I took a look at the app store. There aren’t as many apps made for iPad and even lesser free apps .

I tried a top free game at the moment, jirbobreak. Didn’t like it that much. Words for friends (iPad v) costs $2.99. I can’t buy as i dont have a valid credit card but I don’t think I am willingly to pay that much, right now.

Hubby tried Facebook but it was the iphone version. The original size was too small, and the enlarged version is a little pixelated but still workable.

Luckily word press has a iPad version and so here I am, blogging. (something I haven’t done in a while).

I haven’t found a comfortable natural position to sit and type with this thing with both fingers. Hubby was laughing at me trying to type with both hands as the ipad kept sliding down my thighs. He was going on about using one hand to hold and one hand to type. But that shouldn’t be the case, otherwise how is it functionable?

Still the object feels very smooth and i love the aluminum back. For simple tasks like social networking and surfing at home, it sure is useful. Not so if i have to do work like open multiple docs, browsers and IMs.

Will I get one when it’s available for international sales? Hmmm depends on when that will happen.

• It was worrisome when she would snatch the device from our hands simply because she want to play. So we taught her to request for permission: “May I play games?”. She obey quite readily, for once. We have taught her the concept of asking permission but she never quite asked when she takes our stuff to play.

  
  

• We also tried to teach her that there’s a time and place to use it, similar to meals, sleep and play time. Say when we are walking to the car, in the car or in the mall, she would demand to use the iPhone and I would tell her she could only play when we are stationary. Or limit to a 30minutes use each time.




• Of course that would only work if the adults follow the same set of rules. It should not be a case of “Do what I say and not what I do”. So far, we have been trying hard to comply with the same set of rules.

In this digital era, it is inevitable that kids are exposed to technology at a young age. It’s good to learn new things and these objects are going to be a part of their lives.

However, she has to learn to control her time spent on gadgets. There is still much going on out of the technology world. Kids still need to be learn how to write (with a pencil and not by stroking a glass panel), how to count with their fingers, how to play and share with others and how to read. Gadgets as such should not take up their entire time and energy at the expense of these other experiences.

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I have to browse my gmail on consistently to view what’s the latest news entering my inbox. Typically I scan 10 lines and nothing beyond the first page.

I am a hoarder – I don’t delete emails quick enough.

I mean, I could be able to make that trip to Hong Kong. And I may refer to the promo email that gives me the cheapest airfare!

This makes me think real hard to revive my Google reader. So instead of keying my email addy each time I find an interesting site/blog, I should add it to my RSS reader.

Now, I just need to find time to sort through my emails, unsubscribe to content that no longer interests me, subscribe to those that I like via Reader, re-organise my Reader (I think mine is in a mess that’s why I stop using) and actually use it.

That’s the plan.

Via Howie’s blog.

If you are used to design for web (2000s) and find yourself going towards the mobile space (2010), this slide is the wake-up call.

Some key Points:

• Mobile is different from web: how user navigates in the mobile and web space, where does the user use , what does the user need?
• Mobile is good at places, spatial and temporal relationships.
• Mobile is sympathetic to context.
• Mobile design principles: design for partial attention and interruption, reduce cognitive load and opportunity cost.
• Mobile is about pivoting people through information quickly. It’s about exposing possibilities.

Don’t take it from me. Click the ‘Play’ button and read for yourself.