Well, here it is chez Under Sask Skies, and another Christmas has come and gone. It was , par usual, quiet and uneventful (no trips to the emergency room, no one vomiting) and we all had a good time. Mike tells me that the gift he ordered online is floating around in the Canadian postal system (doubtless seeing all corners of the country that I have yet to visit) so my Christmas will continue on until all the mail has been delivered. I am also waiting for some stick shuttles for a weaving project I am tap dancing around, but that’s not as exciting as a mysterious gift that Mike picked out with only a bit of guidance from me. He did give me an iPad on which I am two-finger typing right now. The only thing I am missing is my older son to be on call for the first year to help me navigate. At first glance the much-vaunted App store is full of lots of apps for which I have no use, don’t need, or can’t understand. Does anyone have any suggestions for some useful (read: not Angry Bird) apps that might entertain or educate me? Fibre-related is an option, but not strictly a necessity.
Knitting has been on hiatus for the last week or so. Does that make me a fake knitter? I know I’m supposed to be knitting frantically until the wee smalls on the 24th, but I was too busy with family. There’s lots on the needles, and lots lined up in my mental queue, so once I stop eating sugar and get some much-needed sleep, fibre activity will re-commence.
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, or whatever, and do let’s keep in touch in 2012. Oh, right, communication is by definition is two-way, so I’ll pull up my socks and “talk” to you soon. Happy New Year!
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and check out the Yarn Harlot’s christmas gift suggestions, ipad apps are listed there…
http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/archives/2011/12/15/rethinking.html
Good reader lets you make notes on pdfs, and you can download all your rav pdfs onto it. I just got a stylus for Hannukah, and am using that to make notes with, and am learning to use the pad as a sketch pad!
I also use iBooks and Kindle (if my ebook is available in iBooks, that is my first choice, I only use Kindle if it’s unavailable in iBooks) to read…enlarge the text, prop in its easel on the kitchen table, and read while knitting! Also, I use the Audible app, to listen to audio books while knitting.
Flickit lets me upload photos to Ravelry.
There is an I love my iPad group on ravelry, they are very helpful in figuring out app issues there! I had trouble working out goodreader, and they helped me.
Thanks for the tips. I’ve installed GoodReader and spent a lot of time yesterday monkeying around with it. I got the needlesizer, and a gauge app (I don’t know if that’s going to be any faster than a calculator). Mike got Angry Birds, and that led me to investigate how to delete apps.
My only concern at this point is that I’m worried that I may spend too much time on the technology and not enough time on the fibre. I guess it’ll balance out eventually!
What’s the stylus about? Is it specific to iPad?