My current laptop, a 2017 Macbook Air bought from Backmarket last year for a couple of hundred pounds Many of my earlier Macs weren’t bought for their specs, beyond the simple matter of storage space and RAM. To the best of my knowledge it went something like this. Macintosh Quadra 680 Back in 1994 I bought my first...

Apple Vision Pro Having had a stroke a couple of years ago, I won’t be trying out Apple’s Vision Pro. I’ll leave that to all the trailblazers with deep pockets. For more about medical conditions and the Apple Vision Pro, see this article. I had envisioned it as being a bit like in the movie Minority Report, spatial...

This feature first appeared in DogFriendly magazine. Dotty in her Halti Have I told you how much I hate holidays? The realisation that my everyday routine’s about to be interrupted. When the pointless packing starts, then the pointless unpacking begins, before, the inevitable, repacking and unpacking. Then there’s...

My wife picked up the phone. She called ‘our’ doctor first, but was unable to get past the receptionist, despite telling her my situation. (Gone are the days of home visits and caring doctors.) All the time I’m thinking FAST, from watching the TV’s public information films. F – facial drooping; A – arm weakness; S –...

Because people like to know these things… As I’ve got older, my life has become ever more Apple-centric. But I have started the process of moving away fron the USA, and switching my focus to Europe. Let’s see how I’m doing Software Assume USA unless specified otherwise. Adobe: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator...

This feature first appeared in DogFriendly magazine. Dragonfly is one of three similar accommodations at Developing Dogs ‘Get, down’ (from the worktop), ‘Get, out’ (of the food cupboard), ‘Get, off’ (of the kitchen table), ‘Get, away’ (from the person who has just walked through our front door). Anyone visiting our...

The BT8500 claims to block up to 100% of nuisance calls As someone who works from home, I know all too well how many nuisance calls we receive throughout the day. A couple of Fridays ago, I counted seven. Aside from the pure annoyance factor, these calls waste time I could be spending on important projects. So, when...

When someone describes you as a “collector” of note-taking apps, it’s pretty clear they’re about to dangle a carrot. That’s precisely what happened when I was approached by the developers of Alternote, an alternative desktop client to Evernote’s mainstream offering that promised Markdown support. That, right there,...

When Twitter friend Carolyn Wood asked a question about transcription software for the Mac – specifically Lion compatible – I was quick to respond, too quick, as it turns out. My first suggestion was to try Audio Hijack Pro by Rogue Amoeba, served up by a fading memory. But from what I recall that is not the way to...

What 1Password offers is greater convenience. Since 1Password already runs securely on Mac and iOS devices, you can have access to your 2FA codes on any of your Mac and iOS devices without having to mess around with Bluetooth (which means that it will work on any Mac, even ones without Bluetooth 4.0) [referring to...

Image of the solar eclipse taken at around 9.30am on 20 March 2015 near Maxey, Cambridgeshire, on an iPhone 4S

Editorial workflows should be simple. Where a team is involved, the simpler the better. Any member of an editorial team should be able to step in and know where others have left off, avoiding delays when another team member is absent, however important that person is to the team. While my workflows do not usually...