<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Dave,<div>Obviously you have 3G.</div><div>Did you go for the 64 Gig as well?</div><div>John Ross</div><div>Windsor, Nova Scotia<br><div><div>On 18-12-2011, at 5:12 PM, David Renaud wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I use an iPad.<br><br>Navfree Canada is a free GPS, works great.<br><br>Invoice to go, a $5 app, creates custom bills, numbers them, adds up my sales taxes, <br>And produces reports. I email the bill to the client as I'm tuning the piano......they usually <br>Have received it and have the check ready by the time I'm done tuning.<br><br>Line2 buys me a local phone number for $96 for the year. The application is voice over <br>Internet, and cost nothing beyond purchasing the phone number for $96. Includes voice mail.<br>This gives me unlimited calling anywhere in north America for $8 per month.<br><br>Dropbox has the PDFs of all my fake books, and much other music.<br>As a musician it's very cool to have fifteen thousand lead sheets in your pocket.<br><br>The calendar is synced with all other computers I own through cyberspace, it's all <br>With me, current in real time. I can load any estimate, bill, and search the last 5 years<br>Email and anytime from anywhere.<br><br> Tunelab works just fine on it. It's a nice size to look at.<br><br>It's replaced my business Internet, I get 5gig of g3 network for $35 a month, and my<br>Cell phone for an additional $8 per month......Saving lots of money.<br><br>It's a pretty good high definition video camera as well.<br>Taken video of some piano problems, and consulted with someone on<br>Site via skype........I could actually show them the problem.<br><br> In a recent guild meeting we took a line out to a multimedia projector, and conferenced<br>With a teacher 1200 miles away in real time, the teacher could see the class through <br>The iPad, and we could see the teacher over the projector. Sound run out to a sound system.<br>2 way question and answer in real time while he demonstrated tuning techniques,<br><br>Very cool device, enjoying it very much.<br><br>It's been a game changer for me.<br>It's the first time everything is literally in one place.......cell phone, email, Internet, files, music, <br>Gps, billing, accounting, camera, video, tuning device.<br><br><br> Cheers<br> Dave Renaud<br><br><br><br><br><br>Sent from my iPad<br><br>On 2011-12-18, at 1:13 PM, Joseph Rosenberg <<a href="mailto:rosenbergpiano@gmail.com">rosenbergpiano@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am looking into getting an ipad 2 if I can really use it for my piano business.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I tune aurally and use a Sanderson IV at times, so the use would be more for customer lists, marketing, piano sales, technical references when working on pianos on site, etc.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone now use an ipad, and if so, can you share your thoughts about it?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Joe Rosenberg<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Long Island, NY<br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>