It’s July 4 here in the USA, which is when we celebrate our independence from Britain. Hey Canada! It’s never too late!
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\nYeah, Australia, too.<\/p>\n
Anyway.<\/p>\n
Digital Film Adventures.<\/strong> Just got back from a nice vacation. Used a Nikon Coolpix to take my vacation shots. Great little camera. Smart gizmo. Took some great pictures, but the battery life sucked.<\/p>\n I don’t know whether my Coolpix has a bad battery or all of them do. I looked online, but didn’t see any complaints. Still, each night when I switched the camera into night mode (which works very well), the battery would die after a few shots \u2014 sometimes right away. That was terrible.<\/p>\n Oddest thing on the vacation: One person was using a film camera. How embarrassing.<\/p>\n Galaxy Tab On-The-Road.<\/strong> Rather than take a computer, or a cell phone, I took my Galaxy Tab along with me on vacation. It was a worthy companion.<\/p>\n On the flight, I used the Tab to play games, read Kindle books, and sneak in a few peeks at the GPS to see exactly where I was. Sometimes the GPS worked, but most of the time it didn’t.<\/p>\n When I could find a wireless signal, I would connect to the Internet and use Skype to connect with my pals. Calling my Skype contacts was free, but I did load up my Skype account with Skype Bucks so that I could make real phone calls as well. Made a few of those when I could; you really need a solid wireless connection to phone someone on Skype.<\/p>\n I was also pleased with the Tab’s 10-hour battery life. My son and I were able to play games and basically use the tab non-stop during our adventures. It was pretty sweet.<\/p>\n Speaking of the Galaxy Tab:<\/p>\n The 10.1 Galaxy Tab is Coming.<\/strong> I have only the 7″ Galaxy Tab, which was Samsung’s first stab at a tablet. It’s a good thing to have, and I enjoyed using it, but I’m really eager to see how well they do the 10.1 Tab. I think that’s truly going to be a competitor for the iPad.<\/p>\n Then again: The Motorola XOOM tablet is supposed to be an iPad competitor, yet you really don’t hear much about the XOOM these days.<\/p>\n Speaking of not hearing about things these days:<\/p>\n Whatever Happened to the AT&T Atrix?<\/strong> The Atrix is a nice 4G phone, but what makes it sexy is the Lapdock, which transforms your Atrix into a laptop-like thing. After all the initial excitement, I’ve not heard much about the revolutionary Atrix and its Lapdock \u2014 which I find disappointing because I think that’s the way all cell phones will go in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s July 4 here in the USA, which is when we celebrate our independence from Britain. Hey Canada! It’s never too late!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}