Jun 10
So day 3 is much the same as all the other days thus far:
1. Show off iPad to remaining friends and workmates who have not seen it as yet.
2. Try to pull it out for legitimate uses as much as possible in the office to justify purchase to friends and colleagues.
3. Watch YouTube and Vimeo in bed late at night rather than squinting on my iPhone or huddling over my desk.
4. Spending too much time reading and searching on Twitter as I absorb the sexy GUI that is Twitterific.
5. Enjoy reading a "real" newspaper with EarlyEditions even sexier GUI, but moaning for the fact it does not have syncing with Google Reader support as yet.
6. Taking instant meeting notes and emailing them to all parties for full accountability.
7. Computing from bed - trust me, its awesome!
NOTE: I know my days are out of whack, but I have been a busy guy.
Sent from my iPad
Jun 2
Before I start this post I just wanted to highlight something. I specifically left the typos and the formatting of the previous post as is - straight from the iPad to the mail client to live to the Internet. The main reason being that since this is a test and week long review, the warts and all approach will speak far louder than any of the words that I mistype. In saying all of that however, I am very impressed with the iPad and blogging. It will definitely be my blogging platform of choice for the near future. Stay tuned for a later day when I finally fiend some batteries for my Bluetooth keyboard. So day 2 involved my introducing my iPad to my business life and workflow. Not an easy task initially as I was promptly swamped by my coworkers carrying fanboy chants and hints of jealously mixed with cravings of giving it a go.
What scared me the most was the following situation: I wanted to keep my music and my photos synced from my personal laptop, but all my business contacts and calendar from my work diary (stored on my desktop at the office). Now we all now apple doesn't like or properly let you sync a mobile device to two separate computers. So what do you do?
I took a risk and plugged my iPad into my office desktop, fired up my iTunes and hoped that the universe continued to turn and not wipe the other day's hard work. It didn't. Thankfully.
What happened was a few error messages popped up and I continued to press cancel until they all disappeared. Then I opened the info tab in iTunes and told it to sync my calendar and contacts (the tick box needs the tick inside) but confirmed there was no other box ticked inane of the iTunes tabs. I then went straight back to the info tab and clicked the sync button on the bottom right and crossed my fingers. Lo and behold it did it in about 2minutes (I don't really have many friends/contacts and not that popular with an overtly empty diary) and ejected it correctly. I went straight to the calendar and it all looked good. Then to the photos app - everything still in order. Finally the iTunes check and indeed, and my music was still there.
Did I find a bug or crack the code? Who knows. All i know is that I am completely stoked I can have my business and pleasure on the one device.
Two thumbs up! Sent from my iPad
Jun 1
So I caved and bought an iPad. With all the haters and the comments at it is a waste of money and I sold my soul to Steve Jobs and his brilliant marketing team. The only way that I can defend myself, I figure, is to give a day by day update on my iPad usage relating to both personal and business usage. So day one involved me syncing it up to all my existing iPhone related data that I have collected over the last two years. This process wasn't as simple as I thought. I got a 64gig 3G model without the data plan. I want to harass my telco at a later date - a subject for a later post. Howeveer since I didn't have a SIM card ready to go, for the first few tries Itunes insisted that I get a card so it can complete the registration process. Once I clicked past a few pop ups I was finally able to start the syncing process. No dramas there... Except for the fact that it didn't take my contacts along with it. Turns out it isn't done by default. First micro fail. The rest of day one was basically the honeymoon period. Wowed by the apps, blinded with the glossiness, and spent more time touching glass than raindrops. Day 2 is all business. Stay tuned to see how the iPad goes at the office. Regarding the typing - this whole post was done on the pad and I have unusually large fingers and hands and whilst I would not do it 10 hours a day as my work horse, I will do one of he later posts with my Bluetooth keyboard.
Sent from my iPad
May 25
There is basically one reason why I have not been actively posting here for the last couple of months. And that reason is because I am thoroughly enjoying my new set of wheels.
After two months of waiting and putting up with the terrible customer service of car dealers (a little less sales training, a little more service skills), I took delivery of a brand new 2010 VW Golf GTI.
A red one.
That's right ladies and gentlemen, I bought a red car much to the disappointment of over 75% of my masculine mates. Apparently I missed the mass email/memo/tweet whereby owning/driving a red car is considered less manly, more ladylike. Turns out the effect is compounded if it is a hatchback, which the Golf is.
My arguement extended with the usual response of it going faster and the fact both Ferrari and Ducati have established that red does equate to awesomeness. Also having a red car has definitely made an impact when you pull up to design events. I was at one of these pretenious advertising/design nights and I have to admit it deal feel good to rock up with a well built and designed Euro ride in comparision to the push bikes and beat up Corollas that are owned by junior designers.
But want I have really taken away is the fact it is not what you wear, but how you wear it. I feel great knowing I can smoke most V6s, a few V8s and even give other rice rockets a definite run for their money. The sleeper effect also is that the GTI Golf can only really be discerned by those in the know - take away the red pin-stripes in the front grill and you would be hard pressed to pick it a few car lengths away.
A really nice trick that VW implemented was that normally the 'GOLF' part of the badge is on the left hand side of the boot on base models, but on the GTI it is on the right. Very, very nice.
But I highly recommend the car, I am loving every minute of it, and I even got it down to 6.5L/100km today whilst I went from North Sydney to the Cross.
Mar 24
Going from self hosted to posterous seemed wise. Email posting from anywhere means I can do this properly.
