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I won an ipad 16gig wifi at a conference last night. I am an Android fanboi and have no clue about apple products. I want to give the ipad to my wife but would appreciate any advice you guys can give an Apple noob.
- where is the best place to get a smart cover?
- do I need a screen protector?
-must have apps that will be needed for the average user ie ebooks, movies, browsing, word processing etc.
-any advice on setup or other suggestions will be greatly welcomed.

Thanks
 
Haven't seen you trolling before... So I'll help.
FOr the most part a screen protector isn't necessary, the glass is pretty scratch resistant, I got a capdase rubber cover for like 80 bucks from takealot.com, not really for protection but more for grip, I found the alluminium way to slick.

If you plan on using it at home for the most part, which is kind of what the wifi version is meant for.. you'll need the following.

Plex - to stream movies to your iPad from your PC.
iBooks - can view ePubs, pdf's and the like.
It comes with safari, which works perfectly...
Paper by 53studios is amazing, get it.
There are a lot of free photo editing apps, I use Snapseed and photosynth.
 
If she reads lots of magazines, then try Zinio app and the Kindle app is very good and fast.
Dropbox, Google Drive and Skydrive are nice apps.

For photos Snapseed and to view and create online albums Minus app is very good.
 
Welcome. I gave the one I won to my wife. She is very happy with it. Good move, girls really like them.
 
Depending on what your word processing requirements are, you can either opt for Pages, or my new favourite Writing Kit. Zite is great for news and RSS feeds, and for 'reading later' Instapaper is great.
 
silkman said:
I won an ipad 16gig wifi at a conference last night. I am an Android fanboi and have no clue about apple products. I want to give the ipad to my wife but would appreciate any advice you guys can give an Apple noob.
- where is the best place to get a smart cover?
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I got mine from Gumtree - Speck something or other for r250, it's a really stunning full cover with stand support (but not magnetic wake/close).
- do I need a screen protector?
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Not unless you plan on using it as a cutting board. Screen is highly resilient. With 2 toddlers using it daily I haven't gotten a scratch on there.

-must have apps that will be needed for the average user ie ebooks, movies, browsing, word processing etc.
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Reading: Kindle, Stanza, Reeder, Goodreader are my staples. Movies: AvplayerHD and Plex provide the dual stored movie/streamed movie functions. Browsing: Vanilla Safari is just fine for me. Word processing: Evernote and Paper, but I dont do heavy WP work.

For other things: Get some games, there are tons of games. It's one of my most useful functions for it. What else does she do, cook? Try Epicurious and other cooking apps. And obviously get all the social ones - Facebook, Tweetbot, etc. Weather, try WeatherHD.

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any advice on setup or other suggestions will be greatly welcomed.
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Jailbreak it. That is all.
Welcome. I gave the one I won to my wife. She is very happy with it. Good move, girls really like them.
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Look for the free apps at the App Store. On no account buy any, you can get 99% of what you want without paying. I find Chrome for iPad works much better than Safari.
 
Thanks everyone- now for a silly question: is there a noob's guide to jailbreaking and what is the advantage of jailbreaking it?
 
chrisc4290 said:
Look for the free apps at the App Store. On no account buy any, you can get 99% of what you want without paying. I find Chrome for iPad works much better than Safari.
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Really? I downloaded chrome and thought its the same as Safari with a different skin. Anyways thats just me.
Get a US iTunes account
 
silkman said:
Thanks everyone- now for a silly question: is there a noob's guide to jailbreaking and what is the advantage of jailbreaking it?
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Make a backup in iTunes, make sure you're on the right iOS version, google absinthe jailbreak, run absinthe jailbreak, restore backup... device is jailbroken
 
silkman said:
Thanks everyone- now for a silly question: is there a noob's guide to jailbreaking and what is the advantage of jailbreaking it?
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Jailbreaking is super easy. You'll be best off just googling it because it varies by device but it's basically 1-click operation.

Advantages, well the legal route to get apps by paying in South Africa is quite laborious. you have to create a US account and use a fake address and the works. Also you can customize the iPad to a much greater extent than at stock. Although I don't do a ton of that.
 
I think I would like to jailbreak it cos the n I can play around and mess with it- I'm just not too clued up with iOS so don't wanna stuff it up.
When you guys say backup on iTunes- is it really necessary cos I haven't got ANYTHING loaded on it yet- it's not even set up yet as I don't even have an iTunes account.
 
silkman said:
I think I would like to jailbreak it cos the n I can play around and mess with it- I'm just not too clued up with iOS so don't wanna stuff it up.
When you guys say backup on iTunes- is it really necessary cos I haven't got ANYTHING loaded on it yet- it's not even set up yet as I don't even have an iTunes account.
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If it has nothing to back up then don't worry - only make an Absinthe backup of the thingywhatchacallit first juuuust in case.
 
thanks..I'm d/l absinthe 2.04 untethered. That is the correct one if I'm not mistaken.
I guess the most important question is can I brick the ipad by doing something stupid?
 
silkman said:
thanks..I'm d/l absinthe 2.04 untethered. That is the correct one if I'm not mistaken.
I guess the most important question is can I brick the ipad by doing something stupid?
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No you really can't. There's always DFU if anything goes wrong. I mean ok technically you can but it's pretty bulletproof, I've never managed to anyway and I've done some stupid things.
 
cerebus said:
No you really can't. There's always DFU if anything goes wrong. I mean ok technically you can but it's pretty bulletproof, I've never managed to anyway and I've done some stupid things.
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It really is the easiest "geeky" thing to do.
 
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