Day 3 of iPad adventuring.  After getting set up on day1, my kids started asking what games I had on it.  First request was for Bejeweled (Callie).  Second request was for Angry Birds (Cameron).  And then they both clamored for Fruit Ninja.  I blame their grandfather for the first two, and their babysitter for the third.  I did download a free Angry Birds and spent too much time throwing feathered missiles at pigs.  I had had a version of AB on my Android and never been impressed.  On the iPad, the user experience worked a bit better – still a pain in the neck game, in my opinion.  Though that hasn’t stopped me from spending too much time on it.

Typing this blog post from my laptop for no really good reason – I pulled out the laptop to do some Javascript development.  So I now have my Android in front of me, updating its apps and downloading Google Voice to let me do some voice command trickery I saw on LifeHacker; I have the iPad in front of me that I’m using as my eBook kind of thing to read ‘Learning Ext JS 3.2’.  And, of course, I’m typing on the laptop for my blog.  I type all right on the iPad – it’s just that I type faster on a physical keyboard as of yet.  Appreciating some of the niceties of the on-screen keyboard: if it knows I’m entering in an e-mail field, then the ‘@’ sign is part of the primary keyboard; as I shift to type a punctuation mark, after I type the mark, it returns me to the main letter keyboard.  However, it doesn’t do that if I’m typing numbers – very smooth.

Did finally set up a cellular plan on the iPad.  $20 / month for 1GB data.  I figure if I primarily use the thing at work and at home, both have wireless connections.  But the $20 gets me accessibility in other places, without relying on wireless networks that I worry may be less secure.  That reminds me: I need to find some sort of virus and other network protection software for the iPad.

Having a very funny geeky weekend!