Questions tagged [ipad]
Apple's mobile tablet computing device. Questions about using the iPad are considered off topic, unless they're about interfacing with your computer.
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What ffmpeg command would convert a video for iPad/iPhone/iPod?
I'm currently using a batch file which (amongst other things) runs the following handbrakecli command line to convert a video:
HandBrakeCLI.exe -v0 --input "D:\input.mkv" --preset="Universal" --ipod-...
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How do you open the Developer's Console on Chrome on an iPad? [closed]
This answer on Arqade says that you need to activate the Developer's Console to do what it says. However, I need to do this on an iPad with Chrome installed. Is there a simple way to do this?
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Why does the terminal on my MacBook Pro seem to send me my iPad instead of the MacBook Pro itself?
Somehow when I open the terminal on my MacBook Pro 16 (2019) it uses my iPad instead of using my MacBook Pro. I moved from Windows few days ago. I use my iPad at school for writing by my hand and ...
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How can I develop for Safari 6 without buying a mac?
I've always found that just developing in Windows, and using Safari for Windows has been sufficient.
However, Safari 6 has now been released, and I've got at least one user who has contacted me, ...
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Why does the Apple A12X processor have better benchmark results then the i7-4790T?
In my workstation I have an Intel i7-4790T that I've always thought was a pretty fast CPU. But according to Geekbench 4 the Apple A12X processor in the new iPad Pro comfortably beats it. When I run ...
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MacBook Pro USB port provides more current in Mac OS X than in Windows
I have a MacBook Pro with both Mac OS X Lion and Windows (under BootCamp) installed. While in Windows, I tried to charge my iPad 3 via the USB port. The iPad says "Not charging", but really, it does, ...
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Using keyboard attached to PC or Mac as Bluetooth keyboard for iPad?
I would like to use my computer keyboard (USB) as a Bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, while I am using it with my computer. I was hoping their was an "app for that" that I could run on either Mac or ...
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Can you safely delete apps from iTunes music folder?
I realised I was running drastically low on disk space today, and after some poking around found I had 40GB (!) of apps in iTunes.
Now that Apple have sorted out their store so you can re-download ...
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Repeating a Wi-Fi signal with a Windows 7 laptop
I have a weak Wi-Fi signal that I can receive only by using my Windows 7 Laptop which uses an external Wi-Fi antenna..
I have an iPad which doesn't receive the signal as well - if at all - so I'm ...
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Adding exchange room calendars to iPad [closed]
I am trying to get an iPad to list Exchange room resources in its calendar.
I have set up an account for the iPad to connect to exchange with it's own mailbox. This account has full access to the ...
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Turn Off Unjailbroken iOS Device From PC
Is there a way to turn off a unjailbroken device from the PC? If it was jailbroken I could just SSH into it and turn it off.
Can I boot with the help of a ramdisk and then shut it down? http://...
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Connect iPad to windows 7 VPN
My iPad keeps spitting out the error:
"A connection could not be established to the PPP server."
I am trying to connect it to a VPN I set up with Windows 7 as an incoming connection.
On the iPad, I ...
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Is there a way to turn my computer into a bluetooth keyboard? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Use laptop as bluetooth keyboard?
Here are the facts:
I have a computer (hurray!)
It has a working bluetooth chipset
It is running Linux (Debian)
My tablet (an iPad, but it ...
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Can you transfer files off the iPad with Bluetooth?
Can you transfer files off the iPad with Bluetooth? Or do you have to buy a 3rd party add-on?
From Google, it seems like you needed a 3rd party app to do that.
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Where do the notes synchronized from the iPad go? [closed]
I synchronize e-mails, contacts, calendar and notes between my iPad and Google. Google has web interfaces for the first three, but where do my notes end up?
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Can I create a wireless ad hoc network in Windows 11?
I have a program called TotalMix on my Windows 11 laptop, and an iPad app called TotalMix Remote connects to it on a specified IP address and port number.
This works when both devices are on my home ...
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Can I access mac iTunes library from an iPad?
Can I access my iMac based iTunes library from my iPad over my home wifi? I know I can sync them up but the library is too big.
Edit; just to clear(er), the movies, podcasts etc which are stored on ...
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Why Apple iPad is not charging from Windows machine using USB?
I am not able to charge an Apple iPad over USB with a Windows machine. But both an iPhone and an iPod charge properly over USB on this machine.
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iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry emulator for Windows [closed]
Is there any iPhone, iPad and BlackBerry emulator for Windows? Freeware.
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Have an iPad's viewable area visible on your computer monitor for remote web-meeting training?
I want to demo the usage of my iPad on my computer screen so that I can transmit it to other people during a training session using a web conference tool (like dimdim.com, gotomeeting.com, fuzemeeting....
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How can I trick websites into displaying their iPad versions on chrome running on windows?
I have a Windows touchscreen netbook and would like to see websites as they appear to a iPad user (i know many sites have special versions for the iPad). I'm using Chrome.
None of the solutions found ...
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My network was compromised, what should I do?
All wireless clients were kicked off the network (3 PCs & 1 iPad). Only a PC with a wired connection was still able to connect. This morning I discovered that the network had been renamed and a ...
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Windows 7 doesn't recognize USB devices anymore
So I have a problem with my desktop.
I have an iPad 2 which WAS working fine on my desktop, however, after a week of not connecting it, it suddenly isnt recognized anymore by windows 7.
First I ...
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How can I stream my laptop's desktop to my iPad?
I recently got a wireless PC controller, and now I enjoy games playing from my bed. However, I find it hard to correctly place my laptop so it's comfortable, and it would be great if there was a way ...
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How to use iTunes USB File Transfer to copy files from PC to Apple iPad, e.g. PDF files for viewer app?
