The new iPad 2012 Camera Connection Kit: Photos exchange and more from tablet – Part 3

• Desktop keyboards: Your USB desktop keyboard is much more comfortable than those cramped iPad keyboards. Sure, it’s not a portable solution, but if you find it necessary, you can plug in a regular keyboard to the CCK. Just ignore the warning message.
• Card readers: If your camera writes to a CF card, and you have a small CF card reader, simply plug it into the USB adapter and the iPad will read its contents.
• Ripped movies: If you have any ripped movies or personal videos, you can use the CCK to add extra storage to the iPad. You’d only import a movie when you’re ready to watch it. To do this, rename your movies to match the file name structure of your digital camera. For example, “DCIM_4132.” Then, drag the file into a folder labeled “DCIM” on an SD card or a thumbdrive. When you plug your SD card or thumbdrive into the iPad via the CCK, you’ll be able to import the movie onto your iPad and play it from the Photos app.
• Your iPhone or Android phone: This works, but with some limitations. If you need to transfer photos from your iPhone to your iPad in a pinch, plugging it in via USB will prompt the photos app, allowing you to import photos. And, as long as your Android phone stores photos in a folder titled DCIM, it will react the same way.

The new kit has the potential of doing more that what it bargains for and is a good value for the $29 paid but it is too early to pin just the aforesaid on its utility list. There will be more coming from CCK with the time. There may be another way to connect external storage devices that can be used to extend the memory of these devices. For the time being the hypothesis is that the file system on the flash memory sticks and SD cards is not compatible to the iOS device but there might be a way around this block hole.

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