The CLOUD is up there.

Just spotted that the Apple Cloud is now up and running.

It means that my Mac desktop, Powerbook laptop, iPad and iPhone can all access my documents, photos and music from anywhere in the world.

This could be quite useful!

Brilliant Speakers for travelling

I was at work the other day and a friend had these tiny speakers connected to the iPod.

Brilliant noise. The speakers are quite heavy and pump out a bit of bass.

Ideal for travelling or connected to my computer.

They're called FoxL and I got mine on-line.

IPad. I need one right now!

Good old Apple. Looks like another winner. It does all the things I currently use my iPhone for - showing photos, getting onto the internet, sending messages - but lots of extra stuff and it's a size that my ageing eyesight can handle.

Sadly, it'll be a while before the iPad gets to Australia.

iPhone as a GPS

Easter was a washout at Maleny - 180 mm. in the last week!

Still managed to give the mulcher a run - it's fabulous.

Found out that the iPhone has a GPS facility so I got Paula to drive me down the hill to the Mooloola Valley and I walked the 10 km. back up.

Plug the phone into the computer and - Hey Presto - fancy pictures on Google Earth.
- the house is on top of the hill.

NEW TOY! - Good old Apple

Suddenly realised that my desktop iMac was 3 years old! No wonder I thought it was slow.
So I got myself one of these little beauties;

It's got a 24" screen.
It runs at a blistering 3.06 Gigaherz.
It has not one, but 2 processsors.
Best of all, it has a 1 Terabyte hard-drive.
I didn't even know what a terabyte was until recently.
I was so taken with terabytes that I got a 1 Terabyte external drive as well to do the automatic backups.
Naturally the kids were keen on this aquisition as they got the 'old' one.

NEW TOY! - the 16 gig. iPod Touch

It arrived Friday morning. Within an hour I was playing music and looking at photos.


This is a stunningly impressive piece of work. It's flash driven, so no moving parts. It's capacity is more than adequate. But for me the best thing is that it's like a music iPod PLUS half a dozen high quality photograph albums - all 1700 of my Tibet photos are on there - PLUS it has a calender with all my friends' birthday& anniversary details PLUS it has my full address book with everyone's contact details PLUS it can surf the net via WiFi using the Safari browser I usually use. WOW!!! Even my teenage kids are knocked out by it.