Apple training logo

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After working with logos for a while, here's the finished one for the training biz.

A control surface for £6 + an iPad

I spent a good portion of yesterday trying to get my aging, but still beautiful, mixing desk working as a control surface for Logic - but to no avail.

So in the process of sourcing one for the new studio I decided to have a look at the software options for the iPad and tried out the AC-7 Pro Control Surface priced £5.99 and $9.99 from the iTunes store.

It's a great piece of software for both home studio and pro studio user, and I have spent an enjoyable day putting it through its paces. I won't put a full review here (because I'm a tease like that), I'll cover it this weeks British Mac podcast and then do a in-depth tutorial in the October issue of the PaperMac magazine.

iPad; Location, location, location

Now I have become captain of my own ship, master of my own fate and loan survivor of a tandem crash (Hancock joke), I find the way I use I.T has changed.

Eager not to waste time when I find myself not in front of my computer but with nothing to do, I reach for my mobile device.

As an iPhone user from the first day of release in the UK about 3 or 4 years a go now, I well remember the difference it made upon my life. Up until the iPhone, I carried an iPod, my Phone and a book for entertainment and communication, then came the iPhone to replace all three. Plus the iPhone added games, a camera and internet browsing for those times I found myself at a lose end.

However all that said the iPhone was still my information, entertainment and communication device and never my productivity device.

Then comes iPad! Writing emails, writing for the magazine, updating my blog, the list goes on and grows weekly.

I've heard some saying the iPad is only a consuming rather than productive device. It is true you can't edit video or audio on it, I do that on my Mac. However for those times (such as now), when I find myself with a want to be productive (rather than forcing myself, I recognise the importance of nothing time), what ever the location the iPad is wonderful.

Flash - my on going frustration at Apple

This sentiment must have blogged a million times, but out of shear frustration I'll make it a million + 1.

I want flash on my iPad! Take for example the BBC news site. 'ohh' say I, that looks interesting 'sorry, wrong version of flash installed!' reports my browser!

I understand Steve Jobs stance in stating that HTML5 is the future, but at the moment I'm more concerned with the present and would like to watch the news on my iPad.

Why can't we have it? Why can't we have an enable flash or not button in settings?

I can only think Adobe offended Steve in some way and we're all paying for it.

A new exciting place in my bedroom

I've lived my house on and off for about 12 years and have never sat in the space between the wall and the bed (about 3 feet wide) ever, but I find myself there (or here) now.

Bento hatred

Shortly I'll be doing a business special in the magazine, so I've been doing a round up of databases.

I've always hated Bento but I came to it with an open mind, clearing all past grievances from my memory.

However I have to say if there were an award for the worst Application ever on any platform, in any language, on this planet and all undiscovered planets with intelligent life the Bento would win it.

British Mac logo v#3

Here's another British Mac logo I've been working on. I gave up on the bowler, it was British but didn't have that much to do with Apple computers!

What do you think to this one?

Bm_logo

iPad Separation Anxiety - iSA

I can't turn my iPad off!

Whilst charging my iPad I hold down the button on the top, slide the red slider to power off, and about 5 seconds after it turns itself back on again!

This must be a software problem that will hopefully resolved in OS4 when we see it.

It makes a lot of sense to me to wish to power-off rather than sleep during charging. Surely in sleep wifi, GPS etc will be 'scanning' and slowing the charging process.

The best fix-ish I can offer is to turn on Airplane (for some reason I pronounce this air-o-plane, I wonder why?) mode and then sleep.

Either way it seems to take forever to charge my iPad and I feel iPad separation anxiety during this! 

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