FLMUG (aka MUGOO)

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I bought the Belkin “Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger”  at Home Depot recently.

I plugged it in on the wall in my room and I’ve been using it to charge my iPhone every night for a while. Its been marketed to travelers, but I like having here so I don’t take up a plug for the iPhone charger and no one runs off with it to power an iPad or something.

I did try it with an iPad, but the iPad just showed “Not Charging”.  I don’t know if the problem was the Belkin unit, or if it was the older iPod cable I was using.

Either way,  its pretty nice surge protection, mini power bar and USB power all in one.

Several places online carry it for less than Home Depot, if you are more patient than me.

See the meeting’s information page for details:  iPhone-iPad-iPod SIG

Someone was asking about an anti-glare screen during the May 13 main meeting.

I happened upon this a minute ago: http://www.boxwave.com/products/cleartouch/cleartouch-screen-protector-apple-ipad_3779.htm

I’ve posted an article on my more technical blog called “Getting more Work done with iPad”.

If you get a moment to read it, please let me know what you think.

Thanks

Walt

Having trouble getting “Select All” to show up in iPad Safari so you can copy a long URL?

For some reason, it only appears when no words or characters are selected. To get rid of the current selection:
- Press and hold on the URL until the magnifying glass pops up.
- When you release, the menu should popup with “Select All” in it.

If you haven’t selected anything yet, just tap the URL once to get it’s attention and once more to start an insertion point.

I’ve noticed fewer and fewer magazines on the racks at local convenience stores and it makes me wonder what’s happening?

There are a lot of reasons that could account for it, but my favorite is that more people are reading electronically.

Still, the magazine rack at my local CVS is less than half it’s size one year ago, and it is surrounded by college student apartments. The 7-11 across the street has removed almost all of it’s magazines.

Of course it could also be any of or combinations of:

• More people buying magazines at bookstores
• Red Box outside the building
• Bad economy (less disposable income)
• Changes in reader interest
• Using Twitter instead
• Less reading overall