

yep. shift worked. thanks guys

 

I will install GM tonight

 

Hmm I should pay attention to how I type.

Aside from that how is Typing on the split keyboard?

 

wrong thread, me no have iPad.

 

Well that's a big deal for me, since I'm left handed it's in my head to always use my left hand to hit the y and b. So everytime I have to use those letters it makes me stop for sec. Other than that it's ok, a little better than using the OG landscape keyboard. If I had to choose I'd say that the OG portrait keyboard is the best for me. The split keyboard takes a little to get used to, so you can type without looking, the landscape keyboard is almost as big as a normal keyboard on a laptop so I can type on that without looking when I set the iPad down but it's hard to type with just my thumbs.

 

I see, well I'm glad you can turn it off?

 

How many tabs can you have open at once?

 

I heard it was 9

14,000!

 

The tabbed browsing is very nice. Only complaint is that you can't have background content playing in them. I was listening to a podcast on YouTube in one tab and tried to switch over to another tab and it cut the audio.

 

It works with audio though. It'll pause video if it's not being shown on the screen but you can have audio on another tab and be surfing in another tab. This also worked in iOS 4

 

Ok some improvements ive noticed so far. I didn't care for reader in desktop safari but it's useful on the iPad. 1080p video output! Before the hardware supported 1080 but the software was only 720, not with ios 5. I'm typing this on the the split portrait keyboard I'm getting used to it, I like that you can move the keyboard up and down the screen.

I like the tabbed browsing in iChromy better than safari too bad iChromy sucks now as a browser, hopefully it gets better. I'm spoiled by how good it once was and now neither safari or iChromy are as good as it once was so I'm kinda disappointed in both.

Home sharing support is now in music and videos so that's nice, I have no use for twitter integration.

Mark as read capability in email is pretty much the greatest thing since sliced bread, I've been wanting that for quite a while.

iCloud backup is sweet. Here's a tip. iCloud will backup all the files you have in your apps which can eat up a lot of space if your not careful. For example I had an 1080p rip of the anime Akira that I transferred to my file browser app that was 3.75gb stored on my iPad. When I set up iCloud backup it started backing up that big file and they only give you 5gb of backup storage for free so it was almost all gone and it was taking forever to backup. So I had to go into settings and saw that was trying to backup that big file and cancel it

You know what it is about the split keyboard that I don't like is that I can't reach my thumbs far enough across to hit the keys on the other keypad. I can't reach my left thumb over and hit keys on the right pad or vis versa, this slows me down, that and the fact that the spacebar is split in two and harder to hit. Yup I'm sticking to the portrait merged keyboard but I can see how chicks with little hands would like it.

 

What's going on with AirPrint? I thought it was supposed to be enabled for all Printers by now

 

 

Facebook for iPad app I posted about a few months ago is finally out and it's pretty suite! Get dat bih write here

http://itunes.apple.com/app/facebook/id284882215

 

They spent how long baking this app? And it still doesn't work right. Many are complaining about it in the comments section of MacRumors. For me, it works, but kicks me out every two minutes or so and makes me login again. Others are saying it just crashes upon launch. It does look very nice, from the few minutes of use I've been able to mess around with it.

 

works so far for me on the iPad. I had an issue launching it with my iPhone but it seemed to work after that.

 

I might be a little late but looks like you can do mirror browsing on Apple TV now with the iPad. I ran out and picked up Apple TV quick while I was downloading iOS5 on the iPad, will try it out later.

 

Only iPad 2 and iPhone 4S thou

 

Damn, loving iPad 2 and 5.

 

You have the iPad 5????? want!

 

Picked up Apple TV last night, works great with my iPad 2. Hooked it up this morning and can do mirroring. Looking forward to playing with it after work

 

Yea kind of the reason I want an iPad 2/iPhone 4S

 

^I've been waiting for this functionality from Apple TV for a while, very glad it's here.

Selling my laptop this weekend, now I really have no need for it with the iMac and iPad.

 

What kind of laptop are we talking about here?

 

What do you plan to use the airplay mirroring for?

 

Mostly skype and watching movies off the iPad.

I have a Gateway 15.6" with i5, bluray, 4 gigs of ram, 320gb hard drive.

 

Oh true, i'll have to try facetime like that. But don't get your hopes up on the video streaming, it might just be best to drop $30 and get the HDMI adapter for the iPad. I tried video streaming from my media server last night and it worked as good as I thought, not well. It was a 1080p rip of one of the bourne movies and it was beyond unplayable. The reason is because the video goes like this to make it's way to my TV

server > GBe to router > wifi to iPad > wifi to router > wifi to apple TV

too many hops for video and I have a bad ass 802.11n router. Now it will play fine if I plug in the HDMI from the TV to the iPad since it doesn't have to go through as many steps but having the iPad be a middle man between the server and apple TV kills it. Or you could just turn on home sharing an access the file directly from the apple TV. I really don't use my apple TV for much anymore, mainly youtube on the big screen but the xbox 360 is adding that in like a month

 

^I haven't checked out the quality of video yet, will try tonight.

It's just a new toy really...not much more than that.

 

Video will be 720p.

Works well when I stream from my pc to iPhone 4 to appletv

Quality is good too.

 

I did some youtube videos today and they worked fine but HD video probably not. Another benefit of the HDMI adapter is that you get 1080p video instead of 720p

 

Yea but the whole point of AirPlay is wireless.

I guess for a movie it'd be ok since it'll just sit there for 2 hours.

 

I played around a lot this weekend and the quality isn't bad at all. It's not HD, but it definitely works. I'm happy with the quality.

 

Is anyone with an ipad 1 experiencing lags, bugs, or just general glitches since upgrading to ios 5?

 

I think Safari crashes more often than it used to. Apps that haven't had iOS 5 compatibility updates seem to crash too. Other than that it is okay.