Below, Neven ponders iPhoto making its way to iOS and how precisely that will happen.

I really hope this does come to be.  I don’t use the Photos app very often on my iPad, but it is among the first things anyone else using my iPad wants to see in action.

The tactile interaction with images on the iPad really is the closest you can get to actual printed photos.  I suppose that’s why I want more of a photo management tool than a photo album - which is essentially what is there now.  Since I first loaded images on the iPad, I have wanted to use it to compare, sort and manage photos.

Like many parents, I snap lots of photos in succession just hoping to catch my son in some state of cuteness that is also suitably in focus (bonus points if the surrounding area doesn’t look like we reside in a landfill).  That means that I have lots of photos that are almost good. Flipping from one image to the next, resizing, rotating all takes milliseconds in iOS. Add in the ability to view images side-by-side and a delete button (perhaps a few other simple manipulation and editing tools) whose effect transferred back to my master iPhoto library and it would be a perfect tool for managing said library and separating the almost good from the truly good.

Also noteworthy, if you don’t have the iPad Camera Connection Kit, it is worth seeing the photo import process that it employs. It serves as yet another demonstration of Apple’s attention to details.

mrgan:

This week’s release of iMovie and GarageBand for iPad may well turn out to be a very important moment in consumer software. GarageBand in particular is a simply phenomenal app, going well above and beyond most people’s expectations for a creative/consumer app on a tablet. It’s not perfect, but…

So I don’t read all that many magazines any more, which means I am likely pretty late to the party on this one. That being said, I really like this feature in Outside where they include a thumbnail of the cover with call-outs of the page numbers for each headline. How many times has something piqued your interest only to leave you searching through all the ads to find a one-pager. I suppose that may be the point.

So part of this whole, “I’m gonna use Tumblr so I can write a lot” experiment means that I am also using my iPad to write. “Location be damned! I’ll write on the can and you can’t stop me,”

That also meansthatmy inaccurate besotted typing leads to a lot of errors and let’s the iPad autocorrect pick up the slack. That means I have to do more editing than. I like. It occus to me that it would be an awesomely trite and already been done meta-thing to just leave these suckers unedited and post them to another more audit tumbler with funny words like “Dyonisian” and “equites”. That would be awesome, but really not awesome. Oh well, just throwin’ that out thereof aspirins smarter than me wants to pick up that piece of slack. hopefully not Marco.

note: I left this post unedited so you could see how awesome it would be!
Meta-meta blog idea: reference Marco Arment in every goddamn post on this site.

Goddamn, I love me some Instapaper. If you don’t have any Instapaper, go get yourself some. You can get it for your iPhone, iPad, Android, Computer, Kindle, whatever you have. Add some Instapaper to it and life will be good. Go do it, I’ll wait.

The premise is straightforward: Find something that you want to read on the web but don’t want to or can’t invest the full-time right now? Simply Instapaperize that mother fucker and read it later. You can do it on any of those devices above. It is pretty much how I consume my massive collection of RSS feeds - scan them quickly and send anything halfway interesting to Instapaper. Then, when I am walking to the gym, spending quality time with family and friends, whatever, I read those articles I thought I might like when I was drunk and reading RSS.

The problem arises when one of those things I thought was going to be awesome and worth checking out later turns out to be (gasp) a video. Bummer. The thing is, Instapaper is not optimized for video (hence the “paper’). Plus, a lot of videos on the web still use Flash which means even if the time is right to watch a video (lights are low, a little Barry White on the Hi-Fi), and then bam! cock-blocked by Flash and it’s unfriendly relationship with a crap load of mobile technologies.

In reality, reading is different than watching video. It requires a different setting and a dedication of multiple senses. For that reason, I want an App, just like Instapaper, but dedicated to videos. Vimeo actually has a pretty good “save this shit for later functionality” - that’s not what they call it, be smart here, people. The problem is that it is only for Vimeo. I want something browser based that sucks in the embed code and throws the thing in an HTML doohickey and spits out mobile-friendly video. I know, “technically infeasible, blah blah blah”. If it was easy and I wasn’t lazy as hell, I’d do it.

So yeah, this should be pretty straightforward and maybe just required a Twitter toot or something, but you got five paragraphs of fluff just to say, “hey, one of you smart dudes, go build Instapaper, but make it for videos. Thanks”. Maybe someone really smart like Marco will do it.

Where’d all the stuff go?

Okay, not like I had a huge readership or anything. That’s completely understandable since the last post on Dromedary Apothecary was over a year ago. Aside: That post was on the “imaginary Apple tablet” and this post is written on an iPad (guffaw).

The problem is that the previous iteration of Dromedary Apothecary was based on WordPress and this one, here, is based on Tumblr. The reason is that whenever I went to that previous site, all I wanted to do was fiddle with it. And that isn’t the point. The point is to write, so for the time being, I am going with Tumblr. It doesn’t allow or need all that much fiddling. It is about getting content out.

That is not to say that I won’t ever go back to WordPress. I like it quite a lot and I have a couple of side projects that I am building in it. It’s just that I would rather get paid for the fiddling and keep this thing here focused on content.

I am going to try and keep this focused on the same thing as Dromedary Apothecary. What that is, I am not entirely sure. I suppose it’s those things that interest me from a professional standpoint. Those things have changed over time, but it is generally the web, business on the web and the technologies and tactics that drive that business. There may be a little bit of personal growth/career development mixed in, too.

Finally, I don’t think the content from the previous site is going away, I think there is some good stuff there. Every time I think of throwing it all to he wind and starting from scratch as I just have, I read a dew posts and think, “damn, when I put my mind to it, I can really write”. So not to beat that dead horse or anything, but for now it is about writing and good writing; the fiddling comes later.