Quick Tip: iOS USB/SD Card photo/video import

Say you want to take a very long trip with just your 32GB iPad, and while traveling you would like to catch up on a lot of movies and TV shows, but your 32GB iPad can only hold about 30 hours of content. What can you do? Fortunately you can store your extra content on [...]

Quick Tip: iPhone to iPad photo/video import

I just read this was possible. (It never occurred to me to try.) Just connect up your iPhone (or possibly any other phone) as illustrated to the USB iPad Camera Connection Kit (sold separately) and voilà!, you can import. This old-school wired method is faster than using Dropbox. However I still prefer Dropbox–I find it [...]

iPad 2 0-day with review

Friday 5 AM local time I woke up, made tea, and rushed off to my home office.  My first conference call was at 5:30 AM–it was going to be a long day.  On my desk, in front of my keyboard, was an orange post-it note reminding me, that of all the things I had to [...]

Apple TV, sure, why not?

History Rewind to 1990. I have never been a big fan of watching TV.  Not even as a child.  Sure, I watched the occasional show, but I didn’t rearrange my life around a TV schedule.  I didn’t even own a TV when I met my wife.  I preferred to read books and go out to [...]

Griffin PowerMate mini-review

Well, there it is, nestled between my keyboard, trackpad, Superdrive and my 27″ Cinema Display stand. What the hell is it? Well, it’s a knob.  A USB knob.  And, it’s good looking too.  It blends in quite well with the rest of my Apple gear.  And, the AppleScript configurable blue light is an added bonus. [...]