I'm interested in reading PDF-format ebooks on my Apple iPad. I have half a gig of PDFs I want to transfer to it, from my PC. I'm familiar already with loading EPUB-format titles through iBooks &...
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Can the iPad Pro be used as input to a Linux computer?
I have a Linux desktop that I often use for online conferencing. In conferences I need to field questions, often aided by drawing diagrams. Up to now I've been doing this with a Wacom writing pad, ...
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Playing iPad to iPad Wifi games over PPTP VPN
I'm trying to use a VPN to play iPad to iPad Wifi (Local) games over the internet.
Normally you open the game on both iPad's, connect to the same Wifi point and they can "see" and speak to each other....
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OS X Lion VNC no longer works
I enjoyed using VNC from my iPad to my Mac Pro running Snow Leopard without issues. Since upgrading to OS X Lion, I am no longer able to log in remotely.
I can connect, but I now see the OS X login ...
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Create video demo of ipad application [closed]
How would I go about creating a demo video of an ipad application (in the ipad simulator)?
The video should preferably use a circle as the cursor and also
support moving between portrait/landscape ...
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Ethernet in, Wifi out?
A friend of mine is going to university where only ethernet is offered in the rooms. He only has an iPad, and want's a device that will allow him to broadcast ethernet wirelessly.
The ethernet won't ...
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How do I get home sharing to work with iPad?
I can't seem to get home sharing to work with the iPad? Does it not have this feature?
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Can MS Office or OpenOffice.org open Pages documents from an iPad?
Can MS Office or OpenOffice.org open Pages documents from an iPad?
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Can I connect iPad to computer so I can use iPad as a keyboard?
The computer keys seem to be stuck after coffee was spilt. Only a mouthful but that seems to have done it. The computer switches on all right, but the keyboard doesn't work.
Can I use my I pad as a ...
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DNS domain pointing to LAN ip only works from one device
I'm running a HTTP website on port 61337 on my laptop.
My laptop's ip address is 192.168.1.247.
The domain mathsrise.tk points to 192.168.1.247, and I can (from my laptop) access the website at this ...
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Ensure data on an iPad is deleted and unrecoverable
A friend of mine has an iPad 2 with a lot of personal/confidential data on it from his work/home life but wants to sell it to upgrade. He's concerned someone will be able to recover the data from it.
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How to transfer photos from my iPad to Mac
One of the great benefits of the iPad will be putting a ton of my photos in one, great place to show friends and family (rather than bringing them over to my computer). But I have several thousand ...
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Can I use an iPad as the display for a Mac Mini?
Is it possible to use an iPad as the monitor for a Mac Mini? Input would be from the Mac Mini's keyboard and mouse.
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How do I move iTunes properly to a new computer? (music, multiple iPads and their apps, etc.)
Current Setup
iTunes on a dying laptop (Windows 7)
Music purchased through iTunes and partially synced to multiple iPads
iPads registered through iTunes
apps downloaded directly to iPads
iPads OS's ...
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Convert pdf file with images in jpeg2000 to pdf with non jpeg2000 images
I have a pdf file which has images compressed using jpeg2000 compression. The iPad can't display these images in the pdf. Is there a free utility to convert the pdf file to a pdf version where all the ...
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Converting CMYK pdf to RGB results in white lines and some font problems
I use the following command to convert a pdf from CMYK to RGB - I dont have access to the generation of these PDFs. The reason I'm doing it is so that the colours look correct on an iPod device.
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iTunes want to remove my existing apps on iPad
Here is the situation. I connected my iPad to some new PC, Synced, then ticking Sync Apps from Devices->Apps will give me warning that all existing apps on my iPad will be replaced with those from ...
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Is it difficult to intercept & spoof skyhook location requests with corrected mifi GPS data?
Apple's WiFi-only iPad uses location services provided by SkyHook to determine your location for Maps, and such. I frequently use my iPad with a Sprint Overdrive device, which has GPS built in. I'm ...
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How to sync apps with one Mac and 3 devices?
We have 1 Mac, with 1 iTunes account, and 3 iOS devices.
Every time we sync one device, iTunes either spams it with ALL apps from ALL devices, OR it removes all of the apps from the device including ...
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Rsync to a WebDAV filesystem on OS X copies all files regardless of being changed or not
I am trying to sync from my (Mac) desktop to an iPad and an iPhone. MacOS X mounts WebDAV as a native file system, but syncing results in all files in my directory structure being copied again.
This ...
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Develop iphone or ipad application on ipad?
I am very interested in developing iphone or ipad application. As far as I understand, I need a mac to develop iphone or ipad application.
I just wonder if I can develop ipad or iphone application on ...
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Running iPhone or iPad apps on the PC or Mac
Is it possible at all? Some apps on iPhone are iPad are quite nice that if it can be run on the PC or a Mac it'd be nice.
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Can I use my iPad to as a speaker for my laptop?
My laptop sound card is not working and I will use ipad's speaker for my laptop with bluetooth pair. For example when I'll watch movie on my laptop, its sound play with my ipad until I fixed my laptop ...
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Windows 7 VPN for iPad
Is it possible to set up a VPN server on my windows 7 machine so I can use VPN on my ipad from other networks?
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Use iPad as Monitor [closed]
If I purchase this iPad HDMI Adapter, could I plug in a DVD player to my iPad? Or would this device only work as an output?
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"iTunes could not connect to this iPhone. This device is no longer connected."
I have a first generation iPad Air (with up-to-date iOS 8.1)
When I connect it to my 2013 iMac (with up-to-date OS X Yosemite 10.10) - it doesn't work.
Specifically - iTunes automatically launches, ...
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