When we were preparing to leave for Los Angeles, we debated whether or not we should take our laptop. We've NEVER traveled without our laptop. I have all my recipes on our laptop and I would check and write blog posts with it. Basically, almost whatever I do on my desktop, I could do with the laptop. We figured this trip to L.A. would be a good testing ground. If anything failed we could always use my brother-in-law's computer.
All in all, the iPad worked out fine. The best part was the fact that everything that's gone on within the last four years is on my blog. Art could pull up posts that illustrated to his sister what he was talking about with the tap of a finger.
Our son, Jon had taught me how to install the Google Drive app so I was able to upload all my recipes onto the Google cloud that rains down on my iPad and iPhone. Photos on my Photostream were a fingertip away.
I discovered that I didn't have to bring my Kindle after all because once I installed the Kindle app on the iPad, there were ALL my books. Incredible!
The downside is that I found it was difficult to try to post on my blog with the iPad. I'm also not able to upload photos from my other cameras onto the iPad. I still need to find some wire thing to do that. We also need to learn how to print using the iPad. Art says he'll have to look for an app.
There's still a lot to learn, but for short trips, we'll definitely stick to the iPad and leave the laptop at home. For longer stays in Illinois I believe we'll bring the laptop.
Oh and another thing, you don't have to take out the iPad when you go through the security lines at the airport. That was great!
By the way, are any of you experiencing problems with people trying to comment on your blog? A friend of mine just said she was having a terrible time with the editing (preview) and posting of her comments on my blog. I'm wondering if I need to do a comment settings fix.
Sigh... if it's not one thing, it's another.
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| Art and his sister, Kay |
Our son, Jon had taught me how to install the Google Drive app so I was able to upload all my recipes onto the Google cloud that rains down on my iPad and iPhone. Photos on my Photostream were a fingertip away.
I discovered that I didn't have to bring my Kindle after all because once I installed the Kindle app on the iPad, there were ALL my books. Incredible!
The downside is that I found it was difficult to try to post on my blog with the iPad. I'm also not able to upload photos from my other cameras onto the iPad. I still need to find some wire thing to do that. We also need to learn how to print using the iPad. Art says he'll have to look for an app.
There's still a lot to learn, but for short trips, we'll definitely stick to the iPad and leave the laptop at home. For longer stays in Illinois I believe we'll bring the laptop.
Oh and another thing, you don't have to take out the iPad when you go through the security lines at the airport. That was great!
By the way, are any of you experiencing problems with people trying to comment on your blog? A friend of mine just said she was having a terrible time with the editing (preview) and posting of her comments on my blog. I'm wondering if I need to do a comment settings fix.
Sigh... if it's not one thing, it's another.
