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Today was a good day in tech for me First, Drafts, one of my favorite ever text/writing apps, was updated to support actions on the Mac! In fact this post is the result of one of these actions. Hooray! Second, Lightroom on my iPad was updated to allow importing of images directly from an attached SD …

A Professional Computer

One of the major raps against the new iPad Pro, and one that I’ve made myself on this site, is that iOS development is lagging behind hardware development for the iPad. One of the specific complaints is that the Files App does not let an iPad user access external storage devices connected to it. …

The plodding pace of iOS improvement

Serious question: Will the version of iOS that runs on my iPad ever catch up to the MacOS that runs on my Mac Pro? The new iPads look really great but I don’t see how the power of the new hardware translates into a more capable device that will replace my Mac. The new iPads may be many time faster …

Chasing My White Whale

Someone at Apple has strong opinions about how a photo workflow should go. They are wrong. For many years now I’ve been on a quest to use my iPad as my main travel computer and while for most uses the iPad is very capable, and perhaps superior to a laptop, it falls short for my photography …

Thoughts on the iPad Pro

This year’s WWDC was the most exciting in recent memory for me. After a couple of years of apparent stagnation Apple showed us new Macs and new iPads pro together with significant OS improvements for the iPad in iOS 11 that will make the it a much more reasonable candidate to use as a solo computing …

Done and Done

Well it’s done. I hooked the Adobe CC portfolio site to aeolist.net and pointed the Squarespace account to charlesbrown.photography. I still have until the Fourth of July to test this out, so we’ll see how it goes.

The New Site

Once again I’m in the process of rebuilding websites, or at least trying out an alternative to my current Squarespace website. There is absolutely nothing wrong with my Squarespace site except that it costs me more to maintain it than the value I receive from it and there are now alternatives that …