I am a bit flustered by the work-arounds that Apple has had to implement to get some mouse functionality on the iPad/iPhone: copy and paste, placing a cursor in a text for editing purposes, etc. They seem like afterthoughts to… Read More ›
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Can all of the iOS 11 iPad Pro tweaks replace a mouse?
Think about it for one moment. Many of us are genuinely exciting by the new iPad Pro and in particular the way iOS 11 attempts to make it more flexible and ultimately more powerful. This move by Apple makes perfect… Read More ›
Will The General Election Influence Your Digital Life?
Many British readers of OxGadgets will be heading to the polls on Thursday this week to vote for the party of their choice. There are so many hot topics covered in the manifestos and plenty of voters will be on… Read More ›
What Happened to Getting Things Done?
Much of what David Allen wrote in his 2001 opus Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity is out of date. (He used to advise people to create a separate list of Next Actions that they could only do… Read More ›
WWDC 2017
This has become an annual article for me and over the past few years I admit to a sense of anticlimax with what Apple has offered. It has been a steady stream of incremental updates designed to make the experience… Read More ›
CEX’s Apple Watch strap problem
While walking past CEX on Sunday I spotted an Apple Watch Link strap in the window on sale for £135. It was black so it was not for me, but I looked closer and spotted a real problem. I went… Read More ›
iMessage wins
Perhaps that may be the case for the tech elite who routinely vacillate between various premium smartphones, but it seems like a point that most smartphone users in the real world could care less about. Funny enough, the ultimate benefit… Read More ›
Experiencing a special album
Something I will likely not experience again is discovering a new album and spending time reading the lyrics, enjoying the artwork and just generally being consumed by the entire package. Jumping back to 1982, I had heard the first greatest… Read More ›
The Geek’s Chihuahua
Think back to 2007, when you got the first iPhone. (You did get one, didn’t you? Of course you did.) You don’t need me to remind you that it was a shiny object of impressive design, slick in hand and… Read More ›
Apple’s ‘Siri Powered’ Device?
There is much talk about Apple released an Alexa competitor at WWDC and I, like many other people, am struggling to see how this could work. One of the reasons people offer for the better Alexa and Google Home experience… Read More ›
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