Shiny (as in Apple) Sunday

Two big electronic events happened this weekend for our household. First, we both got new iPads on Friday as promised by Apple! Very fun. We're excited to get the necessary parts to use it effectively (cover and keyboard combo for example) and take some classes on using it smartly.

On Saturday, LL's father was upgrading LL's phone software, which was several iterations behind, and got it working well....for about four hours. Then it crashed. There's a simple fix that I knew and forgot about, so in a state of angst, we headed to the Apple Store on Sunday hoping to be able salvage her pictures, contacts and such. Well, that problem was fixed before I even got the car parked after dropping her off. I had a question or two about the iPad, one of which was migrating our contact info and such from our 3g phones to the iPad. That particular function is a little more difficult than it should be, but is very easy from the 4GS phones which are the latest and greatest phones. For a small, ahem, upgrade fee, we could upgrade to the iPhone 4. For twice that fee though, we could get the 4GS. Well, why bother upgrading to outmoded technology?? Plus we got on a new family plan that saves us $80 a month on our cell and data costs, so we breakeven in 5 months. Not bad. And the new phones are way, way,way faster! Very cool.

Unfortunately the Apple Store couldn't help us with everything we needed to do , so we had to go to an ATT store to finish up and do it before they closed. Fortunately there was an ATT store not far away and the people there were really helpful. So it was a busy but expensive weekend for us!