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Geeks in Space
Aug 5, 2010 14:10 - 1 Comment
It’s not often that I get to talk about something other than a gadget or an app but this is seriously cool.
Three friends of my younger son have designed and built a high altitude balloon and launched it. Beneath the balloon was a camera and other instruments recording details of the flight. You can [...]
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 – 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 – Blogging
Jul 25, 2010 18:18 - 1 Comment
As I said in my previous post I am currently away on holiday and have only brought with me my iPad, rather than a laptop of some description. Over the next couple of posts I am going to look at the apps that I have been using for various different tasks, starting with blogging.
I have [...]
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 - 1 Comment
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 [...]
Price of eBooks Update
Jul 1, 2010 6:34 - 2 Comments
So not just satisfied with ruminating on why eBooks are the price they are I also contacted Waterstones to ask why there is such a price differential. This was their response:
“I am sorry to hear that you are unhappy with the price difference between ebooks and other formats online.
There are a number of reasons why [...]
The Shocking Price of eBooks
Jun 30, 2010 8:02 - 4 Comments
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 [...]
