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iPhone Tripod Adaptor
Dec 14, 2011 13:09 - 0 Comments
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)
Aug 23, 2011 8:47 - 0 Comments
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
Jul 1, 2011 10:48 - 0 Comments
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
Jan 16, 2011 15:46 - 0 Comments
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
Nov 7, 2010 11:31 - 1 Comment
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
Sep 19, 2010 9:02 - 0 Comments
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
Sep 11, 2010 17:52 - 0 Comments
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
Aug 21, 2010 11:33 - 0 Comments
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
Aug 3, 2010 13:28 - 0 Comments
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
Jul 24, 2010 21:36 - 0 Comments
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 [...]
