Thanks, Paul. Yesterday--that is Sunday--I had a worrisome feeling about the iPad. I thought maybe I shouldn't have purchased it even though I gave careful thought to how I expected to use it.
Then today during a free moment, I started working with iCal, and it is great. I quickly logged in all my meetings and appointments to iCal--and I can read it easily. My handwriting has gotten so bad (and it was never great to begin with), but now I can read everything so easily, and I love that I can add extend notes. Then I attended a meeting today. Because I had set up a bunch of meeting notes related to various committees I'm on via the Notes app, I had all those notes at my finger tips, and because I had the notes separated by committees, I could quickly access them and add to them during today's meeting. It was great! I would have had to bring several file folders to do this--then try to decipher my handwriting. Also, using the iPad in landscape orientation and using the triangle stand configuration of the smart cover, I was able to type my notes during the meeting without any trouble whatsoever. Wow! It was so great. I was soooo sold on the iPad after this experience. Now I'm worried I didn't by the bigger sized iPad2. Mine is the 16 gig, but I think I'll be ok. And I love reading via the iPad. My eyesight has gotten so bad, so it's great that I enlarge the type size of a book I'm reading. But also through the iBook app I can save PDF files into my iBook library--often I get these as work related email attachments, so I can read them later and don't have to print them out. This is really great. I hate reading large texts at the desktop. The iPad2 will serve as a communication tool for sure, but I'm not going to use it for social media--that's on my phone--no need to duplicate. I will also be investigating educational apps quite soon. I'll might experiment with the app that allows you to write on the iPad with a stylus. Of course, like I said, my handwriting is bad, so that may not be as useful. I have no problems typing with the virtual keyboard. So, like I said, I'm pretty sold on the iPad as I type. Cheers, Christine Then today I had a meeting to attend. On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Paul Sorenson wrote: > Christine - Like the pix and you've cropped it well. Congrats on the iPad. > I got one as a b-day gift a couple weeks ago and am liking it a lot. I > really wanted a tablet and I think the iPad is the best choice - at least for > the foreseeable future. > > The calendar is great in conjunction with the "cloud" and the iPhone. Make an > entry on one device at it auto syncs with the cloud and the other device. Be > sure to get the camera adapter so you can copy your images right from the SD > card to the iPad. > > -p > > On 10/30/2011 9:14 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: >> Hi Joe: Yep, got the apple care for the iPad. I got Airport Extreme set up >> this afternoon and the wireless is working well, but it doesn't reach the >> living room. We have a really long apartment. But I think I'll be able to >> piggy-back airport extreme with airport express. Got my iCloud account set >> up. The new iCal is nice, so much so I may be going digital for my day >> book, which would be a major change for me, but my hand writing has gotten >> so bad, iCal is much easier to read. I haven't done iOS 5 on my iPhone >> yet--I'm a little tired of downloading stuff. It can wait. Only had to make >> 1 call to my internet service provider. I've never been able to understand >> all the acronyms regarding input output and all that stuff. The Lion >> download and install went without a hitch, as did the iOS 5 upgrade on the >> iPad. All in all, I can't complain--just a lot of time spent downloading >> etc. The longest minutes in the day are downloading upgrade minutes. >> I really like reading on the iPad; I'm reading a Fran Leibowitz's book, >> Tales from A Broad, which is very funny. Big cheers, Christine >> >> >> >> On Oct 30, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Joseph McAllister wrote: >> >>> Nice picture in tech, but her personality is not very holidayistic. A >>> Hollow Ween… >>> >>> On Oct 30, 2011, at 08:42 , Christine Aguila wrote: >>> >>>> Oh, and did I mention I came home with an iPad2 yesterday? :-) >>>> >>>> Cheers, Christine >>> >>> Welcome to the club Christine. I've had mine for a month, and am just >>> getting around to making things work the way I want them to. Many calls to >>> Apple. Buy the Applecare if not already. Two years of help and complaints >>> is worth the $62 (IIRC) charge. Another side benefit is the iPad2 placement >>> in usefulness drags much of your other Applecare expired hardware and >>> software back into the picture. Just yesterday I got help with Aperture, >>> iTunes, OS-X, and WiFi specs. 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