Tag Archives: iPad

Laptops are not very portable, so go buy an iPad mini

Posted on November 20, 2012 by

A week ago, I received my iPad mini.  I do have to say that I love it, which probably isn’t too surprising if you read my other posts.  What surprised me was just how much I love it. I decided to … Continue reading →

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Answered: How long does it take an Apple Store order to move from “Preparing for Shipment” to “Shipped”?

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

At last!  My iPad Mini has been shipped! A few weeks ago I ordered an iPad Mini.  We already have two iPads, but we also have two kids, so I hardly ever get to use them – this one will … Continue reading →

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Why I switched to an AT&T mobile share plan

Posted on October 29, 2012 by

After having spent the past two years optimizing my AT&T plan for the lowest cost, I bit the bullet and switched us over to a mobile share plan.  I’m not saving the money I had been, but I’ve picked up … Continue reading →

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Life-size Skype (or FaceTime) video chat using an HDTV, an iPad and Airplay Mirroring

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

One of the reasons I really wanted to upgrade to the new iPad was for ease of setting up video chats between my kids and my parents.  Whereas before we had to go through a lengthy laptop bootup and setup … Continue reading →

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Traveling with three portable devices when one would be sufficient

Posted on February 21, 2012 by

My wife and I were sitting at the dining room table after the kids were in bed.  I was paying some bills on my laptop, and my wife was using the iPad (with a plug-in keyboard) to send emails.  In … Continue reading →

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The best thing about my Kindle is my kids have no interest in it

Posted on January 30, 2012 by

As the kids have moved into toddler age and beyond, I find myself with more opportunities to read here and there.  I can work through a New York Times article in between mopping up my 1.5 year old son’s spilled cereal … Continue reading →

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Solving Airplay performance problems with a power line adapter

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

I love being able to stream music from my iPhone and iPad to the Bose Wave Radio in our kitchen, but over the last several months, we have been doing it rarely due to interference problems.  One day it would work fine, … Continue reading →

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A hack for reading your Apple iOS ebook on Shabbat

Posted on December 4, 2011 by

Lately, I have come to prefer buying books to read electronically .  It’s not that I prefer the screen – far from it, I do enjoy the physical sense of flipping through the pages of a real, paper book – … Continue reading →

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An update on Rafael’s broken leg

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Last weekend, Rafael had a hard landing off a slide.  He didn’t recover the way he normally does, and a trip to the emergency room uncovered that he had a buckle fracture in his leg. While the ER docs were confident … Continue reading →

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Just whose iPad is this? How YouTube helpded my toddler steal my iPad

Posted on May 17, 2011 by

I remember April 2010 so clearly.  The anticipation – the excitement – the iPad! The moment the iPad was announced, I knew it was the perfect device for us.  We live in a fairly typical urban Cambridge house – small … Continue reading →

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