OK.

Full day and a half of using my iPad and I can’t get it away from my teenage daughters – hence the snappy title.

• Battery Life:
  • Absofuckinglutely unstoppable. I’ve had it on for the entire day today, playing movies, surfing the web – ooohhh… the web surfing… and drawing on it.
  • As of 8:15pm, battery is at 65%
• UI:It’s cooler than SJ made it look in his easychair rollout talk. Smooth, fast and responsive without even one hiccup so far.
  • If you have an iPhone or a touch, you know what to do.
• Apps:
  • I bought iWork.
    • Pages: Pretty damn cool. Kinda hard to type fast on the slippery keyboard, but I think I can get used to it. Extremely intuitive interface with one exception: where are all the files kept and why are there multiple copies? Must look into it.
    • Numbers: Seems exactly as useable as pages – I’m going to mess with it tonight.
  • iPhone apps sometimes crash.
  • iPhone apps look a little yucky compared to the “HD” versions of the iPad apps.
  • Google Maps app is shockingly fast and useable. The multitouch stuff really is amazing in this.
• No Flash.
  • I have yet to find this a problem. CBS even has a (FREE) iPad app that lets you watch their shows (FREE) and it acts just like Hulu. I’m guessing that all the networks are going to do this if they like money. 700,000 sold in one day… yoiks!
• GPS, Compass, Accelerometer:
  • All work flawlessly with most apps, though some of the app store purchases seem a little “rickety”… possibly the new API – I know there were some changes between iPhone and iPad.
• Screen:
  • Sharp, crisp and fast.
  • Sticky fingers do leave some smudges though, I’ve had to clean it twice today but there’s been a ton of fingers on it.
• Movies: Awesome. Clear and sharp and very fast to load.
• Books:
  • I’ve purchased one book: Dies the fire, and it’s very readable – The one thing I might add is a “lock scree rotation” button. Occasionally, while shifting positions, the screen rotated on me.
  • There are a bazillion free downloads of all the classics. It felt funny loading Tolstoy and the collected works of Shakespear on it but I did it because I could.
• Mail:
  • Pretty much the same a iPhone mail with more room.
• Safari:
  • Holy mother of God this is where the iPad totally shines for me. The speed is fantastic, the refresh speed of the graphics is amazing and the multitouch to zoom in and out of pages at will is just so cool.

I had it with me at the aquarium today and the reactions were anything but ambivalent. I got one of two reactions:

1.) OMG is that an IPAD!! Want!
b.) Oh yeah, an iPad, I can’t believe you bought one.

The naysayers usually say: But it’s just a big iPod Touch…

My question is: “is that a bad thing?”

Still trying to figure out if this will replace the MBP… it might.

Me: home from a long day.
Deb and the Girls™: sitting in the living room watching some crappy chick flick.
Me: I think I’ll watch some olympics video on the NBC site…
NBC: You don’t have the right version of Silverlight.
Silverlight: Do you wanna?
Mac: Hey!  Are you sure?
Silverlight: Well?  Do you wanna?
Silverlight: Where do you want it?
Silverlight: Are you sure?
Mac: Gimme the password.
Silverlight: Click this.
NBC: Still can’t play your video.
Me: Refresh.
NBC: Loading Video!
Video: <volume=”10x”> AD AD AD AD AD AD AD!!! </volume=”10x”>
Video: Crappy slideshow with telephone conversation and blurry B-Roll!!
NBC: Here’s three pop-behind ads for ya!

Me: …

How can they think that I’ll ever come back?

1. Western Digital drives are preformatted with NTFS.  In order to install them on an Airport Extreme, you must first reformat them so they are writable by your mac clients.  Use Journaled (Extended).
   • A side note: Time Machine actually WILL work on the airport shared drive.
2. In Autodesk Maya, if you want to load an image sequence, you need to insure that it’s naming convention follows this rule: [filename].####.[extension]
   • If you use a standard naming convention like [filename]_####.[extension], it will pretend to work but give errors like:

//"Warning: Texture file /Volumes/AQCC/video/act04Tiff/act04_00000.tif doesn't exist, node file1 //

1. • This is arcane knowledge that took me hours to figure out.  Use it wisely.
   • An appropriate filename example would be: “act04.0003.tif“