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starcrafttom

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I need to know if anyone is running google chrome on their Ipad?

Also can you run Word or something similar? I have one specific use that includes down loading a document from a certain web site and then being able to fill in the doc and save it afterwards. I have tried it at the store on the ipads with the programs that come on it and I cant do it. I can down load the doc but it will not allow me to fill in the doc. I can do it on a pad running windows 8 pro but none of them seem to have a built in GPS.

What I really need is a pad that runs window 8, can connect to a cell provider and has GPS. I keep getting two out of three but never the whole think. any Ideas? maybe I am looking at the wrong thing.
 
If you install Google Drive onto the iPad, then, when you go to the website, you should get a button offering to "Save it to Google Drive?"

Whenever you save anything boating related to Google Drive, it is wise to click on the sideways arrow, next to the document name, in order to see the "Details" about the document, then turn on "Available Offline". Now you will be able to view the document even when you cannot access the document.

David
 
I use Chrome and Google apps (Drive (docs, spreadsheets, presentations, file storage, forms), Gmail, Picassa, etc) on iphone. It can read and write Word docs

try it
your application and Word doc complexity may be different from mine which I use to read and minor editing of files and had problem with a very large 38Mb ppt file due to the file size and this was only once and not a ding, the rest of the files are small. I wanted to use the phone for presentations with a new projector. No PC needed just projector and iDevice


Install Google Drive from iTunes store , enter your Google user name and password then press My Drive in the app.
It will show doc, spreadsheets, pdf, ppt, etc) stored on Google and locally
select file
view and edit

The app allows offline file storage too to save on your data plan.

fyi If you save a file in one Gdocs formats it does not count against your storage cap.


Another option is EverNote app
https://evernote.com/

It has many features too

I use this app daily for writing notes
 
Chrome is a browser (like Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc.) not an OS. There is a new Google netbook/laptop out with some sort of Google OS on it, may even be called "Chrome". Windows 8, XP, 7, Vista, etc are Operating systems. An iPad runs IOS, an Apple OS. As far as I know, you cannot change the OS on an iPad. Believe the iPhone is the same. There are tablets that run other OSs, like "ice cream sandwich", not sure where they got that name....and even the MS more well known Windows series. Compatibility is usually possible with some playing around as the others above have mentioned. There are lots of ways to skin your cats, not always as elegant as a "real" computer but that's just because that's how we "grew up" and what we're used to.! :crook

Charlie
 
Yes many options
I use my 10" XP net book with office often
Great keyboard and touch pad
With 6 hr battery life
Another option from Microsoft is skydive
 
yes but will i be able to type on the document?
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Yes, you can type directly into the document in Google Drive.

As far as I know, you cannot change the OS on an iPad.
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Yes, you can install Android on an iPhone or iPad; or even make it 'dual-bootable' so that you can decide which you want to use each time you boot, but unless you're a techno-geek looking to play, why bother. Keeping the Apple iOS on it will give you the reliability and ease of use you expect from your device.

David
 
This is all good to hear. some of the website I have to use for work will not run on Ipad OS very well. They wont even run on Explorer very well if at all. So I need to have chrome or firefox as my search engine. Now after I am on the web site and down load the doc I need, I think my problem is the program that is opening the doc on the ipad. Looks like I can down load different programs that will work.

Sorry for all the questions but I dont have a pad yet and will not spend $800 until I know it will work and no one at the stores knows a dam thing. I would really rather buy a lenovo with windows 8 on it but I can find on with a built in gps.
 
starcrafttom":1cq46oj3 said:
This is all good to hear. some of the website I have to use for work will not run on Ipad OS very well. They wont even run on Explorer very well if at all. So I need to have chrome or firefox as my search engine. Now after I am on the web site and down load the doc I need, I think my problem is the program that is opening the doc on the ipad. Looks like I can down load different programs that will work.

Sorry for all the questions but I dont have a pad yet and will not spend $800 until I know it will work and no one at the stores knows a dam thing. I would really rather buy a lenovo with windows 8 on it but I can find on with a built in gps.
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Tom

The Real Estate websites tend to trail behind on how they code there site. The problem that you will find will be that the Ipad can"t display Flash content, so if they are using flash on there website the Ipad will not show it or will tell you to download flash. You can't do that because Steve Jobs didn't want to pay Adobe to write the code for the Ipad. Most Laptops don't have GPS built into them so you would have to use a GPS puck with it to get that. If you are looking for the most compatible it would be a laptop with a puck or a blue tooth gps like bad elf. You could use a Microsoft surface with the bad elf blue tooth device and get very close. What ever you decide find someone who has one and test it out first before you buy. Otherwise you might end up with something extra laying around.
 
Ipad can"t display Flash content
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The iPad can't process Flash, but it can display it, if processed remotely.
I think that the Puffin Web Browser may be exactly what you are looking for.

Try the Puffin Web Browser Free first, just to be sure, and then upgrade if you like it. (Flash support will only work for 2 weeks in the free version, and there's a nag screen each time you start it.)

David
 
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