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iPad
January 27, 2010
So it’s been announced. The iPad is here.
It’s supposed to fall into a category between the iPhone and a laptop, which it does perfectly. It basically has all the functionality of an iPhone or iPod touch, but other cool features (and size) that throws it into the laptop category…
Information available at this point says the iPad does not have a camera, which for most I think is going to be something that makes it less appealing.
I think that the app market will benefit from this though, as new and more powerful apps will become available for the iPad that are not now available for the iPhone or Ipod touch.
It can be held in any direction you want. It looks like a giant iPod.
It has a virtual keyboard. “A dream to type on,” according to Steve.
It has Google Maps, and of course is web-enabled. It’s lightning fast.
YouTube can be watched in HD. The Demo of Star Trek was pretty impressive, but it’s not widescreen, though.
You slide to unlock
The music player looks like a new version of iTunes.
- 9.7 inch IPS display, 0.5 inches thin, 1.5 pounds in weight.
- MEMORY SIZE: 16, 32, or 64 GB solid state hard drives
- CHIP: 1 GHz Apple A4 chip. It looks like they went in-house to build this thing.
- Wi-Fi: 802.11n
- BATTERY LIFE: 10 hours
- Includes Speaker, Microphone, 30-pin connector, Accelerometer, and compass
So my question is at this point – Do you replace your laptop? Do you keep your laptop, iPhone and now the new iPad? For me personally, I think this device is awesome but i don’t see myself purchasing one anytime soon. It’s just one more device to tote around and have to keep up with. Or will I eventually decide that the iPad will replace my MacBook Pro and move forward that direction?
The price I’ve seen so far is $499 (for the 16GB I’m assuming) and won’t ship for 2-3 months, so is the storage a deal-breaker for you? I love my storage space, so this is another reason I would not replace my laptop, but the iPad is quite tempting.
What do you think?
Will you be looking into purchasing an iPad?
If so, is it going to replace your current laptop or netbook?
Here is a nice photo gallery of the iPad from engadget.
WordCamp Boston
January 25, 2010
So, this past weekend I attended and spoke at WordCamp Boston, and 9seeds also sponsored the event.
First, let me say what a great event it was. It was held at the Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center and wow…what a place! They did not hold back when designing and building this place…it was as amazing as you can imagine! Just a gigantic piece of technology disguised as a building on the river. So for WordCamp…everything from registration, to presentations to lunch…everything was covered to the T by the organizers (Amanda Blum, John Eckman, Kurt Eng, Jake Goldman and others I’m forgetting). I received a text message 15 minutes prior to my presentation letting me know that my time slot was coming up and where to go…things like that were just amazing to me!
I met tons of cool people at this event (Josh Strebel and Boone Gorges to name a couple), made some great business contacts and overall had an incredible time. Boston is a great city and I enjoyed every minute that I was there.
My wife Abbie, took lots of pics on our trip, but I don’t want to double post, so if you want to see the pics, you can head over to her site and check them out.
I’m not much for going into a lot of detail, so this is about it…but I had a great time at WordCamp Boston and look forward to attending next year. To those of you who missed it, make sure and get a ticket early next year!
For those of you who might have missed my presentations, I have a page with info related to each.
New Site, New Blog
January 20, 2010
So here it is…new site, new blog. I thought for a while about importing all my posts over to this new site, but I just decided to start it fresh 100%!
So, with that I’ll do a short wrap-up of what happened this past year and we’ll go from there.
January 2009, I go to Las Vegas for WordCamp and speak on WP Ecommerce. There I meet John Hawkins and Todd Huish.
June 2009, I go to Raleigh, North Carolina for WordCamp and you guessed it…speak on WP Ecommerce. I left from Raleigh and headed to NYC for a family vacation.
The rest of the summer was fairly uneventful..just normal stuff.
September 2009, I go to Los Angeles for WordCamp and again, speak on WP ECommerce. Seeing a trend here…but while I was in LA, I again met up with John Hawkins and Todd Huish and had some interesting conversations.
The following week, I go to Portland, Oregon for WordCamp and talk about our old favorite, WP ECommerce and again meet up with John Hawkins and do some more talking. This will start making sense soon, I promise.
October 2009, John, Todd and myself decide to start a new business venture which becomes 9seeds, LLC. See? I told you…makes sense. So 9seeds is born and we’re on our way.
November, I go to NYC for WordCamp. John does a presentation there and I hang out in the Genius Bar answering WordPress related questions…good times.
The holidays were pretty normal…and busy. 9seeds is doing well!
So that brings us to the present, and as I’m writing this I’m preparing for my presentation at WordCamp Boston on January 23rd, 2010. This time I will be speaking on how to edit/manipulate code for WordPress themes and plugins to get it to do what you want. I am self-taught so I thought a presentation on how I learned what I did would be good for others trying to accomplish the same thing.
This year is already shaping up to be pretty exciting, so check back often and see how things are going.
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