The Apple Watch, all by itself, is a capable cycle computer, but when you add in Bluetooth cadence and heart-rate sensors (as previously reviewed), you get a superb cycle computer, just one with an awkwardly small screen! iOS 26 solved that final problem with the Workouts app’s live activity on the iPhone — you can […]
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Scrappy – Digital Scrapbook for Ideas, Research, and Fun
I’ve been a user of Reinvented Software’s Keep It for over 7 years. According to the product page, Keep It is used to create and edit notes, rich text, plain text and Markdown files, scan documents, edit PDFs, archive emails, save web links in a variety of formats, preview and search just about any kind […]
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Security Bits — 21 August 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 Here we go again 🙁: Apple challenges new UK demand to access encrypted iCloud data — cyberinsider.com/… (Another unconfirmed report from the FT because the court is secret and the law imposes a […]
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Visualising Trails with Google Earth Pro
Important info, before you read on… I wrote this article over a month prior to publication. After finishing the writing, and recording for the podcast, Google announced the Google Earth Pro desktop application was being sunsetted! You can still download the application until June 2027, so I decided to publish anyway. Just know that while it […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 7: The Noise You Notice
The noise that steals attention Quick experiment to start. Imagine you are listening to a narrator in a quiet room, and underneath the voice there is a faint something. Not loud. Not obviously bad audio. Just a little texture. Now imagine that texture changes every twenty seconds. That little moment of checking is the problem […]
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Apple Photos – Making Your Memories Last with an Easy to Access Archive
Over the last Christmas holidays, I saw a Toot on Mastodon from Rui Carmo saying that Apple Photos had dreadful exporting and archiving features. He thought there was a better way and so wrote a Mac command line tool, using Swift, to address what he saw as the shortcomings. Reading the instructions on GitHub, it […]
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ETENWOLF Zephyr S3 Air Compressor
A few years ago I thought it might be a good idea to get a home air compressor. I had two problems to solve: Inflate my car tyres while they are cold (the target pressure in the manual assumes cold tyres) Maintain my bike tyres at their recommended high pressures (65 PSI on the mountain […]
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MacBook Neo – Can It Replace an iPad mini?
When rumours began circling about a new low-end MacBook, many commentators pointed back to the unique 12” MacBook from 2015. I owned one of those. It was underpowered and that single USB-C port was frustrating, but the form factor was sublime. At only 992 grams, it was over 20% lighter than today’s lightest Mac — […]
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Elapsed Time Adder is Live in the App Store!
Have you ever needed to add (or subtract) elapsed time? You may not need to do this on the daily, but when you do, you might turn to a spreadsheet to do this task for you. Spreadsheets aren’t designed to calculate elapsed time; they only work with clock time. And that’s why I developed and […]
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Turbo Fan from JisuLife
We’re off to Spain, Portugal, and Ireland soon, and we’re very excited. But one thing we’re not excited about is the heat dome that seems to have just settled over Europe this summer. On my best day, I am pretty intolerant beyond a fairly narrow temperature band. When in my car, I constantly raise and […]
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