CONTEST: How do you use the iPad for your job?

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lcargile

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City Construction Specialist:

Yeah, you would never guess that a construction guy would be rocking something so fragile but its a must in my daily life. First of all, I had to put a shell case on it, screen protector, and leather folio style case in order to feel safe enough to use it daily. Very glad that I have this though I must say. There are forms on top of forms that I have to keep with me, fill out, and with Docs To Go and Pages this is no problem. Need to pull up an enormous .pdf? Not a problem! Also, I have a book of housing codes and specs that I am always in need of. But with a few simple steps I turned them into a .pdf version and now I can carry them everywhere in this very slimline package. I am also always in and out of email messages and receiving new appointments and having to make new appointments in the field and with the iPad, this is very very simple and convenient. I love this product and do not in any way miss my clunky laptop. I just pray everyday that I dont drop it or mutilate it in any way. :) Good job apple!
 

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I am a lawyer and am in court with numerous cases every day.

My documents are scanned and loaded on my desk top office computer. Documents are produced in both Word and WordPerfect formats.

Necessary iPad apps are Office HD, WPD viewer, Logmein, Printcentral.

I no longer need to carry a briefcase full of files to court. I simply remote connect to my office desktop. I can give instructions to my secretary, view files, edit documents, send immediate confirmation emails to clients, all from my ipad, from the courthouse.
 

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Well, I actually started a trend at my Sales Agency,

I received my iPad from my wife as an anniversary present right when they came out. I use safari, and iBooks mostly for work and of course email but here is how revolutionary this has been.

I work for a sales Agency based out of Tampa, FL. We cover Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. I was on a trip to a convention right after I received my iPad and decided to see if I could live without my Macbook for over a week.
Guess what not only did I survive, I found the iPad worked better when working with clients. We represent several Lighting Manufacturers, and a Art Line. We work with interior designers, and showrooms alike.

I started with the Art Line as they company has so many products I could not fit them in a binder, or 4 for that matter. I was lugging around a 50 lb. crate with wheels to show the line and it occurred to me that there has to be a better way I used drop box for awhile until Apple introduced the pdf support to iBooks. I created a single PDF with bookmarks and contents pages. And I can tell you from the start taking it into clients got a much better reception. I was able to get them to look through the whole collection not just the newer stuff, I have made multiple sales with this Art line and my ipad. I then started wondering why couldn't I make the rest of our lines work this way. I got a lot of interest from my boss when I showed him the advantages and the fact that not only could we show the lines and price things out via PDF files from ibooks we could hold meetings via gotomeeting and access all the information we used to have to carry 8 catalogs 8 price sheets and of course the 50 lb. crate I mentioned earlier. After this about 2 weeks later I became the IT guy for our agency and the rest of the sales team received iPads.

With a better battery life span than any of our laptops could manage and the accessibility to the internet the email and the catalogs and price sheets right at our finger tips the possibilities for the iPad in our sales agency is endless.

We are working with one manufacturer to include barcodes next to each item in the catalog view in iBooks so we can scan the items the customer wants directly to a Purchase Order to stream line the whole event or if someone here has the knowledge to make the catalog an order form like you tap each item you want for each quantity you want and have it added to a order form automatically please contact me.
 

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I work at our local walgreens in the photo department and I use my ipad almost everyday to clear off memory cards.

We have a camera in the lab to take pictures for passport photos and of course our camera doesn't have the delete all function so I just pop the card into my camera kit and hit delete all. I also do this for the customers.

When people used to come in and order their photos some of them would ask "How do I clear off my card?"

The conversation continued with me asking what kind of computer they were running if they had one and explained how to clear it off if they didn't have the delete all option on their camera.

Now I can just say "Would you like me to do it for you?"

I take the card behind the counter and clear it off. I have people tell me how helpful this has been to them and they like that it is an option available to them, at least when I am there.


I remember when I showed this to my boss the first time and he said "Thats a great idea Kate!" So now I really never am without my ipad....Not to mention its great on my lunch break to either watch podcasts or read a book.
 

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Small group leader, Sunday school teacher.

I lead a small group in the church I go to. The book that we used this past session was not available locally or online. It was available as an electronic download from Amazon. I didn't have a Kindle viewer so I was using the Kindle app on my laptop. I was concerned about actually lugging the laptop back and forth to the meetings when I started looking at the iPad. The more I worked\played with it in the store, the more ideas I got for how I could use it. Not only could I get the Kindle app on it and have the book available that way, I could make all the notes I needed for the session on it and have those with me as well. Prior to getting the iPad I printed all my notes out and keeping them organized after 13 weeks of teaching was not easy. To make things even better, there are lots of Bible apps available as well. Now when I go to the small group sessions instead of bringing DVDs, books, notes, and a Bible I just bring my iPad. It makes it so easy and convenient to actually have my notes from previous lessons just a touch away and to have the scriptures I need for the lesson already bookmarked for easy access. The setup has worked so well that I'll be using my iPad in the Sunday school class I'll be teaching this session as well.

