{"id":9049,"date":"2012-06-12T05:01:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=9049"},"modified":"2012-06-12T04:49:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T11:49:26","slug":"travel-tool-experiments-and-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2012\/06\/12\/travel-tool-experiments-and-experiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel tool experiments and experiences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I just got back from almost two weeks in northern Italy, and I used a different set of tools for this trip than our other trips.<\/p>\n

I left my laptop at home – I used my new iPad And iPhone<\/a> for everything. And it worked well – they took up less space, were a lot lighter and did what I needed (blog entries, FourSquare<\/a>, Twitter, photo storage and manipulation).<\/p>\n

There are some accessories I’d suggest. First, you’ll want the camera kit from Apple<\/a> – that provides a USB interface so you can load camera images into Photos (you can plug in your iPhone and copy over those, too). And it’s dead simple – plug in the adapter, plug in your camera, and Photos starts right up asking you if you want to transfer the images.<\/p>\n

I also brought a cheap Bluetooth<\/a> keyboard, the Perixx 804i<\/a> – it was reasonably cheap and had some good reviews online. I like the feel and it’s pretty light. The really speeds up writing blog posts and taking notes and writing emails.<\/p>\n

I brought my Korg nanoKey<\/a> to use to write music – I didn’t use it on this trip but I have before and if the mood had struck…<\/p>\n

Here’s the list of apps I used:<\/p>\n