Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

It’s been a week or so now that I’ve had my iPad 3G. Aside from a few applications installed from the App Store most of the icons I have on my home screen are current event news sites, on-line comics, and technical sites ranging from Endgadget to Slashdot with blog sites sprinkled in. That is where the unexpected benefit comes ins. When viewing a site through Safari on the iPad I can pinch the screen to zoom in. Yah, yah you probably realized this already. The unexpected benefit is that most, if not all, of the sites I view are setup in a two column site layout. Usually with the content on the left taking up two thirds of the screen, and a second column taking up the remaining third on the right that usually contains ads or what not.

That is the benefit when viewing with the iPad. I can pinch the screen, move the viewable area to the left, and then zoom the content to fit the entirety of my screen thereby completely removing the ads from my viewable area. Talk about not realizing how distracting having those dang ads have been over the years. The font ends up a little bit larger because of the zoom, but really nothing absurdly large. It has made reading content absolutely fantastic I just see the content i want to see in my viewable area on the iPad. The content is zoomed for easier reading without worrying about running into too small of a print, and i don’t have to be concerned with annoying advertisements. Just pinch the screen and read. Added with ability to convert my PDF book collection to ePug the iPad has become my central hub of on-line content consumption.