There are no words to describe how wrong this is....

I hope that this is a April fools leftover.... The part about the nanites is particularly amusing....

http://www.google.com/tisp/

I miss my headphones...

So many people on the bus have no concept that they are surrounded by people... They talk at the top of their lungs on their cell phones, one guy was face timing on his iphone. Yes we all know you are cool, no we don't care what your sisters kid daid this morning...

I used to use my headphones to block out the stupid people, really more for ear plugs than anything else, but I miss them. Nice lady sitting next to me still has the default beeping on her phone, so everything she is doing beeps... Just awesome.

Another day in NJ transit, thank god I am driving the rest of the week.

I'm going to call it ipaditist...

I bought the last two robert jordan books and have been enjoying them on my ipad, reading on the bus kills time more cost effectively than watching a movie when you get right down to it, but I noticed that my shoulder was hurting...

I finally put two and two together and confirmed it today while watching a video, if I sit holding my ipad in my hand while watching or reading, I end up with a very sore shoulder within 30 minutes that can last for days... Wonder if anyone else has this ailment, kindle, ipad, whatever..

Stefan

The other blog is finally live!

I know I know, but I couldn't resist actually doing some work in the new place now that we have it... so the blog kinda fell by the wayside. We took before and after pictures, but no video as of yet. The video of me getting hit in the face with a sheet of drywall probably would have got a lot of laughs, but oh well...

Check it out here:

http://ohcrapicantbelieveilistenedtoher.blogspot.com/

iPad: Did you know...

So I have been fighting, FIGHTING with my collegues at work to try and use my iPad as the productivity tool it should be.

First, they kicked me off the mobile sync server. This after a high level executive, who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty, gave me the information on how to find the server. So no more can I have my outlook calendar and emails on the iPad, arguably a serious benefit. Fine...

Second, they found my illegal (I didn't know it at the time, though to be honest I suspected it highly) wireless router in my office and remotely killed my network port, that was an interesting hour...

Third, They decided they would strip machines of logmein, so that I can no longer remote control my desktop from my bed and work on the weekends...

Forth, they found my wifi sharing function and somehow stopped that, it just doesn't want to work anymore, not sure why or how...

So I've almost given up using the iPad at work, except for taska and evernote, its really not all that useful anymore. I can't get documents onto it, or off of it, and since we don't have public WIFI except in starbucks downstairs, its really just a cool decoration on my desk...

Until I figure out another trick to get content onto it. If you load itunes on your workstation (which thus far has not been blocked, but clearly someone is reading my blog and will probably figure out how to block it) you can actually sync documents to the ipad without syncing the ipad its self. Huh? You say. Right well I have music, movies, apps etc etc on this thing that I don't have (or frankly want) on my work machine. So I don't actually want to sync the apps, I just want to be able to add a document to it. Now with this method I can easily just add a PDF to iAnnotate and go to my meeting.

Still a FAR cry from just opening up your email and clicking on the file you already had, but also a far cry from forwarding it to myself, or using google docs, then running downstairs to SB or piggy backing on our neighbors Wifi to get the information I need. If you don't want me to be productive at work, just tell me, I can play solitaire with the best of them....

Note, I actually can't, bores me to tears...

We finally got the deed to our house

OMG, so relieved to actually have this little piece of paper that says the house that i have been fighting to get for the last 6 months, is actually mine. I haven't been this happy to see a single piece of paper since my first paycheck from Phoenix International...

Now, the hard part starts. I have already had a glimpse of how much fun this will be with trying to get permits and play the he said she said game with my contractor about who should get the permits...:) Will actually publish the blog tomorrow (its over here at She Made me do it), while I have been writting my soul out on the blog, we didn't want to publish anything without it being official. Now I have to go back in time and get some of our initial images up and make the blog look halfway decent before I release the articles.

The new blog is going to be MUCH more interactive than my iPad one, with video, photo's and some give aways so get ready to enjoy...:)

iPad: Stanza app, alternate to iBooks

There is a large amount of free literature out there, some legal, some questionable, but most of it can't be read on the iPad without being converted, and even then... I had a large selection of books that I had converted to read on my iPad, and then an update made the iPad decide it didn't want to read epub format anymore.

Needless to say, since I was done reading most of the files, I didn't bother re-converting and trying to read in PDF in iBook... Then I found the stanza app. Other than just NOT being able to figure out how to change books, its pretty cool. You can zoom in and out by pinching, if you save the zoom level it applies it to the entire book so you can go grandma and read with 30 pt font, or exercise your eyes and read it at 6pt... the illumination level is cute, you swipe up or down to increase or decrease the backlight. It also has a questionable bookmark feature, which I haven't figured out a use for... maybe it was for when the app wouldn't continue running in the background? Bascially you "fold" the top right corner to remember your place, again cute.

Over all, the app is good with the exception of not knowing how to close the book and go to another. I had to settle for learning how to crash the app at will, you zoom, cancel, and change the luminosity while the system is resetting the page and it crashes...>.> don't fix it, I can't close the book without that bug!

Update: The latest release removed the bug that crashed the app! Luckily before that I figured out that if you single tap in the middle third of the screen a plethora of options open to you, allowing you to close the book, jump between chapters etc etc. It has all the features and functions of iBook without any of the annoying limitations.