Some basic iPad Answers needed (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

I am still here contemplating an iPad Pro for the reason of being able to abandon using my laptop for the most basic things I do on Home Theater Forum.


One of the biggest problems I have with the iPad is that Safari always accesses the mobile version of HTF. I found a trick that bypasses that problem. Simply long press the RELOAD circle on the URL bar and an option will come up to REQUEST DESKTOP VERSION.


Doing that, I can now cut and paste full HTML content in its original form, including fonts.


Now here are some interesting questions....



1. How can I save images and files to the iPad. Is there a download area where I can save files to retrieve?


For instance, if I want to upload cover art from Amazon. Can I save that image to the hard drive and then manipulate it further? This brings me to question...


2. Is there an app that allows me to grab image files I have saved and resize them so I can then upload them to HTF? Normally I do this in Photoshop, but not sure if there are any cheap iPad apps that allow me to do this.

 

[Patrick Donahue]

Not sure if this is answering the question you have, but to save an image just long press the image and it will ask you if you want to save it. From the saved image you can hit "edit" which will do basic things, but apps like Pixelmator offer a ton of editing options. Adobe has a "Photoshop Express" as well!

 

[Sam Posten]

Dunno what you are doing differently but none of my iPads have ever defaulted to mobile. I only have to go to the bottom of the forum page once to tell my iPhone's to default always to non mobile

 

[Patrick Donahue]

Dunno what you are doing differently but none of my iPads have ever defaulted to mobile. I only have to go to the bottom of the forum page once to tell my iPhone's to default always to non mobile

I find it's different for every website - on mine if I go to HTF it always defaults to desktop after having selected that, but for Home Media Magazine it always defaults to mobile no matter what. Not sure why...

 

[DaveF]

iPad always sees full version of HTF for me.
Except for the editor, which lacks all the tools. Here's a screenshot I took, as in browsing on my iPad in the airport.

 

[DaveF]

If an image is in your photo library, you can upload it via Safari to post to HTF. You can do this on the iPad via screenshots or editors that save to your photo roll.

It's a two step process because the editor does have the attach image in the basic view. So I post and then edit to add images.

 

[DaveF]

There a gazillion iOS image editors, but I've not looked into image resizers. A search shows there are options.
Image Resizer+ by Softwareentwicklung Tim Schroeder
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