iPad Blogging Subtleties

I'm now done with Salute for the day - lots of toys to play with and some great games to investigate. More on these later...

For now, my brief iPad Blogging experiment has finished and the results are in. Typing up a simple Text Blog post is easy to do, and - so long as I've got a static subject - so too is embedding a photo taken with the iPad, at the same time. However. I took a fair number of pictures on my digital camera - it's simply a far superior device, especially given the subject matter at somewhere like Salute - but I can't get these onto my iPad and therefore into a Blog post.

Even worse, photos taken with my iPhone are similarly locked into that device unless I'm in a WiFi zone. Despite having Bluetooth on both pieces of kit, they won't talk to each other because I've not paid O2 a fee to enable iPhone tethering. Ultimately this isn't a big deal - I've actually got an iPad digital camera connector kit, which accepts SD cards. If I'd remembered to bring it with me, I could easily have used that to swap the card and import the photos to the iPad.

It's just annoying that I've got 3 pieces of kit costing in excess of £1000' yet they can't share a jpeg amongst them without physically moving storage or paying for some kind of wireless or telecoms service.

In future the digital camera connector will be packed alongside the camera, which should have been obvious to me in hindsight. What it has highlighted is that the camera on the iPad is a bit unwieldy in some social situations and it's better to use the digital camera and connection kit than go with the more compact iPhone - it may be convenient and unobtrusive but without WiFi your digital snaps are unavailable.

Oh, and the reason I don't have access to the useful Excel WiFi service is coz I'm on the train back to sunny Southend :).

Salute 2012

As usual the queue quickly went by as the gates opened and we flooded into Salute 2012. Those that are put off by such epic waiting and think that a cash ticket on the day is the way forward would be wise to stick with an advance purchase; after an hour of looking around I stepped outside the hall and there were still around 200 people slowly trudging forward for admittance.

Once inside I was greeted by a bustling mix of trade stands, promotional games and stalls and gloriously crafted demonstration games. The volume of stalls appears consistent with 2010-11 and there is a good mix of genres and periods for both trade and demos alike. My initial aim was to secure some quick purchases - the usual convention souvenir that I'm willing to pay a premium for. First up was a trip to the Meekin's stall and some 4:3 Osprey books.



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Salute 2012

I would like to start this with 'standing in the queue at Salute 2012...' but with two long lines of smelly gamers to contend with, I've steered clear of queueing and instead gone for the too cool for school option of a double espresso and some iPad action. With nearly an hour to go before the doors open this seems like the perfect opportunity to try out blogging on the go with my new toy. What follows is more of an experiment than worthy comment, but I'll persevere with it throughout the day and publish my Salute 2012 experiences throughout the day, so strap on in! Above this sentence you should be seeing an image, providing a view of the Excel hall and the Salute attendees waiting patiently for the gates of wargaming heaven to open. However, Safari won't let me upload the photo my iPad captured. So bear with me whilst I look for an app or workaround to solve this initial conundrum...