As I really want to learn Ruby On Rails - and as I have chosen to build a "dashboard" for our home monitoring system (and not wanting to do it in Flash - as we have both iPhones and iPads) I found a ruby gem called "acs_as_dashboard" to start off with (version 0.4.0 for those that are interested).

But after wrestling with it on and off for 2 days and still not managing to get the application up and running I managed to find a downloadable demo called "acts_as_dashboard_example" - downloaded it, and it worked immediately!
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Just so set the scene :

- I have a iPhone 4 (Vodafone UK)

- And I have a Boingo mobile phone subscription on it (around £4/month)

I am currently sitting outside Starbucks - on my MacBook - connected to the Internet using tethering from the MacBook to the iPhone.

It looks remarkably like I can use the Boingo subscription on my iPhone to connect my MacBook to the Internet through the iPhones wireless (ie Starbucks) wifi netowrk.

Hm

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One of the more positive improvements easily experienced with the iPad is iTunes syncing - I just timed a 1.3 Gb movie being transferred from my laptop to the iPad in 70 seconds - several times as fas as for the iPhone.

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I just downloaded StreamToMe to my iPad to let me automatically transcode and stream videos from our video server (a mac mini) directly to the iPad - and it works (most of the time - unless it crashes).

It requires that you run a (free) application on the server - then the iPad will automatically discover all servers.

StreamToMe is an application for iPhone and iPod Touch that plays music and video files (in a wide variety of formats) streamed live from your Mac. If you connect the video-out cable for iPhone/iPod, StreamToMe can play through your TV, turning your iPhone/iPod plus Mac into a home media center.
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When I bought the iPad I was in a hurry to catch a plane back to Europe - and obviously did not look closely enough after ordering a 32 gb iPad - so when i got back it turned out to be a 16 Gb version. And one thing I will need is more storage - so this is what I'm looking at :

Introducing AirStash
AirStash stores your movies, music, photos, and documents and wirelessly shares them with your phone, media player, netbook, tablet, computer, and more. Use AirStash like a USB flash drive to drag & drop the files you want to your SD card while charging the built-in lithium polymer battery, then unplug & play on all of your browser-enabled WiFi devices*.
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