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One thing that has always been beyond my imagination is why Apple does not have a simple way of transferring photos from one device to another. Yes I know there is iCloud and Google Photos. But they require a cloud connection. While now we are a group of friends sitting in a mountain shelter in Morocco's High Atlas with no Internet in sight.... Some use iPhones as their primary cameras. Some (like me) even decided to lug an iPad with them :) And then came the Eureka! moment. Use the Lightning-to-USB Camera Adapter to connect to iDevices together. Yay, with this adapter you can create a lightning-to-lightning cable and transfer photos! One iDevice (the one with the adapter) launches the import app and the other behaves like a camera! Digging further it seems the Lightning Camera Adapter is much more than a camera adapter. According to this article , other types of USB devices are supported: Audio/MIDI interfaces and devices Hubs Ethernet adapters SD card readers Bar ...

I'm hearing fanfares announcing the Android P with the key highlighted feature being individual volume levels for each Bluetooth device. It is hard to imagine it has taken us 20 years to get there: Bluetooth has been with us since 1998. I will probably never stop complaining about platforms and how they impair the real capabilities of protocols they support. Lets face it: Bluetooth audio s***s. But it is hardly Bluetooth's fault. Android P is the proof. AirPods are the proof. Most recent version of Windows 10 is the proof. They are all proving Bluetooth experience can be way better. But we are still getting too little too late... Bluetooth audio was designed to be way better years ago. Unfortunately the platforms we use today: Windows, OS X, Android, iOS, they are all still way away from where they could be with regards to managing audio streams and input and output devices. The computer platforms nicely support now multiple displays or virtual desktops. They allow nice a...

In banking industry all takes ages. So it is worth noting when something important happens :) Banks have - forever - considered themselves an authority. This is how the credit card payments system has been functioning. You buy an item, present a card to the seller and your bank authorizes the transaction. Your BANK, not YOU. Of course there is a (false) assumption that it is you who hand over the card and nobody can just take it. Or just take the card's number. What prevents the seller to enter your card's number again when you leave the shop? Nothing, except the fact he is honest. Ah OK, there is also the new standard - EMV - that requires the card to be physically present. Yes EMV has cut the credit card fraud a lot. But it is not used for online transactions. So it is a bit like tightly securing the windows while keeping the front door open. Yes, banks have been working on securing online transactions too. With the awkward and inconvenient SMS codes. For that you no...

On professional photography forums you may find discussions about dedicated photo backup devices. One that has been making some splash recently is the Gnarbox . Also hadr drive manufacturers like WD used to offer portable drives that could copy photo files from an SD card, without any assistance of a computer. Backing up photos makes sense - things break and get stolen and many memories captured are really priceless. Unfortunately most of these backup solutions are clunky and slow and you never can tell the backup has been completed properly. A drive will flash some leds, but you do not have a simple way to check how the backed photos look like. I have been recently experimenting with an iPad Mini as a photo backup device. Actually any iDevice would do. The reason I chose the Mini is that my primary phone is Android (and I'm not changing that for a while, but of course iPhone users may simply use an iPhone as a backup device). The latest iPhones have 256GB of flash storage. The...

I wonder what it'll take to align the media industry with the Internet. The principle of the Internet is that it is global. And available regardless of a type of the rendering device, whether it is pocket or mobile or desktop.The media lords think differently. From time to time I have a very simple wish: to download a video for offline watching on a transcontinental flight. Despite all the technology advances it is still a huge pain to do. To the extent that the only viable option is stealing... A year ago YouTube convinced me to subscribe to the Red service. Phenomenal, I thought - I would be able to click on any clip to download it for offline watch. I enjoyed this service as soon as the flight took off from San Francisco. But it stopped working as soon as I landed in Frankfurt: not available in your country. As an Amazon prime subscriber I wanted to watch the Season 1 of the GRAND PRIX Driver. No luck - "Error 4602: This video isn't available to download due to ge...