Things that my iPad will replace

Things that my ipad will replace (or I want it to replace) 1. Newspaper – the primary purpose of an ipad was reading(is what they say!). I started with TOI and NDTV app for ipad and was thrilled because they were good. This was till I realised that times have changed. I don’t want to read what TOi or NDTV want me to read. Iwant to build my own paper. So here comes Zite and Flipboard – where it is the news that I want, from mediums that I choose delivered to me. All that is left now is for me to discipline myself into reading it twice a day (and not refresh throughout) 2. Laptop – my office laptop. I haven’t picked it up for last two months. I don’t need it anymore. 3. Desktop – my home desktop – is not needed anymore. All my files are on cloud/ dropbox . 4. GPS in my car – with the  3G simcard installed – I have said good bye to the GPS in my car. My ipad does it and does it well. They are all talking about apple buying into few map companies – am eagerly waiting for news from developer conference in June. 5. Home entertainment system –I am going to install JBL airnote speakers soon at home and already have an ipad dock in my car. No need to invest in separate music systems. With apple TV – I will be able to stream all movies and music on my TV. The future of these speakers is when you can play different music from single itunes on your ipad in different rooms. 6. Book shelf– I have stopped buying physical books/ magazines. The very thought of having these on my ipad (though I prefer using kindle than ibook), and having them on cloud anytime that you want – is fantastic. Add to it the power of referring a dictionary, thesaurus and highlight or copy parts of book that you like. Icing on the cake is that this s at a discount compared to hardpaper editions in stores. I am not going back to crossword or landmark in near future. 7. Copier/ Scanner – with HDscan app – I had installed my plan to purchase a scanner/ copier for the house. I will be still investing in a printer that can print over wifi. The power of Optical Character recognition (OCR) helps in converting visiting cards to contacts and pages in word documents as an additional feature. 8. Gaming console – gone are the days when I used to aspire for psp handheld. With HD display – gaming has come a far way on an ipad. It is a matter of time when content/ game developers will follow and we will have the best of all EA games on an ipad. 9. Remote – no more remotes lying all over your house. You can control not only your TV, music system and camera’s installed in your house – but if required you can control curtains, alarms, locks, geyser and refrigerator. That is some power in your hands. 10. Alarm clock/ calculator/ calendar – those stupid alarm clocks in all my rooms, to see time and to wake up. Here it is all on my ipad, with information on weather, time in different cities and alarms synced to my calendar. Just waiting for SIRI update on ipad and it will be all new world. 11. Engagement for kids – from a drawing pad (without messy colours) to comics to mind games to interactive encyclopaedia – it is a fairly advanced teaching tool for my son than all the chaos that used to exist in my room as a child. 12. Camera – though this is slightly uncomfortable – I have still switched to taking pics and videos from my ipad (cant carry that massive SLR around). With iphoto and imovies – it is so rewarding to edit pics and showcase it to the world. My dream application will be built in projector and printer in my ipad. I am going to buy new HP air printer though which is close to having a printer "in" your iPad.

Being clever or kind ?

I was watching a you tube video - jeff bezos talking to graduating class of 2009. Very relevant thought he left with - we are all gifted, with intelligence. But we have to exercise the choice to be kind. When I look at it from organisational point of view - so many of us, in our over enthusiasm to prove our intelligence, make a choice not to be kind. It can be called politics, brownie points, #$$ licking - what is in a name. The fact remains that we try to draw a larger line mostly by erasing lines drawn by predecessor, colleague or bosses. I have made that mistake and have been at the receiving end too. But life teaches you - most of the people who are at the top, are the ones who made that choice to be always kind with their intelligence. Ones who never cared for individual mileage but for organisational benefit. I look forward to surround myself with more and more of such people.