Well I have sunk even deeper into the Apple ecosystem – I’ve bought an Apple TV box. It took a little while to set up – I could only make it work properly when I connected it to my Ethernet system – the WIFI was just too flakey and wouldn’t see my iTunes at all. I have no idea why this was but it works ok with the Ethernet.

So why buy the box? Well in part so that I could project images I have captured from the TV onto the screen from my iPhone and iPad and then draw them. This is the first attempt – Geoffrey Rush from the King’s Speech. The AirPlay only appears to keep transmitting the image for about five minutes at a time – which is a bit annoying but I am sure there are ways around this – if not then I am sure I can get use to this.

I believe that the icloud, when it is launched, will provide extra functionality to the Apple TV – for example I won’t have to phase iTunes up and running on my PC – however we have to wait and see with this. Just as an aside the iPad spell check doesn’t recognise icloud yet and insists on replacing it with the word cloud – no doubt iOS , which it does recognise, will fix this!

Sent from my iPad