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Freelance designer, coder, blogger and podcaster in need of a somewhere to keep his pointless ramblings that are too long for Twitter.
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A week with the iPad.
I’ve had my iPad a week, it’s changed a lot of things.
1. I am dreading opening Mail on my MacBook, for the past week, email has all been done from iPad. I’ve got through a hell of a lot more too!
2. My MacBook now feels a lot heavier.
3. Going from the iPhone to the iPad is a little weird at first. I’m used to rotating my iPhone to portrait when I get to the springboard, but on the iPad, that doesn’t need to happen. It rotates to every orientation. So a few seconds is spent rotating iPad to something usable.
4. The keyboard is good. It corrects a lot of mistakes, but takes a while to get used to. It’s certainly faster than the iPhone. Which is a good thing.
5. Get a case. I didn’t for a few days, and I got a few scares with dropping the thing. Nothing happened though. I went for the griffin élan portfolio. It’s brilliant and only £20 at CPW.
6. WeRule eats your time. Before, I spent a little bit of time on WeRule on my iPhone. On the iPad however, it is the time eater that farmville used to be x 3.
7. It is SUPER fast. Going from an iPhone 3G to this is day and night. The A4 chip inside screams. The whole thing is so snappy and it makes the whole experience so much better than waiting for mail to load for 15 seconds on the 3G. God mine is slow.
8. The screen gets horrible. Now, I have bad hands for this, but the iPad screen gets very dirty within a day. I’d take a cloth with you. Luckily my iPad case has a little pocket I can fit one in.
The iPad is wonderful, it is easy to use, fast and so much better than I first thought it would be. For me, the one thing I love the most is opening Pulse in the morning and reading a personalised news feed on it, rather than getting my laptop open or trying to get through the articles on my iPhone. Books are also fabulous and for a quick google search or youtube video nothing else compares.
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(Via jdryden) - This is brilliant.
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Sometimes we forget just how short and precious our time on this planet really is. It’s for this reason that John Lewis’s new television ad seems to have struck an uncharacteristic chord.
You won’t find many people admitting to crying over the usual flood of formulaic adverts on our screens - yet this ‘moving’ ad has got Britain talking - and sobbing into their breakfast bowls.
At 91 seconds long, and costing £6million, the ad has been watched an incredible 100,000 times in the single week that it has been available on YouTube.
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PairUp London.
PairUp London just released tickets for their two day conference in the center of London on the 8th and 9th of April. The brilliant thing is, this will be on during spring break, which means I don’t have to fake being ill, or write a ass-licking letter to the school. Kick-ass.
If you’re thinking of coming, shoot me an @reply, it’d be great to meet more of you in person, and we can go partying till 2AM with the cool kids. Hope to see you all there! Tickets are on sale for the next hour ending at 8PM so be quick!
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“I’m a Satellite Heart, Lost In The Dark. I’m spun out so far, You stop I start, But I’ll Be true to you.”
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The problem with facebook apps.
Now I’m not usually against facebook applications, (many of you may know about my recent Farmville addiction), but when they mimic Facebook’s functionality WORD FOR WORD, there is something very wrong. I signed into facebook just moments before writing this, and here is what I saw.
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Apple Store madness.
Apple stores don’t have “no smoking” signs. Legally they need them but they “ruin the design of the store”, so for every apple store in the UK they pay £50 a day to keep their windows sign free. Crazy shit.
EDIT: I forgot to include the source, it’s a friend who works in the Apple Store in Norwich, The evidence is the fact that they aren’t actually in the windows.
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