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RE: iPad 2 as a serious writing machine (how-to)

lelandhendrix@... 10th Dec

@tora201 @JamesKendrick

"Mobile browsers like Safari don???t allow for uploading images and a few other functions, so when I need to do those I fire up LogMeIn Ignition on the iPad. This lets me tap into my Mac or Windows system"

I, too, use remote access, but instead use MochaVNC & RDP. They have nice trial versions you can try before buying the full version.

But more importantly, when I need to upload an image in a web form--a function you rightly noted Safari cannot do--I use another iPad web browser called iCabMobile.

iCabMobile does what sounds impossible, since there is no accessible file system on iOS, by showing the photo library with Camera Roll, etc., whenever you touch the "select file" dialog. You can use this to upload a file on your iPad, without having to first transfer the image to a remote machine and then remotely connecting to upload it via a desktop web browser.

Add to that, the fact that iCabMobile has Instapaper integration, customizable gestures for dozens of features, ad-blocking, definable web filters, and the ability to zoom web text size separate of pinch-and-zooming the entire page, and you have an outstanding full-featured web browser for the iPad.

iCabMobile also integrates with DropBox, so you can touch a link that would download something, and save the file to DropBox where you can use it later on whatever computing device you like. You can also save entire web pages there, as well.

Just another way to greatly enhance capability, by adding a browser that is more customizable than some full desktop versions.