Yesterday I ran into something I've never seen before. Was using the iPad and closed the lid. Did some stuff came back and my screen had turned a greenish yellow texture and it ruined how everything looked. It didn't look like a negative, so changing that setting didn't help.
After some research online, I ran across something that cued me in to what I had done and what fixed my iPad. While messing with my daughter, I had actually hit my iPad to make a loud noise to try to scare her which is what caused my problem.
The simple fix was to turn the iPad off, flip it over on its back and smack it really hard 3 times on the back. Turned it on and I saw improvement in the video display. Turned it off and did it again, display fixed.
I have a 2nd Gen iPad and from the looks of it, there is some wire or connector that looks to come loose but by smacking it on the back, you can put it back in place for a connection.
YEAH for simple fixes that saved me hundreds of dollars.
Showing posts with label iPad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPad. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Kingdom Rush Frontiers
For anyone that missed this game last week when it came out, don't hesitate to go get it. I loved the first one and its the best tower defense game I've played on the iPad. They only improved on it with the new Frontiers game.
It has its funny quirks in it like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Aliens, etc... It's always cool to see that type stuff in a game.
Im still working on finishing it. To me its harder than the first but a friend of mine already beat it before i did. I've been trying to 3 star everything though and he hasn't so he pushed through quicker than i did. Im closing in now and beating it on expert is not going to be easy.
All the new towers and upgrades are really neat. They did a great job on them.
It still looks as good as the first one, so no quarrels there.
This game is $4.99 in the App Store. You can grab it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kingdom-rush-frontiers-hd/id598581619?mt=8
Monday, May 6, 2013
Clash of Clans Update for Clan
Well, over the weekend, I ran into a guy in the global wanting to merge clans. After talking, we had the same goals and with his group, it should give us a solid foundation for making a good clan, plus keeping people in the clan that won't leave. He had 2 things that he wanted, a new clan name and for me and him to make all decisions like elder and such.
I didn't really want to lose my name I created because I really liked it and nobody else had that name yet in CoC. However, looking out for my group, I chose the higher rode. He came up with the name e-LEMON-ators. I liked the name as I couldn't think of anything as it was late and I was ready to go to bed from all the talking to get the merge going.
I still remained leader and it took me about 2 days to get everyone moved over. We lost a few as they haven't been online from the looks of it so they haven't seen the message for joining the new clan. It's going to be hard for them to join in now because as of today I've taken off Anyone Can Join and set it to Invite only since we have maxed out at 50 members already. The merger is definitely paying off right off the bat, so that's a good thing to see.
As the weeks go by, will see who is being active or not. That will decide if they stay or go. Since we just merged will give them time but I'll be keeping track of how everyone is doing on donating so I can confirm if they really helping out or not.
So here's to another new beginning.
e-LEMON-ators
I didn't really want to lose my name I created because I really liked it and nobody else had that name yet in CoC. However, looking out for my group, I chose the higher rode. He came up with the name e-LEMON-ators. I liked the name as I couldn't think of anything as it was late and I was ready to go to bed from all the talking to get the merge going.
I still remained leader and it took me about 2 days to get everyone moved over. We lost a few as they haven't been online from the looks of it so they haven't seen the message for joining the new clan. It's going to be hard for them to join in now because as of today I've taken off Anyone Can Join and set it to Invite only since we have maxed out at 50 members already. The merger is definitely paying off right off the bat, so that's a good thing to see.
As the weeks go by, will see who is being active or not. That will decide if they stay or go. Since we just merged will give them time but I'll be keeping track of how everyone is doing on donating so I can confirm if they really helping out or not.
So here's to another new beginning.
e-LEMON-ators
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Nimble Quest
From the people who made Tiny Tower, which can be an addicting game, they have now made Nimble Quest. They took something very simple and have made something really cool, fun, and enjoyable to play.
All they did was take the old classic snake game where you can't touch the walls, yourself and you eat to get longer which makes staying alive even harder.
In Nimble Quest you do grow but you add Heroes. You start out as a Warrior, skeleton, Mage, and many more Heroes as I have yet to unlock them all. As you progress through the stages, when you kill the enemies, a Hero will appear. All you have to do is touch him and he joins your party. I didn't count bit it looks like at least 20 different Heroes are available to get.
