Day 2 With the iPad

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