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Articulate on iPads?
Hi Team,
Was wondering how you plan to deal with the increasing amount of iPad users. I know that in my company they are running pilots with them but my Articulate courses won't run on them :( Are you looking into a Publish for iPad or other solution like publishing a course to HMTL5 or something like that?
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I saw the same commercial and we definitely live in interesting times. Has anyone else noticed that Apple seems to have been actually driving the tech innovations for over the past 25 years. If you really look at it they were the first ones to come up with the idea of a widows operating system with a mouse. They were the ones who came out with the first presentation software Key Note which has been in part cloned into Power Point. They created the Iphone which has spawned the creation of the Android system. They came up with the Ipad and now you have new tablets trying to steal some of the thunder. If anything ever happens to Apple I fear we are doomed.. LOL...
VM is also very nice for quickly restoring pc's to a prior state. Nothing like 3 pc's in one. You just have to make sure your computer specs are up to par.
Agree. Last time I needed to restore a VM it took all of 5 minutes. Definitely a benefit. Make sure you take snapshots of the machines you want to retain.
Sweet! I've been planning on crossing over to the dark side for the better of two years. My goal was to save my duckies so when I walked into the Apple store, there wasn't anything off limits. Chose the 2.93 Ghz quad core, 8 gig ram, w/ 1Tb drive. Should do nicely for awhile
@James - I thought Harvard Graphics was the first 'presentation' software? Could be wrong.
You are correct.. Hewlett Packard in 1979 and called BRUNO and later HP-Draw.
Didn't know about BRUNO. That was way before my time! I remember playing around with Harvard Graphics on a DOS machine.
My goodness, Harvard Graphics! Now that takes me back. I was one of the heaviest users of HG in about 1989 here in Australia. It was really great. Did all of my commodities analysis charting on it. Memories.....like the corners of my mind.....
My last command before I left the U.S. Navy replaced Harvard Graphics with PowerPoint and I trained the instructors. This was 2000. The military can be slow adopting technology...
Perhaps I need to revisit VM Fusion... I tried it and found it to be really slow and uncomfortable as a user. I like the idea of being able to see "both sides" at once - that's why I bought the PC. I love the fact that every time I look at this site, I learn so much! Maybe I don't have enough "umph" to drive the interface the way it should be?
About Apple's innovation and the past... being a Human Factors person- I have to mention Xerox PARC - pre apple, they had a mouse driven interface up and running right? Oh, and thanks for the Harvard Graphics blast from the past! Brings back memories of Wordstar or Grammatik. Brings me back to a consulting gig doing Detailed Control Room Design Reviews for nuclear power plants in Illinois.
Yes Joan, you may need more "umph" to run VMWare Fusion. At the Apple store the other day and explained my uses and that I still needed PC software, they suggested Fusion - but - ramp up to Quad core and add more memory. I got 8 gig for now, but the iMac is upgradeable to 16. My PC is running with 4 and still runs as good if not better than any off-the-shelf boxes today. I was just at a point where I need to invest in upgrading the OS (XP to Win7) and upgrading software. I don't have everything up and running yet, but others here say it works fine.
