Alright, for my next blog I would just like to focus on the app pages. From the app store, this little guy was 10 dollars but I believe after a week of using it, completely worth it.
So where to start. I guess it would be good to say that Pages is simply a document writer for the iPad. Its icon is an inkwell with a pen overlapping it. Honestly it took some getting used to when I first began using it. I am not a “home-row” typist, more of a two fingered hunt and pecker so I can’t say if it is very easy to type normally since I don’t type that way. Having the iPad in the landscape and scroll locking it makes it very easy to use though. Really what takes the most getting used to is the lack of a physical buttons since it is all touch screen. At any rate I have been using it to type all of my documents and the book I am writing. Once you understand the interface and finger actions for the touch screen, it is just as easy as using MS Word and a mouse.
What really wowed me though came a little later. During the week I had to write my host parents in Japan a letter. Very quickly I was able to activate the Japanese keyboard IME but even more amazing was seeing it in action. As I typed, spell check in Japanese and Kanji translation would appear just above the keyboard and I could short cut to them, making my job so much easier. When I finished, Pages gave me the option to email the document as an attachment in either Pages, PDF or Doc file. So I mailed to my computer and copied the information into the email I wanted to send them. I could have just emailed them the file but I did not want to send them an attachment.
With the simple but useful interface and convenient options Pages is great Long story short, I love Pages.
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