The technology blog of Neil Thompson
iPhone Tripod Adaptor
Everyone’s talking about iphonography – taking pictures with your iphone rather than a standard camera. As the now well worn phrase goes “The Best Camera Is The One That’s With You”.
The iPhone camera is pretty good for a phone, particularly on the 4S, and it is always in my pocket so available in a way [...]
Cheap, Reliable wifi Dongle (That works with Ubuntu)
If you are in the market for a wifi dongle that works with Ubuntu (and who isn’t?) then I may have the answer. I recently bought a dongle from 7DayShop.com as my wifi card was giving terrible performance. The dongle arrived yesterday and worked out of the box and is, so far, working without fault. [...]
iPad 2 and the smart cover
So I have finally succumbed and swapped my iPad 1 for a sleek new iPad 2. The most noticeable change is the performance boost. My old iPad was beginning to get very sluggish and on apps that I use regularly, such as Pulse, it was becoming unusable. So it has become usable once again.
With [...]
Top tech of 2010
Last year, for the first time, I produced a list of my top tech for 2009. I thought that it would be interesting to do the same in 2010 to see how things have changed, if at all. So this is the technology that I used day-in, day-out in 2010 and could not do without.
Google [...]
Now This is Getting Ridiculous
I wrote a while back about the stupid amount of time my iPad backup was taking and moaned that it had taken a ridiculous three hours. My solution to this was to use BackOff to disable the automatic backups during sync. However, this means that if there is ever a problem you cannot do a [...]
Orientation lock becomes mute button on iPad iOS 4.2
There are lots of posts on the net right now about the first beta of Apples iOS 4.2 and you can read a Top 10 new features here.
One of the changes is to turn the orientation lock button on the iPad to be a mute button. Well hold on a minute who checked with [...]
The Ultimate iPad Travel Kit
I have found my ultimate iPad travel kit that consists of:
- An Apple wireless keyboard
- 3 mifi
- Portable, adjustable, folding stand from eBay
It’s like having a Macbook that you can break down into its constituent parts. I just sling them into my case and off I go. I am finding that I am using my [...]
3 mifi with OLED screen
Received my new 3 mifi dongle yesterday. This one is basically the same as the previous module with a few important differences:
1. It has an OLED screen giving much more information than before, including the amount of data this session.
2. It now has a web interface that allows you to both configure and monitor [...]
Cheap and Cheerful iPad Stand
Yes, another iPad post. I’m sure that I will get it out of my system eventually…
So I saw this post about a cheap and cheerful iPad stand a while back which suggested using a desktop business card holder. What a great idea, I thought! Except that it was only available from Office Depot in the [...]
iPad on Tour
So I am away on annual leave in beautiful Tuscany but the big question before we left was what tech to bring? In the recent past I have always taken a laptop of some description but this time I decided to go with the iPad alone. That meant also taking Apple’s camera kit in order [...]
