iPad, the funnest iPod yet…
Written by Arnan on July 26, 2010 – 3:44 amAfter gawking at the ipad for a few months and a lot of reading about it i found myself at the complicated task of getting one as fast as I could.
In the past, right after the ipad got announced, I wrote it was a bit of a failboat. But it turns out the ipad is quite a neat device. As I thought a bit after writing my initial comparison. It is in fact a massive iPod touch. It has no place in the laptop market or even the netbook market. It’s a media device like the iPod and iPhone. Period. You even need a real computer to activate it. That alone doesn’t make it a replacement.
Anyway. The iPad became available here last Friday. So I bought one Saturday. 16gb wifi. T-mobile tried to lure me into the world of 3G with some expensive contract. Wouldn’t allow a dual sim on my current iPhone contract. That, combined with their super poor 3G coverage quickly had me decide against it.
So, wifi only. It’s an excellent device. I have a bunch of games on it. Synced my bookmarks and email and have been happily ipadding for the past day or so. Yay!
What i did notice… The pixel doubler to make any app work is not so nice. The iBooks offering is poor. Many developers of apps charge for their iPad version. Even if you already have the iPhone version and the iPhone chargers are not really compatible with the iPad.
They lack power output, just like a regular high powered USB 2.0 port. Charging goes super super slow.
Other than that it’s been fun so far. I’m getting into Geometry Wars. Aquired an IRC client, I’m playing with the background picker and flip through a bunch of photos. It’s fun. I’m even writing posts on my blog (this one) with it.
I found out that most of my apps are not iPad optimized and looking at the horrible pixel doubling the iPad does is not fun either. So it’s been fun plowing through the itunes store again looking for cheap and good alternatives. I hope the iBooks feature catches on and publishers get over themselves so it’s actually fun and not like DVDs are now. And of course a better offering of books. I hope comics too and magazines… *dreams*
I need a cover or sleeve too I think…
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AdRotate manual updated
Written by Arnan on June 26, 2010 – 10:08 amI’ve updated the article about adding ads to AdRotate to be more detailed and explanatory about the various functions.
Find it here: http://meandmymac.net/support/knowledgebase.php?article=3
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So i upgraded to 3.1.3 from 4.0…
Written by Arnan on June 23, 2010 – 12:20 amAfter a week of annoyances, sluggish performance and bugs i found, got informed of, a solution for the issue. To re-install iPhone OS 3.1.3 instead of 4.0.
Downgrading IS in fact possible and it is happily syncing my music as of this writing.
Using this handy post i was able to put 3.1.3 on my iPhone once more. And supposedly work on a more stable, fast and better OS than Apple promised 4.0 would be.
What will i miss in 3.1.3 that IOS4 has? I can’t think of a single feature. Since i have an iPhone 3G all the good stuff didn’t work anyway so blah!
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The new support system works!
Written by Arnan on June 20, 2010 – 1:33 pmJust over a month ago i’ve replaced the forum with a ticket support system. I like this tool so much that i even bought a license for it.
Anyway, today i did some digging in the dashboard of it and noticed that the categories list not only shows the categories names but also how many tickets are in there.
Most tickets, as of this moment, have been answered and solved in one or another way. A few have been left unanswered by the poster after i replied.
And i found that the email notifications and the feat that you don’t need to have an account to use this thing works really well for most people.
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New harddisk? Well yes.
Written by Arnan on June 18, 2010 – 8:34 pmToday i swapped my harddisk in my MacBook Pro for a new one. The original one made weird noises when the laptop was moved around.
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