iMistress

During a very productive writing session with a close friend, I was asked why I don't write a blog? To be perfectly honest I've never really thought about it before. What would I write about do? Do my opinions really matter? Will anyone read it? Well to answer the first question I'm going to write about the things that I enjoy the most. So what are these things? I hear you ask (assuming anyone is reading) well anyone who knows me will say the obvious answer is technology, but I also really enjoy movies and tv shows and I will write about all these things and maybe more if I feel inspired to do so.

Well that's enough about me, I wanted to focus on one of my favorite pieces of tech, the iPad. The iPad seems to be the marmite of the technology world, it draws equal amounts of praise and criticisms. However most of the people that do criticize the iPad seem to be the same people that will pour scorn on any new piece of Apple technology. As an iPad user I can honestly say it is one of the most amazing pieces of technology I have used. Since I bought my iPad (a 64gb wifi only) I have barely used my laptop. My iPad can do almost everything that a computer can do, there are exceptions and I will talk about them in greater detail later. I can access my twitter, Facebook and myspace accounts using free apps from apples more than impressive app store. I am currently writing this blog on Office HD and there are tonnes of other office based apps such as Apple's very own iWorks. The games on iPad are amazing Infinity Blade has the best graphics I've seen on a portable device and completely original gameplay, FIFA 11 captures elements from the console version although in all honesty it's not as good as playing the xbox or ps3 but on a boring bus journey it can be fun. See that's the best aspect of the iPad, it's portability it brings so many elements of a laptop or desktop and puts them into the your hands. Some people opted for the 3G version of the iPad which allows the user to access the Internet from anywhere that has a 3G connection. I opted for the wifi version because it was a) cheaper and b) I have mifi portable Internet adaptor from Three (which gives me 15gb a month for £23 a month, which is a better tariff than any iPad tariffs out there) so I get to access my emails, social networks and the Internet in general while out and about. I can pull my iPad out of my bag and I don't have to wait for it to load up like a computer.

And now for the negative, the ipad has one major drawback in my opinion. It cannot upload documents on its safari web browser. So I cannot upload my C.V. to a job site or upload photos to other sites, and in all honesty that is my only drawback with the iPad. To those of you reading this and thinking I'm an Apple fan boy. Your right I like Apple products. I don't fall at every word that comes out of Steve Jobs mouth, but I do appreciate what Apple have and are trying to achieve, but I will save talking about that I'm further detail.

It's coming up to a year since the iPad was first unveiled to the world and I've had mine since may when it came out. It was amazing when I first picked it up and it keeps getting better with new apps coming out and software updates. iOS 4.2 made took the iPad from being a portable tablet to a device capable of replacing your laptop. I can now print documents from my iPad wirelessly, so to an extent I really don't need my laptops ( with the exception of my iBook which I use for recording podcasts, hopefully in the future they will have an app that you can record and edit podcasts on I.e. GarageBand). I think when it comes to how good a piece of technology is you should ask my misses. If she gets pissed off with how long I spend on it, it must be a cracking piece of tech. In the instance of the iPad she refers to it as my mistress.