Once you get a Hero you can start off the round with that Hero and work to level him up. Each level increases his abilities and they, can go up 3 levels. I haven't figured out if me leveling up one person is level 1 in the game if I pick him up while playing with another Hero but I'm assuming they are.
So as you can imagine, the party gets longer and longer with the more Heroes you acquire. They do have health and you collect gems to help upgrade abilities along the way.
So if you didn't figure it out yet, this game is a small RPG. Only you never stop moving and kill everything on the screen to move on to the next level.
It's such a simple brilliant idea that they have come up with that I'm really enjoying it. I keep wanting to play it more and more. I've got a ways to go but I definitely want to unlock all the characters in the game.
Controlling your party with swiping which way you go really does make playing it more enjoyable. Just be careful to watch out for the slowly appearing enemies as I've numerously died from one spawning that I didn't see.
They do have an Arena section for online and I played it once but not sure how all the ranking will be. Some people already have some outlandish scores that I know I will never beat. I did create a clan name that all you have to do is type that name in and it looks like it puts you in that clan. Doesn't have any restrictions to keep people from joining anyone's clan. So if you want to join one, join mine for starting out, you can switch later very easily. Mine is called "Hobbits". That should be easy enough to remember.
All they did was take the old classic snake game where you can't touch the walls, yourself and you eat to get longer which makes staying alive even harder.
In Nimble Quest you do grow but you add Heroes. You start out as a Warrior, skeleton, Mage, and many more Heroes as I have yet to unlock them all. As you progress through the stages, when you kill the enemies, a Hero will appear. All you have to do is touch him and he joins your party. I didn't count bit it looks like at least 20 different Heroes are available to get.
Once you get a Hero you can start off the round with that Hero and work to level him up. Each level increases his abilities and they, can go up 3 levels. I haven't figured out if me leveling up one person is level 1 in the game if I pick him up while playing with another Hero but I'm assuming they are.
So as you can imagine, the party gets longer and longer with the more Heroes you acquire. They do have health and you collect gems to help upgrade abilities along the way.
So if you didn't figure it out yet, this game is a small RPG. Only you never stop moving and kill everything on the screen to move on to the next level.
It's such a simple brilliant idea that they have come up with that I'm really enjoying it. I keep wanting to play it more and more. I've got a ways to go but I definitely want to unlock all the characters in the game.
Controlling your party with swiping which way you go really does make playing it more enjoyable. Just be careful to watch out for the slowly appearing enemies as I've numerously died from one spawning that I didn't see.
They do have an Arena section for online and I played it once but not sure how all the ranking will be. Some people already have some outlandish scores that I know I will never beat. I did create a clan name that all you have to do is type that name in and it looks like it puts you in that clan. Doesn't have any restrictions to keep people from joining anyone's clan. So if you want to join one, join mine for starting out, you can switch later very easily. Mine is called "Hobbits". That should be easy enough to remember.
Friday, March 22, 2013
Kingdom Rush Update on iPad
They released an update for Kingdom Rush on the iPad about 1-2 weeks ago. This is still the best tower defense game I've ever played and always enjoy going back to it.
In the new update they released a hard mode and two new boards to play on. Glacial Heights and Ha'kraj Plateau. Neither of which are easy to beat and it has taken me this entire time to beat them.
I started out playing the new maps and finally got 1 star in each of them. I looked at the achievements and noticed one of the new ones was to beat the campaign on hard mode. Since it had been awhile since I've actually played it, I started working on that. I flew through hard mode. It almost seemed too easy. Was enjoyable going back through and beating the entire game again.
So then I went and started back to working on the new boards that released. I focused on Glacial Heights first then went to Ha'kraj Plateau. On both boards it took me using the gems in the game to buy a bomb that blows up everything on the screen to actually win them both. They are very hard to beat but it is so much fun to play.
If you don't have this game, it's one you should really considering buying. It's well worth the money.
In the new update they released a hard mode and two new boards to play on. Glacial Heights and Ha'kraj Plateau. Neither of which are easy to beat and it has taken me this entire time to beat them.
I started out playing the new maps and finally got 1 star in each of them. I looked at the achievements and noticed one of the new ones was to beat the campaign on hard mode. Since it had been awhile since I've actually played it, I started working on that. I flew through hard mode. It almost seemed too easy. Was enjoyable going back through and beating the entire game again.
