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• McGST Podcast Episode 56 (Questions #5)

  By Shaun on March 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In this episode I answer the latest questions sent in by yourselves. Some people are getting angry…🙄 What have you learned from lockdown and what will stay with you? Carl Why do you love the EU so much? Look at… Read More ›

• “It was the place to get that Willy Wonka feeling”

  By Shaun on March 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  More than a century of cocoa-infused history has come to an end with chocolate maker Thorntons’ decision to close its remaining 61 shops. Seemingly ever-present on the High Street, the company said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic had been… Read More ›

• The great Super Bowl rings heist

  By Shaun on March 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Al Zani and Shawn O’Neil crowd around him. The three men are New England law enforcement to their core: Costello is a young special agent in the FBI’s Boston office with a reputation as a skilled interviewer. Zani is a… Read More ›

• The Christopher Ward C65 Chronograph

  By Shaun on March 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Well, it’s another win for the team at Christopher Ward. The C65 Chronograph rounds out the model family with a bang of color and wearability. With the screw-down pushers (no thanks) and the depth rating, perhaps appending “Diver” to the… Read More ›

• iPhone Flip

  By Shaun on March 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  A super professional concept video, but this style of flip makes no sense to me. You may get a more pocket friendly device, but the compromises required would be far too numerous to make it worthwhile. And, how many people… Read More ›

• ‘Trapped’ by the iPhone

  By Shaun on March 21, 2021 • ( 3 )

  

  I have willingly trapped myself in the Apple ecosystem, and I’m not looking for a way out. I’d wager that this is the case for a lot of others, too, given how effectively the company has managed to market itself… Read More ›

• Super Nintendo World: can it really work?

  By Shaun on March 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I headed down to Osaka for the opening day to see exactly how Nintendo and USJ would pull this off. The short answer is that they’ve succeeded. Super Nintendo World is a gleefully surreal experience that pushes surprising technological boundaries…. Read More ›

• Sublet your home broadband

  By Shaun on March 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Launched in January, IPRoyal pays residential internet users in exchange for “sharing” their internet service, something many internet service providers like Sonic Internet [PDF] and Comcast prohibit in their terms of service. And it sells access to that bandwidth to… Read More ›

• why windows’ taskbar beats osx’ dock (2011)

  By Shaun on March 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  It could be argued that I’m doing it wrong, expecting OSX to act like Windows instead of adapting to what OSX offers. For a long while OSX has had exposé, a single button that temporarily resizes and repositions all of… Read More ›

• I don’t trust Windows’ stability

  By Shaun on March 20, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ve been using Macs and Windows PCs ever since they became available. For the last 12 years, it’s been a Mac at home and a Windows 7 PC at work until I retired. Now I use Windows 10 in Boot… Read More ›