OMG - The ladies of the house were totally into their iPads. I mean from the moment they had their hands on the device, they were into downloading apps, testing them out, and moving onto the next experience. I had to do my chores, so I had to control my urge to fool around with my iPad, but I definitely enjoyed seeing the ladies having so much fun. My wife popped with this quote, “Ka-ching Day for Apple!” Later in the day, my daughter commented, “Why so many haters?” noting that the iPad wasn’t intended to replace a laptop. I haven’t taken any time to look at what was being said around the Web. Truth be told, I really didn’t care (other than tech issues, when they show up).
When I opened the box, I noticed the single index card sized sheet printed on two sides. One side had an image of the iPad and the other side setup directions. Basically, you are directed to update iTunes and work your way through a sync. You make decisions about what you want to include and sync the device. I wanted to include the movies, the iPhone’s music collection and all the apps on it.
I wanted the apps to test out which worked and how they looked on the iPad. I found out that when you activate the app it opens iPhone size and you can enlarge it by pressing on a ‘2x’ button located on the lower right corner of the screen. Of course the doubling of the image degrades the aliasing softening the image, but the games that I played worked, along with some of the other productivity apps.
Once that was done I began searching for iPad versions of the apps that I had. I found a few of them, some were free and other cost ranging any where from $1.99 to $9.99. IBook was a free download with Winnie the Pooh as a sample book to view. I downloaded a book using my iTunes account to see how that worked.
Finally, looked for apps that I wanted to try. I was happy to see that Plants vs. Zombies was available for download. I also purchase Apple’s Pages and Autodesk’s SketchBook. I haven’t really checked out the functionality of either of them. I was to busy with the games, Plants vs. Zombies HD and The Creeps! HD (both time vacuums). Maybe I’ll check the productivity apps out later.
It has been a fun day with the iPad. I hope tomorrow will be another one.
We shall see.
For as long as it‘s needed, I’ll keep closing this way, please check out a good organization that’s providing aid in Haiti and make what ever kind of contribution that you is can afford.
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