[quote=XBoxBoy]I went today to the range and I was able to easily get the data into the browser. Now here’s the incredible rub. iPad browsers don’t support select all. The only way to select all the text was to highlight a word, then move the little blue ball to enlarge the selection. It takes over a minute to scroll all the way up and down to get the data for about 8 shots! I find this incomprehensible. Why in God’s name did the designers of the iPad browsers, (I tried Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome) feel that they should not support select all? Other iPad apps have select all, so why not the browsers?
[/quote]There’s no ‘save page as’ function w/ the iPad? I am not that familiar with what is available on the iPad browsers. The ‘parsing’ of the saved data might be a bit different then copy paste, since it would be raw html and not formatted ‘rich text’.
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Once I’ve managed to select all, it’s not too bad to copy and paste to my text editor (textastic) which I can get the files off later with out too much trouble. (Although this weird invention called a file system would probably make it much easier, but I guess that’s too advanced for iPad.)[/quote]{snark}iPad has a file system – everyone other than Apple is not special enough to be allowed to see it… {/snark}
[quote=XBoxBoy]At any rate, I realized after I struggled for so long trying to select all that I do have a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, but I hadn’t brought it to the driving range. Tomorrow or the next day I’ll take that with my iPad and Trackman and see if it goes better. (The keyboard does allow me to hit cntrl-A to select all.) If it still is an awkward pain, I’ll look into a low cost laptop.
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Good luck..
You can also look at getting a laptop from Dell – directly. That is how I have gotten several of my past laptops. Dell also has a ‘refurbished equipment’ sales department. These are often ‘turnins’ from corporate leases and are built better than most of the equipment you find at places like Office Depot, Frys – etc, while also being cheaper in most cases (because of being refurb). If the company you work for has a purchase agreement with Dell, your company may allow you to ‘piggyback’ an order. The company I once worked for allowed it, it was a 20% discount.
