{"id":153,"date":"2010-11-30T20:46:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/?p=153"},"modified":"2010-11-30T20:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T00:47:41","slug":"the-tale-of-the-traveling-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/corporalworks.com\/wp\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of the Traveling iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, for the Thanksgiving weekend, I stayed with my brother and sister-in-law in Syracuse, NY. \u00a0It was a glorious weekend, filled with family, fun, food, and an abundance of gluten-free pastry. \u00a0On Sunday afternoon I departed, and began the drive to Washington DC, for the Paulist General Council meeting. \u00a0Unfortunately, my iPad stayed behind in Syracuse.<\/p>\n

Honestly, it’s rare that I don’t visit my family and not<\/strong> leave something behind: \u00a0my phone charger, a sweater, something. \u00a0I’ve been told that’s an expression of the subconscious desire to stay, or perhaps to return. \u00a0True enough, I guess. \u00a0But my iPad? \u00a0How was it possible? \u00a0It’s almost never out of reach. \u00a0I think I set it down on a black tabletop, and just didn’t see it as I was packing. \u00a0A few hours later, I got a call from my sister-in-law, Ann, telling me that they’d discovered it, and would send to to me overnight the next day. \u00a0Obviously, I felt pretty dumb for having left it, and putting Ann to such trouble.<\/p>\n

The next day, I remembered an app on my iPhone called, “Find my iPhone,” which will also locate a missing iPad. \u00a0You fire it up, and in moments it reports the location of your registered iOS devices, along with their position on a Google map. \u00a0In addition, if your iPhone\/iPad has been lost or stolen, you can make them squawk, and display a message asking for their return. \u00a0Should that fail, you can send them a “poison pill” that will lock the device, or make it wipe it’s memory clear, destroying any sensitive data that might be loose in the wild. \u00a0[This used to be available only to MobileMe subscribers, but Apple’s recently made it available to anyone, for free.]<\/p>\n

So, I launched “Find my iPhone,” and there it was: \u00a0Sitting in a warehouse next to the Syracuse airport! \u00a0The next morning, there it was: in suburban Maryland, waiting to go out for delivery. \u00a0Later that day, I watched as my iPad visited several buildings on the campus of the Catholic University of America, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, and finally I tracked it in near-real-time as the UPS truck rolled up 7th Street, and then down the driveway to St. Paul’s College, where I’m staying. \u00a0I looked out the conference room window, and there was the truck! \u00a0Amazing!<\/p>\n

The lessons here:<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t leave your iPad behind!<\/li>\n
  2. Make sure you’ve got “Find my iPhone” installed and running.<\/li>\n
  3. Don’t annoy everyone around you with geeky squeals as you track a UPS truck coming up the driveway.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Another great example of innovative Apple technology, making like a little less stressful, and a lot more fun.<\/p>\n

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