This is the video I made of my trip to Washington, DC. i realize that watching a home movie of someone else’s vacation is probably not very high on anyone’s priority list but I posted this more as a demonstration. Being the Apple fan boy that I am, I put this whole video together using iMovie on the iPad 2. It’s rather impressive what you can do with the iPad, especially with an App that cost $4.99.
I will be leaving for Washington DC tomorrow on vacation but that doesn’t mean I wont be posting. I normally like to edit photos first, but I am only bringing my iPad so this will be a little different for me. I got really excited today because I found out I will be up there for the cherry blossom bloom so expect some photos of that. I’ll put the best ones here but there will be a lot more on my flickr feed so check it out.
This makes me happy.
As a musician, I think this is cool as shit.
This could be a very very cool app for the iPad. It’s over capacity right now but I can’t wait to try it out.
Flipboard - a free app!
This may very well be the coolest case for the iPad I have seen yet. I want one!
Is it just me or is the quality of iPad apps leaving something to be desired. There are a couple good apps but overall I feel like I keep waiting for the really killer apps and never seeing them. I’m going to hope that they are still in development and that we will see them in the next few months, but there just seems to be a lot of crap in the app store for iPad, redundant crap at that.
As I write this, I am sitting in a hotel room in Orlando. The reason this is important is because of what I am writing this on…my iPad. Normally, when taking a trip, I would bring my laptop. For this trip, however, i just brought the iPad and i am happy to report that it is filling the role of my mobile computer device rather well. This is my first real test of the usability of this amazing device as my mobile computer. I’ve taken notes with it, surfed the web, prepared a short presentation, played some games, read a book, and now I am typing a blog post. I will admit that I am writing the draft in evernote and will copy this into the tumblr website. The only reason I am not typing this straight into tumblr is due to the absolutely abhorred intent connecting in my room, therefor this may not actually be posted until tomorrow when I go to the lobby where there is better wifi. Some things that have been rather nice. I have not charged this since leaving my home in Land O Lakes and I currently have 18% battery remaining. I’ve been using it rather extensively and with that kind of use on my laptop it would have had to be plugged in quite a bit. I will tell you that i am using the soft keyboard and where I would want to use it for typing all day, it has been fine for what I have been doing. When the camera connection kit comes out I will have no need to take my laptop on trips, in face I will probably get a desktop for my next computer and let the iPad fulfill my mobile computing needs. I am very happy with my iPad am I look forward to bringing it with me on future trips.
That didn’t take long.
Check out this app for the iPad.
I think there are a lot of people who are missing the simple fact that the iPad is not marketed for geeks. It’s for the average person. This article does a good job of saying that.
