Being the homepage of Matt Gibson, a random geek, writer and photographer from Bristol.

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, […]


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 =). […]


Travelling Matt

August 24, 2010 Posted in tips, travel by

No, not that Travelling Matt. Me. For sometime before the year’s out, I have to do some international travel. Bleh. I’ve never enjoyed flying. Well, actually, no, I have no problem with flying per se. I enjoy gliders and light aircraft  —  I was even in the Air Training Corps for a brief period when I was […]


Installing Markdown as an OS X Services Menu Item Using Automator

August 4, 2010 Posted in Geekery, Mac, tips, tutorial by

I just had a quick look around the web for ways to install Markdown translation as a Service (i.e. available from the Services menu) on my Mac. Most of the hits I got seemed to be quite old, and involved hacking about with an existing service for another text converter. So, I experimented. And the […]


Getting the Apple iPhone Remote App Working With a ZyXEL Router

May 16, 2010 Posted in Geekery, tips by

Yesterday I replaced my old Belkin router, which had been randomly blocking Safari from looking at websites where lots of small images loaded at once. I bought a shiny new ZyXEL P-660HN. It’s a lovely little ADSL wireless router, it got a string of 5-star reviews on eBuyer, and everything worked well out of the box. […]


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