So then I went and started back to working on the new boards that released. I focused on Glacial Heights first then went to Ha'kraj Plateau. On both boards it took me using the gems in the game to buy a bomb that blows up everything on the screen to actually win them both. They are very hard to beat but it is so much fun to play.
If you don't have this game, it's one you should really considering buying. It's well worth the money.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
iPad Throws Out 128 gig HD and You Can anyone Thank Microsoft
If Microsoft wouldn't have put out the Surface Pro with 128 gig HD then Apple would have never moved over a 64 gig HD. If you can do it, why not just put it out and quit holding onto technology. So thanks Microsoft for pushing the envelope and little.
Pinwar
This looks like it might be fun but I would have preferred better graphics from any new game coming out.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Jet Pack
This game has been in the Apple store for awhile but I've never played it. Friends played it, told me about it and I just never played it.
Well my daughter gets it on her Kindle so I decided to download it and try to beat her distance in the game. Took me a little bit at first but I beat it and then she beat mine and I beat her. Now I've beaten my own score 3 times and the only 2 people on my Gamecenter that has it, I'm trying to beat their score now. I'm just shy of beating one as I just went over 4000 km finally for the first time.
The distance was my focus but it's not just about getting as far as you can in this game. The game gives you missions and you have to accomplish them 3 at a time. So I've been working on them to finish it to see what happens. So during my lunch hour I got the final one I was needed. Once I got it, I cashed it in for a badge. Looks like now you get to do it all over again to earn the next badge. It seems they uped the ante though as you have to do more on this next set. So I can imagine it's going to get harder by the end. It definitely has caught my interest and I'm wanting to unlock more of the stuff you can do in the game. It'll be one of my side games to play beside Clash of Clans.
Well my daughter gets it on her Kindle so I decided to download it and try to beat her distance in the game. Took me a little bit at first but I beat it and then she beat mine and I beat her. Now I've beaten my own score 3 times and the only 2 people on my Gamecenter that has it, I'm trying to beat their score now. I'm just shy of beating one as I just went over 4000 km finally for the first time.
The distance was my focus but it's not just about getting as far as you can in this game. The game gives you missions and you have to accomplish them 3 at a time. So I've been working on them to finish it to see what happens. So during my lunch hour I got the final one I was needed. Once I got it, I cashed it in for a badge. Looks like now you get to do it all over again to earn the next badge. It seems they uped the ante though as you have to do more on this next set. So I can imagine it's going to get harder by the end. It definitely has caught my interest and I'm wanting to unlock more of the stuff you can do in the game. It'll be one of my side games to play beside Clash of Clans.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Clash of Clans Town Hall 9
Well I've been saving for just over a week, fighting online to gain resources. I hit up single player last night to gain on some resources and finally got up to 4 million in gold. So I've officially started my upgrade to Town Hall 9 in Clash of Clans. Now I have to wait 10 days. TEN! The wait time in this game is the worse. It's either that or pay for gems to finish it now which I'm not going to do.
I guess the more interesting part is going to be who shows up in my searches. I thought the game went off trophies for who was in your range to attack in the game. One of the guys in my clan says I'll be compared with more Town Hall 9's once I have it. I find that hard to believe as I've dropped in trophies and I see Town Hall 9's all the time. I'm sure I'll be able to still attack other levels. If he is right, then I will have to strategize my attack more and can't just drop everything down to rush in and steal resources. I might not never move up if I can't gain resources. It will make the game more funr and hard if that is true. It'll push me to get all my troops maxed out which will be a big requirement of exilir that I can never seem to gain on. I'm going to have to change up my troop building and change how I take out towns from this point forward to gain more and use as little troops as possible.
I did get up to 1 mil in exilir last night but I spent it on upgrading my lightning spell to level 4. I can make 3 but dropping 3 on the xbow didn't kill it. I'm hoping with it being upgraded, I'll be able to kill it and then I can attack towns with the xbow since it won't pose a threat since it'll be gone. Hopefully I'll be able to loot a little bit more if that's the case since all the towns I run across with high exilir have the xbow. At least, that's my strategy if this upgrade works. That's 3 days away to find out. If it doesn't, I'll save exilir until I get 1.6 mil and upgrade my spell factory so I can hold 4 spells in which I know I'll be able to take it out then.
