I broke down and got myself an Apple IPad. So far it’s a pretty fun little device. I won’t say that it totally removes the need for a full desktop, but it does do quite a bit.
I am a little upset that there isn’t a TAB or arrow keys on the virtual keyboard. It’s a bit of a pain for someone with fat fingers to move around in a block of text when you are editing something. The finger focus that pops up when you hold your finger on a text screen for a while can do the job, it takes me away from the keyboard and the flow I was on to make the change.
The gist of this article is that I wanted a way to move music from Itunes to the new IPad. I had a preexisting library of about 10,000 tunes already so organizing the songs has been a bit of a chore.
I did find a trick to be able to mark the songs that I do not want on my IPad. I’m sure this trick would work for Ipods and Iphones as well. I set the transfer in Itunes to only put checked songs on my IPad. On the Ipad I created a new playlist called “Uncheck”. When I sync back up to Itunes I go and uncheck all but one song in the “Uncheck” playlist. Bang they are all removed from the Ipad. You need to leave at least one song in the “Uncheck” playlist or it will not show up on the Ipad after you finish syncing and you would have to create a new playlist on the Ipad and you will end up with duplicates in ITunes.
This is a great way to add whole albums and such to the Ipad. It is a helpful tool in removing any duplicates that you may have, or just songs you don’t want to hear, but don’t want to delete from your library.
