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In past years, it has been a huge show, but this year it was much smaller. I have been going to Macworld in San Francisco for many years now. Leave a Comment » | Hardware, Kind of Cool | Hope this helps, and yes, I do think the iPad could be useful for homework. To find the file, go to the Applications tab of the iPad in iTunes.

Second, once you export it, you can hook the iPad up.

Swipe to show the correct document, and tap the little arrow. When you start up Pages, you will see the document chooser.

First, you must first export the file on the iPad.

There are two things to remember when transferring a file from an iPad to a Mac. I tried hooking it up to my dad’s computer, and we finally got the file off. The iPad has a WiFi bug, so it wouldn’t email. Since the iPad has no way of printing directly, I tried to email it to myself. So, for writing a document, I would say it is pretty good. I couldn’t type really fast, but I can’t type really fast on a regular keyboard either. Use a Title style for the title and a Body style for the paragraphs. Formatting was pretty easy using the built-in styles. I opened up Pages and created a new document. So, the point of this post is to discuss the usability of an iPad for something useful, like homework. My solution? I borrowed my mom’s iPad and wrote the essay in Pages. Since I had to go somewhere, I couldn’t use my home computer and my iBook G4’s battery is dead, so it has to be plugged in. The big part of my homework was writing a five paragraph essay about a project we just finished. The ability to use the remote in place of the Remote Control for Front Row heavily outweighs the ability to use the remote as you would a mouse.Since I am a kid, and I write this blog for kids, I thought this would be a relevant topic to post.Įarlier this week, I had a lot of homework one night, and a couple of events to go to. The process only takes a few minutes and is as simple as clicking a few buttons. Overall, using the wiimote as your mouse can be fun to play with. Pushing the B button pulls up Front Row and you can navigate around with the arrows and other buttons on the system.

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The Great feature that the DarwiinRemote offers is the ability to pull up Front Row as you would with your Mac Remote Control. Motion control is a bit jerky but is fun to play around with as the mouse follows the movements you make with your hand. IR works best but you may not have IR receivers setup on your computer. The application gives you the option to do so using the motion control or through IR control. Once your mac and the wiimote have been synced you should be able to control the pointer as you would with you mouse by enabling mouse. I had to do this once and it worked perfectly. Remove the Wiimote from the device list and then open DarwiinRemote and try again. Go to System Preferences and then to Bluetooth. If you have problems detecting the wiimote or can’t connect it to your system at all, close DarwiinRemote, open it again, and try to connect the wiimote to the system again. This will put your wiimote in discover mode and DarwiinRemote will let you know when its found your wiimote. Open DarwiinRemote and push the 1 and 2 buttons on your wiimote simultaneously.

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You should be able to do this by selecting the Bluetooth icon on your menu bar and clicking Enable The Wiimote will communicate with your computer through Bluetooth so make sure you have this enabled. You can of course launch the application from the dmg file if you’re not sure you’ll want to keep it on your system.

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Installation is easy, simple download the file and drag it to your applications folder. Its a small application that uses both the motion sensors or the IR sensors to allow you to navigate around OSX as you would with your mouse. I came across an application that enables the use of your Nintendo Wiimote on your Mac.