I guess the more interesting part is going to be who shows up in my searches. I thought the game went off trophies for who was in your range to attack in the game. One of the guys in my clan says I'll be compared with more Town Hall 9's once I have it. I find that hard to believe as I've dropped in trophies and I see Town Hall 9's all the time. I'm sure I'll be able to still attack other levels. If he is right, then I will have to strategize my attack more and can't just drop everything down to rush in and steal resources. I might not never move up if I can't gain resources. It will make the game more funr and hard if that is true. It'll push me to get all my troops maxed out which will be a big requirement of exilir that I can never seem to gain on. I'm going to have to change up my troop building and change how I take out towns from this point forward to gain more and use as little troops as possible.
I did get up to 1 mil in exilir last night but I spent it on upgrading my lightning spell to level 4. I can make 3 but dropping 3 on the xbow didn't kill it. I'm hoping with it being upgraded, I'll be able to kill it and then I can attack towns with the xbow since it won't pose a threat since it'll be gone. Hopefully I'll be able to loot a little bit more if that's the case since all the towns I run across with high exilir have the xbow. At least, that's my strategy if this upgrade works. That's 3 days away to find out. If it doesn't, I'll save exilir until I get 1.6 mil and upgrade my spell factory so I can hold 4 spells in which I know I'll be able to take it out then.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Clash of Clans on Clans Plus My New Base Design
Well, this happened 2 weekends ago now but it's something worth bringing up. Especially if you are just randomly joining a clan in Clash of Clans.
I initially joined a clan and was promoted to elder. Well, someone got in, got elder and kicked everyone out then left. You would figure after a 2nd time, a 3rd wouldn't happen. Well it did so a few of us joined up, left and started our own clan. Been in that clan ever since and was helping to keep it running. Well about 2 weeks before I was kicked out, the clan leader started changing how they ran things, kicked people out who we're active and wasn't sticking to any word they said. I wasn't the only one noticing this so I decided to uphold one thing they said they were going to do and didn't. Anyone under 1200 trophies by Jan 1st was gone. Leader wanted to move up on leader board so everyone needed to move up in trophies.
I'll will add a blurb in here that you hit slumps in this game where passing a certain level in trophies and upgrading something like your town hall becomes very hard to do. So you will set at that spot for a good while until you finally break through that barrier. Getting town hall 6 will be your first.
So back to me kicking people out under 1200 trophies. I kicked 5 out that I never saw on and were on the bottom of our list. Granted there were 10 more under 1200 but I didn't touch them as I knew they were all trying. So I stepped away for about 30 minutes and upon getting back into game, the clan leader had kicked me out. Didn't talk, didn't understand or want to listen, just, POOF, I was gone. I really hope some members left because of that but I have no way of knowing. I'll miss the people I talked to on a constant basis as it was always fun.
I jumped into a clan temporarily to help out until I found a better one. Which, when I joined, I let the guy know that up front. Finally found one and they are family oriented, higher level and are great people. They are all mostly US based so on around the times that I would be on. So ill be sticking around in this one for awhile. They are very helpful.
So when you join a clan, make sure it's one where everyone donates so you can always fill your clan castle up. Don't ask for elder because if you are always around, eventually you will get it if you really want it. It's not that important to have though. The clan mates are way more important.
I'm currently on town hall 8 in the game. Here is a picture of what my setup was before I tried out this new design a new clan mate has.
This new design I'm using is to help keep the wall breakers away but I have learned that someone with level 5 or 4 troops can get through and still take a lot of resources from me. I really need level 7 walls to really slow them down with this setup. the pink walls in the picture cost 75,000 but to upgrade the pink wall, which is level 6 to 7, they cost 200,000 a piece. That is no light feat to accomplish. In this picture below I'm going to try moving my town hall outside my wall so if someone comes in, takes it out for the 1 star and leaves with victory, I'll get a 12 hour shield and not lose any resources. I'm crossing my fingers on that happening some. Normally it would be in the middle, the middle bottom two storages would back out to where the two builder huts are and the builder huts would move back to beside town hall. So will see how things work out.
