The iPad: How I Learned To Love It

Now that I've had my iPad for about a year, I've finally learned how to actually use it in a way that doesn't just include reading on the Kindle app.

1. Pocket :: I installed this to use with Flipboard and I love this app so much. I never have time to read articles at night, so I can always save them to Pocket to read when I have time! It also formats them so there aren't any ads or anything and it's so easy to read. This is definitely one of my favorite apps from the store.

2. Flipboard :: I switched my google reader account to another email and took a bunch of blogs off that I had always skimmed, and installed it on flipboard to read at night. I also read Al-Jazeera, my LinkedIn feed, as well as BBC World News and The Drudge report on Flipboard. It's such a pretty app and I actually like reading blogs better on my iPad!

3. Mail :: Now that I get a lot of news emails from places like Politico and the New York Times, I like to read them on my iPad in the morning instead of trying to read them on my computer or phone.

4. Magazines :: One of my issues of Town and Country got skipped and I bought it for my iPad. While I missed the magazine feel, it was really easy to read, and I'm definitely considering switching all of my subscriptions to my iPad so I don't have to always switch addresses for college and such. It's also much easier to save something to Pinterest!

5. TED Talks :: I love these and have for a long time, but they're so much fun to watch on my iPad and I can be working on homework and have my iPad propped up so I can look at both screens. Same for Netflix.

How do you use your iPad?

xx

What I'm Loving: July

Monogrammed Sunglasses from DKM Accessories

My iPad, now that I actually have time to play around on it! 

Comfort Colors tank from TuskWear Collections picked up from Expeditions, aka the best store ever, in Tuscaloosa. (But really y'all. I'm going to have to avoid going in there if I end up going to Alabama. Such an amazing store!)

Essie's Bikini So Teeny

Lilly Pulitzer Alexi Dress

What are your favorites as of late?

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}

Le iPad: Round Two

For those keeping score at home, I have already professed my love for the iPad.

Now it's almost in my hands, and will be by the end of this week.

But there is still a major decision to be made: the case.

Right now, I'm leaning toward the Lilly P case (natch), in Hotty Pink Fan Dance.

But I also really like this Kate Spade cover!

What do y'all use? I also would love any recommendations on anything iPad related - especially apps!

Happy Wednesday!

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}

Le iPad

I said I never would. 

Before we make this too dramatic, please note, I also said this about:

Uggs, Twilight, The Hunger Games, Crocs, being a Vegetarian, and Eli Manning.

Before you cry foul, Uggs are extremely comfortable for the one day of snow we get a year, two, that was seventh grade, three, it's really awkward when your Mom brings home the Hunger Games in March 2011, you read three pages and decide it's stupid, and now a year later, you're 187 on the hold list at the library, four, the shell beach at camp and Royar's Essie painted feet do not mix, five, read Skinny Bitch, and six, he was just named Super Bowl MVP. And he got a Porche. Sorry, PB.

I didn't need it.

It was a waste of money.

Y'all. Royar wants an iPad. 

After traveling to China last summer avec books, magazines, and Macbook, I realized just how HEAVY it all can be. With France and India coming up, 1.3 pounds vs. a 10 pound backpack, makes a lot of difference.

Plus there's just so much I could do! Read, watch, play, workout, listen to music, check Pinterest, check the Wall Street Journal and Fox News, do my homework, blog, and so much more.

If one were to magically appear, I would most definitely invest in one of these Graphic Image cases!

Do any of y'all have an iPad? Is it worth it?

xoxo,

Royar

{The Young Southern Prep}