iPad or Tablet...for IPSC scoring.

Last I checked, practiscore's website does a pretty good job of compiling the names of a decent % of gun owners in USA and Canada and making it public forever for anyone's perusal and long-term records.
 
adamg said:
Last I checked, practiscore's website does a pretty good job of compiling the names of a decent % of gun owners in USA and Canada and making it public forever for anyone's perusal and long-term records.
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No scores are automatically uploaded to PractiScore web site. It is up to MD to post them.
Also, from PS web site you don't see emails and phone numbers that could be entered into the app (e.g. when online match registration is used).
 
We tried Ipads and Practi Score for the first time this year. Alot easier that old school paper score sheets. No one here really questions the scoring that the paper sheets can prove months later. One issue I had was seeing the screen in bright light and the battery was terriable in cold weather, which is most of the time here in NW Ontario. Best part I see no way to loose the paper score sheets before getting them home to input, by the way this has happened to our club.
 
adamg said:
Isn't everything? Security cameras, every Windows or Mac computer built in the last 20 years, your TV, your fitness band...
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That is correct! Even any 'Free' program that is downloaded has malware attached to collect information. It really isn't free. In most cases this is not criminal as it is information used to send you junk mail, find out your likes preferences, etc., so that they can email you junk that you may be interested in buying based on your web tracking and interests. Android tablets are a little more susceptible to this than Apple devices, as with Apple, all programs must be screened before they are put on the 'app store". Android however, is open sourced and much more open to malicious malware threats, but you can get anti-virus programs for them which can semi-protect you against unwanted or malicious malware. It is the world that we now live in.
 
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abb1 said:
That is correct! Even any 'Free' program that is downloaded has malware attached to collect information. It really isn't free. In most cases this is not criminal as it is information used to send you junk mail, find out your likes preferences, etc., so that they can email you junk that you may be interested in buying based on your web tracking and interests. Android tablets are a little more susceptible to this than Apple devices, as with Apple, all programs must be screened before they are put on the 'app store". Android however, is open sourced and much more open to malicious malware threats, but you can get anti-virus programs for them which can semi-protect you against unwanted or malicious malware. It is the world that we now live in.
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Screened, eh? http://www.darkreading.com/applicat...-incident-trouble-in-paradise-/a/d-id/1324016

Besides, Google scans apps installed even from untrusted sources, and with Android being open source it is easier to find security threats and get them fixed. There are several bounty programs for a white hat hackers.
 
euxx said:
Also, from PS web site you don't see emails and phone numbers that could be entered into the app (e.g. when online match registration is used).
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Feature request for the Android version: All entrant data within Practiscore app is encrypted so malicious software on the device can't read it.
 
There is an easier fix for that - don't install malicious software on your devices.

In any case, encryption is not a solution for anything. If some app can read it - everyone can. Like when secret is known by two people it is not a secret anymore.

PS: friendly reminder, this forum is not a PractiScore support channel. Email support for any feature requests
 
From what I read the December software update they pushed out fixed the issue.

We used the Nooks for the match yesterday. They worked well. Being a budget tablet, the battery only lasts only about 2/3 of the day with the screen full bright and the tablet turned on constantly (we were trying to run them down deliberately to see the worst case scenario). But you can buy two of them for less than the price of an Amazon Fire, so really that's not an impediment (especially since you will want a device to switch out to in case of a failure anyway).

The TP Link battery powered router worked fantastically and lasted all day without issues.
 
We have been using iPads for some time now and had wanted to use them for Level 3 matches however we learned that a print function was not really available for IOS so that being said we purchased a printer recommended here on this thread that others had success with using Android tablets. Now we have the printer and are having issues trying to print to this bluetooth printer through an android tablet, we had thought that there was a function within Practiscore for android that would permit us to print from the shooters approval page but the only way we have managed to print a shooters score is through a print screen function which is not very efficient. Does anyone know if there is a function within Practiscore that would allow us to print that would be less cumbersome.

Thanks
 
Learn2Shoot said:
We have been using iPads for some time now and had wanted to use them for Level 3 matches however we learned that a print function was not really available for IOS so that being said we purchased a printer recommended here on this thread that others had success with using Android tablets. Now we have the printer and are having issues trying to print to this bluetooth printer through an android tablet, we had thought that there was a function within Practiscore for android that would permit us to print from the shooters approval page but the only way we have managed to print a shooters score is through a print screen function which is not very efficient. Does anyone know if there is a function within Practiscore that would allow us to print that would be less cumbersome.

Thanks
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Have you talked to people who recommended that printer? :)

In PractiScore for Android you basically do Print or Share, depends on how or what your printer driver app is.
 
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