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My iPad Review – It’s Fast, Fun & So Pretty
Just over a week ago my wife got me an iPad for my birthday and Fathers Day. Isn’t she awesome?! I’ve been playing with it every chance I get and I think the iPad is an amazing device and it’s just getting started.
When the iPad first came out, a lot of people said it was just a big iPod Touch. Sure, it’s similar, but it’s so much more. The screen size alone makes a huge difference. You have no idea how small an iPhone or iPod Touch really is until you play with an iPad. It makes me look at my iPod Touch and think ‘how can I even use this?’
My iPad, iPhone, iPod Dilemma
So I have a dilemma, but it’s a good one to have.
You see, my wife rocks. She likes to get me sweet presents. This year she was going to get me an iPad, but thought she’d ask me if I really wanted one first. Which I do, kind of.
The iPad is that new shinny Apple toy that every Apple fan wants. So of course I want one! But, the downside here is that my wife would then take my iPod Touch. Which this is a problem as an iPad is portable, but not like my touch. It’s not going to look good mounted on the dashboard of my car and it won’t fit in my pocket. So I’m thinking no on an iPad.
iPhone Apps Coming To Your Desktop?
Could iPhone apps be coming to the desktop? No really.
The biggest features on the iPhone are the touch screen and the accelerometers. For years now, all Apple laptops have a touch pad, which works in the same way. They all have a motion sensor built it too, but I’m not sure if it’s as good as the accelerometer though.
Plus Apple recently released the Magic Mouse which is also touch sensitive just like the touch pads on laptops and the iPhone screen. So could this all be leading up to iPhone apps on the desktop?
WCCO News Comes To The iPhone In Style
It has always amazed me how news stations can spend thousands on new sets, fancy graphics and anything to get more viewers on TV, but their website usually suck.
Getting the local news on an iPhone or iPod Touch meant loading an overly busy, and usually slow, website or a very basic, and usually ugly, mobile version.
Now however, WCCO, the local CBS station, has come out with an iPhone application that is beautiful! See for yourself.
WCCO iPhone App
WCCO Mobile Website
WCCO Website
18 Holiday Songs To Party To
Every artist seems to make a Christmas album, however most seem to record the same old songs the same old way. Lets face it, there’s only so many times you can hear White Christmas sang the same way.
Sometimes you want something new, something festive and something to put you in a party mood. Something to dance to!
I’ve put together a list of some of my fun and/or unique holiday songs that are worth checking out. Maybe you’ll find one or two to add to your collection.
- Call Me Claus – Garth Brooks
Tis the Season to be Joll-E
While browsing around Amazon the other day, I saw a great WALL-E ad that featured Wall-E in a Santa hat with some Christmas lights. So I took a screen shot and made it iPhone/iPod Touch friendly, just for you. 
Tis the Season to be Joll-E
Also available is the Happy WALL-E Days iPhone background and the WALL-E Jammin on an iPod desktop.
Happy WALL-E Days – iPhone Wallpaper
In celebration of the release of WALL-E on DVD
Happy WALL-E Days!
Add Jack Skellington to Your iPhone
With Halloween coming up, a Nightmare Before Christmas wallpaper for an iPhone or iPod Touch is a must have! Here is the first one I’ve come up with featuring Jack Skellington himself!
It’s already at the correct iPhone size and the placement of the graphics is optimized for for the iPhone as I left space at the top for the time and date and Jack is nicely centered on the iPhone screen.
Enjoy Nightmare Before Christmas fans!
Also, be sure to check out my Firefox theme HalloFF featuring Jack Skellington.
Todo – A Great Little iPod Task List
I’ve been waiting and waiting for the Apple App Store. One of the items I really wanted was a checklist so I could keep track of things I needed at the store and tasks to be done, all without being connected to the internet. Now I have that in Todo.
Todo is a $10 application that specializes in creating task lists on your iPod Touch or iPhone. It’s pretty basic in use, but does allow for multiple task lists, priorities, due dates, notes and more. You can even customize the line that crosses out a completed item.
My First Apple App Store Purchases
I was excited to see iTunes 7.7 this morning and then TUAW tipped us off as to how to get into the App Store.
Excited to check it out, I found a few free applications and downloaded them. Nothing to exciting but the Remote application does let me control iTunes or Apple TV (if I had one) from my iPod.
I did see some nice checklist applications too, which I do want, but I’m waiting for one from Remember the Milk or some other system that can sync online.
It seems a bit empty right now, but exciting none the less!
