ipad

So the ipad is out, I don't know why but I wanted it to have more than they gave. By that I mean that as a version 1 device it has some failings that to me here in little old England are so obvious that you begin to wonder just what plant so of the folks in Apple are on.

I suppose will will never know what sort of discussions went to to decide what the machine should or should not have but the sad fact is that for what ever very good reasons, some of the stuff that they have left out are well to me just strange.

Take for instance multitasking, if I understand it right the new cpu that the ipad has, is more than capable of doing more than one task at the same time, the OS in the ipad can multi-task, in fact I think I have read somewhere that it does multi-task if you happen to be Apple and its your software running at the time.

So why does it not multi-task? there must be a reason, what it is I just don't have a clue.

The other thing that is not there is a forward facing camera, which would make the ipad just so much more usable, may be Apple don't want to sell too many devices or the cost of adding a camera broke the budget on the build cost.

Talking of build cost, I wonder just how much it does cost to make an ipad?

One thing that makes me really unhappy is that when I use my itouch ( which I do use very heavily, and have also run out of space on lots of times, its a 32G unit) is the number of website that don't work because I don't have flash on the itouch and I now see that for some reason Apple have still not got over there fears, worries about allowing it to work on the new ipad, why?

I am told by those in the know that the machine eg my touch is more than capable of running flash without any real problems.

So I have looked at other version 1 devices that Apple has done and have decided that a version 2 device is the better way to go.

So I have 12 more months to go before I will have to look at replacing my touch , I hope it lasts that long as the use it gets is stupid.

Ant 2

 

Yes this is Ant again, I am sure that he does not like the flash on the camera much.

D90

So I have now had my new camera for a few days and I must say that so far the experaince that I have had with it has been great.

I have not got all the new things that this camera can do in my mind yet, it will take time...

One thing that I have found is that a lot of the images coming off the camera, to me look a lot sharper than on the D80, why this should be so I just don't know, but I am glad that there is a noticeable difference, otherwise you do begin to wonder if your money has been well spent.

The other thing that has made a lot of difference is having an external flashgun on the camera the difference in the pictures is well, wow!

So all I need now is some nice weather so that I can get out there and have some fun, as its Easter as I write this, you can tell that the weather is well grey and wet, about what you would expect for Easter in the UK

New Camera

I have a new camera, a bit early for my birthday but as prices where going up it was time to get it now.

The new camera is a D90 by Nikon and I must say that it works real well, well as far as I have been able to test it so far, I even have a flashgun with it so that's cool as its something that I have not had on a camera for years apart from the built in flash and I don't think that counts? does it?