Yes, I admit it… I was one of those people that said “What do I need a giant iPad touch for?”, when I first learned about the iPad. And for weeks following, I kept reading about how people were amazed at this revolutionary “magical” device. I kept seeing apps appear for the app store that I already had on my iPhone, and thought “Why do I need a bigger version of that app?”

And then a few things caught my attention…

Sidebar: This is not a review of everything that the iPad is (there’s plenty of reviews on the web if you search for them) but this article is mainly “my reasons” for getting an iPad. BTW, I bought the iPad 64GB 3G model

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Today, I held an iPhone 4. It just so happened that I was in the U.S. today, and ventured into an AT&T store hoping to see one up close and personal. With my luck, there happened to be a rep in the store who let me play with hers for a while.

Warm Reception
The first thing that I had to try out was to try to duplicate the widely publicized reception issues I had been reading about all over the web. According to what I’ve read, if you hold the phone in your left hand, and block the lower-left corner of the phone with your palm (or almost any other part of your hand), you start losing reception to the point of the iPhone losing connection with the carrier (AT&T). I tried to recreate the problem firmly gripping the phone in my left hand. I did notice one or two bars disappear, but that was it. I then placed my thumb completely over the lower-left corner, the part where the two pieces of steel connect to each other. Again, from the reports I read, this was the most problematic area in terms of reception issues. To my surprise, I noticed nothing. No dramatic loss in reception, no drop of the carrier signal. When holding the iPhone (again in my left hand) as a normal person should/would, I notice nothing.

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Vancouver BC, Canada (April 12, 2010) – Mac Video Training products help you learn your Macintosh computer with their appropriately titled “Quick Start” video training courses that are designed to get you going quickly and work at your own pace to master your Mac. Their most successful title “Quick Start Your Mac” has sold more than 25,000 copies in Canada and the U.S. and to celebrate the company’s success, they have released Quick Start Your Mac plus; a brand-new and dramatically improved course, rebuilt from the ground up.

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We have been doing more and more trade shows/presentations and the likes these days and in many cases we have to either cart around our own fairly large speaker configurations or arrange to have some speakers provided for us. When a set of speakers is provided for you, you just don’t always know how they are going to perform? In some cases the speakers were overkill and in a booth situation we don’t want the attention on the speakers we want the attention on our product. Even too much bass is distracting as all we really need is for the message to cut through and if there’s lots of bass then often things can get a bit muddy!

Our requirements where a set of compact stereo speakers that had enough volume to cut through a noisy environment and a sound quality that would produce accurate sounding voice. We wanted the fewest possible cables so as not clutter up our table.

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In this post, I thought I’d give you my impressions using Motorola’s MotoRokr SD9-HD wireless bluetooth headphones with my iPhone 3G. I bought these headphones for a few different uses; I wanted something so I could listen to music when I’m at the gym, and headphone wires tend to get in the way when I’m working out. They sometimes get caught on my clothing or workout equipment. I also needed something to use while I’m driving, as it’s now against the law to hold on to/or use a portable device when driving that isn’t hands free!

Construction & Design
The headphones are made from a hard plastic and rubber construction. The rubber makes them easy to grip, and the hard plastic is quite durable. They easily slip over each ear in a sort of backward sunglasses type fashion, then around the back of your head. The headphones include these little rubber ear tips that fit over metal speaker housings, then fit into your ears. This design is quite comfortable for short periods, but not as good for longer listening sessions. I found that the rubber ear tips tend to come off (I already lost one), so you have to be a bit careful. Make sure you line up the tabs on the ear tips to the metal speaker housings when replacing them. Fortunately, you can buy replacement ear tips on-line on Motorola’s web site. 2 sets of different sizes are included with the SD9-HD. They also come with an AC charging unit, and a nice little soft carrying bag, to store them in when you’re not using them. Also, the battery time on the unit lasts impressively long at almost 6 hours between charges. Overall, I like this design and found that the behind the head design really didn’t annoy me too much unless I was trying to lay back on a pillow, while I was laying in bed.

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I wrote an Article a bit ago about how to remove the little screen bubbles from an OtterBox Defender Case, mainly because I have one of these robust cases and the one thing that bothered me the most about it was the screen bubbles… The only other real disadvantage to a case that is as protective as the OtterBox Defender Case is its size, it makes an iPhone just a tad thick but protection does come at a cost!

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We all want to be as “green” as we can these days… It’s just the right thing to do and why not save some money while you do your part for the environment!

I find myself constantly printing things off like invoices, maps, addresses, and confirmation emails, maybe many of you also find yourself printing stuff like this too?

Do you also find that much of the time you think you’re only going to get one page but when all is said and done, out pops another couple pages of non-relevant info or even sometimes one line of print that renders that entire page useless for reuse.

Here’s what I do to get around this problem and save on paper and ink as well as overall printer usage and general waiting around.

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Apple released their highly anticipated tablet today called the iPad and as expected it’s crazy-mind blowing, the only question I have is, “who would benefit from a device like this?”

Without getting into all the specifications, you can get them here what does the iPad do best? The iPad seems to really shine when surfing the web, looking at photos, accessing your email, looking at information like your calendar, watching movies and even playing iPhone App based games. The iPad also has a seamless interface like the iPhone and iPod Touch that literally takes the learning curve out of using a product like this. These are all important things, but what about using it for other possible day to day operations like photo importing and editing, word processing, video editing, audio recording, graphics and web design, video conferencing and even more…

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Paul and I recently made a trip out to Ohio which is a bit of trek for us as we traveled from Canada across the boarder to Seattle and then started our air portion of the trip which took us from Seattle to Chicago and then to Ohio. All in all this took us the entire day to accomplish much of which was in the air or sitting around waiting to get into the air.

That said we were fairly iPhone dependent to keep us connected and entertained along the way. The iPhone battery is great for regular day to day activities, especially when you have a home charger or car charger handy but we soon realized this would not be the case in this situation.

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