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Make Life Easier with Photography Support Apps

March 23, 2012 Posted in Apps, Photography, Productivity, tips by

Last Friday morning, my friend Jess tweeted about the humungous superyacht that’s currently lurking in Bristol Harbour (clearly a James Bond villain is in town.) There was lots of activity in the harbour  –  tugs moving, the Harbour Master zipping around, that sort of thing. Could it be moving out of the harbour today? If it were, […]


Early Morning Call

February 9, 2012 Posted in Productivity, Working From Home by

This is the first in a series of posts on being productive when working from home. After quitting my job, I studied for a while, then started work on porting Get Running — an iPhone app I’d already been tangentially involved with  —  to Android. (Don’t get too excited, Android fans; we’re in the “R&D” stage at the moment, […]


Marco, on whether the e-reader is “doomed” or not

January 5, 2012 Posted in Books, gadgets, Kindle, Observations, Quotes by

Marco Arment has a good response to Matt Alexander’s suggestion that the e-reader is already dead. Most telling for me was what I thought Marco was going to say in his last paragraph. I think it could equally well read: ‘I don’t think the e-reader is “doomed” at all. It may just be relegated to […]


iTunes Match and Podcast Playlists: A Fix!

December 24, 2011 Posted in gadgets, Geekery, OSX, Podcasts, tips by

In my last post, I described the problems I was having syncing manual podcast playlists between iTunes and my iPhone after I upgraded to iTunes Match/iCloud. Well, it looks like I got an early Christmas present from YouOverRotated, who commented: I was in the same exact situation, except mine’s a BMW, not a Mini =). […]


iTunes Match and the Podcast Playlist Problem

December 16, 2011 Posted in gadgets, Geekery, OSX, rants by

EDIT: Whoop! Looks like YouOverRotated’s comment below was spot-on. Thanks! See my new post on how that suggestion got my playlist syncing working again. Oh, iTunes. Does it have to be this way? So, I now have iTunes Match, with all of its associated Cloudy goodness. But I also have a problem. Can anyone help me […]


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