Photos on an iPad

My wife has got a new iPad and has managed to set it up so she can send emails and use the internet.

We have been tryng to figure out how we transfer files (recipes/pictures) from my PC to the iPad.

The PC is connected via cable to a BT router
The iPad is onnected via WiFi to the BT router

Both work in their own way but the iPad doesn't show up on the PCs "My Network" so the PC cannot send a file 'locally' to the iPad and its rather tedious sending everything via email (even though it works). We also thought that we could backup the iPad to the PC (and thence onto our external 1TB drive)


Any ideas would be welcomed

How about a USB adapter and just plug the iPad into the computer?

Or use Bluetooth?

You create a folder for the pics you want on your computer and in iTunes photos tab tell it to sync with that folder. I don't have an iPad but I'm sure the iPhone method will be the same.

Forget the conventional thinking of expecting the iPad to appear as a separate drive. Everything will be done through iTunes including backup when you connect and sync.

As far as recipes with pictures are concerned, save them as PDFs and you can read them with the iBooks app.

iPads don't have USB ports John.

There are various jailbreaks online if you are brave enough.
Do you have iTunes installed on the PC? You should be able to see the iPad with that I believe, but I am not certain.

Have a Google and see if there is a software solution you trust, start with the Apple forums perhaps.

would Dropbox work ?

However Apple do make an adapter (iPad to USB) or there are Chinese copies of it.

If you have another Apple computer you use for backups etc, then of course everything is done through iTunes. Not sure how it works with a PC because I don't have any !

Maybe this app would help? link.

My apologies for the Daily Mail link. My son sent it too me just now - trying to persuade me to buy an iPad.

I'm puzzled by all this in that :-

I can send photos via an email link, but it seems a bit daft to clog up the internet airways (albeit only a tiny amount) when the iPad is just metres away.

I can send (cut'n'paste) the same to my son's laptop via WiFi as it becomes part of the local network when he's here.

The iPad logs onto the network to access the internet via the same WiFi router but doesn't show up (the lap top does and we use cut'n'paste)

So uploading photos to Photobucket/iTunes/Dropbox/whatever doesn't appear to do any more than an email does.


Bernard

I think it depends at which resolution you want the pictures on your iPad. If you are happy with low resolution just to watch them, then iTunes synchronisation is the easiest option. Alternatively, you can export your pictures to a memory card and then use an iPad card adapter to transfer the pictures to the iPad.

If you have a mac you can enable photo stream, and pictures you download to your mac will be automatically available on your iPad.

Thanks Gwyn, I'll look into that when it appears.

I've got strict instructions to keep my sticky fingers off the iPad, but as I take the pics, there has to be a way that she can grab the ones she likes of our grandchildren to show off with, preferably without my intervention (sending emails and the like)


Bernard

I have used both the methods John and techno-terminator mention.

Your wife's ipad should have come with a cable that plugs into the bottom of the ipad and then into the USB port of your PC or Mac. If you have itunes installed you can load the photos into itunes and synchronise into the photo gallery on the ipad.

Dropbox also works. For this you will need to register and install Dropbox on your PC and install the Dropbox app on the ipad. Up to 2GB of files, including photos can be stored per month, free of charge. Anything added to the dropbox folder on the PC can then be viewed on the ipad. Search for dropbox on google and/or the app store on your ipad for more information and to dowload the software.

A third alternative is to store your pictures on flickr or photobucket from your PC and install the corresponding apps on your wife's ipad. This is better for photos whereas Dropbox can be used for all sorts of files.

Roy

How about Cloud? I seem to think that when my son takes pictures they appear on his iPad with no intervention from him at all, similar to an automatic backup.

Giorgio
I have a PC (running XP). As I've said I don't see the advantage of iTunes over email (is there one?)

As to resolution - who knows?. I've sent some which amounted to 40 odd K (using shrinkpic) and some which were over 3MB. Both were accepted happily.

This is an updated version of "grannies boasting book"


Bernard

Haven't you read my post further up

How can you compare iTunes to email, Tuesdays and balls of strings spring to mind.

The iPad is a mirror of iTunes on your computer and only that.