I initially joined a clan and was promoted to elder. Well, someone got in, got elder and kicked everyone out then left. You would figure after a 2nd time, a 3rd wouldn't happen. Well it did so a few of us joined up, left and started our own clan. Been in that clan ever since and was helping to keep it running. Well about 2 weeks before I was kicked out, the clan leader started changing how they ran things, kicked people out who we're active and wasn't sticking to any word they said. I wasn't the only one noticing this so I decided to uphold one thing they said they were going to do and didn't. Anyone under 1200 trophies by Jan 1st was gone. Leader wanted to move up on leader board so everyone needed to move up in trophies.
I'll will add a blurb in here that you hit slumps in this game where passing a certain level in trophies and upgrading something like your town hall becomes very hard to do. So you will set at that spot for a good while until you finally break through that barrier. Getting town hall 6 will be your first.
So back to me kicking people out under 1200 trophies. I kicked 5 out that I never saw on and were on the bottom of our list. Granted there were 10 more under 1200 but I didn't touch them as I knew they were all trying. So I stepped away for about 30 minutes and upon getting back into game, the clan leader had kicked me out. Didn't talk, didn't understand or want to listen, just, POOF, I was gone. I really hope some members left because of that but I have no way of knowing. I'll miss the people I talked to on a constant basis as it was always fun.
I jumped into a clan temporarily to help out until I found a better one. Which, when I joined, I let the guy know that up front. Finally found one and they are family oriented, higher level and are great people. They are all mostly US based so on around the times that I would be on. So ill be sticking around in this one for awhile. They are very helpful.
So when you join a clan, make sure it's one where everyone donates so you can always fill your clan castle up. Don't ask for elder because if you are always around, eventually you will get it if you really want it. It's not that important to have though. The clan mates are way more important.
I'm currently on town hall 8 in the game. Here is a picture of what my setup was before I tried out this new design a new clan mate has.
This new design I'm using is to help keep the wall breakers away but I have learned that someone with level 5 or 4 troops can get through and still take a lot of resources from me. I really need level 7 walls to really slow them down with this setup. the pink walls in the picture cost 75,000 but to upgrade the pink wall, which is level 6 to 7, they cost 200,000 a piece. That is no light feat to accomplish. In this picture below I'm going to try moving my town hall outside my wall so if someone comes in, takes it out for the 1 star and leaves with victory, I'll get a 12 hour shield and not lose any resources. I'm crossing my fingers on that happening some. Normally it would be in the middle, the middle bottom two storages would back out to where the two builder huts are and the builder huts would move back to beside town hall. So will see how things work out.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Clash of Clans
Well I'm still hooked on Clash of Clans on my iPad. I finally got my level 6 town hall and have upgraded so you can see my town.
For me to get enough money it took a little work. I maxed out all my mines in the game to earn as much as I could. Then when I was high in money, I came home and I had won a defensive fight. By doing that I had over 400k saved up. I spent the rest of the afternoon keeping my iPad active so I couldn't get attacked. During that time I was attacking as fast as I could going after towns with high money in them. I earned over 300k in gold plus what my mines earned during that time to make it to 750k. I was so happy to have finally got it. I can finally upgrade all my stuff again even if it does require more money to upgrade.
Realizing that I need to get town hall 7 already so I can upgrade the barbarians, archers, and goblins in the game. With town hall 6, I was only able to get giants and wall breakers upgraded. It's 1.2 million to get town hall 7 and I can't even hold that much. I'll have to upgrade my storage units to hold that. I will uprade my defenses first so that I can hopefully defend and win some battles to keep my money easier.
Next on the list to get upgraded is my wizard tower. Between the wizard and mortar towers, they help win more than anything. It costs a lot to get them up to the next level but I'm going to focus on the cheaper things first as it will be easier to get to that amount of money first.
For me to get enough money it took a little work. I maxed out all my mines in the game to earn as much as I could. Then when I was high in money, I came home and I had won a defensive fight. By doing that I had over 400k saved up. I spent the rest of the afternoon keeping my iPad active so I couldn't get attacked. During that time I was attacking as fast as I could going after towns with high money in them. I earned over 300k in gold plus what my mines earned during that time to make it to 750k. I was so happy to have finally got it. I can finally upgrade all my stuff again even if it does require more money to upgrade.
