{"id":100,"date":"2010-06-03T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/the-birthday-present-an-ipad\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T21:55:10","slug":"the-birthday-present-an-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/03\/the-birthday-present-an-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birthday Present &#8211; an iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An update! I got one! Sure I held out a few months. Even bought a competitive product first. And there was that fiasco in buying one.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t need the 3G version as I have a mifi card. But for most of us that may need to use an iPad when wifi isn\u2019t around and your cell phone doesn\u2019t support tethering, the 3G is preferred.<\/p>\n<p>I also opted for the 16Gb version. it\u2019s all I could find, but that\u2019s ok. Even with all my apps and email and contacts, I\u2019m only using about 15%. Those that want it for music and podcasts (downloaded, not pandora or YouTube) may want to join the waiting list for the 32Gb or 64Gb models.<\/p>\n<p>The key for me is finding a way to run Windows applications on the iPad including Internet Explorer. One way is to remote to your home computer. I\u2019m working on another.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update! I got one! Sure I held out a few months. Even bought a competitive product first. And there was that fiasco in buying one. I didn\u2019t need the 3G version as I have a mifi card. But for most of us that may need to use an iPad &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal","category-slates-for-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-1C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}