... and his trip to Alcatraz did not exactly go as expected.
Ok no Jak is obviously not real and I haven't been to Alcatraz just yet, but will be going sometime this week.
So what has this to do with Web 2.0 or even the iPad?
Well nothing and everything!
Setting the scene
I arrived in San Francisco, California for the Web 2.0 conference at around 3pm local time, that around 11pm UK time... I think..
The first item on the agenda, after checking in to the hotel, was to pop into the apple store to buy an iPad, iPads are not being released till end of May in the UK and frankly I cant wait that long.
So I rock up at the Apple store in San Fran at around 4.30pm and the store is shut and the queue is right round the block. You know how you always read about people camping outside a store but never really quite believe someone will do it? Well... they do and what are they doing while waiting? Playing on their iPad's...
It seemed I timed my arrival perfectly for the 5pm launch of the iPad 3G...
So me and a colleague when exploring... We had a great time trying to "flag down" a cab and eventually ended up eating at "Bubba Gump's"
The moment my world changed
I took a photo of Alcatraz with my iPhone 3G after our meal, the results wasn't to great. So I gave it no extra thought...
I ended up back at the Mac store and the crowds were gone, so I went in and got my (well my wife's actually) iPad.
I sat down in the hotel opened it up and transferred the backup of my iPhone on iTunes to the iPad and lo and behold... all the apps ive been hoarding in preparation for the iPad was installed and ready to go.
So what changed my world? well I recently did a cartoon for Mimecast:
It took me quite some time to draw all the assets with a tablet in photoshop.
Now have a look at the picture of JAK and Alcatraz... I took the picture as mentioned with my iPhone, transferred it to my iPad and then edited the image of JAK on the iPad within 10 min....
All thanks to a wonderful app called SketchBook http://bit.ly/aln3Ba check it out.
This means I can now at anytime create and edit the cartoon assets on the fly witout my mac, photoshop and tablet.... and thats just the start.... the world a we know it my friends... have changed.
I'll do some more postings on this at a later date... first its time to head out and find a starbucks...
San Francisco Web 2.0 Conference
Ill be in San Francisco all week at the Web 2.0 conference so check this blog regularly as ill attempt to blog everyday and follow me on twitter as I'll be partaking in the backchannel with the tags #w2e (event tags) and the #oe (personal tag)
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