My iPad is Now Useful - FINALLY

About a year ago, I started telling my husband I needed an iPad. He would always ask me why and what I wanted to do with it and all those questions you hate to hear when the answer is, "they just look really cool." That should be enough, right? A girl has to be outfitted with all the coolest accessories.

Well, the iPad fell under the Technology category of cool and not the Fashion category and of course my husband is the self-appointed keeper of all things Technology cool so I had to listen to his opinion. He had other bothersome questions like, "how will it make your life easier or more productive?" And, "what can it do that your very nice laptop can't do?" I hated that question because I didn't have a good answer.

After a few months I guess he just got tired of hearing how much I wanted one and just gave up on getting adequate answers to his questions. He's such a sweatheart (eventually). He and my son went out to BestBuys and purchased a really nice iPad and accessories - the ones that look good because, afterall that's all they could figure I wanted it for.

They bought my cool new toy home and surprised me with it. It was so shiny and high-tech looking and the touch-screen was just the coolest thing ever. I turned it on and played around with it. My husband set up the email and got me pointed in the right direction for browsing the web. WOW!

I carried it to work and got all kinds of great compliments. After awhile though I realized, while the iPad was very cool, I still needed to lug my laptop around if I wanted to accomplish anything - all those apps were neat and fun (while new) but really didn't help me accomplish anything. 

Eventually, I started leaving my shiny, cool iPad at home. Then I started hearing the questions from my husband like, "why aren't you using your iPad?" (I cringed every time I heard that one). I would pretend I didn't hear him.

Fast forward through countless "I told you so's" to a meeting at the office yesterday: Lynette, our Marketing Director and closet geek held a class,  "How to Use your iPad for Work." I really didn't have time to go to the class but I thought, what the heck! I took my shiny, cool-looking but otherwise-useless device in. I was determined to find a way to make it work for me.

In the class, Lynette went through all kinds of technical talk. I didn't really understand much but I took detailed notes. She gave us lists of applications we should be using for real estate, and productivity and CONVENIENCE. The list included a new browser and apps for word processing and spreadsheets and the like. One app even allowed me to control my big, clunky laptop FROM my iPAD! Think about it, I can now do all those USEFUL things from my cute, cool, stylish iPAD!!! WOO HOO!!!

I took my new-found knowledge and detailed notes home. My husband listened to my recap of the class and saw my excitement. He grumbled something -- I just pretended I didn't hear it. But then he started loading all those apps. Then he loaded the LogMeIn app and the software on the computers at home. I think he even might have said "WOW!" but said it low enough that I shouldn't have been able to hear.

Bottom line is, I can now use my iPad for almost everything! My shiny, cool, stylish, lightweight, high-tech iPad is useful. Not only do I look like a fashionable techno- real estate agent... I AM ONE! YAAAY!

I knew it all along that it would be useful and profitable. I just knew it!

Thank you Lynette!

Posted at 07:49AM Oct 21, 2011 by Charlotte Turner in General  |  Comments[1]