Short one this. Yesterday saw us visit Corfu town, spending five or six hours wandering around town, shopping, photographing, meandering and, er, more wandering. I took the opportunity to test out the gps on my camera to see if it actually is as accurate as it claims to be. Hopefully as you read this you can go and click on our flickr map and see lots of new pinpricks scattered across Corfu town,
The iPad is holding up pretty well as a laptop replacement. Getting pics off my camera is painless. I’m reading the fantastic “Web Analytics 2.0” as an eBook (sunlight is -not- an issue, at least where I tend to read - in the shade” and a trip to the beach, although nervy, went well. I’m also using the ipad as an audiobook player ( listening to “Freakenomics” - also pretty good) so it’s holding up pretty well.
It does not agree with suncream, nor with being left in the sun, or, I imagine, being splashed with water. In fact holiday is quite a dangerous environment for iPad with sun, sea and sand all able to reduce it to ijunk pretty quick. I have however had people stop and Declare “iPad” to me on three occasions, with one gentlemen professing to purchasing one the moment he got home having seen me surfing the web on the bar’s balcony.
So check out the pics on flickr and a couple below. One more blog coming on Friday!
Rob
Short one this. Yesterday saw us visit Corfu town, spending five or six hours wandering around town, shopping, photographing, meandering and, er, more wandering. I took the opportunity to test out the gps on my camera to see if it actually is as accurate as it claims to be. Hopefully as you read this you can go and click on our flickr map and see lots of new pinpricks scattered across Corfu town,
The iPad is holding up pretty well as a laptop replacement. Getting pics off my camera is painless. I’m reading the fantastic “Web Analytics 2.0” as an eBook (sunlight is -not- an issue, at least where I tend to read - in the shade” and a trip to the beach, although nervy, went well. I’m also using the ipad as an audiobook player ( listening to “Freakenomics” - also pretty good) so it’s holding up pretty well.
It does not agree with suncream, nor with being left in the sun, or, I imagine, being splashed with water. In fact holiday is quite a dangerous environment for iPad with sun, sea and sand all able to reduce it to ijunk pretty quick. I have however had people stop and Declare “iPad” to me on three occasions, with one gentlemen professing to purchasing one the moment he got home having seen me surfing the web on the bar’s balcony.
So check out the pics on flickr and a couple below. One more blog coming on Friday!
Rob
Day one of our holiday sees me casually blogging on my iPad next to the pool looking out over the sea! Not bad!
I decided to make this the first holiday in a while i didn’t take a laptop/net book on to see just how well this iPad thing works. My objective is to keep myself entertained and informed using the ipad while keeping in touch with folks back home. A little overkill for a week in Greece maybe!
I spent Friday buying a couple of movies, stocking up yon podcasts and audiobooks and downloading a few relevant eBooks into the Kindle app (boo iBooks!) so content wise I’m good to go. I bought the camera connector kit from Apple to enable me to uploAd my photos and I also downloaded a few apps like wordpress,photogene and flickrstackr to facilitate on-the-hoof blogging.
So far all goes well. I picked up my new geotagging camera at the Airport (panasonic TZ10) and charged it last night. Some of the pics are below, or you can checkout the photos page by clicking on the camera above. They should also now be on a map on flickr if all has gone to plan!
Logging off for now to nod off!
Rob
Part two:
We are now on day two of the holiday having spent today at the beach. Unfortunatly after writing yesterdays blog post I ran into the old geek travellers bug-bear: connectivity. The hotel wifi was down, which was acceptable for an evening, this being Greece. Imagine my horror, however, when 24 hours later connectivity has not been restored. Yes, incredibly, it seems the hotels ISP does not offer a decent SLA. Time to take matters into my own hands. After a quick assessment it transpired the routers dhcp service was clearly not functional, and after a a quick selection of standard static ip setups it soon transpired that the router I’m currently connecting to is most likely a linksys (192.168.2.1 ftw) and I’m now probably the only hotel guest with wifi access!
I’ll write up a blog post tomorrow after our trip to corfu town, as today was rather uneventful, filled with sand sea and sun but little else!
