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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 [...]
Build an app by all means, but please remember to support it
Nov 14, 2011 21:31 - 0 Comments
Everyone is building mobile apps these days. They are the must have accessory for every company that wants to be seen to be leading edge and that includes my own company.
Apple seem to have managed to succeeded where I singularly failed a few years ago in persuading people that mobiles where it’s at. And that’s great, I [...]
Steve Wouldn’t LIke it (but I do!)
Jul 17, 2011 19:59 - 1 Comment
It has always struck me that the iPad is just crying out for some form of alternative input device other than my finger. This is not a view that I share with Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who famously asked the question “Who wants a stylus?” when launching the original iPhone. Of course, Steve’s dislike of styluses doesn’t [...]
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 [...]
Verizon iPhone, Who Cares?
Jan 7, 2011 10:20 - 0 Comments
It seems that ever since Apple struck an exclusive deal with AT&T for the iPhone the whole of the US have been waiting for the holy grail in the form of the Verizon iPhone. And the blogsphere has been alive with it again this week. My question is this who cares and why?
Well in the [...]
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 [...]
