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Nino in St. Joseph, Michigan listens to the Podcast calling in via the app asked: “I am blind. I was wondering if there’s a device that I can attach to my iPad to copy files from a hard drive to the iPad. I use Dropbox, but it’s a little inconvenient”
Nino,As inconvenient as Dropbox is, it might still be your easiest choice, unfortunately.
Since we’re not experts at operating iPads without the use of our sight, though, we’ll give you a couple of other options that may work, just in case you think any of them might be better.
You can try DocSync.net, we’re mostly suggesting this one because it “works with any cloud” meaing that you can use it with Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, and others. If you find that it’s easier for you to share certain documents from Google Drive and certain documents from Dropbox, it might be useful to have one app that can do both. However, free file storage is just 100MB, and you’ll be paying $0.99 for 1GB, it’s not a lot of money, but it’s $1/month more than you’re probably paying Dropbox now.
The thing that might make that dollar worth spending is the fact that you’d get a computer client to transfer your files easily… that sounds good, but since to transfer to Dropbox you just drop the file into a folder, we don’t see how that would be easier.
Another option to consider is that you can just attach the file to an email and just open it from there, you can even save many files to specific apps after opening them from email by tapping the share button on the upper right of the screen and tapping on “Open in [name of the app]” such as “Open in Dropbox” or “Open in iBooks”.
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
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Regina Lewis, Consumer Advisor, Best Selling Author, and Tech-Trend Expert
James in Jefferson City, Missouri listening on 1240 KLIK asked: “What do you think about Steam’s new Steam OS and the Steam game console that they’re creating?”
James, We think you probably shouldn’t buy it yet… This is a case when you probably don’t want to be an early adopter, and here’s why:
SteamOS is a flavor of Linux, that could be fine, but Steam’s own Linux offering is pretty weak, they have plenty of games, but no big names, that could change if game publishers think the console is gonna be a big success, but it also many not change.
The controller is new and very different from everything else out there, which could be fantastic, revolutionary, and actually allow for multiplayer games between the console and computers without giving a massive advantage to computer players, having said that, it may also be incredibly uncomfortable to use and lead to the console flopping.
In terms of specs, it’s hard to say what you can expect, Valve claims there will be many different flavors of their console from many different manufacturer, but iBuyPower claims it will release a Steam Machine for $500. Considering you can buy an XBox One, OR a PS4, a game, and enough pizza to feed a few friends for that much, Steam’s offering would have to be pretty good.
You already know the PS4 and XBox One will have good games and they’re almost guaranteed to be around for many years, Steam’s offering, not so much yet…
So, you may want to sit and wait before you spend money on this one.
For more information, tune in to Hour 2 of our podcast.
This Week’s Prizes for Our Listeners
Covington Creations: Earbud yo-yos “A clever solution to tangled earbuds”.
Bits Limited: Mini Squids — Travel-Sized surge protected power strips
Dane-Elec: Mobile Junkie Media Streamer – Stream content from a flash drive or SD card to your Smartphone or tablet.
“Into Tomorrow”: Microfiber Screen Cleaning Cloths with Dave’s cartoon on them, for all your smartphones, tablets, TVs, camera lenses and computer screens!
Tylt: A plethora of USB charging cables for iPhone and Android phones and iPhone battery cases.