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My iPad Camera Connection Kit, like the other peripherals I ordered, arrived before my iPad. Having received my iPad last Friday I’ve been able to spend a few brief moments getting to know it. This evening I decided to try the iPad Camera Connection Kit. I had wanted this kit as my thought had been that perhaps I’d be able to dispense with carrying around my Epson P-5000 Multimedia Storage Viewer. Although the P-5000 is no longer available new from […]
The iPad I had ordered finally arrived today. I guess for Apple, late April means the last day. My wife, Karen, was at home to receive the delivery. Had I still not had meetings planned I would have wrapped up at the office and rushed home, but I didn’t. The Fedex guy told her everyone seemed to be home today to receive these iPads. My first frustration was that I had to sync the iPad to iTunes before I could […]
I have to say that everyone I have dealt with at Dell has been courteous and professional, they just haven’t solved the problem with Windows 7 and my year-old hardware. Indeed, they have fallen back on the old chestnut of IT support, “When all else fails, blame the user”. A techincian arrived today and installed a new MOBO. The process was relatively quick and painless but what happened after was far from it. He powered up the machine and for […]
So Photoshop CS5 is just around the corner – mid-May (like the nebulous late-April shipping date for the iPad I ordered) so I thought I’d upgrade my Dell Precision T7400 from 32-bit Windows XP to 64-bit Windows 7 in order to take advantage of the 64-bit, quad-core processor capabilities of CS5 and leverage the 4 GB of RAM I have in the machine – possibly adding more (it will go up to 128 GB of RAM but I’m don’t think my budget […]
So I’m not going to write here about strobes or speedlites à la Strobist or Joe McNally, I’m going to write about Adobe Flash and the überhype around the Apple’s decision not to support Adobe Flash on the iPad. Following some of the conversations on Twitter last night I was struck by a comment from Robert Scoble, aka the Scobleizer, “Yikes @mattpat we need to get rid of Flash on @rackspace web site. Totally agreed. iPad is totally going to […]