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- kona0
Over the past few days I've been having to load images onto 5 iPad mini's for Demo's we'll be showing at CES.
Fuck me what a complete and total pain in the absolute ass. The company ordered all 5 at the same time and fuck me right in the goat ass wouldn't you know I found out the hard way they all have different software installed. 10.0.0. 10.1.1. 10.1.0... which is driving me fucking insane because I can't do anything the same way across the devices.
Sure, I could update the software but fuck me that would take an hour each and the devices aren't tied to anyone's Apple account anyhow.
Getting photos on the iPads is ridiculous. I have to create a folder on my desktop, add the photos but fuck me don't I dare have an image that was updated yesterday and others today because Apple brings them into different days on the iPad, so I have to open each one and save all 100+ images so they're all of the same day. But, Apple is so smart they use iPhoto cache logs so that if I don't remember to delete that fucking folder it brings the images in as different days anyhow.
Then even creating a slideshow is different for each. Oh, and what the difference or meaning of each theme is and fuck me that I don't know what Origami, Push, Magazine (at least that one I can kind of guess what it will look like) and the laughable "Ken Burns" theme.
Oh God CES can't get here fast enough.
- https://itunes.apple…Gnash
- When we tried that for a trade thingy, I just made PDF's of all the images and dumped them onto Dropbox. Tried using Powerpoint and Keynote. Once.face_melter
- But I get your annoyance - doing something as simple as copying images to a folder becomes a massive pain in the balls.face_melter
- that's the general trend in computing recently, to make things seemly easy for the average consumer, but insanely hard for pro user due to such automated setupfruitsalad
- Did 5 iPads for our trade show by setting up one, imaging it, then pushing that image out to all the others. Took about 2 hours, most was the first image setup.evilpeacock