For the past 100 years I have always been a Windows user and have owned and used a variety of PC’s.  However after months of “window-shopping” in the Apple shop in Liverpool I finally succumbed to the “lure” of the Mac and have just taken possession of a beautiful 27inch iMac.

It’s a thing of beauty and the graphics are just stunning.  I need it for the ability to create web content and to edit the masses of video footage that we obtained when we were took our last Nile Cruise and Cairo trip in November.  (Honestly…)

That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

On our late November trip we had a great full day Giza and The Pyramids excursion with a wonderful guide called Ahmed,  our own driver and air-conditioned mini-bus.  We visited Memphis, Saqqara and the Great Pyramid at Giza.

What we didnt’ realise until we visited Saqqara is that the Great Pyramid wasnt’ the first or the oldest Pyramid.  That honour goes to the Step Pyramid at Saqqara which you can see above. Read the rest of this entry »

Over the last 4 weeks Barbara and I have gone from cruising the Nile in brilliant sunshine and warmth to freezing our backsides off on the snowy slopes of the Arinsal ski resort in Andorra.  From the sublime to the ridiculous you might say.

We had a great time in both places of course but sitting here typing this out today as the snow falls outside the office and the UK comes to a grinding halt I can honestly say if I had to choose between the two destinations now I’d be back to Luxor like a shot.

I’m just hearing that Liverpool and Manchester Airports are closed and all flights have stopped and we were told last night that Liverpool had run out of grit which must have made travelling into work this morning a lot of fun!!

We’re located between Liverpool and Southport on the coast in a place called Formby and normally we get slightly different weather than Liverpool but the snow started about an hour ago and its already pretty white outside the office windows. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, after looking at the idea of getting a Flickr Pro account and finding that you can only upload videos of up to 90 seconds I decided to buy a “netbook” or “notebook ” pc.

That way I know that as the Flip Video Camera fills up with video footage I can upload it to the netbook and, where possible, upload it to our Nile Cruise Blog.

After a bit of resaerch I bought the Asus 109hHA. I think it has a 16gb hard drive, built in camera, etc and it’s really light. So it will be much easier than lugging around a heavy laptop.

Now I just need to find a Wordpress plugin that will automatically add new video footage onto the Nile Cruises 4u website.

So, back to the drawing board!

I have been trying to think of a way to upload the video we hope to take from the Flip camera onto some sort of portable device so that when the camera is full we don’t grind to a halt.

I’ve done a lot of searching on the web but haven’t seen any solution so we are planning to have to lug my laptop around.

But Barbara has come up with a suggestion that I think might work. She has suggested we buy a notebook pc and take that with us instead. Notebook are smaller and lighter than laptops and we could upload the footage to that to clear the Flip each night.

So I’ll be researching the best notebook I can get forvthe best price. If anyone has any recommendations I would be grateful for any advice at all.