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• That Psion feeling. It never leaves you.

  By Shaun on March 9, 2017 • ( 15 )

  

  For those of you who did not experience the Psion PDAs, you maybe think that those of us who bang on and on about them are just wishing to go back in time in a rose coloured time machine. We… Read More ›

• Your watch faces

  By Shaun on March 9, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Well, I asked to see your watch faces and Neil and Bob did not disappoint, apart from the fact that they appear to have made them as functional and uncolourful as possible. And then Trevor sent me one. “This is… Read More ›

• Judge blocks FBI from forcing fingerprints from targets to unlock iPhones

  By Shaun on March 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  In the latest skirmish over privacy in the cellphone age, a federal judge in Chicago has rejected a law enforcement request to force potential targets in an ongoing investigation to provide fingerprints to unlock any iPhones or other Apple devices…. Read More ›

• I don’t like ad-blockers, but…

  By Shaun on March 9, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  While checking out the article about fingerprints above, I thought I would run Ghostery on Chicago Tribune to see what it would try to block. Is there really any need for any site to need that many trackers etc?

• Photo: Colorful Aurora over Iceland

  By Shaun on March 9, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  You don’t always see a scene this beautiful when you hike to an ancient volcano — you have to be lucky. When the astrophotographer realized that auroras were visible two-weeks ago, he made a night-time run for the top of… Read More ›

• Reasons to upgrade

  By Shaun on March 9, 2017 • ( 2 )

  “may have offered the sense of something new” This is curious, and is, I expect, a major factor in keeping technology sales up. From the look of your piece, you moved from the SE for functional reasons: you needed the… Read More ›

• Merciless with Mings

  By Shaun on March 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  For many of you the above clip will mean nothing, but to an AFC Bournemouth life long fan such as myself it means something. We are not certain of staying in the Premiership this year, but today Tyrone Mings (in… Read More ›

• American small town photography

  By Shaun on March 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Starting in Boston, on the east coast, and ending on the west in Oakland, California, Freeman deliberately avoided the big cities, instead visiting the small towns of everyday America. In order to show the USA in an novel way, Freeman… Read More ›

• Amazon Releases Audio Recordings From Echo Device

  By Shaun on March 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  In December, Amazon pushed back after investigators requested a search warrant to release the audio recordings, saying “Amazon will not release customer information without a valid and binding legal demand properly served on us.” On Feb. 17, the company filed… Read More ›

• iPhone 7 thoughts

  By Shaun on March 8, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  For some unfathomable reason, I picked up an iPhone 7 over the weekend and have had some time to get to know it. The main reason, to be honest, is that my eyes are not what they used to be… Read More ›