Well, I’ve managed to save up and buy an iPad 2. It’s a white one (they had run out of black ones at Covent Garden, but this looks pretty cool) and I’ve stuck with 16Gb and WiFi only. I used it for a couple of days without any case, but I couldn’t keep that up. I like my kit to look good for much of its time with me so I felt that I had to get myself a case. I like Apple’s Smart Case, but it doesn’t cover the back, so I look on Amazon and found the Snugg case for the iPad 2; it will hold the iPad in 2 positions (as well as flat), has a band at the back with which to hold the whole thing safely if you want, and it uses magnets to activate the sleep mechanism.

I’m very pleased with the whole assembly; now to get to grips with Bento and OmniFocus . . .

Chris

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Chris

The new iPad is out, although not in the shops in the UK yet, and it is a stunner. Apparently Apple sold 1 million of the lovely gizmos within 3 days of their being available in the shops in the USA.

Now, wouldn’t it be great if we had one to show at the next meeting – on 11 April at 1830 at CB2?

Chris

We met last night at CB2 and discussed to web-authoring tools: Coda and RapidWeaver. The former requires you to know HTML, and perhaps CSS, the latter can give you a complete set of web pages, uploaded to the server, without such knowledge. I use RapidWeaver for this website (and several others).

The next meeting will be in March, but we have yet to decide a date.

Chris

The next meeting will be at CB2 on Monday 21 February 2011. Among other things we plan to spend a little time discussing web-authoring tools.

The food at CB2 is good, and reasonably priced; the WiFi is reliable and we’ll try a FaceTime video-conference for the first time in that meeting.

Chris