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• Swatch Group: considering massive price hikes

  By Shaun on October 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Swatch Group regrets Comco’s decision and deems it utterly unrealistic. Swatch Group is forced to maintain the production capacities for third-party customers – with substantial financial and personnel expenditures – although in some cases, the third-party customers have drastically reduced… Read More ›

• The benefits of good posture

  By Shaun on October 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  Worth a watch if you sit at a desk each day. Apparently I have bad posture and after a couple of scans, the doctors decided that my back is physically fine despite often causing pain. My posture alone is causing… Read More ›

• Needy technology

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  We are being hassled and nagged by the technology that is supposed to make our lives better and more convenient. Facebook says Hello in the morning and asks us how we are. But its attempts at chirpy human touches aren’t… Read More ›

• Apple ups UK prices, to a rediculous level

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  Mac mini starts £479 (was £399)  Mac Pro £2999 (£2499) iMac 4K £1449 (£1199) iMac 5K from £1749 (£1449) Tough on UK customers, that. Informative tweet from iCreate, but those price changes are insane! UPDATE: Actually, these prices do fit… Read More ›

• Build your own Touch Bar

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Well that’s £2,000 saved. Genius (sort of) from Neil. 

• GifCities

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  GifCities is a special project of the Internet Archive to celebrate 20 years of preserving the web. Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more… More here.  I shall be… Read More ›

• macOS and iOS: two very different strategies

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 5 )

  

  Apple has never been accused of making budget products or aiming for the masses, but the iPod and then the iPhone and iPad proved otherwise, without the budget part. Yesterday Apple announced the long overdue MacBook Pro refresh and we… Read More ›

• Robusto Ti5

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  We were looking for a high quality timepiece that would withstand, not only, the test of time but also the burden of daily wear and tear. A timepiece that is engineered to the highest specifications, build with the best materials… Read More ›

• AirPods you can buy now: Jaybird X3 Bluetooth headphones

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Rene Oehlerking is positively stoked that Apple killed the headphone jack on the iPhone 7. That’s because, as chief marketing officer of Jaybird, he’s been touting the winning combo of killer audio and wireless freedom for years. With its controversial… Read More ›

• Apple-to-Android upgrade comparisons are utterly meaningless

  By Shaun on October 28, 2016 • ( 0 )

  As an Android user, though, the situation seems somewhat strange — because on Android, those types of improvements are the sorts of things we see year-round, independent of major OS releases. That’s because Google has pulled most of the system-app… Read More ›