iPad setup day!

The first thing out of the box, I plugged my iPad2 into my MBP to register and sync it. Nothing to it. It did what it was supposed to do, as did I.

Then it was time to start making selections from the apps I have on my iPhone.

Setting up apps was kinda like hard, having to type in all sorts of user names and passwords for the new device. I shoulda set up 1Password first maybe. Then we ran into a couple of speed bumps. Echofon was not signing into Twitter. It kept telling me that my signature is invalid. A bit of online research revealed that I had to tweak a setting. Thanks Internet bloggers!

I wanted to document the whole experience for http://exechobo.com but alas, when I began using Blogger, I found it was a bit obstreperous. It kept telling me my network is not ready to post, but it had no problem showing me posts online. I tried the usual shenanigans to no avail. Blogsy was downloaded for a trial. But to no avail- this was a Blogger issue that grew to be a fiasco. More on that elsewhere.

I continued working through apps. Beehive is the chat client I use on my phone. I anticipate that chatting will be a function with iPad use, but not with Beejive. My first non-iPad iOS app. Quite disappointing. Delete. A second one is Exependiture. This app is a beautiful balance of form and function on the iPhone, but not so on iPad. And there is no synch forth database. It has to live on one or the other. Delete. Facebook app same thing. Delete. Pulse news reader- Delete. Games- Fruit Ninja, Jumbline, WordWarp, and so on- Delete. On and on, if the app is not iPad optimized, it is gone.

This start left me with a stark set of apps, all on the iPad for a reason, a perfect beginning!

While i had few apps to move around, I organized the workspace.