I can hear my husband saying, “I told you so.”\u00a0 I downloaded a bunch of iTunesU files this afternoon, and free space on my 16G iPad shrank to 9G.\u00a0 The Apple Store guy told me I have 14 days to return it as long as I keep the box.\u00a0 I’m wondering if I should take it back and exchange it for the 64G model.\u00a0 It might be worth the $200 more I’d have to lay out.<\/p>\n
I’ve had a 16G nano or is it an 8G?\u00a0 I think its 16G, and it’s only half full, so I figured if I kept my audio on the nano, the 16G iPad would be just fine for a couple of years.\u00a0 Of course, if I did what I said I’d do and keep the audio on the nano, I would have tons of space left.\u00a0 Frankly, 9G is still quite a bit of space, but I’m nervous, because I’ve only had the iPad for two days.<\/p>\n
I’m still trying to find what the iPad does best.\u00a0 It connected flawlessly to the household wireless, so it’s always connected.\u00a0 That means I can check weather at the touch of a button with The Weather Channel Max app (free).\u00a0 I loaded 600 photos onto the device.\u00a0 I did install the free iBook app, and Winnie-the-Pooh came free with it.\u00a0 It’s nice, but there were no free books at the iBook store.\u00a0 Prices seemed to range from $3.99 – $14.\u00a0 A little later the first night, I found the free Kindle app.\u00a0 The Kindle Store has a ton of free books — I’ve browsed the free classics collection and I’d never run out of books.\u00a0 Despite what this sounds like, I don’t plan to use the iPad much for reading.\u00a0 But if you want <\/em>to use the iPad for reading, and you don’t have much money, there are great books available for it.\u00a0 One possible lure is being able to turn off my bedside light so hubby doesn’t have to sleep with my light on while I read, but I have a ton of print books, and I mostly read before turning in for the night.<\/p>\n I found it difficult (well, impossible) to update my WordPress blogs on Safari (I was thinking I’d have to type it into something and do a copy and paste thing).\u00a0 Back to the App Store.\u00a0 There’s a free WordPress app, and I could set all my blogs up on it, so I can update any of them from one window.\u00a0 Very nice.<\/p>\n I tried to set up my Earthlink mail account on the iPad, but it wouldn’t do the security settings.\u00a0 It did accept my Yahoo mail settings, and that works well.\u00a0 I haven’t tried any of my other email addresses on there.<\/p>\n I’ve purchased two pay apps — Pages (which I haven’t really explored yet) and Things.\u00a0 I have used Things, but I’m trying not to set too much up on it until I can get it to Central Texas and synch it with the Things version on the Mini.<\/p>\n The other apps I’ve installed are TweetDeck, Adobe Ideas, This Day, USA Today, NPR, Labyrinth Lite, and iShop.\u00a0 iShop is a listing program that allows you to create numerous lists — ostensibly for shopping, but really, you can make any list you like.\u00a0 It’s a beautiful, simple, elegant app with a single negative thing — once you save a list item, you can’t delete it.\u00a0 You can delete a list.\u00a0 I started making a master grocery shopping list on it.\u00a0 About 35 items in, it typed and saved “spinamch.”\u00a0 No way to edit it.\u00a0 I know.\u00a0 What do I expect for a free app, but I provided feedback on it consistent with one other person who said the same thing.\u00a0 I’m hoping the developer will be able to add that feature soon.<\/p>\n In the standard apps, I haven’t even looked at YouTube or Videos.\u00a0 I’ve looked at Notes, Calendar, and Contacts but haven’t done anything with them.\u00a0 I also looked at Google’s Maps.\u00a0 It looks like I could input Point A to Point B directions.\u00a0 Then, I hope I could take it off line and follow the directions.\u00a0 I haven’t tried that yet.<\/p>\n I’m disappointed that my laptop USB port doesn’t have enough juice to charge the iPad while I’m synching.\u00a0 I’m typing this on my laptop while the iPad charges behind me.\u00a0 Speaking of typing, what about the virtual keyboard?\u00a0 It works fine, but it’s best for two finger typists.\u00a0 I haven’t successfully touch typed on it yet.\u00a0 You have to switch to the number screen for the apostrophe, but once you type the “””, the keyboard defaults back to letters.\u00a0 I like the double tap the space bar for a “period and a space” shortcut, but I keep forgetting to use it.<\/p>\n I’m using it side-by-side with my laptop to try to figure out which uses I prefer for which activities.\u00a0 So far, I don’t have definitive preferences.<\/p>\n So, what am I going to do about the 16G?\u00a0 Will it be enough?\u00a0 I don’t know yet.\u00a0 I’ll keep you posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I can hear my husband 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