Computers are DEAD. Long live tablets!

Although I am using a Pc to write this, i have to admit that this age is different from what once was!!!!! I love the smell of new technology, but at times i cant help that nostalgic feeling that i get when i see a gameboy color or a t.v with a hatchback!!!! But the more technology changes the more our lives are more manipulated!!! its so real that its unreal what phones, tablets and applications can do!!!!! and i love to hate it!!!!!!:rolleyes:

I feel so passionately about this I've actually made a little doodle explaining why:



In the sitting down scenario you either need to twist your neck with a 90 degree downwards viewing angle, raise your legs in the air like a prostitute to get a comparable angle with a laptop or hold out the screen in front of you and go back to either position a/b when you want to type/interact with two hands.

For sitting at a desk with a tablet you're either back to straining your neck of using some sort of little music stand to prop up the tablet.

Seriously I don't get why people like these things....

These devices exist

oh yes, box.net works great on ipad too. but Dropbox seems to be integrated into more of the apps to work more seamlessly. i use several services to make sure nothing is every gone.

my ipad is always backed up to DR, box, and idrive, last pass for ipad keeps all my logins synced with my pc/laptop (which i never use) and then of course itunes/icloud keeps the apps all synced up.

Don't make me Google the definition of a calculator.

Nooo, I wasn't serious.

I'm a one monitor man!

Bare necessity is the way foward!

I would be more than happy to do that Paul.

For plain text i use "itext pad" i think it was like a $3 app. it does support word wrap, but their setting for it is kinda weird. I am assuming you are thinking about formatting your newsletter? Their setting goes from 100-700 i think which roughly equals 10-70 characters.

but probably the easiest way i do it is to use "office hd" and to save one file as a template with the margins setup where i want them. then i just use that for my template. "office hd" is a more expensive app, but it does a lot of other stuff too.

As for mail, I have my email address all setup to go through one of 2 gmail address that both have about 1.7 million filters setup to organize all the incoming mail into folders. I can actually use the normal mail system fairly easily although i also use a couple that are setup for gmail/google services.

But for me the key to handling the tremendous amount of email is setting up filters so i don't ever have to manage email on my tablet the way most do on their pc.

I also use a kayako app that integrates with their help desk pretty well. I can do 95% of the support stuff from that app which obviously helps to organize and cut down on email.

i run an app called teamworkpm that again corresponds to the online service to keeps all the project management stuff going. i still outsource via other sites like odesk and fiverr, but once i find someone decent, i insist they get into my teamworkpm system so i can give them more work there. Once they find out i will pay, most like that anyway because they save on fees.

i have about 3 more pages of apps to do pretty much anything you want so feel free to ask more questions.

For myself having spent 6 months traveling with only an iPad I'd say the apps I have found the most essential to work in my IM business have been:


1) Pages

Totally required for any serious writing and formatting of books, newsletters or anything. It's not as detailed and advanced as the PC version, though close. I wrote several 80+ page Ebooks on it. Greatest downside though are adding photos to it, cause there is no option to compress them when you publish so it has the tendency to create too large of file sizes. It also sucks with screenshots which I used a lot of cause after you crop the screenshot in the photo app and then import that into pages, it doesn't keep the crops and displays the original. So you have to take another screenshot of the cropped one to use it. Annoying.


2) WinZip or FastZip

Pretty essential for unzipping downloaded zip files or zipping them to upload.


3) iUploader

Can't really live without this one! Almost all sites that have an upload button to search your PC to upload a file don't work on the iPad. Though if you go to the site from the iUploader browser they suddenly work and you can search for files and upload them to the site.


4) Sharefile

This is an app that comes with a service for file sharing. It's free the first month and then charges. Though it's the best I found for the iPad for easily uploading of files to their server and sharing the download links with others.


5) iFileConvertor

Converts most file types to other file types.


6) Paypal

How could you do business without the PayPal app? The best feature of this app are the push notifications of whenever you get a payment come in it rolls over a notice of at the top of your screen showing the amount and from whom. Great when you have a launch and start seeing it turn over every few minutes!


7) SKYPE

Of course, super essential! Great for chating or even calling reg phones.


8) Wordpress App

Great for creating, updating and editing your blog posts.


9) Dropbox

Another very essential app for backing up your data and syncing it or just keeping it on there so you don't use as much space on your iPad. Works very quickly to see your files and upload/download them as if they're on your iPad.

10) N+otes

Great note app that is very organized with folders and lists of notes.


11) Of course all the social media apps. Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, etc.


12) GetResponse app

Can only write text only emails in the app, though it's much faster than their site to write an email and send it to my list!


13) Of course all my other banking apps to manage my accounts.


14) Gotomeeting and Anymeetng app

For keeping up with the webinars and meetings etc.

The true test would be to lock a capable person in a room with a tablet and see how long it would take them to put together a system from stone cold to generate money, as opposed to simply orchestrating a system which has previously been set up by others means....

To keep test conditions fair, any work that's outsourced can also only be done on a tablet.....by persons also locked in rooms.

"Locked in a room" being an apt metaphor for exactly how I'd feel trying to do my day to day business on a cheeseboard.