{"id":423,"date":"2010-04-22T01:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=423"},"modified":"2010-04-20T05:35:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T10:35:27","slug":"the-ipad-part-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/04\/the-ipad-part-02\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPad &#8211; part 0.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Several weeks into the iPad has me still searching for that one great application.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve had the iPad for several weeks. Some observations:<\/p>\n<p><strong>3G or not to be<\/strong> &#8211; My model doesn&#8217;t have 3G, just WiFi. This is fine for what I want to do, but I recommend a model with 3G. It seems that every time I want to demonstrate something to someone, I have no Internet access.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Weather<\/strong> &#8211; The Weather Channel app is excellent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Battery Life<\/strong> &#8211; ten hours of battery life is also excellent. I think I recharge the battery once a week or so.<\/p>\n<p><strong>eBook Reader<\/strong> &#8211; the iPad is excellent for reading. It is much better than the iPhone. I read books everyday on the iPad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Input<\/strong> &#8211; I really want the camera connection kit. When can I buy one?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Input<\/strong> &#8211; I type with only two fingers. Maybe I should spend the $70 for an external keyboard. Surely someone besides Apple will start selling a cheaper Bluetooth keyboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Great Application<\/strong> &#8211; I am still looking for this one. I believe that, in time, one will come along. My wish list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>handwriting recognition<\/li>\n<li>a little stylus<\/li>\n<li>drawing software<\/li>\n<li>image processing (like Photoshop or, even better, GIMP)<\/li>\n<li>WiMax &#8211; I know, that is 4G, but hey, this is a &#8220;wish&#8221; list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Several weeks into the iPad has me still searching for that one great application. Now I&#8217;ve had the iPad for several weeks. Some observations: 3G or not to be &#8211; My model doesn&#8217;t have 3G, just WiFi. This is fine for what I want to do, but I recommend a model with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,3],"tags":[188,126],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipad","category-technology","tag-ipad","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}