Crazy iPad Accessories

Check this out, I'll add more as I find them.  An entire clothing line for iPad users.

The iPad Vest seems reasonable.

http://www.scottevest.com/company/ipad.shtml

iPouch - iPad case made from my pants!

How to make an iPad case out of your pants!

Converting or importing a Wordpress Blog to Blogger.

Wordpress has a simple tool to export your blog to .xml.  However, the import feature of Blogger won't import it correctly.  It states that there are errors or something like that.  SOOOO, a little googling led me to this site.  It will let you upload your wordpress export, converts it, and lets you download a new xml file.  The site says that you need to upload a WXR file, but I uploaded my .xml file and it worked fine.

http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/

First post, again.

I stared the blog on wordpress, because they have an iphone/ipad app.  However, I find out that they don't let you advertise at all.  Yes, I'm greedy.  I monetize everything.  I'm not looking to win any aesthetics awards for my blog, and let's face it, we are all used to seeing advertisements.  Why can't I make $50 a year from google, just for posting my crap thoughts online?

I'm not so sure, Penbrator.

Am I the only one that finds this both exciting and disturbing that the same time?

http://www.boxwave.com/products/penbrator/index.htm

This will make you think twice about borrowing a pen.

New iPad!

So I finally have an iPad I can call my own.  Well, mostly my own.  I can use it to manage some of our network equipment with SSH, telnet, WebUI, or anything else that has a web interface (sans flash of  course).  I can also get the O'Reilly textbooks for this hardware MUCH cheaper as an ebook as I can for a paper copy.

I have to say that I'm addicted to the iPad.  Not in a bad way, I don't carry it with me everywhere.  I just feel like every time I pick it up, I'm holding the future, as geeky as that sounds.  If you haven't seen one, or used one, stop what you are doing (well, wait until you are done reading this post), and find the nearest Apple Store or BestBuy and try one out.  This is the product that the world has been waiting for (of course that is what we all said about the iPhone too).  I feel like this it true, simply because it has changed the game for all future products.  This isn't a TabletPC, it isn't a PocketPC, I don't think I would call it an anything PC.  It is just a thin, stylish, intuitive, powerful, gadget.  Yes, it is expensive for a video game system.  Yes, it is expensive for a netbook.  Yes, it is expensive for a personal media player.  Yes, it is expensive for a GPS. Heck, it is even expensive for a laptop.  BUT, if you combine all of those things, the iPad becomes an incredible value.  When was the last time you used your GPS to read recent reviews of the restaurant you are looking for?  When was the last time your netbook battery lasted 8 hours?  When was the last time you were able to slip your laptop in the front pocket of your lab coat (I'm assume someday a doctor will read this)?

Enough fluffing the iPad.  There are some downsides.  The beautiful aluminum back side is susceptible to scratching.  BUY A CASE FOR IT.  The onscreen keyboard will take some getting used to, even for those used to typing on touch screen devices.  Whether in landscape or portrait mode, it seems difficult to type very quickly.  If you are a heavy email user, use Google Maps for your GPS functionality, or love Pandora, you'll have to pony up for the unlimited 3G data plan from ATT.  And with fault laying on the developers of iPhone apps, there just aren't all that many iPad apps available yet.  THEY WILL COME!

I'm sure I'll be posting more on here soon enough.  I'll try to put up some reviews of my favorite apps.

New iPhone ad, Family Man

For those of us that have had an iPhone for a while, this is old news.  For those that haven't, believe.  This little smartphone has saved me countless times.  Anybody that says the iPhone isn't the best mobile device available, is either just an Apple hater, or hasn't owned one themselves.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/gallery/ads/#familyman-large