Back in January I was at Manchester Airport about to leave for a two week cruise in the Caribbean, disaster struck — I’d forgotten to pack my beloved AirPods (2nd gen) from 2019! Realising my grave error, I dashed to INMOTION (the airport electronics concession) and found myself a pair…

To start with, I can reassuringly confirm it was a lot easier than I expected to turn an old Windows machine into a schnazzy ‘new’ Chromebook. I’ve had a Dell Latitude 7480 sitting in the cupboard for a few years now and I’ve always thought I’d like to try and…

I’ve been using Outlook on a Mac for the last few years; currently at v16.61 on my Macbook Mini M1. One of the most useful features is the ability to Snooze a particular email. …

In July 2022, I decided to give up pen and paper for good and transitioned to a reMarkable 2. Read my reMarkable review here. In April this year my reMarkable stopped charging. …

mimo is a smartphone/tablet app that offers a gamified way to learn HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python, SQL and other programming languages. Think DuoLingo for code! mimo has a huge number of ratings in both the iOS AppStore and Google Play Store, so was my first choice when deciding to dip…

Six months ago I wrote about my transition from a pen and paper to-do list to using Apple’s native Reminders App. That post ended with a Siri-set reminder to update progress in a new article: So. Here we go! What has worked so far? Using Siri - I haven’t analysed this with any degree of…

About a year ago now, I discovered Medium and fell in love with the breadth and depth of available knowledge. Admittedly, there is also some crud on the platform — but generally most things I choose to read I enjoy. Initially, I had no intention of contributing as a Medium…

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ As the proud owner of several fancy pens & Pukka notebooks, I was more than dubious about the transition to paperless note taking. Four weeks in and I am a complete convert. Other than writing out a greetings card, I haven’t picked up a ‘proper’…