Author Archives
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Mac App Store Scams
Try to put yourself into the mental state of a novice computer user. You have a brand new iMac, and you want to edit some Excel spreadsheets. In the dock you find that App Store you’ve heard so much about,… Read More ›
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What happened to the world for Tony Blair to make sense?
“Open v closed is a really important debate today, because in a curious way the populism of the left and the populism of the right – at a certain point they meet each other. They tend to be isolationist. OK,… Read More ›
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Lenders Are Looking at Your Phone Data
Financial institutions, overcoming some initial trepidation about privacy, are increasingly gauging consumers’ creditworthiness by using phone-company data on mobile calling patterns and locations. The practice is tantalizing for lenders because it could help them reach some of the 2 billion… Read More ›
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How can one person compete with a device linked to everyone you’ve ever known?
Imagine that you are interviewing a candidate for a job in your office. You switch your mobile phone to silent mode and place it face down on a table several feet from where you and the candidate are sitting. This… Read More ›
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George Daniels, A Master Watchmaker & His Art
George Daniels is a polarizing and fascinating figure. He was a watchmaker you hear stories about, one you idolize for his many confident successes, and one you try to emulate as a rags-to-riches type of self-made triumph on a human… Read More ›
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Fruit and vegetables skateboarding
And why not. You can see more here.
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America’s quietest town
There’s a town in West Virginia where there are tight restrictions on mobile signal, wifi and other parts of what most of us know as simply: modern life. It means Green Bank is a place unlike anywhere else in the… Read More ›
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Any iPhone camera will do
I was checking out a new watch yesterday and decided to quickly snap a photo of it with my iPhone SE (above). Natural light was coming in through the window behind me, but it was only when I zoomed in… Read More ›
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Which phone has the best battery life in 2016?
Some varied results, but largely in line with expectations.
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White Rainbow
I ventured down to Rannoch Moor today with fellow talented Scottish landscape photographer Scott Robertson in preparation for my four day workshop that starts this Thursday when I saw this unbelievably beautiful white rainbow also known as a fog bow…… Read More ›
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