Took a trip to the east coast. Up here in the gwn that’s nova scotia, p.e.i, or newfoundland/labradour. I decided that the only technology i was going to take with me was my ipod touch. My phone is an iPhone so i had to take that anyway.

It really turned out to be a toss up between my 13″ MacBook pro and my iPad. Given the amount of space we had to work with for carry on luggage i opted for the two smaller devices and my Nikon D5000.

I used my iPhone the most though.

I bought the “trip journal” app for it to document my vacation. You can send updates to Facebook along the way. I could connect with facebook exactly once with it, so it was a waste of $0.99. The Facebook app on the iphone turned out to be a better way of documenting the trip.

i’ve gone through a few rss readers on the ipad… the lcars reader was nice but the trek interface gets old after a bit. i stopped looking as soon as i hit “earlly edition”. it formats your feeds like you were reading a newspaper. perfect for reading on the ipad. it actually makes reading a lot of rss feeds an enjoyable experience. i found i don’t miss items because i can scan an entire page of articles instead of going through a long list…

it’s not a free app, but well worth it if you want to keep up on rss feeds.

the selling point for me was that it could import all my feeds from google reader. makes it very easy to add feeds that way even though you can do it though the app itself…

about a year ago i had a marvel subscription to check out what the big deal was for digital comics. the reader was ok, but it seemed to me that some panels were being missed. not a big deal because you could work around it.

what annoyed me the most was the lack of comic availability. yeah it’s great to read iron man #146 and hulk #382. but #1 of anything forget it… just today i see they actually had hulk #1 for free. which is nice kind of offsets the 36 issues total they had for the hulk character. that’s 36 out of 300+ issues.

the marvel app for the ipad is great, and the comics are a great price, but i’ll have to be patient if i want to pick up an entire series that’s anything over 10 issues.

just the other day the comicbooklover app for the ipad was just updated. it’s a free app and only in version .04 alpha (or something like that) but i would have no problem paying $9.99 for the app right now. they’ve improved the transfer to the ipad process and the reading experience. i have a ton of digital comics (my hard copies are safely stored away).

there are other ipad comic apps, but support for the cbr/cbz is non-existent.

My first blog on an iPad.

Futureshop was sold out of every model except for the 64gb 3G model. Hopped over to Best Buy and they had a few of the lower end models but still plenty of the 64gb 3g’s. This leads me to believe that those are still priced a bit too high. Definitely a premium product.

I’ve only spent an hour total on it so far, but it’s the future…

My first blog with an iPod touch. Not as painful as I thought it would be. More on it later .