
Our Velocity cheerleading team did a great job and gave it there all! Way to go girls!
iPad battery status is now at 95%.
The written musings of a long-time Apple //e and Macintosh tech nerd. Opinions are my own.
The meet is just getting underway. I have been using my iPad since I sat down non stop. My battery life is at 96%.
I was just talking two a few moms and dads about my iPad. Everyboby agrees that it is super cool. I was showing everyone the iBooks apps, movies and TV shows, my apps, and the App Store. Maps works great and I’m glad I got here early because I-95 northbound is getting busy.
My battery just dropped down to 98%.
I just used my iPad to check the status of my friends on Facebook. My sister-in-law just ran her iPod through the wash! Ok, back to the iPhone OS 4 video. Oh, my battery is still at 100%.
I’ve started to watch the iPhone OS 4 video feed that I download earlier in at the week. Wi-Fi is on and screen brightness is at about 20% and it is still bright enough to see the screen.
The location I’m at for the competition blocks Twitter (hey, it turns out the meet is at a high school). I’ll have to post updates here on SPF.
I’m starting the day at 100% battery life.
This morning my girls, wife, and I are heading off to a cheerleading competition and my iPad will be coming along for the ride.
I plan on putting my iPad through a real life performance test. We’ll be inside today, so sunlight won’t be a problem as I reported yesterday at t-ball on my spf360 Twitter account.
I plan to have Wi-Fi on, if there is coverage, catching up on the day’s news in the WSJ and NY Times Editor’s Choice apps. Perhaps I’ll play a few games of Firemint’s Flight Control HD. Also on the agenda is reading some pages in iBooks and watching some TV shows.
So how well will the iPad’s battery hold up? I’m not sure but we are going to find out together. I’ll be posting updates on my spf360 Twitter account throughout the morning with battery status updates.
Looks like George Hotz, aka GeoHot, has figured out a way to jailbreak Apple’s latest gadget. The above screen shot shows an iPad with the blackra1n application and Cydia application managers loaded on an iPad running iPhone OS 3.2.
I think we all saw this coming, didn’t we? You can get the dets over at the blog, On the iPhone.
[Via BoyGeniusReport.com…]
According to an AppleInsider post, early iPad users are reporting bugs with Wi-Fi connectivity on their new “magical” mobile device.
Sam Oliver writes for AppleInsider:
“Already there are a number of threads with dozens of posts about Wi-Fi connection issues, ranging from a weak signal to an inability to connect to a router. Issues have been reported with a variety of routers, including Apple’s own AirPort Extreme.
In response to some issues, Apple has set up a support document for users who have problems getting their iPad to rejoin known Wi-Fi networks after a restart or waking from sleep. The issue is known to occur with some third-party Wi-Fi routers that are dual-band capable.”
You can read the support document titled “iPad: Does not automatically rejoin Wi-Fi networks” on the Apple website.
I’ve experienced this problem with my iPad yesterday before I knew about this support document. I was able to workaround this issue by powering down my iPad and then rebooting it. I have not had the problem since.