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Setting up my iPad
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10:00 am — I was number 8 in the store and about number 1 to come out. I then spent about 5 minutes taunting others in line who didn’t have an iPad just yet and then drove home at a relatively reasonable rate of speed to plug in the new new shiny thing.
Apple Store Annapolis had an “all hands on deck” day. There were literally 50+ employees that came streaming out the door at 9:00 clapping, high-fiving, and singing the Steve Jobs chants (joking about that last bit).
First impressions of the iPad? It feels a bit smaller than I thought. I was expecting something about the size of a magazine but it’s more like the size of a hardcover book. It’s not as heavy as I had thought, but might be a little tricky for my boys to play with as they are not that big.
The iPad comes with a power adapter (like the iPhone’s little two-prong thingy) that connects to a USB cable. There are NO headphones included, so you’ll have to make due with some of the others you might have lying around.
It does work with my existing iPhone USB cable, which means I don’t have to unpack the other one from the iPad box nor go under my desk and set up something new, which is nice. However, while in the sync mode I noticed it said “Not Charging” so I’m not sure if that is because of the sync process or whether it is a cable thing. (update: the iPad cable does charge, so maybe it is a cable thing). iPad comes fully charged btw. Will check that out after the sync. I purchased the official iPad case (it looks pretty slim) and the stand (not the keyboard stand, but the regular stand). I’m planning to use the Bluetooth keyboard with this so I don’t need to be ‘docked’ into the thing physically. I thought about passing on the stand (I may return it) as the case folds over and can hold up the machine, but only in the horizontal mode, not vertically. Not sure how that will work when typing / working.
When I plugged the iPad into the computer, iTunes booted up. There were a few screens of setup and then it gave me a rather odd option: “An iPad has been previously synced with this computer.” Well, no, it hasn’t. But apparently it saw my iPhone backups and was debating whether to rebuild from the old iPhone backups or whether or not to set up a “New iPad”. As new iPad was defaulted, I went with that rather than the option “Restore from the backup of” my iPhone.
10:15 — The next screen was the start of the sync process. Which is taking a few minutes so far. I’m moving probably 32gb of data (apps and pics and videos) over to the iPad so I’m kind of in the middle of that adventure. Note: it seems to be syncing all the applications on my iTunes, not necessarily the ones I sync to my iPhone (I have a limited subset that I put on the phone).
10:25 — As it is the first sync, it ended up taking about 10 minutes for just the Applications (I have about 150 apps I think). Now it is starting about 900 songs and podcasts. Maybe time to get some donuts.
10:28 — The next step is “Optimizing photos” for the iPad. As I have 36000 photos, I have a really bad feeling about this. It’s at 218 of 36,038. This could be a bit time consuming.
10:29 — 380 of 36,038.
10:30–I click the stop button as I’m not waiting for this many pictures.
NOTE: By default, it seems the iPad is set to sync “All photos, albums, events and faces”. Unselect that to save some time.
10:32 — Resync’ing, this time with only 1,624 photos syncing.
10:37 — 1294 of 1624.
10:38–1,624 of 1,624 photos optimized. Now waiting for them to sync.
Now updating podcasts, files, etc.
10:40–114 of 931 audio / video podcasts. I listen to too many podcasts.
10:47 — 200 of 931. This could be another hour. Back to the magic stop button.
10:48. Have deselected sync’ing all movies and podcasts. Will get to that later. Taking way too long.
10:50 Now syncing songs. Going much faster just song. 70 of 660.
10:52–319 of 660. Sigh. Delayed gratification is supposed to be more enjoyable. We’ll see about that.
10:55. Finished all the music. Not it is doing the photos (drastically reduced numbers of photos).
10:59. The sync is done. Time to disconnect and start playing!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:09. Ok, it synced everything but the personal stuff like email, etc. Back to itunes…]]>
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]]>Want to watch something scary tonight? The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the movie.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, a book I’ve mentioned in other posts, is now making it’s rounds of the art house cinemas (and the torrent networks). All three movies have been filmed and released in Europe, but only the first is out now in the USA. Of course a US version is being prepared, but the original Swedish one is very dark and creepy. In fact, even having read the book I still found it kind of scary. NOTE: This is a very violent film. Not so much gore but mental and gritty. Rape, torture, murder. The original title was “Men Who Hate Women” and you’ll see the depths of their evil in this flick. Might be hard for some to watch. ]]>
Back to Asian cinema and lovely plot holes.
