1. Hi. I'm a man of many professions. Daytime i run a Tattoo studio in town, and night time im doing music production, app development and just about anything that me and my business partner find interesting.
2. Ok, here we go. The iPad for me is freedom. Complete freedom. I have never used such a simple yet advanced device, that doesn't freeze up at you every now and then. Some people say that the iPad is for consuming data, not creating it, but i have to disagree. It's what you make of it. yeah, sure, there isn't the best apps for creating data out there yet, but remember, this is version 1 of the iPad.
This is what my day looks like:
07:00 i get up, woken up by the alarm on my iPad. since i rarely go to sleep before 3-4am in the morning, i have to have multiple alarms on the alarm clock, the ipad and the iphone. After battling the snooze buttons from hell, i wake the kids up by playing them either the dora soundtrack, the Martin Luther King speak or any high tempo scene soundtrack from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, then i go downstairs to make some breakfast. Now i read all the news with the SkyGrid app that lets me read about Lindsay Lohans liquor habits and whats hot at the moment.
8:00 i Drive my son to school.
9:00 I usually fall a sleep for a bit on the couch while my daughter is playing with the Dora app, or iCreate and SERIOUSLY takes about 50-100 screen dumps, filling up the photo app albums as a suprise for sleeping daddy.
11:00 i go to work at the tattoo studio. Here i read the mail for a bit, checking up on clothes orders and such for our clothing shop that is in the same building. Also check up on new projects we're doing. talk to the first client for the day. Usually shows him/her my new gizmo, and have to fight the customer to keep it. When they calm down, we browse google for porn... uhm....image inspiration. Then i shown them how i can add a moustache on their face with the Stachetastic app. Then we might do some simple sketches with sketchbook pro that we later print with a printing app (Wireless printing rocks!). Note: I dont have a computer in the studio anymore, and only the iPad
12:00 We're tattooing. While we do it, we usually let Pandora handle the music. If the client has someone with them, the friend usually play some game on the iPad to get the time going. This is a problem for me, because now i have more highscores to beat.
17:00 Im done for the day. Hopefully without a broken back which is usual in the tattoo artist trade. I crawl out to the car, get in and head back home. When i get home, the kids say "HEY THE FUNNY MAN IS BACK... CAN WE USE THAT COMPUTER PLATE?"... Ofcourse they can. They use it for a while and adds yet another 50-100 snapshots of Dora fun!
21-22:00 the rest of the family goes to bed, and i go to youtube or stumble upon after working through the e-mails. I usually stumble for tech, youtube or arts and design, but dont tell my wife this. When she's asleep, i change the genre pull down to 'babes' instead.... just for inspiration of course.
03:00 im still surfing around, but by this time i have been going through SkyGrid, Twitteriffic, the Youtube App, Mashable and Safari. Sometimes even a Safari Page or two.
Then its sleeping time.....
3. My tip is: ALWAYS bring the iPad with you. There is always an app for what you want to do. If you want to go house browsing, use maps and some house browsing app. If you want to go raveing, open a green JPG and use the ipad as a glowstick and if you want to go fishing, there is probably a good app for that too. Seriously, i have it with me 24/7, and i tend to use it for everything i do as well. I see that i use the iPhone less and less for every day. I will look more into video blogging -> editing videos on the ipad with the camera kit soon, and if i can solve that, my iPad is perfect for what i want to do.
4.
* Sketchbook Pro - Groovy sketching app. I can sketch up quick mock up tattoo designs, but also do really nice 'paintings'. I can also draw pictures of bombs, guns and knifes to show my weird neighbour through my window.
* Taska - Task management. I need to know what to do. I tend to lose track of things, and this is one of my best friends in the whole wide world.
* Safari - We use an online booking system (Backpackit) so i need Safari badly. I also spend around 2-3 hrs a day searching for inspirational pics, edit them and store them for later use. I also use it to read news. Note: Facebook have never been in my Safari, and will never be. Facebook is SATAN!
* SkyGrid - I love to use this app for reading news and trends, and all about Lindsay Lohans latest drinking bends!
* Print Magic HD - This does it for me. I love being able to print whatever i need. One popular item to print is "Kick Me" signs that i put on my colleagues backs!