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iPad on tour – Photo Management
Jul 27, 2010 9:55 - 0 Comments
Continuing the theme of ditching the laptop and using only the iPad, at least on holiday, today looking at the iPad as an amateur photographers best friend.
With its massive, bright, screen the iPad is perfect for viewing photos and coupled with the camera kit it is unbeatable. I have been able to hook up [...]
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 [...]
iPad Backing up – please wait.
Jul 20, 2010 16:49 - 0 Comments
Is your iPad taking forever to backup? Mine is. After several aborted attempts I finally got a full backup done taking a massive three hours and that was after I had deleted off some large apps. Three hours for a device that is less than half full.
Feeling that there had to be a solution to [...]
Killing an App in iOS4
Jul 2, 2010 14:19 - 1 Comment
Oh there are so many problems with iOS4 but I won’t repeat them here but my biggest problem with it (after the horrendous battery life) is the multitasking. In particular the way that now when you close down an app it goes to the background. This is fine for the most part but for some [...]
The Shocking Price of eBooks
Jun 30, 2010 8:02 - 1 Comment
So it seems that content producers still haven’t learnt the lessons from the music industry’s move from physical product to electronic equivalent. Below is a great example of how they just don’t get it.
Juliet Naked is the latest novel by Nick Hornby. I’ve read it (in paperback format) and it’s a good book and a [...]
Call that Multi-tasking?
Jun 29, 2010 10:12 - 1 Comment
Maybe it’s me but I just don’t get iOS4’s “multi-tasking”. Multi-tasking is supposed to be a time saver not a confusing pain in the arse.
With the introduction of iOS4 you get (limited) support for apps running in the background. Correction! You get support for certain features running in the background, such as streaming music [...]
iOS4, We Have a Problem
Jun 25, 2010 14:32 - 0 Comments
Last Monday, like many others, I sat in front of iTunes repeatedly pressing the check for updates button willing iOS4 to be available so I could upgrade my iPhone. Unlike many others it went very smoothly for me taking hardly any time at all to backup the device and then carry out the install. In [...]
Subsonic vs. Spotify
May 30, 2010 21:51 - 1 Comment
I wrote in my previous post about the really rather wonderful Subsonic and how it was part of my armoury in the battle to rid myself of iTunes. Well I discovered today that it is rapidly becoming a complete replacement for Spotify too.
In my short(ish) life I have seen a number of changes in the [...]
Hands on with the iPad
Apr 23, 2010 15:11 - 1 Comment
So, yes, I know that the web has been full of this over the last few weeks (with only a minor diversion for the next iPhone) and I am late to the game but I only got my first opportunity to get my hands on an iPad today. To be fair there aren’t that many [...]
Upgrading a Three mifi
Apr 19, 2010 10:16 - 0 Comments
Since getting my mifi device last October it has become an indispensible device going everywhere with me. It also recently kept my son connected on a three hour car journey, so is worth the small amount I paid for it for that alone.
But one of the things that has always puzzled me about it is [...]
