It’s pre-journey and I’m finalising how I’m going to transfer what I expect to be hundreds of photos off our various cameras (my Pentax dSLR, and then each of our point-and-shoot cameras). Considering we’ll be away for 2 months, I’m keen to make sure we have a backup in case anything goes wrong (lose a bag, memory stick becomes corrupt etc). Click the link below for some thoughts on the matter…
We’re traveling with an iPad and that’ll be the extent of our laptop/notebook companions. I’ve already bought the Apple camera connections ($AU39 inc shipping) which are pretty handy. For those who haven’t seen or purchased these yet – they have a standard iPad/iPhone connector at one end and either a USB connection at the other or space for a SD card.
Unfortunately the connectors don’t work with iPhone – might have come in handy. Might keep an eye on the jailbreak scene to see if they can get it to interface in the future or to do more with it. Would be cool to have say a USB key with div-x or mp3s etc which you could simply plugin to the bottom of the device and watch/listen on something like the newly released VLC player for iPad.
Tools (software) of the trade on the iPad so far are:
- WordPress – this blog is powered by WordPress and the iOS app for it is very nice. The app will allow us to blog throughout the trip, upload our photos and respond to comments etc. Free app.
- Cropulater – image cropping tool which works on iPad – good for updating photos before uploading. Paid app – $1.19
- Twitter – official iPad Twitter client – has some great features and probably the best UI for Twitter on any platform. Free app.
- Photo (standard app) – handles all the importing of our photos, categorisation and so-on
- Facebook – we’ll likely post some to there as well for those who aren’t following us via the blog/Twitter. It’s only an iPhone app so it’s pretty ordinary, might end up sticking to the web version and just use Safari. Free app.
What I haven’t found yet is an app that can resize all our photos we want to upload prior to the actual upload. Uploading full-res photos and then having the blog resize them will be painfully slow. If anyone has any suggestions – let me know in the comments.
Also, in case anyone’s interested in – Apple offer a very handy tool on how to link to apps in iTunes – http://itunes.apple.com/linkmaker. I always wondered how people did that…