Week 1- Nate

Alright, so I got this iPad at the beginning of the week and I will honestly admit that at first I thought it would be little more than a fun toy to play with. However, I basically begged Olivia to let me have it and also promised Travis that I would use it as much as I can to gauge it's usefulness.
I am currently writing this post with the iPad and I have to admit that I kind of hate typing on it. The autocorrect does a decent job of fixing my mistakes but I find the whole process of writing more than a few sentences on it really slow and annoying. Still I've found that this thing is much more useful than I thought it would be. I downloaded evernote with Travis' advice which has been pretty helpful for taking down quick notes in class (I used it during a debate). It also tells you the gps location of wherever you typed the note which is kind of overkill but also kind of cool.
My plan for this blog had been to be a little critical of the iPad and I'm disappointed to admit that I've actually found that it does make my life a little easier. I downloaded a PDF reader from itunes for a dollar which has been great for class. Instead of being forced to go to the library to print out a 20 page document that I know I'm only going to skim anyway I can just download it strait from blackboard onto the iPad and depending on the file format I can even highlight selections I want to talk about in class. I also really like that it is synced to my email account because I don't have a smart phone so being able to check my email on the fly has been awesome.
Other than hating the keyboard I can't seem to find anything else about the iPad so far that I don't like. It will be interesting to see how useful it really is when classes start picking up.
UPDATE- I just had to retype that whole post from a regular computer. When I attempted to preview the post it looked fine and then when I navigated back to the entry page with the iPad it decided to reload the whole page, thus deleting everything I typed. At least now I can say I found something it doesn't do so well. Also now we all know that the iPad likes to refresh any page you are on if you leave that tab which I guess is pretty useful.