I hate learning to use new devices. And that explains my multi-year resistance to buying an iPad. (That, plus my carpal tunnel-wrists, which make any small keyboard an extra challenge.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, Mark’s been an iPad devotee for many years. And a few weeks ago, I finally allowed him to talk me into buying one. (A great Amazon sale price, combined with the daunting prospect of countless hours away from my laptop during a then upcoming Dallas trip to see Mark’s ailing mother, was enough to convince me.)<\/p>\n
It arrived, and I was an almost immediate convert.<\/p>\n
But the one thing that did drive me crazy (besides learning to copy\/paste on an iPad) was the different layouts you have to deal with when switching to the iPad app version of a given site.<\/p>\n
The Twitter app, in particular, drove me nuts. How I cursed it out throughout our 12 days in Dallas.<\/p>\n
Why did it have to be so damn different and confusing?<\/p>\n
And how would I ever manage to alternate between tweeting on an iPad and doing it on my trusty laptop?<\/p>\n
I’m feeling a bit guilty now. Why? Because when I finally got back to my laptop, I made a surprising discovery:<\/p>\n
It turns out that Twitter’s done a major site overhaul across all devices, which just happened to coincide with our trip. And the new laptop version is virtually the same as the iPad app version.<\/p>\n
So learning to use the spanking new Twitter on my laptop?<\/p>\n
No problemo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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