iPad

Hello everyone!

When the iPad 2 was announced I decided I wanted one. People all around me said that it was so awesome and they used it for everything.

I still remain somewhat hesitant towards it’s use cases but I do believe it has some value.

I was going to buy the iPad on the release day here in Tokyo but because of the earthquake the release was postponed. Until today. This how I watched an episode of Community just a while ago..

However I don’t intend to use it as an extra screen for my laptop like that. I mainly had two use cases in mind when I bought it, the first was to browse the web in bed in the mornings and the second was to use it to watch video without having to have a 50 degrees warm computer in my lap when I’m not at the table.

I’ve already found two perfect apps for both those uses. You can’t surf efficiently with mobile safari so I’ve installed a browser called Mercury which does tabbed browsing and that whole thing very nicely. I’ve also installed BUZZ Player that takes any video format and handles subtitle files and embedded subtitles awesomely. I just move any video file very easily from the computer to the iPad via iTunes and I can sort the videos and play them via BUZZ!

I have yet to become fully accustomed to the keyboard, I’ve written this whole thing on the iPad now and it’s certainly faster than writing in an iPhone but also a lot slower than on a computer so far. I am getting faster by the minute though and if I can make a little less mistakes than it should be almost comparable to a computer with enough practice. We’ll see about that though..

I bought the iPad mostly as an experiment and so far it’s been fun. Lets see if It can live up to it’s name and if I actually find a real use for it!