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• Update Your iPhone Right Now

  By Shaun on March 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Unlike larger software updates, which might bring some updated features, iOS 14.4.2, iPadOS 14.4.2, and watchOS 7.3.3 are rolling out now to fix an active security exploit that allows malicious websites to potentially engage in universal cross-site scripting. That means… Read More ›

• The apps you use

  By Shaun on March 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Some interesting answers to the question from earlier in the week. We all seem to find different solutions no matter how similar we are. Tom- Notes: Apple Notes, Google KeepTasks: InformantCalendar: Informant, Fantastical widget, WeekCalLists: Outliner, HanDBasePassword management: 1PasswordWriting: Text… Read More ›

• The 10-piece Death Star Ultimate Collector Set

  By Shaun on March 27, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Kross Studio collaborates with Lucasfilm on an extremely limited-edition Star Wars inspired set, paying tribute to the iconic space saga. The 10-piece Death Star Ultimate Collector Set is made for those who savor Star Wars history as much as high-end… Read More ›

• Literary Clock Made From E-reader

  By Shaun on March 27, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Really the only thing needed is an e-reader (and a USB cable to connect to it). For this project, a Kindle was donated to me by a friend. It is a Kindle 3 WiFi (nicknamed K3, or K3W). You will… Read More ›

• What is the best digital note taker?

  By Shaun on March 26, 2021 • ( 2 )

  My iPad Pro (1st generation) is close to death. The battery is holding a charge for an hour at most, often less, and the cost of fixing it is prohibitive. I can get it done for £150 by a third… Read More ›

• No lie off limits for Boris Johnson

  By Shaun on March 26, 2021 • ( 1 )

  In theory, a two-hour session before the liaison committee – the supergroup of select committee chairs – should have been rather more demanding. In his first two outings as liaison chair, Bernard Jenkin had confounded the critics who believed he… Read More ›

• The Persistence of Memory

  By Shaun on March 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Before the emergence of formalised structures of watch production in the early 19th century, serving as precursors to the modern watch manufacturing houses we know today, watchmaking existed in a cottage industry like setting where watchmakers pursued their métier “independent”… Read More ›

• Window lights / light windows

  By Shaun on March 26, 2021 • ( 1 )

  Constructed from steel rods with a hinge opening method, the minimalistic lamp fixtures can be peeled open to form multiple sets of different angles. When Māyā’s steel rods are fully unfurled, forming an obtuse angle with the lamp’s hinges, the… Read More ›

• How Leonard Cohen Lived Between The Hour And The Age

  By Shaun on March 25, 2021 • ( 2 )

  Songs of Love and Hate stayed the course. Over fluttering Spanish guitar, 36-year-old Cohen hangs his head in self-recrimination and psychic pain, details shuddering loneliness and the grotesquery of human performance. His vocal offering comes, as ever, via his gravelly… Read More ›

• That was truly ………. Weird 😬

  By Shaun on March 25, 2021 • ( 2 )

  The title is what a friend of mine sent me in WhatsApp about the above version of The Greatest Love Of All and the video, but for me it is a different experience. Arguably this version is much worse than… Read More ›

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