Realizing that I need to get town hall 7 already so I can upgrade the barbarians, archers, and goblins in the game. With town hall 6, I was only able to get giants and wall breakers upgraded. It's 1.2 million to get town hall 7 and I can't even hold that much. I'll have to upgrade my storage units to hold that. I will uprade my defenses first so that I can hopefully defend and win some battles to keep my money easier.
Next on the list to get upgraded is my wizard tower. Between the wizard and mortar towers, they help win more than anything. It costs a lot to get them up to the next level but I'm going to focus on the cheaper things first as it will be easier to get to that amount of money first.
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Carmageddon
Nooooooooo, I can't believe I missed getting this. I'll wait and read the reviews to see if it's just as good as playing the original. If it is illegal fork over the 2 bucks to buy it that iTunes shows right now.
You Have One Day to Get Carmageddon Free for the iPhone and iPad [Carmageddon]
Friday, June 1, 2012
Kingdom Rush
I have finally finished Kingdom Rush. I don't mean just beat it by getting through the campaign. I finished the campaign, finished all Heroic and Iron Challenges, extra content that was added later on, and I got every achievement in the game.
One thing is for sure, if I had time, I would always play this game. This is the best castle defense game on the iPad I've played and I have been playing a few. So don't pass up on getting this game.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Reserve iPad 2 Trade-in Price
Sell Your iPad 2 for More by Locking In a Trade-in Value Now [Selling]
This is actually a very good idea. Two companies give you a time frame for your ipad on the day you register to trade it it. It'll hold true for 21 days for one company and 30 on the other company. If you're going to upgrade, you might should go ahead and do this. Especially since they say on March 2nd will be the day they announce it if they do.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Sweet Deal for an iPad
Newegg.com - Apple - iPad w/ Wi-Fi 64GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16858753003&nm_mc=EMC-EXPRESS102211&cm_mmc=EMC-EXPRESS102211-_-EMC-102211-Index-_-index-_-58753003
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Ascension - Chronicle of the Godslayer
I bought and got hooked on this game during my beach vacation about 2 weeks ago. It's a Trading Card Game (TCG) but all the cards are already their and you don't have to really collect anything. You actually build your deck as you go until the Hero points are gone.
The Hero points plus the points on the card combined is how you win the game. So you might have the most Hero points earned but if the other player has a high number of points from the cards. When they are combined, he will win out.
The game makes you build a strategy as you play it. You'll never build the same deck twice and you're constantly reshuffling while the piles shifts from running out to drawing.
The game was put together really good. I actually wouldn't mind owning the real game but having it on the iPad works find for me. Especially since I can play online and offline. The only thing about online is if the other player goes away, you have to wait until he makes his move before you get to do yours. So their is no limit to how long the game will last. Of course, if you're both setting down to play until you finish, you'll bounce back and forth until you're done.
Their is a lite version of this game out there to see if you'll like it. The full version gives you the option to play up to 4 players at once and go online. So if you get it, send me and invite to play.
The Hero points plus the points on the card combined is how you win the game. So you might have the most Hero points earned but if the other player has a high number of points from the cards. When they are combined, he will win out.
The game makes you build a strategy as you play it. You'll never build the same deck twice and you're constantly reshuffling while the piles shifts from running out to drawing.
The game was put together really good. I actually wouldn't mind owning the real game but having it on the iPad works find for me. Especially since I can play online and offline. The only thing about online is if the other player goes away, you have to wait until he makes his move before you get to do yours. So their is no limit to how long the game will last. Of course, if you're both setting down to play until you finish, you'll bounce back and forth until you're done.
Their is a lite version of this game out there to see if you'll like it. The full version gives you the option to play up to 4 players at once and go online. So if you get it, send me and invite to play.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
iPad 2 versus the old iPad
Well, I've only had the iPad 2 for only a couple days but I can already see the difference from my old iPad.
The graphics are are more sharp and clear on the iPad 2. Even the smallest simple games look a ton better which makes the graphical ones look a ton better.
The iPad 2 is lighter than the first. It's also smaller in size as well. I had a thick case last time but I think I'm going to get smaller stuff as I like the smaller size. That way it won't way as much in my hand. The back side isn't as curved either. It's more straight now which I like better.
I played around with a few games, especially the ones that were lagging out on the iPad bad. They ran smooth as a button on the iPad 2. So the increase in processor speed has helped out the device immensely.
