The iPad: After Week Two
This is just a quick update, and then I’ll do my next iPad piece in John DeNardo’s Mind Meld on the topic next week, returning this blog to it’s regularly scheduled programming.
I still love the iPad.
Promised experiment on reading: Not as good as the Kindle, but it is readable. Hint: turn down the screen brightness to save your eyes. I have one book I’m reading on both the iPad and as a physical book (don’t ask) and I am going to the physical book when I can. I don’t have the same preference with the Kindle (which is a better way to read a novel). But I am liking the news reading more and more, and I bet I cancel my Times sub for the physical paper soon and ditch the guilt over the ads.
Promised experiment on writing. I did write a story on it. It got easier as I went, and I’m pretty sure it will be fine. Don’t know if the story is any good. But that’s a different porblem. It’s actually nice to work in a word processor that isn’t loaded with stuff I don’t need, and which can’t be interrupted by email. Maybe I don’t want the multi-tasking after all. Verdict? It won’t become my favorite thing to write on, but it may become my mobile writing platform. Maybe I’ll switch all my computing to Apple. It’s a better user experience. I knew that, but stuck to Wintel since I use that at work and I am the CIO, after all. I should the food I feed the organization. But mobile is becoming the driving force in my life, and Apple is so much better there.
Question for the group mind: Anyone using Mobile Me? I could get files ONTO the Mobile Me from my wintel desktop – no problem. I could see them on the ipad. But I couldn’t move them to the iPad. It’s like Apple just doesn’t want me to actually put content on it that isn’t inside an app. I would have been happy to just copy them from MobileMe into Pages, but that didn’t work, or I didn’t know how. Not sure which. How are the rest of y’all doing that? Google Docs?
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1. Kim Sannes on Apr 27th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
I’m still waiting for the 3G option before deciding on my purchase, and now I’ll probably wait for os 4 as well. I am told that the apple bluetooth keyboard works with the iPad. Have you tried that as an option for writing? I know it would be one more thing to carry around with you, but as an IT worker myself I feel that i’ll need my home row to type at speed. Maybe I could put a little epoxy bump where the F and J keys are.
I have avoided using .mac and now Mobile Me. I just don’t like the idea of paying some crazy amount every month for something that I can do for free and better with a little extra effort.
2. Kim Sannes on May 4th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Update. Apparently USB keyboards work as well if you buy the $20 iPad camera adapter.