Received an iPad for my birthday just before departing for the final leg of my travels. Below is a chronological list of experiences with the iPad abroad…
Lonely Planet guidebooks
full lonely planet guides in pdf viewed through air sharing hd. i didn’t have a chance to weight the books, but i’m sure its lighter than the india and china guides combined. if not, is much thinner and easier to pack.
a page from the lonely planet china 11th edition. click for a full resolution screen capture off the ipad.
a comparison between the hard and digital versions of the lonely planet india guidebooks. overall the pages look great and render quickly with the exception of the full page vector maps which take a bit longer to load. just wish lonely planet would include the photo pages in their pick and mix series. its always the most helpful section of any guidebook! as for reading experience, that’s left to the pdf reader. i’m currently running air sharing hd
, but most people seem to go with the cheaper goodreader for ipad
.
superfuture’s superguide on air sharing hd
. i think i’m going to crack the file and re-orient.
Camera manuals
also carrying a full set of camera manuals.
3G data on foreign networks
using the supplied at&t micro sim as a cutting template. not bad for a quick job done in store on borrowed scissors.
and it WORKS!!!
only problem is topping up, which is a bitch. there’s no dialer on the ipad, so you gotta insert the sim back into a phone. luckily i’ve been traveling with a scrap of the laser cutting project. as you can see in the photo above, its not a tight fit.
fortunately it holds the cut sim in relatively the correct spot without losing it somewhere deeper in the iphone.
05.30.10
i was walking through the temple st. night market in hk and found a cart with decorative punches and thought, DAMN that would be the way to cut sims. i’ve seen adapters back to full size sims, but anyone selling a portable punch???
UPDATE 06.05.10
That was fast… http://www.cutmysim.com/
most images shot with a Canon EOS 5D MKII
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