ThePengwin

I was given an iPad as a gift from work, and for pretty much all of my life I have been more sided against Apple and its devices. There are a few nice things about it, however I'm a bit annoyed of some limitations of it:

-Email is quite good on it, it displays emails correctly and quickly, but the email App is missing important things I need to make email reading/sorting a better experience. I can not show pictures by email, its either globally on or off. This is very bad for spam, and its a pain to turn on and off as you have to exit the app to get to settings.

-The 4.2.1 update has made the lock switch mute, which I hate. Apple say its to keep the iOS devices consistent, but the iPod touch doesnt have one, and the iPhone uses it as a tool to mute calls. Even having an option in settings to change its behavior would be nice.

-Multasking is a mixed bag. Some apps like email and safari need it, whereas others have never been developed for it, and it makes the experience confusing to jump between apps and having to wait for them to restart.

-The device itself feels like a slave, mostly to itunes. I have no music or videos on it whatsoever because my home computer, and laptop which with all my music and media, runs Ubuntu. Ubuntu plays well with most iOS devices now, except for the iPad. I believe they have changed how the music database works and that has destroyed compatibility with libimobiledevice.

-Id like a filesystem. Its all well and good that some apps have their own space now, but if you want it to be counted as a computer, it needs a central area where the same programs can access the same files. Dropbox helps, but i dont have internet all the time.

-One speaker makes me feel like im deaf in one ear.

A lot of those issues are why i cant regard it as a PC. It's just a huge iPod touch to me.

Edit: formatting :)

an MD5 hash is a one-way encryption, you cant reverse an MD5 hash to reveal what creates it. The quickest way to decrypt an MD5 hash is if someone calculates and stores all the possible combinations and then you look up to find them (known as rainbow tables), otherwise you just have to use brute force. Even so, the returned value could be different again, as there is only so many combinations that md5 can make (although for something as long as a password or email address, thats highly unlikely).

md5decrypter would just be a big database of tested strings and their MD5 hash,

Still, it's annoying when they can turn around and use such a login to spam things to another account.

sadly, I'm on the list, and it was an account i was banned from posting with about 2 years ago. I wish I could have deleted it.

When i was in grade 12, I taught myself PHP/HTML/SQL and some JavaScript. I set up a forum (Which was a modified Simple Machines Forum) to stuff around in at school because i always managed to finish projects and tasks in computer studies early.

A few months before I finished year 12 I was having real trouble actually learning any more in the field of web development, because I had nothing to code. I walked into a web design place with a resume and some code samples of what i already did and they said they may have something for me to do, and a few days later i was given a job submitting links to websites to up the page rank of a site.

When I left school, I was asked if I wanted to say there full time and do some web development. I agreed.

That was about 4 years ago now. I'm 21, and I'm still in the same job. Id say i was quite under qualified for my current position, but I'm really glad I was given a chance.