July+3,+2011

I really do wish Apple and Adobe would put their grudge match aside. There were a couple sites I visited today that required Flash and it wasn't happening on my iPad. There are some options for making the iPad Flash compatible, but those I've found require jail breaking the device and draining the battery with an app that has little reliability. I refuse, however, to be deterred. There are enough techno geeks out there and some blog in cyberland will have a solution.

There was some hope, however, in my dismay regarding Office products on my iPad. I can still cloud compute using GoogleDocs for simple word processing projects. I actually sat down and did a book review using GoogleDocs and will figure out how to upload it to FoxTale.

I still would like to figure out how to easily import pictures and video from my iPad to social sites. I found it interesting that I can upload a picture or video from my iPad to my FB using the app but couldn't through a regular Web page (needed Flash). Oh the pains of learning new technology.

My next chore will be trying to figure out how to put video on my Wiki as to prepare for part of my final project. (UPDATE) So far, I've only been able to push the video to YouTube and then paste a link on my journal page. I know there must be an app to make this easier, but I'm reluctant to add apps willy nilly. I have not yet met the desire of our Wiki to upload a file from my iPad. Somehow, I must make all things web based before and uploading can be done.

My other observation is about viewing my Wiki page with links, picture or video files. Viewing it normally, everything appears as it would to an outsider. As soon as I go to edit, everything turns into text as if I were writing program commands for the page. I can't change the format of my new link via my iPad either (whether it is "normal" or a certain heading size).

I added my Wordpress link to my page and found it somewhat refreshing to read what I've written. I have about six pieces in the hopper and three that I've published to my page; one of them still needs some work, but I still enjoy the development of the pieces.