ipadness

Before the last trip, I ordered a beautiful, all the bells and whistles, (in fact so many I accidently ordered a keyless keyboard) beautiful ipad. It seemed to take forever to arrive, but, finally arrive it did.

I made arrangements for Kevin to have the ipad while we were in Shanghai. He would sync it with the lappy I was not taking and get me some cool apps and set up the ireader. So, off to Courtenay and I left it with him.

In great anticipation we picked it up yesterday. He showed me all the cool stuff and some little helpful tricks. Yayyyyy!!! My main goal with this puppy is to make it not necessary to carry my heavy lappy on trips. This little critter is so much more practical and easy. If its really good, we will get Bill one as well.

So this morning I got up really early and decided that I would do all morning compy things on this new thing. Firstly, it was dying. So I hauled out the cords and keyboards etc...and hooked it up to my laptop to charge it. It wouldn't charge. What the heck?? Upon investigation I see that the lovely sleek expensive cover I bought keeps the slot where it sits in the keyboard dock too high. It will not connect to the keyboard if I use that cover. Crap!!!! Ok I won't be using this cover.

I boot up the Sun to read as I do each morning. I actually don't read the sun first, I read the Province. But....on ipad it puts the whole paper in such a form that you can't just click on The Province...in fact I can't find it anywhere. And the paper isn't by the page like on my lappy it. It has the artlcles listed and I can't tell what page its on and there aren't any buttons to push to email the article. Ok. I won't be using this to read the paper.

Alright....next on my list facebook. After figuring out that you can't see anywhere that it is loading, and poking the screen over and over, a box popped up that told me to knock it off. Ooops!!! Finally I was looking the facebook home wall. so far so good. As I scroll down, I see someone posted a few pictures I would like to see. Tap tap. Tap tap. TAP TAP!!!! Finally!! So I look at six or seven pictures and now I try to go back to the home page. Nope. There is simply nowhere to simply go back to home page. I end up having to go right out and back into facebook. Ok, I won't be using this to surf Facebook.

I took some pretty cool pictures yesterday of my grandson. I even loaded them onto the ipad really fast and easily. So now I think I will email them to a few people. So, after a half hour of screwing around, going to google to read all things ipad, I finally figure out that you can only mail five pictures at once, you can't make them smaller and it takes about five minutes to actually send once you hit the send button. So I won't be using this thing to send photos home on our trips.

Now I am curious. Kevin put a bunch of really cool tv shows on my external harddrive to watch while we are on our trip. So I get it out and get it plugged in and start looking on the ipad for a usb port. It doesn't have one. No tv shows on the ipad.
Ok I won't be using the ipad for watching anything.

I have discovered though that it plays all my music library and plays a mean scrabble game. Also, if you can figure it out, you can read books on it. Yeah Right one thousand dollars and it plays music. Shoulda done more research. My bad!!