February 09, 2016

I happen to have had the fortune to get my hands on a first generation iPad when it first came out. I never did, and still don’t really find much value in it, though I will pick it up if I want to read something that doesn’t display nicely on my phone, or I’m upgrading the operating system on my laptop.

Well, I used to pick it up for such things. It is now unusably slow for most stuff I’d want to do, and at some point Apple decided it was obsolete, and stopped allowing updates to the operating system, and by extension stopped allowing any new applications to be installed.

I did figure out one way to extend it’s value. I put it on a stand on a bookshelf to display time and weather, just by using the already installed web browser. If I were more ambitious, I would make it pretty, and use some sort of real weather API, but I’m not, so I just made a page with an iframe pointing to Accuweather that refreshes once an hour.

If you live in Chicago, or are just interested in what the weather is like there, dust off your old iPad and point it at www.dankee.com/clock.html.

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