define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":3242,"date":"2011-05-11T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T01:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2011-05-11T11:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T01:05:10","slug":"an-ipad2-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/3242\/","title":{"rendered":"an iPad2 changed my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, not really BUT .. <\/p>\n<p>i was <strong>very <\/strong>lucky to have received an iPad 2 for my birthday this past week, it was something i didn&#8217;t ask for so it&#8217;s an amazing surprise and such a LUXURY to have around. it&#8217;s been a few days since it arrived, and i&#8217;m already changing how i browse the net. i used to carry my phone around to keep up with twitter, email, the news and other things &#8212; but i&#8217;m slowly getting used to putting the phone to the side and picking up the iPad instead.. (my phone is again just my phone!)<\/p>\n<p>one thing that has made it easier is an app called <a href=\"http:\/\/flipboard.com\/\">Flipboard<\/a> &#8211; it basically combines any social media, blog, news feed, website and puts it into a magazine style format. it&#8217;s like my own custom newspaper to wake up to everyday. here&#8217;s what my Flipboard page looked like this morning &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/flipbook-tracey.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"flipbook-tracey\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/flipbook-tracey.png 480w, http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/flipbook-tracey-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i was able to read my twitter feed, check flickr, read a few blogs and catch up on the news REALLY quickly. no loading of different apps, or going through gazillion websites to check the news or new blog posts. <\/p>\n<p><strong>i love it. <\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, not really BUT .. i was very lucky to have received an iPad 2 for my birthday this past week, it was something i didn&#8217;t ask for so it&#8217;s an amazing surprise and such a LUXURY to have around. it&#8217;s been a few days since it arrived, and i&#8217;m already changing how i browse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thumbs-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3245,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3242\/revisions\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}