One of the greatest apps for the iPhone is TVUPlayer. It’s a peer-to-peer television application that lets you watch TV from around the world. One channel is basically the latest and greatest movies from Asia, which I’ve been watching quite a bit over the last few weeks to help cure the insomnia and middle of the night wakeups that go with being a dad.
In the past few weeks I’ve seen:
- Sniper (Hong Kong)
- Spy Girl (Korean)
- Lady Cop & Poppa Crook (Hong Kong)
- Sassy Girl (Korean)
- New Police Story (Hong Kong)
- Accidental Spy (Hong Kong)
- Mr. Nice Guy (Hong Kong)
They travel to a mountain in the countryside where she unveils a time capsule. During the previous night the couple wrote their true feelings in letters which the Girl says will be buried next to a particular tree on the mountain. They agree to meet again at the tree after two years to read the letters together. After burying the time capsule they go their separate ways. Overtime During the two year span, Gyeon-woo works hard to improve himself in many ways, even writing My Sassy Girl which someone has bought the movie rights to, an event he eagerly anticipates telling the Girl about. When the agreed upon date arrives, he travels to the mountain but the Girl does not show up. Eventually, he opens the time capsule and reads her letter and learns the root of her angst and behavior: Gyeon-woo reminds her of her previous boyfriend who, rather than breaking up with her, actually died before she met Gyeon-woo. All through the time the Girl and Gyeon-woo were seeing each other she had been seeing her dead boyfriend’s mother, who wants to introduce her to a nice young man. A year after Gyeon-woo visits the tree, the Girl finally arrives. Sitting under the tree is an old man. During their conversation the old man reveals the secret of the tree, that it is not the same tree; the original tree had been struck and killed by lightning a year before and a similar tree had been planted by a young man so that someone special wasn’t sad, and that he has read the letters. The Girl says she had hoped that destiny would bring the couple together during the two years. As the girl begins to read the letter, she sees a UFO (time machine) flying away. This lead her to believe that the old man was Gyeon-woo from the future.The Girl then tries to call Gyeon-woo repeatedly, but she was informed that number is either changed or doesn’t exists. The film then cuts to Gyeon-woo entering a subway station, wearing the same suit he was wearing at the beginning of the movie. The flashback has ended and continuity is resumed from right after Gyeon-woo leaves the photo-studio. Gyeon-woo is caught outside the shutting doors of a train, presumably ignorant at first of the Girl’s presence on the train but after a few seconds of staring he seems to realise whom it is he sees from behind. As the train pulls out he runs along but has to give up. At lunch with her deceased boyfriend’s mother after a year-and-a-half, the Girl is surprised to hear a familiar voice apologise for his lateness. The mother introduces her nephew Gyeon-woo whom she has been trying to introduce to the Girl for years. The mother, who is Gyeon-woo’s aunt, tells the Girl to go out with him, he’ll make things easier for her and then tells Gyeon-woo that the Girl can give advice to him about his impending trip to England but Gyeon-woo replies, “I don’t have to go now.” The pair hold hands under the table and the Girl says she thinks she met a man from the future (Gyeon-woo’s future self).WTF? WTF? is really the only thing I can think of after watching this stuff.]]>
Somali pirates, in a fit of stupidity, attack HNLMS Tromp, a Dutch warship.
launch a raid on the HNLMS Tromp, a Dutch frigate on anti-piracy patrols off of Somalia.
Why are there so many idiots around the world.
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Barrack's NCAA brackets — video
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Comcast DOCIS 3.0 rolled out in Calvert County
UPDATE:
After a few fits and starts, we now have DOCSIS 3.0 service. It required me to replace my 7 year old router (who’d of thunk that?) but now all systems are go and we have, ta da, 60mb down.
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