On my next trip to Italy, I hope to take my tablet, not the heavy laptop. But, I want to be able to post on my blog. So, I’m working out how to access photos from the camera. This is not as painless as I’d hoped.
Here is my first effort, a little Italian lesson for all of you. I’m sure all of you have worked out what the signs say. 😊
Cin-cin.
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Hope that learning curve smooths out for you asap, Yvonne! For well over a year now, my iPad’s been able to handle all the blogging—aided by an external keyboard and SanDisk USB wireless drive 🙂 ♥ ❤
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I’ve been watching your blog, done with an iPad! My first SanDisk wireless drive was faulty, the new one is on its way. So, I’ll ask you for help when I run into problems, OK? ❤
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uh ohhh… Faulty frustrations
I’m sure you’ll be fine with the replacement, but happy to help if I can 🙂 ♥ ❤
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So, I come from Italian stock & all I have for you is Che? vino? Hope I got this correct. First time visiting your blog. Cheers,H
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We may have to do a bit more work on your conversational Italian, Helen. 🙂 I love the name of your blog, and am off to see what you write about.
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Ah, I see this is my revision course for my September trip. Thanks!
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Sadly, we didn’t make it – we should be there now – hopefully next March.
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Yvonne – all that crazy technical stuff is making me… well, want to drink! HA! Technical stuff not being my specialty! Clearly the second picture was my favorite. I think Dan and I need to plan a trip to Naples next year…hmmm… perhaps in March for this birthday? xx
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I’ll be there all of April, and somewhere in the area from mid-March …
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Very good. I think your second photograph turned out better, though. There seemed to be something missing in the first one.
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It did look a tad forlorn, Bun.
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It isn’t really full but is it half full or half empty?
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It was half full, but now it’s empty again, John.
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Keep taking the tablet my friend ! 😀 ❤
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Take it where?? 🙂 ❤
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….. or from whom perhaps 😉
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I’ve spent many “happy” hours on the phone, talking to techie types all around the world. I think I’m getting close to a solution. But, I’m not uncorking a celebratory bottle just yet! 🙂
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It looks like you’ve uncorked the problem
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Very droll, Derrick. Coincidently, I’ve had problems with the corks in some Spanish wine. I like our screw tops ever so much.
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I’m converted to screw tops too, but I suppose the Spaniards have to do something with all those corks they have hanging from their trees other than export them to Australia for the hats
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You’re on a roll, sunshine!
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Do your devices have bluetooth? That’s an easy way to transfer photos. I have a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 which I adore. It’s so light and easy to use and it has a USB port so I can plug in the camera to access photos. I don’t even use the big desktop at home any more. Mr ET has it all to himself.
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😦 No Bluetooth on the tablet. Wait, I shouldn’t speak so quickly, maybe it does have. Thanks for the idea, et.
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I hope it works. 🙂
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I know a photography studio in Venice that hooks the cameras (a canon, a nikon and a fuji) directly to the tablet (first a Samsung Galaxy, now an Asus). They use it to send the pics into the studio (using a data SIM when they don’t have WiFi available) and the elaboration of the photos is done on the PC, but I know there are simple photo editing apps for android (but haven’t tried them). The trick is getting the right cable, in this case mini-USB (camera side) to micro-USB (tablet side). When you connect them the first time it should offer to open an app.Otherwise, something like ES File Manageer for Android (free app) should also do the trick.
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Thank you, and now I owe you another spritz or coffee, J. 😇
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I use an iPad, but would be interested in how you resolve this. When I want to post from the iPad I take the pictures with it. IT’s the mini, about the size of a 5 x 7 picture frame.
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I just spoke to someone at the Samsung help desk, and still have no definitive answer. It sounds like the iPads have got a better resolutiion to this application! Oh, well.Onward and upward, I hope.
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Get a little card reader that is also a memory stick. Slot it in the side of your samsung and away you go.
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I’ll give that a try, but the folks at Samsung told me it wouldn’t work. Maybe I spoke to the wrong person??