From my previous post, I was talking about Facetime which that is only possible because of the front and back camera on the iPad 2. I might not always use it but the option of the camera is a good feature to have. I need to find some apps to play with it some. Like the star constellation app so I can find the constellations at night easily by looking on the screen and it shows you where it should be at during that time of the day. I'll be waiting for a clear night to go outside and check that out.
I would definitely recommend the iPad 2 over the iPad. Which is should be better anyway. If you don't have one at all. You should be able to find an iPad cheap online somewhere now. It would be worth having, even for a toy to play with.
The graphics are are more sharp and clear on the iPad 2. Even the smallest simple games look a ton better which makes the graphical ones look a ton better.
The iPad 2 is lighter than the first. It's also smaller in size as well. I had a thick case last time but I think I'm going to get smaller stuff as I like the smaller size. That way it won't way as much in my hand. The back side isn't as curved either. It's more straight now which I like better.
I played around with a few games, especially the ones that were lagging out on the iPad bad. They ran smooth as a button on the iPad 2. So the increase in processor speed has helped out the device immensely.
From my previous post, I was talking about Facetime which that is only possible because of the front and back camera on the iPad 2. I might not always use it but the option of the camera is a good feature to have. I need to find some apps to play with it some. Like the star constellation app so I can find the constellations at night easily by looking on the screen and it shows you where it should be at during that time of the day. I'll be waiting for a clear night to go outside and check that out.
I would definitely recommend the iPad 2 over the iPad. Which is should be better anyway. If you don't have one at all. You should be able to find an iPad cheap online somewhere now. It would be worth having, even for a toy to play with.
Facetime on the IOS
Since I don't have a case yet, I'm leaving my iPad 2 at the house. By the time I got home yesterday, my wife had connected the iPad 2 and her iPod Touch together with Facetime. The kids were running all over the house, looking at each other, talking, flipping the cameras around on both the devices. Talk about having some fun. That was hard to beat.
My wife left for the gym and took the iPod and called us from the gym on it. It worked great and it was pretty smooth until she started flipping it around really quick. At that point the screen was jumping a little.
So Facetime is going to be great when I go TDY and can just call back to see and say hey to my family.
My wife left for the gym and took the iPod and called us from the gym on it. It worked great and it was pretty smooth until she started flipping it around really quick. At that point the screen was jumping a little.
So Facetime is going to be great when I go TDY and can just call back to see and say hey to my family.
Monday, August 1, 2011
I Officially Own an iPad 2 Now
So just over a week ago, I picked up cleaning rag to rub off the smudges off my screen. Low and behold I could feel and hear something digging into the screen. I stopped to look and saw what I just did to my iPad.
Come to find out, a nail large nail file had hung in the rang and I never felt or saw it. You can slide your nail across it and feel how deep in it went. No I did not have a screen protector on it. The case I had has kept it from everything but it can't stop someone deliberately scratching on it. I'm not sure if it would have stopped it or not. Not going to test to find out.
Knowing that it's there, it was bugging the stew out of me and I couldn't stop talking about it all week. I finally remembered my wife bought the protection plan on it at Best Buy.
So today I went into Best Buy to send it off to get the screen repaired and be without it for a couple weeks. Well, Best Buy can't replace the screens anymore. So they had no choice but to give me a iPad 2 in place of what I brought in as that's the upgradable item. I have to buy a new protection plan but I got upgraded.
First time ever that I've actually used a protection plan and had this happen.
So my day ended up being fairly good.
Come to find out, a nail large nail file had hung in the rang and I never felt or saw it. You can slide your nail across it and feel how deep in it went. No I did not have a screen protector on it. The case I had has kept it from everything but it can't stop someone deliberately scratching on it. I'm not sure if it would have stopped it or not. Not going to test to find out.
Knowing that it's there, it was bugging the stew out of me and I couldn't stop talking about it all week. I finally remembered my wife bought the protection plan on it at Best Buy.
So today I went into Best Buy to send it off to get the screen repaired and be without it for a couple weeks. Well, Best Buy can't replace the screens anymore. So they had no choice but to give me a iPad 2 in place of what I brought in as that's the upgradable item. I have to buy a new protection plan but I got upgraded.
First time ever that I've actually used a protection plan and had this happen.
So my day ended up being fairly good.
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