Between the Kindle app, the YouVersion bible, and the built-in notes app, I've got all the bases covered and I've never been more organized or prepared.
 
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I am working on my 10 posts so when I publish how we use iPhones the links to the screenshots will be permitted. Stay tuned.
 

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iPhone is a great time study consultants' tool

I am the "CIO" of a small Time Study consulting firm. (NOT a small-time consulting firm!) My boss, known as "The Man", and the other 50% of our firm, constantly challenges my suggestions for costly technological upgrades. After moving to iPhones though, I am the god of tech.

We use the normal iPhone/anyphone suite of phone, email, calendar. These all work as the communicating, scheduling appliances they are. Unless you want to invite people to a meeting. Steve! This oversight makes me need to access my PBP more than I wish.

Then there are the tools that help us figure out whether we are heading back to the hotel or deep into Iowa. Getting around on location requires maps. Without good navigation, getting around new territories can challenge our professional relationship. Navigation tools like Around Me, and GPS Drive, which I have reviewed separately, make finding our way and good meals child's play. Trust me, we use these apps to positive effect.

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On jobsites we use chat clients like Beejive and Ebuddy on our iPhones to keep a chat going when radios don't make sense. This channel of communication is ideal for our work, where discretion is important.

When doing time studies we have to count the number of times a process occurs, or number of customers, or items. A counter is more efficacious than hash marks.

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Of course a stop watch is necessary and the iPhone version is easy to see.

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During a study I want to be reminded when certain time periods pass so my work is grouped in segments. The timer does a good job at this.

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An additional tool the iPhone provides is the use of Excel spreadsheets to keep my expense tracking up to date daily, so invoicing clients is never a hassle at the end of the engagement. Less hassle means faster reimbursement, means the CFO, my boss, is happier.

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Receipts (yes, every stinkin' one, even for that morning macchiato), are sent along with the invoice as a .pdf because I use the camera and a nice app called GeniusScan. It is effective for cropping pictures of text like receipts, enhancing photos of them so they are clear, and converting them to .pdf format. We used to go to town and make copies, then send the copies registered mail. Yech!

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All this is helpful. One negative issue is the battery drain. I think the running timer and having the display always on is sucking enough juice that my battery needs a little pick-me-up at cocktail time to make it through the evening.

I really look forward to the day when Excel runs on iPad so I can input directly into data bases and skip the use of notebooks. I may give Numbers a try for this, but the utter lack of compatibility has me frustrated.
 
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Well that's quite easy task to use ipad as on and for your job ! it has many options to be utilize like I am an IT manager i have to handle and look after all the application of Apple we create and bug out the errors, in short and simple I am appointed to Bug out the errors that beginner's always do ! =P

well i load the application myself and test it ! and its really fun if its a game application ! =P
then i look into the coding and tell the bugs while running the application and looking the coding so that minimum memory can make a better application !

That's it come to home love my husband and children, they also like to play games on my ipad =P, well i have no personal things in it =P that's how i use it on work as well as on home ! :D
 

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As has been said before, I use my iPad constantly to take notes on with Evernote. I run a retail hardware store so I constantly need reminders to keep me on track and items i need to remember to order. I also have a to-do list for employees that it helps me keep track of what people are (or should) be doing.
 

S. Darnell Alston

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My iPad...

1. United States Air Force-Combat Communications

2. First off, my job is to travel to different parts of the world, pick a piece of land, and set up a communications network that will be the building block for an entire Air Base. Just in the last 20 months I?ve been to Iraq twice, Haiti, and now Afghanistan. So you can imagine that I don?t show up and sit down at a desk. Me and my team of individuals rarely even have showers or bathrooms when we first show up, so the need to be able to have portable computing is a must. With the amount of clothes, equipment, and gear we have to lug around, having to lug around a heavy laptop bag is just insult to injury. I love the iLife apps Pages and Keynote. Pages lets me keep my Memorandums up-to-date easily, while Keynote gives me the ability to make beautiful training presentations taking the work-load off of me so I don?t have to individually go to each person and train them. Instead I just flip open my iPad, sit a group of them down, and give a captivating presentation with visual representations to help them get a better understanding. Boredom also becomes a major factor when out in the middle of nowhere. I download just about every game that looks like it might be interesting to keep myself entertained through the grueling days.

3. You have to give it to Apple for their portability. Yeah, I have the wireless keyboard (and other accessories for it) but if push comes to shove it?s nice to be able to throw the charger in my pocket, grab the iPad and go!

4.
Keynote
Pages
Calendar
Kindle/iBooks
Sudoku HD
 
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