Travel has, of course, changed a lot. WiFi is much more available now, and faster. Tablets are so much lighter than laptops, much easier to take on the road. And battery life is much better. All good things for those of use who like to stay in touch electronically.
On this trip I used an iPad Air with a Logitech keyboard/case, a little Canon Powershot Elph 100HS with SD card, BlogTouch Pro app for the iPad (for Blogger; there's one for WordPress too), and a really, really nifty USB/wifi drive called an AirStash.
The AirStash is about half as big as a deck of cards and a lot lighter. It has a slot for SD cards (I think it will hold up to a 32gb card) and broadcasts what's on them via its own wifi network. There are AirStash apps for just about any piece of equipment you want to use. I have it for my Kindle Fire HDX and my iPad, and it works flawlessly on both of them. I've tried other wifi/SD card broadcasting things, and have gone back to the AirStash because it just works so much better than anything else I've found. Great design, great execution, which I originally read about several years ago from Walt Mossber's column in the Wall Street Journal. Put the SD card from the camera in the AirStash, turn it on, choose the AirStash network in the wireless settings on the tablet, open the AirStash app on the tablet, choose the pictures to import. It's small and does exactly what it's supposed to do. And also serves as a regular USB drive when necessary.
I took the iPad with me even though it's heavier than the Kindle HDX because there isn't any really good blogging software for the HDX. BlogTouch Pro was seamless. Easy to figure out, good formatting tools, easy to insert pictures. Really nice little piece of software.
And I apologize--unless I can figure out a fix, the posts are going to sort according to publish date, not title. Drat.
And I apologize--unless I can figure out a fix, the posts are going to sort according to publish date, not title. Drat.
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