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Maintaining more than one acct is probably an edge case for the Twitter designers, but whenever it IS a priority, here are a couple problems I wish they’d address.

1. When I am logged in to Twitter (website) I can’t tell which user I’m logged in as without going back to the home page

2. When I want to follow someone, there is no easy way to choose which account I am following from. This goes for all the clients I have seen as well as the site. Instead you need to log in as the user, and then follow. If you’re using the website, this means go to Twitter, then go home to see which user I’m currently logged in as ( due to issue above ) and THEN follow

That said I hardly consider myself an advanced user. Anyone have suggestions to resolve these issues? Or additional issues to post?

Ok. First off, I have no intention of replacing my laptop with my iPad. It just turns out my ( brand new! ) Macbook pro is DOA with what looks like a bad hard drive, which has left me no choice but to try to use the iPad for my everyday work. Here are the things that make that difficult, if not impossible. Some are certainly addressable, some not so much, at least not obviously.

1. Email filters don’t work, or don’t migrate at least. All the filters I have set up to separate mailing list messages from messages I NEED to read don’t function, or haven’t come over via .Mac (trial) so everything ends up in the inbox

2. Email search doesn’t work beyond a certain point. If it’s not in the first 50 messages then you can click “search on the server” aka wait, wait, wait…

3. I can’t see two things at the at same time. Want to take information from a spreadsheet and put it into a web application, or reference a document to write an email? Not going to happen.

4. Typing on screen works, but, for me at least, there are too many errors to not make it somewhat grueling. There’s an evident solution for this one – get a keyboard.

5. The obvious – some applications aren’t all that useable for what you need to do or don’t exist. I do a lot of my work in Fireworks designing mockups or final software graphics. Can’t easily do this with the existing software and not sure I’ll ever be able to do it with my fingers.

All in all, I have been pleasantly surprised by how useful the iPad is in a pinch, and that some of my biggest issues could probably be resolved by Apple without too much difficulty. The portability is great – definitely preferable to carrying a laptop everywhere. If your job consists of a lot of email, meetings, and document writing and review, it’s a pretty serviceable alternative. Once you need to do some more complicated work, like programming or graphic design, it’s not so much of a solution, at least not now, for my work ( software design ).

So the good news is it can do work in a bind. I wouldn’t buy it for this purpose, but it’s a plus. For me, the killer app is Instapaper, if you have a commute where you can read, but having a laptop backup is gravy.

After some poking around ( ridiculous the amount of research time I spend deciding to drop $2.99 ), I finally bought penultimate for iPad. I had sketchbook from alias and ideas from adobe, so was skeptical that it would add anything I didn’t already have, but I have been pleasantly surprised.

People have mentioned the speed of responsiveness vs other apps, but another good advantage is that it responds to a much lighter touch than sketchbook at least ( which, to be fair, is designed for drawing rag her than note taking ).

Wondering if anyone knows of a tool to convert PDF drawings to text if words are detected?Pairing that with penultimate would make for a pretty nice notes-to-text workflow. If you know, please post to comments…

As you may or may not have seen, a while back Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz posted this video pleading with Steve Jobs to open an Apple store in Brooklyn:

I happen to have the perfect site for this store.

Anyone going over the Brooklyn Bridge is deposited onto Adams Street, which runs straight into what is arguably the nicest area of downtown Brooklyn, between the restaurant row Smith Street and its lesser-known parallel sibling, Court St, which also has restaurants and shops aplenty. Adams dead-ends into Atlantic immediately between these two streets, and facing that dead end is a huge, block-sized empty lot.

Construction on this lot has been stalled for close to three years, so I can only imagine the developer must not have any money to continue the project, and would be willing to part with the property for a very reasonable sum, considering they must have been representing themselves as insolvent to the borough of Brooklyn to get away with doing nothing for so long.

Apple could build a store here, probably with room to spare for a nice surrounding park or plaza, and it would be the first thing a lot of people coming to Brooklyn would see. And there are a LOT of people coming to Brooklyn nowadays. Check the guidebooks – they all recommend walking over the Brooklyn Bridge, and it seems like a lot of them have not much idea about what to do after they get there. Putting an Apple store there would be great for Brooklynites as well as out-of-towers, since locals already come to that part of Brooklyn for the restaurants as well as Trader Joe’s and other stores, and have easy access via the local subway hubs at Borough Hall and Atlantic.