Me and my tablet

I had this idea the other day about trying to use just my android tablet to do most if not all of my computer tasks for an entire week. I want to try to do everything other than my consulting work which I need a Windows PC. I am creating this blog with my Motorola Xoom and Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

I will use the tablet for reading email, checking twitter and facebook, looking for travel deals and coupons ofcourse look for restaurants and directions and writting this blog.

I will tell you what I did and what the experience was. Write off the bat I can tell you that writting this blog is going well. I am sitting in Starbucks with a hot Mocha Latte and the connection is good. I decided to use Google blogspot as my editor and it works very well in the default Honeycomb browser.

So here was a bit about day 1.

• Packed up my goodies and headed to Barnes and Noble, found a spot and setup.
• Read a little email and viewed a few tweets, I use the Plume twitter client.
• I need to learn about Business Objects 4.0 IDT so I went to the SDN site and found a link for tutorials. It was great to see that they had posted all the tutorials to YouTube so I launched the YouTube app and subscribed. It worked as expected.
• I watched IDT (Information Design Tool) videos for about an hour, again this worked great.

Tomorrow I need to find a rental car, so I will report back on that.

Question for whomever is reading this. If I used a remote control app (SplashTop Remote HD) to acess my laptop does that still count as only using the tablet. I will ponder that.

Goodnight from tablet'ville.

Scott

12/11/12 6:33PM Pacific
Just watched a few minutes of the Giants Cowboys game with NFL 2011. Unfortunately it was a scoring drive by the Cowboys.