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Feeling old?

I had one of those moments today which made me feel old, and it may feel similar for you when I explain why. When I started my first proper website, Clie World, my son was 18 months old and my… Read More ›

Android Wear 5.1

“Android Wear 5.1 has reduced Google’s emphasis on talking to your wrist, which is a good thing. The new menu system makes it easier to get to apps and settings, and the simple swipe-based interface is intuitive. The emoji-drawing support… Read More ›

Undercover Uber driver

This is such a good article which taught me a lot about Uber, but the following two parts stood out for obvious reasons- “Travis Kalanick, the CEO and founder of Uber, said at a conference last year that he’d replace… Read More ›

Apple Watch review

I don’t think I have changed my mind so much on a mobile product in all of the years I have been writing about phones, tablets and the like, and to this day I am still somewhat perplexed by the… Read More ›

When Finder fails

I have been experiencing a strange problem on my iMac for the past couple of weeks which has caused it to become almost unusable. For the work I do, I am constantly saving files and moving them between folders and… Read More ›

The new MacBook

My son and I spent some time with the new MacBook today and I must say that we were both mightily impressed. The keyboard and trackpad are superbly engineered, but the casing, form and everything else comes together beautifully to… Read More ›

YouTube to the rescue

For several years running, I had to call out a plumber every autumn; the central heating pump would quit shortly after I turned on the system. One year, I had a magnetic filter installed to catch the gunk that kept… Read More ›