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The little gadget we use on all our various travel devices is a memory stick with a little slot in the side where you insert your card. You have probably seen them. They are so handy.
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I’ll look into that and see if it’s preferable to the mini SD card. I keep going in circles with the editing problem. Pefect on a cold winter’s day!
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Glad to know you have the important vocabulary sorted, Y!
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Hai ragione, Susie! ❤
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You will love Napoli. A truly great city. I used to post pieces from my tablet when in Bali last time. I don’t know about photos.
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The more I read about it, the more I want to see it, Gerard.
I’ll ask Google about the photos. According to Compass, learning a new skill keeps us young … hooray!
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Yvonne, I plan to do the same next time I travel to Italy. Since my last trip, last month where I travelled with laptop and tablet, I have now learned to use my tablet which I will use for travel. I still prefer to use my desk top when I am at home. Salute
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It’ll be lovely not to have that extra weight, and the bulky cord and adaptor, Lyn. Have you found out how to edit photos?
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Not yet Yvonne, as I have always used Microsoft Photo manager on my pc
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We may just have to make sure every photo we take is perfect, eh?
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I bought a small laptop as trying to post from my iPad while traveling had my eyeball flying across the room at regular intervals. I’m afraid I do not have any great tips.
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Well, just go and climb another mountain or lasso another cow. Yee-haw! ❤
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Haha will do! 🙂
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I was given an iPad which I want to use instead of my clunky old laptop, but I’m facing similar problems – how to write on it and post blogs.
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What size is the iPad? I don’t have a separate keypad, but Kay does, and she uses it so easily! Do a trial run and see how you do. I found it a bit cumbersome to do this post, but it wasn’t all that gruesome.
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I do all my posts from my IPad. Getting photos from camera to iPad is easy. There is a small device where you put your memory card in one end and the other plugs into the tablet then you click import…easy.
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Hi, Debra. It’s pretty cool down here in NE Victoria.
The Samsungs must be different than the iPads, I keep being told I can’t do that with mine. I thought I’d be able to plug in a card reader, but apparently not. (First world problems, eh?)
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Brisbane winter is glorious…come on up.
It seems silly that you can’t upload photos easily…glad I bought an IPad. It is really easy to write and upload photos. I can also resize and edit easily.
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Stop bragging about the weather and the iPad! 🙂
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I just bought a new tablet and I’m hoping to do the same as several months ago the little netbook I travel with gave up the ghost (or refused to accept Windows 10…or anything newer than XP) so I bought a fancy laptop. I love the laptop but it’s way too heavy for me to lug around. So I was channel surfing and HSN (Home Shopping Network….honest, I try to avoid it) had this deal on a 10 inch tablet with keyboard, a leopard print cover (!) and lots of extras for $139! I thought, and thought and finally hit the “buy” button. I have had a tablet (small Samsung) that recently died also so it will be a new learning curve for me also.
Maybe Android Tablets for Dummies will be my next book purchase.
You’ll have to visit the palace in Naples and say hello to Charles I (well, his statue anyway), my 22 great grandfather.
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We’ve got the time to try to work out how to make these tablets do what we want, anyhow! There’s a lot of info online, I do believe, that will point us in the right direction.
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I did find a website that told me what all those silly little symbols mean. I’ll email you the link.
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Though it’s not yet midday, I raise my glass and say empty is only good when it has been newly emptied ….. Cin cin!!
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Cin cin a te! It’ll be wine o’clock before we know it.
How are you coping without your daily dose of Bruce? I don’t like it at all. 😦
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If you figure it out….let me know! Do you know when the next trip is?
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Hi, Jane! I’ll post the details when/if I work it out! I have a mini data card which fits into that slot in my tablet, and accessed the photos via Apps: My Files: documents. (But that’s on a Samsung). I haven’t had the time to see if I can edit the photos before posting. I’ll think about that tomorrow. 🙂
I plan to be in southern Italy (mainly Naples), from mid-March, for a couple of months. Secret Naples and Naples Unplugged are my bedtime reading companions these days.
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