msc mobile blog - ipad tag

My first day's with the iPad

Tue, 18 May 2010 20:58:00 GMT

So, this is the first blog post I write on the iPad (and I do it on the virtual keyboard, not on a Bluetooth one). I wished that I could write it with Pages, but - and that is the first negative thing - I am not able to install it. The reason? Well, I have a US iTunes account, but no credit card assigned to it. Wouldn't help me anyway because the access to the US store is now blocked for me in Germany. The second reason is that the iPad cannot communicate with the German store. As a workaround I had to download the few interesting iPad apps that are in the German store on my MacBook and transfer them to the iPad.

Virtual vs. Hardware Keyboard

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:17:38 GMT

Some people are clever, others are really, really stupid - I belong to the last category. When I tried to prepare my breakfast, I brought the thumb on my left hand into the mixer. F**k, that hurt! Now I have a Snoopy-Band Ad on it, and that is a huge problem for me - I can only type with one thumb on the iPhone virtual keyboard, not with two anymore.

The iPad - the ideal device for SAP customers

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:03:00 GMT

Last week Steve Jobs presented the iPad. The reactions were mixed - I heard a lot of people complain about it: It is closed, you don't have multitasking, you have to go through the App Store, ....