{"id":685,"date":"2011-06-30T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/2011\/06\/30\/blogging-israel-with-an-ipad\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T03:18:09","slug":"blogging-israel-with-an-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/06\/blogging-israel-with-an-ipad.html","title":{"rendered":"Blogging Israel with an iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Although getting access to the Internet while in Israel was not always straightforward, that was largely a result of my decision to not go overboard with the 3G option. While I had it, it seemed to work fine, and the key will presumably be to get a larger data refill right away and then be restrained and sparing with the amount of time I spend online. <\/p>\n<p>Apart from not being able to take photos in dark indoor locations, I felt that the iPad 2 took photos that were at least acceptable quality for use in a blog post. <\/p>\n<p>How did you as readers feel that this trial of blogging through a trip using one device, an iPad, for taking photos, connecting to the Internet, writing posts, and so on?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/56238954@N05\/5889340653\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6036\/5889340653_2aa4a93ce3.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"210\" height=\"281\" style=\"margin:5px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although getting access to the Internet while in Israel was not always straightforward, that was largely a result of my decision to not go overboard with the 3G option. 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