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• $400 Mac Pro wheels that don’t lock

  By Shaun on February 27, 2020 • ( 1 )

  Those who want to secure their wheeled ‌Mac Pro‌ models will need to use some kind of stopper to prevent accidents, though no lock won’t be an issue on many surfaces as long as the ‌Mac Pro‌ is on the… Read More ›

• Gary’s Lands End to John O’Groats Walk

  By Shaun on February 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Hi, As some of you know starting in April I’m walking the entire length of the country from Lands End to John O’Groat’s. I plan to keep a diary of my adventure via this blog. I’m just getting this new… Read More ›

• Movie villains and Apple

  By Shaun on February 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  According to Knives Out and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson, Apple has a strict stipulation in its product placement contracts that its devices cannot be used by any villainous characters. In a Knives Out scene dissection for… Read More ›

• The Norqain Freedom 60 Chrono

  By Shaun on February 27, 2020 • ( 0 )

  In keeping with its vintage spirit, a box sapphire crystal with anti-glare covers the warm, cream-coloured, domed dial – note that a black-and-white “reversed panda” dial is also available. Featuring a tri-compax layout with a date window (same colour background… Read More ›

• 1440 Daily Digest

  By Shaun on February 26, 2020 • ( 1 )

  We scour 100+ sources so you don’t have to. Culture, science, sports, politics, business, and more – all in a 5-minute read… More here. This is very basic and a quick read, but it kind of works. It makes for… Read More ›

• Citizen And Bulova Announce Withdrawal From Baselworld 2020

  By Shaun on February 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The troubling trend of withdrawals from the 2020 Baselworld trade show continued this morning, with Japanese industry giant Citizen announcing that both Citizen and its stablemate brand Bulova will not be attending the show. In its official statement, Citizen cited… Read More ›

• Jean-Claude Biver: A Retrospective. Share, Respect, Forgive

  By Shaun on February 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Phillips Perpetual is delighted to showcase an exhibition illustrating one of the industry’s most influential and charismatic figures and his life-long passion for watches. We are honoured to present Jean-Claude Biver: A Retrospective. Share, Respect, Forgive at the final location… Read More ›

• Apple Watch (circular) 6

  By Shaun on February 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  This is a concept of course, but it does highlight the upsides of a circular Apple Watch. Physically there is no upside due to constraints with space, but aesthetically and the way it would wear may change everything, again.

• How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter

  By Shaun on February 24, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Earlier that day, Twitter’s management accused the unassuming 32-year-old of accessing thousands of user profiles without authorization to pass their identifying information — including phone numbers and IP addresses — reportedly to Bader al-Asaker, the head of Saudi Crown Prince… Read More ›

• The case for keeping things

  By Shaun on February 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  A common refrain on The Repair Shop is that we live in a “throwaway society”—a society that produces cheap, low-quality goods we would rather discard and replace than repair. The show aims to change this by example, demonstrating the joy… Read More ›

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