So I got sucked in by the whole iPad thing. Although I do think it will benefit my photography. When meeting clients, I can use the iPad to show them their finished work. When on a location shoot I can use the iPad both as a back up device and to give the clients an immediate preview of the photos, and I can use it as a digital portfolio to show my work to people. I have already had an opportunity to do this, and it gave my photography a more professional feel.

iPad

Other things I like and will use it for are reading e-books, and magazines, such as Wired, Time, and Digital Photographer magazine. So far I love the iPad, will post some more thoughts after I have used it more.

I am a big fan of Wired magazine, and have bought all but one of the publications since the new UK magazine was released. One of the coolest things about the magazine is the cover, the guys at Wired UK are always coming up with really inventive covers, from the strange type of paper/card it is printed on, through to the design itself. The cover this month is brilliant.

See those grey panels? Those are the scratchy material you get on scratch cards, and you scratch them away to reveal more parts of the cover, very inventive. I only received the magazine in the post yesterday, so haven’t has a chance to read it yet, to see why they have this cover, but I’m sure I will discover soon.

Google (not going to bother linking, you know where to find it), has been in the news recently, well at least in the geeky news that I tend to read. In fact Google is rarely out of the tech news headlines, but specifically, recently they have been in the news due to the preview of Chrome OS, the beta of Wave, and rather controversially their plans to digitise and publish every book online.

Recently, Wired UK magazine had a great article about Google, it made me want to learn a bit more about the company. So at some point I do want to, and plan to read ‘The Google Story’ by David Vise.

I stumbled upon this video earlier, it sums up the various stages Google has gone through over the years, and charts their various products. It’s only a couple of minutes long and worth a watch, even if only for the nice graphics of the video.

I remember that every time was flying out of Belfast International Airport, I always headed straight for the newsagent once through security. This is because it was one of the only places I could buy Wired magazine, the US edition.

I loved the magazine because it was full of really good articles about technology, and packed with information about the latest gadgets. So when I heard that Condé Naste, the publishers, were going to publish a Wired UK, I was pretty excited. I missed the first copy disappointing, I may try to get a back copy of it, but have been buying it every month since the 2nd copy.

Wired UK

If you are in anyway interested in technology, future of the web, nano/bio technology, medical and scientific developments and research, then you should pick up a copy of Wired UK and have a read. What magazines, if any, do you read regularly?